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SiriusChill Group 1 winner Joined: Tue May 01, 2012 6:57 am Posts: 2872	Re: US & Canada Mega Showcase/Schedule + New Tracks For S06 buddybreeze wrote: Great work! What would happen if I only added the new courses and didn't add the schedule in the export file? Would the game generate a schedule using the cources? The game will give you a schedule with no feature races. It will give you races for every track. The games makes a schedule with the tracks appearing in alphabetical order with one or two tracks running a day. When it gets to the end of the alphabetical order it starts at the beginning again. Ideally I would like to choose what track runs on each day but you can't do that. Mj has updated numerous tracks since I've uploaded this schedule so add those in for a better look. I plan on adding all his creations to this schedule when he finishes up and the game is out of beta. _________________ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClB2FZ7Qvwq0Ons_6jN1lAQ - Watch The Cats! 24-7 Webcam Of Non-Profit Cat Rescue
Thu Sep 11, 2014 11:05 pm

buddybreeze Selling plater Joined: Wed Sep 10, 2014 5:45 pm Posts: 17	Re: US & Canada Mega Showcase/Schedule + New Tracks For S06 ok, Im with you there...I already have all of Mj's mods in game...how should I go from here? Drop all folders in except courses and except all changes then drop courses in and not except any changes?
Fri Sep 12, 2014 2:06 am

qwsa Group 1 winner Joined: Tue May 15, 2007 3:50 pm Posts: 1052	Re: US & Canada Mega Showcase/Schedule + New Tracks For S06 I have tried downloading this, but so6 closes when i try to open a new game
Sun Sep 14, 2014 3:43 pm

sooty3008 Selling plater Joined: Sun Jun 10, 2012 6:56 am Posts: 26	Re: US & Canada Mega Showcase/Schedule + New Tracks For S06 SiriusChill wrote: Updated to work with latest patch. Special thanks to mjtags for his track creations which I'm sure I will be adding more of them when he puts them out. UPDATE 3 : Added a bunch more of mj's created tracks. Fully prepped the schedule which was absent in previous updates. 4 Google Earth images each for Aqueduct, Belmont Park and Churchilll Downs as a starter on my Google Earth images set that I will release whenever I get that done. You must start a new game for this to work. Link below. UPDATE 2 : I have adjusted the stables file to reflect the usual stomping grounds of the trainers. I also moved the Canadian Jockey/trainers in my US lists to the Canadian folder. Just 7 Jockey and trainers for each list. You have to start a new game for these to take effect. Note: Just realized I didn't move the jockey and trainer pictures to the Canadian 9 folder. You'll have to do that for now if you are bothered by it. UPDATE: I have updated a handful of tracks that Mjtags has nicely created with the editor. Added Mj's owners list and stable locations and US silks. Added his track logo pictures for now but they don't fit right with me. Just a stop gap until I get my Google Earth pictures done again. (Thanks Mj for the good work ) Changed some track names to sound better. Fixed the Nationality spread for the better. Added my tipsters with portraits from S05. The handful of night races will be run in semi darkness until I can get the lights thing figured out. It's not a deal breaker as of now. You will have to start a new game for this to work. Lot's of tinkering in this update and I apologize if there is a flaw that appears. Updated link below _________________________________________________________________________________ I have managed to take my Mega showcase venture and transfer it to SO6. Included is the Top 100 Jockey/Trainers with full names for North America in 2013 and their portraits. I have also made the correct locations on the world map for every track in North America as best I can. The horse pool is 6500 but you can easily change that to your liking if you want. Quote: I don't usually throw around the word mega unless I have good reason. This is it. Using the Daily Racing Form's stakes results feature I have made a showcase file using almost all the stakes races run in the US and Canada in 2013. The schedule I've provided features only the graded races in it. To use all the races I've created would kill field sizes and quite possibly knock the Earth off its axis. It includes... 445 US Graded races / 1581 listed and listed handicaps 46 Canadian Graded races / 230 listed and listed handicaps 8 Dubai World Cup races _____________________ Grand total of 2310 races If you want some of the listed races in your schedule - edit the schedule I provide in the schedule editor or open it in notepad and do it there. To accommodate these races I had to make a lot of new tracks. With some research online I tried to find which existing track in the game closely resembled each new track I made and I used their course specs. The new courses are... The courses that were in SO5 are included also along with... New US tracks = 30 new tracks _____________________ Arapahoe Park Atlantic City Blackfoot Chippewa Downs Columbus Crooked River Roundup Elko County Fair Ferndale Fonner Park Fresno Gillespie County Fair Grants Pass Indiana Downs Kentucky Downs Les Bois Park Mt. Pleasant Meadows North Dakota Horse Park Ocala Training Center Penn National Pleasanton Presque Isle Downs Sacramento Sandy Downs Santa Cruz County Fair Santa Rosa Stockton Sweetwater Downs White Pine Racing Will Rogers Downs Zia Park New Canadian tracks = 6 new tracks _____________________________ Alberta Downs Grande Prairie Lethbridge Marquis Downs Millarville Sunflower Downs The Canadian tracks originally found in the US "2" folder and their corresponding files have been moved to the Canadian "9" folder for realism sake. __________________________ Installation instructions... Keep a backup copy of the games original files first for safe keeping. Download file Unzip file to desktop or wherever you choose. You will find inside the "Uschedmegav5" folder the relevant folders. Copy and paste the folders - 3D, data and gfx - to ~ Program Files(x86) > Starters Orders 6. Accept all overwrite requests. Copy and paste the folder - schedules - to ~ Libraries > Documents > Starters Orders 6 > Exports. Accept all overwrite requests. http://www.mediafire.com/download/v0r158jm0oicias/Usschedmegav5.zip ________________________________ New updated stables locations and Canadian Jockey/Trainer list. Installation instructions... Download file Unzip file to desktop or wherever you choose. You will find inside the "Newstables ~ CanTrnJck" folder the relevant folders. Copy and paste the folders - "2" and "9" to ~ Program Files(x86) > Starters Orders 6 > data. Accept all overwrite requests. http://www.mediafire.com/download/rr13jb581ouggpa/Newstables.zip I have just downloaded and installed this mod with no problem and have to say well done it's very, very good, thank's
Mon Sep 15, 2014 6:01 pm

