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[EHM: EA] Anyway to edit EHM Salary Cap?
Posted: Sun Mar 29, 2015 10:56 pm
by boundedcascade
I hate the cap both because it limits me and I don't like it in the actual sport. It doesn't make things interesting to me and I was wondering if there was a way to remove/make it so high it is pointless?
Re: [EHM: EA] Anyway to edit EHM Salary Cap?
Posted: Sun Mar 29, 2015 11:12 pm
by mpronger
Have you tried editing the "transfer_rules_config.cfg" file?
It's currently:
"CAP" "National Hockey League" 69000000
"FLOOR" "National Hockey League" 53000000
If you place 0 instead of the value there, it'll remove the cap, at least in EHM2007 it did.
Re: [EHM: EA] Anyway to edit EHM Salary Cap?
Posted: Mon Mar 30, 2015 12:16 am
by boundedcascade
Tried it and can't get it to work. Tried 0 and adding a 0 on, and putting it to 99999999 and still nothing
Re: [EHM: EA] Anyway to edit EHM Salary Cap?
Posted: Mon Mar 30, 2015 3:08 pm
by sluice
Related question (I don't mind to hijack..) but does the salary cap increases?
Re: [EHM: EA] Anyway to edit EHM Salary Cap?
Posted: Mon Mar 30, 2015 9:15 pm
by bstar
I got you all covered, this is what you need to do...
1. First off, assuming you are using TBL Rosters 7.3. This only works when creating new games.
2. Goto: C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Eastside Hockey Manager\data\database\TBL Rosters v7.3
3. Edit: transfer_rules_config.cfg
4. The values have change since 2007, use this:
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"SALARY_CAP" "National Hockey League" 0
5. Save this file and start a new game (continuing an existing game will not work)
6. No, you can't trade a scrub for St. Louis anymore
7. You're welcome
Re: [EHM: EA] Anyway to edit EHM Salary Cap?
Posted: Tue Mar 31, 2015 4:05 am
by MXD
That's the thing...
I just tried it (with Nino's 74-75 database), and it still mentions the Salary Cap in the "main" window.
At this point, I cannot say if the cap is truly in effect, but there's clearly something about a 44M$ cap.
Re: [EHM: EA] Anyway to edit EHM Salary Cap?
Posted: Tue Mar 31, 2015 2:23 pm
by bstar
MXD wrote:That's the thing...
I just tried it (with Nino's 74-75 database), and it still mentions the Salary Cap in the "main" window.
At this point, I cannot say if the cap is truly in effect, but there's clearly something about a 44M$ cap.
Then you are doing it wrong. It's working fine for me, I'm running the game with it turned off right now. Make sure you are updating the correct file and make sure you are editing it to say SALARY_CAP, not CAP. You have to edit the transfer_rules_config.cfg in the TBL rosters directory, not the one in the database folder (that one gets ignored).
I'm not familiar with Nino's DB, but you make need to create a transfer_rules_config.cfg file in that DB's directory. The game looks for it there when a new game is initiated.
This absolutely works.
Re: [EHM: EA] Anyway to edit EHM Salary Cap?
Posted: Tue Mar 31, 2015 2:24 pm
by Peter_Doherty
Edit: Nvm me
Re: [EHM: EA] Anyway to edit EHM Salary Cap?
Posted: Tue Mar 31, 2015 3:35 pm
by bstar
See, no cap!

