What would you guys like to see in FHM8? - Page 2

fredbeene · 06-08-2021, 12:47 AM

1) simming to end of period or any point or score (i still don't know how people find the time to play every game
2) improved play by play with text to speech. The ability to download the pbp as file so you do out put on any device like phone and listed as if it were actual radio broadcast away from the computer.
3) incorporate out of town scores and news into pbp...again to immerse player in world while listening to the game.
4) tutorials for newer player covering common scenarios, tactics etc.
5) play out games head to head with a friend!!!!!!!!
6) more online leagues
7) allow multiple REAL PLAYER pics. ie headshot, action shot, actual hockey card
8) rink designer (actually don't really care..i really just want simming to period end and radio pbp ; )
9) better in game help and manual
10) sortable team stats (show the otpb team that team stats can be sorted)
11) makes stats and reports as good as or better than hockey-reference
12) tell us what fatigues does and WHEN it effects player performance (again show up the OTPB dev team and just tell us instead of making us waster hours of our lives trying to figure out the rules of the game)

belial1134 · 06-08-2021, 03:38 AM

Another idea on trading...

A player asks for a trade likely before the trade deadline (when we get the message that the trade deadline is coming up).

This would primarily be an older player who is still productive (maybe 33+ and a 3.0 ability or higher) on a team that is not making the playoffs and wants to go to a team that is a contender so he has a chance to win the cup before the end of his career.

We wouldn't have to trade him or trade him to a contender, but if we do maybe a little bump in happiness and/or fan loyalty (sort of doing a good thing for the player and putting him before the team).

Something like this could also be during the off season where a player demands a trade. He's on a team that is rebuilding and wants to be on a "win now" team - perhaps mental stats would go into this such as team player, determination, professionalism, etc). This could be older players not wanting to go thru a rebuild process but also young players too.

Scottababc · 06-09-2021, 12:24 PM

I'd like to see Assistant Coaches History getting tracked, such as when they win the cup as an A.C. As well as carry over when a player becomes an assistant coach history and stat wise, because from what I've noticed it doesn't carry over.

More storylines would be fun, maybe the option to have media and team meetings which influence your team/perception of you.

Dynasty storylines when you get 3 cups in 4 years (or maybe 5?), along with back to back storylines, a well as some sort of messages for when a player is on a streak of winning a player trophy.

I know I'm harping on storylines, but I think it helps immersion; Also having it where a player might make a guarantee of winning or some sort of statement which makes the big games attribute more influential.

Fix bugs where a bunch of college players end up becoming FA's because they won't sign with their team. I know this happens in real life, but I've seen that it's happening a bit too frequently with high end players.

Lower the overall quality of goaltending since by the end everyone has a 4 or 5 star goalie, which lessens the impact of having a good goalie.

Maybe add a stat or growth influencer where prospects will have an "idol" who they try to emulate and so their stats will develop similarly, but not the exact same.

More impact of international tournaments/national pride, as it feels very lacking currently.

Have teams approach to trade you for players who aren't on the trade block, as if you have no one on the trade block, you won't get any offers for them currently. Along with this have teams do more blockbuster trades rather than minor player swaps.

A way to see how different assistant coaches/head coaches will effect your lines and tactics to see if they are a good fit.

Work on CPU controlled teams AI. I had Nashville draft Shane Wright in a draft 1 OA and he was 3 stars, but they didn't sign him for two years, I had to use the commissioner mode to force him onto their team.

Similarly AI draft logic still isn't good, in another draft with Michkov and Bedard, the AI chose a player with 650ish potential on both offense and defense first overall, which is a massive oversight and kinda B.S.

snarls200 · 06-09-2021, 01:55 PM

Don't have a pc at this time but another thing to add would be in historical allowing us to set what leagues play for the Stanley Cup

Nickphillies · 06-10-2021, 06:37 PM

- Show Cap hit when contract negotiating.
- Lower the skill level/stats of the 1.5 goalies that decide they are Hasek.
- Potential ratings bars similar to OOTP

Castleview · 06-11-2021, 04:58 AM

I'd like to see the following in historical games:

The ability to create a new league and entry draft at anytime, so for example you could create the WHA in the 1930's, 1950's or the 1990's if you wanted.

An option to turn off the waiver rules in seasons when they didn't exist..

More flexible contract options, for example in PCHL/WHL you can only offer maximum 2 year contracts, but the NHL is able to offer longer.

Pre-1917 leagues - the NHA and PCHA back to 1909 should be relatively straightforward. Before that it was regional leagues CAHL, International League, Trolley League, Federal League etc.. some or all of those would be nice to have at some point.

