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MasterB89
Seasoned Ace
3 days ago

Franchise Mode AI logic broken again

In the past the AI controlled teams struggled with the salary cap and properly building a full and competitive roster... NHL 26 it was much better then prior games.. however the current state of NHL 27 has regressed seeing it decided the best course of action to stay under the cap was to send Matthew Schaefer (last year's rookie of the year and 89 overall - best **bleep** on the team) to the AHL, but keep up random players with higher salary and less overall. I'd guess cause he is still in his entry level deal the AI decided it was best to drop him to keep them just under the cap. However this is false and not how any it works or should work (I am also currently playing with waivers turned off so that shouldn't effect the decision).

Can someone at EA explain this or will this be corrected with the day one patch? 

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  • EA_Aljo's avatar
    EA_Aljo
    Icon for Community Manager rankCommunity Manager
    1 day ago

    Thanks. I've passed this on and will let you know when I have an update.

    I'll relay the feedback about editing mascots for you.

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    MasterB89
    Seasoned Ace
    2 days ago

    Unrelated to the roster issue - when creating an AHL team for the expansion (33 team) franchise option, could the mascots be unlocked for AHL team creation, they have been locked prior and rarely shown, however with the updates to presention they are now more prominent, so it would be good to be able to customize them.  

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    MasterB89
    Seasoned Ace
    2 days ago

    Yes, I was using a custom roster.

     I had moral off, chemistry off, waivers off, fog of war off, salary cap is on with the default settings and penalties for it.

     I did not add on an extra contract year for contracts. I had played a total of 6 games into my franchise. 

    Plenty of teams had lower numbers of overal team contracts. 

  • EA_Aljo's avatar
    EA_Aljo
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    2 days ago

    Hello again. Can you tell me if a custom roster was used? Also, what are the settings you're using for your Franchise Mode? Salary cap and any other custom settings. We're having a hard time reproducing this so far so it's possible you have some settings that we're not using. Anything else you can tell us, especially in regards to your roster, would help. Thanks!

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    EA_Aljo
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    2 days ago

    Hi there. Thanks for the report. I'll get this passed on to the team.

    Edit: What is the name of the roster you're using?

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