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DeMiGoD1988
5 years ago

Franchise mode ideas

Yup second post of the day. As the topic title says fm ideas to bring more realism into FM mode (BAP too)

- LTIR there are players on LTIR with large contracts, this will remove that cap for other signings

- AI willing to take cap retention in trades or willing to part with high draft picks for high contracts

- Suspensions

- Players Randomly getting day to day sicknesses

- Players Randomly asking for personal days off due to family reasons or fatigue (this will effect if a player is willing to resign or ask for a trade)

- Reintroduce likelihood of a player wanting to sign with a team or resign for that matter

- Better AI IQ when it comes to signing, trading and drafting (actually getting players they need)

- Have more reasonable contracts (Players at the end of their career taking smaller cap hits. I'm over seeing a NHL vet whose a bottom 6 with a 79 or below OVR and wanting 2-7 Mil for 1-3 years)

- Broadcast deals

- Arena contract negotiations

- AHL team negotiations

- ECHL team negotiations

- Full season stats show for players in Europe teams (including FAs Not just rookies)

- Full season stats show for players in the ECHL

- Show playoff games for players in the CHL,OHL,QMJHL,ECHL and Europe 

- Hat trick counter (season and career)

- Players who are RFA play in Europe or the ECHL if left unsigned (this could effect trade value)

- Custom Goalie decal (or one of the default ones) to be assigned for the expansion team

- Your GM record (this will effect how much your worth when negotiating your contracts)

- Players faces to show as a scout like they do when they're coaches (Also have them specialise in positioning like Chara will scout defence better then other positions)

- Same as above but as coaches Chara will be a better defensive coach

- Retired goalies eligible to be coaches and not just scouts

- Staff inclusion such as medic, ushers, broadcast teams ect. (these will effect how fast they return to the ice after injury, how many fans tune into games and how many fans attend games)

- Remove 4th wall comments from commentary such as Rey saying "Put down the control man" this kills the immersion you can have for the game. 

19 Replies

  • SkylerJames13's avatar
    SkylerJames13
    5 years ago
    @DeMiGoD1988 These are all great ideas my dude, but they are way too ambitious for EA. We can’t even have a FM with proper non buggy trade values, proper non buggy player development, proper coaching/chemistry etc, list goes on and on.

    If this game was made by a different company.c maybe we’d see some more ambitious moves, and properly implemented features. But as it is, this is a great wish list. But I don’t see it going farther, as I’m pretty sure we are going to see FM take yet another step backwards next year, specifically because this is supposedly the direction they want to take FM and BAP.
    Years of not listening to community feedback, and we continue to get ignored and left behind.
  • DeMiGoD1988's avatar
    DeMiGoD1988
    5 years ago
    @SkylerJames13 I know.. but even if they tried to add some of this stuff.. even 1/4 of it for me itll be pointing the mode in the right direction.
  • DeMiGoD1988's avatar
    DeMiGoD1988
    5 years ago
    @SkylerJames13 Also what company? I've seen give it back to 2k but look how they've handled WWE. The game is a mess and players have requested GM mode since they took it over from THQ and each year players are ignored. So yeah they're not any better.
  • EA_Aljo's avatar
    EA_Aljo
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    5 years ago

    @DeMiGoD1988 

    Thank you for the constructive feedback. It's very much appreciated and the best way to get your voice heard.

  • SkylerJames13's avatar
    SkylerJames13
    5 years ago
    @DeMiGoD1988 At this point I’d take any company. But 2K has done a really good job with NBA I’m pretty sure. If they did that with NHL, it would completely blow EAs pathetic attempt at FM/BAP out of the water.

    They say they listen, because they have to say that. But if you track the versions over the past few years vs what we’ve been asking for, they do the literal bare minimum between games just to claim they worked on it. Every now and then they do a “rework/revamp” but it’s hardly ever done right. BAP is a prime example of it being done very poorly.
  • DeMiGoD1988's avatar
    DeMiGoD1988
    5 years ago

    @EA_AljoI can speak on half of the NHL community. I hope it's heard so we can move this game in he right direction. We play this game all the time we know what the game needs and what way it needs to go.

  • SkylerJames13's avatar
    SkylerJames13
    5 years ago
    @DeMiGoD1988 They have their own ideas of what the game needs to move “forward” (everything they think moves it forwards actually moves it backwards for us though, the actual customers)
  • DeMiGoD1988's avatar
    DeMiGoD1988
    5 years ago
    @SkylerJames13 As am I.. I'm talking about both modes. See as an Australian online modes for me aren't viable, there's no server close enough so I lag every game and subsequently I lag out. I'm left with offline only.

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