1. Can SrvSurvey run twice in parallel?
2. Is there a way to make donations?
3. Errors about Diagnostic counts [2, 2, 2, 2]?
4. Locked out of your Raven Colonial systems?
5. Can I change the colours in SrvSurvey?

This is called "multi boxing" where you run 2 copies of the game on the same PC. SrvSurvey can help track progress in each account, but the way to achieve this is not so obvious.

Before you begin:

• Make sure that setting Preferred Commander is set to "(no preference)".
• Make sure you've used SrvSurvey with each account individually first, with only 1 instance of the game running.

To run twice in parallel:

• When you then start a 2nd instance of the game, click this chevron button in the top right corner of the main window:

  

• Use button Float overlays over next window to control which game window overlays attach to. There's a green box above each window to make it really obvious which one has focus:

  

• Select and hit Start for Commander in the other game instance - a 2nd copy of SrvSurvey will begin that is forced to run against only that account.

• You'll then likely need to hit the chevron button in that 2nd SrvSurvey so you can use Float overlays... to make this match the other window.

• You can also run SrvSurvey.exe -fid <fid> from the command line to force SrvSurvey to watch a specific account.

Everything should then work properly but be aware things will act a little glitchy:

• Both game instances write certain things to the same file, like status.json - hence when you start an FSD jump it is possible you will see the FSD jumping overlay appear briefly on the other window.
• If you are focused on colonisation, there is a new setting Suppress non-colonisation overlays that will help reduce such visual glitches.

If you would like to help with server costs for Raven Colonial or buy me a fresh coffee, donations may be made through PayPal or Patreon.

Thank you 😎

~ CMDR Grinning2001

If you have installed the Windows App store build and you see an error similar to this (albeit with different numbers):

This can usually be solved by:

• With SrvSurvey not running
• Create folder %appdata%\SrvSurvey\SrvSurvey\1.1.0.0\
• Restart SrvSurvey

If the problem remains:

• With SrvSurvey not running
• Delete folder %appdata%\..\Local\Packages\35333NosmohtSoftware.142860789C73F_p4c193bsm1z5a\LocalCache\Roaming\SrvSurvey\
• Restart SrvSurvey

This can also be solved by installing and running a GitHub build: https://github.com/njthomson/SrvSurvey/releases/

Once fixed this issue never returns.

(What's really going on here is: the Windows OS knows this is an App store app and for some reason when reading files from %appdata%\SrvSurvey\SrvSurvey\1.1.0.0 the OS is silently redirecting it to %appdata%\..\Local\Packages\35333NosmohtSoftware.142860789C73F_p4c193bsm1z5a\LocalCache\Roaming\SrvSurvey. This is a problem as when SrvSurvey is removed or you start using the GitHub build, your survey data may be lost. SrvSurvey attempts to correct this by creating the right folders automatically, but it does not always work)

With Frontier allowing us to change our Commander names, Raven Colonial will now update your systems automatically when you next login. Hit the top/right button, then Login

If you changed your Commander name before first logging into Raven Colonial, or you're still blocked in any way - please let me know the following details and I will get you sorted:

• Old Commander name
• New Commander name
• One system name where you are the architect

Yes indeed. SrvSurvey broadly uses orange and light-blue in every overlay, with a darker variant for each. These can be adjusted in Settings. The darker variants are auto-generated when changing the primary or secondary colour:

As of build 2.0.7.86 - if you would prefer more control over the colours used, it is possible to manually adjust colours by editing %appdata%\SrvSurvey\SrvSurvey\1.1.0.0\theme.json - changes will take effect when you restart SrvSurvey. You can specify the colours in a number of formats:

• Array of four integers representing ARGB values, each in the range 0-255

• Array of three integers representing RGB values, each in the range 0-255

• An HTML colour string, eg: "#RRGGBB" or "#RRGGBBAA"

• A PRIOR named colour. Eg: colonise.surplus can use green but yellow cannot use bio.gold:

  

• A null value means use the colour from the default theme, which can be seen here: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/njthomson/SrvSurvey/refs/heads/main/SrvSurvey/theme.json

SrvSurvey has the potential to theme virtually any colour used anywhere but not all locations have been hooked up. If there is a particular overlay you would like to theme differently, create an issue with a screenshot and a description of which elements you would like to adjust.