[LansdowneSt]

I removed all the facegen files from my OOTP22 game and loaded only the 611 I have posted on the boards over the past few months. In this way, only the ones I had QA/QC'ed personally would show in my Random Debut game. This way I could spend the off-season just going through all the faces that were blanks. For each one that had no file I could then either load the Complete Universe face after review, redo it on the spot if it needed work, or make a note to redo it when time permitted, and play a game as I went.

But when I reloaded the game, instead of 611 .fg files in the folder there were suddenly 2,355 fg files plus the readme.txt reappearing. Most of them seemed to be from Asian leagues based on the name conventions. But other fg files rewrote ones I had already fixed plus adding others (Kershaw, Greinke, etc.) so it's definitely some MLB'ers getting dropped into the fg folder upon the game being reopened. So I'm asking the OOTP Team:

1. Why are these fg files coming into the game on their own when I load the game (again, not installing a patch or new version - just exiting out of OOTP22 entirely and reopening it)

2. Can it be stopped? Or do I have to keep my fg files off to the side and constantly delete and repaste my own into the game every time I play?

It is incredibly frustrating to make new facegens, save them into the fg folder only to have the game itself write over them the next day when I reload the game - even if it is only a random 2,000 of them. Why are you overwriting anything we put in that folder on our own?

This overwrite is likely happening to everyone but one would only know it if they refreshed the facegen in the game. Only then would they discover they've been viewing a cached version of their community-made fg but, in fact, the actual file in their folder had been overwritten back to some old default one.

Thanks for the explanation and assistance to understand this issue and the best way to avoid having fg's rewritten by game loads.