EHM The Blue Line

stone169 wrote:Forced to play EHM07 due to my Steam account being hijacked. I would like to see the menus put back to the side again. I just find it was easily accessible instead of the way they have it now.

I agree, I like the 07 way better, I find the EA way has too many menus under menus, requiring random clicking to find even the quit button. I don't think EA is superior to 07 in this regards, in fact it is a regression IMO.

Is there any way to start a league with friends on this? Just started EHM:EA and love it. And would love to play in a league or fantasy league with some friends if that's not already a thing.. I could be missing it though.

Been playing as Danish National Team GM for some time, and here are a couple of things I have noticed.

Wishes:
1. We need the Euro Hockey Challenge - only Sweden, Finland, Czech Republic and Russia play games during the season as it is now. We need some more matches for the smaller nations. Besides the EHC it would also be cool if teams arranged friendlies during the international brakes and in the weeks leading up to the IHWC.

2. It would be nice if we could leave a couple of roster positions open during the IHWC, and then call up NHL'ers as their teams get knocked out of the playoffs. As it is now, once you confirm your roster before the IHWC there is no way to change it during the competition.

Bugs:
1. There are still some pretty extreme scores at both the IHWC and at the U20 IHWC. Teams with many NHL players will often kill smaller teams by 8-9 goals. This does not happen very often IRL - even at the Olympics the best NHL players in the world don't kill teams like Slovenia and Norway this much. At the U20's I also saw USA and Canada beat the Swiss by scores like 16-2 and the likes - again, this would not happen IRL.

2. Before the IHWC I was asked to choose jersey-numbers for my players. Even though I did this, the game still used other numbers during the competition than the ones I had chosen.

One thing that should be added is history of player stats by season. If i want to find out who finished 10th or 25th in points last season (for example) I should be able to hit some drop down that gives me a list of past seasons. I believe you could even see this kind of info in the Free ware version of EHM from back in the day. This needs to be added.

That is one I would love to see, but it takes up alot of data space in the game and would make it slower. At least I think I recall hearing that way back when.

I think it currently gives you the option to export it to your computer but when i tried it, the stats were all over the place. So if someone knows how to do it properly let me know.

sluice wrote:

bitterjoy wrote:Hi, just quick thought.
Just like in FM, I would like to see "chat to player" feature so my player know their performance either is good or dreadful.

I would love this also. Right now we can only discipline our players... it would be neat to be able to congratulate them.
Perhaps asking certain players what they think on the team?
It would be neat to see some players complaining about other players or coaches.

Agree 100%. This would be awesome if you say something in the media a player takes the wrong way and you can make up for it by pumping him up a little bit. This feature would be HUGE.

Taloncarde wrote:

batdad wrote:To those who say scouting your own players is silly. Well....the teams all do it. They have to. You cannot tell what your players are like if you do not watch them play.

And ... this leads to my want in the game the ability for the user to have scouting abilities and to get out and scout on his own, and for those to improve over time, as well as to add scouting abilities for coaches and AGM. These guys get out and scout all the time when they have the chance. Coaches when they are not playing in a city while on a road trip will take in games as will AGM, GM...etc. This should be added some day, but is something that would come after other things.

I agree that you need to scout players, but I would love if you could do a "Coach report" and have that also be visible on the scouting screen. That way I can look at what my Head Scout (Who's report I usually look at) and Head Coach have to say about a player on the team without having to add it as a note.

You can do this already no? In EHM: 07, I used to watch all of my top prospects playoffs and memorial cup games. the league must be a "selected league" but I know for a fact, I could watch any Canadian league game I wanted because I had the league as playable.

darth_lindros88 wrote:- Draft: increased (but realistic) probabilty to find more gems deeper in a draft...increased dependence on scouting to score them.

This one is easy, no need for a feature. Here is what I do to scout the draft. I go in and scout, I get reports on anyone who is 2 stars and up. I read all the reports and shortlist the guys I like. a month before the draft I go in and I filter attributes by my essential skills...anticipation, determination, work rate...any skills that you would see as imperative in a late round steal and just make notes for those players. Another tactic I use is to go into the Filters and set all the atts to 10 and find the most well rounded players.

There are ALWAYS gems later on. One of the highest scoring players I ever found was an American in round 5 who I left in College for 4 seasons and then one year of AHL. In fact, in EHM: 2007, I found it was too easy to find gems.

