Funny/weird/cool screenshots [EHM 1]

[CJ]

Just a little bit quicker in-game.

[philou21]

Look at his record though!

[CJ]

Look at his record though!

Pretty much explains it.

[Shindigs]

I have quite the hilarious Jets save going, and among the many gem screenshots it's produced are the following:

The premise of the save is that I'm not allowed to trade for players/pickup Free Agents (except undrafted ones). I can only trade for draft picks and trade away old/expensive players to cap manage, we just rounded off season 5 with this neat little record:

In season 4 we set a somewhat peculiar "franchise" record:

Looking purely at Jordan Kyrou's attributes one might say that, being an early 2nd rounder, he's a draft bust...but then he pulls off a Luc Robitaille:

We're bringing dynasites back! (also screw you Braden Holtby, 97% saves in the finals is just dirty)

and our defence is apparently second to none (Yeah, that's our top 3 D-men all being Norris finalists...)

We also took it upon ourselves to beat the Pens win streak record (2 years in a row)

and finally a little cameo by Auston Matthews from my previous Coyotes save:

unless Matthews was looking into the future at my outrageous Jets, there really is no such thing as a stronger team I'm afraid:S

[CJ]

You must have a the perfect tactic.. Where do you have Laine?

[Shindigs]

You must have a the perfect tactic.. Where do you have Laine?

In Minnesota, I'm playing on a custom version of the 15-16 db, I spent waaaaay to much time fixing the salaries in all of europe and removing bugged names/rebalancing prospects to want to move to the new edition. I picked up Dubois with my 1st rounder that I traded for year 1.

I also picked up the best version of Carter Hart I've ever seen in that draft in the 1st round, he's helped a bit. But to be fair we won our first 3 President's Trophies with sub .900 saves.

And in other not-so-expected news Blake Wheeler has won 2 Art Ross back to back, 2 Rocket Richard back to back, 2 Pearson's and 2 Hart Trophies and is currently losing his legs on a 9.25M a year contract. I just pray he retires in a few years so we can retire his jersey before that cap hit nips me in the bud.

[MikelPickle]

Julien got fired in the game today too for me

With the first overall pick, the Boston Bruins select Nolan Patrick

[MikelPickle]

It's confirmed, Brian Rafalski is a tank:

[MikelPickle]

This is easily the most lopsided game you'll ever see in EHM:



Boxscore cont.:



Lundqvist only faced SEVEN shots! Everyone on Team Sweden received a point (except Lundqvist) and Daniel Sedin had TEN points!

[Shindigs]

That was quite the win MickelPicke, the biggest humiliation I've managed in the NHL so far is this one:

It's not the most impressive win though, that was a 10-0 result against the Habs, the reason that 12-1 wasn't that impressive is this:

in other news the game really, really didn't want me to win 4 Cups in a row:

In our playoff series against the Canucks (yes, they're really good in my save) it had us concede a goal to the goalie swap bug:

and here comes the most insane phenom goalie I've ever had the pleasure of seeing (Drafted 11th Overall):

...and his career achievements thus far:

He currently sits on a 77.7% win rate in the regular season and a 87.7% win rate in the playoffs. So Brodeur can kiss all his records goodbye in a few years, since Carter is averaging 56 wins a season so far in his career, with his best season to date having 63 regular season wins.

Nikolaj Ehlers has had quite the career so far as well, at the tender age of 25 this is the awards and nominations on his resumé:

...I have a feeling he might make the Hall of Fame, especially since practically every player with more than 1k games gets in to the HoF in EHM. Even sub .500 win rate goalies.

[colinrsmall]

For whatever reason, AHL teams are having issues filling out their rosters in my game, which leads to pretty entertaining games:

[Shindigs]

For whatever reason, AHL teams are having issues filling out their rosters in my game, which leads to pretty entertaining games:

I've been having the same issue in my 1.4 save, should probably report it over at sigames. I've just been signing random ex-CHLers to fill out the few spots my own prospects don't take.

Anyone else been noticing older players losing their legs slower, and being more effective while doing so since the patch? Blake Wheeler is 35 now, and his Acc and Speed have gone from 16 to 12, but he doesn't seem to care (Oh, and Rasmussen at 71 points? He was my 3rd line Center:S):


Had a first for me in the NHL happen this playoff against Vancouver, double hat-tricks:

And another first in the playoffs. A hat-trick from Defence, defenders really are quite awful at shooting in EHM(normally):

My cap issues are not even funny any more in that save. Only Ehlers (and maybe Wheeler if he actually signs that extension) left from the original team that won the first cup 7 seasons ago, had to cycle everyone else for draft picks and to cap manage. Upside being I can inflate trade values by having 30 point guys (for the AI) score 70+ points (for me) and then trade them for a first rounder and some change. Had a top 5 draft pick all but one year despite winning 6 cups in 7 years. Gotta love the trade AI.

Award results just came in, Ehlers had a pretty good year despite his injury:

[nino33]

I can inflate trade values by having 30 point guys (for the AI) score 70+ points (for me) and then trade them for a first rounder and some change. Had a top 5 draft pick all but one year despite winning 6 cups in 7 years. Gotta love the trade AI.