SiriusChill Group 1 winner Joined: Tue May 01, 2012 6:57 am Posts: 2872	Re: US & Canada Mega Showcase/Schedule + New Tracks For S06 buddybreeze wrote: ok, Im with you there...I already have all of Mj's mods in game...how should I go from here? Drop all folders in except courses and except all changes then drop courses in and not except any changes? I have just updated the download to have all the latest tracks and course specs Mj has created. I use the same track names as he does. You can use my "_courses" file found in the "data > 2" folder. Copy and paste that to the same location in program files. You will need all the tracks found in the "3D > courses" folder that I made that are not in his mod. Those track folders are just copies of the various generic tracks in the game. Copy just those tracks so it goes faster since you already have his tracks. Copy and paste those tracks to the same location in program files. I've read you're having trouble getting the game to work with this so just a reminder if you are using my schedule to make sure and click the schedule (sched_f_usatwentythirteen) when you set up your game. _________________ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClB2FZ7Qvwq0Ons_6jN1lAQ - Watch The Cats! 24-7 Webcam Of Non-Profit Cat Rescue
Wed Sep 17, 2014 1:40 am

buddybreeze Selling plater Joined: Wed Sep 10, 2014 5:45 pm Posts: 17	Re: US & Canada Mega Showcase/Schedule + New Tracks For S06 Thank you for your work and instructions...my computer just died...should have a new motherboard bundle in a few days and will try again...looking forward to your mod! As I wait I'm reading up on everything I can... I am trying to figure out how to identify what prep races go to what feature race and vice versa...
Wed Sep 17, 2014 4:16 am

eneaver Selling plater Joined: Tue Jul 15, 2014 1:47 pm Posts: 98	Re: US & Canada Mega Showcase/Schedule + New Tracks For S06 I have a question, maybe you know a solution. I tried to include the German Derby in Baden-Baden to your schedule. The Problem is, that the game crashes one month ahead of the derby (or any other german race i tried to include). I doublechecked the showase file and course file (Folder 8 ), and i don't think i made any mistake. The coursefile (3D) itself is unchanged from vanilla S06, since your mod doesn't change anything concerned Baden-Baden. I think that it crashes when the race appears in the decs. Do u have any idea what could be wrong? Or maybe u could try to include it and test it? Then we could see if I made a mistake or something is wrong with Baden-Baden in general. Edit: I singled out the problem. I set up the races at dates where there were obviously too many feature races. Last edited by eneaver on Thu Sep 18, 2014 7:24 pm, edited 1 time in total.
Thu Sep 18, 2014 3:35 pm

qwsa Group 1 winner Joined: Tue May 15, 2007 3:50 pm Posts: 1052	Re: US & Canada Mega Showcase/Schedule + New Tracks For S06 Hi sirius, i have tried downloading and following the instructions several times, and its not working, do you have any idea why this could be?
Thu Sep 18, 2014 6:25 pm

