And on another very cold night ....
Having messed around with the player editor trying to see what feature caused the nose warping I'd experienced with previous creations, I'd had to create numerous editions of 1 or 2 players to show the results of different sliders changed (I was practically testing the editor - something I wish EA/HB had bothered to do!) and these duplications had to be re-entered into squads to ensure they were saved...
Well having discovered the problem with the editor and working around it to create the few players that I wanted and cleaned up the roster's to return to normal (albeit recently updated) form, I thought I'd have a go on World League on Hard difficulty... its bloody hard, but manged to score 3 tries in 3 games, winning one of the matches along the way aswell with the shite team I was given. So now I felt its time to dump Heffler's sorry ass and buy in somebody useful.
Upon going to the Storage section and then Team 1, I see there are umpteen versions of the same players being stored there. These were not the numerous duplications of the CAP player I'd made (and then deleted so only one version remained), but copies of the EA created player over and over again that I had had to replace (P.O'Connell & G.D'Arcy were the main 2)...
okey I thought... I'd just need to clean up the rosters somewhere to fix the problem... so I thought I'd just have a look to see what was in Storage Team 2 ...... CRASH ! game freezes and needs a restart
... try it again.... CRASH
... and again...... CRASH
... and one more time.... !
So World League would no longer worked properly if selecting through the different Storage teams... the only way to fix it I thought would be the restore to default rosters option... which in itself means the deleting of all created players ... all 13/14 of my creations (and the time it took)!!!!
The moral of the story... deleting all my hardwork fixed the World League issue... and EA/HB have still managed to do something half-assed, as if the editing abilities of the game were not half-standard enough, now I know they have the ability to f*** the game up and also contain bugs... thanks HB/EA!
still a good game, but this has me peeved now!