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It was ruled not a bug a long time ago, whatever season would be before nov 10, 2010. Probably before most, if not all, the current bug mods were bug mods.

At that point i was told to open it as a suggestion, which i did here http://goallineblitz.com/game/forum_thread.pl?thread_id=4369626 and it has been up for voting for several years.

People may have resubmitted it, but it was ruled long ago to not be a bug. Which technically it's not a bug, it's a technical limitation of HTML. Problem is the page most people see is absolutely useless for helping them understand why they are getting a 414 error, often with a lot of garbage text.

It would seem to be an easy thing to fix- just wipe the depth charts when a cpu team is purchased. But i never felt the need to pursue it as it just doesn't appear something they care to fix. So people will continue to come here every season and ask why they can't adjust their depth chart. They did it for 15 or seasons in the bugs forum till that was locked up, now they come here and ask.

Originally posted by alindyl
It was ruled not a bug a long time ago, whatever season would be before nov 10, 2010. Probably before most, if not all, the current bug mods were bug mods.

At that point i was told to open it as a suggestion, which i did here http://goallineblitz.com/game/forum_thread.pl?thread_id=4369626 and it has been up for voting for several years.

People may have resubmitted it, but it was ruled long ago to not be a bug. Which technically it's not a bug, it's a technical limitation of HTML. Problem is the page most people see is absolutely useless for helping them understand why they are getting a 414 error, often with a lot of garbage text.

It would seem to be an easy thing to fix- just wipe the depth charts when a cpu team is purchased. But i never felt the need to pursue it as it just doesn't appear something they care to fix. So people will continue to come here every season and ask why they can't adjust their depth chart. They did it for 15 or seasons in the bugs forum till that was locked up, now they come here and ask.

The fix is pretty simple. When you acquire a team, don't fill it with CPU players. I think the issue is that the DC is overloaded with players isn't it?

Originally posted by AirMcMVP
No. The issue has been isolated and is apparent to pretty much everyone. Unfortunately, http://goallineblitz.com/game/bug_report.pl?report_id=19

--Will not fix. There are workarounds to this issue and it doesn't happen enough to warrant coding time to fix.--

I was mostly joking.

Originally posted by Time Trial
The fix is pretty simple. When you acquire a team, don't fill it with CPU players. I think the issue is that the DC is overloaded with players isn't it?

Yes. For some reason, Bort felt the need to fill ever ST slot with every player. Take out that line of code, and the problem is solved. This is something that is done purposely POST team purchase. So it is not even a case of trying to fix something, it is simply a matter of not doing something that should not be done.

Originally posted by SciFi not Syfy
Yes. For some reason, Bort felt the need to fill ever ST slot with every player. Take out that line of code, and the problem is solved. This is something that is done purposely POST team purchase. So it is not even a case of trying to fix something, it is simply a matter of not doing something that should not be done.

Actually this is somewhat incorrect. Team depth charts are not being filled post purchase. Take a look at any CPU owned team in the D leagues. It's how it assigns the players.
Examples:
http://goallineblitz.com/game/depth_chart.pl?team_id=2490§ion=steams
http://goallineblitz.com/game/depth_chart.pl?team_id=2498§ion=steams
Even a non D league CPU team
http://goallineblitz.com/game/depth_chart.pl?team_id=283§ion=steams

The problem is explained in my suggestion post but basically- When a CPU owns a team, it fills every position on ST with players without any problem. This is because it is done "internally" instead of how we have to do it, by an HTML statement. It can assign hundreds of players without any issue where we cannot.

When the team is purchased, the depth chart is not changed so there are 10-12 players in every ST position which cannot be adjusted. This is because when you do, it tries to submit an HTML command to the server which is too many characters long.

The only thing that can be done at that point (by us, the users) is using the auto-reorder button. While this isn't hard to do, for inexperienced owners who run into this there is no indication from the errors you get what the problem is.

My suggested solution of automatically wiping the depth charts upon purchase is one way to correct this issue. Not the only one but seems the simplest from my point of view. Another possibility would be to make CPU teams only use the P/K and KOS KRS slots. Another would be to adjust things server side to allow more data to be submitted at one time.