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    jusatin reacted to TucsonJay in Setting Lineups - Overall Site Navigation   
    I realize that these suggestions might require an overhaul of the site but my main concern is being user friendly.  Below are a list of things I think can help:
     
    Concern 1. I'd love to be able to adjust the roster/lineups while being able to look at the player's stats.
         Suggestion: On the "Team" screen, to the left of the player are a set of check boxes labeled L1, L2, L3...etc.
    Concern 2. Be able to see a player's role while looking at the stats.
    Concern 3. Have all financials on one page and be able to make an offer while looking at the rest of your players.
         Suggestion: List the players, list their current contract status, list their current demand, have a drop down for the offer length and a box for offer amount.
         Suggestion: On this financial page, include any current offers pending.
    Concern 4. There are too many screens to bounce back and forth.  For example: when searching free agents, once you filter and click a player's profile, once you back page to the filter you have to reset the filter.
     
    Overall I think there can be a lot more streamlining to the site but regardless, thank you for the game, I thoroughly enjoy it.
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    jusatin got a reaction from Steve in Season 5 draftees, now what?   
    In my experience in few worlds, it's a lot better to have the guys play in higher leagues, if they can get good +/- and green ratings, they can develop a lot. My 1st overall pick developed by 2 ovr (78->80) and in the same time my prospects who were playing in the computer leagues only developed by 1 or 2 ovr, while being much lower than the guy who played on my team. Also they often ask for crazy little money for 8 or so years, so it's not a bad idea to just sign them for sitting purposes and maybe have them as a backup players in case of emergencies.
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    jusatin reacted to koekefix in Biscuit places available   
    As a new manager you can join BHL/IHL/LIHL. He just joined in BHL (Thetford Mines Pegasus).
    He will sometimes be on the same ip-range as me but not on the same ip ofcourse.
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    jusatin reacted to rainsilent in General user guide   
    This is a general user guide. For now it will be split up into 4 sections but I am saving room for one more just in case. Please know that this is never complete and is always an ongoing project with the work in progress label as nobody except for Anders knows everything about this game and even the best of us are constantly learning about this game. This will be bare to start with but I plan on having most of it filled to some degree within about a week or two depending upon the time available to me.
     
    The 4 sections will be as follows. Team Basics, Player Basics, Team Advanced and Player Advanced. The 5th I am saving for something unforeseen or not thought of in advanced and may eventually just be used as a frequently asked questions list. If I end up needing more than 5. Umm... Oops. I'll make it work.
     
     
     
    Team Basics
     
    This section is all about the very basics on how to run a team. The topics covered here will be roster, cap, line and tactic basics. The very first thing to do is learn your team. Since player basics is the second part we will be getting more in depth with the player part there and we will skip to the roster in general.
     
    Roster basics: The most obvious thing is that you need 18 skaters and 2 goalies at minimum. In an ideal situation you would also want 2 or 3 forwards and 1 or 2 defensemen as scratches in case of injury. Injuries happen. It is inevitable. It is best to be prepared for when it does happen so you aren't scrambling when it does. Beyond this part, in which many have probably rolled their eyes at, the only other things to really address here is team spirit and team reputation. Team spirit has 3 things underneath it. Confidence shows exactly how confidant your team is in its play. It will be more likely to grow with positive overall team results. Teamwork shows how well your team plays together. Winner instinct is basically a teams "it" factor. Does the team have "it" in them to consistently pull out wins in meaningful games.
     
    Cap basics: A GHL team has a cap of 60 million to play with. SHL 15 million, BHL 4.5 million, IHL, 1.5 million and LIHL 750k. Every player has a contract that lasts a certain number of seasons. Contracts can have clauses as well. a Promotion clause means that the if the player remains on the team and the team promotes to a higher league the salary of the player will go up in proportion with the new salary. A one way clause means that the player will not go down to a lower league no matter what.
     
    Line basics: Each forward line needs 3 skaters. Each defensive line 2 skaters. For the C position any skater can play it so you want to be playing the players with the best face off rating regardless of position. Also you want your best shooter not playing at C to be on the side opposite their handedness. This is called playing the off-wing. It allows this player to get better quality shots on net.
     
