Fictional Fast-Sim Quickstart with 200+ years of history

darkcloud4579 · 04-20-2010, 05:06 PM

This is my ongoing fast-sim solo league that I started back in 2008 and have been actively managing through versions 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 and now OOTP 15. [phew]

Fast-sim means that injuries are off, fatigue is low (though you could increase it) and after the off-season ends, the teams are set not to allow AI changes and I sim the entire season at once, then allow teams to make changes during the off-season.

The past few years, I've only played cursory amounts of this game beyond beta. Just got busy with real life. But this year, I got back into it slowly. Thanks to txranger and knuckler, I got some new logos for teams and all of a sudden, it felt like a place I wanted to hang out. Most of the teams are original to this league, but a few are from the knuckler/txranger collaboration because some of the names were SO good that I couldn't resist. Some are retrofitted from that world, too.

So after a contraction about 40 years ago, the league is now back to 36 teams (two 18 team leagues, 3 divisions of six teams) and the playoffs involve 16 teams (7-7-7-7) which gives everyone a chance, but cuts down on as many flukes.

The league is in better shape than it's ever been before. Records have been broken, older guys last if they are good and there is a good influx of talent that dominate without it being too overwhelming. Stats are consistent and 1 and 2 star players are actually able to contribute.

Wanna play? Here's the latest link to the quickstart (2 December 2014) here:

Here are a smattering of some of the league logos.

Here are the teams en masse:

Code:

NL EAST
Boston Yanks
Harlem Rens
New York Gothams
Philadelphia Quakers
Virginia Mariners
Washington Maroons

NL WEST
Arizona Fire Easters
Colorado Gold Sox
Los Angeles Seraphs
Nevada Silverhawks
San Francisco Peanuts
Victoria Cougars

NL CENTRAL
Chicago Blue Collars
Detroit Pontiacs
Eau Claire Paws
Great Plains Flycatchers
Indianapolis Arrows
Milwaukee White Sox

AL SOUTH
Baltimore Atlantics
Baton Rouge Red Sticks
Carolina Wrens
Florida Rockets
Georgia Peaches
Louisville Robins

AL WEST
El Paso Sun Kings
Los Angeles Astros
Portland Brewers
Salt Lake City Elders
Tacoma Thrashers
Texas Electrics

AL EAST
Brooklyn Originals
Chicago Rogues
New York Knights
Philadelphia Apostles
San Juan Autos
Worcester Hearts

ashantewarrier · 04-20-2010, 11:31 PM

I've been looking for someone to do this. I would do it myself but I just don't have the time. Having 11 month old twins and a three year old keeps me kind of busy.

Thanks!

darkcloud4579 · 04-20-2010, 11:57 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ashantewarrier

I've been looking for someone to do this. I would do it myself but I just don't have the time. Having 11 month old twins and a three year old keeps me kind of busy.

Thanks!

You know, I was hoping that people would appreciate it precisely for that reason. So I'm glad I put decided to release it to the public.

Hope you enjoy it!

RchW · 04-21-2010, 04:02 AM

This interests me a lot. I was struggling with what to play in v11. I'll give it a try.

Thanks for doing this.

Greg Layton · 04-24-2010, 12:01 AM

I'm going to jump on it, too. Thanks for sharing.

myasu · 04-24-2010, 04:42 AM

Thanks a lot for sharing, darkcloud, gotta try this one!
I just started downloading it now!

darkcloud4579 · 04-25-2010, 12:48 PM

Glad you all are enjoying it, guys. Thanks!

jagreen · 05-05-2010, 08:11 PM

Thank you so much! I've been looking for something like this. I have started 4 leagues myself so far just haven't found the right mix yet.

Thanks. I will give it a try and let you know what I think.

jagreen · 05-05-2010, 08:22 PM

double post... my bad.

OutS|der · 05-30-2010, 08:57 PM

is it possible for you to post this in a previous season?
say before 2001, the Seattle franchise that has 12 championships goes under then or even previous years then that?

Jeremy2010 · 05-31-2010, 05:16 PM

In the package you have a subfolder called "incident_2010-04-09 22_13_00".

