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

[xECK29x]

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[BKarchitect]

So cool!!!! What a monumental project, congrats on the release guys!

 

[WhalerTurnedBruin55]

Congrats on the release xECKx and Flinch! I definitely have been playing through it for nostalgia's sake and it's been fun!


Also, posting here, just pushed the latest official release of Global United Hockey! I got a bit too ambitious and wanted to wait until I had all the graphics in place, but for the most part I want people to give it a shot and get feedback! This is based originally on Pivot 6.

Still working on the graphics, and a face/jersey pack should be out very shortly.

In depth details here: [2021-2022] Global United Hockey 2022 v2.0 - EHM The Blue Line

Download on Steam here: Steam Workshop::Global United Hockey 2022 (v2.0) official release by penguinrevolt, thanks to @xECK29x for posting the db on his steam page.

There's a lot of updates from the previous release, and I would have liked to release a nicely packaged set (like @BKarchitect 's NHLX), but for the most part I'd like to get the db out there and hear some feedback.

I've shared with a select few that have reached out and asked, but now it's open to all!

Please definitely reach out if you have any issues/comments or questions.

My recommended minimum league set up is the following, feel free to add any of your other favorite leagues.

Note, a weird bug, reported to SI, when selecting the Internation Collegiate Hockey Association, it auto-selects all the related leagues, which is desired. BUT if you want to actually play as GM of one of the teams in those leagues, you'll need to (un)select/re-select the league.

The ehmblueline link is much more thorough, but here are the main features!

An expanded NHL, all 32 current NHL teams and rosters, with 18 expansion/revived franchises including but not limited to Quebec, Hartford, Atlanta, and more. (*see EHMblueline for details)

Expanded AHL to serve as farm to NHL teams
Expanded and improved SPHL (sister league to the ECHL in rep/ranking) to serve as farm to AHL and NHL

96 Global United Hockey professional teams
96 Global United Hockey minor teams
96 Global United Hockey U22 teams
96 Global United Hockey U18 teams

Expanded world competitions: Champions of Hockey -> 64 teams
Olympics -> each tournament has 24 teams
World Championships -> 64, 24, 24, 24, 24, 6, a total of 166 teams in 6 tournaments can rise and fall year to year
World Junior Championships -> 80, 12, a total of 2 tournaments rise and fall each year
World Cup expanded to 84 teams
World Cup U20, featuring 84 teams (every 4 years in Olympic years)


More text and details to come, but very happy to share this with everyone, and hope people enjoy!

 

[filip85]

All of you guys who are making this game still playable and enjoyable and beautiful (BK modern skin) should be awarded with some kind of EHM version of Medal of Honor

 

[bashbros32]

@xECK29x this is a wonderful project! can't wait to see future instalments!

is there plans to make the 2011-2023ish drafts accurate as well?

also one quick minor note, in the editing, Senators director of Euro scouting got his birth date adjusted to February 7 1956, where he was born September 10 1978. is this an issue with the game where scouts cant be younger than a certain age? he is the only inaccuracy I personally have noticed so far.

great work though! I'm on a hyper nostalgia trip right now

 

[xECK29x]

@xECK29x this is a wonderful project! can't wait to see future instalments!

is there plans to make the 2011-2023ish drafts accurate as well?

also one quick minor note, in the editing, Senators director of Euro scouting got his birth date adjusted to February 7 1956, where he was born September 10 1978. is this an issue with the game where scouts cant be younger than a certain age? he is the only inaccuracy I personally have noticed so far.

great work though! I'm on a hyper nostalgia trip right now

Yes I am going to start detailing 2011-2022 draft classes next, 2022 class will get the updates when I finalize the class for 2022-23 Pivot. They should be pretty much 90% accurate though, flinch did a great job with the 2000-01 DB the players/staff were originally from.

That staff ID likely didn't have a real DOB set (probably 1.2.1900) so the game auto-assigned one. If that is his real DOB I will add it, who are you talking about specifically though? Really glad you are enjoying it, I have SO MUCH fun playing this, especially a fantasy draft! I haven't played this much EHM since I first got into the game honestly, before I knew of the Editor!

 

[bashbros32]

Yes I am going to start detailing 2011-2022 draft classes next, 2022 class will get the updates when I finalize the class for 2022-23 Pivot. They should be pretty much 90% accurate though, flinch did a great job with the 2000-01 DB the players/staff were originally from.

That staff ID likely didn't have a real DOB set (probably 1.2.1900) so the game auto-assigned one. If that is his real DOB I will add it, who are you talking about specifically though? Really glad you are enjoying it, I have SO MUCH fun playing this, especially a fantasy draft! I haven't played this much EHM since I first got into the game honestly, before I knew of the Editor!

