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That would never work with the people being from different time zones, and there being so many picks. I personally think the draft system is fine the way it is.

Yeah it should be easier to acquire them, since the team that puts them on trade block doesn't really want them, for one reason or another. Also moved to Q&A.

This should be fixed now with the new patch.

The reason games are later every day is due to the servers not being able to handle all the traffic/information so they crash for few minutes each day, and the days changing take just a few minutes too much. Should be fixed some time into the future. When it comes to signing new players, there's no set time when they respond, it depends on the offer you are giving them as well as their personality and other factors like that.

Just quickly looking through your team, you have way too many players under contract. Try to cut the number of unnecessary players in the FA, and look for young talent with few veterans to boost them up. The Loupret guy, did you sign him from free agentsy at day 59 or did you renew his contract? Either way, I wouldn't hold on to him for too long if I were you, he's already 35 years old. You better off giving the spot to a younger player who still can develop.

Cannot see the player, which world are you in? And yes, it isn't a fast process to turn the team around. Expect next year to not be easy, but if you make good signings in FA, you can make the playoffs. When I started my second team, I was 16th in the LIHL the first season, and now 4 seasons later I'm 2nd in BHL. Without cheating computer as well. When it comes to the contract lenght there are quite a few topics about it, but this one is quite good. So it's not a bug that the contract is just for this year, but it's how the game is now. It's not optimal and the whole contract stuff is going to change later on. You could also check out this thread for more explanation. (As you can see you're not the only one confused so it's good Anders is rewriting the contract stuff.)

It will use up your round selections in order of your preferences. So for example I have few 1st rounders, it will try to draft according to my selections in 1st round so I need to make sure I have enough people in my shortlist.

Hi, Take a look around the forums and read the help files. Some of your questions are answered there. Your first question: Take a look at the "Player Contract" help file. You can only approach players in European leagues during the silly season (the first 4 days of every season). The player is a rookie you have rights for who's playing in the Europe. In this case you cannot do much since you can only sign rookies to deals in the beginning of the season, and this one is ending now. The second question: Some of your players wont sign with you at the end of the season. This game is trying to be as realistic as it can, so the players want to sometimes play for better teams or better leagues. The ones that wont sign are wishing to do so. The ones that might, are waiting for Free Agentsy and will decide there, if teams in better leagues offer them contracts, they probably wont sign with you. To the point of how you can improve your team: The game has a draft system. Use that and the Free Agents to improve your team. Also try trading with other teams. And when it comes to contract length, you can offer them more than 1 year at a time, but you need to consider how it's going to affect their salary demands, and which players you want to sign for long term. (Who might help you to get promoted and still be useful in the higher leagues.) Starting as the worst team in the world isn't going to be easy, but if you have your draft picks, and you take a close look at the Free Agents right when the next season begins (not 1 day later, not even halfway through the first day), you can build up a team and advance a league per season. Feel free to ask more, but also check out the other topics in the forum for help first. Moved to questions and answers since this isn't a bug.

Pretty much, if the patch doesnt come until the end of your season.

The rights expire at the end of season X, but you can only sign them to a contract during the silly season in the beginning of the year. This is going to be changed some time into the future.

I don't see the Hattrick way of doing things working here due to the gap between leagues being so big and players having different type of contracts (years instead of just salary and a market). But not totally against the idea if we can find a way that works in GPH as well.

Yeah I like the idea of only being able to revert the trades that have raised suspicion. Also like the idea of seeing the trades / reverted ones of each world for comparison. Helps out with each world using the same rules.

I don't feel like we should limit the new managers ability to customize their team into their needs and wishes, although I agree the name changing can be a bit of a pain in the ass for few days.

Yeah the Hattrick Gamemasters was what I was thinking about as well. Actually got in touch with Anders and he's taking a look into this matter and will know when he has something to say on the matter, how we move forward

The original cap will stay locked for the full 6 seasons, no matter if you relegate or promote.

