Bob, basically we did a char reset before the terraria update, of which there have been 3 since the reset (1.3.3, 1.3.3.1, and 1.3.3.2). Bottom line is that our server depends on T-Shock, which is the equivalent of "rooting" a smartphone. Our Devs,
@White @Bippity grant us of sorts an early access; at their discrection. T-Shock is still weeks away from a final product, thusly; rendering our server in a frozen (let it go) state of 1.2.3.1 for SSC on port 7776, whereas the vanilla (1.3.3.2) server is operating on port 7777. On top of the char reset, we had a map rollback, which is in anticipation of the latest T-Shock release.
TL;DR:
use an outdated standalone client (1.2.3.1) to access the ssc server.
once t-shock releases an update. it will affect servers across the board. Just gotta hurry up and wait.