Suggestion for FHM 2013: Family Trees

[Chris 271]

This is something I always wanted in a simulation game that goes into 20+ seasons to keep things fresh.

 

The one thing you would love is to keep having the feeling of recognizable players. It gets hard becoming loyal / familiarized with new players when the draft picks are just random names from a names/deep database.

 

The concept would be Family Trees.

 

Players Retire but somewhere along the lines at age 25-40? They have children. Male for the reasons of this video game. Retired players would remain as coaches, scouts, if they are Hall of Famer's or players with many games played + former captains, etc. (High leadership rating)

 

The players would have a relational database item in a few categories. Father Son, and with the new emergence of the Staal's & Sutter's etc, a Sibling Sibling , Uncle Nephew, Cousin Cousin, association and potential of family lines.

 

In the player bio, this family tree would be listed on both the retired players and the active junior or young players.

 

To keep things simple they could be regenerated with the same nationality for the purpose of keeping things balanced or they could be tied to any citizenship changes that happen if playing in a domestic league for 5 years to gain citizenship (Similar to Football Manager nationalities). Their children would retain the place of birth for any national team call ups / decisions.

 

This would then provide that feeling of being 'immersed' in your version of hockey reality .. plus some of the generated players who become HOF'ers will have the potential to become big family names. And perhaps even with favourite team loyalty to the teams their dad played on for the most of his career or won a cup with.

 

This would be really cool. Cheers