Have you ever thought of playing in an online League (like the EHM/WHL http://www.ehmtheblueline.com/forums/dmhnl.php)? You could get the competition you've wanting/liking without the game AI issues (as such manipulations don't work with other human GMs)

[Shindigs]

I can inflate trade values by having 30 point guys (for the AI) score 70+ points (for me) and then trade them for a first rounder and some change. Had a top 5 draft pick all but one year despite winning 6 cups in 7 years. Gotta love the trade AI.

Have you ever thought of playing in an online League (like the EHM/WHL http://www.ehmtheblueline.com/forums/dmhnl.php)? You could get the competition you've wanting/liking without the game AI issues (as such manipulations don't work with other human GMs)

haven't really looked into what formats they play. But I'm always wary about playing a game you can save-scum in against other people. Kinda defeats the purpose. Also I do derive some weird pleasure from breaking down AI and figuring out all the flaws and imperfections to see just how hard you can dominate it in any game I pick up. Not sure why, just a quirk of mine I guess.

Maybe if I ever get that elusive 100% Pct season I'll look into it. But you need to dodge a lot of bullets to reach that, even with a really stacked team. The 92.7% one is still the closest I've gotten:/
I always lose the 21st game when I go on 20 game winning streaks, so until I figure out how to stop that from happening it's not gonna happen.

[nino33]

haven't really looked into what formats they play. But I'm always wary about playing a game you can save-scum in against other people. Kinda defeats the purpose.

I had to look up what save-scum was!
In online play that doesn't exist (there is no loading of earlier saves because someone doesn't like the results, nor is there any using of a saved game editor to look up hidden Attributes or CA/PA)

Given that much of what you do (using saved game editors/looking at the hidden Attributes/editing saved games) is considered just as wrong as uploading an earlier save and trying again (or more so by some), I'm surprised...

Maybe "competition" isn't really the word you were looking for before (seems more like showing off to me); looking for and using exploits has never been popular on TBL (the thinking being "it kinda defeats the purpose")

[Shindigs]

haven't really looked into what formats they play. But I'm always wary about playing a game you can save-scum in against other people. Kinda defeats the purpose.

I had to look up what save-scum was!
In online play that doesn't exist (there is no loading of earlier saves because someone doesn't like the results, nor is there any using of a saved game editor to look up hidden Attributes or CA/PA)

Given that much of what you do (using saved game editors/looking at the hidden Attributes/editing saved games) is considered just as wrong as uploading an earlier save and trying again (or more so by some), I'm surprised...

Maybe "competition" isn't really the word you were looking for before (seems more like showing off to me); looking for and using exploits has never been popular on TBL (the thinking being "it kinda defeats the purpose")

I don't look up any values in current saves, because that IS cheating. I look up values in saves I've already finished to get a better understanding of what made the good player a good player. And to validate what I think certain scout snippets mean. The only editing of attributes I do in active saves is of the attributes of the AIs draft picks to cheat on the AIs behalf. Which is technically cheating, but when you're cheating on your opponents behalf I don't really see the issue. When I refer to "knowing" hidden attributes of players in current saves that is based of their scout reports. Since most important hiddens are revealed in scout reports. Not to a specific value, but to the point where you know if it's good enough or not.

When it comes to exploits, I play the game as the game is. Not as it "should" be. Whatever that means, everyone will have a different opinion of that. If the game doesn't enforce playing like you "should" or in some cases even penalizes it. That's a flaw in the game's design, not the way someone plays the game.

And you're free to think whatever you want of my motivation for things. I just ask you this, if my motivation was to show off. Why would I share the exact tactics I use with others? That seems very counter-intuitive to me. Since it would make anyone able to replicate what I'm doing, thus making it pedestrian rather than whatever you'd otherwise call it. I just prefer to try and challenge myself to get better everytime I play, be it EHM, hockey, or some other games/sports I've played in the past. I don't necessarily care how my results stack up to others. Because I'm not them, I'm me. I have whatever strenghts and weaknesses that I do. And I want to be the best I can be within those limitations. If I beat someone who's better than me I feel lucky. If I beat someone worse than me I feel like a Bully. When I beat my own records I feel like I've improved.

[nino33]

I don't look up any values in current saves, because that IS cheating.

Glad to hear that

When it comes to exploits, I play the game as the game is. Not as it "should" be. Whatever that means, everyone will have a different opinion of that. If the game doesn't enforce playing like you "should" or in some cases even penalizes it. That's a flaw in the game's design, not the way someone plays the game.

For me it's a "let's pretend I'm a GM or GM/Head Coach" and that's what I do, I don't think of it as a "game" to play based on it's design...to each their own

And you're free to think whatever you want of my motivation for things. I just ask you this, if my motivation was to show off. Why would I share the exact tactics I use with others? That seems very counter-intuitive to me. Since it would make anyone able to replicate what I'm doing, thus making it pedestrian rather than whatever you'd otherwise call it. I just prefer to try and challenge myself to get better everytime I play, be it EHM, hockey, or some other games/sports I've played in the past. I don't necessarily care how my results stack up to others.

