dave1927p wrote:YZG wrote:Saapas wrote:This is the topic that goes closest for the thing in my mind. So I was wondering if teams can become amateur -> semi-pro -> pro. This came to my mind from another topic in this forum. In EHM this isn't so, or at least I got that picture. And the change in my opinion would come when you sign full time contract instead of part time contracts and maybe some other things combined.
I'd LOVE that too. From amateur to pro, and back to amateur if a long string of badlucks/mismanagements sink the team.
- YZG
This happened alot in North america back in the olden days. Alot of the AHL teams came from lower levels, and even some NHL teams were in other leagues before hand. Although most don't go back down to other leagues ----because if they stop to exist in a higher level its because they're bankrupt. Say if the AHL is looking to expand we've seen ECHL teams that are financially healthy move up. But like i said before, if it doesn't work out they won't go back down to the ECHL, because the owners end up selling and the teams moves or goes bankrupt.
That would be pretty awesome! It would be great to in some type of commish mode you can force this to happen (another thing in ootp -_- ) i know i keep referenceing ootp and it must get annoying but a game like EHM with the customization of ootp is the ideal game for me!
Well, the back to amateur part was more a reference to European hockey, where it's still possible to get relegated to lower leagues and lose pro status if circumstances require it. I agree with you, OOTP has brought many innovations that make a sim game a totally different gaming experience. Getting some into this project would be awesome.
What I'd like the most, the above being a part of it, and I must have said so a million times already, is a dynamic, evolving game world. Leagues with increasing/decreasing reputations that could, over decades, challenge the NHL for the title of top league in the world and the greatest players, new nations that start developping hockey programs, other nations that just get much better and start regularly performing well against Big Seven nations or even become one (EHM can't emulate the current rise of the likes of Denmark and Switzerland, nor Czech Republic and Slovakia's decline), teams that fold for various reasons, new teams that get founded to replace them, leagues adopting new rules, heck why not even scandals tarnishing player/staff/team reputations... all those things could make a game interesting/fascinating (for me at last) over many dozens of seasons, unlike EHM, where you've rather soon done and seen everything. That game was engineered to be static and it was one of its biggest weaknesses.
- YZG