rainsilent

I should have said this when it happened but I got reported for cheating March 30th (less than 2 weeks ago) when I haven't made a trade in nearly a full season. Clearly there is someone using the report function in the very wrong way. Steve I think you mentioned about getting reported by someone after your trade with the Vandals. I think this is what was going on. Someone just using it in angst rather than using it for what it should be used for. For the record of what it is worth (not much so don't read into this) I beat the Portland Oilers in OT on that day and beat Violet Volcano and York Wolfpack in the same manner in the days prior.

A very slow start will do that. It took the Protons about half of the season just to climb into a playoff spot a few seasons ago for the same reason. I am just out of the playoffs points wise as it is so no concern.

It was anything but fair. The players you sent in return are useless. The only thing remotely decent that you sent in return was your 1st round pick. Everything else is table scraps at best when it comes to quality in the GHL. That is clearly abuse of the AI trade system. Also how can you possibly think sending a lot of players 82ish overall fair value for a 92 overall player? If you really think it is fair let me send you 4 of my 82ish overall players for the same player. At least the players I would send you will be more usable in the GHL then what you sent. Also in regards to your claims of not making trades I have a few messages in my mailbox I sent as evidence of abusing the AI in this game with about 10 trades of yours from your past GHL team that you abandoned when you couldn't dig it out of trouble by making such trades and your current team when you took it over that very much says that you have a very noticeable history of making such trades with the AI.

It is known repeat offenders. The most recent person I have a long list of bad trades they did in the past with their first GHL team in a message I sent to Anders. That first team, no matter how many lopsided trades the manager did, the team couldn't pull itself out of the bottom 4 a number of seasons back to back. Said manager then left that GHL team more than halfway through the season the team did demote just to take up a SHL team, make a number of said trades with that team to stack it and is the team he has now. Also such managers should really be happy that I am not a moderator. I would be insta banning IPs or reversing the trades and demolishing said persons team at this point for such continuous repeat offenders if I could. There is a reason I did not want and do not want to become a mod and I am sure Anders doesn't want a vigilante mod. Such action is an insta ban to the mod as well but some people, and I will put this forum friendly, are just too stupid to resist exploiting the AI in a multiplayer game and I am not willing to do nothing if I feel like not enough is being done if I can do something.

I would message Anders. The only thing I could come up with there, and I am grasping at straws here, is that you got a new player in your lineup.

It very much does add random players from FA. I usually try to have a minimum of 2 backup forwards and 1 backup Dman and one season I had 5 forwards get hurt close enough together that they were all out at the same time. It added a random player from FA.

A game world like this is going to be about 1/3rd the size population wise compared to what we currently have. I don't know what the cost side would be but I think it is safe to assume smaller population per world isn't good per se. That said I think this format is a great format for testing. Pluses and minuses aside this was in the long term ideas that Anders had some time ago. I would love to see it happen.

It means the player doesn't like the contract that he has with his current team. Don't be afraid to trade for him and offer him a new contract. Unless he just wants too much.

I am offering 3 players to teams either looking to make the playoffs or to add depth for a deep playoff run. In terms of return I am looking to negotiate as I have nothing specific in mind. C Frederic Donegan http://www.gameplanhockey.com/player?gpid=15041 A top 6 scorer at the center position. F Nathan Berry http://www.gameplanhockey.com/player?gpid=4197 A bottom 9 playmaker that is also responsible defensively. For most playoff capable teams more of a bottom 6 player but can still add valuable depth offense. D Marius McGovern http://www.gameplanhockey.com/player?gpid=3731 A very good defensive Dman that can play on any D line. I also have 2 cheap players that can be used in depth roles. C Loke Hurtig http://www.gameplanhockey.com/player?gpid=4161 A bottom 6 forward that is offensively focused. F Zackary Guernon A 4th line winger that is young. Can do a bit of everything that you may been a 4th line to do but does nothing particularly well.

Once you are a few games into a season the only to offer a contract to a player is for them to get unhappy with their contract. This means that the only way to try to resign players on one year deals is to either offer them a contract at the very beginning of a season or wait until the season is over. If you wait until the season is over to see if you can resign you make a big risk in losing them based upon them not willing to stick with your team when they demote.