Mikko Ruutu was the Ottawa staff I was referring to, I figured when I saw his name he must be like... a teenager or something cause he's only 43 now. It led me down a path looking him up and realizing that he played 1.5 U20 seasons for HIFK, then spent a year at Clarkson, returned to Jokerit for 3 more seasons... then quit playing and joined the Ottawa Senators as a European scout as of 2004-2005... which as I'm typing this it made me truly realize... he shouldnt be contracted to Ottawa at all! as of 2000-01 he was still an active player!

 

[xECK29x]

Mikko Ruutu was the Ottawa staff I was referring to, I figured when I saw his name he must be like... a teenager or something cause he's only 43 now. It led me down a path looking him up and realizing that he played 1.5 U20 seasons for HIFK, then spent a year at Clarkson, returned to Jokerit for 3 more seasons... then quit playing and joined the Ottawa Senators as a European scout as of 2004-2005... which as I'm typing this it made me truly realize... he shouldnt be contracted to Ottawa at all! as of 2000-01 he was still an active player!

That makes sense, being he had a bigger career as a staff then a player we did take some creative liberties and just make those guys staff right away, being he is only 22 though the game doesn't allow staff that young so it's auto-adjusting the DOB. I'll drop him to UFA so he has the right age and is spawned in appropriately.

 

[bashbros32]

That makes sense, being he had a bigger career as a staff then a player we did take some creative liberties and just make those guys staff right away, being he is only 22 though the game doesn't allow staff that young so it's auto-adjusting the DOB. I'll drop him to UFA so he has the right age and is spawned in appropriately.

is there a way to assign him a future contract? I don't think he had a prolific enough playing career to bother making a player side to him in the DB, but he has been a pretty instrumental part of the Sens scouting team for nearly 2 decades at this point.

 

[HamiltonOHL]

BKs 36x database... with WJC and WJC Division 1 extended is amazing.

 

[xECK29x]

is there a way to assign him a future contract? I don't think he had a prolific enough playing career to bother making a player side to him in the DB, but he has been a pretty instrumental part of the Sens scouting team for nearly 2 decades at this point.

Not for staff, no

 

[bashbros32]

Not for staff, no

Sorry to be a pain, however I have found another couple errors in the 2000 db.

was looking forward at upcoming drafts and noticed that the game has both a "Cal Petersen" and a "Calvin Petersen" a set of oddly named twins both playing for the Des Moines Buccaneers u16

and the other; Juliano Pagliero has 2 errors, first, his listed birth place is St. Catherines Ontario, while he was born in Dalroy Alberta, and secondly, he is in the game as a left wing goal scoring forward, while he actually was a goaltender!

 

[xECK29x]

Sorry to be a pain, however I have found another couple errors in the 2000 db.

was looking forward at upcoming drafts and noticed that the game has both a "Cal Petersen" and a "Calvin Petersen" a set of oddly named twins both playing for the Des Moines Buccaneers u16

and the other; Juliano Pagliero has 2 errors, first, his listed birth place is St. Catherines Ontario, while he was born in Dalroy Alberta, and secondly, he is in the game as a left wing goal scoring forward, while he actually was a goaltender!

This is why its in public beta! That's also because I changed his name in Pivot so he got duplicated, will remove "Cal".

 

[bashbros32]

Is there any way to go back into some type of file or section of the game I'm missing where you can see when/why a player retired?

In my 2000 run I'm on right now, my #2 D Alex Goligoski played 464 games, got 59 goals and 272 points, just won a Stanley Cup, and is now retired... at the age of 24? I'm assuming it was injury related but unfortunately I don't have auto-save turned on, and I accidentally saved in October of the new season and the news is gone. I loaded the save in the editor and it has his "job for club" as "retired" but I have no idea what happened. The only place where I can even see his name in the game is the box score for the cup finals, he had a secondary assist in the last game where we won the cup... I don't remember reading or seeing that he got injured, and I had him under contract until the end of the next season.

this is a huge blow to my team.

 

[bashbros32]

Is there any way to go back into some type of file or section of the game I'm missing where you can see when/why a player retired?

