I haven't posted in any forums for about 8 years, so I felt like sharing my past few years of playing Be A GM.
If you have no interest in my boring GM history, then my main question in a nutshell is: Have you ever played all 82 games + playoffs yourself, and how many seasons?
Anyway, before I purchased PS4 + NHL17, I had only played NHL 11, 12, 13 & 14. I played NHL14 for over 2 years only having one Be a GM save with the Nashville Predators.
I ended up grinding the save for over 14 seasons in which I played every single game myself. What kept me going was checking real life individual + team records and trying to beat them in the game. Playoff games were around 10 min periods with goal scoring sliders low and goalie sliders almost as high as you can get. Reg season games were the usual 5-6 mins. Back in NHL 14 I think you only had 6 different options with the sliders as opposed to the current 100.
After every season I had to adjust the sliders to make the game more difficult. Towards the end it didn't matter what I did with the sliders, or how much I tried to avoid scoring glitch goals, losing just seemed impossible. I suppose one of my mistake was making too many unrealistic trades that made my team "too good".
Among superstar level, I had to make the CPU 30% faster in skating, 100% stronger/more affective in body/stick-checking, take their fatigue effect off and bump my players' fatigue effect and speed to the max etc. I'm probably not that much better than an average player online, but I ended up being pretty good against the CPU's lol.
The first 9 seasons were tight enough to keep the excitement. Made the playoffs every year and won "only" 2-3 Stanley Cups, but through seasons 10-14 I won all 5 Stanley Cups. Perhaps motivated by my 9th season (still remember this one) where I lost 4-0 against the Oilers in the first round after a 130 point regular season.
In my first season I signed Ilya Kovalchuk as a free agent (this was the year he had left the league irl) and he scored around 1100 career goals (Atlanta + New Jersey goals included). He was our captain as a 45-46 year old when I quit the save. My favorite player was Joe Thornton, whom I always sign with any team I play with no matter what. I have this subconscious rule that I can only pass with him and he ended up assisting probably half of Kovalchuk's goals. I also Signed Erik Karlsson when he was 33 years old and I was able to score 135 points with him in his best season. That was 3 points shy of the real life record points in a season by a defenseman. I also had a goalie named Victor Corson who at some point broke the real life consecutive clean sheet record. I think I was able to keep the doors shut for about 250 minutes, but I can't remember the exact amount.
After finally getting bored with PS3 and NHL 14, I started my first Be A GM in NHL 17 (superstar + AI difficulty 6/6 etc) with the Jets and in my first season I missed the playoffs for the first time in my (around) 25 season GM history since NHL 11. A win in my last reg season game would have earned me the last Western conference playoff spot, but ironically, I lost 2-1 against the Predators. As much as I was frustrated, I was also excited that after all these years I would finally have to think about actually improving my team to get to the playoffs, instead of just trading for the sake of it.
I'm in my second season now and I signed Tyler Johnson and Alex Semin as free agents and traded Trouba + a disappointing Hellebuyck for Matt Murray & Mark Streit. Both have been better than their trades were and Johnson + Semin seem to be clutch players for whatever reason.
I just made the Conference finals today. Subconsciously I'm hoping I wont win the cup just yet, so that eventually winning the Cup would feel more rewarding. What's rewarding however, is that Joe Thronton lead the league in assists this season after being a disappointment in his first.
Phew, just had to get all that out there
I'm curious if anyone else has gone through a massive save like that and eventually learning the CPU too well to lose regardless of what you do with your sliders?
If you have no interest in my boring GM history, then my main question in a nutshell is: Have you ever played all 82 games + playoffs yourself, and how many seasons?
Anyway, before I purchased PS4 + NHL17, I had only played NHL 11, 12, 13 & 14. I played NHL14 for over 2 years only having one Be a GM save with the Nashville Predators.
I ended up grinding the save for over 14 seasons in which I played every single game myself. What kept me going was checking real life individual + team records and trying to beat them in the game. Playoff games were around 10 min periods with goal scoring sliders low and goalie sliders almost as high as you can get. Reg season games were the usual 5-6 mins. Back in NHL 14 I think you only had 6 different options with the sliders as opposed to the current 100.
After every season I had to adjust the sliders to make the game more difficult. Towards the end it didn't matter what I did with the sliders, or how much I tried to avoid scoring glitch goals, losing just seemed impossible. I suppose one of my mistake was making too many unrealistic trades that made my team "too good".
Among superstar level, I had to make the CPU 30% faster in skating, 100% stronger/more affective in body/stick-checking, take their fatigue effect off and bump my players' fatigue effect and speed to the max etc. I'm probably not that much better than an average player online, but I ended up being pretty good against the CPU's lol.
The first 9 seasons were tight enough to keep the excitement. Made the playoffs every year and won "only" 2-3 Stanley Cups, but through seasons 10-14 I won all 5 Stanley Cups. Perhaps motivated by my 9th season (still remember this one) where I lost 4-0 against the Oilers in the first round after a 130 point regular season.
In my first season I signed Ilya Kovalchuk as a free agent (this was the year he had left the league irl) and he scored around 1100 career goals (Atlanta + New Jersey goals included). He was our captain as a 45-46 year old when I quit the save. My favorite player was Joe Thornton, whom I always sign with any team I play with no matter what. I have this subconscious rule that I can only pass with him and he ended up assisting probably half of Kovalchuk's goals. I also Signed Erik Karlsson when he was 33 years old and I was able to score 135 points with him in his best season. That was 3 points shy of the real life record points in a season by a defenseman. I also had a goalie named Victor Corson who at some point broke the real life consecutive clean sheet record. I think I was able to keep the doors shut for about 250 minutes, but I can't remember the exact amount.
After finally getting bored with PS3 and NHL 14, I started my first Be A GM in NHL 17 (superstar + AI difficulty 6/6 etc) with the Jets and in my first season I missed the playoffs for the first time in my (around) 25 season GM history since NHL 11. A win in my last reg season game would have earned me the last Western conference playoff spot, but ironically, I lost 2-1 against the Predators. As much as I was frustrated, I was also excited that after all these years I would finally have to think about actually improving my team to get to the playoffs, instead of just trading for the sake of it.
I'm in my second season now and I signed Tyler Johnson and Alex Semin as free agents and traded Trouba + a disappointing Hellebuyck for Matt Murray & Mark Streit. Both have been better than their trades were and Johnson + Semin seem to be clutch players for whatever reason.
I just made the Conference finals today. Subconsciously I'm hoping I wont win the cup just yet, so that eventually winning the Cup would feel more rewarding. What's rewarding however, is that Joe Thronton lead the league in assists this season after being a disappointment in his first.
Phew, just had to get all that out there
I'm curious if anyone else has gone through a massive save like that and eventually learning the CPU too well to lose regardless of what you do with your sliders?
