I have somehow managed to hire the same rider two times for next season. It happened because I got a mail from him if I wanted to renew, while at the same time I had already offered a renewal. It appears there is no check against duplicate riders in the program. However, having two guys on the team with same name is kind of cinfusing, so I have decided I want to hack the database to get rid of one of the duplicate twin brothers.
I am familiar with the Lachi's editor, but how do you remove a rider safely? The rider is already on my team this year, sp optimally I would like to remove the twin who is only on my team next year. Any advice is appreciated!
I'm sure you don't have to do anything, you will have only the one rider next year. It happened to me - probably to everybody who's played a career - seeing that message about extending a contract from a rider you already extended the contract with. It will come up again, so ignore it next time.
Where are you in your career? Are both riders in your team already?
The easiest solution would be to rename the first name of one of them and keep them as twins.
If you want to remove one, it depends where you are in the career. If he already is in your team, you need to delete the contract and the rider in this order. The contract is in DYN_contract_cyclist, the rider is in DYN_cyclist.
If he is not in your team yet, I think you need to delete the pre-contract also.
Lachi wrote:
Where are you in your career? Are both riders in your team already?
The easiest solution would be to rename the first name of one of them and keep them as twins.
If you want to remove one, it depends where you are in the career. If he already is in your team, you need to delete the contract and the rider in this order. The contract is in DYN_contract_cyclist, the rider is in DYN_cyclist.
If he is not in your team yet, I think you need to delete the pre-contract also.
My game is in July 2017 and these guys are just signed up for 2018 season.
After I wrote the post I tried some more hacking on my own. I found that there were two contracts linking rider id 2285 to my team for 2018 and that was what made the twins. I couldn't figure out how to delete a line in your otherwise excellent editor (presumably RTFM kind of problem, don't take it personally).
Instead I changed the second (duplicate) contract so it links "nobody" with "noteam" (I think that code was 190). The contract ID still exist, but it should be pretty meaningless.
My rooster for 2018 is then rid of the terrible twin, but I don't know if this will introduce other problems down the line. At least I could hire a young hopeful instead of 2x one of my more mediocre helpers!
I advanced the game one day. Good news: no crash yet
Observation: on top of my list of world transfer, I now have a mysterious rider with a pink square icon instead of a flag, no name, no "from" team, no "next season" team and Average = 0.
I guess this is somewhat linked to my actions described above. The big question is, what happens when next season starts...
