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Posted: Wed Apr 13, 2022 6:23 am
On the youtube video it says that you have expanded WJC... EHM already had Division 1 for WJC... Just wondering how was WJC expanded
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Posted: Wed Apr 13, 2022 7:18 pm
Nevermind I figured it out for WJC.. Question with 12 teams in the main stage is it 2 go down and 2 go up from Division 1 or just 1 go down like normal?
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Posted: Sat Apr 16, 2022 4:34 am
its usally 8 team in the tournament if im not wrong .. so yeah technically expendedBulldogsFan wrote: Wed Apr 13, 2022 7:18 pm Nevermind I figured it out for WJC.. Question with 12 teams in the main stage is it 2 go down and 2 go up from Division 1 or just 1 go down like normal?
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Posted: Tue Apr 19, 2022 9:22 pm
Hmmm, not really sure - I'll look into this.kini666 wrote: Fri Apr 01, 2022 2:37 pm one thing that i have notice so far , every player that you draft after 2022 , you can only sign them 2 years instead of 3 , any reason why ?
Sorry I've been radio silent lately, just been busy. Will start tinkering again soon with the DB!
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Posted: Wed Apr 20, 2022 5:34 pm
BK - all I can say is 
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Posted: Fri Apr 29, 2022 6:28 am
no worries man ! take your time ! rushing thing to make people happy isnt the best thing anyway , if you need help to understand that issue let me know i'll send you screenshot or somethingBKarchitect wrote: Tue Apr 19, 2022 9:22 pmHmmm, not really sure - I'll look into this.kini666 wrote: Fri Apr 01, 2022 2:37 pm one thing that i have notice so far , every player that you draft after 2022 , you can only sign them 2 years instead of 3 , any reason why ?
Sorry I've been radio silent lately, just been busy. Will start tinkering again soon with the DB!
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Posted: Thu May 05, 2022 7:32 pm
I'm just thinking. What do You think about linking the Polish and Slovak league in the game? 
For me, in real life, it would be a great decision to develop hockey in Poland. If You would be positive for this proposal I think that the combined league of Slovakia and Poland should have 16 teams, 8 of the best from Poland and 8 from Slovakia and the second league from the other teams 
For me, in real life, it would be a great decision to develop hockey in Poland. If You would be positive for this proposal I think that the combined league of Slovakia and Poland should have 16 teams, 8 of the best from Poland and 8 from Slovakia and the second league from the other teams NHLX - An EHM Database
Posted: Tue May 17, 2022 11:14 pm
Really enjoying the mod and its new universe. Especially liking the new NHL set up. One question--would it be possible to change the length of the playoff series, or would that hurt the overall schedule? I prefer best-of-7 series for all playoffs, was wondering if that could be a possible option?
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Posted: Mon Jun 06, 2022 1:12 am
Quick update on some of the changes coming up in NHLX for the 2022-23 season:
Lots of new graphics - some updated based on real life, some updated for fantasy aesthetics...
The ESL (Europa Super League) has been expanded from 16 to 18 teams. The last playable version of NHL already had Jokerit and Dinamo Riga - they will remain but as of now have empty rosters. Joining them however for this season are Tappara - the new Finnish champions and at home in the sparkling new arena in Tampere (no worries - they still play city rivals Ilves in the Selanne Cup!) as well as a re-branded and strengthened Sokil Kyiv - to be a bright and shining light for the people of Ukraine!
A big overhaul and beefing up of the hockey development systems of all the hockey playing nations in NHLX. These changes will not be seen right away - but you will see if you play 5 or 10+ years down the road a gradual growth of legitimate prospects in all countries. I wanted to simulate a long-term development that requires patience.
These have been carefully weighted so that top nations produce the most top talent and then tiered down based on hockey importance and relevance in the country. But even minnow nations can now produce European-level pros from time to time while future NHL drafts will really pop with a variety of nationalities. It is even possible to see a "Golden Generation" arrive once in a while from an unexpected nation - although this is far from a guarantee in any given game.
Lots of new graphics - some updated based on real life, some updated for fantasy aesthetics...
The ESL (Europa Super League) has been expanded from 16 to 18 teams. The last playable version of NHL already had Jokerit and Dinamo Riga - they will remain but as of now have empty rosters. Joining them however for this season are Tappara - the new Finnish champions and at home in the sparkling new arena in Tampere (no worries - they still play city rivals Ilves in the Selanne Cup!) as well as a re-branded and strengthened Sokil Kyiv - to be a bright and shining light for the people of Ukraine!