ForNever wrote:The ability to add a list of players simultaneously on one's Shortlist. I usually add a bunch of players there in start of a new game to see how they develop and such even if I wouldn't try to acquire them. Now it takes a lot of time to go through each one individually.

The game could possibly ask for which player I meant if there are several players of the same name after entering the list.

I would love this as well, having a tick-box in all player lists (shortlist, scouting, stats, etc) to do mass-selection and then the context menu options apply to all of them -adding/deleting to shortlist, scout (scouting players one by one is a hassle when going through draft eligible´s for example) and whatnot. I hate working with shortlists in all games where this does not exist, rendering them useless for me as I don't want to spend hours maintaining them.

elrune1988 wrote:

darth_lindros88 wrote:- Draft: increased (but realistic) probabilty to find more gems deeper in a draft...increased dependence on scouting to score them.

This one is easy, no need for a feature. Here is what I do to scout the draft. I go in and scout, I get reports on anyone who is 2 stars and up. I read all the reports and shortlist the guys I like. a month before the draft I go in and I filter attributes by my essential skills...anticipation, determination, work rate...any skills that you would see as imperative in a late round steal and just make notes for those players. Another tactic I use is to go into the Filters and set all the atts to 10 and find the most well rounded players.

There are ALWAYS gems later on. One of the highest scoring players I ever found was an American in round 5 who I left in College for 4 seasons and then one year of AHL. In fact, in EHM: 2007, I found it was too easy to find gems.

I don't think he asked for a feature to do what you described automatically, just saying availability of gems is low and I tend to agree. In reality there are many undrafted players who become regular NHL players which doesn't happen in EHM. Even if it's been quite easy to spot those who actually exist, there should be a realistic amount of them and then tweaks to make said gems less easy to identify even with excessive scouting and attribute searching so that there are more surprises.

Koch4681 wrote:Is there any way to start a league with friends on this? Just started EHM:EA and love it. And would love to play in a league or fantasy league with some friends if that's not already a thing.. I could be missing it though.

They are planning on adding online play later on.

When approaching transfer deadline, I delayed a trade because I was hoping for another trade to go through. This didn't happen but I didn't get the chance to complete the first trade either because the deadline passed. So, like in FM, it would be nice to get the option to finish all pending trades before the deadline.

Also, it's really annoying that you can't scroll on your roster page or other pages. When scrolling, I go to some random player's profile page instead. I don't know if this is because I play from a Mac through playonmac or if this problem exists for others as well.

I think it would be cool to manage your affiliations. I don't know if this is something a GM actually does IRL, but it hit me last night while playing my EHM 2007 career w/ Prince Albert.

They don't have a junior affiliate, so any extra roster players of mine need to be loaned out. I would love the ability to negotiate an X number of year affiliation agreement with a Jr. A or Jr. B team, and renew that agreement when the time comes (or, find a new team to affiliate with).

Details of the deal could include financial benefits for the lower league team, in addition to the number of years, and anything else others can think of.

hockeysauce wrote:I think it would be cool to manage your affiliations. I don't know if this is something a GM actually does IRL, but it hit me last night while playing my EHM 2007 career w/ Prince Albert.

They don't have a junior affiliate, so any extra roster players of mine need to be loaned out. I would love the ability to negotiate an X number of year affiliation agreement with a Jr. A or Jr. B team, and renew that agreement when the time comes (or, find a new team to affiliate with).

Details of the deal could include financial benefits for the lower league team, in addition to the number of years, and anything else others can think of.

Sounds a lot like the Affiliate system that was used in FM07, good idea!

More national team stuff - possible bug.

So I bring the Danish team through the first round of the World Championsships, winning over Germany in the process. In the qualifying round we manage to beat Sweden 5-4 after penalties, but we don't go through to the quarterfinals.

After the World Championsships end the board sack me.

No way this would happen IRL.

There needs to be a reject all button. If you offer a superstar player to all teams and get like 50 replies none of which you are pleased with you have to go through each and every one and hit cancel or actually open them up and hit reject. It's time consuming. Even when you accept an offer you still have to do the same thing for the rest of the emails you get.

krownroyal83 wrote:There needs to be a reject all button. If you offer a superstar player to all teams and get like 50 replies none of which you are pleased with you have to go through each and every one and hit cancel or actually open them up and hit reject. It's time consuming. Even when you accept an offer you still have to do the same thing for the rest of the emails you get.

