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At least we stole Maurice Richard from him this year.
Well, the other teams won't accept the trades that you guys manage to get through so I mostly get scraps.kennec wrote:how does your lines look by s3? and whut star/core players have u brought in? If u only have young players it takes a few sesons for em to gel and devolp.visualdarkness wrote:By season three most of the guys here are in the playoffs but my team is stuck sucking 1-9 to start the season. Oh, that uninstall button is tempting. Like I said before this challenge is lost for me and I will end up last place every season, I just know it.
I really am sorry you're frustrated, but what you (and others too) are describing sounds great to me to be honest.visualdarkness wrote:By this time I would be fighting for Stanley Cup in EHM2007 so I guess that it's simply that my methods doesn't translate to EHM:EA. I'm just as bad in my other save with the Oilers.
But I need to mention some other guys: Morgan Rielly (huge asset, his assists and his contribution on a PP was awesome), Nicklas Jensen (almost point per game all these years and 3 Lady Bing Memorials), Robin Kovacs (from the first draft; he scored so many important goals and did fantastic job on a PP) and Nazem Kadri (who carried us for first couple of seasons when it was really tough). Maybe I'll even continue this save a little more in my spare time. Well, that was fun. I asked for a harder difficulty too but I find that the issue isn't gone, the exploits have just changed a bit. Most people here seems to be killing it in season two and fight for the Stanley Cup by season two-three. One guy here had three 110+ scorers within a short time.nino33 wrote:I really am sorry you're frustrated, but what you (and others too) are describing sounds great to me to be honest.visualdarkness wrote:By this time I would be fighting for Stanley Cup in EHM2007 so I guess that it's simply that my methods doesn't translate to EHM:EA. I'm just as bad in my other save with the Oilers.
I thought EHM07 was far to easy to win the Stanley Cup in because even in Challenges that had limitations people could still "rebuild overnight" and unrealistically win the Stanley Cup in years 1-3 (when they should probably be at best fighting for a playoff spot).....I remember pushing (unsuccessfully HaHa) for the Washington Capitals to be used in the 1974 DB Challenge (they were the worst team in NHL history IRL)
I actually think the tactics in EA is harder then in 07. I had to try alot to devolp good tactics and playtest em alot. In 07 it was just trade for good centers and wingers with good wristers and put on tight gaps and u won it all...visualdarkness wrote:I asked for a harder difficulty too but I find that the issue isn't gone, the exploits have just changed a bit. Most people here seems to be killing it in season two and fight for the Stanley Cup by season two-three. One guy here had three 110+ scorers within a short time.nino33 wrote:I really am sorry you're frustrated, but what you (and others too) are describing sounds great to me to be honest.visualdarkness wrote:By this time I would be fighting for Stanley Cup in EHM2007 so I guess that it's simply that my methods doesn't translate to EHM:EA. I'm just as bad in my other save with the Oilers.
I thought EHM07 was far to easy to win the Stanley Cup in because even in Challenges that had limitations people could still "rebuild overnight" and unrealistically win the Stanley Cup in years 1-3 (when they should probably be at best fighting for a playoff spot).....I remember pushing (unsuccessfully HaHa) for the Washington Capitals to be used in the 1974 DB Challenge (they were the worst team in NHL history IRL)
The only difference here really that makes the huge difference between the ones struggling and the ones winning three Stanleys is if you had time to find the exploits or not, in EHM2007 pretty much everybody knows about them by now.
Did you have the AHL selected when you started your game? You can only GM in Leagues you have activated at start-upwatts555 wrote:How do I take control of the Utica farm team. I try to take control, but am only seeing the NHL in the "USA" categroy
Ofcourse there are exploits available, or nobody would be ably to get stats like this the first season with this team:nino33 wrote:How do you know success in EHM:EA is only because of exploits when you've only played two careers and lost a lot in both?
Are you sure that everyone that has succeeded in EHM:EA only does so because of exploits?
It is the challenge team, so it was already set up ahead of timenino33 wrote:Did you have the AHL selected when you started your game? You can only GM in Leagues you have activated at start-upwatts555 wrote:How do I take control of the Utica farm team. I try to take control, but am only seeing the NHL in the "USA" categroy
Ah yeswatts555 wrote:It is the challenge team, so it was already set up ahead of timenino33 wrote:Did you have the AHL selected when you started your game? You can only GM in Leagues you have activated at start-upwatts555 wrote:How do I take control of the Utica farm team. I try to take control, but am only seeing the NHL in the "USA" categroy
well then I'm no help! sorry I don't know if you understood where I was going. To keep it short, once you find a method of winning you'll know how to win, it's as simple as that. I haven't found any in EHM:EA with the new engine so I suck, the perimeters that I used when setting up my team in EHM2007 doesn't work here at all.nino33 wrote:visualdarkness - I've never played the way you describe, and I know of others that like me just pretend they're a GM/Head Coach too.....while maybe many/most looked for regens in EHM07, not everyone used to look for regens (I never did)...I can't see why anyone would play a game the way you describe, but then I never understood looking for regens)
Isn't Filppula way too old?TheEpicOne258 wrote:I only made one move during the 2016-17 offseason. I traded Eddie Lack (he played terrible last season) for Valtteri Filppula and Jake Dotchin. Filppula can fill in a top 6 center role so I can develop Marner and Horvat.
So all in all I can't get anything useful for my players hence continued bottom-dwelling.sao.phim wrote:Yep, trade value is definitely dependent on their performance. Other teams' needs play key role too. You can try to change status of your players to core member and being untouchable, sometimes it might help to get more for them in trade.
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How to trade away bonino for example :visualdarkness wrote:I'm trying to trade away players at the moment but nobody want my players, I get at best 3-4th round picks for them. Dunno how you guys get 1st liners back for your guys? Though my guys reputation is probably ruined by their performance.