A big overhaul and beefing up of the hockey development systems of all the hockey playing nations in NHLX. These changes will not be seen right away - but you will see if you play 5 or 10+ years down the road a gradual growth of legitimate prospects in all countries. I wanted to simulate a long-term development that requires patience.
These have been carefully weighted so that top nations produce the most top talent and then tiered down based on hockey importance and relevance in the country. But even minnow nations can now produce European-level pros from time to time while future NHL drafts will really pop with a variety of nationalities. It is even possible to see a "Golden Generation" arrive once in a while from an unexpected nation - although this is far from a guarantee in any given game.
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Posted: Mon Jun 06, 2022 7:57 am
Great progress, especially with prospect depth, BKarchitect!
I have some league and cup ideas (some of which I forgot to post earlier), but if these are already underway, that's even better. I've been trying to think of ways to include more playable teams for nations without playable teams.
My ideas/suggestions:
- Combined cup for AHL and IHL: I was thinking since NHL has 70 games and cup, why not AHL and IHL? 72 (36+36) team cup would be massive and require something like 8 regional groups with 9 teams each, but resurrecting Turner Cup (for example) this way and have a way for all original IHL teams (at least by name) to compete against each others.
- Playable LNAH, FPHL, SPHL and WPHL (with a North American minor pro champions cup after their playoffs).
- Expanded Kazakh Pro Hokei Ligasy to 16 teams. Team from Kyrgyzstan and Turkmenistan, Binokor Tashkent from Uzbekistan to keep Uzbekistan's advantage against them both. For Kazakhstan the resurrection of Kazakhmys Satpaev (former league champion as Kazakhmys Karaganda).
- Lower level Asian hockey league that features 12 or 16 teams from United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Hong Kong, India, Malaysia, Mongolia, North Korea, The Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan and Thailand. North Korea could have domestic players only rule to display North Korea's closed country (and to balance this other countries wouldn't be able to sign North Korean players inside their foreign players limit).
- 12 team league to combine South African Super League with teams from Kenya and Namibia and also Jamaica to make even more exotic league than previous one. I've sketched an idea of featuring 4 teams from Jamaica because someone thought Caribbean sun would attract North American players.
- For unplayable countries in Europe, the smaller league would be like EuroBasket in basketball because I noticed they would share many countries between each other. Teams from Andorra, Israel, Bosnia, Greece, Portugal, Iceland, Luxembourg, North Macedonia, Spain and Turkey. I'm not sure what to do with Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan, partly since the latter two have their own conflicts in real life. Also they would have case for both lower level Asian hockey league (to have somewhat close teams to UAE and Kuwait) and of course, this league.
This way all the countries in the database would have a team to play in any domestic league (unless the amount has gone up or some other changes). Also I don't mind if you think they aren't feasible or would require splitting into more leagues considering regions.
I have some league and cup ideas (some of which I forgot to post earlier), but if these are already underway, that's even better. I've been trying to think of ways to include more playable teams for nations without playable teams.
My ideas/suggestions:
- Combined cup for AHL and IHL: I was thinking since NHL has 70 games and cup, why not AHL and IHL? 72 (36+36) team cup would be massive and require something like 8 regional groups with 9 teams each, but resurrecting Turner Cup (for example) this way and have a way for all original IHL teams (at least by name) to compete against each others.
- Playable LNAH, FPHL, SPHL and WPHL (with a North American minor pro champions cup after their playoffs).
- Expanded Kazakh Pro Hokei Ligasy to 16 teams. Team from Kyrgyzstan and Turkmenistan, Binokor Tashkent from Uzbekistan to keep Uzbekistan's advantage against them both. For Kazakhstan the resurrection of Kazakhmys Satpaev (former league champion as Kazakhmys Karaganda).
- Lower level Asian hockey league that features 12 or 16 teams from United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Hong Kong, India, Malaysia, Mongolia, North Korea, The Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan and Thailand. North Korea could have domestic players only rule to display North Korea's closed country (and to balance this other countries wouldn't be able to sign North Korean players inside their foreign players limit).
- 12 team league to combine South African Super League with teams from Kenya and Namibia and also Jamaica to make even more exotic league than previous one. I've sketched an idea of featuring 4 teams from Jamaica because someone thought Caribbean sun would attract North American players.
