[redtiger7]

Originally Posted by G-Nuke

I love historical play, and while this will be cool, this isn't even close to being a priority to me right now.


1 - Player Ratings
The default player ratings are all over the place still, with many legit NHLers still stuck at the default "10" for many attributes. The offensive attributes still don't do a good job of modeling their real life offensive output (I have to re-rate virtually every top player for every team every year to get anything even close to real life production) and the penalty minutes are ridiculously bad... Bobby Orr looks like a Lady Bing winner in FHM.


2 - Simming to Post 2013
This is a feature every sports simulation has when a career mode is present. This includes OOTP and games like Baseball Mogul. It doesn't make any sense that the game stops dead in 2013...


3 - Option to turn Retire in actual year off
What if Mike Bossy kept playing? What if Bobby Orr didn't hurt his knee as often? This is hinted at with the checkmark in the new historical game dialog, but isn't actually clickable.


4 - Other player development options
Currently all we have is the re-rate in the off-season option. Would like to see more, including a natural progression or three year averages and all the other bells and whistles OOTP offers.


5 - Minor Leagues
Some kind of minor league system would be nice, rather than the generic reserve list, even f you had to fudge it a bit and made it a non-playable league...


6 - Custom historical leagues
In the fictional game setup it would also be nice to be able to select a start year sometime in the past and the option to load new players from the historical database rather than fictional players. This might also solve the problem with #5 (it would allow us to setup minor leagues) and once, I assume, expansion is added to the features of the fictional leagues then we could have our historical sandbox mode.


To me getting all these other things sorted is more important than just back-dating the already heavily flawed historical game.

Agreed. That is the hockey sim I've always wanted.