Crash when trying to manually lift goalie

scotty · 10-16-2018, 01:12 PM

I'm on v 5.2.36, running on a PC (win 10) and playing standard games.

Here's the scenario - with a few mins left to play, I hit stop, go into "Lines" "Special" and remove my goalie. I then hit play to resume the game. The panel on the right of the screen shows that my net is empty.... and then the game crashes.

I checked this out in FHM3 and when I do the equivalent there a msg pops up saying that I haven't set my goalie and this forces me to put him back in - but at least the game doesn't crash.

Maybe I'm trying to do something manually which the game doesn't allow (perhaps I should just rely on the automatic "lift goalie" options). However, FHM3 handles this elegantly and avoids a crash. What do you think ?

JeffR · 10-17-2018, 05:52 AM

I suspect what happened there was a change made to avoid crashes when a skater was put in goal; the warning message may have gone out at that point. We'll have to add it back - although this does give me an idea on how to handle manual goalie pulling. Might see if that's easier to do, instead.

scotty · 10-17-2018, 07:17 AM

It would be good if you could come up with a way of allowing manual goalie pulls. It would make the last 5 mins of a game super-exciting ..... or not

10-16-2018, 01:12 PM	#1
scotty Minors (Rookie Ball) Join Date: Oct 2018 Location: Scotland Posts: 48	Crash when trying to manually lift goalie I'm on v 5.2.36, running on a PC (win 10) and playing standard games. Here's the scenario - with a few mins left to play, I hit stop, go into "Lines" "Special" and remove my goalie. I then hit play to resume the game. The panel on the right of the screen shows that my net is empty.... and then the game crashes. I checked this out in FHM3 and when I do the equivalent there a msg pops up saying that I haven't set my goalie and this forces me to put him back in - but at least the game doesn't crash. Maybe I'm trying to do something manually which the game doesn't allow (perhaps I should just rely on the automatic "lift goalie" options). However, FHM3 handles this elegantly and avoids a crash. What do you think ?

10-17-2018, 05:52 AM	#2
JeffR FHM Producer Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Kelowna, BC Posts: 17,407	I suspect what happened there was a change made to avoid crashes when a skater was put in goal; the warning message may have gone out at that point. We'll have to add it back - although this does give me an idea on how to handle manual goalie pulling. Might see if that's easier to do, instead.

10-17-2018, 07:17 AM	#3
scotty Minors (Rookie Ball) Join Date: Oct 2018 Location: Scotland Posts: 48	It would be good if you could come up with a way of allowing manual goalie pulls. It would make the last 5 mins of a game super-exciting ..... or not