- For unplayable countries in Europe, the smaller league would be like EuroBasket in basketball because I noticed they would share many countries between each other. Teams from Andorra, Israel, Bosnia, Greece, Portugal, Iceland, Luxembourg, North Macedonia, Spain and Turkey. I'm not sure what to do with Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan, partly since the latter two have their own conflicts in real life. Also they would have case for both lower level Asian hockey league (to have somewhat close teams to UAE and Kuwait) and of course, this league.
This way all the countries in the database would have a team to play in any domestic league (unless the amount has gone up or some other changes). Also I don't mind if you think they aren't feasible or would require splitting into more leagues considering regions.
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Posted: Tue Jun 07, 2022 10:51 pm
Already one-step ahead on a North American Minor Pro (AHL+IHL) in-season tournament.
- AHL & IHL schedules are reduced to 70 games, similar to the NHL.
- The new Cup (Turner Cup is a good name, gonna steal that) will feature 8 regionals pods of 9 teams each. Similar to the NHL in-season Cups, first phase is home-away within group. The 8 regional champs advance to the Quarters, Semis and Finals. Each series is a 3-game set (fits the best within the league schedule and mimics the NHL in-season tournament - there is just an extra round here because double the groups).
- The third tier North American leagues I plan to make playable at some point but not a high priority at the moment. For me, drilling down that deep is more about having them as background leagues and player pool collectors than they are about any desire I have to actually "play" that low of a level of hockey in EHM.
- Could certainly look at expanding Kazakh league to 16.
- The exotic league and EuroBasket type situations are worth looking at in the future. Won't be highest priority at the moment though
- AHL & IHL schedules are reduced to 70 games, similar to the NHL.
- The new Cup (Turner Cup is a good name, gonna steal that) will feature 8 regionals pods of 9 teams each. Similar to the NHL in-season Cups, first phase is home-away within group. The 8 regional champs advance to the Quarters, Semis and Finals. Each series is a 3-game set (fits the best within the league schedule and mimics the NHL in-season tournament - there is just an extra round here because double the groups).
- The third tier North American leagues I plan to make playable at some point but not a high priority at the moment. For me, drilling down that deep is more about having them as background leagues and player pool collectors than they are about any desire I have to actually "play" that low of a level of hockey in EHM.
- Could certainly look at expanding Kazakh league to 16.
- The exotic league and EuroBasket type situations are worth looking at in the future. Won't be highest priority at the moment though
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Posted: Wed Jun 08, 2022 12:48 am
Trying to add Junior A leagues as playable in Canada from what ECKx has in his roster file but i like the way your database is and with the extra WJC leagues and such but want to play in Canada Junior A. Are they easy to make playable in your database?
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Posted: Fri Aug 19, 2022 5:16 pm
BKarchitect, I have done some fix and error hunting for NHLX 2.1 Beta. Again if you have done something to them already, feel free to disregard my findings.
Fixes and errors:
- 16 team leagues max league games from 56 to 60 games: Elite Ice Hockey League, Ligue Magnus, Erste Liga
- Asia Super League has double awards, remove another (or I have an idea for them later in post)
- TIHL East Division has too long(?) ID, which has caused it to switch to Emirian Domestic League in schedule templates and league selection not working when selected at least for me.
- Promotion playoff: stage stats to Playoffs. Relegation playoffs: Stage stats to Playouts. I have noticed otherwise these default to regular season stats and make it harder to find playoff performers. I guess the same could be done to NCAA structure (Stage stats: Conference Playoffs and Championship to just Playoffs), but I'm not on expert on how NCAA game statistics are counted.
- Z-Exticnt102 to Exhibition, the same could be checked for pre-season cups and leagues just in case
- Some teams in NHL play 83 games
- Baibarys Jrs (Kazakh Junior League): Nationality from Zaire to Kazakhstan
- Östersunds IK (Swedish Allsvenskan): missing cash and player budget
- AlpsHL junior teams don't hire enough players. Maybe switching them to independent junior team or semi-independent farm team could help hiring more players?
- Sometimes random junior players get "signed" into random national teams as staff, but it doesn't seem to be game breaking issue. I don't know if this is known issue in other dbs.
Suggestions and additions:
- Add domestic league to all nations without one. I know this would break the logic of one or two level league structure, but there are some multinational leagues like ASL, where Anyang has an advantage to loan players to Korea Domestic Hockey Club, but Japanese teams don't have same possibility. So I propose that countries (Austria, Belarus, Denmark, French, Great Britain, Hungary, Italy, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Slovenia, Japan, Australia, Chile) with missing domestic clubs could get their own to have a place to loan their players and have a chance to retain some players playing who wouldn't be able to play otherwise.
