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Originally Posted by david limbaugh
Awesome thread! Sorry to hear you lost your league once.. I always start at 1871 using baseball reference.
Backup? I started playing this with OOTP2 - I hate when I make a mistake or game goes bump.
I have developed a routine. Each major event of a season, I stop and make a backup to 3 places. My PC Hard drive and two external drives. When last out is made in final game, I save, make the almanac, get out of the game, and under my OOTP26 (whever ever version) I have a backup folder. Under there I make a folder 1888_Ends I PKZIP my mlb.lg to that folder and then I copy that folder to my other 2 drives. I then advance to next pre-season and make a folder 1889_Pre-Pre-Season before I make changes like schedule, rules, or Baseball Reference/ChatGPT transactions. I finish that and make another folder - 1889_Pre-Opening-Day and repeat the process. I advance to Opening Day - shenagins happen between pre-season and opening day (I play by Cubs - all other teams AI controlled. I play as GM - commissioner mode - can't be fired), I make another backup - 1889_Opening_Day - I then play out the season until last out of last game and do it all again... :-) One thing I do is on opening day I do the MLB-All-Players report and balance out SP, RP and C - AI isn't very good at that - I make trades between a team needing a SP,RP or C with a team that has more. Does that make sense. I play month to month and first of each month make roster moves and look for free agents.
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Hey...thanks for the feedback.
I play in Commissioner Mode because I just like seeing the in-game universe unfold as it does without my input on a particular team. I save every couple of weeks as I play or before each major event that takes place (start of season, All-Star Game, etc). I work from home, so I have a 1 TB Office 365 account that I can easily store backups on to make sure I don't lose either my game or the custom graphic I've made for it.
In the previous version of this in-game universe I had to go to a backup, but for some reason when the backup loaded it erased all of the highlighting in career stats for statistical leaders, as well as tracking of "Black Ink" and "Gray Ink". I went with it for a while, but then thought that there was a better way I could build the in-game universe and started it over. I've been pretty happy with the results so far.
Oh...I should also note that while I haven't been playing as long as you I've been playing since either OOTP4 or OOTP5, before their brief deal with Sports Interactive.