I think it contains just some security backup the game created after a crash during your testing.

This subfolder can be safely deleted so you can repackage the quickstart, because this backup folder alone is 280 MB!

EDIT: and you can delete the autosave, file and import-export subfolders too! Another 280 MB.

darkcloud4579 · 08-27-2010, 10:51 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by OutS|der

is it possible for you to post this in a previous season?
say before 2001, the Seattle franchise that has 12 championships goes under then or even previous years then that?

No, I just uploaded it at a point when I'd played it last. And not now because that computer it was originally on is toast.

darkcloud4579 · 08-27-2010, 10:59 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jeremy2010

In the package you have a subfolder called "incident_2010-04-09 22_13_00".

I think it contains just some security backup the game created after a crash during your testing.

This subfolder can be safely deleted so you can repackage the quickstart, because this backup folder alone is 280 MB!

EDIT: and you can delete the autosave, file and import-export subfolders too! Another 280 MB.

Good thing to know. Thanks.

darkcloud4579 · 05-01-2011, 08:51 PM

I reuploaded this to the web when the original link stopped working.

You can get it here. It's a very large template file(nearly 600MB), but it's worth it.

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kev24fan · 05-05-2011, 10:09 AM

I just now seen this post. I have to try this out. Thank you for sharing it with us.

kev24fan · 05-05-2011, 10:57 AM

For some reason I can not get the quick start to load. So I am going to set up my own solo league like that. Do you have Enable Suspensions or Enable Drug-Suspensions checked? You do not have Coaching or Scouting I assume.

I tried again and its loading now.

kev24fan · 05-06-2011, 03:44 PM

I would not load for me. Says missing World.dat at will not go any further for me. I was really looking forward to playing this. If somebody can help me get this working I be very happy.

kev24fan · 05-08-2011, 10:36 AM

I got it to work finally. I made a folder called Fool.lg and copied everything but description.txt, the File folder, and the incident folder from the Fool-D.quick to the folder Fool.lg. It loaded in the game fine. I see the logos and all. The games date is 03/01/2012.

The quick was created on a PC and I had to do this in order for it to work on my MAC.

darkcloud4579 · 05-16-2011, 09:11 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by kev24fan

I got it to work finally. I made a folder called Fool.lg and copied everything but description.txt, the File folder, and the incident folder from the Fool-D.quick to the folder Fool.lg. It loaded in the game fine. I see the logos and all. The games date is 03/01/2012.

The quick was created on a PC and I had to do this in order for it to work on my MAC.

Glad to hear you got it working!

darkcloud4579 · 09-20-2011, 12:53 PM

Ok, here's the OOTP12 version of this same quickstart. I renamed it to Day To Day Baseball (because of how I sim)

We're at 24 teams now, due to some contract and modern expansion due to the atrophy of some of teams/staleness. I figure this gives me (and you!) the flexibility to add teams as you want to have essentially a chance to build even more history with a different set of clubs. Just two divisions in each league and two rounds of playoffs (7-9) should make things more competitive, but fun as well.

So things should be easier to get immersed with and I've personally found it more fun to play now than ever. Best of all, the file I've uploaded is in a .zip file with the folder to install into your OOTP Quickstarts directory and it's only about 59MB, so a lot less time downloading and more time playing.

Check it out and let me know if you have question.

