NHL 14 Wish list
Ok I’ll take care of the out of game experience, and non-gameplay (I don’t know much about hockey) a lot of what I’m taking is from other EA franchises I rarely play online so I’m mainly referring to offline stuff.
Be a GM mode
- Teams will have an actual budget to work on The Budget consists of :
- Players’ Salaries: Somewhat self-explanatory you have to abide by this it also includes a salary cap, and any team budget, in other words Phoenix won’t be signing suter and parise for close to 200 mill. Furthermore based on your reputation you may have to pay more or less to get your players. Depending on the difficulty, you may have more or less to work.
- Scouting expenses: you also have to hire scouts; you have 6 slots of scouts 3 north American and 3 European. They will have two rankings from one to 5 (1= worst/cheapest to 5= best/ most expensive) they will be ranked on Experience and Judgement. You start from scratch and have to hire your scouts; you can also have your scouts focus on positions if you want. Wherever the Scouts are from will affect quality, i.e. if you hire a Russian Scout they will provide better quality scouting reports for Russian based players.
- Coaches expenses: You’ll have to think hard on this is an important expense, better coaches will improve player development and influence strategies i.e. a defensive coach will have players play a more defensive style. Coaches will also affect default line combinations.
GM management:
- Players: You are going to see more interaction from players and that will affect team morale, i.e. unhappy players will air their grievances to you or the media and in fact they may demand trades. I also thought of integrating TSN insiders into both Be a GM , and Be a Pro mode, i.e. let’s say it’s the trade deadline don’t be surprised if either Bob Mackenzie and/or the other insiders picking up on to any trade inquiries ( this will effect on ice performance as well). In addition, Players who commit controversial hits will be targeted, and previous games may influence player intensity.
- TSN Insider integration: From time to time you’ll see trade rumors from TSN insiders, this could affect player morale and team cohesion. Bob Mackenzie, Darren Dreggier and Pierre Lebrun, will bring in game rumors, if there’s a trade rumour going around rest assured they’ll report on it.
- Social Media: Any Decision you make will be scrutinized, with Twitter and Facebook Integration. Your actions will also if they are necessary may have the owner implicated. This also includes Media Scrutiny and depending on the team, this may range from mild to severe depending on the team’s performance, In other words being the GM for Montreal is a lot harder than being the GM for Phoenix.
- Smarter AI: This is obvious The GM AI is somewhat dumb. When I am offered Paul Stastny for Carl Sneep, you know there is something wrong with the AI.
- Set Prices: This may seem out of topic but you will be able to generate revenue on how you balance the books. To create Revenue you set Ticket prices ( from Low, Med, High) it’s a juggling book to determine when to raise the prices. If you set them High all the Time you’ll have less attendance and if you set them to low all the time you wont be able to make money.
- Upgrades: You’ll be able to upgrade Capacity to increase revenue, but be careful depending on expansions it could cripple your team in the future.
- Pressure: there are a few groups you have to please. They are Fans, Owners, Players and Media . the point is to keep them Happy, if the Fans are pissed then Attendance will fall, and you’ll be hearing chants like GM Quit and the commentators will actually comment on this. If the Owners are pissed then you’ll have less money to work with, players that are pissed will either a) Demand a Trade B) Call for your head or C) Both. For the Media, if your team is doing bad you’ll see Tweets saying things like the GM has to Go and stuff like that.
- Trades: Trades will affect team dynamics i.e. let’s say you make a trade for a to defensemen and you have a surplus on them you’ll hear it from players ( This includes Prospects). GM reputations will also affect trades that you are able to do. In other words if you use Philly your relationship with Nashville will be negatively affected because of the Webber offer sheet. Also trying to cheat the system will also affect your relationship and influence the trade value for any asset.
- Fired: You can be fired and hired in the middle of the season as well.
- Prospects: for those teams who have prospects in a league other than NHL or AHL will be able to be recalled for the playoffs, you can also see how they are preforming as well. Also not all prospects may want to play for your team, they may not want to play for your team so there’s a risk there.
- Contract Negotiations: You can negotiate with a player a year before their contract is up. when negotiating a free agents contract, you’ll have a few things to consider when negotiating starting with
Bonus: You’ll have to give a player bonus/signing fee when negotiating this will be a percent of the salary
- Player’s Salary: You can negotiate a player’s Salary for the duration of the contract, this may affect moral, lets say i.e. Crosby and Malkin as comparisons; Malkin is going to expect something equal or greater to what Crosby is earning and this is going to affect the market as well.
- Player’s Moral: Depending on the player’s loyalty (i.e Alfie) they may take a home discount, also negatively treating the player may affect relations between the team and their fans. The opposite may also happen,
Be A Pro
- International Competition: Honestly there needs to be a way for a pro to play in an international competition; Hell create some random cup of nations, this also applies to juniors as well so you can play in the World Juniors, Olyimpics and the World Championships.
- Social Media Integration: Kind of like in Madden you are under the microscope per say, your coach, GM, Fans and Media and teammates. Pundits will make tweets depending on your performance.
- Not Get Drafted: If you don’t play well you won’t get drafted, and you’ll have to prove yourself.
- European Leagues: You can also play in Europe, and depending on your performance at the end of the season, you will be drafted accordingly.
- CHL Import Draft: You can decide if you want to be part of the CHL import draft,
- Goalie Masks: Using the same technology in Fifa 13 to create team designs, you can create custom goalie mask.
- Called up: Depending on when your season ends you can be called up to play in either the NHL or AHL.
- Change the number of games per season: Let us decide how long the season is, we can choose how long the season is.
- Negotiate contracts: Depending on many factors, you will get to set your prices but be careful if it is too high your team may trade you, bluff and/or you will go through a contract holdout and this may affect your relationship with fans, Ownership and fellow players.
- Pre season matches: Make them random, you play any team in the league. Also you now have to play 8 preseason games.
Other Stuff
-Goal Horns: this is a pet peeve of mine, why can’t the other teams have accurate goal horns or better yet let us customize them online and then download them into the game. Also if you edit the goal horn online you can choose any mp3 file you have , pick what 40 seconds you want and your good to go. You can also use any NHL goal Horns for CHL teams, for The AHL you can also use the parent teams goal horn ( I.e Toronto Marlies use the Toronto Maple leafs goal horn)
- Celebrations: They`re somewhat bland add some new ones, i.e. like when Yakupov scored against LA.
- Playoff Atmosphere: the playoffs need to be more intense, lets hear chants like we want the cup or something like that, or ______ team sucks(or player sucks).
- New Commentators: How about a DLC for new commentators, seriously EA why are you calling Tarasenko brown. I would recommend rick jeanneret and Mike "Doc" Emerick and of course Joe Beninati . You can still keep the default but change it up EA.
- Pre game training: before a game for practice you'll get to take shots on a goalie with your teams best player ,you can also practice goalkeeping as well.
So those are some of my ideas, that i'd like to see. The reason im not mentioning things like penalties and "hockey stuff" is cause i don't really pay attention to it and im not as familiar with it.
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