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dfranzen70 · 11-20-2004, 10:17 AM

Running OOTP6 (no patch), I completed the 2004 season with no problem. Then we had the Rule 5 draft, and that went fine, but the PC crashed in the middle of the waiver period.

Oops. When I rebooted, everything was honky-dory, except for one thing: There was no button at the top of the main (standings) screen that would allow me to move on to the next phase of off-season fun.

Basically, I run a Career league in which all of the teams are computer controlled except for mine. So what should have happened is that the game would sim the waivers period, with the other teams selecting whomever they wanted. And then there would ostensibly be a button allowing me to proceed to whatever the next stage is. There wasn't, so I poked around the setup menus to see if I'd missed something. I opened up Waivers, but there was nothing there that seemed to automate anything.

So I visited here, and I saw that there was a 6.03 patch. Whee, I said. This might solve problems. So I downloaded it and installed it. And when I reopened OOTP.. there were no teams. Or players.

Whoops, I thought. I screwed that up a little. Little did I know my screwing up hadn't even begun. I chose the Restore League option, ignoring the warning that said the current league would be deleted. Restoring not only didn't help, it created fresh (blank) .dat files for teams, players, and so forth, basically overwriting the old league with an empty one.

The weird thing is that all of the 2004 info appears to still be there, somewhere. The ALMANAC for 2004 is intact, and all of the players are there. In fact, all the info from the 2004 season is there. It's just that none of the teams and players show up in the game itself, which tells me I basically have a brand-spanking-new league going.

I'm probably completely screwed here. I have stats going back to 01 in OOTP, and if/when I do OOTP7 I'd like to pick up where I left off. Does anyone know if I can use the info that's in the almanac - or elsewhere? - from 2004?

(As an aside, I'm a little confused about the patches. How come 6.03 was free, but 6.10 is not? Why would I pay $20 for a patch when OOTP 7 will be out next spring anyway, and I'll almost certainly get it?)

Thanks for any help, although like I said - I accept that things are probably hopeless.

11-20-2004, 10:17 AM	#1
dfranzen70 Bat Boy Join Date: Jul 2003 Posts: 10	6.03 patch... I think I boogered it up Running OOTP6 (no patch), I completed the 2004 season with no problem. Then we had the Rule 5 draft, and that went fine, but the PC crashed in the middle of the waiver period. Oops. When I rebooted, everything was honky-dory, except for one thing: There was no button at the top of the main (standings) screen that would allow me to move on to the next phase of off-season fun. Basically, I run a Career league in which all of the teams are computer controlled except for mine. So what should have happened is that the game would sim the waivers period, with the other teams selecting whomever they wanted. And then there would ostensibly be a button allowing me to proceed to whatever the next stage is. There wasn't, so I poked around the setup menus to see if I'd missed something. I opened up Waivers, but there was nothing there that seemed to automate anything. So I visited here, and I saw that there was a 6.03 patch. Whee, I said. This might solve problems. So I downloaded it and installed it. And when I reopened OOTP.. there were no teams. Or players. Whoops, I thought. I screwed that up a little. Little did I know my screwing up hadn't even begun. I chose the Restore League option, ignoring the warning that said the current league would be deleted. Restoring not only didn't help, it created fresh (blank) .dat files for teams, players, and so forth, basically overwriting the old league with an empty one. The weird thing is that all of the 2004 info appears to still be there, somewhere. The ALMANAC for 2004 is intact, and all of the players are there. In fact, all the info from the 2004 season is there. It's just that none of the teams and players show up in the game itself, which tells me I basically have a brand-spanking-new league going. I'm probably completely screwed here. I have stats going back to 01 in OOTP, and if/when I do OOTP7 I'd like to pick up where I left off. Does anyone know if I can use the info that's in the almanac - or elsewhere? - from 2004? (As an aside, I'm a little confused about the patches. How come 6.03 was free, but 6.10 is not? Why would I pay $20 for a patch when OOTP 7 will be out next spring anyway, and I'll almost certainly get it?) Thanks for any help, although like I said - I accept that things are probably hopeless.