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Originally Posted by JeffR
That's the gist of the problem, yeah. I've been trying to think of a way to find a simple hack like that to get around the existing restrictions, but the point it usually fails on is the way the game handles rights for players made ineligible for the draft; it won't do much good if I exclude some underagers from the draft but they get turned into free agents anyhow. I think I'm going to try experimenting with a shortened 1974 draft and see how that works - looking at some test drafts, I see a lot of the real 1975 early first-rounders (Barry Dean, Rick Lapointe, Bryan Maxwell, etc.) going right around the end of the 5th or early in the 6th in 1974, so 5 rounds in 1974 might be the magic number to get a realistic 1975 draft pool.
Uh-oh, I see what's wrong, it looks like the bottom end of the age range in 1974 isn't set correctly. So Trottier's too young for both 1974 and 1975 and won't get drafted until 76. I'll get that fixed - kind of ironic that one of the biggest reasons for the whole 74/75 problem isn't even going in 74 like he's supposed to be. But at least the fix will add more guys to 74 and that'll help 75 (although 76 is going to get weakened now.)
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I've been playing around with this problem in my head and I got to thinking: what did you guys do for the first FHM? I don't recall this being an issue back then.
If I understand it correctly, you're trying to simulate the unique situation that occurred in the mid-70s with the NHl draft, but I also understand that the historical mode is t your top priority, much less FHM2 now that you guys are working on the next version. I'm just wondering if this is an issue that can be left for the future. As an ardent HM player I can tell you I would rather have the players enter one year late or early than have an entire draft disappear and things like that. Perhaps other HM players like Duranium can put in their $.02, but as for me I'd be fine with the easiest solution that allows you guys to move on. Or is that no longer possible?