Expansion in custom game

Spartacus70 · 10-01-2018, 05:56 PM

Is there a way to add a farm team to new expansion teams?
It's look like even if I can add multiple teams in Minor league, I cannot give affiliation to the new Major league expansion teams.

Is it intended?

Lord PichuPal · 10-01-2018, 07:43 PM

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Originally Posted by Spartacus70

Is there a way to add a farm team to new expansion teams?
It's look like even if I can add multiple teams in Minor league, I cannot give affiliation to the new Major league expansion teams.

Is it intended?

I've brought up this issue for years, and even mentioned in testing about it. For now there's still no expansion for the minor leagues, or way to affiliate added minor teams to the pro clubs. Hopefully it's eventually addressed, but in the meantime, the reserve rosters for expansion teams do still act as a farm team (giving them development progress, but no stats).

Spartacus70 · 10-01-2018, 08:15 PM

It is sad because in regular game the expansion team now receave AHL and ECHL affiliates!

It's like if an option is missing in custom game.

Orioles1966 · 10-01-2018, 08:38 PM

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Originally Posted by Spartacus70

It is sad because in regular game the expansion team now receave AHL and ECHL affiliates!

It's like if an option is missing in custom game.

Play the NHL as a custom league(change team names,move players around) and then you could have expansion for your minor leagues(of course those would be AHL and ECHL leagues as custom leagues).

It seems like it takes forever to put together a custom league so this shouldn't take much longer(except for switching players around).

redtiger7 · 10-02-2018, 11:58 AM

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Originally Posted by Orioles1966

Play the NHL as a custom league(change team names,move players around) and then you could have expansion for your minor leagues(of course those would be AHL and ECHL leagues as custom leagues).

It seems like it takes forever to put together a custom league so this shouldn't take much longer(except for switching players around).

Except you have to change those things every single season. Or has that changed?

Orioles1966 · 10-02-2018, 12:09 PM

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Originally Posted by redtiger7

Except you have to change those things every single season. Or has that changed?

That's a good question.

Spartacus70 · 10-02-2018, 12:33 PM

My concern come from the fact that I play historicals games.

And actually if in historical the farm teams are not teams in a real league (sometimes you have few teams split in two) i anticipated to be able to do it in a custom game (with a lot of work).
For me it diminucing the immersion.

Lord PichuPal · 10-03-2018, 03:23 PM

Yeah, I've just not bothered to expand in my custom game until the feature is added. Because for me it breaks immersion having two or four teams who don't have a minor league team while the rest of the league does, so they sign some extra guys to put on reserves and those guys get no stats for the year but still develop. While other guys playing in the minors get stats and their minor teams get to sign players, allowing more free agents to play.

That's just my personal feeling on it, too. I know their focus is more on getting modern mode correct and working, and then adding things to historical/custom over time, but it should hopefully be something we eventually see. If not in this version, maybe with FHM 6.

Orioles1966 · 10-03-2018, 03:30 PM

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10-01-2018, 05:56 PM	#1
Spartacus70 Minors (Triple A) Join Date: Mar 2013 Location: Sao Paulo, Brasil Posts: 202	Expansion in custom game Is there a way to add a farm team to new expansion teams? It's look like even if I can add multiple teams in Minor league, I cannot give affiliation to the new Major league expansion teams. Is it intended?

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Lord PichuPal All Star Reserve Join Date: Jun 2014 Location: Michigan Posts: 585	Yeah, I've just not bothered to expand in my custom game until the feature is added. Because for me it breaks immersion having two or four teams who don't have a minor league team while the rest of the league does, so they sign some extra guys to put on reserves and those guys get no stats for the year but still develop. While other guys playing in the minors get stats and their minor teams get to sign players, allowing more free agents to play. That's just my personal feeling on it, too. I know their focus is more on getting modern mode correct and working, and then adding things to historical/custom over time, but it should hopefully be something we eventually see. If not in this version, maybe with FHM 6. __________________ FHM Beta Tester and lifelong Red Wings fanatic

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10-01-2018, 08:15 PM	#3
Spartacus70 Minors (Triple A) Join Date: Mar 2013 Location: Sao Paulo, Brasil Posts: 202	It is sad because in regular game the expansion team now receave AHL and ECHL affiliates! It's like if an option is missing in custom game.

10-02-2018, 12:33 PM	#7
Spartacus70 Minors (Triple A) Join Date: Mar 2013 Location: Sao Paulo, Brasil Posts: 202	My concern come from the fact that I play historicals games. And actually if in historical the farm teams are not teams in a real league (sometimes you have few teams split in two) i anticipated to be able to do it in a custom game (with a lot of work). For me it diminucing the immersion.