Forcing Major's and Minors' schedules to certain weekdays?

[stevebydac]

Hi all, I'm having the following problem and hope that the experienced schedulers here might give me an assist...

(THIS IS OOTP 11 , not 12) Major league schedule: ILN_BGY_G26_SL1_D1_T14_SL2_D1_T14_C_

I've loaded the above schedule into the game. It starts on Sunday (preferred_start_day="1") and then on Wednesday. It looks perfectly fine in the game's schedule editor. But...

My AAA and AA schedules are exactly the same schedule (2 games per week x 13 weeks = 26 games), except I'm trying to run the games Tuesday (preferred_start_day="3") and Saturday. But even if I rename the file "aaa_schedule.lsdl" or something else, the game ignores the days I want for the minors and reverts to the major league schedule except for the weird quirk that it runs Sun/Wed for AAA and Mon/Thurs for AA.

Anyone have a clue how I can force the days the way I want them? Thanks.

[Le Grande Orange]

There are two options that work together to control this. The first is the starting date for the schedule file, and the second is the day of the week. The schedule will open on the first occurrence of that day of the week after the opening date in the schedule file.

For example, if the starting date set in the schedule file is April 4th, and the day of the week is set to Thursday, then the schedule will open on the first Thursday in April on or after April 4th.

Also pay attention to the "Auto-Adjust Date if Matching XML Schedule Found" setting on the Options page. Enabling this will cause the settings in the schedule file to be used instead of whatever was set on the Options page. If this setting is disabled, then the game will use what's specified on the Options page and will override the values set in the schedule file itself.

Here's the section about customizing schedule files in the OOTP 11 online manual. That'll explain things in more detail. As far as I'm aware no changes were made in these areas in OOTP 12.