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

[dellzor]

Pivot v7.10 posted, this is a post NHL trade deadline update!

General Updates:
- Notable latest transactions

NHL Updates:
- Increased contract limit to 60 to work around some EHM game limitations when it comes to junior contract slides, this is causing the AI to release players. -- Thanks Fabio for reporting and sending saves!
- Increased Salary Cap to 90.5m to due to real life salary situations that AI teams have issues working around, you can lower this with EHM Assistant!
- NHL Trade deadline week trades and signings added.
- ELC contracts starting in 2023-24 added, remember to remove the "NHL Future Transactions" section of the extra_config.cfg file if you play Fantasy Draft start (you also should remove cap penalties!)
- Updated notable NCAA, CHL and European free agents who may get NHL interest this year (Pronman: Top college, CHL and European free agents for NHL teams and The EP Rinkside 2023 NCAA Free Agency Guide - EP Rinkside)

Russian Updates -- thanks AngryDuck!!
- Updated players and staff in KHL and VHL
- Latest transfers for MHL, MHL B and VHL B.
- Updated contracts and re-rated players and staff across all Russian leagues

Curtis Lazar, Luke Schenn, Kalynuk still on the Canucks

 

[xECK29x]

Curtis Lazar, Luke Schenn, Kalynuk still on the Canucks

Try unsub/resub

 

[3074326]

I had something I’ve never seen before happen recently. A goalie prospect was one of the best goalies in the game at 18. Was like 193 rating. lol

But I always enjoy this time of the year. Some good rebuild candidates right now. Pittsburgh continues to make its EHM rebuild even harder.

 

[vcanuck]

Try unsub/resub

you are the best!! thx for the trade deadline updates.

now I can fix the mess the Canucks are in lol.

 

[ReHabs]

Does anyone know the contact info of whoever owns EHM? I realize this might not be the place to ask but the info@ address of SI never replied to my query.

 

[xECK29x]

Does anyone know the contact info of whoever owns EHM? I realize this might not be the place to ask but the info@ address of SI never replied to my query.

Best bet is to @ https://twitter.com/rizrem on Twitter directly.

 

[Smirnov2Chistov]

This may have been asked before, but does height/weight really play a ‘role’ during gameplay?

Just got back into playing the game after a long absence. I’ve noticed that some of my ‘bigger’ forwards lose the puck to smallerish players. Not that it’s a big deal, but the 2D sim makes it seem like it’s an easy puck recovery by my opponent

 

[bashbros32]

Hey, I know people here aren't technical support for EHM but I figured I'd get a quicker response from you than the SI forums...

I haven't played EHM in a while, and now when I go to start the game it just... doesn't? Windows will throw up the "connecting to steam" window, and steam will *think* it's playing... for like 5 seconds, then it just reverts back and displays the "play" button.

I tried uninstalling and re-installing and switching between the beta and not the beta... nothing seems to work... do you happen to have any ideas?

 

[xECK29x]

Hey, I know people here aren't technical support for EHM but I figured I'd get a quicker response from you than the SI forums...

I haven't played EHM in a while, and now when I go to start the game it just... doesn't? Windows will throw up the "connecting to steam" window, and steam will *think* it's playing... for like 5 seconds, then it just reverts back and displays the "play" button.

I tried uninstalling and re-installing and switching between the beta and not the beta... nothing seems to work... do you happen to have any ideas?

Dumb question, have you restarted the computer? I've ran into this issue and a reboot fixed it.

 

[xECK29x]

This may have been asked before, but does height/weight really play a ‘role’ during gameplay?

Just got back into playing the game after a long absence. I’ve noticed that some of my ‘bigger’ forwards lose the puck to smallerish players. Not that it’s a big deal, but the 2D sim makes it seem like it’s an easy puck recovery by my opponent

Could come down to specific attributes over height/weight, balance, stickhandling could factor into that.

 

[WreckingCrew]

Could come down to specific attributes over height/weight, balance, stickhandling could factor into that.

Guessing probably strength and possibly agility too...or pokecheck?

 

[Sanz4]

i dunno if i have said this before but the players point production is too low in this game. Is there anyway to change this?