- In same way four (got idea from Sweden's regional junior teams in db) team domestic lower league to Czechia, Finland, Germany, Russia, Slovakia, Sweden and Switzerland (again a place to loan players for second level leagues who don't have a place otherwise for them)
- This is experimental, but putting ESL and KHL as own nations to avoid Swiss National League and VHL teams to keep their status as semi-pro when relegated team has been promoted back highest level in national structure (not counting ESL and KHL). I'm not sure if this would work, but if they have no chances to spawn players and participate in international competitions, they wouldn't break the game - at least in theory. (I have never added completely new nations in EHM db so I don't have experience on this)
- And now for competitions and leagues. Final Cup for winners of NHL American and Canadian Championship, 3 game "summit series" played in neutral arena.
- Ontario Professional Hockey League, which would offer another lower level pro league (Named after 1908-11 historical league). Probably the return of Western Canada Hockey League or some other league in Western Canada would not work because of expansion of AHL and IHL?
- Russian led cup competition triggered by Lower A/B/C licences (if it would work when used separately from CHL licences). Probably KHL, VHL, Belarusian Extraleague (and perhaps Chinese Hockey League - here come the duplicate ASL awards)
- Chinese Hockey League would feature 8 Chinese teams, PSK Sakhalin (former ALIH), and teams from North Korea, Mongolia and Hong Kong each, 12 total. But talent dilutation would cause league reputation level to lower to 10 from 11. Asian Super League could be 12 remaining Japanese and South Korean teams or back to 16 teams with two to Japan (like Osaka and Nagano - former had an hockey team in Japan Ice Hockey League early years and latter of course winter olympics), one/two to South Korea and one/zero to Taiwan.
- But whatever happens to the above: Could there be Fukufuji/Miura Cup for Japanese teams? (First Japanese NHL player or first NHL drafted player if already playing player is not okay for a name.)
- Also I was thinking of combined Norwegian and Danish league structure (I could see all their main rivals in higher level leagues being as motivation for this). Also this could be chance to resurrect former dbs WHA teams here and even give Reykjavik a place in the league or at least give Icelandic players right to play in this new Nordic league.
I hope these help again. And it was okay to use Turner Cup as a name. Sorry it took a while, I needed to check all these out and sim db a bit.
Fixes and errors:
- 16 team leagues max league games from 56 to 60 games: Elite Ice Hockey League, Ligue Magnus, Erste Liga
- Asia Super League has double awards, remove another (or I have an idea for them later in post)
- TIHL East Division has too long(?) ID, which has caused it to switch to Emirian Domestic League in schedule templates and league selection not working when selected at least for me.
- Promotion playoff: stage stats to Playoffs. Relegation playoffs: Stage stats to Playouts. I have noticed otherwise these default to regular season stats and make it harder to find playoff performers. I guess the same could be done to NCAA structure (Stage stats: Conference Playoffs and Championship to just Playoffs), but I'm not on expert on how NCAA game statistics are counted.
- Z-Exticnt102 to Exhibition, the same could be checked for pre-season cups and leagues just in case
- Some teams in NHL play 83 games
- Baibarys Jrs (Kazakh Junior League): Nationality from Zaire to Kazakhstan
- Östersunds IK (Swedish Allsvenskan): missing cash and player budget
- AlpsHL junior teams don't hire enough players. Maybe switching them to independent junior team or semi-independent farm team could help hiring more players?
- Sometimes random junior players get "signed" into random national teams as staff, but it doesn't seem to be game breaking issue. I don't know if this is known issue in other dbs.
Suggestions and additions:
- Add domestic league to all nations without one. I know this would break the logic of one or two level league structure, but there are some multinational leagues like ASL, where Anyang has an advantage to loan players to Korea Domestic Hockey Club, but Japanese teams don't have same possibility. So I propose that countries (Austria, Belarus, Denmark, French, Great Britain, Hungary, Italy, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Slovenia, Japan, Australia, Chile) with missing domestic clubs could get their own to have a place to loan their players and have a chance to retain some players playing who wouldn't be able to play otherwise.
- In same way four (got idea from Sweden's regional junior teams in db) team domestic lower league to Czechia, Finland, Germany, Russia, Slovakia, Sweden and Switzerland (again a place to loan players for second level leagues who don't have a place otherwise for them)
- This is experimental, but putting ESL and KHL as own nations to avoid Swiss National League and VHL teams to keep their status as semi-pro when relegated team has been promoted back highest level in national structure (not counting ESL and KHL). I'm not sure if this would work, but if they have no chances to spawn players and participate in international competitions, they wouldn't break the game - at least in theory. (I have never added completely new nations in EHM db so I don't have experience on this)
- And now for competitions and leagues. Final Cup for winners of NHL American and Canadian Championship, 3 game "summit series" played in neutral arena.
