Creation zone improvements

Also, I wanted to add another new idea. This isn't creation zone related, but it would make the game more comparable and/or realistic to real life NHL broadcasts. 

Also, I'm just explaining this in words because it is not something complex to take in or visualize, so I will only write, and not use pictures as much as I'd love to.

In NHL 22, the in-game scoreclock, as it has been since NHL 20, is at the bottom of the screen. However, if you look at a real life NHL broadcast on your TV, you'll see that the scoreclock will be small, and will most likely be in the upper left or right hand-corner, or, covering the top of the screen entirely. If this type of scoreclock were to be incorporated into the game (which it has, but was taken away in the release of NHL 20), it would make the overall feel of the game, and the actual hockey simulation part of the game more comparable to real life hockey. This is not something that is major, essential, and must be looked at immediately, it is just something that I, and others feel would make the game feel like we are actually watching an NHL game.

One real-life scoreclock I remember from previous broadcasts (2017 and previous) was the white scoreclock at the very top of the screen. I also remember the very nice scoreclocks from a decade ago. I believe that this white scoreclock is still used in specific broadcasts today. I also believe that it is a SportsNet scoreclock.

One thing that I don't quite understand is, if you go into NHL Threes, and go into an exhibition or circuit game, you will see a scoreclock in the upper left-hand corner of the screen. Same thing applies for a Threes Eliminator Tournament when you are the Nighthawks or Ice Breakers. If this can be a thing in WOC and NHL Threes, then why can't it be a thing everywhere else? Again, the main scoreclock for pretty much every game mode was changed in NHL 20, compared to NHL 19.

Heck, NHL 19 even had the NBCSN icon in the upper-right hand corner of the screen, along with the scoreclock on the left side.

To sum this up, I am trying to explain that the NHL 19 scoreclock (or something similar), should be brought back to the game to increase the realistic feeling of NHL 22, or, any future titles. It has been a good 2 years of the new scoreclock at the bottom of the screen in-game (since NHL 20, which was released in 2019), and a good 3 game titles (NHL 20, NHL 21, NHL 22). For NHL 23, I think this should be debated for change, because I think that 3 game titles later, and 2 full years of the same scoreclock is a bit too long.

Or, this can be brought about as a small likeness update in the future for the current NHL 22.

Now, I want to talk about the current in-game commentary for NHL 22, and compare it to commentary in previous titles.

If you listen to a regular announcer in a real life NHL broadcast, the announcer is usually in a calm and collected tone (unless that announcer is Doc, of course) from play-to-play, even on goals and good chances. Even on a goal, the announcer usually acknowledges it in a sort of flat tone, with little to no excitement in his/her voice, followed by bonus commentary on the goal with replays, the type of goal, what plays lead to the goal, etc.

I am not trying to say that the commentary from Cybulski (NHL 20, 21, 22 main in-game announcer) is way over the top, I am just suggesting that his commentary style gets dumbed down a bit to fit in with real-life announcers, or, just remove him entirely in NHL 23.

If there were more real-life NHL announcers that were always full of enthusiasm play-by-play, Cybulski being in the game would be completely fine. Regarding Ferraro, (which has been in the game as an announcer way before Cybulski), I don't think real-life announcers make extra comments on a player missing a shot. Real life announcers usually just say "shot wide by player", and move on to the next play. In-game, one of the two announcers will eventually get cut off mid-sentence because they continue talking about a previous play/event, instead of going play-by-play. Other than that, I have no concerns with Ferraro being in-game.

Off-topic question, is Cybulski even a real announcer?

Again, it has been a good 3 full game titles with Cybulski as an in-game announcer. I think it would be best for change next year. 

To sum this all up, I think that we should get a likeness update for NHL 22 regarding scoreclocks and/or presentation, and something that is closer to real life NHL broadcasts, or, just have this as a brand new feature for NHL 23. Also, something should be done about Cybulski in-game. Either remove him from the game entirely, or move him to specific game modes only, or, just dumb down his commentary style to make the game feel like players are watching an actual NHL game.

Not that enthusiastic and exciting commentary isn't what to expect in an NHL game, I am only pointing this out from experience.

Thank you.

Miscellaneous: Could we get a feature added where an instant replay is shown of the bench jumping up after an OT goal, along with the entire bench skating off to the goal-scorer? (As seen in real-life, again)

Not sure if mentioned already, but we need to be able to unassign players who are under the age of 18 from a team, and delete players without removing them from a team.

Also, we need a search feature to simplify finding players with the new roster sharing

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@olavi4 wrote:

I have a dream. Easier and quicker way to create a player:

1) Set player's name, size, face, equipment etc.

2) Set player type: playmaker, power forward etc.