 

[Smirnov2Chistov]

i dunno if i have said this before but the players point production is too low in this game. Is there anyway to change this?

people will look at me as being an asshole, but I’ve seen many times on here that point production to too high.

go change your tactics to barrage shooting and very offensive, it should definitely help. Your coaching staff need to have high tactical attributes

 

[bashbros32]

Dumb question, have you restarted the computer? I've ran into this issue and a reboot fixed it.

yes, absolutely... the problem actually popped up when I moved my computer for a day, but I follow all protocols and whatnot when shutting down... and all of my other steam games still work... it's JUST EHM.

I tried rebooting, I tried shutting down and restarting that way, I tried uninstalling and reinstalling... I tried completely wiping all the EHM related files I have on my pc and trying a completely fresh install...

I even swapped back and forth between using the beta and not using it... I'm completely stumped.

It just loads up the "connecting to steam" window, then nothing happens. However steam registers me as having last played "today."

 

[xECK29x]

yes, absolutely... the problem actually popped up when I moved my computer for a day, but I follow all protocols and whatnot when shutting down... and all of my other steam games still work... it's JUST EHM.

I tried rebooting, I tried shutting down and restarting that way, I tried uninstalling and reinstalling... I tried completely wiping all the EHM related files I have on my pc and trying a completely fresh install...

I even swapped back and forth between using the beta and not using it... I'm completely stumped.

It just loads up the "connecting to steam" window, then nothing happens. However steam registers me as having last played "today."

That’s really weird, have you tried maybe logging in and out of steam?

 

[bashbros32]

That’s really weird, have you tried maybe logging in and out of steam?

Yep, sure have, also I should mention the "connecting to steam" quote was wrong... it's the "preparing to launch EHM" screen.

 

[xECK29x]

Yep, sure have, also I should mention the "connecting to steam" quote was wrong... it's the "preparing to launch EHM" screen.

You can DM me on Discord maybe we can figure something out.

 

[bashbros32]

You can DM me on Discord maybe we can figure something out.

So, I did a full on pc reset, and I think I got it down to a resolution + scale mismatch...

It works now, but still on some resolution settings it bungles itself, and even on some resolution settings that work, certain sale settings make it completely crash.

 

[Snowman]

Maybe someone here can help me. How do you get the logos for the AHL & NHL east and west all star teams to show up in the game? I can get the logos for the games to show up, but only get the generic EHM logos for the teams. So, I must be putting the logos in the wrong place. Any ideas?

 

[xECK29x]

Maybe someone here can help me. How do you get the logos for the AHL & NHL east and west all star teams to show up in the game? I can get the logos for the games to show up, but only get the generic EHM logos for the teams. So, I must be putting the logos in the wrong place. Any ideas?

What have you tried? The league for that should be "All-Stars Team" and the team names are NHL Eastern All-Stars and NHL Western All-Stars.

 

[Snowman]

What have you tried? The league for that should be "All-Stars Team" and the team names are NHL Eastern All-Stars and NHL Western All-Stars.

I was working on the AHL all-stars and from one of the logo packs I added there is a folder in the clubs folder named "American hockey league all-stars" so I tried adding the logos there, but no luck. So, maybe if it just needs to be "All-Stars Team" as you suggested, that could be the problem.

From looking in the editor the long name of the all star teams is "American hockey league east all stars", but using both the long form and short form of the names in the folder I named above didn't work, so I'm thinking it was a folder name issue, so I'll have to try what you said above.

I noticed that the competition logos were in a folder called "annual competitions" (I believe) so I thought maybe the club logos were a derivative of that somehow.

I'll take another whack at it tonight and see what happens.

 

[xECK29x]

I was working on the AHL all-stars and from one of the logo packs I added there is a folder in the clubs folder named "American hockey league all-stars" so I tried adding the logos there, but no luck. So, maybe if it just needs to be "All-Stars Team" as you suggested, that could be the problem.

From looking in the editor the long name of the all star teams is "American hockey league east all stars", but using both the long form and short form of the names in the folder I named above didn't work, so I'm thinking it was a folder name issue, so I'll have to try what you said above.

I noticed that the competition logos were in a folder called "annual competitions" (I believe) so I thought maybe the club logos were a derivative of that somehow.

