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Originally Posted by mitchkenn
i haven't purged anything since V 17. what i found out, yes it reduced the size of my league nicely, but it also changed the player ID numbers - so (for example) i have Carl Hubble in my HOF as player #1456 (number is just an example.) After The purge, that number goes to some other player. So when i click on Carl Hubble in my HOF room, someone else pops up. The game runs faster - but the player ID #s are really a walk down the rabbit hole. as a result, i've never used purge again. Has anyone used it in 22 or 23? i am assuming it does the same thing. even with back-ups (which i do every 7 sim game days) i still am leary of using it.
one good thing about the purge there is a warning before the purge begins the above will happen. Wish i'd paid more attention and taken the warning to heart. i guess another wish is somehow they could fix the purge issue not to renumber, but at least, i do understand why it happens so i have just avoided it. i am pretty certain it'd be a major programing issue to change the way the purge tool works, and probably not worth the time and effort for how often it gets used.
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An option was added to v23... "do not reuse player ids".
I wonder if that would affect purging and how it handles player numbers?
Might be worth asking Lukas or Matt?
Or, I suppose, one could hit the purge button and see what the warning says now? I'm not volunteering to be the guinea pig
but, maybe someone else would like to test it out?