Suggestion for NHL14

[TampaBayGM]

since not everyone is going to have the game right off the bat (I sure as hell will)...and I'm sure a lot of people would prefer to play with the roster update that puts the rookies that cracked training camp on the team (that update usually comes a week or 2 after the actual season starts)

so heres what I am suggesting


for the 1st month Sept 15-Oct 15 just have a "trial month" that way everyone from here has a month to get the game...but most importantly we can "try out" people before our official GMC starts...cause if we want "active people" that arent gonna quit we gotta grab them early before they find another league...cause look at the originals its about a 33-35% success rate for people who joined at the start of this one (11 stuck around....10 if we dont count markyboy for taking the summer off) where as people who joined halfway into this GMC majority left before a month even passed

[Deleted]

i like it...we should deff wait for a roster update before we start

[Deleted]

Sounds reasonable, and if there are people interested in playing out another season here while they wait for their copy I'd happily play out another one personally. Though I'll have nhl 14 the day it comes out since it's not a popular sell in my town.

[Mrsmith]

Where u from CLB, Buenos Aires?

[Deleted]

The suggestion is good. As long as we can get our core group to commit to this then ill be happy. It's trying to find GMs and waiting for the league to start that scares me, people will go elsewhere if we prolong it.

To be honest I personally don't give a shit. I'm happy with filling the league the first day and proceeding until 15 comes out. Could careless who's on the roster....that's why we trade, buyout and sign FAs.

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Jul 15, 2013 10:38:02 GMT -5 Mrsmith said:

Where u from CLB, Buenos Aires?

Nova Scotia. Nothing seems to sell fast if it isn't on sale. Crumby little town.

[StaticPain013]

I'll be there, just can't play currently due to my parents atricious internet. Would love to, Ive been stuck with my foot raised for two weeks already.

[Bruins GM]

i like this idea too... before the first roster update for NHL 13 they were way off in a lot of aspects for player rosters. an example is Buffalo, mikail grigorenko their first rounder in 2012 was a 3 star prospect and their other first rounder, girgensons, taken a couple picks later, wasnt even in the game. after the update grigs was a 4.5 star and girgensons became a 4 star (i think) prospect. For edmonton, i dont think justin schultz was in the game until the first update either.

[Sens GM]

I'm sure they will be on top of this this year. Maybe not evey year we say the same thing to EA, maybe just maybe they might get it right. I think it's a chance we will have to take. Basically whatever our general manager decides to do is fine with me. The guys who are in charge take on a huge commitment to run and organize 30 general managers I know I wouldn't want the job, I've been a commishner and it's crazy busy. I give props to ANAHIEM who makes this work.

[Deleted]

Seeing on how many GMs aren't very interested in this game anymore, I doubt we should wait. I guarantee this league will be full day one or two of release. Nobody's gonna wanna play NHL 13 anymore....I know I'm not. 13 will be going on the shelf the day ea calls me to pickup 14!!!

We may have a few days after because I want to start with some decent settings . It's going to take a bit to get them where they need to be. Ill probably start playing EASHL in the meantime.

[Mrsmith]

Ill be trading in 13 for 14 ASAP.

[Bruins GM]

i agree with not waiting to start on nhl 14 but i do like the trail month idea for the rosters to be finalized and made current.
this will give us realistic starting day rosters... any trades that happen between the time the NHL14 copy rosters get set and the first roster update will not be included. same for any players like the few that i mentioned in the thread a couple posts up.
lastly, this trial month will help us with the settings. Unless 14 actually presents a challenge for users vs cpu/user on the default skill levels, specifically goalie/defense ability, we will undoubtably need to tweak the settings to try and make the gameplay as good as possible. like how we had to adjust the game sliders for 13s goalies/injuries/hitting/shooting. Hopefully we wont need to do this, but i think our league is one of the best and our skill level is at the point where we are going to need to tweak the settings. the trial month will help us with it. then we can do what we did with this one and reset it.