Deadwing

It's the time of the season.. you know for what? That's right! The jersey editor is broken. Exact same thing as before with switching seasons.

Which world is this and was it the change of season? Currently, the editor works on Cage.

Just on desktop. You can do the same, but man it's still a lot of crap to delete.

I couldn't even delete all my PM's, there's just too many in the last 90 days. I went on for about ten minutes and finally gave up. I get slight lag on every page, but that has always been the case. I'm not sure what could be done about that?

I started deleting the old message strings, and quickly came to a conclusion that it's a task too great as the game keeps each thread for 90 days before it expires. I noticed something alarming though, which may or may not be the reason for lag, but certainly something I've never really paid attention to before. Each time you send a PM through the old system on the manager page, and each time you reply to it, the game duplicates the entire thread and sends it the other way instead of getting rid of the old thread. Then the other manager responds, and again the game creates a copy of everything + the new response and sends it back. So if the thread started with 1 message sent by manager A and manager B replied to it, you have 2 messages stored in 1 thread and all is well. You got your reply. Now if manager A decides to continue the conversation and sends a second message by just replying to the old one, and manager B does the same, you now have 6 messages stored in 2 threads (2 in the original and 2+2 in the new duplicate the game created when manager B responded to your second message including your earlier response). This sounds a little bit gibberish, but can you imagine what happens when you bounce the thread back and forth for, let's say, 15 times? That is a lot of messages in a lot of threads, and the original message has now a whopping 15 copies of it in your PM box in tidy separate threads. Who cares? Well, managers who used the old PM system for just exchanging thoughts and ideas about the game, those threads expanded into hundreds of messages at best. So yeah, I couldn't clean up my box because there's no simple "tag and delete all" -option I'm not sure if this is the only reason, but I'm pretty sure it's a major one. Conclusion: Use the new chat.. it's pretty awesome. Edit: I was one of those managers, and I have probably hundreds of dupes of each message I ever wrote, so I wouldn't wonder if it causes some lag. It's just text, but truly massive amounts.

Same as with Paul. At any given time when logging in or rechecking the manager page while in game causes considerable lag. It loads very slowly. I'm not sure if it has anything to do with it, but I do have a massive amount of PM message strings on my manager page. I will try tonight and delete most of them because the new chat feature is much more convenient to use anyway. If it has to load all those strings every single time, I could see where it might cause a noticeable delay on a mobile device. It still puzzles me, however, that the page loads slowly on a direct cable connection as well.

I'm not sure if you had a chance to do something already, but the editor seems to be working again.

The error message is displayed when trying to save changes. Thank you thousand times for checking it out.

It's the change of season and jersey editor breaks up. Nothing new in itself, but needs to be patched together again. For some reason this same problem reoccurs around every season switch. This is now 3rd season in a row it happens. At least I knew to expect it this time and did my editing in advance for season 5. However, every manager may not be as lucky, and well, it gives a bad impression to whoever might be just trying out the game right now. Edit: Let's add a little. It's the same error message as before. I tried to reload and relog-- no difference. Edit2: This is Cage.

I suppose, with the scouting now implemented, these previously hidden attributes would be nice to have opened up a little in the help files.

Very disappointed to see this with an NA tag on it. While it's not exactly a bug in the code, it is an issue. I would, at the very least, expect a response telling where such issues can be reported. Current action points to just ignoring the issue.

Same here. Everything else loads fairly good, but manager page takes sometimes up to 15 seconds to load (up to 30-40 seconds on tablet).

Some people are so hasty.. they can't handle slow.

Thank you for the fix. That was sneaky to say the least.

Still no. This is a Cage problem, and has been since season 1. Every single season change, the jersey editor breaks. Was trying to switch to away jersey for pre-season games, but apparently it's not gonna happen.

Same here. Looks like this happens every season switch.

