How to manage prospects on your Icarus server

An Icarus server runs one prospect at a time. Which one it runs is decided by three settings in ServerSettings.ini, and only one of them should have a value at a time.

1. The three settings

• CreateProspect makes a new prospect with the name you give and loads it.
• LoadProspect loads an existing prospect by name.
• ResumeProspect picks up the prospect the server was last running.

Leaving two of them filled in at once is the usual reason a server loads something you did not expect.

2. Start a new prospect

1. Stop the server in the Game Panel.
2. Open ServerSettings.ini in the config folder under Icarus/Saved/Config/.
3. Clear LoadProspect and ResumeProspect.
4. Set CreateProspect to the prospect you want. Names are case sensitive and must match the game's prospect names exactly.
5. Save and start the server. The console reports the prospect being created.

3. Go back to a previous prospect

1. Stop the server.
2. Look in the prospect save folder in the Files tab to get the exact save name.
3. Clear CreateProspect, set LoadProspect to that name, and start the server.

Old prospect saves stay on disk, so switching back and forth does not lose anything.

4. Who can start a prospect

AllowNonAdminsToLaunchProspects decides whether ordinary players can end the current drop and start another. On a shared server, leave it off so a prospect cannot be ended while someone else is mid run.

5. Before you switch

• Take a backup of the save folder from the Files tab.
• Make sure everyone has finished and left the prospect. Ending a drop with players in it loses what they were carrying.
• Character progression is separate from the prospect. Switching prospects does not reset your character.

Open a ticket from Support in the Client Area with the console output if a prospect will not load.