Draft Class Getting Overwritten / Inaccessible

[Snoregasm2]

I am in 2024 with the Pirates, and in the latest draft, before my players can sign their bonuses, they appear to be disappearing / replaced with scouting discoveries for other teams. See below:



https://imgur.com/a/gS4Xqor

I also can't click on these players for my own scout ratings - the only option is OSA. If I manually assign them to my minor league teams, this same problem persists.

[Lukas Berger]

This feels like a corrupt save.

You should be able to restore from the autosave function. Instructions on doing that follow:

To restore from the automatic backup, do the following:

1) Open the game and on the start screen, click on Settings.

2) Now click on the tab "Troubleshooting".

3) Click "Open folder containing saved games".

4) Now open up the league folder you're wanting to restore.

5) Then select all of the .dat files in the folder and back them up (just in case) by copying them to a temporary folder or creating a zipped file with them

6) Open the folder called "auto-save".

7) In there, select all of the ".dat" files and copy them to the league folder (the parent of the current folder) overwriting all of the ".dat" files in the league folder.

8) Now start the game and load your league.

[Snoregasm2]

Originally Posted by Lukas Berger

This feels like a corrupt save.

You should be able to restore from the autosave function. Instructions on doing that follow:

To restore from the automatic backup, do the following:

1) Open the game and on the start screen, click on Settings.

2) Now click on the tab "Troubleshooting".

3) Click "Open folder containing saved games".

4) Now open up the league folder you're wanting to restore.

5) Then select all of the .dat files in the folder and back them up (just in case) by copying them to a temporary folder or creating a zipped file with them

6) Open the folder called "auto-save".

7) In there, select all of the ".dat" files and copy them to the league folder (the parent of the current folder) overwriting all of the ".dat" files in the league folder.

8) Now start the game and load your league.

Thank you - I tried loading the autosave but it still corrupted. I do have a backup, however, from the start of the season.

I think i'll start a new game though, as there's been a few new patches since I started the save, so there are other issues with the save.

[Lukas Berger]

Originally Posted by Snoregasm2

Thank you - I tried loading the autosave but it still corrupted. I do have a backup, however, from the start of the season.

I think i'll start a new game though, as there's been a few new patches since I started the save, so there are other issues with the save.

For future reference, there are a few things that can cause corruption. This potentially includes unexpected system shutdowns or crashes especially while a league is saving, bad sectors on the hard drive the game is saved to, memory glitches on your computer (especially possible if the league is left open for very long periods of time without the game being shut down or restarted) or occasionally interference from other programs.

So it's impossible to say which of those issues caused the problem, but some of what you might do to prevent that from coming up again would be to regularly defrag your hard drive as well as check it for errors, make sure to occasionally shut your computer off or at least restart it and also run as few other programs in the background at the same time as OOTP as possible. For programs that need to be running at the same time, like an anti-virus or firewall, it's a good idea to add OOTP to their whitelist and exclude OOTP and its data folders from any disk cleaners or similar programs.