Re: [EHM: EA] Anyway to edit EHM Salary Cap?
Posted: Tue Mar 31, 2015 8:18 pm
by MXD
Bstar : That is exactly how I proceeded.
But there was three transfer-config.cfg files : one with Copy,one with Default and the other was "plain". I modified all of them.
Sorry for non-exact names, but I'm not home ATM.
Re: [EHM: EA] Anyway to edit EHM Salary Cap?
Posted: Tue Mar 31, 2015 8:45 pm
by bstar
Make sure (where ever your database you are importing is located) you have a file called: transfer-config.cfg (all other file names will be ignored)
If you don't have this file then you need to create it. This is the only line you need to add to affect the cap:
"SALARY_CAP" "National Hockey League" 0
Re: [EHM: EA] Anyway to edit EHM Salary Cap?
Posted: Tue Mar 31, 2015 10:01 pm
by Satyr
bstar wrote:I got you all covered, this is what you need to do...
1. First off, assuming you are using TBL Rosters 7.3. This only works when creating new games.
2. Goto: C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Eastside Hockey Manager\data\database\TBL Rosters v7.3
3. Edit: transfer_rules_config.cfg
4. The values have change since 2007, use this:
Code: Select all
"SALARY_CAP" "National Hockey League" 0
5. Save this file and start a new game (continuing an existing game will not work)
6. No, you can't trade a scrub for St. Louis anymore
7. You're welcome
Ok, I did this and nothing happened. I rightclicked on the transfer_rules_config.cfg to open it with Notepad. What did I do wrong?
Re: [EHM: EA] Anyway to edit EHM Salary Cap?
Posted: Tue Mar 31, 2015 10:09 pm
by bstar
Satyr, just change all the "CAP" instances to "SALARY_CAP" and change all the "FLOOR" instances to "SALARY_FLOOR".
Then you need to start a new game, these values seem to only get used when you first create a game.
Re: [EHM: EA] Anyway to edit EHM Salary Cap?
Posted: Tue Mar 31, 2015 10:15 pm
by Satyr
bstar wrote:Satyr, just change all the "CAP" instances to "SALARY_CAP" and change all the "FLOOR" instances to "SALARY_FLOOR".
Then you need to start a new game, these values seem to only get used when you first create a game.
Thanks! It's so obvious once you know the trick

Re: [EHM: EA] Anyway to edit EHM Salary Cap?
Posted: Tue Mar 31, 2015 10:39 pm
by MXD
Fixed it. In the end, I was wrong about one thing : you really have to change "SALARY_CAP", and not "CAP".
Re: [EHM: EA] Anyway to edit EHM Salary Cap?
Posted: Tue Mar 31, 2015 11:41 pm
by bstar
Happy to see you guys got it working!
Re: [EHM: EA] Anyway to edit EHM Salary Cap?
Posted: Wed Apr 01, 2015 7:59 am
by Satyr
For those who wonder: The cap can be lifted. For example, I changed the cap to this:
"SALARY_CAP" "National Hockey League" 93000000
"SALARY_FLOOR" "National Hockey League" 53000000
In the game it turns out like this:

Re: [EHM: EA] Anyway to edit EHM Salary Cap?
Posted: Wed Apr 01, 2015 8:02 am
by Alessandro
It doesn't work for the KHL, however
Re: [EHM: EA] Anyway to edit EHM Salary Cap?
Posted: Wed Apr 01, 2015 3:18 pm
by bstar
Alessandro wrote:It doesn't work for the KHL, however
Did you try this:
"SALARY_CAP" "Kontinental Hockey League" 0
Re: [EHM: EA] Anyway to edit EHM Salary Cap?
Posted: Wed May 27, 2015 2:07 am
by MGSPORTS
It doesn't go to 0 and if it did Teams wouldn't be releasing Players. How about it way high a Billion so Teams can afford everybody? If we could have unlimited Contacted then my Blackhawks wouldn't be releasing players before season.
Re: [EHM: EA] Anyway to edit EHM Salary Cap?
Posted: Wed May 27, 2015 2:09 am
by nino33
MGSPORTS wrote:But I only want to do it for one Team the Blackhawks not all NHL Teams.
Sorry, you can't remove the Salary Cap for just one team
Re: [EHM: EA] Anyway to edit EHM Salary Cap?
Posted: Wed May 27, 2015 11:43 pm
by MGSPORTS
Thanks and I'm okay with all Teams.
Re: [EHM: EA] Anyway to edit EHM Salary Cap?
Posted: Thu May 28, 2015 1:09 am
by jackknife77
If you want to trick the game with the salary cap, hire Lou Lamoriello as assistant GM.

Re: [EHM: EA] Anyway to edit EHM Salary Cap?
Posted: Thu Jun 04, 2015 9:04 pm
by Moses Doughty
Does anyone know if the cap can be changed on a mac? Tried all of this so far but nothing works.
Re: [EHM: EA] Anyway to edit EHM Salary Cap?
Posted: Sat Jun 20, 2015 8:50 pm
by MGSPORTS
I want to make it as High as it can be for NHL but the 9999999999999999999999 doesn't show up.