- Ontario Professional Hockey League, which would offer another lower level pro league (Named after 1908-11 historical league). Probably the return of Western Canada Hockey League or some other league in Western Canada would not work because of expansion of AHL and IHL?
- Russian led cup competition triggered by Lower A/B/C licences (if it would work when used separately from CHL licences). Probably KHL, VHL, Belarusian Extraleague (and perhaps Chinese Hockey League - here come the duplicate ASL awards)
- Chinese Hockey League would feature 8 Chinese teams, PSK Sakhalin (former ALIH), and teams from North Korea, Mongolia and Hong Kong each, 12 total. But talent dilutation would cause league reputation level to lower to 10 from 11. Asian Super League could be 12 remaining Japanese and South Korean teams or back to 16 teams with two to Japan (like Osaka and Nagano - former had an hockey team in Japan Ice Hockey League early years and latter of course winter olympics), one/two to South Korea and one/zero to Taiwan.
- But whatever happens to the above: Could there be Fukufuji/Miura Cup for Japanese teams? (First Japanese NHL player or first NHL drafted player if already playing player is not okay for a name.)
- Also I was thinking of combined Norwegian and Danish league structure (I could see all their main rivals in higher level leagues being as motivation for this). Also this could be chance to resurrect former dbs WHA teams here and even give Reykjavik a place in the league or at least give Icelandic players right to play in this new Nordic league.
I hope these help again. And it was okay to use Turner Cup as a name. Sorry it took a while, I needed to check all these out and sim db a bit.
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Posted: Sat Sep 03, 2022 11:27 pm
Thanks! Yeah I've noticed a few of these but some are new to me and I will fix!TepNum27 wrote: Fri Aug 19, 2022 5:16 pm BKarchitect, I have done some fix and error hunting for NHLX 2.1 Beta. Again if you have done something to them already, feel free to disregard my findings.
Some good ideas too - can't promise all will make it into the full release of the new season of NHLX but definitely taking into consideration!
Thanks as usual for picking through the details
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Posted: Sun Sep 04, 2022 3:21 pm
TepNum27 wrote: Fri Aug 19, 2022 5:16 pm Fixes and errors:
- 16 team leagues max league games from 56 to 60 games: Elite Ice Hockey League, Ligue Magnus, Erste Liga
FIXED!
- Asia Super League has double awards, remove another (or I have an idea for them later in post)
FIXED!
- TIHL East Division has too long(?) ID, which has caused it to switch to Emirian Domestic League in schedule templates and league selection not working when selected at least for me.
FIXED!
- Promotion playoff: stage stats to Playoffs. Relegation playoffs: Stage stats to Playouts. I have noticed otherwise these default to regular season stats and make it harder to find playoff performers. I guess the same could be done to NCAA structure (Stage stats: Conference Playoffs and Championship to just Playoffs), but I'm not on expert on how NCAA game statistics are counted.
FIXED!
- Z-Exticnt102 to Exhibition, the same could be checked for pre-season cups and leagues just in case
FIXED!
- Some teams in NHL play 83 games
FIXED!
- Baibarys Jrs (Kazakh Junior League): Nationality from Zaire to Kazakhstan
FIXED!
- Östersunds IK (Swedish Allsvenskan): missing cash and player budget
FIXED!
- AlpsHL junior teams don't hire enough players. Maybe switching them to independent junior team or semi-independent farm team could help hiring more players?
Will try independent juniors for now...these are difficult ones, any time a junior club is competing in a regular domestic competition. I have gotten rid of a lot of these cases but RB Juniors and KAC Futures have a ton of players with real futures who are probably too good for their club's actual junior league teams but I want to remain sign-able for the main team. I may also just eliminate the junior league clubs for these franchises so as not to spread out the youth talent too thin over multiple junior clubs. Fehervar also fits this mold as Fehervari Titanok is now purely an Academy team with new logos and branding but still playing in Erste Liga. No easy solution for these cases, will keep experimenting and be open to more ideas.
- Sometimes random junior players get "signed" into random national teams as staff, but it doesn't seem to be game breaking issue. I don't know if this is known issue in other dbs.
