Quick questions thread

[Sabres2000]

is there a link where there a wish list for upcoming versions?

[BrettC]

Originally Posted by Sabres2000

is there a link where there a wish list for upcoming versions?

There's a "Suggestions" sub forum for FHM2. Above "Dynasty Reports" and below "Tech Support".

[Ogie Oglethorp]

Anybody know what the little white boxes are with the numbers inside them??? they are next to the players name on his main page. i notice the better players have more.

[dave1927p]

Originally Posted by BrettC

There's a "Suggestions" sub forum for FHM2. Above "Dynasty Reports" and below "Tech Support".

FHM 2 - Suggestions - OOTP Developments Forums
yes, this link is the place.

[JeffR]

Alright, I'm back home and had a day's vacation to recover from the last half of my regular vacation turning into a slow-motion trainwreck, so I'll be working my way through the backlog of questions and messages that accumulated while I got to experience the joys of sporadic internet access. My apologies if anybody was expecting a response and didn't get one yet, I'll try to get to everybody tonight.

[Empty]

I posted a thread about this but never got an official response.


I'm at the 2017 draft and many of the players are from leagues like Hockeyettan, Third Division and various other leagues that I've never really heard of. Players from the these leagues are taken with most of the first round picks which is weird because I would normally expect most first rounders to be from CHL, SHL, Liiga, etc. Is this suppose to happen or is it just a glitch in player generation?

[Empty]

Also, is it possible to add another GM into a game that is already started?

Edit: Never mind, just found out how.

[MillerTime89]

I just purchased the game, and my serial number is not working when I go to activate it. Can someone please help me?

[Arch7ngel]

Hey, so I've searched the forum real quick and I don't think this has been addressed and sorry if it already has been.

I'm doing a historical run with Ottawa and I'm now in 2006, where the salary cap is in and all that new stuff. But my team budget (like all the other teams) are still fixed at 43 M, which makes it very hard to sign new players. Is there a way to manually adjust the team budget?

[JeffR]

Originally Posted by MillerTime89

I just purchased the game, and my serial number is not working when I go to activate it. Can someone please help me?

Your best bet is probably starting with a tech support ticket- our tech support guys are a little more familiar with, and better-equipped, to troubleshoot activation problems than I am.

[JeffR]

Originally Posted by Arch7ngel

Hey, so I've searched the forum real quick and I don't think this has been addressed and sorry if it already has been.

I'm doing a historical run with Ottawa and I'm now in 2006, where the salary cap is in and all that new stuff. But my team budget (like all the other teams) are still fixed at 43 M, which makes it very hard to sign new players. Is there a way to manually adjust the team budget?

No, but just to clarify: what I think we actually need to do here is adjust the cap values in the historical seasons. The historically-adjusted dollar amounts aren't literal representations of the finances in a particular season (doing that would lead to big problems because the NHL's finances have had some radical up- and down-swings - like the salary increases after the NHLPA formed or the decreases after the 2005 lockout - which would be very messy for the game's financial systems if we duplicated them, so the dollar translation for historical systems smooths things out a bit). So you don't have a particular advantage or disadvantage over other teams, but we should be dropping the cap down along with the rest of the finances so it matches the in-game salaries for that year a little better.

[JeffR]

Originally Posted by Empty

I posted a thread about this but never got an official response.


I'm at the 2017 draft and many of the players are from leagues like Hockeyettan, Third Division and various other leagues that I've never really heard of. Players from the these leagues are taken with most of the first round picks which is weird because I would normally expect most first rounders to be from CHL, SHL, Liiga, etc. Is this suppose to happen or is it just a glitch in player generation?

In 2017, that'd be more likely something going on with player development/movement. Which leagues do you have set to playable?

[JeffR]

Originally Posted by Ogie Oglethorp

Anybody know what the little white boxes are with the numbers inside them??? they are next to the players name on his main page. i notice the better players have more.

Those are award histories, they should have award icons next to them. But I think there's an issue at the moment with those not displaying properly in some older saves.

[JeffR]

Originally Posted by GMO123

I'm sure this is easy but I looked in the manual but couldn't find it. I want to call up a player from my minor time to the NHL. I can't find how to do it.

If he's in the AHL/ECHL and contracted to you, right-clicking on his name will give you the option. If he's playing on a junior team, you'll have to wait until the off-season to call-him up, as the NHL-CHL agreement (for the most part) means that once a player is sent back to junior, he's there for the rest of the year.

