Quick Questions Thread

[Paolino]

Hi,when will be available the new update with all recent transactions?

[jumpSeat]

Originally Posted by Paolino

Hi,when will be available the new update with all recent transactions?

The next update is scheduled for next week.

[JeffR]

Originally Posted by 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?

It's left over from quite a while back, the skins don't use individual folders for the teams anymore, but rather customize the colour of the background to the team's base colour.

[TheAlaskan]

There was an issue with bantam leagues spawning players from one specific US state in their region. E.g. Western US Bantam is Washington, Southwest is Colorado, Central is Nebraska.

Was this fixed in the last update?

[JeffR]

Originally Posted by TheAlaskan

There was an issue with bantam leagues spawning players from one specific US state in their region. E.g. Western US Bantam is Washington, Southwest is Colorado, Central is Nebraska.

Was this fixed in the last update?

Yup, I just checked in a test save and there's the intended variety. Alaskans are still comparatively rare because of the low state population, though.

[Xavier's Crown]

Playing a 1971 Montreal Historical game in Challenge Mode, GM Only.
My Coach has goalie preferences set to max for "start the hottest goalie" which resulted in my back-up Rogie Vachon playing every single game and my starter Ken Dryden getting no starts. Is there any way I can adjust this while in GM mode (not-coaching)?

[crusadertsar]

Possibility of a discount on the game when Steam's Winter sale goes live tommorrow? What do you guys think?

I'm getting excited already

[crusadertsar]

Originally Posted by Xavier's Crown

Playing a 1971 Montreal Historical game in Challenge Mode, GM Only.
My Coach has goalie preferences set to max for "start the hottest goalie" which resulted in my back-up Rogie Vachon playing every single game and my starter Ken Dryden getting no starts. Is there any way I can adjust this while in GM mode (not-coaching)?

Playing the hottest goalie option only works once you got one of your goalies (the starter hopefully) with a good hotness difference (number of flames) from the backup. Thats when I turn it on. Otherwise if you just set this at the beginning of the season when both of your goalies are cold there is a risk that your backup could be chosen by AI if get one good game and is more hot than the starter. But you still have to monitor it because your starter could lose hotness by having one or two games and then AI would switch to the back for the rest of the season.

In my opinion this option is too fiddly and unreliable at the moment so I just manually pick my goalies before each game.

[Xavier's Crown]

Originally Posted by crusadertsar

Playing the hottest goalie option only works once you got one of your goalies (the starter hopefully) with a good hotness difference (number of flames) from the backup. Thats when I turn it on. Otherwise if you just set this at the beginning of the season when both of your goalies are cold there is a risk that your backup could be chosen by AI if get one good game and is more hot than the starter. But you still have to monitor it because your starter could lose hotness by having one or two games and then AI would switch to the back for the rest of the season.

In my opinion this option is too fiddly and unreliable at the moment so I just manually pick my goalies before each game.

Not sure how to alter the setting or select a goalie when in GM mode - my coach is making those decisions

[crusadertsar]

Originally Posted by Xavier's Crown

Not sure how to alter the setting or select a goalie when in GM mode - my coach is making those decisions

Oh sorry then. I have no idea what to tell you. I never play in GM mode because AI sucks at selecting lines and player roles. That's one area of the game that still needs much more work.

[TheAlaskan]

Originally Posted by JeffR

Yup, I just checked in a test save and there's the intended variety. Alaskans are still comparatively rare because of the low state population, though.

Thanks!

I'm willing to sacrifice a little realism if you put some juice on the Alaskan numbers. :P

[TheAlaskan]

So I started up a new game... did the WHL change back to doing separate US draft and CA drafts? It was like that in FHM7, then in my last save it was one joined draft for both countries.

[tomkmb]

Originally Posted by 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!!

Just a sort of follow up to the season tickets point, I feel the same about the TV broadcast deals. Each year we get all the messages about the different broadcast deals for all the teams, yet there is no mention of if this is more or less than the year before etc. Also, why are they coming as individual messages even regarding the other non user controlled teams, as opposed to being presented in the same way that the season ticket summary message is, listing all teams and their respective figures?

These aren't intended as criticisms but more that I am just trying to understand what is important and what I need to be paying attention to/what I am able to influence with my success/failure as the GM of whichever franchise I'm playing as. Otherwise I just find myself skipping over it all and deleting through waves of messages which doesnt add to the immersion of the experience.

Just felt these things were worth mentioning, especially with the new financial system etc being further fleshed out!

[JeffR]

Originally Posted by TheAlaskan

So I started up a new game... did the WHL change back to doing separate US draft and CA drafts? It was like that in FHM7, then in my last save it was one joined draft for both countries.

Yeah, at one point the intention appeared to be that they were going to go back to a consolidated draft, but then they went ahead and did the separate drafts a couple of weeks ago, so the US draft is back in the game.

[JeffR]

Originally Posted by tomkmb

Just a sort of follow up to the season tickets point, I feel the same about the TV broadcast deals. Each year we get all the messages about the different broadcast deals for all the teams, yet there is no mention of if this is more or less than the year before etc. Also, why are they coming as individual messages even regarding the other non user controlled teams, as opposed to being presented in the same way that the season ticket summary message is, listing all teams and their respective figures?

These aren't intended as criticisms but more that I am just trying to understand what is important and what I need to be paying attention to/what I am able to influence with my success/failure as the GM of whichever franchise I'm playing as. Otherwise I just find myself skipping over it all and deleting through waves of messages which doesnt add to the immersion of the experience.

Just felt these things were worth mentioning, especially with the new financial system etc being further fleshed out!

I'm not sure if it's doable this year, since it'd mean making some database changes to track more annual stats for the teams, but I would like to get in an annual finances history that will show those things.

[JeffR]

Originally Posted by Xavier's Crown

Playing a 1971 Montreal Historical game in Challenge Mode, GM Only.
My Coach has goalie preferences set to max for "start the hottest goalie" which resulted in my back-up Rogie Vachon playing every single game and my starter Ken Dryden getting no starts. Is there any way I can adjust this while in GM mode (not-coaching)?

If you're playing GM-only, it's entirely up to the coach.

[tomkmb]

Originally Posted by JeffR

I'm not sure if it's doable this year, since it'd mean making some database changes to track more annual stats for the teams, but I would like to get in an annual finances history that will show those things.

Absolutely! Whenever you and the team get around to it is fine by me. Glad to hear it was already on your radar!

[TheAlaskan]

Originally Posted by JeffR

I'm not sure if it's doable this year, since it'd mean making some database changes to track more annual stats for the teams, but I would like to get in an annual finances history that will show those things.

Cool - thanks!

[jumpSeat]

Originally Posted by boscoJJ

Can you add special abilities to your own custom player when creating players?

Originally Posted by JeffR

Not yet, but it should be relatively easy to add. We'll have to take a look at what restrictions to put on it, though, to prevent nonsensical combinations (goalies with skater abilities, players who are blind in both eyes, etc.)

Hi Jeff,

Just wondering if this is still on the to-do-list for a future update? I'd love it if we could this added and the bonus is, it sounds like it shouldn't be too hard to do. Please and thank you.

[tomkmb]

Does the trade difficulty setting affect the AI to AI trades?