Quick Questions Thread

[JeffR]

Originally Posted by TheAlaskan

Is there any hidden logic for how long a NHL team keeps a prospect up until they burn a year of the ELC?

I've noticed, time and time again, that an NHL team will sign one of my team's best players, keep them up on the big club but barely play them.

Then eventually they might reassign them back down to my junior team. Just on it's face, I feel like real NHL teams are very picky about how they develop top junior players. They usually make that decision pretty early in the season.

This particular stud, Brandon Norris, was signed immediately after being a 2nd round pick, kept on the team the whole season with only 24 games and 7 mins avg. TOI. He picked up 3 points and was a minus 9. Assigned back to my WHL team on April 3 after I missed the playoffs.

I really could have used this kid all season if the Dallas Stars weren't going utilize him well. I'd have to go back and check, but real NHL teams don't usually immediately sign 2nd round picks and develop them like this.

At one point, we had a check at the 10-game point of the season that would decide whether or not to send junior guys down, but if I remember right had to remove it because it was having some unintended side-effects. Might need to make another attempt at it.

[CubzFan73]

I've created my fictional universe I've always wanted (thank you devs!), and all my junior league players have rather high salaries. I'm pretty sure this must be a bug? Will I need to edit all the junior players' salaires or....? Also, there's no 18 or 19-year-olds in juniors, all 14-17 year-olds, and there's very few in free agency or in the minors.

Thanks!

[Stormsky]

I got a weird situation. I started my first game, set up the team (the Kraken), simmed to October to start the pre-season. In October my monthly finances show me with negative points even if I spend zero/-1 in everything. What happened? Was there something I should have done I missed? I don't want to take penalties to happiness, attendance, etc...

[whitewizardg]

How are awards given out? Like how does the game decide who gets the Hart or Norris?

I have a D-Man who gets 60-70 points, great advanced stats and never wins the Norris.

[#4BobbyOrr]

Originally Posted by whitewizardg

How are awards given out? Like how does the game decide who gets the Hart or Norris?

I have a D-Man who gets 60-70 points, great advanced stats and never wins the Norris.

I can't say for sure but the Norris seems to weight points and +/- fairly highly. Quite often (like 90% of the time) I can predict the Norris winner by adding together the points and +/- of all dman and taking the guy at the top.

The Hart I have no idea, it generally just goes to McDavid in my games unless he gets hurt. I've seen players outscore McDavid by 20 points but because they're 3.5* players with average ratings in the late 60s they never seem to get consideration and McDavid wins anyway.

[JeffR]

Originally Posted by CubzFan73

I've created my fictional universe I've always wanted (thank you devs!), and all my junior league players have rather high salaries. I'm pretty sure this must be a bug? Will I need to edit all the junior players' salaires or....? Also, there's no 18 or 19-year-olds in juniors, all 14-17 year-olds, and there's very few in free agency or in the minors.

Thanks!

The 14-17-year olds in the first group of juniors is normal, including older players at the start was leading to some problems with talent distribution.

What kind of salaries are you seeing in the junior league? They should all be at $3000, the default junior salary.

[JeffR]

Originally Posted by Stormsky

I got a weird situation. I started my first game, set up the team (the Kraken), simmed to October to start the pre-season. In October my monthly finances show me with negative points even if I spend zero/-1 in everything. What happened? Was there something I should have done I missed? I don't want to take penalties to happiness, attendance, etc...

Strange, the AI is spending way too much for the NHL teams (even user-owned ones) at the start of a new game. Not sure why, it's supposed to spend nothing until after the game begins; it could be that the function that advances the game to the start of the preseason is doing something odd, we'll have a look at that.

[Edster007]

Doing a custom league. Edited the teams names so they have very generic logos now. Thats fine with me but I am on July 1st and just expanded the league and the game has repeated one of the logos. Now to the Q, is there a way to change logos in a custom game? I cant seem to find it if it exists. If it makes a difference I am in commish mode and I have it setup as an online game as I manage all the teams.


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[CubzFan73]

The 14-17-year olds in the first group of juniors is normal, including older players at the start was leading to some problems with talent distribution.

Thanks for the clarification!

