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  5. Posted

    Howitzer just came out of pause to start a new season. Noticed this in my player's stats history (same for all players I've checked on my team):

    Season 25	Goblins	GHL	59	5	12	17	6	51	5	3	0	0	0	0	92	39	46	2	27	0	0	-	00:00	02:00	19:00	75
Season 26	Goblins	GHL	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	-	00:00	00:00	00:00	-
                Goblins	GHL	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	-	00:00	00:00	00:00	-
                Goblins	GHL	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	-	00:00	00:00	00:00	-
                Goblins	GHL	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	-	00:00	00:00	00:00	-
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  6. Posted

    Game paused right now grr.. Oh well we have to get used to it... I agree with you. I like the game but sometimes its frustrating. Its hockey also lol :) You can pm me if you want. Wish you good luck for the future.

     

    I think it is paused because they realized a team like mine should never win  :P

  7. Posted

    Congrats canucks357(Goderich Goblins) on your first Howitzer GHL Championship!

     

    Thanks! It came as quite the surprise! Had a little help, and a little luck, along the way.

     

    congrats to goblins. nothing against you or your team but i think it shows that all i said in my previous message was right. any suggestions for a real good hockey manager game ? i would really like to find better even if the game here is better than nothing and has its good things but it also has its problems. for example , the game here keeps simulating and had many server problems and we lost our logos and there is not much improvement to the simple website. its not because i did not win the playoffs at all. my team is not one of the best anyway. its because i think this game is just like rolling a dice like i said and i would like something more realistic with a better website , more action and better graphics. a game where stats , ratings and results go together. if you know any please let me know. thanks alot.

     

    I was thinking the same thing. The teams are so homogeneous (every team has a full lineup in the 90-95 range) that anything can win. I've targeted players for their personalities and have noticed a couple interesting observations. On that note, and your comment specifically, shoot me a message in-game.

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  8. Posted

    I know im late but i wanted to reply to this. I been playing over 30 seasons and from what i saw , almost any team can win the playoffs. The game seems pretty weird to me. Sometimes you get the bad teams win against the good teams. The 8th position beat the first. It dont seem to be stable results at all. Sometimes you have a low rating player performing better than the higher rated. It seems to be pretty much anything from what i have seen. My team can be really bad for a period of time and suddenly start win games one after the other when i did no change at all. Its pretty weird. I doubt that the reputation of your team or the team spirit has anything to do. My team spirit can be all good and my team play against a team with bad team spirit and my team still lose anyway and i am wondering if this is just there for fun and have no impact at all. Sometimes i see a 39 year old player get full points while my young player with higher rating sucks... This season playoff i saw the first team get beaten even if it had a huge gap tetween the others and my team also got beaten by a lower rank team. It makes me want to quit the game sometimes. I feel that whatever i do does not have much influence on the results. Its almost like rolling a dice. For sure if you only have crappy player you risk lose but as soon as u get at some point , it seems to be pretty much nothing else than luck and computer decision. Sorry if i am so negative but thats what i personally observed. You know when your team gets beaten by the last rank team and then win against the first the next day and that it happens so often , there are reasons to believe that something is not right. Yes it can happen once in a while that the better team lose but it seems to happen alot and the results are only up and down for me and my teams. Its sad that we cant really know who is the better manager because whatever you do and whatever your team does dont mean that u did better. Just that the computer decided that it would be this way. Thats my opinion and i know some will not agree but i wont change my mind. The game is up and down and the stats dont follow the results.

     

    I would be nice to know a bit more what knobs we have to turn and how they may influence the results. There is a fine line between not giving away enough and giving away too much from a developer point of view. I wish there was some thorough literature somewhere where we could read up on things. In any case, I'm "one roll of the dice" away from the title - only a couple years removed from struggling to stay up. I'm pretty happy about that but definitely do not expect a similar showing next year - I still consider myself a 7-12 team.

  9. Posted

    I hate my team. LOL. I thought the year would go great since I got some of my key veterans returning, but all it did was just sink me in 16th early on. It took me 10 games to actually get out of 16th only to be stuck in 15th for 5-8 games. I stayed mediocre for the rest of the season then my team finally woke up but it was too late. I made a playoff push and on the last day of games, I beat my opponent 5-2, which I thought would seal my playoff hopes, but no I lost out the #8 seed to another team that had a goal differential of +4 and I had +3. It was quite disappointing and quite upsetting since this was my second time of not making playoffs in franchise history. I just wanted to share my story...BE Prepared no matter how good you think your team is! Good Luck to all teams in playoffs and everyone BE PREPARED, I WILL BE BACK! lol :cool:

     

    And just like that my top player is out the rest of this round and I lost game 1 (at home) in a shootout. Grrrrr

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  11. Posted

    So, best finish every in the regular season - finishing 5th. Ended up sweeping the 4th seed in a lopsided affair which was quite surprising. Surprised to find I play 8th in round 2. I'm not complaining, but 5v8 and 2v6 seems a bit odd. Is it a fixed bracket playoff thing? 1v8 and 5v4 on one side and 2v7 and 3v6 on the other?

