I just realized that my Achievement progress stopped after re-installing the game.
I have run SimRail for a while, and was almost done with my "Senior dispatcher achievement":
But then I had a problem that forced me to re-install Steam.
Because I saw that my "player statistics" was trickling in on simrail.pl, I did not even consider to backup anything of the >70GB old installation.
I started playing on my new Steam install, and spent 2 hours as a dispatcher on a station, and the "progress popup" came as expected. And thought: "It works".
But it didn't work. When looking more closely the popup says "33/40" for every new station I spend 2hours on.
When pressing F8, the debug information shows that ALL of the old statistics is gone.
It (of course) shows the new statistics after the re-install, but nothing more. Although Steam shows the "last known" statistics, which is 33/40 stations done.
I have now done my 2hours on 40 stations, but unless this gets "synked", I will with the current state not get the above achievement, unless I dispatch another 37 stations AGAIN. 🤦♀️
Is there a way to synchronize the online statistics (shown on simrail.pl) with my Steam install?
Technical details:
Operating system: Linux Mint 21.3 Cinnamon
Steam:
First install of Steam was a community based "Flathub install"
I uninstalled
Removed the leftovers from the Flathub Steam install
Installed the official debian version of Steam
SimRail:
On both versions of Steam (on linux) the install is not a problem
On both versions the performance and functionality is identical
On both versions the applications data is stored in a "proton simulated windows"
The Achievements file seem to have the same virtual path (related to the Steam install) :
../home/david/.steam/root/steamapps/compatdata/1422130/pfx/drive_c/users/steamuser/AppData/LocalLow/SimKol/SimRail/Achievements_76561197997787182.bin
...and if I would to guess, it is this bin file that needs to be synched
...where the application at re-install literally "downloads all stats" of the known multiplayer statistics from the SimRail api:s
Just found a similar post, that shows another "user case" where this synchronization of progress is needed: Or in other words: This other post kind of answers my question. But still: Is this non-synchronization problem a bug, or just a usercase not coded yet? Just imagine a scenario where a player have run trains for 39.000 million km, and then needs to re-install the game. Even for a player that is not playing for Achievements, that would be sad. (considering all that statistics going to Simrail servers)