If you're a whisky drinker and got some cash to spend I'd suggest Johnnie Walker Blue Label. Bowmore single malt is great, but also pricey. If you want something to enjoy more often, Famous Grouse is a good choice. From mixed drinks, I always choose Jack n' Coke. Better taste result than any rum I've ever tried with coke. I know rum n' coke is a thing, but I like my rum straight. From rums I like to go for the smoother ones, which means spiced mixes. Captain Morgan Spiced Gold and Negrita Golden Spice are both great ones to down while going through FA's during off season. From whisky liquors Southern Comfort is the way to go. Sweet and easy. I know my poisons

I like the design. Both home and away versions look nice.

Congratulations Hawks!

Like I said, it's a wild guess because it's only based on trial and error experience during the last 3 seasons. Nothing deeper than that. Dude... I don't drink whisky. Rum is my poison and the source of my infinite wisdom.

It's mostly momentary frustration when things happen without obvious reason. I'm not looking for the "winning formula". I'm not good enough manager to straight up say that if I do everything right, then I should win every game. Hockey doesn't work that way in the real world, and it shouldn't do that in a game that attempts to simulate that. Often times I let losses go by with a shrug, mostly because I can clearly see performance issues, playing against a vastly superior team (think Finland - Soviet Union in the 80's) or some other clear failure to execute the game plan. Quite often losses may happen without a clear reason and that's fine too— there is such thing as luck in hockey as well. It's when these mysterious failures begin to pile into an overwhelming mountain without anything clear to fix, things become a little foggy to me. What to do when there's nothing obvious to be done? This is why I ranted about having more information at hand. It might help or it might not. I do admit that when things go south bad enough my ability to see problems, no matter how obvious they might be, becomes less and less. Usually, the best option is to walk away from the game for a day or two and then take a second look with fresh eyes. I still think the more information there is the better, but I do apologize my rather uncalled-for outburst. Sometimes even the combined knowledge of Steve Yzerman, Stan Bowman and Ray Shero won't save you if the upset and frustration have already melted your brain into mush.

I agree on that we need more tools and more transparency to determine what works well and what does not. The advanced stats are great, but they only go so far. I understand that RNG is always a part of the game, and it should be, a random chance of luck is a large portion of a real hockey game as well. Sometimes, and quite often actually, it feels like stuff is happening without clear understanding of what exactly is wrong, and that is not something I like in a manager game. It leaves me in the dark concerning pretty much everything. Great example is the current season. I started strong and won the first five games, then I dove deep and borderlined a crisis team, and then, out of nowhere, everything clicked and I began to perform well. Why? I didn't do anything drastic. I had a balanced team to begin with. My winner instinct sucked in the beginning and it keeps on sucking to this day, but it doesn't seem to have any effect to my team's performance. Suddenly everything just seems to work like a dream. My 1st and 2nd goalies are both doing well now, but they both had a streak of really bad games... why? A single game is easy to swallow. Okay.. shit happens in a real hockey game too, but over a longer period of time good players can turn it around and excel. In GPHM it seems to be quite random.... why? I just want to know more about why things happen the way they happen, so I can adjust accordingly.. you know.. like a hockey team manager would.

I don't know, but a wild guess would be a slight yes. I've noticed a difference between big games traits per line for sure. Have them all nervous and you can count that the line will freeze in the playoffs, but have a heroic, stable and nervous/anxious and it works like a dream. Balance seems to be the key. 3 x heroic doesn't work either.. they just falter and die to put it in an exaggeratingly dramatic form. My guess is that personality traits might and could work in a similar way. I guess the biggest thing is to not be all afraid of red traits. They are needed as well as the greens.

I'd say yes, a winger with high faceoff value could play center role just like centers with poor faceoff skill play winger. Sometimes I wish the position was more flexible. Instead of having strictly categorized forwards and centers and whatnot, there could be "Center/Forward" combos, or let's get even more wild, "Forward/Defender" where the first one is the primary role, but the player can perform equally well in another. Perhaps this secondary role could be something what a player can learn along the way? This in case there actually is some penalty for playing off position because I've never noticed any. Some of my best wingers have been centers.

Stay sharp, folks. In the next draft, the Cage managers have a chance to draft Tobias Glawing himself. Does he have some hidden skill that makes the opponent's goalie melt into a puddle of gatoraid? https://gameplanhockey.com/player?gpid=10833-A