Where is the database?

RMc · 03-04-2020, 06:58 PM

As a player of OOTP, I like to fiddle with the player database occasionally. But I can't seem to find the database in FHM...li'l help?

JeffR · 03-05-2020, 02:56 AM

Our database isn't editable in the way OOTP's is, for a few reasons. The game startup works differently in FHM - all the data files are pre-assembled into quickstarts, which speeds up the initial game startup procedures, where OOTP assembles the data for a new game from the raw data files. We've done some work on a standalone editor that would create valid quickstarts, but ran into some technical difficulties with that, as well as the question of sorting out what data can and can't be edited, since there are a number of settings that can easily break the game, and require some knowledge of the game's internal workings to edit properly.

Additionally, we can't expose some of the data in an open, accessible way outside the game itself - that would violate our agreement with Eliteprospects, which provides most of the stat history and a lot of other data. And there are some proprietary things of ours in the data that we'd rather not have dumped out and distributed, which would be possible if we did things like OOTP does.

We do, however, allow editing of most of the player data and some of the team and league data via commissioner mode (and even with it off, for some non-ratings fields), and, as long as the game isn't advanced from the start date, that can be used to create regular quickstarts.

03-04-2020, 06:58 PM	#1
RMc All Star Starter Join Date: Jan 2004 Posts: 1,418	Where is the database? As a player of OOTP, I like to fiddle with the player database occasionally. But I can't seem to find the database in FHM...li'l help? __________________ "We're all behind our baseball team..."

03-05-2020, 02:56 AM	#2
JeffR FHM Producer Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Kelowna, BC Posts: 16,623	Our database isn't editable in the way OOTP's is, for a few reasons. The game startup works differently in FHM - all the data files are pre-assembled into quickstarts, which speeds up the initial game startup procedures, where OOTP assembles the data for a new game from the raw data files. We've done some work on a standalone editor that would create valid quickstarts, but ran into some technical difficulties with that, as well as the question of sorting out what data can and can't be edited, since there are a number of settings that can easily break the game, and require some knowledge of the game's internal workings to edit properly. Additionally, we can't expose some of the data in an open, accessible way outside the game itself - that would violate our agreement with Eliteprospects, which provides most of the stat history and a lot of other data. And there are some proprietary things of ours in the data that we'd rather not have dumped out and distributed, which would be possible if we did things like OOTP does. We do, however, allow editing of most of the player data and some of the team and league data via commissioner mode (and even with it off, for some non-ratings fields), and, as long as the game isn't advanced from the start date, that can be used to create regular quickstarts.