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KingPyrrhus981
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3 years ago

Custom Franchise AHL Team Control

@EA_Aljo @EA_Barry

I think the custom Franchise mode is a great idea and I am looking forward to jumping into it soon. One thing I found concerning is the lack of ability to control the AHL teams.

  •  If you do a league over 32 teams it starts poaching European teams that you cannot make into a main "NHL" team. I am not partial to any other the teams affected, but someone who likes these teams and wants to use them as their "NHL" team and wants to have a 33 to 48 team league is out of luck.
  • If you reduce the number of teams below 32, the AHL teams of the NHL teams removed by default are completely unusable. I considered doing a 6 team franchise as the Devils and using my (former) hometown Syracuse Crunch as my AHL team. I am unable to.
  • I was considering doing a custom franchise with Kolner Haie of the DEL as my "NHL" and Sparta Praha of ELH as my "AHL." I am unable to do so.

I feel the solution to this is allowing the user to control which AHL teams are included - please  fix this. Also consider allowing us to exclude "AHL" teams altogether if we wish.

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  • KingPyrrhus981's avatar
    KingPyrrhus981
    New Adventurer
    3 years ago

    @EA_Aljo

    Any news on fixing this lack of control on the AHL teams for the Custom leagues?

    I was about to start a custom franchise and saw that no changes have been made. So I am waiting.

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    EA_Aljo
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    3 years ago

    @KingPyrrhus981 wrote:

    @EA_Aljo

    Any news on fixing this lack of control on the AHL teams for the Custom leagues?

    I was about to start a custom franchise and saw that no changes have been made. So I am waiting.


    I'm very sorry, but I don't have an update on this.

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    EA_Aljo
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    3 years ago

    @KingPyrrhus981 

    Unfortunately, I don't have any news on this. When we do, it'll be announced in a patch update.

  • KingPyrrhus981's avatar
    KingPyrrhus981
    New Adventurer
    3 years ago

    @EA_Aljo

    This is super disappointing. This was advertised as being in complete control of the custom franchise, not sure why this was overlooked to begin with.

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    EA_Aljo
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    3 years ago

    @KingPyrrhus981 

    I don't have any news on this, but with updates for NHL 23 complete, I don't see any further changes coming.

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