FHM 11 - Wishlist & Suggestions

[Alb27]

Can we please get better differentiation between the New York Islanders and the New York Rangers?

For instance, in the mail messages, it will say "Trade between Toronto and New York". I can see if this was a custom league, or a league where the user made a lot of edits, but these are default NHL teams. Did Toronto trade with the Islanders or the Rangers? Sure, you can quickly figure this out... that's not my point.

Then, in the upcoming games in the top right corner, it will say something to the affect of Today vs New York.

Am I playing the Islanders or the Rangers? Again, yes, this can be easily figured out, that's not my point. This doesn't seem like something too complicated to fix and maybe can even be fixed with a patch, but it should be immediately clear which New York team is being referenced without the need for a second click.

Thank you. Otherwise, I love the game.

[lawrence97]

Historical Play(i don't play any other game type)
- Please let us see the players available to draft this year in the draft section
-When players are generated at 17, please stop the default -200 for their physical and mental rating
-Harmony/Financial system is ok, but doesn't really add anything personally for me. Finances, why not just make it money instead of the points.
-More options to add what screen you want on the home page. A better view of your current fa contracts you are offering for one.
-continued improvement on the 2d/classic view scoring.

-Let us have access to the player database if possible

[Tacofuel]

Originally Posted by Sebastian Palkowski

I never really understood why this needs to be in?

Because the AI makes nonsensical decisions sometimes, I would like to correct that sometimes. Or ensure that my top prospect is getting decent minutes. For the most part, Im fine with the way the coaches manage rosters but there's constantly little annoyances I wish I could correct.

For example in my current save, the coach keeps scratching my first line RW, he's at 100% fit and performing well, but the last three seasons he seems to lose about 20 games due to being scratched. He has legendary chemistry with my first line center, good chemistry with my second line center and legendary with my second line left wing.

Then my team's top prospect who is 3rd on the LW depth chart is only playing every second game or so and always on the 4th line.

Thankfully the goalie rotation seems to be better in FHM10, my 4.5 star starter isn't playing behind the 2 star backup because he had a few bad games to start the season.

There is a commissioner mode in the game, where I can bring whoever I want to my team and pay them whatever I want, I can turn the worst player in the world into Gretzky 2.0. It seems silly that I can't stop my coach from scratching my top RW. I converted to FHM7 from EHM and haven't looked back, some of the few things I missed from EHM have been added to FHM over the years but being able to have a HC and still make roster tweaks is the one im still missing.

[Mike Lowe]

Please make downloading an online league league file a 1-button experience. Right now it's buried in a few menus.

[Mike Lowe]

Originally Posted by Tacofuel

Because the AI makes nonsensical decisions sometimes, I would like to correct that sometimes. Or ensure that my top prospect is getting decent minutes. For the most part, Im fine with the way the coaches manage rosters but there's constantly little annoyances I wish I could correct.

For example in my current save, the coach keeps scratching my first line RW, he's at 100% fit and performing well, but the last three seasons he seems to lose about 20 games due to being scratched. He has legendary chemistry with my first line center, good chemistry with my second line center and legendary with my second line left wing.

Then my team's top prospect who is 3rd on the LW depth chart is only playing every second game or so and always on the 4th line.

Thankfully the goalie rotation seems to be better in FHM10, my 4.5 star starter isn't playing behind the 2 star backup because he had a few bad games to start the season.

There is a commissioner mode in the game, where I can bring whoever I want to my team and pay them whatever I want, I can turn the worst player in the world into Gretzky 2.0. It seems silly that I can't stop my coach from scratching my top RW. I converted to FHM7 from EHM and haven't looked back, some of the few things I missed from EHM have been added to FHM over the years but being able to have a HC and still make roster tweaks is the one im still missing.

I would also like the ability, as GM, to have some locks for something like this:

I have a AHL lefty D man who is a 20 experience at RD and 19 at LD. I want to lock him at LD so that it flips to 20 experience. Right now, he's just stuck playing RD which drives me a bit nuts. This is totally within the realm of a real-life GM who would issue initiatives like this when discussing a player's pathway to the NHL.

[PabloSanok]

Originally Posted by Alb27

Can we please get better differentiation between the New York Islanders and the New York Rangers?

For instance, in the mail messages, it will say "Trade between Toronto and New York". I can see if this was a custom league, or a league where the user made a lot of edits, but these are default NHL teams. Did Toronto trade with the Islanders or the Rangers? Sure, you can quickly figure this out... that's not my point.

Then, in the upcoming games in the top right corner, it will say something to the affect of Today vs New York.

Am I playing the Islanders or the Rangers? Again, yes, this can be easily figured out, that's not my point. This doesn't seem like something too complicated to fix and maybe can even be fixed with a patch, but it should be immediately clear which New York team is being referenced without the need for a second click.

Thank you. Otherwise, I love the game.

Quick fix it would be edit team in commmisioner mode ?

Thats my thought.

One would by ny islanders and second rangers Ny ot differently however you want

[Javs]

Originally Posted by Mike Lowe

I would also like the ability, as GM, to have some locks for something like this:

I have a AHL lefty D man who is a 20 experience at RD and 19 at LD. I want to lock him at LD so that it flips to 20 experience. Right now, he's just stuck playing RD which drives me a bit nuts. This is totally within the realm of a real-life GM who would issue initiatives like this when discussing a player's pathway to the NHL.

I think for defencemen it is way too easy for them to play opposite side.

