Game crashes when proceeding to new season

qfl1 · 07-27-2024, 01:06 PM

Played the 1871 season. Season is complete on October 31.
On November 1, the "Offseason Starts".

When advancing to the next day (Nov 1), the game crashes

I am on version 25.7 Build 80

I've played dozens (hundreds?) of historical seasons and never had an issue with crashing, so I tend not to think it is a computer issue, but I am on a Dell desktop.

qfl1 · 07-27-2024, 02:28 PM

Also, here are the trace file entries generated in case it helps:

2024-07-27 13:24:56 WORLD::advance_world: Start...
2024-07-27 13:24:56 WORLD::advance_world: Simulation complete.
2024-07-27 13:24:56 WORLD::advance_world: Can_advance is true...
2024-07-27 13:24:56 WORLD::advance_world: handle_events...
2024-07-27 13:24:56 advance_world: Simulated 1871-10-31
2024-07-27 13:24:56 WORLD::advance_world: pre_handle_events...
2024-07-27 13:24:56 Pre Handle Event: Handling 16 for Major League Baseball
2024-07-27 13:24:57 goto_absolute_path: Trying to open this path: C:\Users\CC\Documents\Out of the Park Developments\OOTP Baseball 25\stats
2024-07-27 13:24:57 goto_absolute_path: Success. Current path is: C:\Users\CC\Documents\Out of the Park Developments\OOTP Baseball 25\stats

Matt Arnold · 07-29-2024, 09:38 AM

Repeatable crashes, it's best if you can upload the files (https://support.ootpdevelopments.com...p-developments), that would help us greatly in tracking down what might be going on.

qfl1 · 07-30-2024, 09:13 AM

Sorry, I added that comment in the 'edit' of the initial post but it probably got overlooked.

Uploaded league files to FTP server as "qfl1.zip"

Matt Arnold · 07-30-2024, 11:06 AM

I think some of the franchise tags in your game aren't matching what we expect, and that's causing a problem with the auto-expansion.
One option is you could disable the historical auto-expansion. Especially in those early eras, sometimes the teams get messed up, especially if the structure was not the default from when the game started.

If you don't do that, then you may need to manually adjust the league before advancing. I would suggest to create the second sub-league (to have both AL and NL), and then to manually set the franchise ID for some of the teams (ie. set the Philadelphia Athletics to OAK, the Boston Red Stocking to ATL, and so on). As long as you set a few of them, that should get you past the trouble spot.

We can correct this up so that it will work automatically in the next patch, but for now I think either of the above may work.

qfl1 · 08-01-2024, 09:08 AM

Argh! It was the 'Automatically expand league' setting. I never enable that option, but somehow it got set or I missed it.

I turned it off and now the league advances to the next season just fine.

07-27-2024, 01:06 PM	#1
qfl1 Bat Boy Join Date: May 2016 Posts: 8	Game crashes when proceeding to new season Played the 1871 season. Season is complete on October 31. On November 1, the "Offseason Starts". When advancing to the next day (Nov 1), the game crashes I am on version 25.7 Build 80 I've played dozens (hundreds?) of historical seasons and never had an issue with crashing, so I tend not to think it is a computer issue, but I am on a Dell desktop. Last edited by qfl1; 07-27-2024 at 01:09 PM. Reason: Uploaded league files to FTP server as "qfl1.zip"

07-27-2024, 02:28 PM	#2
qfl1 Bat Boy Join Date: May 2016 Posts: 8	Also, here are the trace file entries generated in case it helps: 2024-07-27 13:24:56 WORLD::advance_world: Start... 2024-07-27 13:24:56 WORLD::advance_world: Simulation complete. 2024-07-27 13:24:56 WORLD::advance_world: Can_advance is true... 2024-07-27 13:24:56 WORLD::advance_world: handle_events... 2024-07-27 13:24:56 advance_world: Simulated 1871-10-31 2024-07-27 13:24:56 WORLD::advance_world: pre_handle_events... 2024-07-27 13:24:56 Pre Handle Event: Handling 16 for Major League Baseball 2024-07-27 13:24:57 goto_absolute_path: Trying to open this path: C:\Users\CC\Documents\Out of the Park Developments\OOTP Baseball 25\stats 2024-07-27 13:24:57 goto_absolute_path: Success. Current path is: C:\Users\CC\Documents\Out of the Park Developments\OOTP Baseball 25\stats

07-29-2024, 09:38 AM	#3
Matt Arnold OOTP Developer Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Here and there Posts: 15,812	Repeatable crashes, it's best if you can upload the files (https://support.ootpdevelopments.com...p-developments), that would help us greatly in tracking down what might be going on.

07-30-2024, 09:13 AM	#4
qfl1 Bat Boy Join Date: May 2016 Posts: 8	Sorry, I added that comment in the 'edit' of the initial post but it probably got overlooked. Uploaded league files to FTP server as "qfl1.zip"

07-30-2024, 11:06 AM	#5
Matt Arnold OOTP Developer Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Here and there Posts: 15,812	I think some of the franchise tags in your game aren't matching what we expect, and that's causing a problem with the auto-expansion. One option is you could disable the historical auto-expansion. Especially in those early eras, sometimes the teams get messed up, especially if the structure was not the default from when the game started. If you don't do that, then you may need to manually adjust the league before advancing. I would suggest to create the second sub-league (to have both AL and NL), and then to manually set the franchise ID for some of the teams (ie. set the Philadelphia Athletics to OAK, the Boston Red Stocking to ATL, and so on). As long as you set a few of them, that should get you past the trouble spot. We can correct this up so that it will work automatically in the next patch, but for now I think either of the above may work.

08-01-2024, 09:08 AM	#6
qfl1 Bat Boy Join Date: May 2016 Posts: 8	Argh! It was the 'Automatically expand league' setting. I never enable that option, but somehow it got set or I missed it. I turned it off and now the league advances to the next season just fine.