This one is all the rage, I believe there are now posts in 25 threads about (exaggerating by about 4 threads maybe)...and a NEW THREAD CREATED For all.


I am trying so hard to be nice to all the newbies, but it is somewhat time. HAVE A READ OF THE FORUM RULES RE POSTING LADIES AND GENTLEMEN.

HAVE A READ OF THREADS BEFORE YOU POST SOMETHING. IT IS LIKELY ALREADY THERE. IF IT IS NOT, I AM SURE THERE IS A THREAD THAT APPLIES>

I apologize krownroyal for picking on your post and thread, it is not you...you were just the lucky one to send the grumpy old guy on the forums over the edge.


CLEAN IT UP NEWBIES!!!

ElQuapo wrote:More national team stuff - possible bug.

So I bring the Danish team through the first round of the World Championsships, winning over Germany in the process. In the qualifying round we manage to beat Sweden 5-4 after penalties, but we don't go through to the quarterfinals.

After the World Championsships end the board sack me.

No way this would happen IRL.

Another idea for WC. It would be good to have preview like for leagues and that AI remembers what happened last year, for example : If Denmark reaches semifinals one year then in preview of another year WC should be smth like "Can Danes repeat their suprising success from last year" ?

Or...If all or majoirty Swiss NHL-ers are still with their clubs, then preview should be like "Swiss will rely on their NLA players mostly, so medal is not expected this year"....

batdad wrote:

krownroyal83 wrote:There needs to be a reject all button. If you offer a superstar player to all teams and get like 50 replies none of which you are pleased with you have to go through each and every one and hit cancel or actually open them up and hit reject. It's time consuming. Even when you accept an offer you still have to do the same thing for the rest of the emails you get.

This one is all the rage, I believe there are now posts in 25 threads about (exaggerating by about 4 threads maybe)...and a NEW THREAD CREATED For all.


I am trying so hard to be nice to all the newbies, but it is somewhat time. HAVE A READ OF THE FORUM RULES RE POSTING LADIES AND GENTLEMEN.

HAVE A READ OF THREADS BEFORE YOU POST SOMETHING. IT IS LIKELY ALREADY THERE. IF IT IS NOT, I AM SURE THERE IS A THREAD THAT APPLIES>

I apologize krownroyal for picking on your post and thread, it is not you...you were just the lucky one to send the grumpy old guy on the forums over the edge.


CLEAN IT UP NEWBIES!!!

No worries. I don't recall reading about it. And i don't know if it's been posted in the wishlist thread but this is pretty much the place it should go which is why i put it here

PS, Go for a nap old man

Dear Mr. Royal.

No chirping me. Earn your stripes.

I took the liberty to go through all thread and sumarize sugggestions in a list. Maybe topic starter or Archibalduk can update their initial post with this and continue maintenance? Feel free to move around or re-group, doubt my categories are the optimal ones.

I tried to merge similar suggestions and ignored bug references as they should be reported to SI rather. I also did not list things that were too unspecific for me to write something specific about. Apologies if I missed anything.

* User Interface
1. Quick link to team affiliates

2. Customizable "hotbar" with quick links to favourite screens in top navigation bar

3. Easier access to and improved team depth charts

4. Ability to get coach reports in similar fashion as scouting reports for own players including current ability and potential, also including tryouts.

5. General purpose notepad on GM home screen for various notes (possibly including links/tags to players, teams etc)

6. Screen to manage/overview draft picks (including right-click to trade a pick)

7. View to front office screen that lists picks, blue-chip prospects, prospects outside NHL etc.

8. Further right-clicking options on teams, players and competitions in news and other screens

9. Browsing for save game path (instead of typing)

10. Show draft day, trade deadline day, all star game etc in calendar

11. Exit to start screen option to avoid having to restart game between different saves


* Graphics
1. Variable screen resolution including windowed mode

2. Auto-generated jersey backs for current players on team

3. Support for .jpg player pictures

4. Support for animated .gif images in player profiles´

5. Mini logos in league tables (as in FM)

6. Set one color wallpaper to improve general readability

7. Allow customization of attribute colors and thresholds

8. EHM 2007 skin including font

9. Possibility to change font size

10. Player sprites (the little circles) in live gameplay to show secondary and third jerseys as well and make them more distinguishable between the teams

