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Top Hats Monthly posted:Anybody else feeling like the honeymoon is over? I'm not having much fun and only feeling bugs I actually feel that some of the major issues I had with the game seemed to smooth themselves out as I progressed. By the 3rd season scheduling worked fine insomuch as I didn't notice at 3 games in 3 days things, and trades got a lot more frequent and interesting (although bad teams will still sell a little to hard at the deadline - the Ducks traded Getzlaf and the Wild traded Suter). Still, I'm enjoying it and it's a challenge again because I don't know all the ways to cheat the AI like I did in 07. Prospects particularly are pretty fun as development seems to be genuniely varied and difficult to predict at times. In 07 I never read what my scouts said and could pick a top player or two per draft on attributes alone. Now the prospects the game generates are a lot less developed at 18, and some guys that look poor early on quickly progress into excellent players and sometimes players with high ratings the attributes that used to be killer (speed, wristshot, hitting) stagnate in other areas or even decline. I find myself agonizing over some draft decisions and actually using my scouts, which I never did in 07. I'm past the pre-created young players, so the last couple drafts have been entirely computer generated and they've been decent. There have been flaws including a WHL LW who went 1st overall despite having 38 points in his draft year (compared to 85-95 for the other top prospects) but he had decent attributes; a guy ended up being ranked 3rd overall in the final draft rankings despite being unranked in the preliminary and mid-season rankings, teams will go way off the board with high picks too frequently (players ranked 35-50 sometimes go 5th overall); and there seems to be a serious issue with players wanting to go to college never actually signing with one. Generally it has been good though, and players I've drafted I thought were sure things have gone nowhere and I've had a couple late round surprises from nothing picks. It still has its flaws, but it's way better than FHM and if it makes it to a full release it should be quite good. I am a lot less disappointed then I was last week.
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ThinkTank posted:I actually feel that some of the major issues I had with the game seemed to smooth themselves out as I progressed. By the 3rd season scheduling worked fine insomuch as I didn't notice at 3 games in 3 days things, and trades got a lot more frequent and interesting (although bad teams will still sell a little to hard at the deadline - the Ducks traded Getzlaf and the Wild traded Suter). Still, I'm enjoying it and it's a challenge again because I don't know all the ways to cheat the AI like I did in 07. I'm definitely noticing stars moving. Caps traded Ovechkin, Wild traded Suter. Now a few years in the Blackhawks have traded both Toews and Kane. And Toews led the Leafs to a cup, which should be a war crime (although Malkin probably helped too--i traded him to the Flames and he walked as a free agent). Of course when I tanked (and won the lottery for 1st overall and also had the flames pick at #4) I got fired right after the draft  I also like when the board fired my coach and then in the press acted like they didn't know what was happening. Dicks.
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myron cope posted:I also like when the board fired my coach and then in the press acted like they didn't know what was happening. Dicks. I had no idea the board could fire your coach for you, that's amazing meddling. I disabled human GM sacking because I figured the game would be too buggy and I want to figure out how it works first. I probably should have been canned because I finally made the playoffs after 5 seasons and lost in 6 games to the Wild. A couple of my high draft picks from then are looking like extremely mediocre players too because I relied too heavily on attributes at 18 and the guys my scouts suggested are already outstripping them. Curse those 6'2 210lb two-way centres in the 6-10th overall range, they never turn into Patrice Bergeron 
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Big update just dropped to fix the trade and roster move AI among other things: Changelist for 15.1.0b New features: Graphical playoff tree for viewing playoff stages Added skin graphics for attributes on player and non-player profiles New AI for evaluating the overall roster changes in trades Database Import changes for 2014 rules: [apply to new games started with newly imported databases only] Changed various relegation stage stats type to playouts Changed Swedish league relegation stage to have two rounds of games Updated Russian league points system Added alternative schedule with olympic break for Russian league schedule Adjusted expected wages in Russian league Adjusted expected wages in Finnish leagues Database Import changes for 2006 rules: [apply to new games started with newly imported databases only] Fixed olympic years for older historical databases Gameplay changes: Improved AI evaluation of players in trades Improved AI for trimming roster when near salary cap limits Improved chances of players waiving their no-trade clause when being traded to a contender Scout assignment instructions default to "Recaps only" for reports Improved AI evaluation of draft picks in trades Improved AI evaluation of expected turns of draft picks Improved AI for responding to trade offers when offering out players to all teams Improved AI for putting expensive older players on the block Updated NAL scheduling templates to fix the issue of too many consecutive games Updated NAL all-star game date Fixed away jersey selection for certain leagues to use white away Fixed GM patience not resetting between trade negotiations Fixed league statistics CSV export for playoff stats Disabled foreign release clauses on standard contracts at Russian teams Nation overview screen now lists only first nationality players in the top players/youths Fixed contract extension demand strings on contract offer screen Fixed international tournament host selection news item year being one year off in some cases Fixed North-American pro teams signing players from juniors during playoffs Allowed human managers to keep three goalies on roster without