Building a world from HS to Pros

Hammercraft · 01-13-2022, 01:32 PM

I'm looking to build a fictional baseball league structure starting with high schools, feeding into colleges, and culminating in a professional league.

I finally got the settings right (mostly) for a single high school league and I'd like to make a few more, but TBH I can't even figure out how to add additional leagues into an existing game. (I'd prefer to copy the existing league a few times and tweak it for different regions, but that's probably not a supported function.)

Has anyone else undertaken something like this and have tips?

Hammercraft · 01-13-2022, 02:39 PM

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Originally Posted by Hammercraft

TBH I can't even figure out how to add additional leagues into an existing game

Solved one problem -
Game Settings -> Global Settings -> Global Actions -> Add a new league to this game

Hammercraft · 01-13-2022, 05:07 PM

I'm trying to keep the players segregated geographically as much as possible at the high school level, so I'm making eight separate high school leagues based on regions and locking the player origin to those regions. The regions in OOTP have some overlap, but this seems the best combination of regions (no players from New Jersey or D.C., but I'm ok with that):

US REGION: New England
US REGION: South Atlantic
US REGION: Delta
US REGION: Appalachia
US REGION: Great Lakes
US REGION: Great Plains
US REGION: Desert Southwest
US REGION: Pacific Northwest

Galeg · 01-14-2022, 01:49 PM

I'm not sure how to do it, but I recall reading that is is possible to edit the region files to create custom regions.

Hammercraft · 01-14-2022, 05:00 PM

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Originally Posted by Galeg

I'm not sure how to do it, but I recall reading that is is possible to edit the region files to create custom regions.

I've done that before but I'm not a big fan of editing XML. I believe you go into the (install)/database folder and edit world_default.xml.

The regions have their own IDs, and within them they have REGION_STATE id's that correspond to the states, you can make your own regions if you like. I could do it, but it's a little tedious and delays my goal of exploring how to set up a fictional high school > college > pro feeder system. If I got serious about this project I'd definitely make my own regions.

Once upon a time I created an entirely fictional world with continents, ethnicities, etc. for Warcraft's Azeroth. It took a very long time

01-13-2022, 01:32 PM	#1
Hammercraft All Star Reserve Join Date: Jan 2015 Location: Wisconsin Posts: 729	Building a world from HS to Pros I'm looking to build a fictional baseball league structure starting with high schools, feeding into colleges, and culminating in a professional league. I finally got the settings right (mostly) for a single high school league and I'd like to make a few more, but TBH I can't even figure out how to add additional leagues into an existing game. (I'd prefer to copy the existing league a few times and tweak it for different regions, but that's probably not a supported function.) Has anyone else undertaken something like this and have tips? __________________ *PT: Black River Brewers*

01-13-2022, 05:07 PM	#3
Hammercraft All Star Reserve Join Date: Jan 2015 Location: Wisconsin Posts: 729	I'm trying to keep the players segregated geographically as much as possible at the high school level, so I'm making eight separate high school leagues based on regions and locking the player origin to those regions. The regions in OOTP have some overlap, but this seems the best combination of regions (no players from New Jersey or D.C., but I'm ok with that): US REGION: New England US REGION: South Atlantic US REGION: Delta US REGION: Appalachia US REGION: Great Lakes US REGION: Great Plains US REGION: Desert Southwest US REGION: Pacific Northwest __________________ *PT: Black River Brewers*

01-14-2022, 01:49 PM	#4
Galeg Major Leagues Join Date: May 2012 Posts: 405	I'm not sure how to do it, but I recall reading that is is possible to edit the region files to create custom regions.