FHM 12 and beyond wishlist

[eventninja]

Hi. I'm appealing to the Dev team to remove the restriction for single-player multi-GM games where you cannot have a human GM of any Farm Team. Managing an NHL team alongside an AHL, or even ECHL team, has a lot of benefits both in terms of being a rich gameplay experience while also holding truer to the actual business of professional hockey.

Control Over Decisions: I don't want my Farm Team GMs to sign players to fill roster spots to compete with my Prospects. I don't want them to hire bad staff or fire good staff.

Player Development: By hiring the best coaches and staff for my Farm Teams, staff style preferences can be matched through the entire NHL>AHL>ECHL hierarchy. Prospects should develop faster in a way that best fits their future role in the NHL, allows a clearer understanding of the Prospects ability to perform within a consistent system.

Division of Labour: By assigning the Scouts of my Farm Team, I get a wider distribution of scouting without tying up NHL-level scouts.

Game Play Efficiencies: Controlling an NHL and AHL team doesn't require controlling the ECHL affiliate. By aligning the NHL and AHL teams, most of the non-Roster decisions will align. Two teams should not mean twice the work, or twice the time required to complete a season.

I've enjoyed this style of gameplay since EHM2007. So long as there is no negative impact to Online Leagues, this playing style could easily fit alongside what fans expect from the FHM series.

[Peter-]

Couldn't have said it better my self! I agree on all of your suggestions! 🙂 I also love to manage the European Leagues such as Swedish Hockey League and I would love to have the option to change the font and theme in the game 😃

[Lord PichuPal]

Still been banging the drum for it for years, but I really want more customization options for leagues (namely custom/fictional but it could be applied in general). Specifically I want the ability to set up the playoff format how I want, like we can in OOTP. The pre-determined formats still limit it and even the custom format option is still strict. Like I have a 20 team league and don't want to have one extreme (16 of 20 teams make it) or the other (only 8 teams in, so less than half the league), I've wanted to set it to 12 but the only option for that is the old 70s NHL where it throws conferences out the window and it's chaos after the initial round.

I imagine others can speak to other issues better, and I've seen some other ideas I agree with, but that's still my biggest thing I've waited for a long time now, and keep hoping we're getting close to it.