[JeffR]

Originally Posted by djskek

How can I pull out the goalkeeper in the last minutes?

The pull Goalie option in tactic screen with fast, very fast normal etc...... i believe don't work. At least that's my impression.

If I remember right, Sebastian mentioned just before I left that he'd found a bug with that and had it fixed for the next update.

[JeffR]

Originally Posted by Evok

Hi !

Could anyone give me the information about what the number mean in the first_names.txt and names.txt ?

EX : Adam,85,0

I would like to modify those files to allow creation of fictional Women leagues but without the meaning of the numbers, i fear of breaking something.

Thank you !

That's the frequency level for the name; the higher the number, the more of that name will appear. Second number is the language/ethnicity ID, here's the list of those:

Language Id Name
0 Canadian (English)
1 Canadian (French)
2 American
3 Spanish (Americas)
4 Scottish
5 Irish
6 English
7 Norwegian
8 Finnish
9 Swedish
10 Danish
11 Icelandic
12 French
13 Italian
14 Castilian
15 Dutch
16 Belgian (Dutch)
17 German
18 Austrian
19 Swiss (German)
20 Swiss (French)
21 Swiss (Italian)
22 Croatian
23 Slovenian
24 Serbian
25 Bosnian
26 Czech
27 Slovak
28 Hungarian
29 Romanian
30 Polish
31 Lithuanian
32 Latvian
33 Estonian
34 Russian
35 Ukrainian
36 Belarusian
37 Kazakh
38 Central Asian
39 Korean
40 Japanese
41 Chinese
42 Australian
43 Israeli
44 Arab
45 West African
46 North African
47 Punjabi
48 Canadian (Native)
49 Bulgarian
50 Mongolian
51 Tyrolean
52 Turkish
53 Belgian (French)
54 Armenian
55 Georgian
56 Cree
57 Tatar
58 Romansh
59 Azeri
60 Kyrgyz
61 Bashkir
62 Greek
63 Polynesian
64 Filipino
65 Vietnamese
66 Indonesian
67 Indian
68 Portuguese
69 Moldovan
70 Basque
71 Catalan
72 Luxembourgish
73 Macedonian
74 Thai
75 North American Chinese
76 English Caribbean
77 Russian Latvian
78 Russian Estonian
79 Haitian
80 Inuit
81 Blackfoot
82 Faroese
83 North American Japanese
84 North American Cantonese
85 North American Vietnamese
86 North American Korean
87 Albanian
88 Brazilian
89 Algerian
90 French African
91 Ossetian
92 Abkhazian
93 Tajik
94 Moroccan
95 Buryat
96 Kalmyk
97 Anishinaabe
98 Sioux
99 Iroquois
100 Uzbek
101 Welsh
102 Gagauz

[FalseCredential]

Any update on the bug causing teams to sign and then release drafted players, primarily highly drafted prospects? Teams also seem to let high potential players go, even after good seasons, when they have adequate cap space. The problem seems to persist in every game mode for me (Historical, Created, and Regular)

[Empty]

Originally Posted by JeffR

In 2017, that'd be more likely something going on with player development/movement. Which leagues do you have set to playable?

I deselected all. Does doing that cause issues with which teams prospects are placed on?

[Casino]

I feel like I've read a little on this elsewhere, but I'm unable to find it again - where is my farm team in historical games? For example, when I start a game in 2000 as the Wild, I've got way too many people on the club and nowhere to really put them that will get them some kind of playing time.

[JeffR]

Originally Posted by Casino

I feel like I've read a little on this elsewhere, but I'm unable to find it again - where is my farm team in historical games? For example, when I start a game in 2000 as the Wild, I've got way too many people on the club and nowhere to really put them that will get them some kind of playing time.

There's no farm team, exactly, in historical mode (yet); the reserve list each team has takes the place of the farm leagues and represents the minors, junior leagues, or any other loan-type arrangement that existed at the time, e.g. the old practice of NHL teams selling players to minor league teams while retaining a right of recall. While on the reserve list, the players will develop at a normal rate (development factors specific to being in a particular league, like quality of competition, don't get considered postively or negatively for players on the reserve list, it's basically a neutral development setting.) I'd like to get a better depiction of historical minor leagues in eventually, but it'll be a big, complicated project.