i think before adding any new features, improving the QoL, (substantially) and tweaks to various base-level aspects of the game have to be the main priority. why add features to a shaky foundation.
I truly hope my pent up rant shows how badly i want this game to be a better user experience. <3
-ability to copy, paste, and save global, individual, or line tactics.
it seriously wastes so much time having to click through each thing. (an example would be if you want to switch from an aggressive 2-1-2 with forechecking wingers and a backchecking center, to most other nz tactics where the center is gonna play forward (and in my mind needs to change his play style a bit). instead, you have to go through all 12 forward's individual pages, and change the sliders since there's no option for having LW, C, RW, LD, RD, all have the same sliders so you can quickly change. would cut down the 12 pages to three!)
-labelled diagrams of formationsfor the love of god
OR a far less vague description than 'RW plays back" etc. would love if there were something similar to how the line ui works now, but it's in the formation of whatever tactic you've picked. a better description of the goal of the tactic would be great too beyond saying stuff like 'reduces giveaway chances along the boards' i'd probably be able to figure that out if i knew exactly what my players are supposed to be doing on the ice.
-i'm sure simulating hockey is incredibly difficult, but some of the things that happen while i'm watching my team play is really hard sometimes, these are a scant few examples:
-to dump and chase is to just give the puck away for free so the defence can make a pass straight through your forechecker(s) (the defender WILL get there first 99% of the time.)
-no matter my sliders and tactics my forwards LOVE to pass the puck back to my defencemen who LOVE to shoot the thing, despite their individual passing being high, shooting low, attacking low, and me avoiding any tactic that increases point shots.
-i don't really care about any excuses for these two things (considering coach-ability etc.) i go out of my way to find coachable players, and give them individual sliders that fit with the play-style i want. sometimes it does work of course but, it's much more noticeable when it doesn’t.
-anything to save my wrists. seriously needs more hotkeys or some sort of change so that you don't have to click between things so repetitively.
-general ui QoL. not sure how to be more specific other than to say
it feels like i have to fight with the game to get to the page i want to get to. the game should actually remember the previous pages you were on, not 'what page you were on, but it's also linked to the team you're currently viewing which wasn't the team you were just viewing? but also sometime you hit back and you just get sent to the canadien's page' . sometimes it just takes you to a different team, or you'll click on a player to view their stats, hit the back arrow, and then the line editor goes right back to 5 on 5 no matter what you were just viewing.
there's more, but i've tired myself out. all I want is a sound hockey sim, where the hockey looks like hockey, the menus (because it is the definition of a menu game) are easy to quickly navigate and not clunky, and information is accessible, and not something you have to search on google, and hope it applies...