In my 2000 run I'm on right now, my #2 D Alex Goligoski played 464 games, got 59 goals and 272 points, just won a Stanley Cup, and is now retired... at the age of 24? I'm assuming it was injury related but unfortunately I don't have auto-save turned on, and I accidentally saved in October of the new season and the news is gone. I loaded the save in the editor and it has his "job for club" as "retired" but I have no idea what happened. The only place where I can even see his name in the game is the box score for the cup finals, he had a secondary assist in the last game where we won the cup... I don't remember reading or seeing that he got injured, and I had him under contract until the end of the next season.

this is a huge blow to my team.

this story is even weirder, it turns out I do have a separate save from when he wasn't retired, simulated through to the regular season and he never retired.

in the save where he *is* retired, I looked at the box score from the cup finals, he played 18+ minutes in the cup winning game, recorded a secondary assist, and was not injured.

then I looked at every pre-season game, he didn't play in a single one. unfortunately, because so much news comes in during preseason, my messages only go back as far as september 30th... and he was already off the team by then.

so this dude must have either A: Decided he hates the game of hockey after winning a cup and playing nearly 500 games in the NHL, making millions... or B: somehow sustained a career ending injury in practice... after missing only 28 games in 6 years of hockey... or just shy of 5 games a year.

 

[xECK29x]

this story is even weirder, it turns out I do have a separate save from when he wasn't retired, simulated through to the regular season and he never retired.

in the save where he *is* retired, I looked at the box score from the cup finals, he played 18+ minutes in the cup winning game, recorded a secondary assist, and was not injured.

then I looked at every pre-season game, he didn't play in a single one. unfortunately, because so much news comes in during preseason, my messages only go back as far as september 30th... and he was already off the team by then.

so this dude must have either A: Decided he hates the game of hockey after winning a cup and playing nearly 500 games in the NHL, making millions... or B: somehow sustained a career ending injury in practice... after missing only 28 games in 6 years of hockey... or just shy of 5 games a year.

That's pretty funny, sorry for your loss. Did he have any mental signals that he was trending in that direction if you go to info? Any fights with teammates or low morale/ambition for a long period of time? Pretty sure his mentals in the DB are strong.

 

[bashbros32]

That's pretty funny, sorry for your loss. Did he have any mental signals that he was trending in that direction if you go to info? Any fights with teammates or low morale/ambition for a long period of time? Pretty sure his mentals in the DB are strong.

the only thing I can maybe think of is I pissed off half the team 3 times in the last year when I was simming because one of the "x-player praised by media" news options came up, and the simulation selected "downplay players contributions" or whatever... and said player is loved by virtually the entire team... other than that everything seemed fine?

also one more edit for you! Yanni Gourde doesn't have a place of birth set in the game, so he ended up playing in the WHL.

 

[abo9]

Is there a bug where Fog of War disapears when switching files?

I had a file with fog of war deactivated, and one where I kept it activated, and now I can see the attributes of all players in both files.

Maybe I deactivated it by default on my second save too, weird.

 

[filip85]

BKarchitect - for your next update can you please move last pre-Oly qualification game from Tuesday to Monday ? Because it overlaps with the start of the Balkan Hockey League

 

[filip85]

any updates from Riz regarding the future of the game? (like EHM 2, or graphical changes to the 2D system, etc.)

Still ashamed SI doesn't help out.

 

[Don Nachbaur 26]

Not sure if this happened to anyone else, but I was playing Saturday morning and using EHM assistant. No problem. Went back later Saturday, not working anymore. Running 1.5.0b1669120 for the game and 1.5.0.37 for EHM assistant. Tried uninstalling and re-installing. Rebooted the laptop as well.

 

[Nino33]

Not sure if this happened to anyone else, but I was playing Saturday morning and using EHM assistant. No problem. Went back later Saturday, not working anymore. Running 1.5.0b1669120 for the game and 1.5.0.37 for EHM assistant. Tried uninstalling and re-installing. Rebooted the laptop as well.

I last had EHM running about a week ago. I just logged in now and instead of the button saying "play game" it says "update required" so a recent update must have occured, though I don't see it noted on Steam, SI or TBL (maybe I'm missing something)

 

[xECK29x]

I last had EHM running about a week ago. I just logged in now and instead of the button saying "play game" it says "update required" so a recent update must have occured, though I don't see it noted on Steam, SI or TBL (maybe I'm missing something)

There was a silent update to the game, we had to have an issue fixed which prevented us from creating DBs with a start date of 2022 or later. EHM Assistant should be updated by the author hopefully soon. It's amazing how we still don't know who this person is .

 

[Don Nachbaur 26]

There was a silent update to the game, we had to have an issue fixed which prevented us from creating DBs with a start date of 2022 or later. EHM Assistant should be updated by the author hopefully soon. It's amazing how we still don't know who this person is .

Thank you. I'll be on the lookout for it.

 

[xECK29x]

Thank you. I'll be on the lookout for it.

It was just updated: EHMAssistant_1.5.0.38_beta_v6