    Tactic basics: Team tactics work in a rock, paper, scissors fashion. Each offensive and defensive system has strengths and weaknesses. However these tactics have a say in how your players develop, how your team performs and the team has to get familiar with the team tactic. When it comes to team tactics it is best to choose one based upon how you want you team to play in the long run. This is because when you change team tactics there is a "learning" period that the team has to go through and it will perform worse in the process. The players will adapt to the system. Line tactics (aka line settings) however do not work in a rock, paper, scissors fashion. Rather there basically are instructions to the players on how to play within the team system. Also they can be changed game to game without worry of change in the quality of team play.
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    jusatin got a reaction from Steve in Prospect Rights Expiry   
    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.
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    jusatin reacted to GamePlanHockey in Live draft   
    I agree with Jusatin, it would be very hard to implement. But I have played around with the idea to create a semi live draft where the draft is divided into several days. This way it's easier to draft in the lower leagues when you actually get a clue on which players that still are available. But this is something for further down the road.
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    jusatin reacted to GamePlanHockey in Faceoffs skill   
    Players taking faceoffs during games will develop their faceoff skill. Centers will also improve during training. But it improves slower than most other skills.
     
    In a release not far from now (I hope) I'm going to add the possibility to train a specific skill of the managers choice for each player.
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    jusatin got a reaction from Steve in Biscuit Abuse   
    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
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    jusatin reacted to EXXEO in Draft Preference   
    Ha, ya know ncik answered that too, I'm just a little slow on picking it up with my brain running sluggish under sickness. Thanks guys!
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    jusatin got a reaction from EXXEO in Draft Preference   
    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.
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    jusatin got a reaction from xZhou in Prospect Rights Expiry   
    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.
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    jusatin reacted to TheWizard in Biscuit Abuse   
    I also like the idea.  To prohibit Game World Moderator abuse, there could be a system of checks and balances.
     
    For example, the Mitts Mod may only be able to suspend managers/revert trades in Mitts, but he can view suspensions/reverts in other worlds.  If something smells fishy, the Mods can have a discussion.  Communication is key.  Make the Moderators part of a group where they can communicate with each other, either on the forum or in the game.  Anders would have the final say.
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    jusatin reacted to GamePlanHockey in Biscuit Abuse   
    Thanks for all your feedback! And sorry for not being so active in these kind of questions. I'll try to do better.
     
    Regarding game masters: I worry that not all game worlds actually has enough committed managers to carry that responsibility. I also worry about the possible abuse from these game masters. But maybe there is a way to solve this.
     
    What do you guys think of the following scenario?
     
    A couple of trusted mangers will get the role of Game World Moderators who then has the rights to revert trades and suspend other managers. But they will only have that right if the manager in question has gotten enough Cheater votes or Bad trade votes. The latter will then be a new feature allowing managers to down vote trades that they feel are bad or abusive. If no game world moderators exist (or responds) a message will be sent to me when a manager gotten enough votes. That way I can revert the trades or suspend managers.
     
    Please feel free to comment or make other suggestions!
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    jusatin got a reaction from Yann Rock in Biscuit Abuse   
    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.
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    jusatin reacted to rainsilent in Biscuit Abuse   
    His friend actually took over a pretty good team that just needed a goalie and a few Dmen to be a seriously competitive team. By the time he came back from his vacation status his team lost about 1/3rd of the best players it had. Some of them for not much in return.
     
    As for your better way of having the report button I am completely behind. From there however I don't know where to take it in terms of how to do it. Straight to Anders would just flood him with way too much. Giving a few players control is a rather scary proposition given what I have seen happen on other online manager games. I think best scenario for such a thing might be that a reported trade goes to a "review board" made up of a number of players. The players debate and vote on the fairness. If they say no it goes to Anders for final decision on a revert with the reasoning as to why it was voted no. Even that however has issues. Chiefly that you are potentially asking for a lot of time on the side from a number of people. Not a lot of people are going to have that time to dedicate.
     
    Also I would change the ban part to be strictly to making trades rather than banning from the game on the whole. As much as abusing the AI is unsportsmanlike to do it isn't direct cheating like multiple accounts. Thus getting banned from the game for abusing the AI via trades is a bit steep. Losing trading privileges for a time however is more reasonable.
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    jusatin reacted to TheWizard in Playoff details   
    It varies by league.
     
