Database · high severity · found in the database
Players cannot take cars out — the database thinks they are all already out
Found by reading the database rather than the console.
What it means
N of N vehicles are marked as out of the garage. Players open a garage and it is empty.
How to fix it
- Confirm the cars are actually gone rather than misfiled: the rows still exist, only the stored flag is wrong.
- Back up owned_vehicles before touching it.
- Set the flag back for vehicles that are not legitimately impounded or towed out.
- Prevent the recurrence: this is what an ungraceful restart leaves behind, so a graceful shutdown that returns vehicles is the real fix.
When it is not this
A busy server legitimately has many cars out. It also ignores rows flagged as towed out, which are supposed to be away from the garage.