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Made a pre release to the UAT today.
 
This is what's included:
 
* Team card. Just like when clicking a player’s name a team card will appear on team link clicks. The card will display short team and manager info. You can then continue to the team’s page from that card.
* Extended view of non playable leagues; player stats and latest transactions.* Adjustments of the game engine; Scoring (increased), shots (decreased), penalties (increased).* Adjustment of player development (increased)* Improvements of game play in non playable leagues.* Fixed bug where password reset could crash* Fixed bug where a team’s league position may become unsync* Fixed bug where teams could sign players even if over the salary cap This will be installed pretty soon on the official server too. But I will let it run over the weekend on the UAT to spot any bugs. Let me know if you see anything. Thanks

The team card isn't showing up when I click on team names from the League page. I just get an empty white pop-up. (The page has fully loaded too)

Made a pre release to the UAT today.
 
This is what's included:
 
* Team card. Just like when clicking a player’s name a team card will appear on team link clicks. The card will display short team and manager info. You can then continue to the team’s page from that card.
* Extended view of non playable leagues; player stats and latest transactions.* Adjustments of the game engine; Scoring (increased), shots (decreased), penalties (increased).* Adjustment of player development (increased)* Improvements of game play in non playable leagues.* Fixed bug where password reset could crash* Fixed bug where a team’s league position may become unsync* Fixed bug where teams could sign players even if over the salary cap This will be installed pretty soon on the official server too. But I will let it run over the weekend on the UAT to spot any bugs. Let me know if you see anything. Thanks

Made a pre release to the UAT today.
 
This is what's included:
 
* Team card. Just like when clicking a player’s name a team card will appear on team link clicks. The card will display short team and manager info. You can then continue to the team’s page from that card.
* Extended view of non playable leagues; player stats and latest transactions.* Adjustments of the game engine; Scoring (increased), shots (decreased), penalties (increased).* Adjustment of player development (increased)* Improvements of game play in non playable leagues.* Fixed bug where password reset could crash* Fixed bug where a team’s league position may become unsync* Fixed bug where teams could sign players even if over the salary cap This will be installed pretty soon on the official server too. But I will let it run over the weekend on the UAT to spot any bugs. Let me know if you see anything. Thanks

Thanks for all your input in this topic.
 
I really appreciate all of your commitment for this hobby of mine. You guys are crucial for the development. As many of you stated the number of hours I can put in is most limited. It also varies heavily from week to week. Some weeks I can put in several hours, other weeks I might not be able to put in any hours at all. That's why I also might appear absent from the forum discussions every now and then.
 
None the less, all your input and comments are most welcome.
 
Thanks again.

Good point
 
Best lines should never be "the best lines". It should be a good suggestion but should leave room for improvements by the GM.
 
I also want to make the suggestion dependent on the assistant manager/coach's rating.

Yes, I have actually had that thought too. That can be applied on free agents as well, where you won't see all ratings until you've scouted them. I think that adding staff to the game really could add another dimension.

Yes, you are right AY-BR. All city names are small villages or places that no way could host a large hockey team =). It's actually from a writers database over cities names to include in novels when you don't want  to use familiar cities. I felt this would be a good way to create a team with a fresh but realistic name and not to associate it with any existing hockey team.
 
But I'll add your request Harper1998 to my backlog. Thanks for your feedback.

That user has now been deleted along with his other accounts.
 
Let me know if you suspect he has returned with a different name/account.

That user has now been deleted along with his other accounts.
 
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That user has now been deleted along with his other accounts.
 
Let me know if you suspect he has returned with a different name/account.

That user has now been deleted along with his other accounts.
 
Let me know if you suspect he has returned with a different name/account.

That user has now been deleted along with his other accounts.
 
Let me know if you suspect he has returned with a different name/account.

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"We are here live at the season 19 Game Plan Hockey draft, Boy has it been a good one so far Tim!"
 
"Yeah Joe, the draft has been a deep one full of great talent. Oh, and it looks like the #20 Overall pick from Slaughterville Savage Storm is in, let's head down to Commissoner Granberg to see who they went for after drafting a great Goalie in the 1st Round!"
 
"For the 20th pick of the Season 19 Game Plan Hockey Draft the Savage Storm select Goalie, Cory Fulmer."
 
"Wait Tim, they chose who?"
 
"Yeah Joe, they took another goalie who was slated to be the 167th pick. This is a real shocker - what were they thinking?"
 
"Tim, look over at their planning suite, their GM, O'Connor, is sound asleep on the couch - this is not a good look for them as they have already been struggling to keep alive in the GHL."
 
"Boy oh boy - what a crappy pick - they really just flushed that one down the toilet!"
 
"Yup, I think one of their fans just set their mascot on fire out of pure rage - I'd hate to be in their GM's shoes when he wakes up- ouch!"

Thanks for all your input in this topic.
 
I really appreciate all of your commitment for this hobby of mine. You guys are crucial for the development. As many of you stated the number of hours I can put in is most limited. It also varies heavily from week to week. Some weeks I can put in several hours, other weeks I might not be able to put in any hours at all. That's why I also might appear absent from the forum discussions every now and then.
 
None the less, all your input and comments are most welcome.
 
Thanks again.

As Matt said though I am not in any way "abusing" you, insulting you or however you want to put it. I think it is good that you (or anybody) started this topic. All I did was tell you what Anders did based upon what he told us and give you advice on how to deal with the adjustments good and bad. Until he fixes the bad (or other in game issues) we are more or less stuck with dealing with the bad and I don't doubt that he will adjust or fix bad things with the game as soon as he can. Be patient and more importantly be realistic. Anders is working on this game alone as a hobby. It takes him time to code adjustments to the game. Thus telling him to fix something or else you will leave is more along the lines of throwing a fit than reporting game issues with a level head.
 
