Cargo Ship Events Failing to Spawn in Dedicated Servers

In dedicated servers, cargo ships are consistently failing to spawn. I first noticed this while setting up a dedicated server hosted through G-Portal. On that server, I've tested with a configuration made for crossplay, both with and without mods (all other tests are without mods), in the Home System scenario (using EOS), and with the default settings in the Star System scenario (using Steam). In the latter case, I've tested both on the planet's surface, and in space.

I've also tested by hosting a dedicated server locally, using the GUI server client.

In all cases, in the log file, I have observed the game attempting to spawn a cargo ship encounter, and failing three times before giving up, as shown here:

2025-03-04 05:28:41.918 - Thread: 1 -> MyGlobalEvents.StartGlobalEvent: MyObjectBuilder_GlobalEventBase/SpawnCargoShip
2025-03-04 05:28:41.918 - Thread: 1 -> Could not spawn event. Try 1 of 3
2025-03-04 05:28:51.918 - Thread: 1 -> MyGlobalEvents.StartGlobalEvent: MyObjectBuilder_GlobalEventBase/SpawnCargoShip
2025-03-04 05:28:51.918 - Thread: 1 -> Could not spawn event. Try 2 of 3
2025-03-04 05:29:01.917 - Thread: 1 -> MyGlobalEvents.StartGlobalEvent: MyObjectBuilder_GlobalEventBase/SpawnCargoShip
2025-03-04 05:29:01.919 - Thread: 1 -> Could not spawn event. Try 3 of 3
2025-03-04 05:29:11.917 - Thread: 1 -> MyGlobalEvents.StartGlobalEvent: MyObjectBuilder_GlobalEventBase/SpawnCargoShip
2025-03-04 05:29:11.917 - Thread: 1 -> MyGlobalEvent.RecalculateActivationTime:
2025-03-04 05:29:11.917 - Thread: 1 -> Next activation in 00:42:48.7288365

I have not seen a single cargo ship spawn successfully on any dedicated server I have played on using the current version of the game.

I believe this is the exact same issue as reported in this thread and this thread. I also believe the issue is not related to Torch or to any mods.

Steps to Reproduce

1. Using the dedicated server software, create a dedicated server running Star System with default settings, except for a defined admin, server name, and world name.
2. Join the server.
3. Spawn in EarthLike respawn pod.
4. Wait for a while on the planet's surface.
5. Keep an eye on the log file. Within 10-30 minutes (by my observations), the server should attempt to spawn a cargo ship event, failing and reattempting twice, before giving up. This will show in the log as in the above code block.
6. On the same server, go out to space and repeat the experiment. Wait for the server to attempt to spawn a cargo ship event.

SpaceEngineers-Dedicated.cfg and several log files are contained in the attached zip.