What kind of salaries are you seeing in the junior league? They should all be at $3000, the default junior salary.

The juniors' salaries all range from $90,000 to $260,000. None of the players have the $3,000 salary. Also, most of the minor-league players are making more than all the major league players. Everyone in the major league is making the league minimum.

[Adam B]

Originally Posted by Edster007

Doing a custom league. Edited the teams names so they have very generic logos now. Thats fine with me but I am on July 1st and just expanded the league and the game has repeated one of the logos. Now to the Q, is there a way to change logos in a custom game? I cant seem to find it if it exists. If it makes a difference I am in commish mode and I have it setup as an online game as I manage all the teams.


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You can do it by changing the images in the save file. Check out our How To Thread - there's even a YouTube video if you're unsure how to find the files.

If you want different logos, you can add your own, or if you want to have the AI do it for you, check out this Generic Logo Replacement Mod.

[Edster007]

Originally Posted by Adam B

You can do it by changing the images in the save file. Check out our How To Thread - there's even a YouTube video if you're unsure how to find the files.

If you want different logos, you can add your own, or if you want to have the AI do it for you, check out this Generic Logo Replacement Mod.

Thanks.Appreciate it

[Kiwifan]

Kia ora, is it possible to adjust the draft/generated nationalities for a league after the game has started?

[JeffR]

Originally Posted by Kiwifan

Kia ora, is it possible to adjust the draft/generated nationalities for a league after the game has started?

Not at the moment - you can change the league nationality, but a custom game will retain the starting draft nationalities. I think that may be something we can add, though - I can't think of any problems just changing the nationalities setting would cause.

[willcochrane12]

Will there ever be Assistant GMs or Team Presidents added?

[Sabres2000]

Coaching Question:

When hiring your head coach... when it comes to your lines.. and what players style play as. Also as for the Tactic screen does yoru head coach do the global tactic screen as well?

[boscoJJ]

Is it possible to add feature to import Historical Save that finishes the most recent Historical season (reached 2021)to a Standard DB in future version?

[Adam B]

Originally Posted by willcochrane12

Will there ever be Assistant GMs or Team Presidents added?

Most are in the game as Scouts, but as specific jobs? I'm not sure what exactly the point would be myself.

Originally Posted by Sabres2000

Coaching Question:

When hiring your head coach... when it comes to your lines.. and what players style play as. Also as for the Tactic screen does yoru head coach do the global tactic screen as well?

Head Coach makes all the tactical choices.

Originally Posted by boscoJJ

Is it possible to add feature to import Historical Save that finishes the most recent Historical season (reached 2021)to a Standard DB in future version?

I don't want to directly speak for Jeff, but I'm going to say the chances of this are extremely unlikely. The databases are completely different.

[JeffR]

Originally Posted by willcochrane12

Will there ever be Assistant GMs or Team Presidents added?

There's actually a President role in the database now, the game just doesn't use it yet. It'll probably wind up being used as a surrogate for the owner on teams where the owner doesn't take an active role - i.e., the emails about job security, etc. will come from the President. That's going to require a bunch of re-writing in the text database to work, which is the main reason it hasn't happened yet.

Assistant GM's are a little harder to deal with because that title is used for a wide variety of roles - some teams' cap guys get that title, other assistant GM's are essentially scouts (as Adam said, in those cases we make them a scout in the game), other assistant GM's focus on dealing with player contracts, etc. Right now, it makes the most sense to just give the ones with a game-relevant role an in-game job that reflects that role.

[JeffR]

Originally Posted by boscoJJ

Is it possible to add feature to import Historical Save that finishes the most recent Historical season (reached 2021)to a Standard DB in future version?

Replacing the NHL in a standard game? Very unlikely, that'd require some method of removing all the versions of players that already exist in the standard db, relocating players away from their teams if they're not on them in the imported game, dealing with players who've already retired but haven't in the imported game, etc. A lot of coding, probably way too much for the level of demand for such a feature.

[boscoJJ]

How about generic,unplayable leagues(As in Historical Minor and Junior leagues,as well as the U14-20 and lower leagues)in Custom game?
are there still plans for them?