The server doesn't mess with your save. It just reads it to extract information and renames it to be unique. Anything you can save in a file and reload intact on your own PC will also be preserved in an uploaded save.
No, you are still wrong. See above. Please don't publish assumptions about the way the submission system works. If they are incorrect, they can only serve to confuse.
Sorry, I was trying to be helpful by explaining how I thought the SGOTM server worked, but I must agree that I do not understand it well enough to do that, so I will try to refrain from publishing such in the future. I shall try to refrain from such editorial-like comments and report only what I have personally observed that seems incorrect with the functioning of the SGOTM server ...
My intention is not to confuse other players, but rather communicate problems I've had with the SGOTM server ...
Have you actually tried saving new Dot Maps without changing anything else? I had no luck at all doing so, but I must admit I didn't work on it to eliminate all possibilities.
Perhaps, someone would be interested in validating that the server does indeed work correctly in all corner cases.
I have also experienced trouble with drawings on the map when loading up a save i.e. they don't appear when the game loads up again. I never figured out if it was random or not, or if it was fixed in any patches.
This is precisely my main complaint about how the SGOTM server seems to ignore Dot Maps when that is the only data in the game save that was added.
I experienced these symptoms as far back as SGOTM-10, so it is possible that they have been fixed by a patch since then, either by active debugging or a change in the code flow that now bypasses the (alleged) bug.
I noticed that. The solution is simple:
Ctrl+X then Alt+X.
This will show you the previously placed BFCs and allow you to edit.
I'm quite certain that the solution to the issue I'm reporting is NOT as simple as you suggest.
Crtl-X simply toggles on/off viewing of the Dot Map overlay.
Alt-X toggles on/off edit mode of the Dot Map overlay.
I most definitely used both Ctrl-X and Alt-X to view the Dot Maps; neither worked separately or in combination on the game save uploaded from the SGOTM server.
Sun Tzu Wu