Here are some initial impressions for those of you importing OOTP 6.5 leagues:
(1) Import interface is a bit painful to use if you have multiple folders to go through to get to your league file. Not intuitive at all and very slow to find the new folder you click on. You may want to move the league file to the OOTP 2006 folder since it defaults there.
(2) Opening day means opening day. Leagues can only be imported when you are ready to do the opening day sim. The game won’t let you import at any other time.
(3) Once you spend the time to get to your league folder, the import took a few seconds to complete on my AMD 4.0 Mghz computer.
(4) You have to add minor leagues to your import. If you do not do this, there will be no minor league system in place. The game will then create minor league teams in various cities and for all the levels you designate and assign them to your franchise.
(5) Although you create a manager, make sure to create the game in commissioner mode for you online folks.
(6) I do not understand how to assign human managers to teams. When you import, the commissioner is the only manager. I am assuming that I must hand create each human owner and assign his team to him. Will he be able to set his own password for his assigned team? I do not know the answer to that question.
(7) The game assigns the league name “IPL” to the minor league teams. Even though I created the game identifying the IOSBL as the major league level, the league home page lists “IPL” as the major league level and is the place where I found my major league franchises. The actual league name, IOSBL, appears on the news screen, but the drop down buttons at the top of the screen go “IPL”, “IPL Teams” for the major league team lists.
(8) Pretty cool new stories when you take over the team and the previous GM is fired.
(9) Team histories (won loss) do not import.
(10) Draft histories do not import.
(11) Positional histories do not import.
(12) Batters and pitchers registries do import.
(13) I got an HTML error when I clicked on some players in the registry, but they eventually displayed.
(14) As promised, major league stats import. Minor league stats do not. And the league name was changed to “IPL” on the player pages. So a player would have “JAC-IPL” listed for his time with Jacksonville.
(15) Surprisingly, leaders boards import with no problem.
(16) As promised, award winners do not import.
(17) Forgot to mention that minor league teams are populated with minor league players. Some are from the import and others seem to have been generated by the game.
So far, things look promising. If the OOTP community can figure out a way to manually enter the missing data into the league history, I will have no complaints. A few minor irritants so far (like this whole IPL thing).
Can you let me know the errors you got so we can get them fixed for the patch
Think yourself lucky Chris, I’ve tried downloading it from 3 different mirrors, and it won’t even do anything when i try to run it – ho hum.