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Old 07-19-2015, 09:56 PM   #41
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So we can't relocate teams and shuffle the divisions?
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No.... Changing division/conferences tends to be a prolific bug producer as there are a lot of checks and balances that need to go into it.
Considering the degree to which the real-life NHL has frequently realigned itself, either in response to expansion (in large ways in 1974-75, 1993-94, 1998-99; in small ways for 1970-71, 79-80), team relocations (1982-83, 1995-96), as well as just general realignments (1981-82, 2013-14), it seems to me not having this is something of a realism oversight.
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Old 07-19-2015, 10:46 PM   #42
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Considering the degree to which the real-life NHL has frequently realigned itself, either in response to expansion (in large ways in 1974-75, 1993-94, 1998-99; in small ways for 1970-71, 79-80), team relocations (1982-83, 1995-96), as well as just general realignments (1981-82, 2013-14), it seems to me not having this is something of a realism oversight.
Historical play features the proper team/conference/division alignments moving through time.
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Old 07-19-2015, 11:01 PM   #43
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Historical play features the proper team/conference/division alignments moving through time.
His point is that this kind of realignment is basically guaranteed to occur in the future, and I would argue that's it's a far more important feature than expansion itself...
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Old 07-20-2015, 12:56 AM   #44
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His point is that this kind of realignment is basically guaranteed to occur in the future, and I would argue that's it's a far more important feature than expansion itself...
I think Cole's point is that it will be looked into in the future but at this time properly implementing re-alignment without delaying the game does not seem plausible. Look at EHM, they have made themselves super modable but alignment and cities remain hardcoded as it is problematic.
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Old 07-20-2015, 02:27 AM   #45
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Historical play features the proper team/conference/division alignments moving through time.
Which is why not having realignment for non-historical leagues as a result of expansion or relocation seems odd. Clearly FHM is capable of handling league realignments given that it does so for historical leagues. Are historical and non-historical leagues in FHM fundamentally different in their core structures?

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I think Cole's point is that it will be looked into in the future but at this time properly implementing re-alignment without delaying the game does not seem plausible.
See above.
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Old 07-20-2015, 08:00 AM   #46
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Since it looks like the NHL can have at the most 36 teams will custom leagues still have at the most 30 teams?
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Old 07-20-2015, 09:04 AM   #47
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.Cole., thank you for posting this and for responding to everyone's questions. Given the troubles with the first version and the long wait for FHM2, your posts are the only thing keeping me engaged in the game. Your work is greatly appreciated.
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Old 07-20-2015, 09:13 AM   #48
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Which is why not having realignment for non-historical leagues as a result of expansion or relocation seems odd. Clearly FHM is capable of handling league realignments given that it does so for historical leagues. Are historical and non-historical leagues in FHM fundamentally different in their core structures?

See above.
I can't speak for the developers on the technical side of things, but from what I gather ... the existing changes to number of teams/alignments, etc, are a finite number of changes that could have been previously coded in .. Whereas if the user is given full control over changing all the specific details of a league, there are a number of different combinations of things working together that could lead to bugs.

I don't see how it's a departure from realism ... If the NHL does something in real life to change their divisions/alignment, I can say with certainty our developers will code so our game does the same. On top of that, we have the option for expansion.
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Part 2 is now live:

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Old 07-20-2015, 06:29 PM   #50
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I don't see how it's a departure from realism ... If the NHL does something in real life to change their divisions/alignment, I can say with certainty our developers will code so our game does the same. On top of that, we have the option for expansion.
When expansion or relocation happens, the NHL—and other real-world sports leagues—sometimes do realignment. But even when relocating a team manually there can't be any realignment according to these posts from earlier in the thread:

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When moving a team manually can you also move them to another division( or conference)?
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I don't believe so.
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No.... Changing division/conferences tends to be a prolific bug producer as there are a lot of checks and balances that need to go into it.

Once again, could be an option for future but as of now to keep things simple and avoid needless bugs when people change their alignments all around, you are confined to the existing configurations.
It's one thing to say the game won't do it automatically, and any league realignment must be done manually by the user. That's fine. It's another to say no realignment is possible at all, even if manually done. Which is what the quotes above suggest is the case, at least for FHM2.
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Old 07-21-2015, 12:06 PM   #51
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I can't speak for the developers on the technical side of things, but from what I gather ... the existing changes to number of teams/alignments, etc, are a finite number of changes that could have been previously coded in .. Whereas if the user is given full control over changing all the specific details of a league, there are a number of different combinations of things working together that could lead to bugs.

I don't see how it's a departure from realism ... If the NHL does something in real life to change their divisions/alignment, I can say with certainty our developers will code so our game does the same. On top of that, we have the option for expansion.
Certainly a bummer that you can't manually shift teams into correct divisions and conferences as you see fit. If I'm understanding this correctly, I could "expand" the league by adding a team in Mexico City, in the Central Division, which obviously wouldn't make logistic or "realistic" sense. I know this is an extreme example however it's a point to be made. Perhaps in FHM3 in 2016-17...
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