[Félicette]

Originally Posted by tomkmb

International Management feels like an afterthought currently, when the world juniors came around irl I was so hyped to try some international management in FHM, really thought it would be a fun way to experience the game and I was left confused and frustrated at the experience, I rarely see anyone talk about or share stuff to do with international management and the flaws I experienced almost immediately when playing it felt like a good reason why, here's a thread I shared at the time - https://forums.ootpdevelopments.com/...10#post5061310

There are excellent suggestions in this thread but that would be my biggest wish for FHM11. With the amazing World Championship we just had and the NHL return to the Olympics it would be great to have an international management overhaul in FHM 11

[fredbeene]

I want WHA and NHL to be equal and stat leaders combined.

[fredbeene]

Everything sortable, filterable, groupable.
Everything
No HTLM static reports
Ability to Randomize personality attributes, historic team attributes so you replaying a season has more variety
More Challenges. FHM good job OOTPB nothing

[lawrence97]

Generate schedules- a lot less double headers please at least 60% of my games are played back to back.

[lawrence97]

Originally Posted by Colorado

Post this every year, but re-design the instant result screen - make the score and key game stats more prominent and better placed. Less scrolling, going right to the bottom for PP stats for example. It looks REALLY dated and tired.

The players are centered halfway down the gaming cards, these also could be designed a lot better.

Better QoL design/across all screens

More visible stats and info when players are mentioned in inbox items.

Shape of 2D rink to match that of a hockey rink

Better interaction over roster management between parent/feeder teams.

Scouting feels very tired and once initially set up there's no reason to touch it again.

Much more media interaction (perhaps make it optional for those who don't want real life settings).

I really like the game and appreciate it's a small team but aspects of it have looked tired now for some time and too many new features aren't fleshed out enough before being included (2d match engine being a good example, the players, movement , ice colouring should look a lot better).

All this is meant constructively from someone who has bought the game on release for several years now.

100% agree with this, the screen after the game is almost pointless. Give us players goals assists points(annoying not to see that one) straight away and also then the goals and pim's by period.

[tomkmb]

Would be cool if the Point Shares could be added to the advanced stats tab

[zodiarkh]

I'd love to be able to edit the modifiers that are used when the game auto generates new players. Or however the game generates new players, I'd love to have some customization aspect to it.

I see way too often created players in the draft having incredibly high injury proneness. Sometimes it feels like 3/4 of the draft class has upwards of 15 injury proneness across the board.

Being able to change how often things like special abilities generate would be nice too. As well as everything else.

[Mike1294]

I have only been playing FHM for about 2 hours now, so if any of these suggestions are in the game I apologize. From a brand-new players perspective, here are some of my suggestions.

1. Be able to actually set the ticket prices manually instead of using points. I love that jersey sales are accounted for. Something I think OOTP should implement. Overall though I would love to see actual dollars when it comes to different options that involve points.

2. I'd like to see where it would show you the cost of sending a scout to different areas. Maybe you have a couple of great scouts from Canada but you want to send one of them to SE United States. By doing that the cost would go up from things like traveling or hotel stays. Not really sure if that's how scouting works in the real world. I haven't kept up with hockey in a long time.

3. A big one for me would be able to see the injury status on the first screen after you select a player.

4. More explanations of some of the different options or what abbreviations mean. For example, on the roster screen at the bottom may a quick explanation of what H1 or A1 mean. Also on the training screen, would be great. I'm sure there is more I'm just not thinking of. This would be great for new players like me that don't know much about hockey.

5. The revenue should have a greater difference for teams. New York teams should not have their revenue within 15% of St. Louis. Not really sure about game balance on this one but in the real-world New York ticket prices I'm sure a lot higher than St. Louis.

I have only played historical challenge during these two hours so maybe the ticket prices are a lot different in the standard game.

[DrByronOrpheus]

I really enjoy the historical challenges. I'd like to see more added per release.

[tomkmb]

I'd mentioned in my original suggestion post about adding the 'Demand' column to the free agency list so that you could see each players initial contract demand WITHOUT having to begin the negotiation interaction with them. It would save a lot of time, clicks and headaches (because once you've opened the neg, you can't back out without upsetting the player).

It would also be great to get this column added to the 'Upcoming Free Agents' tab both for your org and for the league, like in the screenshot below. I'd love to look at my own guys and see what they want initially, so I can get a gauge of who I want to bring back without clicking into each one, beginning the negotiation process then either backing out or whatever.

It would also allow you to sort by dollar amount, how useful would that be? Into the Upcoming FA tab and you can see which rentals want reasonable extension demands so you can decide if it's worth giving up that extra pick for him or not. This is akin to having negotiations with a players agent in real life, teams and GMs would want and need this information to be better decision makers.



Here's a screenshot from OOTP Baseball just to illustrate further:

[tomkmb]

Another great addition would be for each skater to have access to a 'Shot Chart' on their individual profile, akin to the 'Spray Chart' available in OOTP (I've added a screenshot to illustrate further).

It would use the same data provided in the 'Shots' tab on the postgame 2D analysis screen, it could just show half the ice and have all of the same options selectable that are included in the postgame stuff, where you can check and uncheck the ones that you want to show. If I have a 30 goal scorer, it would be really cool to see where he scored the majority of his goals from, this would also help with tuning player roles and making sure that guys are where you want them to be on the ice.

[lawrence97]

Search settings to stay how you set them, its frustrating having to keep changing them everytime you move screen. Also ability to remove people you hold rights for.

[lawrence97]

On the team history page, we juts have wins losses and points per season, please can we add gls scored goals against and pp% and pk%