Re: Real Life Accurate 2017 Sched
Hi folks. Sorry for the delay, quite a few things going on in the real world. Anyway, I've been chipping away at it quietly and I can now confirm this will be released on either Saturday or Sunday.
The Schedule will include (after rigorous testing)
- Full Dubai Carnival (handicaps, the lot)
- Every Single Listed, Group, and handicap race that is rated for 100+ horses from Ireland (all the premier handicaps), including 20 or so of the Irish Stallion Farm Maidens)
- Every Listed and Group race from France (also included some of the real-life French handicaps for horses rated 100+)
- Accurate 2017 UK schedule, including all key stakes races and handicaps. As far as the lower level stuff goes, I have only put in class 4 and above (i.e 0-80 and above handicaps, I'll let the game generate all the lower end stuff)
- All the correct 2017 race sponsors - aside from the odd occasion where I couldn't squeeze them into the 32 character limit
- I have a few little miniseries set up in there, including the London all weather series and the Pontefract stayers series)
- I have now got all of the races on the right tracks
- Since my schedule will be playable only on the UK flat game, I have been in and removed most of the lesser known Irish trainers. This will mean a much higher likelihood of seeing Aidan O'Brien showing up in the UK - Plus I have sent Moore over to the Ireland file and hooked him up with O'Brien.
- Along with the sched will come my finalized racecourse portrait pack, all high definition real-life logos with some help from photoshop, and my up to date real-life horse names taken from the BHA database. As some of you will know, some of the real-life logos for tracks are horrible and pixelate in game, so in some cases, I have actually redesigned their logos entirely - as can be seen for Pontefract on this link -
https://ibb.co/esakDTThe fails were the US Triple Crown, not possible to get it working as desired sadly, but the Breeders Cup will obviously remain.
....Anyway, enough talk!! This has played out long enough. I just want to go over the schedule to make sure no unwanted races remain on it from the ones I deleted from my showcase files (i.e the ones that weren't supported with decent field sizes, and then we'll be good to go.
I'd say I must have about 300-400 hours in on this, it's been a mission, so I hope everyone will enjoy it, and I'll be taking feedback for the first couple of weeks after release in case anything does need some minor tweaking.