Part explanation for the lack of communication from the community I find to be due to the forums being a mess and requiring different logins, not being accessible within the game and the pm system being kind of a mess right now. What I'd like to see is game world specific forums added inside the game and pms being rewritten into different mailbox than the rest of the game "messages". Or into a chat window like the one found at the bottom of this page. This way the players couldn't not notice the forums or other messages, which I feel quite many don't realize exist as of now. Also I'd like to see some sort of in-trade-chat at some point, so instead of having to keep multiple tabs open when trading, you could have your chat on the other side of the popup screen and the trade assets on the other, with rewamped compare and add in / out methods. But that's a long way from now and would need redesigning the whole UX/UI (which I think should be done anyways). This is just mumbling now and I'll leave it here. But I find that the separate forums are really a big disadvantage we have in GPH. When it comes to rainsilent's point, I agree the players shouldn't be totally banned from the game, just not being able to trade at all. And the board seems like a good idea and something I'd like to be part of personally. But then again, not if it happens via these forums and not in game somehow.

This, although it's hard because of said exploits. Had a friend who joined the GHL but left due to some teams being way too good and players screwing him over when he went user on holiday. Heck that's the reason I don't want to get promoted from SHL because if I don't have the perfect team, no chance for me to succeed. E: This is something I could see working out as a temporary (or permanent) solution. Have 2-4 mods named for each game world and at least 2 of them would need to accept trades for them to go through. (Just with CPU and user on holiday I guess.) If something seems shady they could contact the offering teams.

Moved to Q&A. Ccannot give you an answer though, sorry!

There's a lottery draft system, much like the current NHL one. You can read more about it here in help files: http://forums.gmgames.org/topic/5149-youth-draft/ Also moved to Questions forum, since this is not a bug.

Moved to questions thread.

Was looking at the trades as well when they were proposed (have quite a lot of young players on my shortlist so know pretty well when people are "cheating" or abusing the system), and was really glad to see that the guy doing the shady business didn't really know how to work the system. It's not just this one team taking advantage of cpu in terms of picks, but a trend going on. A friend of mine played few seasons with the Cherry Valley Legends, and whenever his team went user on holiday, some teams immediately sent trade offers for some of the players I had shortlisted. (Had to tell my friend to log back in and check the trades to see if they were cool or not a couple of times..) So that's why I don't think the gentleman's pact is going to work in our world, as sad as that sounds. There will always be individuals who are going to exploit the system when it's possible. (And glad to see Wizard spread out the good word ) And in topic of trading picks to and from computers, I don't think it should be removed, just make it so the trade values for them are a lot bigger, or when a pick is in the trade the CPU doesn't accept trades if the human has x number of trading assets more or something of that sort. Not really sure how it should be done, but I don't think it should be removed altogether, when people can trade with computers for picks, while being fair and honest. (An example of this is my recent trading for SHL 1st rounders, which I think I have gotten around of making quite fair trades, giving away young NAT players in exchange as well as giving clearly better players to my trading partners, than which I have received back. You can share your opinions, but I sincerely believe I've done quite a good job with them.)

I think these (and others stats like PP shots, blocked shots, etc.) would fit right into the release of new game report (if I recall correctly Anders wanted to make the game report so it comes second by second and shows all game events, hope I'm not dreaming and this was indeed the case?). But yeah, would love to get some more stats we can take a look at.

Hi, Joined the IHL in Howitzer as well. I've been around for a while and glad to see familiar names here as well! A bit about my team, trying something different here compared to Biscuit and Lumber, we'll see how it goes. My current goal is to stay in IHL for the first half-season, get my team fixed through drafting and FA and then work my way up, league by league. We'll see how it goes!

Hello! As we're nearing the last quarter of the season I'm looking to move my players. Basically anyone is up for grabs for draft picks and prospects (don't want to get into GHL just yet, happy to stay in SHL and let my team develop). Take a look and let me know if you are interested!

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