how does altered salaries in patch affect salary cap?

i think i should post in here, since the updted salaries are a result of this patch... if i run a dynasty, i notice that after the first season, the salaries get renegotiated back the old way (300,000 pts max, vs real $$),,, and that the salary cap remains at 10000000 pts... no $40,000,000 cap or anything? should i just run a dynasty from the default rrosters?

i think i should post in here, since the updted salaries are a result of this patch... if i run a dynasty, i notice that after the first season, the salaries get renegotiated back the old way (300,000 pts max, vs real $$),,, and that the salary cap remains at 10000000 pts... no $40,000,000 cap or anything? should i just run a dynasty from the default rrosters?

the salary.ini must not have been installed right. if you go into the felogic folder located in your main live 2004 directory you'll see a notepad file called salary. make a backup of this and then in the original one delete everything and replace it with the following:

Code:

[SalaryCapVariables]
salarycap=43840000
maxsalarycap=55000000
minsalary=366931
maxsalary=15000000
salarycapincrease=2000000
canadianteampenalty=1.03
youngagemod=1.08
oldagemod=0.95
superoldagemod=0.90
tradepctdiff=25
tradefudge=100000

[TopPlayerValues]
top_c=4979
top_pf=4920
top_sf=4978
top_sg=4943
top_pg=4966

[C_SalaryTable]
100percentile=15000000
99percentile=15000000
98percentile=15000000
96-97percentile=12500000
94-95percentile=12500000
92-93percentile=11000000
90-91percentile=10500000
85-89percentile=9000000
80-84percentile=6000000
75-79percentile=5000000
70-74percentile=2500000
65-69percentile=2000000
60-64percentile=1000000
55-59percentile=500000
50-54percentile=366931
45-49percentile=366931
40-44percentile=366931
35-39percentile=366931
30-34percentile=366931
25-29percentile=366931
20-24percentile=366931
15-19percentile=366931
10-14percentile=366931
<10percentile=366931

[PF_SalaryTable]
100percentile=15000000
99percentile=15000000
98percentile=15000000
96-97percentile=12500000
94-95percentile=12500000
92-93percentile=11000000
90-91percentile=10500000
85-89percentile=9000000
80-84percentile=6000000
75-79percentile=5000000
70-74percentile=2500000
65-69percentile=2000000
60-64percentile=1000000
55-59percentile=500000
50-54percentile=366931
45-49percentile=366931
40-44percentile=366931
35-39percentile=366931
30-34percentile=366931
25-29percentile=366931
20-24percentile=366931
15-19percentile=366931
10-14percentile=366931
<10percentile=366931

[SF_SalaryTable]
100percentile=15000000
99percentile=15000000
98percentile=15000000
96-97percentile=12500000
94-95percentile=12500000
92-93percentile=11000000
90-91percentile=10500000
85-89percentile=9000000
80-84percentile=6000000
75-79percentile=5000000
70-74percentile=2500000
65-69percentile=2000000
60-64percentile=1000000
55-59percentile=500000
50-54percentile=366931
45-49percentile=366931
40-44percentile=366931
35-39percentile=366931
30-34percentile=366931
25-29percentile=366931
20-24percentile=366931
15-19percentile=366931
10-14percentile=366931
<10percentile=366931

[SG_SalaryTable]
100percentile=15000000
99percentile=15000000
98percentile=15000000
96-97percentile=12500000
94-95percentile=12500000
92-93percentile=11000000
90-91percentile=10500000
85-89percentile=9000000
80-84percentile=6000000
75-79percentile=5000000
70-74percentile=2500000
65-69percentile=2000000
60-64percentile=1000000
55-59percentile=500000
50-54percentile=366931
45-49percentile=366931
40-44percentile=366931
35-39percentile=366931
30-34percentile=366931
25-29percentile=366931
20-24percentile=366931
15-19percentile=366931
10-14percentile=366931
<10percentile=366931

[PG_SalaryTable]
100percentile=15000000
99percentile=15000000
98percentile=15000000
96-97percentile=12500000
94-95percentile=12500000
92-93percentile=11000000
90-91percentile=10500000
85-89percentile=9000000
80-84percentile=6000000
75-79percentile=5000000
70-74percentile=2500000
65-69percentile=2000000
60-64percentile=1000000
55-59percentile=500000
50-54percentile=366931
45-49percentile=366931
40-44percentile=366931
35-39percentile=366931
30-34percentile=366931
25-29percentile=366931
20-24percentile=366931
15-19percentile=366931
10-14percentile=366931
<10percentile=366931

[RookieSalaryTable]
1st=4000000
2nd=3500000
3rd=3000000
4th-10th=2300000
11th-15th=1400000


Just save the salary notepad with this in it and everything should work.

Since the salary.ini file wasn't installed correctly, I'm assuming you have installed NBA Live to a folder other than C:\Program Files\EA Sports\NBA Live 2004?

yeah, i installed it to another games directory.. i'll definitely try this out and let you know how it works out... good to see i'll be able to run the dynasty with these awesome new rosters...

sorry for the double reply... all is well now! let the franchise begin! tx again Andrew.

The salary.ini file would have been copied to the wrong folder then. Glad to hear you sorted it out.