Franchise Chemistry draft
The chemistry system for the draft is not optimal. When the New NHL 21 was realesed I took i dive in to the franschise mode to See if the had fixed some of the bugs from last year. Mainly the draft i...
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I haven't checked this out in NHL 21, but in 20, all the chemistry was random. Perhaps not completely, but if you create 3 franchises, I dare say that only a few of the players had the same perferences in two of those.
I know because I sometimes don't have enough to do with my time and started to write down an Excel-file with every player's preferences... and got pretty far in doing so when I for some reason went back to one team to check on something (created a franchise for each team, but had to delete when I reached the limit). I realized that not much of what I had written down was correct the second time I created a franchise.
I can understand that many would use such information too much and that it might undermine the whole chemistry system. But I think that tells more about the chemistry system itself. Naturally some players have preferences and those should be locked if it should make any sense. That the coaches are random is random enough. One franchise Marchand - Bergeron and Pastrnak can be +3, next time they're -3.
Haven't checked this in 21, but I have no reason to believe it has been changed.
@Tobbish It has not changed at all for this year, it still changes every time you start a new franchise. The coaching is so random that I think the players preferences should always stay the same no matter what. If someone wants to take the time to record them all, let them. There are plenty of other ways to cheese the game that have been around for years.
I think a better fix for this would be to have each coach have different combination preferences so instead of always PLY, SNP, PWF being the best it would be different depending on the coach. Maybe, just maybe those TWF's would be useful in our Top 6 or we could have 2 PLY’s and a SNP.
Also having performance affect the line bonus would be a nice touch as well. Right now, you could literally keep your lines the exact same for years and the chemistry would not change.