    LIHL/IHL/BHL/SHL
    - Top 2 teams automatically promote.
    - Teams ranked 3-6 have a playoff against each other (3 vs. 6, 4 vs. 5).  Winner of each series enters a playoff against the teams ranked 13th and 14th in the higher league.  If the lower league team wins the playoff against the higher league team, the lower league team is promoted and the higher league team is relegated.  If the higher league team wins, both teams will stay in their respective leagues.
    - Teams ranked 7-12 have a playoff just for fun, no relegation/promotion on the line.
    - Teams ranked 15-16 automatically relegate.
     
    Example of the promotion/relegation playoffs:
    LIHL #3 seed beats the #6 seed and faces IHL #14 seed.  LIHL #3 seed beats IHL #14 seed.  LIHL #3 is promoted, IHL #14 is relegated.
     
    GHL
    - Top 8 teams have a playoff to crown the league champion.
    - Teams ranked 9-12 do not have a playoff but are safe from relegation.
    - Team ranked 13-14 will face the winners of the 3 vs. 6 and 4 vs. 5 playoffs in the SHL to determine promotion/relegation (as highlighted above).
    - Teams ranked 15-16 automatically relegate to SHL.
     
    Each playoff round is a best of three.
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    jusatin reacted to TheWizard in Biscuit Abuse   
    EXXEO: Best rule of thumb, if you would not accept the trade, don't offer it to someone else.
    If everyone followed this, the game world would be a better place.
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    jusatin reacted to rainsilent in Biscuit Abuse   
    Don't be so quick to say any of that guys. First I PMed Anders about it already. Second the person traded with teams that are 13th through 16th in the GHL standings. If all 3 of those teams demote ALL of the draft picks the person is trading for become SHL draft picks. It is why I have been trying to really encourage Steve, with the currently 14th place team, to do what he can to stay above 15th and doing everything I can to get those other teams teams to demote. (Edit required here. Sorry to the "new" person with the currently 14th place team but I want to see your team demote because of what this guy did before you took the team over. Should Anders revert all the trades involved with what the player in question did my stance completely changes.) Of course one will have to lose down to the SHL in the playoffs but we can ask Anders to revert the latest trade at least if not all of them.
     
    I also traded for the persons own draft picks that they traded to one of the AI teams because should the person promote than their picks become top 4 GHL draft picks. I will be asking Anders to revert said trade that I made for his picks after the playoffs begin so the AI team he gave the picks to will keep them so the player cant trade back for them should the person wise up so to speak.
     
    Yes the person is exploiting the AI to an extreme degree but they are really failing hard at doing it since at least 2 of the picks will end up SHL draft picks (not high end GHL draft picks) if Steve can keep his team 14th or better. Also this is the same manager that for 2 seasons was at the bottom of the GHL Biscuit standings (with a lot of bad signings to go with it) so they aren't very good at running a team as it is. Edit 2: fun fact they were running one of the teams that they took a 1st round pick from just last season.
     
    No exploiting the AI, or any game mechanics for that matter, isn't directly cheating but it is on the same level and very unsportsmanlike to do. That is why so many online games punish players via bans for using exploits. Exploiting the AI via trades should not be accepted, it should be brought up in the game world chat box (NOT IN THE FORUMS, the chat box is on a much more private level and brings attention to the exploit trade for all in the world to see. Also do not slander the person of offense. Just bring up the trade in question for others in the game world to see so it can be reported and investigated) and exposed to Anders via some type of report to him.
     
    Someone smarter than this guy could be stealing what are likely to be top 4 GHL picks though by going after the right picks which is why I have been asking Anders to lock draft pick trading with AI teams before this person started these trades.
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    jusatin got a reaction from Doggit in Expanded Statistics   
    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.
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    jusatin reacted to rainsilent in Quitting - All Players Up For Grabs - Victoria Cherokees   
    The ability to trade with the CPU is not ruining the game. Players abusing the CPU via being able to trade with them is ruining the game. There is a massive difference. Your putting the blame and responsibility of the issue on an inanimate thing rather than the people abusing the thing. Thus you are wanting to take an extreme measure to fix said issue.
     