Much tougher financial budget limits when it comes to contract offers and hiring staff, with gate receipts having more significance, and budgets reflecting the economy of the period e.g. Great Depression, WWII etc..

CSIL · 06-11-2021, 05:50 AM

Possibility to add or remove teams from every league. And also possibility to have relegation games between leagues in the same country. Sorry for my bad english.

wiggleman83 · 06-11-2021, 08:30 PM

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Originally Posted by croatian

WC and OG scorers are just too high....Canada beats Latvia like 15:1...and at Sochi Olympics they beat them narrowly 2:1. That should be tuned down little bit.

IIHF Hall of Fame.

That, or something very similar to that, actually happened in real life. Canada usually smacks Latvia but they played a really close game in the Olympics one year

abqryan · 06-12-2021, 01:36 PM

Would love to have something like the free agent center but for players teams are looking to move as trade bait.
Even if it was only available the couple weeks or so leading up to the trade deadline it would be a useful feature.

mjcarr74 · 06-12-2021, 07:22 PM

Like to see the baseball card feature like they have in OOTP series

crusadertsar · 06-12-2021, 10:14 PM

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Originally Posted by mjcarr74

Like to see the baseball card feature like they have in OOTP series

I second this! Would love each player to have their own hockey card in profile. For NHL at least. Since it's fully licensed. Would be especially cool in historical mode.

redtiger7 · 06-13-2021, 11:46 AM

- Discussions with older players on whether thay plan to retire or not.

-zoomed out player pics that show more of the jersey

boscoJJ · 06-13-2021, 11:03 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Castleview

I'd like to see the following in historical games:

The ability to create a new league and entry draft at anytime, so for example you could create the WHA in the 1930's, 1950's or the 1990's if you wanted.

An option to turn off the waiver rules in seasons when they didn't exist..

More flexible contract options, for example in PCHL/WHL you can only offer maximum 2 year contracts, but the NHL is able to offer longer.

Pre-1917 leagues - the NHA and PCHA back to 1909 should be relatively straightforward. Before that it was regional leagues CAHL, International League, Trolley League, Federal League etc.. some or all of those would be nice to have at some point.

Much tougher financial budget limits when it comes to contract offers and hiring staff, with gate receipts having more significance, and budgets reflecting the economy of the period e.g. Great Depression, WWII etc..

For me,Adding Custom League in Historical play is a Must, but I think it would be limited to the game set up screen

snarls200 · 06-13-2021, 11:07 PM

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Originally Posted by wiggleman83

That, or something very similar to that, actually happened in real life. Canada usually smacks Latvia but they played a really close game in the Olympics one year

Plus Latvia took down Cabada at this years WHC

belial1134 · 06-14-2021, 03:56 AM

I've seen players with 4.5 and even 5 ability as a free agent for an entire season. Surely some team would have the cap space to sign them.

It's a minor nitpick but you rarely see an elite player who is an unrestricted free agent forgo an entire season.

So I'd like to see them get signed at some point. Maybe some team in "win now" makes some moves to free up cap space to sign them. Then we would see a message like "finally, Player X has signed with Team B increasing their chances of winning the cup this year"

crusadertsar · 06-14-2021, 02:07 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by belial1134

I've seen players with 4.5 and even 5 ability as a free agent for an entire season. Surely some team would have the cap space to sign them.

It's a minor nitpick but you rarely see an elite player who is an unrestricted free agent forgo an entire season.

So I'd like to see them get signed at some point. Maybe some team in "win now" makes some moves to free up cap space to sign them. Then we would see a message like "finally, Player X has signed with Team B increasing their chances of winning the cup this year"

It would help if they were less greedy. I see Anthony Beauvillier still as restricted free agent in November 2022 after choosing not to resign with his original team in summer. I would love to have him on my Jets team. But he is asking for well over 5 million! It's a bit much for a career third liner.

belial1134 · 06-14-2021, 05:47 PM

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Originally Posted by crusadertsar

It would help if they were less greedy. I see Anthony Beauvillier still as restricted free agent in November 2022 after choosing not to resign with his original team in summer. I would love to have him on my Jets team. But he is asking for well over 5 million! It's a bit much for a career third liner.

In my previous season, a player who was 28 years old and won the Hart, Lindsay, and Art Ross was a free agent for the entire season afterwards.
He was signed July 1st of my current season to a 5 year contract (cap hit 10,640,000).

A shame he missed an entire season because that could have been another 90+ for his career..

To tie this into features we'd like to see in FHM (or later)...

What about the occasional message from a free agent (well, his agent) that has gone unsigned for a certain length into the season saying he would be interesting in playing for us?

For the player it could be based on his professionalism, determination, etc and our coach's (or GM/Coach) rating such as player management (basically the stat/s that goes into "coach players most would like to play for"..