My comment was not based about your specific postings about EHM but rather your talking about being competitive and noting you finished 20th in a game of 11 million in the midst of those postings (I think I'd have been better to have just kept that thought to myself, my apologies)



Thanks for posting in the threads I started, asking about the AI (RFA signings/Drafting), it's very much appreciated

[Shindigs]

I don't look up any values in current saves, because that IS cheating.

Glad to hear that

When it comes to exploits, I play the game as the game is. Not as it "should" be. Whatever that means, everyone will have a different opinion of that. If the game doesn't enforce playing like you "should" or in some cases even penalizes it. That's a flaw in the game's design, not the way someone plays the game.

For me it's a "let's pretend I'm a GM or GM/Head Coach" and that's what I do, I don't think of it as a "game" to play based on it's design...to each their own

And you're free to think whatever you want of my motivation for things. I just ask you this, if my motivation was to show off. Why would I share the exact tactics I use with others? That seems very counter-intuitive to me. Since it would make anyone able to replicate what I'm doing, thus making it pedestrian rather than whatever you'd otherwise call it. I just prefer to try and challenge myself to get better everytime I play, be it EHM, hockey, or some other games/sports I've played in the past. I don't necessarily care how my results stack up to others.

My comment was not based about your specific postings about EHM but rather your talking about being competitive and noting you finished 20th in a game of 11 million in the midst of those postings (I think I'd have been better to have just kept that thought to myself, my apologies)





Thanks for posting in the threads I started, asking about the AI (RFA signings/Drafting), it's very much appreciated

That's fair enough. I normally don't like talking about that stuff. It's just I know you prefer the scientific method. And that makes proving to you that another method may be useful without scientific proof a bit hard. So the fact that I did achieve that a few years back was the only thing I could think of to try and add credibility to my methods. I agree it's more than a little bit tasteless of me to bring it up in all honesty. But it was the only thing I could think of at the time, it wasn't meant as bragging at all.

I've been reskinning EHM all day so no new screenshots for now, but I'll try and get back on topic as soon as my players do something silly again. Wheeler's 1000th point should be about 20-30 games out, looking forward to that A LOT!

Edit: And he gets it done sooner than expected. We hit that point where all the current starter goalies retire, and there have been nowhere near enough good prospect/newgen/regen goalies to refill the ranks. The start of this season has really highlighted how poor the goalies in the NHL are in my current save, we've scored 94 goals in 18 games, for reference.

Oh come on Dubois, it's a freaking bridge contract!

Out backup goalie has been failing us hard this year (ending with an abysmal .856 and 2.90 GAA), so we had to focus on getting our players personal records rather than the 100% Pct season this year:

If it wasn't for a run of every goalie we faced having .940+ saves at the end of the season, our entire first line would have eclipsed the 100 point threshold. I've been using Overload a lot this season to pad the top line's minutes and production.

In other news the Blackhawks finally gave up on being a win now team, and traded Toews away for some building blocks in their rebuild:

I've never seen a player that high profile traded while still at his peak in EHM before, so it came as a bit of a surprise.

Picked up a very exciting Offensive defensemen at 8th overall in this year's draft. I've never seen someone with Technicals this developed at the draft:

Sure he got holes in his game. But who the heck has 17 OTP at 18?!

[Shindigs]

Oh you've got to be kidding me...*facepalm*

and no, he's not one of those weird RW/RD, just a plain old Offensive defenseman.

[Shindigs]

My board really is the gift that keeps on giving:

I guess we do have that one seat free still...

[Saapas]

Yeah that is bugged, I've been playin with Sharks to 2036 and board says not close enough to the max capacity and avg att was maybe 10 under the max capacity and they've had enough money for 10-15 seasons to expansion

[A9L3E]

I think it misleadingly says that if the arena cannot be expanded. At least that is what I recall from EHM 2007.

[Shindigs]

Yeah, I think if the "team owns arena" isn't ticked in the db they probably aren't allowed to expand it. But we're pretty much rolling in money so they could just build a new one. I think I've seen that happen at least once. Not sure what would trigger it.

[A9L3E]

Yeah, I think if the "team owns arena" isn't ticked in the db they probably aren't allowed to expand it. But we're pretty much rolling in money so they could just build a new one. I think I've seen that happen at least once. Not sure what would trigger it.

I know it can happen in Football Manager, but I have never heard of it being a feature in EHM.

[Shindigs]

Yeah, I think if the "team owns arena" isn't ticked in the db they probably aren't allowed to expand it. But we're pretty much rolling in money so they could just build a new one. I think I've seen that happen at least once. Not sure what would trigger it.

I know it can happen in Football Manager, but I have never heard of it being a feature in EHM.

It's very possible I'm mixing the two up. It's quite common in FM, but I feel like I saw it in EHM at some point. Could just be mixing up memories though.

And to be back on topic, the guy with the worst name in history just got drafted: