Originally Posted by 6.2 Change Log, Item #5.

Address problems with rare crashes or hanging in Solevision and simulation engine, particularly in multi-player when position restrictions are most relaxed. Note that this will force a few more transactions than in the past.

Originally Posted by Ben E Lou (Post 1864149)

I disagree, marc. I'd say it's absolutely intentional:

Because of the relaxed restrictions in 6.1/6.1a, there were times that the game would either hang indefinitely or just plain crash when the commish tried to sim. And it was a repeatable scenario. The only way around it was to either put the offending team on AI Control for that sim (which would actually do more tinkering than we're seeing in 6.2, since it would *completely* run the team for that week: buh-bye, 8/8 mentors and 5/5 position leaders), or the commish would have to go in and manually correct the problem--having to make decisions for an owner.

Personally, I'd rather have seen the rare individual who let his roster get in such bad shape that it would crash the game bear the brunt of this issue with AI control, as opposed to teams with small issues now getting hit by it. But I guess I understand that developers don't want any issue sitting out there that would crash the game. And given that 6.0e and prior had the heavy-handed Otto, and 6.1 introduced the so-forgiving-it-could-crash-the-game Otto, I have to assume that in Jim's assessment there's no doable option between the 6.1/6.1a version and the 6.2 version.

As always, though, there is one simple solution to this: don't submit an illegal roster, and Otto will stay on the sidelines. *shurg*

Originally Posted by ShaneTheMaster (Post 1864182)

But Otto comes into play anayway. If I want to sign a free agent, and cut someone (only if he gets signed) on a gameday export, your roster still gets shuffled - whether it's a legal roster or not. I inactivated a starter that was probable, and after the next league import he was active.

SO, basically, if your league does not use midweeks, you can not make transactions without emailling your commish what you want your entire depth chart to be.

Originally Posted by gstelmack (Post 1864192)

Yes, it's a longstanding request that you be able to specify that a signed player go on your inactive roster.

Originally Posted by Ben E Lou (Post 1864186)

That's simply not true. You posted yourself that you had room on your inactive roster, and signed a FA. FA signings are always active by default. You need to fill our your depth charts with 45, then sign the additional player.

Originally Posted by ShaneTheMaster (Post 1864957)

I did not know a signed FA goes on the active roster by default until after I made this post. The way that works does not mak sense to me, since most FAs you sign midseason are scrubs.

Originally Posted by MIJB#19 (Post 1865638)

True, but FOF is what it is.
So, right now, the new guy will be active, so you'd better make sure to have only 45 players active, with all depth chart slots filled. In the end it's quite simple: you have to play by the rules of your league, even if they don't follow up advise of the help file slash game developer to use mid-week files for the situations where you need to hire a player. Worst case, you do as I did and only consider playing in leagues with mid-week files. It sucks, but those are you options.

Originally Posted by ShaneTheMaster (Post 1864957)

I did not know a signed FA goes on the active roster by default until after I made this post. The way that works does not mak sense to me, since most FAs you sign midseason are scrubs.