The player's stats would also determine how low he is willing to settle for (those that "would play for free" would take a pay cut and a 1 year deal while maybe those who "ask for more" may not even consider it).

The players wouldn't have to be 5 star or even 4 star guys. Maybe allow us to toggle their minimum value in order to receive messages from them (using the same idea as the alert us when a player is on waivers of a certain star value)

RedMachineNeverBreaks · 06-15-2021, 06:19 PM

Ability to edit line chemistry.

belial1134 · 06-16-2021, 02:30 AM

- ability to shop draft pick - see what we can get in return for our 1st round pick

- ability to specify position(s)/draft pick when shopping a player. Ie: shop a player and only receive offers if it matches the criteria I'm looking for. So If i select LW and/or draft pick, then any proposal would have those.

- if playing as "coach", before each game, a message from the assistant coach on his tips/suggestions maybe suggesting roles or other attributes. Example:
Team X is a physical team, we should try to make sure to have an enforcer playing so they don't take liberties with our stars

or

Team Z is a very fast team so we should dress out speedsters/mobile defensemen.

sgrondin98 · 06-16-2021, 05:48 PM

For me its a must:

1- Ability to import a complete historical Team in Custom game. Atm i have to import every player 1 by 1.

2- Ability to export more data for player like salary with his contract - cap hit and space and maybe have a html generator for this and all the stats you can import.

3- Women players and team would be very nice too.

06-10-2021, 06:37 PM	#25
Nickphillies All Star Reserve Join Date: Apr 2014 Posts: 629	- Show Cap hit when contract negotiating. - Lower the skill level/stats of the 1.5 goalies that decide they are Hasek. - Potential ratings bars similar to OOTP __________________ FHM Beta Tester Last edited by Nickphillies; 06-14-2021 at 01:47 AM.

06-12-2021, 01:36 PM	#29
abqryan Bat Boy Join Date: Feb 2019 Posts: 19	Trade bait screen Would love to have something like the free agent center but for players teams are looking to move as trade bait. Even if it was only available the couple weeks or so leading up to the trade deadline it would be a useful feature.

06-08-2021, 12:47 AM	#21
fredbeene All Star Starter Join Date: Aug 2016 Posts: 1,627	1) simming to end of period or any point or score (i still don't know how people find the time to play every game 2) improved play by play with text to speech. The ability to download the pbp as file so you do out put on any device like phone and listed as if it were actual radio broadcast away from the computer. 3) incorporate out of town scores and news into pbp...again to immerse player in world while listening to the game. 4) tutorials for newer player covering common scenarios, tactics etc. 5) play out games head to head with a friend!!!!!!!! 6) more online leagues 7) allow multiple REAL PLAYER pics. ie headshot, action shot, actual hockey card 8) rink designer (actually don't really care..i really just want simming to period end and radio pbp ; ) 9) better in game help and manual 10) sortable team stats (show the otpb team that team stats can be sorted) 11) makes stats and reports as good as or better than hockey-reference 12) tell us what fatigues does and WHEN it effects player performance (again show up the OTPB dev team and just tell us instead of making us waster hours of our lives trying to figure out the rules of the game)

06-08-2021, 03:38 AM	#22
belial1134 Major Leagues Join Date: Apr 2021 Posts: 390	Another idea on trading... A player asks for a trade likely before the trade deadline (when we get the message that the trade deadline is coming up). This would primarily be an older player who is still productive (maybe 33+ and a 3.0 ability or higher) on a team that is not making the playoffs and wants to go to a team that is a contender so he has a chance to win the cup before the end of his career. We wouldn't have to trade him or trade him to a contender, but if we do maybe a little bump in happiness and/or fan loyalty (sort of doing a good thing for the player and putting him before the team). Something like this could also be during the off season where a player demands a trade. He's on a team that is rebuilding and wants to be on a "win now" team - perhaps mental stats would go into this such as team player, determination, professionalism, etc). This could be older players not wanting to go thru a rebuild process but also young players too.

