Player Progress Lost

[Penumbra]

I upgraded to the new 0.923. I performed a backup of my world file. I also copied over the "Region 1" folder from an older backup as mentioned in the patch notes to fix old regions.

When starting up for the first time, I was presented with the "select new character" menu. The character selected started back in my first settlement on continent 1, and had none of my enchants or inventory.

I tried reverting to a different backup, but still, it restarts me as a brand new player. Not quite sure what I did wrong.

Edit: Ah, I see I was beat to the punch on Mantis. Sure y'all will get this fixed forthwith!

[Professor Paul1290]

Just to make sure, did you change your name in options?

I had a very similar problem yesterday and it turns out it was because I changed the name I was using for multiplayer in the options so it was treating me as if I was a new player playing in the same world. When I changed it back to "default" I got my character back.

[Penumbra]

Well, I have changed my name from default about a week ago. But I am certain I played my original world since then, it's the only single player world I use. I could try changing it back to default later.

Though... looking at the patch notes

Fixed some old logic in Load Game where if there was no player matching your customer ID and username you would be given the character of the first player account in the world file (but if you later logged into the same world in MP it would create a new account for you and when you went back to singleplayer it would give you the character you'd used in MP). Now it creates a new player account when loading a world where you don't have a matching player account, so transitions between SP and MP and such should be much smoother.
Thanks to Nypyren for the report that reminded us to clean this logic up.

Since I created this world back in 0.5 with the default name. I bet you're right that if I change it back, I'll be good.

If this is so, we'll need an "official" way to change our name on a server.

[x4000]

Should be fixed here: http://www.arcengames.com/forums/index.php/topic,10193.0.html

Thanks!