Exxeo what is the 19 year old players ambition rating? Also by the looks of it no matter his ambition rating he looks to have the lowest player skill rating. That of course is hidden now and we cannot see it. Of that rating when we could see it I got to see an 18 year old with that rating (before it was hidden) go down in skill despite being ambitious in ambition rating. That reason is why I stay away from players that don't grow much as all like the plague.

Matt  it's a fair trade for Anders.  When he's ready to roll this out commercially he'll make the cash from it.  He's not paying us to play test.
 
We're helping him develop his product and he's pretty awesome.  It's a fair trade off.
 
This thread isn't about complaining about Anders.  I get that he's just done an update, but he might have to adjust some of the algorithms.
 
I do think that he needs to communicate more with us as we're losing season and possibly whole teams that we've developed over seasons and that's not good.  Also, if we don't have faith in his keeping the integrity of the system then it isn't worth developing a team knowing it can be wiped out as is happening now.
 
We're giving him feedback.   I just don't think any of us deserve abuse from other members by doing so. 

I may be a bit late to the conversation but if I were to take a wild guess, Anders' vision wasn't to have GHL teams have an average rating of 90. It's common sense. I'm looking in fishbowl, the newest game world there is (in terms of what season it's on). There is no oversaturation of 90+ rated players. Every contending team in the GHL has maybe 3-7 90 rated players, and the rest are role players, which make or break a team's playoff hopes.
 
I'm on the same page as rainsilent. All worlds have the same treatment. They all get the same updates, so theoretically if biscuit or fishbowl was as fast as lumber, they would have the same issues. But no, lumber (and mitts) saw/see everything. If slow worlds were faster, it would be possible that some players rated 85's now would be 95's in 5 seasons. If you can't handle Anders testing player development and reduction, then I suggest dropping your faster world teams. From my experience, the ONLY time fishbowl was paused, was when lumber crashed a while ago and Anders had to pause all worlds. There are never ridiculous issues with slow worlds.
 
However, Lumber is crucial to the games development because it is the fast world where Anders (and lumber users) are able to see and report bugs, so that Anders can save the slower world's from the same fate.
 
Until Anders is able to create a perfect player progression/reduction system, this will happen. Players will unexpectedly lose ratings, players will develop extremely quickly, and everything in between.
 
Fangwall, I think that if Anders is able to create the perfect player development/regression system, where there are only 3 Crosby's in a world, instead of 3 per team, which I think he wants, I'll be one of the first to call for him to delete all the worlds and make new ones. Even though I've built some solid teams, it doesn't take that long to build a stellar team. All you need is shrewd trading skills, and good tactical knowledge of hockey in general.
 
Because honestly, I'd rather play a game where player overalls aren't so ridiculous, more along the lines where you have a few 90 rated forwards, a few 90 rated defenders, maybe a 90 rated goalie, and then as overalls go down, player quantity goes up. (i.e. more players will develop into 85 overalls compared to 88 overalls)
 
All I'm saying is, no matter how much integrity this game has, I'm willing to lose all my team's to help this games development, because I know it can be better. I've been around to see a few updates, and after affiliate teams are released, I don't even know where this game will go.

I don't see how he is speaking for Anders, he is just stating the facts previously given to us. And I think you read his tone wrong as I don't think he's insulting you, just pointing out how to deal with injuries and mentioning that sometimes, it's down to luck.
 
As for your original suggestions, I think CPU trading is a lot better. You now have to give something of value that the CPU wants in order to get anything of value back. For server speed, that takes time and I'm pretty sure Anders tries to keep it as fast as possible, but every update with new content is going to inevitable slow the game down a tad. Also, our last update has noticeably gotten the game to run faster.
 
I do agree with your mention of player degradation. Right now it needs to be fixed, but before this last update, there were too many prospects developing too quickly and people were calling for the oldest players to degrade a little bit faster as they remained in their prime too long. It looks like a delicate balance that will probably take multiple updates to get right.
 
Finally, I don't think it's fair that you are comparing our time to Anders time spent on this game like they are equal. They are not. We only have to spend a few minutes a day to enjoy this game, Anders has to spend hours writing and fixing code. Sure it's something he does for fun, but too many of our own immediate demands can burn him out and make this feel like a job. I'm probably speaking for him there and he can correct me if I am wrong, but it's something I've seen happen before. So just have a bit patience while we wait for a fix.
 
 
 
 
Exxeo, did that 19-year old play in juniors? If he did, he looks like he was barely progressing before this last update, I actually think that his max potential might be around 83ish overall.

Yes that is exactly the case. The last development update was a little too much and has been tuned down in the upcoming release. I was aiming for making something like the top 5 prospects ready for GHL level at the age of 18. Not top 50. :/
 
Can't do much about the current prospects I'm afraid.

Yes that is exactly the case. The last development update was a little too much and has been tuned down in the upcoming release. I was aiming for making something like the top 5 prospects ready for GHL level at the age of 18. Not top 50. :/
 
Can't do much about the current prospects I'm afraid.

It's going to be hard to fix already affected teams I'm afraid. I'll try to fix this bug as soon as possible to prevent more damage.

The restore is now finished and simulation will continue from late day 76. The last playoff game in GHL needs to be replayed, but as far as I can see the Fire Dogs has already won the cup title. Day 77 with youth draft will simulate later today.
 
Thanks for you patience regarding this restore.

All game worlds activated but simulation has been postponed until tomorrow in order to get everyone a chance to get back in. If you still can't access any team or player pages please add to the bug section. Thanks for your patience!