Quick Questions Thread

[JeffR]

Originally Posted by Mikjer

Thanks! But also just to be clear, if I jam a slider all the way to max but don't check the box, nothing changes?

Right - if there's a use box, it needs to be checked for the setting to be applied.

[Adam B]

Originally Posted by jumpSeat

Interesting... I thought 'use' had to be checked to override the global settings, but I guess I could be totally wrong.

Yeah, I was thinking of Goalie Start settings. My bad.

[Bluenoser]

How do I change a Teams Logo and uniforms/helmet? I've looked in the Edit for the League and for the Team.

I see where to set city, uniform colours, etc, but no place to select a preloaded logo/etc.

I moved the Panthers to Quebec and Coyotes to Houston - I have uni's, logo's etc. Just can't find a way to assign them to the teams.

Thank you

[jumpSeat]

Originally Posted by Bluenoser

How do I change a Teams Logo and uniforms/helmet?

You have to copy the new files into your save game folder and then rename them to replace the originals. (May want to backup the originals first in case you ever want to restore).

For me the jerseys would be: \Documents\Out of the Park Developments\Franchise Hockey Manager 8\saved_games\My NHL - 172.lg\graphics\jersey_pics

Then helmets: \Documents\Out of the Park Developments\Franchise Hockey Manager 8\saved_games\My NHL - 172.lg\graphics\helmet_pics

And finally the team logos: \Documents\Out of the Park Developments\Franchise Hockey Manager 8\saved_games\My NHL - 172.lg\graphics\logo_teams

[Bluenoser]

Originally Posted by jumpSeat

You have to copy the new files into your save game folder and then rename them to replace the originals. (May want to backup the originals first in case you ever want to restore).

For me the jerseys would be: \Documents\Out of the Park Developments\Franchise Hockey Manager 8\saved_games\My NHL - 172.lg\graphics\jersey_pics

Then helmets: \Documents\Out of the Park Developments\Franchise Hockey Manager 8\saved_games\My NHL - 172.lg\graphics\helmet_pics

And finally the team logos: \Documents\Out of the Park Developments\Franchise Hockey Manager 8\saved_games\My NHL - 172.lg\graphics\logo_teams

Thank you, got it working.

[Pilsette]

What does UNF mean in Player Status at the Roster page?

[Bluenoser]

Originally Posted by Pilsette

What does UNF mean in Player Status at the Roster page?

Unfit

[Pilsette]

Originally Posted by Bluenoser

Unfit

For weeks? How can I improve it?

[TheAlaskan]

I was going through my team history and looking at some alumni of my WHL team. I'm finding that a lot of my best players had their numbers auto-retired when the player themselves retired.

Is there a way to a) get notified if a number is retired, or b) actually control number retirements for a junior team myself?

[JeffR]

Originally Posted by Pilsette

For weeks? How can I improve it?

You can't - it'll disappear when the player finally gets back into shape; the speed at which that occurs depends on the player, but the status should be gone by November.

[JeffR]

Originally Posted by TheAlaskan

I was going through my team history and looking at some alumni of my WHL team. I'm finding that a lot of my best players had their numbers auto-retired when the player themselves retired.

Is there a way to a) get notified if a number is retired, or b) actually control number retirements for a junior team myself?

I think it may be showing the announcement for the player's last league instead of the one that's actually retiring the number, I'll see if we can change that.

You can manually add/remove retired numbers in commissioner mode.

[seth1710]

Originally Posted by jumpSeat

You have to copy the new files into your save game folder and then rename them to replace the originals. (May want to backup the originals first in case you ever want to restore).

For me the jerseys would be: \Documents\Out of the Park Developments\Franchise Hockey Manager 8\saved_games\My NHL - 172.lg\graphics\jersey_pics

Then helmets: \Documents\Out of the Park Developments\Franchise Hockey Manager 8\saved_games\My NHL - 172.lg\graphics\helmet_pics

And finally the team logos: \Documents\Out of the Park Developments\Franchise Hockey Manager 8\saved_games\My NHL - 172.lg\graphics\logo_teams

Sorry for my ignorance, but I don't know how to do this. Any way to explain this to a dummy? (So much easier in OOTP than Hockey, for some reason.)

[jumpSeat]

Originally Posted by seth1710

Sorry for my ignorance, but I don't know how to do this. Any way to explain this to a dummy?

Basically you're just navigating to the folder where the original jersey/helmet/logo files are and replacing the original images with new files.

It's all copy/paste, so pretty straight forward...

FHM8 saves the image files inside the Windows 'My Documents' folder. Once there, look for 'Out of the Park Developments'.

Then open up 'Franchise Hockey Manager 8' and look for a folder called 'saved_games'.

Finally, go into the 'graphics' folder and replace the original images with your preferred new ones.

(Jerseys are found in 'jersey_pics', helmets in 'helmet_pics' and logos in 'logo_teams').

[TheAlaskan]

Adding/removing retired numbers is a little boring - I wish I could make more of an event about it.

BUT, my friend, all the auto-retired numbers were perfect. Key players in championships, record holders, etc. Kudos

[Castleview]

Historical game in FHM7, I noticed the 1984 Canada Cup final was a one-off game. In reality the tournament switched to a best of 3 final format from that year.

Not logged it as a bug as it may intentionally be set up this way, or may have been fixed in FHM8?

[JeffR]

Originally Posted by Castleview

Historical game in FHM7, I noticed the 1984 Canada Cup final was a one-off game. In reality the tournament switched to a best of 3 final format from that year.

Not logged it as a bug as it may intentionally be set up this way, or may have been fixed in FHM8?

No, I think it's still that way, we'll get that changed.

[tomkmb]

Are there plans to or would it be possible in future to include previous years season ticket/luxury box sales numbers in the message with the current years sales totals?

I just feel it would add some more context to see if my ticket price changes/trade acquisitions/free agent signings/success on ice/failure on ice is actually having a knock on effect.

In Football Manager there is just a short "This year we've sold XXXXX season tickets so far, we project to sell around XXXXXX. In comparison to our total of XXXXX last year, the owner is happy with this increase/disappointed with this decrease" etc etc

Just helps to remind me of the alternate reality i'm taking part in.

Are there plans to add to the options when filtering players? I'd love to be able to have contract information as a filter whereby limiting the players who are being shown to me by their annual salary if I'm working with limited cap space.

Havent been this addicted to a game in a long long time!!

[sk78]

I'm referring to this thread here I posted in the Mods section.

Is it generally still possible to use custom backgrounds, or is the "screen_backgrounds" folder within the (Documents>)"saved_games" directory just a leftover from previous FHM versions?

[Tie Montana]

Where can i find my shortlisted players?

[sk78]

Originally Posted by Tie Montana

Where can i find my shortlisted players?

you could also add a dedicated section to the manager home screen