NHL 24 Franchise Wishlist
Since NHL 23's Franchise did a fantastic job of listening to the communities wants, I'll bite the bullet and start the list for next year Some of this stuff could be in the game this year, but I wou...
Forum Discussion
For the now 4th year I'll post my common sense additions to this game.
https://forums.ea.com/en/nhl/discussion/253488/franchise-mode-suggestions#latest
No trade clause / modified no trade clause
- Performance bonuses in contracts
- Rehaul the contract negotiation system (that doesn't mean just change the wording once in a while, rehaul the whole thing, it's time!). We sometimes have no idea why a player suddenly is not interested in extending their contract. Let's have that chat system built into the prospect/coach system in play with players so we can truly negotiate contracts. Including performance bonuses or signing bonuses or NTC/NMC would be a plus. Or maybe have us negotiate with the player's agent (as in real life) instead of with the players themselves.
- Rehaul of moving players between CHL/NHL, we need better control over this. Not knowing whether to have AHL depth or not going into the next season is frustrating because if the guys that are in junior end up available for your NHL/AHL team the game will automatically cut some players to put your roster at 50 players. To my knowledge, you don't even know who the game cuts from your team, is it the worst trade value players, worst overall players? Chosen at random?
Or at the very least let us choose the players it cuts from the team?
- Reassign players to other leagues (IE: SHL/Liga/Russia/CHL/etc) especially those who end up as depth in the AHL. Would be cool to have this interact with the morale system too so the player doesn't always react positively to being sent back to Europe and their attributes grow slower or decrease (and they turn into a bust) or they see it as a positive thing and their attributes grow faster (and possibly turn into a gem) . As it stands now we have no control whether a player is sent back to the CHL or not once they are AHL eligible, this is done automatically and it shouldn't be!
- Coaches system isn't perfect but it's a great improvement from previous years, what we are missing though is the "trainer" and the better your trainer the less frequent injuries are or the faster they heal.
LTIR, LTIR, LTIR, and...LTIR.
- This has been broken since NHL18. For instance, I currently have three injured forwards that should be giving me ~$15.5m in cap relief but nope. Can't bring up another player from the AHL so I'm having to double shift players. Stupid.
- Make waivers right. If you claim someone, they go to your NHL team and you will need to waive them again to get them to the AHL. Add emergency recalls.
- 10% salary cap divergence in the off season. Because of this, if I'm near the cap signing players for the AHL, I can only add them at the minimum allowed salary even though anything under $1.075m doesn't count against the cap.
So many more but fix these and it will be at least playable and I may buy next years game (this is the first I've bought since NHL18 because they've been crap).
