[Kaitiaki]

Originally Posted by DesertFox07

May depend on the time/effort involved in the other 37 seasons though. I'm contemplating just scrapping the league and restarting it in OOTP8 Maybe I'll try 1970 and see how it goes.

Running Cato isn't that bad. I think you only really have to 'alter' one or two files for each season, even using the most recent version of OOTP (but there's probably still a thread about it stickied in the OOTP6 forums somewhere, so refer to that).

Most of the time is going to be simply in the running of Cato itself, which you don't have to watch. Just start it going and do something else for however long it takes to process the data.

Originally Posted by Long_Long_Name

I started a league in 2002, simmed three seasons (in order to have stats before the initial draft), reset everything and drafted in 2005. So, from the teams that played in 2002-2004, none played afterwards, they were all deleted and they had no link to 2005 and after. So, 2005 was the league's first "official" year. When I converted from 6.5, OOTP read these years as "pre" years as well, displaying no team name next to the player's 2002-2004 seasons. However, after importing, a player that played for a fake team from 2002-2004 is shown as having played these years for the same team they played in 2005... when the team didn't even exist back then.

I don't think you're going to be able to fix this, at least not the way you want to. The original behaviour you describe - treating the seasons as "orphaned" - was never a deliberate feature. It was an unfortunate consequence of the limitations of OOTP6. OOTP2007 would have liked to assign teams to those years but, since OOTP6 didn't remember details like franchise locations from previous seasons, it had no idea what team to assign.

Certainly, the behaviour you're seeing now is inaccurate, but trying to get back to the previous one is simply trying to replace one glitch with another glitch.

The real "fix" would be to add information to the TeamFranchises.csv and Teams.csv for those initial clubs and seasons (thus making them part of your real history, though you'd be able to have OOTP8/2007 treat them as Inactive Franchises). By teaching the game what clubs existed in those years, it ought to be able to assign truly correct teams to players' stats from those years.

Of course, as I've just been saying to DesertFox, manually adding data to the CSVs is a bit time consuming and labour intensive, so it's up to you to decide whether the current inaccuracies are worth the effort to fix.

How foolish of me . The stories are blank, whether it's the manager news, league news or team news (the displayed player pictures are consistent with what the news stories were, however).

OK, the fact that you're seeing listings where news items should be suggests that your messages.dat is intact. I've only ever encountered the "blank stories" issue when a league's \messages folder is empty or missing files. Were the news stories still present when you looked at the league in OOTP8 (i.e., before bringing it back to OOTP2007)? And, I know you said you made an exact copy, but are the contents of the \messages folder the same in both places?

- Kai