Quick Questions Thread

[redtiger7]

Minor league teams are seperate organizations, even though they may be owned by the same entity as the major team. They will sign their own players to their own contracts to fill thier roster. The majors can add their players to the minor team's rosters. Everyone else is contracted to the minor team, not the major.

[damonrusst]

Originally Posted by redtiger7

Minor league teams are seperate organizations, even though they may be owned by the same entity as the major team. They will sign their own players to their own contracts to fill thier roster. The majors can add their players to the minor team's rosters. Everyone else is contracted to the minor team, not the major.

Is there any way I can get him to play for my NHL team?

[Adam B]

Originally Posted by damonrusst

Yes, I'm definitely in my minor league team, are you saying teams appear multiple times or players? I can promote other players from this team, just not him and a few others. I tried offering a contract and got the message he already had a MIN contract and NHL honors MIN contracts so I'm assuming he's signed. There are only 6 minor league teams, one for each NHL team.

Also, so ticket price is essentially meaningless?

For the purpose of Historical Challenge Mode, yes.

Also - That's interesting. The sounds a lot like a bug that was present on an early build of the game. Are you on the latest build?

[damonrusst]

Originally Posted by Adam B

For the purpose of Historical Challenge Mode, yes.

Also - That's interesting. The sounds a lot like a bug that was present on an early build of the game. Are you on the latest build?

I'm on 6.8 build 80. I just downloaded about a week ago. Would it be different in non challenge mode? What is the difference between challenge and non challenge.

[Adam B]

Originally Posted by damonrusst

I'm on 6.8 build 80. I just downloaded about a week ago. Would it be different in non challenge mode? What is the difference between challenge and non challenge.

Are you doing a Historical Challenge or just in Challenge Mode? If you're just in Challenge Mode, you could leave it, giving yourself Commissioner Mode and thus being able to edit the player.

Regardless, can you tell me how you started your game (and who the player is)? It's also possible Jeff may need to see it, so if you can create a save from where you are if that's the case, that would be good too.

[damonrusst]

Originally Posted by Adam B

Are you doing a Historical Challenge or just in Challenge Mode? If you're just in Challenge Mode, you could leave it, giving yourself Commissioner Mode and thus being able to edit the player.

Regardless, can you tell me how you started your game (and who the player is)? It's also possible Jeff may need to see it, so if you can create a save from where you are if that's the case, that would be good too.

It seems to affect these players on the 1950 Red Wings/Indianapolis Capitals

J. Arundel
E. Pratt
R. Leger

It's not a "historical challenge" but a historical game I started in 1950 in challenge mode. Let me know how I change out of that to edit the player and if I need to upload a save etc.

[FrenchMatt]

why are nordic players not speaking english at least at a "basic" level?


this would prevent the isolate malus due to language barrier in NA leagues and IRL in Scandinavia they have generally a good level in english

[JeffR]

Originally Posted by damonrusst

It seems to affect these players on the 1950 Red Wings/Indianapolis Capitals

J. Arundel
E. Pratt
R. Leger

It's not a "historical challenge" but a historical game I started in 1950 in challenge mode. Let me know how I change out of that to edit the player and if I need to upload a save etc.

Yeah, I'd like to have a look at the save. I've tried replicating that with some 40's/50's start but the minor league teams aren't signing anyone in those, so I'd like to see exactly how they wound up with contracts in your game (and I can probably edit them back to being normal free agents for you as well.)

[DarthFrog]

Originally Posted by JeffR

Great > Excellent. Are you seeing the reverse somewhere?

Yes I am, in the free agent staff when you sort, it will list Excellent above Great, so I have always valued Excellent more than Great.

[JeffR]

Looks like the ratings-to-verbal translation on that screen isn't set correctly, we'll fix that. Actually, come to think of it, I'm not even sure why we have the verbal descriptions there instead of a number when you can see the specific numbers on the staff screen anyhow, maybe that should just be all-numbers instead.

[DarthFrog]

Originally Posted by JeffR

Looks like the ratings-to-verbal translation on that screen isn't set correctly, we'll fix that. Actually, come to think of it, I'm not even sure why we have the verbal descriptions there instead of a number when you can see the specific numbers on the staff screen anyhow, maybe that should just be all-numbers instead.

So, looking further into my coaches, I have a coach who is excellent at goalie coaching and his number rating for that is 20. Another coach with Great rating at Coach Forwards has a number rating for that set to 18.

So, from that, it appears that Excellent > Great when it comes to staff anyway.

But I have to agree that simply sticking to a number rating would make things less confusing.

[damonrusst]

Originally Posted by JeffR

Yeah, I'd like to have a look at the save. I've tried replicating that with some 40's/50's start but the minor league teams aren't signing anyone in those, so I'd like to see exactly how they wound up with contracts in your game (and I can probably edit them back to being normal free agents for you as well.)

Okay, where do I upload the file? And which file do I upload? Sorry, haven't done that before

[Adam B]

Originally Posted by damonrusst

Okay, where do I upload the file? And which file do I upload? Sorry, haven't done that before

https://forums.ootpdevelopments.com/...d.php?t=307079

Or if you prefer, upload it to something like Dropbox and PM the link.

[damonrusst]

How can I tell what tactics the other team is using during the game? When I select tactics, it tells me which tactics they're effective against but I see nowhere I can view what tactics the other team is using against me.

[DarthFrog]

Is there and reason to the PP set up for coaches? I ask because in my current season, my centers are Aho/Trocheck/Danault and on the 5-on-5 lines, my head coach (Cooper who is an offensive coach) uses them in that order. However, even though Aho is my most offensively skilled center (and possibly tops on my team), he uses Trocheck on the first unit and Danault on the second unit. Even giving my #3 LW a spot on the point ahead of Aho. In 53 games so far, Aho has seen 8 minutes of PP time, which has tanked his stats for this season.

