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1998 Yankees · 07-04-2008, 01:25 PM

I could not find the MLB Quick Start thread on the General Discussions board, so I'll post these here if you don't mind.

First, the addition of the AZL Padres is accurate, of course, but it renders the MLB Quick Start useless for generating and saving a template for a future game. Try it; you can save it as a template but if you try to use it to start a new game, it comes up with an error and abends. The message is something about having an odd number of teams (9) in the Arizona League. (Edit: See below.)

Second, it's the Greenville (SC) Drive in the South Atlantic League, and the Greeneville (TN) Astros in the Appalachian League. The difference is the "e" after "Green." It's funny how this switcheroo has been perpetuated over the years; I remember correcting this at least three times. Gamers should remember to rename the team logos to match.

Edit: Here's the template error message:

Edit 2: Yes, I am aware that you can still alter teams and division alignments in templates as you load them; however, when you select the AZL to reduce it to eight teams, the game puts in all fictional data, including removing the MLB affiliations. Better have an idea of who was who, where they played, and whom they reported to when that happens. Instead, the way I got around it was to reassign in the quickstart game the AZL team of the Royals, who already had 7 minor league affiliates including three rookie teams, to the Padres who had no rookie league team at all. Then I saved it as a template, etc. You can add the AZL Padres to the new game if desired; I left it the way I had it.

Edit 3: Why would I want to save it as a template, you ask? (You do?

) Well, the main reason is that I want to start my Millennium League in 2001 and a quickstart does not allow you to make any changes in the start year. Otherwise, this MLB Quickstart game was a damned fine effort and I would have used it as is (except flushing out the real players and stocking up with fictional ones) if it were not for the start year. This way, I get the team and league setup (and parks.dat and downloaded logos, uniforms, etc. copied from the quickstart game) as well as the capability of starting my game in 2001.

07-04-2008, 01:25 PM	#140 (permalink)
1998 Yankees Hall Of Famer Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Yankee Stadium, back in 1998. Posts: 8,364 Thanks: 442 Thanked 651x in 435 posts	I could not find the MLB Quick Start thread on the General Discussions board, so I'll post these here if you don't mind. First, the addition of the AZL Padres is accurate, of course, but it renders the MLB Quick Start useless for generating and saving a template for a future game. Try it; you can save it as a template but if you try to use it to start a new game, it comes up with an error and abends. The message is something about having an odd number of teams (9) in the Arizona League. (Edit: See below.) Second, it's the Greenville (SC) Drive in the South Atlantic League, and the Greeneville (TN) Astros in the Appalachian League. The difference is the "e" after "Green." It's funny how this switcheroo has been perpetuated over the years; I remember correcting this at least three times. Gamers should remember to rename the team logos to match. Edit: Here's the template error message: Edit 2: Yes, I am aware that you can still alter teams and division alignments in templates as you load them; however, when you select the AZL to reduce it to eight teams, the game puts in all fictional data, including removing the MLB affiliations. Better have an idea of who was who, where they played, and whom they reported to when that happens. Instead, the way I got around it was to reassign in the quickstart game the AZL team of the Royals, who already had 7 minor league affiliates including three rookie teams, to the Padres who had no rookie league team at all. Then I saved it as a template, etc. You can add the AZL Padres to the new game if desired; I left it the way I had it. Edit 3: Why would I want to save it as a template, you ask? (You do? ) Well, the main reason is that I want to start my Millennium League in 2001 and a quickstart does not allow you to make any changes in the start year. Otherwise, this MLB Quickstart game was a damned fine effort and I would have used it as is (except flushing out the real players and stocking up with fictional ones) if it were not for the start year. This way, I get the team and league setup (and parks.dat and downloaded logos, uniforms, etc. copied from the quickstart game) as well as the capability of starting my game in 2001. Attached Images __________________ The 1998 New York Yankees Last edited by 1998 Yankees; 07-04-2008 at 02:50 PM.