Pretty big discombobualtion on Lgue News
 

This is a league from FHM6, but ''saved as'' .. so is a FHM7 save in that way .. simmed from July 1 to August, seemed to be zero problems.



Suddenly the news is all changed and the info doesn't match-up

I think we'll need to take a look at the save. Seems like the something has gone wrong with the player id index, but I can't think of any way that could suddenly happen mid-game. It definitely wasn't like that after you imported the save?

Definitely!

I had simmed to July 1rst to import the game file .. and edited some of the 19/20 year olds.. and slowly simmed week by week ..until mid August, had restarted and simmed to Sept 20th, and that's where I saw it

It's in the ftp folder

Thanks. Interesting, it only seems to be happening to the news stories and nothing else, the player popups on e.g. the roster screens and reports screens are fine. We'll try to see what's gone wrong there, but I suspect it's likely fixable.

Thanks, sounds great .. and yeah, rosters and other screens work fine ....

But team logos/icons as well, right?

In the news, the bottom logo hasn't always corresponded to the teams involved (see posted pics)

I may have fixed it by making a QuickSave .. But can't be sure if it would come again ..



I am timid using **Continue Game** .. and will Load every time from now on ...



But why did it happen at first??

Looks like the message.dat file's data somehow got reset to include old news stories from 3 years ago, which will break everything after that.

You can fix it in the original converted save by copying the the "db_news" file from one of the quickstart folders, e.g. \Documents\Out of the Park Developments\Franchise Hockey Manager 7\quickstart_games\OpeningDay.quick, over the one in the save. That'll remove all news stories shown at the start but after that all new news will work correctly. (The quickstart will essentially do the same thing with more steps, since it's creating a new game.)

Probelm persists, have created several quick saves .. happens after I restart game

ex:

Did you try the method I suggested above?

Yes, a few times, both the quick save and the Opening.quick news_db one

I have decided to just go ahead and reboot the whole league .. but with less player editing ...

Although it would be nice if there were Universal tools like ''Clear all rosters'' ...

then I would just use created players to fill the roster on some interests i Have

You can do that at the team level - "Retire Players" and "Release Players" on the team edit screen.

Know what, I found it, I was editing teams and thought.. hey! is this it?

Question, there is a warning about too many retired players.... is this just a friendly warning or something that will indeed slow the game down?

It won't really be an issue unless you're retiring several thousand players. One league's worth shouldn't be that noticeable.