3) Set player's overall, for example 82

4) The game should set player's skills automatically (of course still editable)

Player equipment:

- option to remove helmet

- some vintage helmet, now we have only Jofa

- vintage mask for goalies

Creating a team:

- vintage style arena and ice

- European style arena and ice

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I could not disagree more. It doesn’t take that long to create a player and the overall is just a number in my opinion. I want detailed attributes. I’m a big defensive minded person, physical style players that still skill well are my thing. In franchise mode I never end up with any playmaker types and rarely go after a sniper. I like Tkachuk types. If I create say, Landon Slaggert, and trade for him I don’t care if he’s a 76 overall. I care if his strength, defensive awareness, checking, speed offensive awareness and blocking are where they should be. Not some random generated attributes to save 5 minutes while creating him. 

If anything takes too long when creating a player, it’s adjusting their salary!

If you start at $0, it takes almost 2 minutes to get to $7.5m, which is exactly halfway.

I don’t know about you, but I find that sitting there for almost 2 minutes, with my thumb pressed down, is extremely annoying.

A simple fix is to have the keyboard pop up so we can just type in the desired salary.

@1ef461832535bfe8ddced032f8f8a7e9 My suggestion is that we could set the player type and overall but still edit the player if we are not satisfied with his attributes. Some old PC games had that option: after selecting player type the game automatically created the attributes, but those were still editable.

Creating one player doesn't take too much time, but creating a vintage league with 400-600 players is a hard job.

Here’s my suggestions:

1. All jerseys that are in the game should have a template.

2. All pants that are in the game should have a template.

3. All socks that are in the game should have a template.

4. All logos that are in the game should have a template.

5. Because roster sharing has been added, they need to add all the older goalie equipment and masks that have been removed so we can make accurate Alumni teams.

6. Allow us to change the head model, eyes, hair and facial hair of any unscanned player.

7. Allow us to create players without helmets.

8. A goalie mask editor needs to be added. This is simple. Give us like 8-10 mask designs with color zones and allow us to put a logo on it.

9. Allow us to input player salaries with the pop-up key board. 

10. A generic player search engine is needed so we don’t have to scan through every team in the game looking for players.

I’ll stop at 10 for now.

The spoken audio lists are missing a lot. I created a list of team name and place ideas (100+ of each) that could be added. These would give so many more options in creating teams both offline and in World Of Chel. These aren't the crazy, over-the-top names that seem a little too common on the current game (with the exception of maybe one place name), but rather more likely true name ideas. A lot come from real life hockey leagues.

Here's the link to my Google spreadsheet with the name lists: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1utATM6sXzT_WawJhoMuJJtJg0N_VtpwAgcRZtoTnjFg/edit?usp=sharing

y'd like this too. there are roughly 25 attributes for a skater in NHL compared to roughly 50 on NFL Madden. yeah that takes a long time. 

1. Team preference Each player deep down inside has a preference where he plays. Players have favorite teams. Imagine 4 tiers of teams for each created player. 8 teams I'd love to play on. 8 teams I'd like to play on. 8 teams that are neutral or meh, 8 teams I'd rather not play on. This cool feature would have a major impact on the NHL Draft and Free Agency. A players morale will be effected by this depending on which team he is drafted by. If he's drafted by one of the teams in his bottom 8 he might not sign an ELC with them and want to be traded. In free agency there's little chance he'd sign with one of these 8 teams. For my own player my top 8 would likely be Vancouver, New York, Montreal plus 3 others. I would most want to be drafted by my top 8 teams especially these 3 that I like most. Or when I become a free agent I would probably only be interested in signing with one of these 8 teams. 
   
   
2. Alternate numbers for created players. Perhaps choose 5 jersey numbers. For example 17, 79, 7, 28, 33. 
   
   
3. Origin. After we choose country we should be able to choose a city from a list of cities in that country. 
   
   
4. Better jersey # AI. While in franchise when I see a goalie wearing, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, etc that drives me nuts. Plante's #1 is retired in Montreal. Price got #31, not #6 or #8 or #11. Users should have control over player numbers on other teams in franchise mode to fix this when this happens.
    
5. Legends & Alumni players instantly available as Coaches in Franchise
   
   
6. Create a Coach
   
   
7. BE A PRO (Head Coach should be an option
   
   
8. IIHF WOMEN should be available as free agents
   
   
9. EA SPORTS AI GENERATED PROSPECTS should have a photo so we can see them before drafting them
   
   
10. IIHF TOURNAMENTS included in FRANCHISE & BE A PRO
    
    
11. AUTOMATIC SCREENSHOTS saved in album. It would be great if the Stanley Cup celebration wouldn't stop when we want to take a screenshot
    
    
12. SCOUTING we should actually go on a trip to scouts games and either watch/play/sim them and see the players in action
    
    
13. UNSIGNED INTERNATIONAL PLAYERS it would be really neat to have a draft of all players overseas who aren't in the NHL Entry draft. The AHL & ECHL have tons of players on them who aren't signed so by having a draft of all these players it would improve the depth of each NHL organization. 
    
    
14. BE A PRO we should be able to choose any player on any roster and use that player in a BE A PRO mode. If the guy is40 years old we continue at that stage of his career and likely become a coach moving forward. If he's a teenager in the CHL we start from there.  
    
    
15. PRACTICES we should have to complete practices within franchise & be a pro to work on certain things that we had trouble with in recent games based on game reports. 

Will write more soon