11. Allow color customization rather than predefined colors of EHM2007

12. Customizable tresholds and colors for player attributes

13. 3D game engine with different arenas and Jersey-styles, different sized players and Mo-cap(?) by actual players


* Game engine and simulation results
1. Ability to make manual line changes during games and some player interactions

2. Game summary screen with game overall statistics (shots, hits etc)

3. Improved commentary, including scuffles around the net, too many men on ice penalties, bench-clearing brawls etc.

4. Broken sticks occuring and showing on the ice

5. Showing season to date goals and assists totals in game boxscores

6. Similar game simulation results when leagues are run in enhanced and quick sim mode

7. Add events for goal disputes and disallowed goals

8. Allow instant replays when viewing games


* Leagues and competitions
1. Addition of more leagues and competitions (UK, Asia, NCAA, Champions Hockey League, U18 nationals, NLA etc etc)

2. Euro Hockey Challenge (so that more national teams play games during season)

3. World Championship divisions according to current RL practise

4. National team friendlies arranged by AI in international breaks and before championships

4. All junior prospect games (Orr/Cherry, Subway Series, NCAA prospect game)

5. European exhibition games for NHL teams

6. Allstar game aligned with IRL captains and drafts, location etc. Also improve selections to further weigh in current season performance

7. More players in junior leagues typically feeding NCAA teams (USHL, NAHL, BCHL etc)

8. Apply to host draft and memorial cup

9. New 2016 World Cup tournament

10. Winter classics addition

11. NHL Combine addition

12. Automatic league expansions, team changes etc during careers

13. Dynamic league reputation depending on success and strength of their teams

14. Dynamic rivalries over time

15. Player generation to give generational players rarely (every decade or so)

16. Allow managers to deny players joining national teams for WC, EHT etc. (with effect on player morale)

17. Historical leagues, e.g. original six, with start date reflecting the actual real life dates

18. Implement accurate Canadian major junior league rules relating to rosters and draft pick compensations


* Customization
1. Adjustment on levels for penalties, scoring, injuries etc. for leagues

2. Pre-game and save-game editor

3. Commissioner settings in game saves, e.g. expanding/reducing the number of teams in the league, realignment, rule changes, salary cap adjustments etc.

4. Custom league maker with variable rules and size etc

5. Allow start date change option


* News and interactions
1. Further media interaction, e.g. when firing players/staff

2. More diverse phrasing of news items

3. Updated season expectations with more details

4. Improper roster notice to include what problem needs to be fixed

5. More interaction with team owner/board and make it based on owner personality

6. Team talks and activities with positive/negative impact on players

7. Media conference before or after a game plus journalist interviews

8. Fan expectations and activities

9. Further backroom interaction with staff for feedback, tips etc

10. Periodic reports from head scout summarizing all scout assignments and updates

11. General league news update with biggest surprises/let downs, best players and prospects etc

12. Limit news on new records so that each increment of a new record does not generate news item within the same season

13. Give kudos to players (as opposed to only discipline them)

14. Players and staff complaining and praising about each other

15. Previews for national tournaments as for league starts, refering to previous instances as well.

16. Customization of what type of news items to receive or multiple choice filtrations

17. Automatic assistant GM input on new players

18. Automatic retiring of jerseys of club legends or requested via board confidence menu

19. Add news item noting career high seasons

20. More "editorial like" content, like player features showcasing those making great progress around the world or such

21. Give warnings when your players are considering retirement


* Transactions
1. Enhanced trade and contract negotiations, with further motivations of why an offer is declined (and hints to competing offers). Possible variation depending on mental attributes of other party.
Parts of negotiations done live without submitting offers and waiting for responses.

2. Decline all open "offer all" responses at once, at least "decline all remaining" after accepting one or several offers.

3. Option to ask players to waive NTC/NMC and/or provide list of teams allowed/not allowed to trade to

4. Conditional clauses in trade negotiations (depending on re-signs, team success etc)

5. Loan Europeans back to their European clubs

6. Retain salary option in trades

7. More distinguished draft and trade deadline days as deadline day in FM, e.g. including graphical boards of draft and trades and player profiles etc.