Yes, not sure about this one to be honeest
Suggestions and additions:
- Add domestic league to all nations without one. I know this would break the logic of one or two level league structure, but there are some multinational leagues like ASL, where Anyang has an advantage to loan players to Korea Domestic Hockey Club, but Japanese teams don't have same possibility. So I propose that countries (Austria, Belarus, Denmark, French, Great Britain, Hungary, Italy, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Slovenia, Japan, Australia, Chile) with missing domestic clubs could get their own to have a place to loan their players and have a chance to retain some players playing who wouldn't be able to play otherwise.
Seems do-able and logical!
- In same way four (got idea from Sweden's regional junior teams in db) team domestic lower league to Czechia, Finland, Germany, Russia, Slovakia, Sweden and Switzerland (again a place to loan players for second level leagues who don't have a place otherwise for them)
Yes as soon as I implemented for the Swedish regional teams I was like "I should do this for lower tier holding" for major domestic nations. Would allow real players who are decent and actually playing in lower levels to be contracted and give an outlet for the second tier leagues...I'll probably gradually work on this
- This is experimental, but putting ESL and KHL as own nations to avoid Swiss National League and VHL teams to keep their status as semi-pro when relegated team has been promoted back highest level in national structure (not counting ESL and KHL). I'm not sure if this would work, but if they have no chances to spawn players and participate in international competitions, they wouldn't break the game - at least in theory. (I have never added completely new nations in EHM db so I don't have experience on this)
Fun idea...the entire semi-pro when relegated thing needs to be fixed in the game for sure. I'm afraid EHM might not like this but though! I may wait for anything past experimentation until the next EHM update, maybe the semi-pro thing gets fixed...I consider it a bug.
- And now for competitions and leagues. Final Cup for winners of NHL American and Canadian Championship, 3 game "summit series" played in neutral arena.
Fun idea but for me that is what the Stanley Cup is for, so I'll probably pass on this one
- Ontario Professional Hockey League, which would offer another lower level pro league (Named after 1908-11 historical league). Probably the return of Western Canada Hockey League or some other league in Western Canada would not work because of expansion of AHL and IHL?
Will keep this one in mind, the entire SPHL/FPHL/WPHL/LNAH setup could eventually be streamlined and expanded to maybe 6 leagues of similar stature, 3 in the USA and 3 in Canada (East/Central/West)...fromatted with some sort of Cup between the leagues as well. Not a high priority but definitely on the "list" to look at...I've been trying to keep minor league teams out of Canadian CHL hubs because that seems to be a no-no so I would need help in identifying locations/cities that make sense.
- Russian led cup competition triggered by Lower A/B/C licences (if it would work when used separately from CHL licences). Probably KHL, VHL, Belarusian Extraleague (and perhaps Chinese Hockey League - here come the duplicate ASL awards)
Oh i Love this idea...definitely will add to the list to try at least
- Chinese Hockey League would feature 8 Chinese teams, PSK Sakhalin (former ALIH), and teams from North Korea, Mongolia and Hong Kong each, 12 total. But talent dilutation would cause league reputation level to lower to 10 from 11. Asian Super League could be 12 remaining Japanese and South Korean teams or back to 16 teams with two to Japan (like Osaka and Nagano - former had an hockey team in Japan Ice Hockey League early years and latter of course winter olympics), one/two to South Korea and one/zero to Taiwan.
Feels not ambitious enough for China although this makes sense in terms of "sphere of influence" in the world right now. Maybe there is another way to do this...I have always thought of putting the Far East Russian clubs and Chinese clubs together somehow (Admiral, Amur, Kunlun, etc) but this would require a major re-think of the Russian pyramid.
- But whatever happens to the above: Could there be Fukufuji/Miura Cup for Japanese teams? (First Japanese NHL player or first NHL drafted player if already playing player is not okay for a name.)
Yes I woul[d like to add a few more Cups...with Zemgale joining Mestis and Dinamo Riga in the ESL in NHLX, Latvia needs a Cup to allow all their teams to play. Japan could be added.
- Also I was thinking of combined Norwegian and Danish league structure (I could see all their main rivals in higher level leagues being as motivation for this). Also this could be chance to resurrect former dbs WHA teams here and even give Reykjavik a place in the league or at least give Icelandic players right to play in this new Nordic league.