warning when not coaching games Fixed team ranking evaluations for season preview news Fixed best players by position evaluations for season preview news Entry level contracts signed near the end of the season will now automatically slide one year forward Fixed being able to offer contracts to restricted free agents in Russia Fixed rights expiry date for players drafted out of college Adjustments to older player progression Adjustments to player budget changes between seasons Adjustments to shortlisting players for major hockey nations UI changes: Improved usability of the news screen buttons Improved visibility of the text color in section tabs in the titlebar Darkened screen containers slightly for improved readability Changed action buttons in titlebar to use inverted colors for better visibility Fixed attributes being shown on training panel with the "Hidden" attribute display option on Fixes to some team names not displaying on various news items/screens Fixed duplicated offering club name in offer sheet news item Added extra information to tutorial info for screens that require confirmation before continuing Moved "Roster" action menu with the "ask coach" actions from the subtitle menu to the key actions area in titlebar Other changes: Fixes to missing club names/colours in some databases Added keyboard shortcut (ESC) for preferences in the start screen Fixed a crash related to staff notes Fixed a training camp related crash Fixed a crash with contract offer screen quickflicks and see also menu
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it should also be noted that all of those changes will work for current save games aside from the database changes. the AI updates and interface stuff will all work as soon as the patch is downloaded and all the scheduling fixes will be implemented during the next upcoming offseason of the current season in your saves
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Amazing, that's basically all of my problems with the game so far fixed.
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this was referred to as "the first biweekly update" so i guess we will be getting similarly sized updates every couple weeks
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This was the kind of stuff that FHM rolled out once every 3 months and it didn't address any of the serious problems each time. I am cautiously optimistic this will turn out to be a very good game.
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Where do I download the patch?
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Brodeurs Nanny posted:Where do I download the patch? it should download automatically unless you have that option disabled on steam for some reason it will prompt you to update it when you launch the game otherwise.
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Oh sweet. So it's just automatically there then because it didn't prompt me?
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Brodeurs Nanny posted:Oh sweet. So it's just automatically there then because it didn't prompt me? it should be, yes you can double check by looking at your recent downloads in steam and seeing if an update was downloaded and applied
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I wonder if this: Fixed contract extension demand strings on contract offer screen Means it won't say "x player wants $2 million over two years" but counts the current year as one of the two years (as an example)
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To those wondering it did have a pop up for updating for me. It now says 15.1b at the top of the screen for me too.
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ugh, how do i search for front office personnel? i want to hire some dudes but cant find anything but the extremely basic search bar. i remember you used to be able to do pretty detailed ones edit: oh, scouting -> player/staff search Verviticus fucked around with this message at 07:41 on Apr 10, 2015 |
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ThinkTank posted:e3: Just to load up this post, McCann is going to be lost for nothing because last year he was 'happy with his role in SSM' and refused to sign and now the board thinks rookie max for him is 'unrealistic' despite him winning all the CHL awards possible. lol in my game mccann is a giant loving waste. he has like 8 points in 40 games and the board won't even let me offer him more than rookie minimum on the other hand, daniel and henrik sedin are 1st and 3rd in scoring, like real life this is cool and annoying  edit: for fuckssake, my RFAs keep loving off despite having qualifying offers Verviticus fucked around with this message at 11:36 on Apr 10, 2015 |
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Verviticus posted:lol in my game mccann is a giant loving waste. he has like 8 points in 40 games and the board won't even let me offer him more than rookie minimum He ended up going nowhere, but he had 120ish points in his final CHL season and won pretty much every major award and I think that deserves rookie max. Verviticus posted:on the other hand, daniel and henrik sedin are 1st and 3rd in scoring, like real life BTW the Sedins still ask for big raises after their contracts expire despite their physical stats being in the toilet, so I had to let them walk and now they dislike me. The game made me feel bad. 
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yeah in the second year they went from first liners to fourth lines and completely smashed my season. again, like in real life, the difference between 7th and dead loving last is two sedins did you run into the same problem as me where teams think that too many draft picks cause roster problems ThinkTank posted:He ended up going nowhere, but he had 120ish points in his final CHL season and won pretty much every major award and I think that deserves rookie max. do prospects ever go somewhere? it feels like they always just top out at 40 pointers, even in the old EHM, unless you draft the obvious reskins
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Yeah Patrik Elias had one goal and ten points in 62 games and fans were calling for his head which made things stupid.
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Is there anywhere that shows the tips that are the loading bar thing? The loading bar in most cases goes too fast and those are probably valuable tips...
