OOTP with Multiple Users

[esmeet7]

I have two sons who are becoming increasingly interested in baseball, and I'd love to be engaged with them and some friends of ours in an OOTP league. (I'm an MLB The Show fan who has never played OOTP, but thinking about it this year.)

Since my boys are pre-teens living at home, I'm wondering if the three of us could all use the same OOTP game/license and play with/against each other in the same league? How do people make it work if you have more than one user in the same family? (I could probably have a specific laptop or desktop assigned to each family member, but I don't know if/how the game would work.)

On a related note, is OOTP a local-only game where game files and other data are stored locally, or is it cloud-based so I can log in and manage my league/team from my work computer, at home, etc?

[CMH]

Re: OOTP with Multiple Users

I have two sons who are becoming increasingly interested in baseball, and I'd love to be engaged with them and some friends of ours in an OOTP league. (I'm an MLB The Show fan who has never played OOTP, but thinking about it this year.)

Since my boys are pre-teens living at home, I'm wondering if the three of us could all use the same OOTP game/license and play with/against each other in the same league? How do people make it work if you have more than one user in the same family? (I could probably have a specific laptop or desktop assigned to each family member, but I don't know if/how the game would work.)

On a related note, is OOTP a local-only game where game files and other data are stored locally, or is it cloud-based so I can log in and manage my league/team from my work computer, at home, etc?

Online leagues are in my opinion the magic of OOTP. I don't think I'd still be playing the game 16 years later if it wasn't for online leagues.


So short answer: yes, it's possible. Now, the question is how complicated do you want to get?


1. You can do it super easy and set yourself up as the commish, give your team and their team a password, and you all share the same game on the same computer. Let everyone make whatever changes they want to make on their team and then you can sim.


2. But, if you have different computers, you can treat it like an online league. You'll just need an FTP set up so you can host the team files. As commish you'll be able to import the team files, run the league (let's say you decide you guys will sim one week or two weeks at a time like most online leagues do - you can obviously do whatever you prefer) you can sim a week and then once you're done, you'd export the file to the FTP.


Then your sons can go to their computers, open the game and download the new file, log into their teams, make changes and export the file. Rinse, repeat.


The OOTP forums can walk you through the process if you have more technical questions about the set-up.










The game will save your data locally on your computer. But, if you're in an online league, you'll be able to update those files by downloading the new file online. So you can move from computer to computer and do whatever you want. You'll just need a copy of OOTP on each computer. I think you get 2-3 licenses per purchase.

[esmeet7]

Re: OOTP with Multiple Users

Online leagues are in my opinion the magic of OOTP. I don't think I'd still be playing the game 16 years later if it wasn't for online leagues.
So short answer: yes, it's possible.

The game will save your data locally on your computer. But, if you're in an online league, you'll be able to update those files by downloading the new file online. So you can move from computer to computer and do whatever you want. You'll just need a copy of OOTP on each computer. I think you get 2-3 licenses per purchase.

Thanks for your reply. If you're in an "online league," is the data stored on-line such that I wouldn't need the FTP setup? In other words, would an online league work such that all owners could simply access OOTP being run remotely and access/interact with their team without needing OOTP installed locally?

[CMH]

Re: OOTP with Multiple Users

Thanks for your reply. If you're in an "online league," is the data stored on-line such that I wouldn't need the FTP setup? In other words, would an online league work such that all owners could simply access OOTP being run remotely and access/interact with their team without needing OOTP installed locally?

I'm not sure how it would work using remote access. It's a good question but I'm afraid I don't have an answer.


At least from my knowledge, you need to have OOTP installed on your machine so you can download the updated file and export to the FTP. All of this can be done in-game so you don't need to search for the export file in a folder on your directory and then upload it. You just press a button in-game and it sends the file.


I hope that helps.