The Bug Report Thread

[eriqjaffe]

I've noticed that, while creating a league through the Advanced mode, the League Reputation sets itself to 10 any time you try to change the league structure. It should stay where you set it, number of divisions or teams be darned!

[gads]

Originally Posted by JarrahVW

Hi,

I've just installed the game on my Mac and everything runs fine until I go to pay for the game with Paypal. Before I can enter my login details, the game just crashes. It has done the same thing several times now. Any suggestions?

I could purchase the game via Steam but would prefer to just have it installed on my mac separately.

PS I do live in Australia so perhaps the range is an issue.

This is not a bug per se. Please send a ticket. Thanks.

[Padreman]

Originally Posted by Markus Heinsohn

Nope. I now tweaked the "Clear league history" function to clear the HoF as well.

Will this fix require me to start a new game or just allow me to continue one?

[lwlion]

Matt,

I set up another game played a season to the playoffs without touching anything and I did not receive any personal messages from the International Free Agents complaining about contracts or anything like that. So it must be something I am doing in my primary game that makes them think they are in my organization and offering a minor league contract with no bonus.

So the next time I come up to that point in the season, I'll take some notes down on what I did with the International Free Agents and then what happened to try to find a common denominator.

If there is some type of bug, it's minor and it might be my game play that is causing it.

Next item that also might be a bug.

Shouldn't my manager have more than just his Profile page?

On that page I get:

Personal Data
Personality & Style
Managing Attributes
Current Status
History

I can't find his Managing Ratings to see how he handles young players or veterans.
I can't find anything on teaching hitting, pitching or fielding.
And there is no BNN Coach Page.

In fact, my screen for my manager looks very different from the one in the manual.

When I figure out how to screen save and send, I'll show you what I mean.

Thanks again.

Regards.

[jet7]

It seems as though a majority of players would now rather test FA than even discuss extension. In an online league I'm in, I'm fresh of a WS win, and have a guy on the last year of his contract. He's my ace so naturally I want to resign him. He has very low greed and very high loyalty and high desire for win, but it looks as though those aren't even factoring in as he wants to test FA...Many others in the OOTP Leagues/Communities I am in have noticed this trend also, I would understand having high demands but refusing to negotiate, especially with those personality ratings seems strange.

Anyways, love OOTP 16 so far this just seemed a bit out of the ordinary.

Thanks for all you guys do!

[splantiago]

Have the newest patch on fully updated Mac OS X.

I play 2 seasons and everything is fine, however on the 3rd season 90% of all teams have no money for free agents or extensions... and then all of the free agents that year are signing 2-year deals at $1.9M per.

I haven't changed any of the financial settings, this is everything right out of the box. It feels as if there is something seriously wrong with the financial model here and it has made the game completely unplayable.

Please help.

[monkeystyxx]

Wnidows 7, patch 1.2. Not sure if this has been reported yet or not, but the AI has just tried to sign two Dominican free agents for my minor league teams. I've got emails from them with odd responses.

Both are 16 years old, both have 1* potential and 0.5* ability (for what that's worth), and yet both have rejected the contract, claiming they don't want a "minor league extension". One even said "is this how you reward loyalty?".

Two issues:
- Both are FAs, and have never played for us (or anyone else) before. So it's not an extension in either case. Even if it was an extension, what kind of loyalty could a 16 year old have shown us?
- They're 16, and pretty awful. Where would they expect to play if not the minor leagues?

Not sure whether this is a cosmetic bug where it's showing the wrong text in the reply, but either way it seems odd that they wouldn't sign. Especially considering they seem to expect major league contracts, which is simply not happening.

[ahemmer]

16.2 build 9. My owner wants me to acquire a gold glove winner. I acquired two past winners over the course of the season (Gerardo Parra and Alex Gordon), but at the end of the season I was told I failed the goal. I'm not sure why it wasn't recognized.

[ike121212]

I'm playing a 48 team fictional league. 20 years in, I noticed that there are not enough scouts or trainers for each team.

[Matt Arnold]

Originally Posted by ike121212

I'm playing a 48 team fictional league. 20 years in, I noticed that there are not enough scouts or trainers for each team.

We do have mechanisms in place to create more if there aren't enough. In our tests we have not seen problems with this. Are there guys in the free agent pool who aren't getting signed by teams?

[Matt Arnold]

Originally Posted by ahemmer

16.2 build 9. My owner wants me to acquire a gold glove winner. I acquired two past winners over the course of the season (Gerardo Parra and Alex Gordon), but at the end of the season I was told I failed the goal. I'm not sure why it wasn't recognized.

We've discovered a bug in some goal evaluation that will be fixed in the next patch, due next week sometime.

[Matt Arnold]

Originally Posted by monkeystyxx

Wnidows 7, patch 1.2. Not sure if this has been reported yet or not, but the AI has just tried to sign two Dominican free agents for my minor league teams. I've got emails from them with odd responses.

