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Originally Posted by NoOne
bad system. try this: Postpone any update to the "next" downtime. everyone in league should know not to update until the "monday" after the sim date or however you have it setup etc... everyone is on same page and it won't interrupt a "sim-day" for your league.
so if you sim on Friday all the time, tell people that they cannot update until the following day -- ever. same with the day leading into it, if you want a bit of room. pick a day and say this is the only day we update per week or per incremental time that we sim.
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If any GM in each particualr online league uses Steam this isn't an option, Steam auto updates as best I know (I don't use Steam except for Beta testing). You can prevent this auto update by going to steam and setting yourself offline before opening OOTP. The problem with that is some other games require you to be online so you can't have it both ways to avoid an OOTP auto update.
So while I understand these updates are necessary they do potentially cause some issues with online leagues and their ability to sim.
It gets especially tricky since many GMs are in multiple leagues run by different commissioners and different update schedules.
There isn't a simple answer to this issue but I just ask that it not be ignored/minimized and to note that these aren't minor issues for online leagues.