Usurper Reborn v0.49.10 — Hotfix

Critical Fix: Player Save Loading

Settlement system's ProposalCooldowns dictionary was serialized as an empty JSON array [] instead of an empty object {} in player save data. This caused deserialization to fail for every player on login — the game couldn't load any existing characters and offered "New Character" instead. All 22 affected player records have been patched in the live database. A tolerant JSON converter has been added so this class of type mismatch can never cause save loading failures again.

Database Backup & Recovery

Auto-updater now backs up the online database before applying updates. Up to 5 rotating backups are kept (newest = backup_1, oldest = backup_5). Backups are stored alongside the database file. If the backup fails, the update still proceeds (non-fatal) but a warning is logged.

New [R] Recovery option in the SysOp Console (both local and online modes):

• View current database info (path, size, last modified)
• List available backups with size and date
• Create manual backup on demand
• Restore from any backup with safety confirmation (current DB saved as backup_0 before overwrite)

Files Changed

• Scripts/Core/GameConfig.cs — Version 0.49.10
• Scripts/Systems/SqlSaveBackend.cs — TolerantDictionaryConverter<TKey,TValue> handles [] as empty dictionary during deserialization; registered for Dictionary<string,int> and Dictionary<string,long>
• Scripts/Systems/VersionChecker.cs — CreateDatabaseBackup() public method; called before auto-update extraction; 5 rotating backups with pruning
• Scripts/Systems/SysOpConsoleManager.cs — [R] Recovery menu option; ShowRecoveryMenu(), CreateManualBackup(), RestoreBackup() methods