What do you wish you knew when you first picked up OOTP?

[Fyrestorm3]

Originally Posted by GMLoophole

And once you get into a season, back up often. I set for automatic weekly backups, but you might do it more.

This. A lot of people seem to assume that since backing up takes so much time, it's not worth doing except once a year or so. But in reality, while the initial backup will be a long process, any subsequent ones won't take nearly as long (unless you back up infrequently - you see the issue).

Since OOTP automatically saves before a backup anyway, I just backup the game every time I want to save. It doesn't take more than half a minute or so.

[sprague]

Originally Posted by Mitchman11

haha took me a week to figure out (and happened so by accident) that right clicking will close a player profile.

I just always kept clicking the back button over and over which was a complete pain in the rear. Especially when you looked at many pages on the profile lol.

i had been playing for 5 years and didn't find out about this until reading your post

what a time saver
works for coaches too...

thanks

[The Wolf]

Also look through all the league and team report functions carefully. You'll be surprised at what all is in there.

[RchW]

Originally Posted by GMLoophole

And once you get into a season, back up often. I set for automatic weekly backups, but you might do it more.

Advice serves for any computer software, but who cares about work documents and school papers? Losing OOTP work REALLY hurts!

Perhaps I misunderstand; are you saying OOTP has automatic backups? I know about weekly or daily saves but not backups.

[Peregrine]

Wow I never knew about right clicking to close player profiles, and have been playing since OOTP X - great to know.