04-20-2010, 05:06 PM	#1
darkcloud4579 Hall Of Famer Join Date: Jun 2003 Posts: 8,652 Blog Entries: 32	Fictional Fast-Sim Quickstart with 270+ years of history, logos & uniforms (OOTP15) This is my ongoing fast-sim solo league that I started back in 2008 and have been actively managing through versions 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 and now OOTP 15. [phew] Fast-sim means that injuries are off, fatigue is low (though you could increase it) and after the off-season ends, the teams are set not to allow AI changes and I sim the entire season at once, then allow teams to make changes during the off-season. The past few years, I've only played cursory amounts of this game beyond beta. Just got busy with real life. But this year, I got back into it slowly. Thanks to txranger and knuckler, I got some new logos for teams and all of a sudden, it felt like a place I wanted to hang out. Most of the teams are original to this league, but a few are from the knuckler/txranger collaboration because some of the names were SO good that I couldn't resist. Some are retrofitted from that world, too. So after a contraction about 40 years ago, the league is now back to 36 teams (two 18 team leagues, 3 divisions of six teams) and the playoffs involve 16 teams (7-7-7-7) which gives everyone a chance, but cuts down on as many flukes. The league is in better shape than it's ever been before. Records have been broken, older guys last if they are good and there is a good influx of talent that dominate without it being too overwhelming. Stats are consistent and 1 and 2 star players are actually able to contribute. Wanna play? Here's the latest link to the quickstart (2 December 2014) here: Here are a smattering of some of the league logos. Here are the teams en masse: Code: NL EAST Boston Yanks Harlem Rens New York Gothams Philadelphia Quakers Virginia Mariners Washington Maroons NL WEST Arizona Fire Easters Colorado Gold Sox Los Angeles Seraphs Nevada Silverhawks San Francisco Peanuts Victoria Cougars NL CENTRAL Chicago Blue Collars Detroit Pontiacs Eau Claire Paws Great Plains Flycatchers Indianapolis Arrows Milwaukee White Sox AL SOUTH Baltimore Atlantics Baton Rouge Red Sticks Carolina Wrens Florida Rockets Georgia Peaches Louisville Robins AL WEST El Paso Sun Kings Los Angeles Astros Portland Brewers Salt Lake City Elders Tacoma Thrashers Texas Electrics AL EAST Brooklyn Originals Chicago Rogues New York Knights Philadelphia Apostles San Juan Autos Worcester Hearts Last edited by darkcloud4579; 12-04-2014 at 05:36 PM.

04-20-2010, 11:31 PM	#2
ashantewarrier Hall Of Famer Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Somerset, NJ via Brooklyn, NY Posts: 2,301 Blog Entries: 7	I've been looking for someone to do this. I would do it myself but I just don't have the time. Having 11 month old twins and a three year old keeps me kind of busy. Thanks! __________________ "I'm not concerned with your liking or disliking me... All I ask is that you respect me as a human being." -Jackie Robinson, #42 Brooklyn Dodgers *"Hitting is better than sex."* - Reggie Jackson

04-21-2010, 04:02 AM	#4
RchW Hall Of Famer Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Toronto ON by way of Glasgow UK Posts: 15,629	This interests me a lot. I was struggling with what to play in v11. I'll give it a try. Thanks for doing this. __________________ Cheers RichW If you’re looking for a good cause to donate money to please consider a Donation to Parkinson’s Canada. It may help me have a better future and if not me, someone else. Thanks. “Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition …There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.” Frank Wilhoit

04-24-2010, 04:42 AM	#6
myasu All Star Starter Join Date: May 2007 Location: Tokyo, Japan Posts: 1,491	Thanks a lot for sharing, darkcloud, gotta try this one! I just started downloading it now! __________________ myasu Bill Spaceman Lee- "The other day they asked me about mandatory drug testing. I said I believed in drug testing a long time ago. All through the sixties I tested everything."

04-25-2010, 12:48 PM	#7
darkcloud4579 Hall Of Famer Join Date: Jun 2003 Posts: 8,652 Blog Entries: 32	Glad you all are enjoying it, guys. Thanks! __________________ ------ My Mods Managerial Strategy Pack Competitive Balance Tax Calculator Major League Women's Baseball (OOTP24) quickstart Indian Premier League \| 300+ years of baseball quickstart \| Expatriate League quickstart \| Off-Field Injuries Update \| Women's Name File for OOTP \| ---- Dynasty classics: Centurion comes to OOTP5 \| DC Moneyball Dynasty (2004)

04-24-2010, 12:01 AM	#5
Greg Layton Major Leagues Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Portland, OR Posts: 302	I'm going to jump on it, too. Thanks for sharing.