    Completely removing the ability to trade with CPU controlled teams is an extreme measure that should only be used as a last resort. It still is a critical feature that, in some leagues (note I said leagues not worlds,) is still very needed due to the lack of managers that are either willing to make a fair trade, understand negotiating a trade or just have too few human players to trade with. Thus removing the ability to make a trade with the CPU would only be a big negative impact.
     
    I get why you and others are calling for the removal of trading with the CPU but it isn't the best solution to the problem at hand by far. The player population is still just too low, at least in the game world I am in, for that solution to be a good one. The ability to trade with the CPU is not ruining the game. Other players abusing the CPU in trades is. Fixing the CPU trade logic to lessen the ability to abuse the CPU in trades is the way to go given the entire picture with this game.
     
    Also you guys could be sending PMs to Anders about such abusive trades asking for them to be reverted. You also could be posting them in topics although that is a seriously bad way of going about it. Either way it would be a lot of extra work for Anders if there were a lot of trades to revert.
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    jusatin reacted to rainsilent in Quitting - All Players Up For Grabs - Victoria Cherokees   
    If I may point out other managers showing blatant disrespect to other fellow managers playing the game by exploiting the cpu in trades has nothing to do with the game being properly thought out in any way. It is just other players being ****s because they can. It is a problem in every game with some form of multiplayer. Anders is taking steps to make it harder for such players to continue to do this in the future. Also you could try asking Anders to revert (undo) these trades that you take issue with. I get that a number of players currently with top teams got them, to varying degrees, via exploiting the cpu via unfair trades. However this game is definitely heading in a direction where manager skill will trump those that are currently finding success via exploits rather than any sort of skill.
     
    If you are just too fed up and would rather leave that is your call, and it would be disappointing to see you go, but I would push that you try to stick around as this game is going in the right direction in regards of attempting to make it more difficult for players to exploit the cpu.
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    jusatin got a reaction from Wick Schozen in Expanded Statistics   
    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.
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    jusatin reacted to Mark Z in Season 4   
    I have been waiting and watching for an opening in this game world. I noticed a lot of the old Hockey Dynasty players are in this world. 2 days ago there was an opening in the LIHL , So I jumped on it. I have the 16th team in the LIHL. There is no place but up.  I'm on my way.  I'll see you all up there soon.
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    jusatin reacted to rainsilent in Trades S5   
    I get that part but we don't know how often that happens. I'm not saying there isn't a problem. Top players are seemingly demanding a lot almost out of the blue no matter how good they were the year before.The reason why I said that it isn't a big problem is that you should be expecting it. A top player is asking for top money and you are complaining. 2 years ago when he was released and you grabbed him he was definitely a top 20 goalie as the best goalie in game was I think 87 or 88 and Bublik was an 85. To be surprised that a high end player would ask for a lot is just making yourself to be a fool though. Personally I think the new contract system coming could potentially go into fixing the issue to a degree as it may stabilize the players contracts demands with what it does. Which to me also reduced the critical importance of it. Also frankly you and koekefix have all star quality teams and should be dealing with serious budget issues like Chicago has continuously for a number of seasons. You are just starting to feel that pinch. You two aren't the only two either. A number of the top teams in the GHL have been abusing the contracts and eventually some tough decisions are going to have to be made sooner or later. Personally I don't see Bublik asking for less than 7 no matter what. And he shouldn't. He is the #2 goalie in the entirety of Biscut in overall. If you do let him go and he gets signed for less than 7 I'm going to be sending a message to Anders because that is a problem.
     
    The bigger issue to me is the bigger discrepancy between offense and defense. Last year goals against per game per team rose nearly half a goal per from the year prior across the board. Will goals stay unusually high this season or will they come back down?
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    jusatin reacted to TheWizard in Depth Chart   
    I think a Depth Chart would be cool and would give managers an extra level of realism to the game.  You never know when your star player is going to get injured...wouldn't it be nice to have an automatic succession plan in place without altering your lineup manually?
     
    I've also noticed some managers complain that the computer resets their lineup if they don't sign in to GPHM on a regular basis.  I realize this is based on the speed of the game world, but why be punished if you are in a lightning world and don't sign in for two or three days?  Real life happens.  Depth Charts could be one way to solve this.