The answer to #1 is look at the confidence of the team you are playing from the league above as well as the roster. I got to the GHL by beating a team significantly better than me 2 games to 1 in the playoffs. I am confidant that it all came down to the team confidence. The GHL team had very low team confidence whereas my team had very high team confidence. The confidence of a team is as relevant as the skill. This is a big reason as to why the early part of a season can be complete chaos in terms of results. As for #2 it all depends upon the situation of your team. Personally I would just go for it like I did. My team was in no real condition to play in the GHL when I promoted via playoffs and I had to basically rebuild my entire team through FA that offseason. For you if you don't promote you will likely have to do some sort of rebuild as you lose those players. However if you make the GHL you will have to basically rebuild the top end of your team if you want to really be competitive. One way or another you are going to have to do a rebuild to some degree next season by the looks of it. So why not just go for it and try to do it, and try to make it, in the GHL?

Offensive improves offensive skills (passing, puck control and shooting) more than the defensive skills (predominantly defense and maybe spirit,) defensive is the other way around and balanced is equal between them.

Absolutely yes choose one and stick with it. Remember that the tactics you are switching back and forth on are drastically different play styles that you are asking your team to play. If you watch the NHL you will hear every once in a while people mention a teams identity or lack thereof. This is exactly what they are talking about. It is deliberately impossible to get two different tactics to 100% because professional teams don't do it unless something is very wrong. You will never see LA go from their physical defensive game to an offensive speed game. You won't ever see Pittsburgh do the opposite.

I think that would be a great way to go about it. However coding might be difficult.

Changing tactics will completely kill any sort of consistency as your team learns the new system. However where you are is the ideal time to change it. Make sure you change it to what you want to use for a long time.

It works. It just takes a number of managers to prevent trolling or misuse. Unless you want just two or three people hitting it to cause an effect. In regard to your method of using the forums to report it it is pretty much naming and shaming. That is just bad. Look at this thread as to why. The proper way to do it is via PMs not the forums. There are also different chats that can be used for more immediate interactions.

While patience is a good thing 7 goals repeatedly in a short span is only indicative that something is wrong. The problem for me is that I can't see your team, analyze it and look at the games to see about tactics. Did you or have you changed anything regarding tactics recently? Also is it early in the season? While it is a bad sign that you gave up 7 goals in two games the first 10 to 15 games is almost a crap shoot when it comes to results.

None of the options. The only way to grow them is to basically have them take faceoffs. However if they are that bad it would very likely be better off for you to play them on the wing and find players that are capable of winning draws to play C.

Noticing and reporting in the forums are two drastically different things. As I have said to a few others in PMs I don't report this stuff in the forums because it almost always leads to exactly what it has in this thread for most of it. Naming and shaming in the forum is only a bad way of going about catching those that exploit the CPU. I usually only report to Anders and use the function given. On occasion I will message others and/or the manager in question. Regarding the flames it is hardly as big as the last one but it only happened because of how adamant you are about catching and reporting such people yourself.

As I said prior in this thread I want to do such stuff but I am not interested when trades like what is being discussed would only leave me going; "Here is the team that will finish 1st because they exploited the CPU to build a nearly unbeatable team. Here is everyone else."

Not everyone behaves this way. A massive majority maybe but not everyone. I am an open book when it comes to helping people in this game. I think it is ridiculous to keep a secret in a game. It is a game. You get nothing for doing well in it outside of personal satisfaction which means what exactly? Your playing with like minded people simply for the fact that you both are there. Helping and sharing only makes the game more fun by creating a fun community to be in. The point of restricting AI trades isn't to keep them intact for future managers. It is to prevent what happened again in another game world where 3 or 4 teams literally got all of the quality talent in the game world meaning that they were going to dominate for 10+ seasons. The game world had to be more or less reset so it would be more competitive and thus fun for those involved. Allowing any trade to CPU teams to happen would create the elite few that you mention by default on team talent. The reality is that there will always be an elite few no matter what. You can't prevent that. I'd rather that elite few be there because they are actually exceptionally good at managing their team rather than because they exploit flaws in the game to their own benefit. Regarding rising to the GHL from the LIHL it is supposed to be difficult with how it is currently designed however it isn't impossible to go from LIHL to top 10 team in the game world in 6 seasons. A few managers have done it. I want to try my hand at doing it but I can't have a 2nd team. However for new players it is a very impossible task. There is so much to learn that they will not be able to field a competitive SHL team in 5 years unless they learn quickly and maybe get some help. The system is designed in a manner in which players are supposed to develop their team over time to get to the GHL. It wasn't designed so that way a new player (or even an experienced one) could come in and shoot to the top with ease. That said yes a LIHL team can eventually compete with an elite GHL team eventually. However it takes time and skill to do as it should. That doesn't mean that the current system is perfect however. Regarding the draft and FA I was against the cap boost we got not too long ago. It only serves to help those elite teams you talk about maintain their players rather than having to release them due to cap restraints. That keeps the top teams stacked which in my mind is only a bad thing. I also was trying to push for a selective draft system where there would be a list of high quality draft picks only available to a certain league for each league so that way LIHL teams could get players that they could draft and build around that could take them to the GHL. The problem with a majority vote is that most everyone is only going to be looking out for themselves when making such a vote. That only serves to bolster those at the top as those too short sighted enough will not think of the long term consequences and rather focus on the immediate gains to their team. Trades like those being referenced prior in this thread would become ok when they clearly aren't. The game would likely become a true hierarchy with an "exclusive" group at the top which you are blasting in your very thread is being created by things that actually currently aren't at all. At least in the manner in which you are implying.