05-05-2010, 08:11 PM	#8
jagreen Minors (Double A) Join Date: Mar 2010 Posts: 160	Thank you so much! I've been looking for something like this. I have started 4 leagues myself so far just haven't found the right mix yet. Thanks. I will give it a try and let you know what I think.

05-05-2010, 08:22 PM	#9
jagreen Minors (Double A) Join Date: Mar 2010 Posts: 160	double post... my bad.

05-30-2010, 08:57 PM	#10
OutS\|der Hall Of Famer Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: In A Van Down By The River Posts: 2,600 Infractions: 0/1 (1)	is it possible for you to post this in a previous season? say before 2001, the Seattle franchise that has 12 championships goes under then or even previous years then that?

05-31-2010, 05:16 PM	#11
Jeremy2010 Bat Boy Join Date: Apr 2010 Posts: 14	In the package you have a subfolder called "incident_2010-04-09 22_13_00". I think it contains just some security backup the game created after a crash during your testing. This subfolder can be safely deleted so you can repackage the quickstart, because this backup folder alone is 280 MB! EDIT: and you can delete the autosave, file and import-export subfolders too! Another 280 MB. Last edited by Jeremy2010; 05-31-2010 at 05:19 PM.

05-01-2011, 08:51 PM	#14
darkcloud4579 Hall Of Famer Join Date: Jun 2003 Posts: 8,652 Blog Entries: 32	I reuploaded this to the web when the original link stopped working. You can get it here. It's a very large template file(nearly 600MB), but it's worth it. MEGAUPLOAD - The leading online storage and file delivery service __________________ ------ My Mods Managerial Strategy Pack Competitive Balance Tax Calculator Major League Women's Baseball (OOTP24) quickstart Indian Premier League \| 300+ years of baseball quickstart \| Expatriate League quickstart \| Off-Field Injuries Update \| Women's Name File for OOTP \| ---- Dynasty classics: Centurion comes to OOTP5 \| DC Moneyball Dynasty (2004)

05-05-2011, 10:09 AM	#15
kev24fan Major Leagues Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Alabama Posts: 494	I just now seen this post. I have to try this out. Thank you for sharing it with us.

05-05-2011, 10:57 AM	#16
kev24fan Major Leagues Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Alabama Posts: 494	For some reason I can not get the quick start to load. So I am going to set up my own solo league like that. Do you have Enable Suspensions or Enable Drug-Suspensions checked? You do not have Coaching or Scouting I assume. I tried again and its loading now. Last edited by kev24fan; 05-06-2011 at 03:19 PM.

05-06-2011, 03:44 PM	#17
kev24fan Major Leagues Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Alabama Posts: 494	Spoke to soon I would not load for me. Says missing World.dat at will not go any further for me. I was really looking forward to playing this. If somebody can help me get this working I be very happy.

05-08-2011, 10:36 AM	#18
kev24fan Major Leagues Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Alabama Posts: 494	I got it to work finally. I made a folder called Fool.lg and copied everything but description.txt, the File folder, and the incident folder from the Fool-D.quick to the folder Fool.lg. It loaded in the game fine. I see the logos and all. The games date is 03/01/2012. The quick was created on a PC and I had to do this in order for it to work on my MAC. Last edited by kev24fan; 05-08-2011 at 10:37 AM.

09-20-2011, 12:53 PM	#20
darkcloud4579 Hall Of Famer Join Date: Jun 2003 Posts: 8,652 Blog Entries: 32	Ok, here's the OOTP12 version of this same quickstart. I renamed it to Day To Day Baseball (because of how I sim) We're at 24 teams now, due to some contract and modern expansion due to the atrophy of some of teams/staleness. I figure this gives me (and you!) the flexibility to add teams as you want to have essentially a chance to build even more history with a different set of clubs. Just two divisions in each league and two rounds of playoffs (7-9) should make things more competitive, but fun as well. So things should be easier to get immersed with and I've personally found it more fun to play now than ever. Best of all, the file I've uploaded is in a .zip file with the folder to install into your OOTP Quickstarts directory and it's only about 59MB, so a lot less time downloading and more time playing. Check it out and let me know if you have question.