This.grazza wrote:As much customisation as possible at least as much as the football manager games now have. People can then create/edit leagues in size and rules and create new competitions. The community can then take more of strain in this area and the developers can concentrate in area's such as the match engine, training, tactics, player/coach/media interaction etc.
Yes! Yes! and Yes!Primis wrote:This.grazza wrote:As much customisation as possible at least as much as the football manager games now have. People can then create/edit leagues in size and rules and create new competitions. The community can then take more of strain in this area and the developers can concentrate in area's such as the match engine, training, tactics, player/coach/media interaction etc.
This is what hamstrung the freeware version, and what is still hamstringing 2007.
Stop with the hardcoded start dates, alignments, and team numbers. Allow more flexibility.
I couldn't agree more. Customisation is the one thing I would absolutely love to see in a future EHM or EHM-type game.grazza wrote:As much customisation as possible at least as much as the football manager games now have. People can then create/edit leagues in size and rules and create new competitions. The community can then take more of strain in this area and the developers can concentrate in area's such as the match engine, training, tactics, player/coach/media interaction etc.
Sums it up perfectly really. Although I must say that I can find FM somewhat overwhelming sometimes. There's always a danger that things go too deep and there's too much to micro manage. Having said that, I think SI has managed to address this in recent iterations of FM by allowing you to assign certain tasks to your Assistant (such as attending press conferences and giving team talks - two things I've never really been that interested in personally).B. Stinson wrote:After giving my wishlist some thought, I realized that it can be simplified into one small equation:
Football Manager gameplay + Out of the Park Baseball customization + Hockey
Riz - you should check out the Dabo Hockey Manager Forums. There are a heck of a lot of wish lists and suggestions in there - most of them are categorised into different threads too.riz_si wrote:Oh goody, I love these kinds of threads
I still have a huge pile of printouts somewhere in my archives from the old freeware EHM forums when we had some suggestion threads in there. Would be nice to go through them one day and see what we managed to implement in the games.
Who said anything about a commercial product?riz_si wrote:Yeah, I've had a look in there occasionally and will continue to do so
The customization thing was actually the very next thing on our list and had we been able to do another version of EHM, it would have most definitely had customizable leagues etc. Having a custom start date however is something you probably wouldn't get in a (commercial) product like that, if it was going to be a yearly release like the FM series for example.
I think I see what you're saying.riz_si wrote:Having a custom start date however is something you probably wouldn't get in a (commercial) product like that, if it was going to be a yearly release like the FM series for example.
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Of course adding a customisable start date would never be viable in a commercial product as it'd potentially damage future sales. As much as we'd all like it as it'd cater for any further hiatus in development, it's just not something you could add. I guess there'd also be implications for licensing. 
don't forget some of the Front Office Football - there was some neat stuff in there.B. Stinson wrote:After giving my wishlist some thought, I realized that it can be simplified into one small equation:
Football Manager gameplay + Out of the Park Baseball customization + Hockey
lol I'll check this out but if you mean the international career totals alone, that only tracks adult games iirc. The international junior games should still be recorded in the career history section though with all the other yearly career stats.Xvash2 wrote:How about simple things like fixing statistics. Players that play for the WJC never have their stats go into their international stat count, despite the fact that they should.
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