OOTP Developments Forums - View Single Post - Looking for clarification on soft cap, luxury tax, cash max

hefalumps · 08-19-2008, 06:41 PM

Well I finally proceeded into my first offseason, and setup to use profit sharing via the percentage income method. I set it to 35% and it did exactly what I figured out in my spreadsheet.

However, what I noticed was that the financials.txt in OOTP9 has been modified since OOTP 2007. So the settings for my 1973 season that had been imported from OOTP 2007 were actually higher than the new settings for my 1974 season in OOTP 9. In other words, cash max, min salary, ticket prices, etc. all went DOWN instead of up when I proceeded to the next season. Blech.

So I'm restoring from backup and this time unchecking the "Automatically import financials" box before I proceed to the offseason. I'll manually bridge the gap between the OOTP 2007's 1973 and OOTP9's 1975, and then turn the automatic stuff back on for 1975. It would have been nice if this had been documented somewhere.

I still can't decide if I want to employ the cash max or not. Part of me wants to get rid of it - but I don't want some teams having $6M in cash and trying to spend all of it. But I'm curious - if I set it to $0 manually but still have "Import financial settings automatically" checked, won't it just override my $0 and force me to have a cash max anyway?

08-19-2008, 06:41 PM	#15 (permalink)
hefalumps Major Leagues Join Date: Mar 2003 Posts: 440	Well I finally proceeded into my first offseason, and setup to use profit sharing via the percentage income method. I set it to 35% and it did exactly what I figured out in my spreadsheet. However, what I noticed was that the financials.txt in OOTP9 has been modified since OOTP 2007. So the settings for my 1973 season that had been imported from OOTP 2007 were actually higher than the new settings for my 1974 season in OOTP 9. In other words, cash max, min salary, ticket prices, etc. all went DOWN instead of up when I proceeded to the next season. Blech. So I'm restoring from backup and this time unchecking the "Automatically import financials" box before I proceed to the offseason. I'll manually bridge the gap between the OOTP 2007's 1973 and OOTP9's 1975, and then turn the automatic stuff back on for 1975. It would have been nice if this had been documented somewhere. I still can't decide if I want to employ the cash max or not. Part of me wants to get rid of it - but I don't want some teams having $6M in cash and trying to spend all of it. But I'm curious - if I set it to $0 manually but still have "Import financial settings automatically" checked, won't it just override my $0 and force me to have a cash max anyway?