Ideas Solicited

[luckymann]

Hi team, I am trying to create a quasi-WBC three-tier promotion-relegation universe featuring three sets of twelve countries playing full seasons rather than it being tournament-style.

Things were progressing OK but I have come up against a headwind I was hoping some of you might help spitball to see if we can come up with a way to counter it.

In the name of reality, I only want players from each respective country representing them. (I do plan to add some historical players to their "origin" countries along the way but that should be easy to manage manually once I get the main process down pat.)

To me, the best way seemed to be to set up new regions for each country and allocate each team accordingly, then have the entire Draft as regional rounds.

However, when I went to set up these new regions it started corrupting the world.dat and I was lucky to escape having all saves on the version in question (v25) corrupted by the process thanks to being fastidious about backing everything up separately.

So obviously I'm gun-shy about trying this avenue again, even though I suspect the problem was caused by my including the & character in the abbreviation for one of the new regions.

The other alternative is to just create a number of players every season under each participating nationality. However, I can't get my head around how to incorporate this without it being incredibly convoluted, or even figure out how to get it done. I'd much rather an automatic way as the foundation and any manual intercession by me being more of an add-on.

Plus, I'd like to be GMing Australia and can't see how to make it so there's some challenge involved other than just a whole heap of administrative duties.

Anyone out there got any cunning plans on how I might go about achieving any of this? Partial or whole solutions greatly welcome and much appreciated in advance.

Thanks

G