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it would be cool to have a commish mode. This is one of the things i loved about ootp. You create your own commsih with whatever name and try to grow the game and league by expanding and changing rules. It was almost like a game within the game.

commissioner mode you can,
-expand league
-change rules
-manually vote on awards and perhaps create new awards that we can hand out or base on a particular stat.
-schedule games
-suspend players
etc etc.

Then in a screen it could say the history of commissioners/presidents of the league like

____________ 2011 - present
Gary Bettman 1991 - 2010

This is way ahead of what your thinking im sure but in expansion it would be great to have a shortlist of cities that shows how much they want a team, and a shortlist of owners with their wealth and personallity.

If it's implemented like it is in OOTP (OOTP X, at least), it shouldn't be all that hard to do. From what I've experienced, it's really just a toggle that controls your access to league-editing functions during the saved-game. Commissioner mode on = full access to league editing tools; Commissioner mode off = limited editing after league creation; Normal GM gameplay.

Of course, expanding that idea into an actual role in the game could be a lot of fun. I could see it getting pretty extreme, though, considering the all the configurations and rules people could end-up wanting .

tsn is doing a piece on another team in canada and they have an overview of citys that would be fantastic in a stat based game for expansion

Expansion Overview:
Quebec City

Market Attractiveness

Economy: B-
Demographics: C
Market Size: C
Corporate presence: C+

Overall Score for Market Attractiveness: C+


Franchise Viability

Arena and Location: A+
Competition and Barriers to Entry: A+
Potential Owner (Quebecor, CEO Pierre Karl Peladeau): A

Final Grade: B+

A Commish Mode would be a great feature.

If Dabo is able to put all of our features into the game then I vote to put the Commish mode in just after the Fantasy Draft mode but before the on-line mode.

Ogilthorpe wrote:I vote to put the Commish mode in just after the Fantasy Draft mode

lol

to build any type of commish mode you'd need to have a "business to hockey" section showing all aspects of that for the teams and league.


I've always loved looking at these games as a business, which is probably why i enjoy OOTP so much.

It would be great if dabo was able to add a setup like this at forbes

I don't know if you have any interest at this at all dabo, but i really hope you do
one of my goals in ootp wasn't only to build a contender, but to build the sport in places where it is dead. At the very least i'd love to have a basic profit by year for each team saying how many millions of profit of loss was made. Still, i understand that you can only do so much and that this would be a lower priority.

Ogilthorpe wrote:If Dabo is able to put all of our features into the game

I will probably be retired with grandchildren before that happens.

dabo wrote:

Ogilthorpe wrote:If Dabo is able to put all of our features into the game

I will probably be retired with grandchildren before that happens.

Live long and prosper!

Lol I never understood what in practical terms a player can do in such a mode. I know I'm not American and thus I have another mindset, but this to me seems boring like hell...

dabo wrote:

Ogilthorpe wrote:If Dabo is able to put all of our features into the game

I will probably be retired with grandchildren before that happens.

Well that would probably leave you plenty of time to work on the game.

Alessandro wrote:Lol I never understood what in practical terms a player can do in such a mode. I know I'm not American and thus I have another mindset, but this to me seems boring like hell...

i guess it's just the bigger picture scenario...instead of building just one team, you try and build an entire league. It's not something that dabo would be focused on im sure but would be cool.

Having a commish mode would just put you in control of everything to customize anything (like in ootp)

dave1927p wrote:

Alessandro wrote:Lol I never understood what in practical terms a player can do in such a mode. I know I'm not American and thus I have another mindset, but this to me seems boring like hell...

i guess it's just the bigger picture scenario...instead of building just one team, you try and build an entire league. It's not something that dabo would be focused on im sure but would be cool.

Having a commish mode would just put you in control of everything to customize anything (like in ootp)

Ok and after u decided some teams what's next?