Game doesn't track league level changes

[Zeyes]

This is perhaps more of a cosmetic problem rather than a bug, but anyway...

My setup has a AAA-level league with an affiliated R-level minor league. However, because I wanted to generate the inaugural draft with different parameters, I inititally set up both the main league and the affiliated league as AA-level and then changed them to AAA and R-level after the player pool was generated (that way I avoid getting tons of teenagers and 35+ year olds in the inaugural draft).

However, apparently parts of the game never registered the level changes as the transaction log shows all callup/demotion messages like this:

Los Angeles Skyhawks: Sent MR M. Carter to Double A Martinsville.

Martinsville Ghouls: Received MR M. Carter from Double A Los Angeles.

It should be "Rookie League Martinsville" and "Triple A Los Angeles". No games were ever played with either league set to Double A level.

It's not game-breaking, but really quite annoying. I know I don't have to futz with the league levels like that, but the only other way I could achieve what I'm trying to do (i.e. an inaugural class of players who are all roughly college-grad or a bit older) would probably be to edit all player ages manually, and I dread doing that for a couple of thousand players.

[Zeyes]

Ack, didn't realize I was reading the Logged Issues area when I decided to post this. My apologies.

[Zeyes]

dola,

FWIW, the league level designations show up correctly in the player profiles, so this seems to be primarily (only?) a problem with the transaction logs. At least it's consistently wrong there - the retirement notices for minor leaguers show the same problem:

San Diego Rams: RF G. Casrellanos (AA Fairhope) retires.

[endgame]

Originally Posted by Zeyes

dola,

FWIW, the league level designations show up correctly in the player profiles, so this seems to be primarily (only?) a problem with the transaction logs. At least it's consistently wrong there - the retirement notices for minor leaguers show the same problem:

Yeah. If I'm reading you correctly, I've encountered a similar issue. The game doesn't recognize the Level of Play in the setup screen. If it's a ML (parent) club and you set the level of play to AAA, the News and all of the transactions still refer to your "minor league" pitcher, etc... The only real effect the change seems to make systemically is the alteration of the MLE and equivalencies, which you can do manually (the path of my resort) while leaving the league level alone. It does get confusing otherwise.

[Zeyes]

Originally Posted by endgame

Yeah. If I'm reading you correctly, I've encountered a similar issue. The game doesn't recognize the Level of Play in the setup screen. If it's a ML (parent) club and you set the level of play to AAA, the News and all of the transactions still refer to your "minor league" pitcher, etc...

I don't really mind that part...technically, that AAA-quality league is a major league in the context of the game universe, just one that happens to be of minor league quality. If you wanted to change that behaviour, you'd also have to consider that such a league shouldn't hand out "major league" contracts, and shouldn't result in players gaining big-league service time (especially if there's a "real" ML in the same universe). Maybe that's going to be possible in OOTP'07, but that would likely require a ton more customizability.

My problem basically originates in that I would like to have leagues of differing quality (1 AAA, 3 AA, 3 A...roughly mirroring the US indy league landscape). I could simply designate them all as AA and use different PCMs, but I'd really prefer some additional visual differentiation within the game so I'd be setting them up as AAA / AA / A level (and the appropriate PCMs). However, that also influences the make-up of the initial player pools (lots of geezers in the AAA league, too many kids in the A leagues) which I don't want, therefore my "change designations after starting up" workaround as mentioned in the first post.

Oh, and the R-level leagues are supposed to serve as a replacement for the reserve roster. Yes, I've definitely been in "mad scientist" mode when I came up with that whole concept. Anyway, I'm rambling now...really, I'd just like the transaction logs to show the correct league levels.

[Zeyes]

Found another place that shows the wrong league designations. See attached screenshots...player profile has it right, search window has it wrong.

[Zeyes]

Another place that shows the wrong designations is each team's homepage. I'll skip the screenshot this time.

[thomamon]

Logged and being looked into.