I'll take another whack at it tonight and see what happens.

@BKarchitect do you happen to know?

 

[Snowman]

@BKarchitect do you happen to know?

Yeah, I just can't get it to work for the team logos. It has to be a league problem, because I'm trying all the possible team name combinations I can think of, but nothing shows up. I've tried renaming the league name in the "clubs" directory to a bunch of different permutations as well but nothing works.

I thought naming the folder in clubs to match the name of the league for the all-star teams in the editor would work, but no luck.

 

[petteri33]

Ok so, I've been in development of my own Database for quite a while now and although it was only going to be for my own use, I'm very happy with how it's turning out so thought I'd gauge any interest in a public release.

Intro:
The DB is based on the season 2019/2020 and won't be updated to current years, the reason for this, is that the whole aim is to create a DB that is the most accurate, most realistic and least bloated available, constantly updating means this can't really happen. The 19/20 season was obviously the last before covid hit and when i started doing this DB in the 20/21 season some leagues weren't fully running so it made sense just to stick with 19/20

The DB was created by using the default historical 2006 DB that comes with the game, this default DB had the least amount of data that cant be deleted i.e only around 4500 clubs, 500 Comps etc so was the perfect one to start with, All players, staff, officials were deleted so it was semi blank.

Playable Leagues:
See the screenshot below for what leagues are available to play
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Leagues were selected based on how accurately they can be represented, so no US junior or college leagues, and how many games are in the season. I would love to have included the Spanish league for example, but they only play 16 games which would make for a boring game. BeNe League is included as although the season only has 20 games, they also have two cup competitions that increase it to over 30.

League Rules and Structures:
Every playable league has been built from scratch and sim tested until 2050 multiple times to ensure there are no bugs, no conflicts with international tournaments, drafts or playoffs and all rules are working correctly.

The rules have been established as close to real life as possible. Most leagues have official rulebooks available, so this has been what I have used to decide what to add. Some rules are not possible to 100% add so some variations have been done. For example in Belarus the top league has a rule of only 7 players over the age of 27 on the roster, this isnt possible to add in EHM without causing other issues so I have added a limit of 7 vets on the roster based on games played of 440 which after testing does closely match the age limit.

Teams which compete in more than one National comp has been implemented. So Jesenice will play in both the Alps league the domestic Slovenian league, Corona Brasov in both the Eerste Liga and domestic Romanian League, Triglav in the domestic Slovenian League and the International League for just a few examples.

International Competitions:
Same as above, international comps have been accurately modelled and, in some cases, expanded. See below for a list:
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Most notable feature here is an expanded U20 World Championship to include the lower divisions
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Naming convention:
I've took a leaf out of an add on for Football Manager I used to use for real name fixes, this creates a consistency in names for clubs and leagues. The long name will be expanded so, example, instead of long name Brynas IF and Short name being Brynas it becomes like the below
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Where the short name will become Brynas IF.

As can be seen in the playable league list, Leagues names and named as they would be locally for example Drzavno Prvenstvo Slovenije for the Slovenian National League.

Finances/Salaries:
I have spent an obscene amount of time on the finance info section of the editor to try and model European player salaries as realistically as possible. Team budgets and player wages are based on numerous local paper articles for leagues like the SHL,NLA and also on agent websites which list average wages for each league. Player wages will not be accurate as nobody, outside of the KHL and a few players in other top league are known, but they do match team budgets.


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This is just a small peak. Later on, after I've finished a bit more stuff Ill demonstrate how this DB will handle prospect generation and some other stuff. If there is anything people want me to screenshot and show now or talk about, just let me know.

Hi Nathan ! Your database looks amazing, especially you're work on European leagues and teams. Congratulations !
How is your work going ? Do you plan to release your database ?
I'm eager to see more screenshots and informations !

 

[NathanB]

Hi Nathan ! Your database looks amazing, especially you're work on European leagues and teams. Congratulations !
How is your work going ? Do you plan to release your database ?
I'm eager to see more screenshots and informations !

Hi Thank you.

Work is still ongoing although not as much as I'd hoped. Lack of time and also motivation has been a factor, I came across a few issues that ive fixed but there are a few issues with the game that I dont like that and cant control but which diminish my motivation to finish it.