Stamkos Retires w/ No Number Retirement?

[jldante56]

What constitutes a player getting their number retired by a franchise? Also, when will we be able to do this manually?

[jumpSeat]

Doing it manually is an interesting idea. It would certainly add another dimension to the franchise management experience. Just imagine evaluating players you developed for the ring of honor and/or jersey in the rafters treatment. Sounds like fun!

[jldante56]

[QUOTE=jumpSeat;4863621]Doing it manually is an interesting idea. It would certainly add another dimension to the franchise management experience. Just imagine evaluating players you developed for the ring of honor and/or jersey in the rafters treatment. Sounds like fun! [/QUO

In OOTP, you can retire a player, retire their number and put them in the HOF.

[jumpSeat]

Originally Posted by jldante56

In OOTP, you can retire a player, retire their number and put them in the HOF.

Good to know... OOTP is a much older series, so it's definitely had more time to flesh out some of these details. From what I've read, there's quite a few features in OOTP that haven't made their way into FHM yet.

Yet being the key word here, as I do have have confidence in the current FHM development team that many of these features will arrive - it's only a matter of time.

I understand we all want them five minutes ago, (at least I sure do), but OOTP didn't get them all overnight either. So the painful waiting game continues. But at least we have some really cool things to look forward to.

[JeffR]

Stamkos falls just short of the automatic qualifiers for number retirement for Tampa Bay, mainly due to so many games lost due to injury depressing his career totals a bit. But that seems to be a little too harsh, I'll take a look at adjusting the requirements a bit, maybe in particular for teams that don't have many retired numbers yet.

[Mancandy]

Originally Posted by JeffR

Stamkos falls just short of the automatic qualifiers for number retirement for Tampa Bay, mainly due to so many games lost due to injury depressing his career totals a bit. But that seems to be a little too harsh, I'll take a look at adjusting the requirements a bit, maybe in particular for teams that don't have many retired numbers yet.

One way to do that might be to have the AI consider where a player ranks in franchise history - in the OP’s save, Stamkos is presumably far and away the #1 player in franchise history in those numbers - and in particular where they ranked in the era they played. The fact that he was a long time captain could be a consideration as well, not to mention the fact that he’s in the HOF.

That said, the automatic qualifiers should also probably just be lowered in general. There’s nobody even close to 563 goals with one franchise who doesn’t have their number retired by that franchise - all 21 players who have even 500 goals with one franchise either have their number retired or undoubtedly will once they stop playing. (Sidney Crosby’s about to become the 22nd.)

[jldante56]

Originally Posted by JeffR

Stamkos falls just short of the automatic qualifiers for number retirement for Tampa Bay, mainly due to so many games lost due to injury depressing his career totals a bit. But that seems to be a little too harsh, I'll take a look at adjusting the requirements a bit, maybe in particular for teams that don't have many retired numbers yet.

Thanks for looking at this as always Jeff.

[jldante56]

Originally Posted by jumpSeat

Good to know... OOTP is a much older series, so it's definitely had more time to flesh out some of these details. From what I've read, there's quite a few features in OOTP that haven't made their way into FHM yet.

Yet being the key word here, as I do have have confidence in the current FHM development team that many of these features will arrive - it's only a matter of time.

I understand we all want them five minutes ago, (at least I sure do), but OOTP didn't get them all overnight either. So the painful waiting game continues. But at least we have some really cool things to look forward to.

I've actually been playing OOTP for 12 years and FHM since the first version. I'm a huge fan of both franchises and a staunch supporter. However, I do think it's important to bring things like this to their attention, as we all know that Steven Stamkos will definitely have his number retired by Tampa and I want to make sure that for the integrity of the game the realism is as close as possible.

[wiggleman83]

Originally Posted by jumpSeat

Doing it manually is an interesting idea. It would certainly add another dimension to the franchise management experience. Just imagine evaluating players you developed for the ring of honor and/or jersey in the rafters treatment. Sounds like fun!

You can edit retired numbers for any team. Turn on commissioner mode and go to the edit screen for a team. Scroll all the way down on the menu on the left that includes team colors, rivals, etc. and it's at the bottom.

[jumpSeat]

Originally Posted by jldante56

I've actually been playing OOTP for 12 years and FHM since the first version. I'm a huge fan of both franchises and a staunch supporter. However, I do think it's important to bring things like this to their attention...

Absolutely. Great that you're a staunch supporter, and yeah, I'm happy you care enough to want to see it improved.

Originally Posted by wiggleman83

You can edit retired numbers for any team. Turn on commissioner mode and go to the edit screen for a team. Scroll all the way down on the menu on the left that includes team colors, rivals, etc. and it's at the bottom.

Right. I was thinking more along the lines of a GM/Owner doing it through the regular GUI, but as you say, commissioner mode certainly works as a workaround.

[Tokyoriit]

Are you not able to do it yourself in commissioner mode?

You can edit the retired numbers of any team in Commissioner mode, going to the team dropdown at the top bar and "edit" should be at the very bottom of the menu. very bottom left corner, "edit retired numbers"

[jldante56]

Originally Posted by wiggleman83

You can edit retired numbers for any team. Turn on commissioner mode and go to the edit screen for a team. Scroll all the way down on the menu on the left that includes team colors, rivals, etc. and it's at the bottom.

Good call - thanks.