Controlling Teams

[ridge]

Question before i buy the game


Can you control all the teams at once, so you can play out a year with the transactions as they happen , or can you only take control of one team at a time like EHM

[Lee]

That is something you should be able to do in commisioner mode

[ridge]

i am commisoner mode, but some teams are making making trades

i was playing the 75 season and the computer trade guy lafluer to the leafs

is there a way i can play with no tranasctions being allowed unless i make
a trade for any team in the league

[OpusTheFowl]

Originally Posted by ridge

i was playing the 75 season and the computer trade guy lafluer to the leafs

And I instantly become a FHM hater...

[JeffR]

Originally Posted by ridge

i am commisoner mode, but some teams are making making trades

i was playing the 75 season and the computer trade guy lafluer to the leafs

is there a way i can play with no tranasctions being allowed unless i make
a trade for any team in the league

There's an option to turn off trades (visible in commissioner mode-league menu-edit league-league rules tab), but it's disabled, along with a lot of other league editing functions, right now, pending further testing. There seems to be a lot of interest in having that particular ability, though, so we'll try to make it a priority for re-activation.

[dave1927p]

i want to control more than one team with a couple created GMs...is that disabled at the moment as well?

[ffp7175]

Hi I did purchase the game a while back

Still wondering will we be able to control all the teams, like in ootp baseball

[mgom27]

Theirs a lot that needs to be turned on like Minor League option needed,Expansion Draft,Number of Games,League Structure,Round Robin,Tournments,Name Assoiation Page for 213/14 League and so on come Tuesday.

[Wealthyfriends]

My intent is to play just the NHL and control every team team within it, so that I can simulate the current season using real life lineups, line combos, etc. That's the option I'm hoping for.

[ffp7175]

Yes

that's what I am hoping for also Wealthyfriends

[ffp7175]

Originally Posted by Wealthyfriends

My intent is to play just the NHL and control every team team within it, so that I can simulate the current season using real life lineups, line combos, etc. That's the option I'm hoping for.

can this be done yet

[silvam14]

Originally Posted by ffp7175

can this be done yet

Nope.

[ffp7175]

Originally Posted by silvam14

Nope.

RATS

thanks silvam14

I hope it comes out this year, its the only reason I purchased the game way back when it first came out

[silvam14]

Originally Posted by ffp7175

RATS

thanks silvam14

I hope it comes out this year, its the only reason I purchased the game way back when it first came out

I hear you. I'm the same way. I was hoping for a bit more depth to commish mode like that of OOTP. t

[ffp7175]

Originally Posted by silvam14

I hear you. I'm the same way. I was hoping for a bit more depth to commish mode like that of OOTP. t

so was I

[acl424]

Originally Posted by JeffR

There's an option to turn off trades (visible in commissioner mode-league menu-edit league-league rules tab), but it's disabled, along with a lot of other league editing functions, right now, pending further testing. There seems to be a lot of interest in having that particular ability, though, so we'll try to make it a priority for re-activation.

I don't want to "turn off" trades so much as control all aspects of the trades. I personally have no interest in playing GM, except maybe controlling who to call up or send down to the farm team(s). I just don't want to mess with an AI to "build" teams, and I also don't have an interest in the financial aspects of running an NHL team. I'm an accountant and work in it all day, I don't want to play in it also.

I would much rather make the real-life trades in commissioner mode as they actually happened. I would then just play coach working out the lines and tactics, and filling in the empty slots left from injuries. I may want to play coach for a single team and let the AI play the other teams, but I may also want to have full control of all teams too. In other words, my interest is in simulating a semi-real historical progression of the NHL using actual trades. I don't want the exact same results as real life, but I don't want them way off the mark either. I even foresee wanting to restart a new historical game every year just to get away from the fictional nature of the skills development engine.

I know a lot of work has gone in (and will go in) to these aspects of the game I want to turn off, but the way I want to use the game, to me, is what hockey is all about. The money business that hockey has become is not a game I want to play. I realize this is the premise of the game, but I would imagine these changes\additions wouldn't be too complicated for OOTP developers to make.