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Eastside Hockey Manager - Part X Patch 1.5 Edition! (Open Beta)

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Created a new league schedule for my 36-team NHLX from scratch - totally tedious but totally worth it. 36 teams, 4 x 9 divisions. Each team plays:
- 6 versus division rivals (3 home, 3 away): 48 games
- 2 versus non-division conferences foes (home & away): 18 games
- 1 games versus each team in the other conference (split for a home/away overall balance): 18 games

It's a total of 84 games so an increase of two - allowing for a balanced schedule. Good spread of games throughout each month with no 3-game-in-a-row situations, a break for Christmas, New Year's day off and a February league pause - this league pause allows me to use the same schedule for Olympic and non-Olympic years and I've moved the trade deadline up to right before the pause. So it's a nice break to allow rosters to settle and get acclimated and healthy before the final third of the season and playoff run.

The playoffs have also been adjusted - with 36 teams I've taken a cue from the NBA and created an initial "play-in" round. In each conference (18 teams), 12 teams make the playoffs. The top 4 seeds (two division winners and then sorted by points - I got rid of the old top 3 in each division rule) get byes in the first round. The remaining 8 teams play a "best-of-three" play-in tournament, seeded by points. The four winners then move on to join the 4 top seeds for the first round. The first round has been trimmed to a "best-of-5". The conference semis and finals and the Stanley Cup remain "best-of-7". The shorter early stages allow the extra round to be accommodated in the schedule and keep the playoffs around the same amount of time on the calendar in and games played.

Testing great so far...no bugs and in my very first test sim, Chicago made the West playoffs as the #12 seed, won their play-in series against Edmonton and then had a Cinderella run all the way to the Cup finals, knocking of Vegas, St. Louis and Colorado before losing to the Lightning!
 
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xECK29x said:
Kinda, actually an Editor bug, but Riz is going to double-fix into the game code itself as well (already done for the next beta build).
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What's the issue with the Editor? Is it incorrectly counting something when calculating the Player Stats screen?
 
Anything I can do, in-game, to prevent my 35 y.o. top dman from retiring? Still has 2 years left on contract and is far from done physically.

"... has decided that this will be his last season playing professional hockey."

 
xECK29x said:
Kinda, actually an Editor bug, but Riz is going to double-fix into the game code itself as well (already done for the next beta build).
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Note that it's only problem in the first (2020/2021) season, after that it seems ok. In the 2nd season Guenther won it.
 
@xECK29x unless I made a mistake, it seems some TDL trades are not done (or partly) done in the Seattle DB.

For example, TB doesn't have their 1st round pick, but also don't have Savard.
 
MrGold said:
Anything I can do, in-game, to prevent my 35 y.o. top dman from retiring? Still has 2 years left on contract and is far from done physically.

"... has decided that this will be his last season playing professional hockey."

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Can you reload to an earlier point? Idk what impacts the decision of retiring, if it is set or random but I don't think there's any "actions" you can take.

In the past I've tried signing very old FA's for milestones (like Ovechkin to get 1000 goals) to outrageous contracts (like $10M per). Sometimes they signed but then decided to retire before the season.
 
Can't for the life of me figure how to get a database in the game that isn't ECK's subs
 
Treb said:
Create a folder in the database folder and put it there?
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I think I did that? There's one option for 'default (2016)' which i don't know if it's it, but it doesn't even get to the team select screen so i can't actually figure out if that's it.
 
GKJ said:
I think I did that? There's one option for 'default (2016)' which i don't know if it's it, but it doesn't even get to the team select screen so i can't actually figure out if that's it.
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You should have an option with the name of the folder you created.
 
Treb said:
You should have an option with the name of the folder you created.
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Yeah, that's what I can't figure out to do, because I do have the folder there, and I had other folders too but I can't get this one to show up no matter what I do or how many places I save it.
 
GKJ said:
Yeah, that's what I can't figure out to do, because I do have the folder there, and I had other folders too but I can't get this one to show up no matter what I do or how many places I save it.
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Should be in :
Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Eastside Hockey Manager\data\database\"Folder with the name you want"

Do you have just the database file? I know ECK new DB also has the extra_config, import_config and record_config but I don't know which is essential.

Older DBs I had only have the DB and extra_config.
 
Treb said:
Should be in :
Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Eastside Hockey Manager\data\database\"Folder with the name you want"

Do you have just the database file? I know ECK new DB also has the extra_config, import_config and record_config but I don't know which is essential.

Older DBs I had only have the DB and extra_config.
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Would a database I saved need it’s own unique extra_config?
 
GKJ said:
Would a database I saved need it’s own unique extra_config?
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No you can use any, but any names/DOBs in the cfg file will be skipped if they don't match anything in the DB.

P.s. if the start date is different in the DB compared to where the source cfg file came from then you'd need to check that any dates/draft pick trades in the cfg file do not pre-date your DB start date.
 
archibalduk said:
No you can use any, but any names/DOBs in the cfg file will be skipped if they don't match anything in the DB.

P.s. if the start date is different in the DB compared to where the source cfg file came from then you'd need to check that any dates/draft pick trades in the cfg file do not pre-date your DB start date.
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i basically took one of ECK’s db’s, played with it a bit, and saved on my hard drive. Not anything too drastic I don’t think: some retired numbers, made some national teams active and tried adding a Latvian club to the Finnish league.
 
GKJ said:
i basically took one of ECK’s db’s, played with it a bit, and saved on my hard drive. Not anything too drastic I don’t think: some retired numbers, made some national teams active and tried adding a Latvian club to the Finnish league.
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Did you copy the extra files in the db folder as well?
 
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