The problem with Online Versus
Heres the problem with playing someone in Chel online. Your opponent can pick the All time All stars and you still have to play against them. Why don't both people have to agree on the teams before...
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Your opponent can pick the All time All stars and you still have to play against them. Why don't both people have to agree on the teams before the match starts?
Agreed. The NHL needs to adopt a pick-your-fighter style of team selection screen so that both players can see who the other is picking. Of course, there's always the people who chime in about "pEopLe wiLL aBuSe ThIs" by sitting idle at the selection screen. Of course, this is avoidable by adding a countdown timer to your team select.
Or if you want a simpler solution, how about you can only play against teams in the same league. That way if I wanted to play a WHL game for fun, I could play a fair opponent.
I've always thought EA could do such a better job incentivizing the use of all the teams they put into the game. In OVP, you could add timeframes where only teams from the CHL can be used. Other times it's All-Star teams only. During playoffs, have times where you can only use the teams that haven't been eliminated yet. When 4-Nations was going on, you could limit team selection to only those teams for a couple of hours during the day.
This is akin to what the UFC does to make sure online players use a wide range of different fighters and weight classes - they had timeframes where fighter selection is limited to certain weight classes and they give bonus points for using a lower-ranked team in defeating a high-ranked team.
Little things like this would freshen up OVP immensely.