8. Factoring in lower interest in start players during olympic/world cup years

9. Quickly switching trading partner in trade screen and get immediate feedback on general interest level for added players/picks

10. Contract negotiations for the GM

11. Allow hiring staff from other NHL teams, at least assistant coaches and scouts to better positions (head coach and assistant GM)

12. Make AI ran teams more active in trading on draft day as IRL

13. Make shorter delays in trade responses with deadlines coming up so that responses are received at latest on deadline day

14. Give details on expected return when offering trades to all in the league (e.g. X number of Y round draft picks, Z prospects etc). Including option to keep offer on the table until expected return is met.

15. Allow AI to make offer sheets and buyouts (with realistic frequency)

16. Make it possible to do trades of impending RFA´s/UFA´s for some return as in real life

17. Have juniors reconsider their choices betweeen major juniors and college occasionally

18. Add homesickness complains at juniors who request trade closer to their hometown


* Tactics
1. Allow user to define number of pairings/lines for all situations (or at least enable more for PK, OT and PP)

2. Remove shift length and replace with preferred TOI per game per line instead + zone start % target level

3. Move captain and assistants naming outside of tactics, e.g. like for shoot-out choices

4. More detailed powerplay tactics

5. "Screen goalie" and/or "look for deflection" option in personal tactics

6. Explanation (e.g. as tooltips during mouseover) to tactic options (can be reused in other sceens as well)

7. Allow full choices of line matching instead of fixed combinations

8. Ability to separate defensive pairing from forward lines in tactics assignments

9. Retain player personal tactics even when player is not in line-up

10. Visualization of selectable tactics when selecting them (e.g. umbrella)

11. Add diamond formation to PK tactics

12. Add tactic familiarity so that teams via practise and games get better at specific tactis, including a graphical representation

13. Separate aggressiveness and physicality in tactics


* Training camps
1. Set training camp open status to "Off" by default

2. Button to auto-invite all owned prospects

3. Enable training camp menu sooner before camp, e.g. 1 month before start. Possibly also allowing users to set training camp dates themselves within a certain time frame.

4. Configuration of location and schedule with drills, scrimmages etc

5. Make UFA players asking to joing NHL training camps


* Practice and progression
1. Individual practice schedules including schedules based on player roles as in FM

2. Development report from head coach after each season (and/or monthly) with highlights and tips for improvements including affiliated teams and prospects in junior
leagues and such

3. More detailed configuration options in training schedules

4. Import/export practice schedules

5. More visibility in training progression, e.g. show recently change attributes as in FM

6. More impact from captain and other players in young player developments, including tutoring system

7. Star rating of practice quality as in FM

8. Feedback from players and coaches on the practise schedules of players

9. Set practice schedule conditions, e.g. to change to rest schedule while below a certain condition %, change to another schedule based on attribute changes etc.

10. Arrange internal combine/all-star skills combination sessions with reports

11. Merits affecting player progression, e.g. boosts for winning memorial cup, WJC20 (even on supposedly fixed mental attributes)


* Player/staff search and scouting
1. Permanent scouting of NHL Entry Draft

2. Season report of owned head scout with recommendation on action

6. Easier option to show UFA´s (staff and players) and RFA´s in player search screen

7. Remember last scouted country instead of defaulting to USA

8. Scouts having nation and team knowledge

9. Option (without going through menus) to scout own team and affiliates

10. Further tweaking of scouting schedules, e.g. options to tweak re-scouting of already scouted players based on talent etc.

11. Make some players more inherently hard to scout (also for AI ran teams) to allow for more hidden gems in late draft rounds or undrafted.

12. List of all scouted players (e.g. adding option in addition to Any/Scouted Only/Not Scouted such as “Previously Scouted”)

13. More filtering options in player search screen, e.g. based on their average rating in regular season/playoffs


* Player/staff profiles and attributes
1. Make more of the hidden attributes visible for well known players.

