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Old 10-27-2021, 10:19 AM   #81
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Why is montereal wanderers losing by always 0-2 after a few games?
I get normal scores for them in a 1917 game. Just bad luck, I imagine, but considering it's the Wanderers, better luck than what actually happened to them in 1917.
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Old 10-27-2021, 10:21 AM   #82
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Are all the monthly finances options on the bottom settings? That should let you get past the warning.
Yeah, I tried all the options on finances and it still wouldn't let me get past that warning.
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Old 10-27-2021, 11:06 AM   #83
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Yeah, I tried all the options on finances and it still wouldn't let me get past that warning.
Can you upload that save? (Uploading instructions here.) That shouldn't be happening, choosing all the minimum options should always let you advance.
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Old 10-27-2021, 02:28 PM   #84
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Increasing ticket prices can affect fan loyalty. How does this translate into attendance and other financial outcomes? And how can you increase fan loyalty besides decreasing the ticket price?
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Old 10-27-2021, 03:06 PM   #85
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Increasing ticket prices can affect fan loyalty. How does this translate into attendance and other financial outcomes? And how can you increase fan loyalty besides decreasing the ticket price?
Primarily by winning, but there are a few storylines that can randomly increase it as well.

Fan loyalty affects a number of things, but generally as a smaller contribution to part of a larger formula: attendance (both at home and, to a much lesser extent, on the road), players joining European youth teams (owned by a parent team), the frequency and amount of fan happiness changes, the tendency of the AI to choose special roster management strategies (Win Now vs. Rebuild), and a few more things I can't recall at the moment.
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Old 10-27-2021, 03:36 PM   #86
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Adding new players to historical,

Jeff

Just wondering when you mentioned adding new players to historical
is that more players during the early years of the NHL (1917-30)
or just adding players through out the years

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Old 10-27-2021, 03:52 PM   #87
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Jeff, I bring this up every year. It really should be a simple fix.

Stop resorting the roster for no reason. Example:

From anywhere in the game I go to the team roster. It lists all player in this
order - G-LD-RD-LW-C-RW

I don't know if that's the best order, but it is what it is. It's logical enough.
Then if I select ANY of the drop downs for Stats or Ratings, EVEN Goalie stats, it resets to - RW-C-LW-RD-LD-G

WHY? Why change the sort of a screen I'm on???


A secondary "complaint", Stats or Standings. The game knows if I'm in Pre-Season, Regular Season or Playoffs. Why not show stats or standing relevent to the part of the season I'm in? Why make me change the selection every time? It's MOST logical that I'd be looking at the stats for preseason if I'm in the preseason. There aren't even any regular season stats to view. Make simple things easier for your users.
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Old 10-27-2021, 04:17 PM   #88
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Jeff

Just wondering when you mentioned adding new players to historical
is that more players during the early years of the NHL (1917-30)
or just adding players through out the years

thanks
Almost all are guys who played post-2000. But I do have some means now of adding players to historical who were never owned by an NHL team, so I'm going to be able to go back at some point and add minor-league guys from the early years.
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Old 10-27-2021, 04:25 PM   #89
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Well I guess the honeymoon is over... for teams not selecting players off your year-beginning mass waiver moves?

No teams used to claim the guys auto-waived on AHL teams at the end of pre-season. My first year in 8 I had 7 claimed. Ugh.

I know it's one of those 'how it should work' "fixes" but it never used to be that way in-game...
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Old 10-27-2021, 07:40 PM   #90
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When I play an exhibition, I see a gray screen and my team's logo in lieu of the ice and players. The scoreboard is also present and I am able to input on-ice decisions. Any advice on what I might doing wrong?
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Old 10-27-2021, 09:39 PM   #91
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When I play an exhibition, I see a gray screen and my team's logo in lieu of the ice and players. The scoreboard is also present and I am able to input on-ice decisions. Any advice on what I might doing wrong?
Which teams are you trying to play the exhibition with? I've tried a few combinations and always get the normal ice surface. The logo you're seeing sounds like the regular background logo for the ice, and the ice images are in the same place, so it's odd that one would show up and not the other. And is it OK when you view a game in a regular league?
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Old 10-27-2021, 09:45 PM   #92
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Is there any way to edit league typical salary? I am adding a league into my custom game but its salary is so much higher than the other existing leagues. Would like to set it to be lower since it is supposed to be a less skilled league.
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Old 10-27-2021, 09:54 PM   #93
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Which historical Editing option should I disable,if I want to stop divisional Changes?
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Old 10-27-2021, 10:09 PM   #94
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Which teams are you trying to play the exhibition with? I've tried a few combinations and always get the normal ice surface. The logo you're seeing sounds like the regular background logo for the ice, and the ice images are in the same place, so it's odd that one would show up and not the other. And is it OK when you view a game in a regular league?
It is okay when I view a game in a regular league. I've tried multiple combinations of modern and historical teams in exhibition play and had the same gray screen for all of them.
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Old 10-27-2021, 11:05 PM   #95
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Will you guys be able to make farm teams assignable for expansion CHL teams?

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Old 10-27-2021, 11:44 PM   #96
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Which historical Editing option should I disable,if I want to stop divisional Changes?
Right now, turning editing on disables them automatically, but we're going to change that in an early update so it's controlled by the new "Playoff Changes" setting (since they need to be done in tandem for some new playoff formats to work.)
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Old 10-27-2021, 11:45 PM   #97
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It is okay when I view a game in a regular league. I've tried multiple combinations of modern and historical teams in exhibition play and had the same gray screen for all of them.
Which version are you playing - Mac or PC, and the Steam or the standalone (Fastspring) version?
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Old 10-27-2021, 11:47 PM   #98
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Will you guys be able to make farm teams assignable for expansion CHL teams?
Making parent teams editable is a little tricky with the (standard game) junior teams - I wanted to do that last year, but it wasn't workable. But I'm going to see if we can set up something that'll give them an automatically-assigned farm team.
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Old 10-28-2021, 12:50 AM   #99
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Is there any way to edit league typical salary? I am adding a league into my custom game but its salary is so much higher than the other existing leagues. Would like to set it to be lower since it is supposed to be a less skilled league.
There's some internal data for salary benchmarks that handles that (it's shown on the League Data screen), but it's not editable at the moment. I'll see if we can make it editable, but I'm not certain it'll be possible - there may be some issues with those numbers getting changed in mid-game.
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Old 10-28-2021, 05:57 AM   #100
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Jeff, I bring this up every year. It really should be a simple fix.

Stop resorting the roster for no reason. Example:

From anywhere in the game I go to the team roster. It lists all player in this
order - G-LD-RD-LW-C-RW

I don't know if that's the best order, but it is what it is. It's logical enough.
Then if I select ANY of the drop downs for Stats or Ratings, EVEN Goalie stats, it resets to - RW-C-LW-RD-LD-G

WHY? Why change the sort of a screen I'm on???

I totally agree - the roster re-sorting is a real pain. It impacts you for every season you play and for multiple times within each season.


Given all the fixes to sort minor issues, surely time should be made to fix something that happens very very often.
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