Both are 16 years old, both have 1* potential and 0.5* ability (for what that's worth), and yet both have rejected the contract, claiming they don't want a "minor league extension". One even said "is this how you reward loyalty?".

Two issues:
- Both are FAs, and have never played for us (or anyone else) before. So it's not an extension in either case. Even if it was an extension, what kind of loyalty could a 16 year old have shown us?
- They're 16, and pretty awful. Where would they expect to play if not the minor leagues?

Not sure whether this is a cosmetic bug where it's showing the wrong text in the reply, but either way it seems odd that they wouldn't sign. Especially considering they seem to expect major league contracts, which is simply not happening.

We grab our text from a larger pool, so it's most likely a cosmetic issue. Were they international amateur free agents, or just regular free agents?

[Matt Arnold]

Originally Posted by splantiago

Have the newest patch on fully updated Mac OS X.

I play 2 seasons and everything is fine, however on the 3rd season 90% of all teams have no money for free agents or extensions... and then all of the free agents that year are signing 2-year deals at $1.9M per.

I haven't changed any of the financial settings, this is everything right out of the box. It feels as if there is something seriously wrong with the financial model here and it has made the game completely unplayable.

Please help.

The AI will tend to spend their money if they have it. If you would like to send your league financial report (in league reports -> financial report), we can have a look through to see why teams are spending too much money.

[Matt Arnold]

Originally Posted by jet7

It seems as though a majority of players would now rather test FA than even discuss extension. In an online league I'm in, I'm fresh of a WS win, and have a guy on the last year of his contract. He's my ace so naturally I want to resign him. He has very low greed and very high loyalty and high desire for win, but it looks as though those aren't even factoring in as he wants to test FA...Many others in the OOTP Leagues/Communities I am in have noticed this trend also, I would understand having high demands but refusing to negotiate, especially with those personality ratings seems strange.

Anyways, love OOTP 16 so far this just seemed a bit out of the ordinary.

Thanks for all you guys do!

This is most likely a case of small sample sizes. In previous years it would be rare if never that players would refuse to negotiate, and we have expanded that so that a limited number of players will want to test free agency.

[Matt Arnold]

Originally Posted by lwlion

Matt,

I set up another game played a season to the playoffs without touching anything and I did not receive any personal messages from the International Free Agents complaining about contracts or anything like that. So it must be something I am doing in my primary game that makes them think they are in my organization and offering a minor league contract with no bonus.

So the next time I come up to that point in the season, I'll take some notes down on what I did with the International Free Agents and then what happened to try to find a common denominator.

If there is some type of bug, it's minor and it might be my game play that is causing it.

Next item that also might be a bug.

Shouldn't my manager have more than just his Profile page?

On that page I get:

Personal Data
Personality & Style
Managing Attributes
Current Status
History

I can't find his Managing Ratings to see how he handles young players or veterans.
I can't find anything on teaching hitting, pitching or fielding.
And there is no BNN Coach Page.

In fact, my screen for my manager looks very different from the one in the manual.

When I figure out how to screen save and send, I'll show you what I mean.

Thanks again.

Regards.

We decided this year to eliminate the ratings being visible, and to move coaches to be more personality based. You will have to read the text and decide on which coaches to hire based on the text, reputation, history, and management style.

[Goreds1994]

I am in my second year now as Reds GM, last year one of my goals was sign Cueto to an extension. I didn't get that done and he signed with the Dodgers but nothing happened and my goal is the same for my second year despite him not being on my team anymore.

[siobhan]

I have created a league with two 9-team subleagues. In the first screenshot, I have setup a league with 136 games. (Each of the teams plays each other 8 times.) This schedule does not exist in the schedule folder, so it generates one. The second screenshot is what the game generates. This can also apply to a fictional league with an MLB-style setup if the schedule is generated (i.e. more than or less than 162 games).

Hopefully, screenshots are good enough as I'm unfamiliar with uploading to an FTP.

[Markus Heinsohn]

Originally Posted by Padreman

Will this fix require me to start a new game or just allow me to continue one?

If you want the HoF and History to be empty, simple use that function.

[Markus Heinsohn]

Originally Posted by siobhan

I have created a league with two 9-team subleagues. In the first screenshot, I have setup a league with 136 games. (Each of the teams plays each other 8 times.) This schedule does not exist in the schedule folder, so it generates one. The second screenshot is what the game generates. This can also apply to a fictional league with an MLB-style setup if the schedule is generated (i.e. more than or less than 162 games).

Hopefully, screenshots are good enough as I'm unfamiliar with uploading to an FTP.

The OOTP schedule generator does not support interleague. It only gets used if a matching default schedule file was found.

[siobhan]

Originally Posted by Markus Heinsohn

The OOTP schedule generator does not support interleague. It only gets used if a matching default schedule file was found.

Thanks for the heads-up. Didn't realize it couldn't do that.