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After spending quite a bit of (fun) time and a lot of late evenings playing FHM 2014, I wanted to throw out a couple of ideas that for the next version. Maybe they're being planned, but I didn't see anything in this thread about them, so I thought I'd ask. Some are clearly pulled directly from EHM as well as OOTP Baseball, and others were some that I've wanted for a bit.
Draft Day:
Have the NHL and your Head Scout rankings accessible when looking at the prospects.
Have a Top 100 Prospects draft list. Allow a right-click>>Assign Scout option.
Add ISS rankings at pre-season, mid-season, end of season with a "Previous Rankings" in parenthesis.
When viewing a prospect, have the ability to see individual scouts feelings from visits.
Show team weakness/strength in prospect pools. For example, "No high-end RW prospects in your system".
Have suggested picks based on Need/BPA/Risk/Reward. All are based on your scouting teams ability to recognize talent and ability as well as time invested in seeing the prospect.
Scouting:
Allow the option to appoint a Head Scout who you can assign to NHL Draft or Organization (to scout all your prospects).
Show something like boom/bust rating that shows their history of drafting and scouting.
Coaching:
When hiring personnel, let a head coach be hired.
Let Asst. Coaches be promoted.
Allow hiring of Head Coaches as Assistant Coaches or in other positions.
Ability UI:
Show the skills improving/degrading on players through a chart. Same for coaches and scouts. The dev report is good, but with no way to see how it translates over a couple of years, it's difficult to really use. Or, at the very least, give a comprehensive one showing how a player progressed over the entire year.
Training Camp:
Allow the invite(s) of prospects to come and train/scrimmage with the team during the camp. Give camp updates from coaches with evaluations/grades on how each player did at camp.
Free Agency:
Have (RFA) next to a players name in the Free Agent window.
Have a Top 3 teams a player is interested in when offering them a contract.
Include a "Likelihood of signing with you" bar or rating when putting together a contract offer. For example, more money gets it higher, term it goes higher or lower depending on what they want, etc.
When negotiating a contract, show us the per year salary cap hit if we want to stagger the amount per year.
General Stuff:
The ability to save an email. Draft Rankings as an example. Trade offers. Other things you might need to reference. Have them wiped at the end of each season if needed. Just a right click option maybe that allows us to save or protect from accidental deletion.
Allow an adjustable budget so we can add more money to scouting (more trips/visits) or training (better condition/fewer injuries) or other things to shape the team/game play.
When offering a trade or responding to one, have the AI offer other ideas based on what you ask for. Counter-proposals don't happen and it's left up to us to "guess" what might work.
Allow for the ability to release the rights of players you drafted. I currently have a 29 year old "Unsigned Draftee" that I can offer a new contract to or Assign a Scout to but I can't release and no one wants to trade for him. It's more of a nuisance than a hindrance, but it does clutter up that list.
I know a lot of these are probably already in the works, and if they aren't probably can't get in before the release, but maybe in the future. Thanks for all the feedback you guys give on the updates too. I'm quite excited to purchase it already...
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