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Wed Nov 11, 2015 3:24 pm
FRANKMANSUETO wrote:To think that SOM will not fix this card issue for what can be about 20 cards total. It's NOT like we are talking 100's. It is ONLY about 20!!
Talk about LAZY!!!!
Remember, I'm the one who asked for this set.
The issue isn't fixing 20 cards. It's what it would do to all open leagues and saved data.
each player has a playerid, I'm not going to look up the actual numbers for this example.
Say Pujols has playerid 2716 in the 07 game. When they did the 08 game, they gave him 2564, same in the 09 game. When they did the 10-14 games they went back to giving him 2716. So now, when looking at all the data across seasons at once, he has 2 cards, one for id 2716 and one for 2564.
So, the playerID is the non-changing ID that ties the player to his stats, team, card data, etc in the database. This is always needed you need this to tie different parts of different tables together. So just go with it, trust me on this one. By changing that ID all saved data now points to something that doesn't exist. All live current leagues all point to something that doesn't exist. You would break all live and old saved leagues. You can't just change it willy nilly.
Now, I know what you're going to say next. Update all those to point to the new playerID. That part is where Strat is Lazy. Assuming (again assume, I have no idea) that there is already another player with that ID, you have to change them first. Then change the other one. It's not an easy endeavor, one that could literally ruin the games if not done right. It's not worth the risk for a specialty sub-set that doesn't need to be played. The risk is not worth the reward in this case.
That's why I haven't mentioned any anger in this. I understand the programming side of it better. If they had better programmers, that would be different, but I know they don't.