  12. Posted

    I'd love to design icons (as that's a professional emphasis of mine) but I think the time thing may crush that thought quickly :(

     

    Terms of use get pretty complex and uploading images could also lead to s security risks also...I think? It's like 2AM here so my brain is fresh out of ideas - I'll be thinking though...

     

    The other game I play where custom logos are permitted, there are consistently logos that need to be removed (and team names renamed) due to abuse/inappropriate use.

  13. Posted

    On another manager game I play adding custom logos is nice, but you get some very low quality uploads by some people that really takes away from the aesthetics of the game (consider a logo on a jersey with a white rectangular background on it).

     

    I'm curious where the logos were licensed from. I saw some from this game on Shutterstock and if you buy a license to the images on Shutterstock they are yours to use for life (as confirmed by email by Shutterstock staff). It'd be a pricey alternative, but it'd be a one-time expense.

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  15. Posted

    And just like that, lost all the recent games. 2 points up on 9th playing 2nd when 9th is playing last. I may go through all this and miss playoffs anyway - finishing with a mid-round pick as a reward.

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  17. Posted

    I've won 9 of my last 10 and just beat the top team. I think my team is telling me what I should do. All-in it is! Up to 6th now setting up a potential series vs a team I've consistently done well against for some reason.

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  18. Posted

    In my experience, playing in the playoffs will give you more manager and team reputation which in turn will let you get high rated players for a cheaper price. Depending on the player, they can either grow a lot or stay stationary. I once had some guys jump from a 88 to a 90-91, but that was also the year I won the cup. Other years, they usually grow 1 overall or stay stationary. the pros of making the playoffs is gaining reputation and maybe a possible overall jump for some players. The cons of making the playoffs is that if you aren't a top team, you wont get every far and you lose a potential top 5 pick as you mentioned, but also there is the lack of fulfillment of not making the playoffs(wheather its exiting early or not making them at all). If the draft class is decent enough I would risk going into the playoffs, but since this years is a bit weaker than previous years, I would suggest playing younger players so they can "get used to" the big club and vs big league teams.

     

    Thanks for your reply and comments. I fell short and landed 9th last year, a significant reduction in draft value from previous seasons. I'll give it another game or two and see what I can get. I suspect, unless I keep this winning roll going, the last 5+ games will be a young squad for reasons you mentioned. Good luck the rest of the year!

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  19. Posted

    I'm torn. I'm currently 1 point out of the 8th and final playoff spot with 8 games remaining. I'm 14 points clear of 13th. My conundrum is, what value is there to pushing to make playoffs? I doubt I can upset either of the top-2 seeds. So, in essence, I'd just be screwing myself out of a good draft pick. Is there any value to making playoffs? Do players develop a lot in a short period of time? Does team rep go up and players sign for cheaper? What are the pros of that outcome? With as weak as this year's draft is, it seems a lot more pragmatic to play my youngsters the rest of the year to give them GHL development time and take (hopefully) a top-5 pick.

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  20. Posted

    Wow That was disheartening . When I made the claim on Sandstrom I was the only one who had claimed him. After 8 days still no one had claimed him. It should have closed after 4 days. Then I made a post on it and all of a sudden two more claims well after it should have closed. Guess who came up empty handed. SIGH!

     

    Seriously Now I have 7mil that was to go to a couple of players to better my team and now its too late to even pick up alternates. The team that aquired both Sandstrom and Bugri should not have even been part of the waiver as he entered the waiver after it was supposed to have concluded. 

     

    Ouch. Kinda shady if the new bidders were trying to scoop you. 

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  21. Posted

    I’m not too experienced in this area, but in my limited knowledge, yes it does have to do with team rep. Also just a side note, team rep fluctuates throughout the season so it might be just as high now as it will be next season.

     

    Cool, thanks! That's helpful! 

  22. Posted

    It is for 4.4M. Is salary demand tied to team reputation? If so, I'll cancel and sign to a one-year deal since my reputation should rise significantly after this season. Thanks for your reply, very helpful!

  23. Posted

    If it does go away, it will be once playoffs start and you receive the “reminder: expiring contracts” message. Sometimes for bubble teams (though I don’t consider you one any more so this shouldn’t be a problem) they will refuse to negotiate at all.

     

    Thanks. I've wanted to get some players locked down and have been checking every couple of days.

     

    In your opinion, I want to re-negotiate the pending contract of the player I just acquired. If I do this do I risk the wait period dragging on and him potentially being poached elsewhere? Would I even get that much of a discount compared to a team currently 15th?

     

    Also, thanks for the compliment re: not a bubble team anymore. I'm really happy with how my tactical settings (minus PK - I'm at a loss there) have helped me climb out of the cellar after the first 10 games on suspended autopilot.

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  24. Posted

    So, I decided to brave it and complete a trade - shame the experience earlier has made me trigger shy. Anyways, made a deal with a team destined for the SHL. Received a single player on a one-way contract that would be lost for nothing in exchange for a myriad of defensive assets. Owner negotiated an additional player to be added in from my first offer - all are on two-way deals (and those expiring will surely accept another two-way deal before the season is up) and will benefit him next season.

     

    Sidebar: Does anyone know when the "I'm happy with my contract" will be removed and we can negotiate deals with players on expiring contracts?

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