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Originally Posted by AlpineSK
1. While NHL rosters are accurate, how deep will the rosters go? Will they go as deep as to have teams' junior players on their teams? For example: if I pick the Devils, will their AHL team's roster be accurate, and will guys like Blackwood and McLeod be available as part of the franchise?
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I canīt speak for every player but we try to have as accurate rosters as possible for the playable leagues. Your two examples are in the game and in the Devils franchise. If we have player missing, we will fix rosters of course.
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Originally Posted by AlpineSK
2. I'm trying to wrap my head around this whole path to glory thing. People have said that you "develop skills." Is that to say that you learn how to play the game more effectively, or that the user will actually have ratings similar to that of Footy Manager?
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Like in FM your GM/Coach has skills (he always had) and like in FM, in career mode you start with lower skills and raise them when gaining experience. The skills will help you e.g. with coaching, team management, negotiating, etc. In Sandbox mode you still have this skills in the background but they are raised on itīs own over time so the user does not have to bother about stuff like this.
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Originally Posted by AlpineSK
3. Since you start out as a rookie GM essentially in Path to Glory, is every team going to be available to you or do you have to start with a lower ranked team and work your way "up to the top?"
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You have both options. We donīt want people to play a team they donīt want to coach, so just pick e.g. your favorite team and start or choose from a few random offers in the beginning.
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Originally Posted by AlpineSK
4. One last question because I'm trying to figure out the difference. If I started a "sandbox" game and a "path to glory" game on the same day, and attempt to play both games identically will the only differences be coach development, length of the game (limited vs. unlimited) and the availability of commish mode?
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Since most people here know FM, I can use it as comparison: Path to Glory (a.k.a. career mode) is basically just like you would play FM (disclaimer: of course FHM is not nearly as deep as FM at this moment but the goal is to slowly evolve the mode into that direction with every update and new version). You canīt edit stuff, you canīt speed sim and you canīt let the AI handle everything. You still can ask your Assistant Manager to do the dressing or build lines if you wish but e.g. roster moves are always your responsibility. And limited is only for your GM/Coach, you can always continue with a new Coach/GM, it just looks strange when you compare with other (historical) greats and you have hundreds of GP more because you still are on the bench with age 120.