SiriusChill Group 1 winner Joined: Tue May 01, 2012 6:57 am Posts: 2872	Re: US & Canada Mega Showcase/Schedule + New Tracks For S06 Quote: Edit: I singled out the problem. I set up the races at dates where there were obviously too many feature races. Yes. 3 tracks a day max and 8 features a day max qwsa wrote: Hi sirius, i have tried downloading and following the instructions several times, and its not working, do you have any idea why this could be? Are you choosing the (sched_f_usatwentythirteen) schedule when setting up your game at the start screen? _________________ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClB2FZ7Qvwq0Ons_6jN1lAQ - Watch The Cats! 24-7 Webcam Of Non-Profit Cat Rescue
Thu Sep 18, 2014 8:45 pm

eneaver Selling plater Joined: Tue Jul 15, 2014 1:47 pm Posts: 98	Re: US & Canada Mega Showcase/Schedule + New Tracks For S06 After two or three seasons there are less amd less horses making entries.. kentucky derby with just 10 horses running. bumped up the total horses to 15000, but same problem
Fri Sep 19, 2014 11:45 pm

SiriusChill Group 1 winner Joined: Tue May 01, 2012 6:57 am Posts: 2872	Re: US & Canada Mega Showcase/Schedule + New Tracks For S06 eneaver wrote: After two or three seasons there are less amd less horses making entries.. kentucky derby with just 10 horses running. bumped up the total horses to 15000, but same problem 10 seems normal. The game has never had huge fields for the Derby for the most part even going back to previous versions. It makes up for quantity with quality. _________________ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClB2FZ7Qvwq0Ons_6jN1lAQ - Watch The Cats! 24-7 Webcam Of Non-Profit Cat Rescue
Sat Sep 20, 2014 1:30 am

qwsa Group 1 winner Joined: Tue May 15, 2007 3:50 pm Posts: 1052	Re: US & Canada Mega Showcase/Schedule + New Tracks For S06 I have downloaded and it is very good, just one thing I have found is that horses are running a lot of times, one horse ran 20 times in a season, this is pretty unrealistic, It is very rare that a horse will run more than 10 times, and that is still a lot, does anyone know any way or tips on how to make AI horses run less during a season.
Sun Sep 21, 2014 1:24 pm

SiriusChill Group 1 winner Joined: Tue May 01, 2012 6:57 am Posts: 2872	Re: US & Canada Mega Showcase/Schedule + New Tracks For S06 qwsa wrote: I have downloaded and it is very good, just one thing I have found is that horses are running a lot of times, one horse ran 20 times in a season, this is pretty unrealistic, It is very rare that a horse will run more than 10 times, and that is still a lot, does anyone know any way or tips on how to make AI horses run less during a season. The game has doing that for many versions now. I hate it too but have no idea if anything can be done about it. Maybe increase pool size? Also eliminating most preps may do it. _________________ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClB2FZ7Qvwq0Ons_6jN1lAQ - Watch The Cats! 24-7 Webcam Of Non-Profit Cat Rescue
Mon Sep 22, 2014 1:03 am

buddybreeze Selling plater Joined: Wed Sep 10, 2014 5:45 pm Posts: 17	Re: US & Canada Mega Showcase/Schedule + New Tracks For S06 Really enjoying this mod! Great work!
Wed Oct 22, 2014 4:26 am

Revman Selling plater Joined: Fri Feb 28, 2014 8:20 pm Posts: 10	Re: US & Canada Mega Showcase/Schedule + New Tracks For S06 Could you talk to the difference between your Mod and Start It ? I do not understand if they compliment each other or if they are basically the same thing. I don't mean this in a disrespectful way, I just don't understand. Thanks!!
Wed Oct 22, 2014 8:02 pm

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