Franchise Mode Trades
Hello All Just noticed last night that trades between cpu teams are not going through in Franchise mode. J. Toews was traded to Tampa. Checked after, Toews was still with Chicago. No trades we...
Forum Discussion
Couldnt possibly agree with you more.
Full control. The whole point of franchise is to get the year over year experience.
I spend a bunch of time on rosters too. I want to see vets move on to contending teams and others tank for draft picks and prospects. It’s fundamental.
I only play offline. This really does ruin the game for me. Hope there is a fix
I definitely want to see good teams look for that extra piece at the deadline, even if it’s an overpay and of course I like to see rebuilders sell off players for futures. The last few years of this series the deadline has been nothing and very few teams were actually making these types of trades.
However, as I’ve said many times here, the addition of the trade deadline and changing team states to seller, buyer, etc… ruins the mode for anybody that wants realism. There is absolutely no thought for past or future of teams or even team ratings. The top 3rd of the league (buyer status) all sell off any assets including their best prospects and multiple 1st round picks. The bottom 3rd (seller status) sell off any and all players even if they are under contract for many years after and are cornerstones of the franchise. Even if these teams are having abnormal seasons such as a team like St. Louis missing the playoffs or Anaheim being first in the pacific.
Anaheim traded Drysdale (elite potential), two 1sts and two 2nds for rental players, while ST. Louis traded Schenn, Dunn, Krug, Perron and Binnington. Others traded were Barzal (NYI), Tkachuck (CGY), Miller (VAN) and Perfetti (WPG) just to name a few. Of course, the next year Anaheim was back to the basement and had no picks or their top prospect and the same thing happened to other teams at the next deadline.
- @Beauts90 The fact that this is still happening is so annoying and frustrating. The AI GMs are so incompetent, and everything they do never makes sense. I don’t understand why they still haven’t fixed this. For years they’ve been bad, but this year has been especially bad when they “tried” to “revamp” the trade values/logic. Just made it worse really.
@SkylerJames13 I am hopeful they tune down the number of trades made at the deadline, but I am definitely not expecting it to happen, especially this year. It wasn't great before, but much better. I think they would need to change the status of teams back to what it was before (champion, contender, hopeful, rebuilder) and possible add a setting for blockbuster trade frequency (low, med, high)
I learned a few years ago to save just before big events (draft, free agency) that way I can keep going back if I don’t like what happened during them. It takes a lot longer, especially this year with the deadline, but I can usually get it to make some sort of sense.
It's too bad that somebody involved in the mode isn't willing to come onto some of these forums and discuss why things work the way that they do in franchise mode. Its nice when the gameplay dev comes on and explains certain mechanics in the game, but with franchise mode we are always stuck wondering if things are working as intended or if they are bugs. I don't think this is a bug, but I would love to hear why certain features are as they are not only with the trade deadline, but there have been questions about coaching and scouting for years as well.
It would be cool to be able to give them feedback and discuss our improvement ideas too as they seem to have really smart, good ideas for the franchise that are just sometimes unclear why they are executed in such a way.
Or, even better than explaining why things are dumb and broken, would be actually listening to customer feedback and fixing things.
Again, it's would be UNBELIEVABLY EASY to just give us maximum player control so that we could fix large chunks of the game without even needing to figure out any new programming, without trying to make good AI, without doing anything other than giving us the same control in Be A GM as we have in the main menu (making CPU-CPU trades, full editing - although even here, the main menu actually falls short of where it *should* be: no ability to edit face, nationality, name, etc... but still).I have scoring set to "low", yet now, 5 years into my Atlanta Thrashers expansion franchise (I had to create a new uniform and use a generic logo, because I don't have access to the Thrashers' jerseys or logo... I could've used the Red Wings' logo though... WHY?) every day it seems there's 2-3 teams scoring 6+ goals. It's so odd. Every day, a player will get 4 points. Which makes it so time-consuming to sim past days, because I just keep re-setting until I get hockey scores, not lacrosse scores.
