OOTP Developments Forums - View Single Post - pre-1901 MLB with historical transactions, etc.

thehef · 08-24-2023, 04:47 PM

Are you using the Wizard to create your game? I don't see any other way to at least start the process of creating a historical game... Once I advance to Step 2 of the Wizard, I can then choose Advanced Mode, go the Historical panel, and enabled Historical Transactions. However, at that point, I don't know how to either a) return to the Wizard to finish creating my game, or b) finish creating my game from the Advanced section. If the process is b), do I just go through all panels & make my selections, and then return to the Create Game panel on the far left and select Start Game?

At any rate, I'm now wondering about making mods to the teams.csv file in order to minimize the work needing to be done each season. I've found in testing that as long as you maintain the not-necessarily-historical structure that OOTP uses for pre-1901, you're fine with any other changes you make to the file, such as to the teams themselves.

For example, the real MLB structure in 1898 was a 12-team NL, whereas OOTP has an 8-team AL & 8-team NL. So you could edit the teams.csv file to have all 12 1898 historical MLB teams, but you'd to distribute them into OOTP's AL & NL format, and come up with / leave in the file 4 add'l teams. At least that's what I recall from testing and monkeying around with this...

08-24-2023, 04:47 PM	#2
thehef Hall Of Famer Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 5,345	Are you using the Wizard to create your game? I don't see any other way to at least start the process of creating a historical game... Once I advance to Step 2 of the Wizard, I can then choose Advanced Mode, go the Historical panel, and enabled Historical Transactions. However, at that point, I don't know how to either a) return to the Wizard to finish creating my game, or b) finish creating my game from the Advanced section. If the process is b), do I just go through all panels & make my selections, and then return to the Create Game panel on the far left and select Start Game? At any rate, I'm now wondering about making mods to the teams.csv file in order to minimize the work needing to be done each season. I've found in testing that as long as you maintain the not-necessarily-historical structure that OOTP uses for pre-1901, you're fine with any other changes you make to the file, such as to the teams themselves. For example, the real MLB structure in 1898 was a 12-team NL, whereas OOTP has an 8-team AL & 8-team NL. So you could edit the teams.csv file to have all 12 1898 historical MLB teams, but you'd to distribute them into OOTP's AL & NL format, and come up with / leave in the file 4 add'l teams. At least that's what I recall from testing and monkeying around with this...