2. Quicker way to resign, call up and send down players via player profile screen

3. Player position listed in profile title bar

4. Languages, favorite teams, multiple nationalities, favoured cities/regions etc

5. Keep player profiles with stats and history of retired players (option to only retain players of certain reputation or such)

6. Graphical representation of attributes (e.g. as in FM)

7. Better ways to track player's performance (e.g. calendar view with player stat and who he played most with)

8. Assign scout from within player profile screen

9. Create own scouting reports which is saved along with those from scouts

10. Overall player rating for offence and defence

11. Show pro games and waiver eligibility information in profile page, including games left

12. Separate player card for own players by coaches (same as scouts)

13. Add stats for human managers too

14. Show last years and totals first on player history page, without need for scrolling

15. Improve correlation between physicality and attributes (e.g. short players wouldn't have the highest strength values, heavy players not very agile)


* Statistics
1. Add shot blocking and penalty shot statistics

2. As many advanced statistics as possible (Corsi/Fenwick, WOWY, zone starts, qual comp, PDO, primary/secondary assists etc)

3. Display statistics based on situations (EV, Close Situations, 5vs4 etc) and per 60 minutes

4. Display statistics based on position played and line played on to see how players performed in different roles

5. Allow customized statistics formula based on existing stats, operators and constants

6. Display of total league statistics (e.g. goals per game, save percentage, shots etc) with at least average, but nice also with variance/deviation.

7. Save previous season statistics to be revisited in the future (and easily selectable in normal statistic screens) or at least better exporting options, including player career stats

8. Retain shutout statistics for previous seasons for goalies

8. View historical rosters with stats for user managed teams


* Standings, club and league history and awards
1. New NHL Standings view showing playoff wildcards

2. Club history shows club legends or similar

3. More realistic HoF criteria, or votin

4. Add GM of the year award (with user allowed to vote)

5. Change "NHL Player of the week" etc to instead show three stars as IRL

6. Mid- and end of season summaries for each league with league leaders, awards etc


* General management
1. Ability to hire coach for national team

2. Add more types of staff such as Dir. of Player Development, Dir. of Player Personnel, Video coach, Conditioning coach

3. Allow management of national and club teams with same manager

4. Allow playing as head coach, scout etc or combination of roles

5. Improved club reputation updates based on performance (i.e. starting with low level teams and working upwards should keep reputation current)

6. Addition of LTIR option (in addition to 7 and 24 days)

7. Option to make assistant or coach to scramble lineup for preseason games

8. Better control of affiliated teams (without adding manager), e.g. influence on training, roster and staff

9. More automatic staff control, such as head scout in charge of scouting

10. Further vacation options, such as stopping simulation at certain events, allow roster moves as long as no waiver listing etc.

11. Automatic continuation if idle setting

12. Set up new affiliates (like in FM), including for junior teams. Can be negotiated with financial benefits, terms etc.

13. Improved youth intake for european teams (as applicable) to give more juniors coming up into the junior teams of managed clubs

14. Enable NHL lockouts (which can be disabled in settings) with NHL players joining other leagues in the meanwhile


* Finances and facilities
1. Reworked finance screen, especially for overview for salary cap

2. More advanced financial system, including customizing ticket and merchandize prices, sponsors, TV deals etc.

3. Increasing revenue over the years, also affecting salary levels and cap. Reports and statistics to show league financials, expected cap next season etc.

4. Build new arenas with relocation (e.g. if current arena is rented)

5. Build/upgrade practice facilities


* Tables and lists
1. Enable multiple shortlists, including for staff and own players. When adding players select to which list (and allow default choice)

2. Select multiple players/staff/etc in lists and perform action for all selected at once (e.g. scouting, addition or deletion from shortlist, demotion or promotion,
camp invitation, contract termination etc)

3. Select which stat categories should be showing in lists as applicable

4. Further filtration option in player lists (e.g. in draft screen)

5. Customizable columns for player lists (e.g. in draft screen)

6. Enhanced filtering option on roster page: Available Only, Unavailable Only, All Players.

7. In roster screen show with 5vs5 line a player belongs to (similar to G1 and G2) and have swaps trigger in tactics as well.

8. Option to create custom depth charts

9. Allow export of tables and lists to CSV file with active filters considered (statistics, roster, contracts etc.)


* Other
1. Mac and Linux versions

2. Support for other languages

3. Options to adjust sound level of crowd, music etc

I haven't read too mich of the thread but:

Ability to deny players from joining their national team for the world championship or EHT. Just now i lost 5 players including my number 1 goalie and sniper.

Thanks for the great work shanamaj. May I suggest the being edited into the first post so everyone will see it and not repost the same things?

Someone who has a working SI forum account should probably post it there aswell Great write up...