I'am playing a while now with the PCM Daily 2012 expansion pack for PCM2011.
Right now I'am in the year 2023 but I got a few problems:
- First of all the date that the new races are announced (ProTour race, WC, NC) is later every year. In the beginning the date was around 10 january but now it's already 6 february.
- The second problem is the biggest, almost all the sponsor have already sponsered a team during the 11 years of playing. So now every sponsor quit and most teams change into Bretagne. Right now there are 2 PT Teams called Bretagne and over 10 Continental Teams called Bretagne.
So can anyone help me with this problems? I'am quiet skilled with Hannes Convertor so I can try to make changes. I'am thinking to wait until octobre 2023 and then just gave every team a sponsor until 2023. Maybe this will work.
If anyone knows one of the developpers of this DB, maybe I can contact them and ask what to do.
1 - unfortunately, that's a bug in the game. Each year the variants are announced 2 days later. I've never tested this so I'm not sure if it'll work, but you could try, when the new year has come, editing gene_i_date in DYN_variant_date. It's a Unix Timecode, which seems to contain the date that the variants are announced in the game. You can convert time to Unix here: https://converteverything.com/conversi...x_time.htm
(use 12:00:00 GMT for time)
2 - that might be a problem with value_i_year_max in DYN_sponsor. Supposedly it should mean up to which year a team is willing to sponsor the same team, but apparently it works as up to which year the sponsor is "available", and after that he drops out. So you could try changing all sponsors to 2099 or something like that. For fixing the teams that currently are Bretagne, though, I think you'll need to do that manually using an editor.
Btw, while it may work, I believe it's not a good idea to use an editor that is a couple of games outdated (Hannes Convertor) You could try one from the downloads section https://pcmdaily.com/infusions/pro_dow...p?catid=64
Well, what is inside a DB (tables, columns, etc) doesn't change no matter what editor you use. And specially for a save that is already in 2023, when there's more chance for the game itself to mess something up and corrupt the save, I wouldn't risk on using an outdated editor. But good luck anyway
You could try one from the downloads section 