The same coach had him on the first unit the previous season. I just signed Trocheck this season, but even then, Aho should never be behind Danault on the PP. Is it because he's on the first PK unit? Even that baffles me because both Trocheck or Danault should be ahead of Aho when it comes to PK.

Some of the coaching decisions so far have been somewhat frustrating. I wish there was a way that the GM could have some influence on the lineup. I understand the coach will make the final decision, but there is no chance that a GM doesn't talk to his coach. I picked up D that clearly slotted into my top 4, but because he was my third best LD, he plays third pairing because my coach won't play one of my LD's on their offside who is rated 19 on RD.

Also, while we are on the topic of coaches, I would suggest to change the forwards time split depending on era. I'm playing current time, and no way that the 21/18/13/8 split works in today's game. It should be more of a 18/16/14/12 split. Most coaches today roll all 4 lines, and forwards outside of McDavid don't usually clock in over 20 minutes unless they were on the PP all night long.

Sorry for the long post, but the absolute zero control on game day decisions makes me want to restart everything... but the thing is, I like just being the GM, however, some influence on coach decision would be nice to have.

[reverist]

Originally Posted by DarthFrog

Is there and reason to the PP set up for coaches? I ask because in my current season, my centers are Aho/Trocheck/Danault and on the 5-on-5 lines, my head coach (Cooper who is an offensive coach) uses them in that order. However, even though Aho is my most offensively skilled center (and possibly tops on my team), he uses Trocheck on the first unit and Danault on the second unit. Even giving my #3 LW a spot on the point ahead of Aho. In 53 games so far, Aho has seen 8 minutes of PP time, which has tanked his stats for this season.

The same coach had him on the first unit the previous season. I just signed Trocheck this season, but even then, Aho should never be behind Danault on the PP. Is it because he's on the first PK unit? Even that baffles me because both Trocheck or Danault should be ahead of Aho when it comes to PK.

Some of the coaching decisions so far have been somewhat frustrating. I wish there was a way that the GM could have some influence on the lineup. I understand the coach will make the final decision, but there is no chance that a GM doesn't talk to his coach. I picked up D that clearly slotted into my top 4, but because he was my third best LD, he plays third pairing because my coach won't play one of my LD's on their offside who is rated 19 on RD.

Also, while we are on the topic of coaches, I would suggest to change the forwards time split depending on era. I'm playing current time, and no way that the 21/18/13/8 split works in today's game. It should be more of a 18/16/14/12 split. Most coaches today roll all 4 lines, and forwards outside of McDavid don't usually clock in over 20 minutes unless they were on the PP all night long.

Sorry for the long post, but the absolute zero control on game day decisions makes me want to restart everything... but the thing is, I like just being the GM, however, some influence on coach decision would be nice to have.

What you're describing seems to be the ability to be both the GM and the coach, which the game does have! I'm not sure if you can change it once you started that way, though...

[DarthFrog]

Originally Posted by reverist

What you're describing seems to be the ability to be both the GM and the coach, which the game does have! I'm not sure if you can change it once you started that way, though...

I would imagine that an NHL GM would have influence on what his coach does. I'm not talking about full control, I don't want that. I want to be able to say "Such and such player is upset that he's not getting playing time, please try to play him more because he's our future and I don't want his development to suffer."

Just one example. I don't want to make full decisions, I find it fun to let the coach do his thing. Maybe a coach with higher Self-Preservation would be more likely to do what you want regardless if he thinks it hurts the team because he wants to make you happy.... I don't know, but again, I doubt a coach in the NHL completely ignores what his GM is trying to do with the build of the team.

I just want the ability to "talk" to my coach.

[Adam B]

Originally Posted by damonrusst

How can I tell what tactics the other team is using during the game? When I select tactics, it tells me which tactics they're effective against but I see nowhere I can view what tactics the other team is using against me.

If you're thinking about changing tactics every game; don't. Hockey doesn't work like that. Players need time in the system to get better at it, master it.

Originally Posted by DarthFrog

I would imagine that an NHL GM would have influence on what his coach does. I'm not talking about full control, I don't want that. I want to be able to say "Such and such player is upset that he's not getting playing time, please try to play him more because he's our future and I don't want his development to suffer."

Just one example. I don't want to make full decisions, I find it fun to let the coach do his thing. Maybe a coach with higher Self-Preservation would be more likely to do what you want regardless if he thinks it hurts the team because he wants to make you happy.... I don't know, but again, I doubt a coach in the NHL completely ignores what his GM is trying to do with the build of the team.

I just want the ability to "talk" to my coach.

If a GM is unhappy, they fire the coach. But I can 100% guarantee you no GM is going to tell a coach who to play and where to play someone. The Coach would yell at him and kick him out of the room. Very few GM's have coaching backgrounds, and even at that - if a Coach gives up the ability to make those decisions, he'd never get it back.

No, not going to happen. The game reflects that.

[DarthFrog]

Originally Posted by Adam B

If a GM is unhappy, they fire the coach. But I can 100% guarantee you no GM is going to tell a coach who to play and where to play someone. The Coach would yell at him and kick him out of the room. Very few GM's have coaching backgrounds, and even at that - if a Coach gives up the ability to make those decisions, he'd never get it back.

No, not going to happen. The game reflects that.

Too bad the game doesn't allow me to fire the coach, even though my Staff budget has over 3 million of space.

And what about the coach? Why is he not stating what he would like to see. You seem to think that a GM and his coach won't have conversations, that they do their jobs in isolation.

[Bigdummie]

How do I set my starting goalie in a exhibition game? I don't remember,. Thanks!