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Also my team is hemorrhaging money and I don't know why. Basically the board gives me $20M+ a year in cash injections to make it look like I'm succeeding. Is this how it's supposed to work? My player salaries are under $70M with a budget of $82M+
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i think cash injections are part of the budget i accidentally tanked my budget by re-signing ahl players, forgetting to select 2-way contracts. gently caress i wish there was a way to click "see player demands under condition of" contracts
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scoring is definitely down since the patch last week a lot fewer days with four games finishing with a score of 7-5
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hey thinktank: is this still useful? http://www.ehmtheblueline.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=86&t=6893 also holy poo poo, willie desjardins is a bad coach in this edit: has anyone found a way to actually trade for picks? i can offer literally three years of all of my picks for like, a 2nd round and teams refuse to do it. is it just not possible without including star players? Verviticus fucked around with this message at 22:01 on Apr 13, 2015 |
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myron cope posted:Also my team is hemorrhaging money and I don't know why. Basically the board gives me $20M+ a year in cash injections to make it look like I'm succeeding. Is this how it's supposed to work? My player salaries are under $70M with a budget of $82M+ so i figured out that there's a bug where season tickets don't go on sale after the first year, meaning you're always going to be cash starved. hopefully that's fixed soon
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i just started a second season in one save and season tickets have been sold maybe something else triggers it and not just the season?
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Verviticus posted:hey thinktank: is this still useful? http://www.ehmtheblueline.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=86&t=6893 I have never actually followed all that training stuff too closely, I usually let my coaches figure all that stuff out. It's far too micro-managey for me. Just give your team a day or two off a month by going gm options > head coach takes control of practice? no > then team > practice > select all > resting and you're good. Once they've rested for a couple days set it back to head coach takes control of practice. Also yeah, Desjardins is terrible. I canned his rear end and hired Marc Crawford again and he won the Jack Adams.
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inSTAALed posted:i just started a second season in one save and season tickets have been sold do you have "board arranges pre-season games" selected?
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I haven't even installed mine yet cause of Pillars of Eternity how playable is it overall
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T-Bone posted:I haven't even installed mine yet cause of Pillars of Eternity how playable is it overall Decent to good. It's entirely playable and I'm already 5 or so seasons in. It has its flaws, but they're pretty few and far between. Future updates aren't supposed to affect save games either, so there's no reason not to start a save game. There aren't really any serious bugs left, and I feel the game is completely playable. It's missing some features that I'd like (a more dynamic/interactive draft and trade deadline, more than one type of draft ranking, better media/player interaction ala FM, etc.) but overall it's as good as EHM 2007 with tons of room for growth. If you were into the last one, I'd recommend picking it up again.
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it would be nice if one day the scouting system had more options than "gonna be a first line player" "gonna be a third line player" "garbage"
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Verviticus posted:it would be nice if one day the scouting system had more options than "gonna be a first line player" "gonna be a third line player" "garbage" Yeah, overall scouting needs a serious overhaul. I'm not particularly interested in a scout telling me that he's fast and has a good shot and expects them to put up 90pts in the OHL next year, I can gather all that from looking at stats. I want to see more player comparisons, what skills seem to be improving, what seem to be getting worse and what their major weaknesses are. Recommendations as to what league/role to play someone to maximize their development would be great. I.E. "X Player is unlikely to improve significantly playing an overage season in the OHL, I suggest recommending assigning him to the AHL. It is of note that there are currently three Centres on AHL Team's depth chart that may limit his playing time." I'd also like more control over the AHL/ECHL teams. Being able to request playing time/player roles for prospects would be great. Plus trying to manage an AHL team's desire to win with developing prospects is one of the more intriguing parts of the NHL minor leagues. A team like the Chicago Wolves or Hershey Bears should go out of its way to sign veterans and limit playing time for rookies.
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he projects to be a 4th line talent comparison: like sidney crosby, but more talented he projects to be a first line talent comparison: like john scott, but with a smaller frame "he should be able to put up a .975, with a gaa of 1.1"
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Verviticus posted:he projects to be a 4th line talent Approximately 5 of my top 10 plrospects are currently "a less talented version of Ryan Getzlaf."
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all of my scouts REALLY like to compare players to riley nash of all players tarasenko is "a faster more talented riley nash" wtf is that poo poo
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Riley Nash is probably the most generic hockey player on the planet, so technically everyone in the NHL is either a lesser or greater version than him. He is the NHL average.
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Apr 16, 2015 15:54
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i just had a player miss 10 days because of a snake bite he received "in practice"
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Sami? Is that you?
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i just fired my head coach for utilizing venomous snakes in practice
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Are you sure it wasn't a skate bite? However, I think releasing cobras onto the ice surface would be a good motivating tactic for some more undisciplined players. Kessel, I'm looking at you.
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