Mana Games

[syxxbuttons]

Hi Manu, XKT team and everyone else,

In all honesty I'm not sure if this is an issue with the mod or game itself but I figured as I'm running the mod I'd ask here first Running TE4 with the latest build and XKT V1.3 and I've come across something that has me confounded and is ruining my enjoyment of, what has been up until now a great experience and one of the best sports games I have ever played.

My character is a 16 year old junior on the cusp of going pro. I started in 2017 and am now in January 2020 with 85 pro tour ranking points. Was planning on spending the first half of this game year playing in Futures, Challengers and ATP qualifiers to build my points up to hopefully around 250 and then turn pro after having one more shot at the Wimbledon juniors.

Currently my save is in Quali R3 of an ATP250 and I'm up against Dalwinder Singh. He's ranked 657 in the world and... well, look at his stats :O I don't understand what's happened here. In the current tournament he's blown away the other AI opponents 6/0 6/1 and it feels like it must have happened more or less overnight because his previous results haven't really gotten him past Qualifying R1/R2 (with the exception of the Indian Futures in week 51/52). Naturally I'm getting destroyed and whilst I have no problem with losing, I have a problem with things being unrealistic. At this rate he's going to go from #657 to putting Nole and Rafa to sleep inside the year. His stats are actually higher than both of those two!

I can't see that it's happened to any other AI player although I have only had a brief look around my ranking.

I have recently moved from Pro-5 to Pro-6 as a difficulty and have been moving up the stages every time I've won a title. This time last game year I was probably around Pro-1 or maybe slightly lower - could this raising of the difficulty have something to do with it?

Is there an explanation for this sudden explosion of stats and performance? It feels really off. Is it fixable? :/ I tried to modify the original player data to make it more realistic, but even if I put every stat for him at 1% it only took Singh's stats down to a general average of 86/87%.

Thanks

[manutoo]

Hello,

I quickly checked and they didn't change his ranking in the Mod, so it must be an issue with the base game.

Could you load your current saved game, then a saved game on the Week 51 of the previous year (or earlier), and then send me a Bug Report ? (HowTo => topic5-31732.php )

He likely got a very high-ranking strength for 2020, but I'm not sure if the issue is the ranking strength itself or how the engine analyzes it...

[syxxbuttons]

Hi Manu,

Thank you for already posting this, I was just coming on to do so after seeing the response in the mod thread

I have just submitted two bug reports in game, one from my current 2020 week 4 save and one from a 2019 week 49 autosave.

If it's by design I can accept it, it just seems like such a huge jump of experience points for him in just 8 game weeks.

Thank you for your support and everything you do - your game is a masterpiece <3

[manutoo]

Pfffff, I got your Bug Report, and there were several issues..!

So the strength interpretation was alright, but the strength itself was just too good for 2 reasons :
- the player was allowed to raise too quickly
- the weak players already existing in the base could have a too good BestRank in the fictional years (which raises the chance to get a good Strength each year)

I fixed all that for the next update, but to enjoy the 1st fix, you'd have to wait for it (hopefully coming tomorrow), and reload your saved game at the end of the previous year.
Unfortunately, the 2nd fix is only when starting a new game.

Anyway, thanks for your Bug Report because I often got people complaining about too many strong players in the World Tour, and none sent me a Bug Report showing clearly the issue like yours (I got a few good ones for other bugs leading to the same issue, though ).

And thanks for the praise !