Funny enough earlier version of NHLX had combined British-French and Danish-Norwegian superleagues but I reverted back to domestic and made their Cup competitions combining their countries instead. It would be fun to bring back some WHA identities - I could at least maybe stick a Reykjavik and Torshavn clubs into Danish league instead of some tier 2 Danish clubs I promoted
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Posted: Thu Sep 08, 2022 11:06 am
I did rather intensive testing/simulations on that for xeck29x's rosters and the affiliation status changes next to nothing. Only way is to set them as professional teams, but they will hire a bunch of older and foreign players then. At least the roster is full then and they don't end up finishing the season with single digit points.TepNum27 wrote: Fri Aug 19, 2022 5:16 pm - AlpsHL junior teams don't hire enough players. Maybe switching them to independent junior team or semi-independent farm team could help hiring more players?
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Posted: Wed Sep 14, 2022 9:27 pm
NVM. I figured out what the problem.
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Posted: Sat Oct 08, 2022 7:57 pm
BKarchitect, I made another db dive and found the following.
- USA had following first names: q, qq, qqq, qqqq and q;;;;; (found one greyed out fill-in player with one)
- Czech last names starting with spaces (found bottom of the list)
- Arena expansion bug, which is probably caused by expansion capacity being smaller than seated capacity with following NHL arenas: Scotiabank Arena (Toronto), United Center (Chicago), Ball Arena (Colorado), American Airlines Arena (Dallas), T-Mobile Arena (Las Vegas), Canada Life Centre (Winnipeg)
- Granted second citizenship only goes to the nation running the league. (Forgot to add this when writing the post. Balkan Hockey League is probably the one to suffer most from this, having low reputation and teams from 4 different nations.)
- Solent Cruisers has limited to use natural domestic players only from Transfer rules of Poland (good to remove to avoid any issues)
- Ryan Nugent-Hopkins is 150 cm.
- Non-NA League player limits to 22? (I have seen teams to work properly by hiring 7-8 defensemen, but some hire 9, even 10 and that would leave 3-4 players without proper playing time.)
- Quebec Nordiques has Arizona's retired numbers from original Winnipeg Jets. (But perhaps retired numbers need some kind of larger update because nowadays Coyotes has only Doan's number 19 retired.)
I have the same kind of problem with EHM not bending into the needs of more league dependent rules. Asia League Ice Hockey and Japan/South Korea, which works more like US high school -> college -> pro leagues structure, but the teams outside of North America are in the game code allowed to sign under 20 year old youth players. I need to find a good window to test if I can find a good solution with some kind of age floor.
- USA had following first names: q, qq, qqq, qqqq and q;;;;; (found one greyed out fill-in player with one)
- Czech last names starting with spaces (found bottom of the list)
- Arena expansion bug, which is probably caused by expansion capacity being smaller than seated capacity with following NHL arenas: Scotiabank Arena (Toronto), United Center (Chicago), Ball Arena (Colorado), American Airlines Arena (Dallas), T-Mobile Arena (Las Vegas), Canada Life Centre (Winnipeg)
- Granted second citizenship only goes to the nation running the league. (Forgot to add this when writing the post. Balkan Hockey League is probably the one to suffer most from this, having low reputation and teams from 4 different nations.)
- Solent Cruisers has limited to use natural domestic players only from Transfer rules of Poland (good to remove to avoid any issues)
- Ryan Nugent-Hopkins is 150 cm.
- Non-NA League player limits to 22? (I have seen teams to work properly by hiring 7-8 defensemen, but some hire 9, even 10 and that would leave 3-4 players without proper playing time.)
- Quebec Nordiques has Arizona's retired numbers from original Winnipeg Jets. (But perhaps retired numbers need some kind of larger update because nowadays Coyotes has only Doan's number 19 retired.)
BKarchitect wrote: Sun Sep 04, 2022 3:21 pm
Will keep this one in mind, the entire SPHL/FPHL/WPHL/LNAH setup could eventually be streamlined and expanded to maybe 6 leagues of similar stature, 3 in the USA and 3 in Canada (East/Central/West)...fromatted with some sort of Cup between the leagues as well. Not a high priority but definitely on the "list" to look at...I've been trying to keep minor league teams out of Canadian CHL hubs because that seems to be a no-no so I would need help in identifying locations/cities that make sense.
And I have a list of cities with prior minor league teams from Ontario:
Akwesasne (FPHL)
Brampton Beast (in db FPHL, formerly in CHL/ECHL)
Brantford (UHL, had a team in original Ontario Professional Hockey League - OPHL)
Cambridge (OPHL team in Galt (now part of Cambridge))
Chatham (IHL/UHL)
Cornwall (AHL, LNAH, FPHL)
Kingsville (FPHL)
Newmarket (AHL)
St. Thomas (UHL)
Thunder Bay (UHL)
Waterloo (OPHL, but too close to Kitchener Rangers?)
