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Originally Posted by justafan
I'm with silvam14 on this one.
Just because there may be a few players with the same name, you want all that extra work? It make no sense.
OOTP does it right!!!
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Well that's just it: there's not a "a few". This isn't your baseball universe. This is the hockey universe, and there a couple of nationalities in particular where the same names appear over and over again. As I mentioned before above it's not unheard of to have two players with the exact same name and nationality draft eligible at the same time even and it's tripped up NHL teams in real life before.
In the freeware EHM days in a DB of 3500 players max you'd still have maybe 3 or 4 conflicts. EHM 2007's DB's could get much, much bigger, and as you add in European leagues and the like the chances of name conflicts don't just steadily grow evenly, they increase on an upward curve.
I'd like to ask all OOTPers to please do one thing regarding FHM:
At least listen to the longtime EHMers. Most of the EHMers that will show up here have been doing hockey management sim stuff for about as long as the OOTP series has been around and there's no need to reinvent the wheel just to make it fit the baseball way. Some of the names you'll see on this FHM board (and that I've already seen post here) are people that helped work on the original freeware EHM back around 2000, and then on up through EHM 2007. Others have run online leagues, helped keep updated rosters (freeware EHM still has up-to-date rosters available for download through the community if that tells you anything, to say nothing of the impressive EHM 2007 updates still current and the historical mods available), and helped create game patches and utilities from scratch.
Many of the EHM users and fans have had to creatively tackle problems OOTPers couldn't dream of because OOTP isn't quite so hardcoded and limited. There's a wealth of knowledge longtime EHMers can share through frustration and experience.
If you start using phrases "
But OOTP does/is..." hold on for a second, because that's the exact sort of thing that got SI into some trouble making the NHL EHM series and trying to apply CM/FM's soccer logic to it, because soccer isn't hockey either.
Different sports are different universes.