06-09-2021, 12:24 PM	#23
Scottababc Minors (Single A) Join Date: Oct 2019 Posts: 72	I'd like to see Assistant Coaches History getting tracked, such as when they win the cup as an A.C. As well as carry over when a player becomes an assistant coach history and stat wise, because from what I've noticed it doesn't carry over. More storylines would be fun, maybe the option to have media and team meetings which influence your team/perception of you. Dynasty storylines when you get 3 cups in 4 years (or maybe 5?), along with back to back storylines, a well as some sort of messages for when a player is on a streak of winning a player trophy. I know I'm harping on storylines, but I think it helps immersion; Also having it where a player might make a guarantee of winning or some sort of statement which makes the big games attribute more influential. Fix bugs where a bunch of college players end up becoming FA's because they won't sign with their team. I know this happens in real life, but I've seen that it's happening a bit too frequently with high end players. Lower the overall quality of goaltending since by the end everyone has a 4 or 5 star goalie, which lessens the impact of having a good goalie. Maybe add a stat or growth influencer where prospects will have an "idol" who they try to emulate and so their stats will develop similarly, but not the exact same. More impact of international tournaments/national pride, as it feels very lacking currently. Have teams approach to trade you for players who aren't on the trade block, as if you have no one on the trade block, you won't get any offers for them currently. Along with this have teams do more blockbuster trades rather than minor player swaps. A way to see how different assistant coaches/head coaches will effect your lines and tactics to see if they are a good fit. Work on CPU controlled teams AI. I had Nashville draft Shane Wright in a draft 1 OA and he was 3 stars, but they didn't sign him for two years, I had to use the commissioner mode to force him onto their team. Similarly AI draft logic still isn't good, in another draft with Michkov and Bedard, the AI chose a player with 650ish potential on both offense and defense first overall, which is a massive oversight and kinda B.S.

06-09-2021, 01:55 PM	#24
snarls200 All Star Reserve Join Date: Jan 2021 Posts: 519	Don't have a pc at this time but another thing to add would be in historical allowing us to set what leagues play for the Stanley Cup

06-11-2021, 04:58 AM	#26
Castleview All Star Reserve Join Date: May 2020 Location: Scotland Posts: 910	I'd like to see the following in historical games: The ability to create a new league and entry draft at anytime, so for example you could create the WHA in the 1930's, 1950's or the 1990's if you wanted. An option to turn off the waiver rules in seasons when they didn't exist.. More flexible contract options, for example in PCHL/WHL you can only offer maximum 2 year contracts, but the NHL is able to offer longer. Pre-1917 leagues - the NHA and PCHA back to 1909 should be relatively straightforward. Before that it was regional leagues CAHL, International League, Trolley League, Federal League etc.. some or all of those would be nice to have at some point. Much tougher financial budget limits when it comes to contract offers and hiring staff, with gate receipts having more significance, and budgets reflecting the economy of the period e.g. Great Depression, WWII etc..

06-11-2021, 05:50 AM	#27
CSIL Bat Boy Join Date: Nov 2016 Posts: 5	Possibility to add or remove teams from every league. And also possibility to have relegation games between leagues in the same country. Sorry for my bad english.

06-12-2021, 07:22 PM	#30
mjcarr74 Major Leagues Join Date: Apr 2017 Posts: 405	Like to see the baseball card feature like they have in OOTP series

06-13-2021, 11:46 AM	#32
redtiger7 All Star Starter Join Date: Apr 2013 Posts: 1,233	- Discussions with older players on whether thay plan to retire or not. -zoomed out player pics that show more of the jersey

06-14-2021, 03:56 AM	#35
belial1134 Major Leagues Join Date: Apr 2021 Posts: 390	I've seen players with 4.5 and even 5 ability as a free agent for an entire season. Surely some team would have the cap space to sign them. It's a minor nitpick but you rarely see an elite player who is an unrestricted free agent forgo an entire season. So I'd like to see them get signed at some point. Maybe some team in "win now" makes some moves to free up cap space to sign them. Then we would see a message like "finally, Player X has signed with Team B increasing their chances of winning the cup this year"

06-15-2021, 06:19 PM	#38
RedMachineNeverBreaks Minors (Single A) Join Date: Mar 2021 Posts: 95	Ability to edit line chemistry.

06-16-2021, 02:30 AM	#39
belial1134 Major Leagues Join Date: Apr 2021 Posts: 390	- ability to shop draft pick - see what we can get in return for our 1st round pick - ability to specify position(s)/draft pick when shopping a player. Ie: shop a player and only receive offers if it matches the criteria I'm looking for. So If i select LW and/or draft pick, then any proposal would have those. - if playing as "coach", before each game, a message from the assistant coach on his tips/suggestions maybe suggesting roles or other attributes. Example: Team X is a physical team, we should try to make sure to have an enforcer playing so they don't take liberties with our stars or Team Z is a very fast team so we should dress out speedsters/mobile defensemen.

06-16-2021, 05:48 PM	#40
sgrondin98 Minors (Double A) Join Date: Mar 2013 Posts: 130	For me its a must: 1- Ability to import a complete historical Team in Custom game. Atm i have to import every player 1 by 1. 2- Ability to export more data for player like salary with his contract - cap hit and space and maybe have a html generator for this and all the stats you can import. 3- Women players and team would be very nice too.