I apologize that I just saw this. If the player is one of the few low rated players it is likely not worth keeping that player in your lineup unless your team struggles generating offense otherwise. If they are scoring on the PP and are still getting yellow ratings they are likely playing poorly on the whole. Alternately you can try to play the player on other lines to see if that will help his play. However if it isn't just the player that is playing poorly it likely isn't the one player that is the issue. If it is early in a season (within 15 games) you have to be patient. The first 10-15 games are real wildcards in terms of how each team plays until the players gain confidence.

I know I haven't. Also just because others have in the past doesn't mean it is ok for you now. The trades that others are benefiting from now are trades done so far in the past that nothing can be done about it. Bouncer made his trades 4 seasons ago. Anders can't send the game world back 4 seasons and undo the trades he made.

This trade isn't borderline. Almost no matter who you draft you are going to be getting a player that can play now and will likely be a future star in the league and at worst a cornerstone that a team can build around. In return you gave a 2nd round draft pick (depending upon who is drafted this is the best thing given in return,) a defender that will at best be a 3rd pairing D in the GHL, one forward that, in the very long term, may develop enough to play in the GHL and one defender that never will, outside of extreme circumstances, play in the GHL. That is hardly a fair return for a cornerstone quality player. It is worth analyzing every trade because these trades exploiting the CPU NEED to stop. The rest of the managers playing this game don't need a few managers getting careless and greedy to ruin the game through exploits.

The big thing that needs to be done now is CPU draft picks (and maybe even prospects) be locked so they can't be traded. This trade is the perfect example as to why. It IS exploiting the cpu for what was undoubtedly going to be a top 5 pick for a crap return. I also think trading with CPU teams should only be limited to leagues that only are at most half filled with human managers. I see them all as the same. That same being bad. What you did is no worse than the example here. Also success is relative. You haven't prevented me in doing anything other than in being able to provide a competitive team against you. The one season where that wasn't the case was one weird anomaly that shouldn't count. The only reason you "got away" with what you did is because Anders was away when you made the trades and by the time he got back and saw my messages regarding your trades it was too late to revert them. The players you got are getting near the time they should start to decline. What was done by you is done and, almost in every literal sense, in the past. The only reason I snapped at you in that other thread is because you were flaunting your success while trying to trade a few players. I shouldn't have snapped at you as there are better ways of talking to you about the flaunting and avoiding it. I want to move on from that. All of it. I want to move on to a league where manager skill and savvy determines the outcome more than cheap trades that heavily bolster a lineup. This trade in question only goes to preventing that from being possible. I want to do a regular season preview for each team in the GHL before the first game, maybe even do a halfway one too. I want to do playoff series match up previews. However I can't do them without the "this team is the best and here is everyone else" rhetoric if trades like these keep happening. It isn't interesting to do when there is one clear cut team that everyone is chasing because they happened to exploit the AI to acquire an edge over everyone else. Koekefix if you want to right the wrong with this trade what should be done is draft either Justin Yu, Robin Strass or Miroslav Senko (they are the three best players available in my opinion and it makes it simple) with the pick you got and trade the player back for everything you traded for the pick, including the player the CPU picks with what should be your draft pick. If you wanted that draft pick you could have made a much more fair offer like your 1st round pick and either 2nd or the 75 ovr D man you traded for it as well.