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Originally Posted by AESP_pres
You are certainly right, we will see complaints as we see every years for the OOTP ML rooster. But for me it's the fun part of managing / coaching my favorite team and correcting the errors done. I want to see how our awfull string of eighties first choice draft pick ( Yves Heroux, Trevor Stienburg, David Latta, Ken McRae and Bryan Fogarty) would have done with a real chance. I want to know what could have done high rated players like Daniel Dore, Ryan Hughes or Paul Brousseau who got zero chance with the team after being drafted.
I don't want to see a carborn copy of the real life, but a past I can change. Common I don't want to see my Nordiques suck big time from 1987-88 to 1991-92  |
Thing is though, historical mode will use a fairly accurate ranking system, so those guys in the game will be like their actual NHL selves, and not what they were projected to be.
Think 1 or 2 star guys, regardless really of how you develop them. Reserve list players. If the skill/potential isn't there, it ain't going to happen..
I'm hoping that eventually though, we can go with options (to either turn it on or off) using the real drafts and their potentials being based off their draft rankings. I'd love to take guys like Brent Bilodeau, Lindsay Vallis and Terry Ryan and try to turn them into the future Habs they were supposed to be. But it appears as it stands now, in an accurate historical sim, those guys will be lower level players.
I think more or less with the first version, assuming everything works out, we are going to see pretty much a carbon copy. And that's great. Let's start there, then add options and different historical ranking systems with future versions to give us different experiences.
And let's be clear that it won't be an EXACT carbon copy. Some will depend on how we choose to develop players, just don't expect to take a guy like Paul Brosseau and turn him into a top 6 sniper on a good team.