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Qualifying in the same week as main draw

Postby Pythagorcas » 18 Sep 2019, 03:36

Hi guys,

I've modded the tour in the game to resemble the true tournament calender.
This includes the rule changes like a 48 main draw in challengers and the renewd point system for futures.
However, in both challenger tournaments and future tournaments the qualifying takes place in the same week as the main draw in 2019.
How do I include that?
I've tried playing around with the PlayDayS and PlayDayD but did not succeed.

So basically as of 2019 futures only have 2 qualifying rounds which are played on Monday and Tuesday.
Some main draw matches are played on Tuesday, but most first round matches take place on Wednesday
Sunday is the final.

I think the game forces the qualifying the start the week before the tourmament.
A simple modder like me is probably not able to change that, but I think I found a way around.
How can I modify PlayDayS and PlayDayD so that qualifying is on Saturday / Sunday and the main draw is from Monday to Friday?
In this way there is no overlap between future tournaments in consecutive weeks.
I've tried it to change the PlayDayS and PlayDayD to make it do this but it does not seem to work.

I know I get a wildcard for the next week when I reach the singles final, but my tennis player is a serve and volley type and does well in doubles too.
When I reach the semifinal in doubles I can't qualify for singles in the next week.
As singles is the priority I usually just retire in the doubles QF if I did not reach the SF in singles as well.
This happened to me like 5 times in a row in multiple saves and it is getting a bit annoying, which is why I want to make this small change.
(A similar thing would also hold for Miami / Indian Wells, where qualifying is on Monday - Wednesday and the main draw starts on a Friday I believe)
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Re: Qualifying in the same week as main draw

Postby manutoo » 18 Sep 2019, 07:02

Hello,

yes, the engine is built on having the qualies in the week preceding the main draw ; it's not possible to Mod that (and it'd be a lot of headaches to change that behavior now :fear: ).

For the PlayDay, try something like this, for a 4-round main draw & a 2-round qualies :
PlayDayS = 0x0011110 0x0011111 0x1100000
or for no play on monday :
PlayDayS = 0x0011110 . 0x1100000

Format : MainDrawTopHalf MainDrawBottomHalf QualiesDrawTopHalf QualiesDrawBottomHalf
If MainDrawBottomHalf is a "." then it's same than MainDrawTopHalf. If there's no QualiesDrawBottomHalf, then it's same than QualiesDrawTopHalf. If there's only MainDrawTopHalf, then MainDrawBottomHalf is same than MainDrawTopHalf.
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Re: Qualifying in the same week as main draw

Postby Pythagorcas » 18 Sep 2019, 12:33

manutoo wrote:Hello,
yes, the engine is built on having the qualies in the week preceding the main draw ; it's not possible to Mod that (and it'd be a lot of headaches to change that behavior now :fear: ).
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Yeah I already thought so, and it is definitely not worth the effort.

At first glance your suggestion seems to work perfectly.
Thank you very much!
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