Feels not ambitious enough for China although this makes sense in terms of "sphere of influence" in the world right now. Maybe there is another way to do this...I have always thought of putting the Far East Russian clubs and Chinese clubs together somehow (Admiral, Amur, Kunlun, etc) but this would require a major re-think of the Russian pyramid.
Being at least in some way China/Japan/South Korea region specialist, I crafted 12 team (8 in China, 4 in Russia) league.
Far East Hockey League (working name)
- KHL teams: Kunlun Red Star (Beijing, NHLX in ASL), Amur Khabarovsk, Admiral Vladivostok
- ASL teams: Heilongjiang Ice (Harbin), Jilin Dragons (Changchun), Liaoning Leopards (Shenyang)
- Former ALIH, VHL cities: Qiqihar, Shanghai, Beijing (2nd team in Beijing), Jilin (Tsen Tou Jilin - Although there could be confusion with Jilin Dragon (Changchun Dragon?))
- Potential Russian cities for teams from region: Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk (PSK Sakhalin), Ulan-Ude, Chita
Probably that is the best way or if BKarchitect has plans for European Super Junior League, they would easily be moved there to fill the league closer to Canadian Major Junior League team amounts, but I guess even then there would be a problem with large enough player pool for junior teams.Bam_Margera wrote: Thu Sep 08, 2022 11:06 amI did rather intensive testing/simulations on that for xeck29x's rosters and the affiliation status changes next to nothing. Only way is to set them as professional teams, but they will hire a bunch of older and foreign players then. At least the roster is full then and they don't end up finishing the season with single digit points.TepNum27 wrote: Fri Aug 19, 2022 5:16 pm - AlpsHL junior teams don't hire enough players. Maybe switching them to independent junior team or semi-independent farm team could help hiring more players?
I have the same kind of problem with EHM not bending into the needs of more league dependent rules. Asia League Ice Hockey and Japan/South Korea, which works more like US high school -> college -> pro leagues structure, but the teams outside of North America are in the game code allowed to sign under 20 year old youth players. I need to find a good window to test if I can find a good solution with some kind of age floor.
NHLX - An EHM Database
Posted: Sat Nov 26, 2022 2:30 pm
Will there be an update?
NHLX - An EHM Database
Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2023 5:35 am
I hope the project is still active. A great addition to the game in my opinion
NHLX - An EHM Database
Posted: Thu Jan 26, 2023 11:19 am
This database looks amazing, but I'm having trouble downloading the logopack from the website. Is there any way to get the logos still?
NHLX - An EHM Database
Posted: Sat Jan 28, 2023 2:09 pm
The db download seems to be gone from the main website? 
NHLX - An EHM Database
Posted: Mon May 15, 2023 8:23 pm
Probably a long shot as this project appears to be inactive but does anyone have a copy of the v1.1 Logo Pack locally they could possibly share? The link on the website appears to be dead.
NHLX - An EHM Database
Posted: Wed May 17, 2023 8:24 pm
On behalf of BKarchitect, I'll post the working links for the version 2.2 (December 2022) as on HFBoards.
NHLX v2.2 Database: https://1drv.ms/u/s!AtIMzu_jrD0_h8orYkl ... Q?e=6cOPLh
NHLX v2.2 Logopack: https://1drv.ms/u/s!AtIMzu_jrD0_h8osS-Z ... Q?e=96h74e
But it has at least this problem, reported by BKarchitect:
"Minor note - there is a staff loan error that pops up August 1st 2026 and some subsequent years in this NHLX database which I still haven't been able to isolate. You can click thru it with no crash but if you have vacation on it will stop the game at those points."
(https://forums.hfboards.com/threads/eas ... 54/page-66)
NHLX v2.2 Database: https://1drv.ms/u/s!AtIMzu_jrD0_h8orYkl ... Q?e=6cOPLh
NHLX v2.2 Logopack: https://1drv.ms/u/s!AtIMzu_jrD0_h8osS-Z ... Q?e=96h74e
But it has at least this problem, reported by BKarchitect:
"Minor note - there is a staff loan error that pops up August 1st 2026 and some subsequent years in this NHLX database which I still haven't been able to isolate. You can click thru it with no crash but if you have vacation on it will stop the game at those points."
(https://forums.hfboards.com/threads/eas ... 54/page-66)
NHLX - An EHM Database
Posted: Fri Oct 27, 2023 7:52 pm
Is an update planned anytime soon?