AIHL Foreigns Issue | How to fix it?

maikgianino · 03-26-2018, 03:09 PM

Hello everyone, I hope you all are doing great!

I noticed something as I'm playing in the Asian League Ice Hockey.
The problem is the foreigns rule. As the picture below shows the rules indicate a maximun of 3 foreigns per team, but since the ALIH has teams from South Korea, Japan and Russia it seems the rule is not correctly working for all teams

See first picture.

https://imgur.com/l5usznT

Now with those rules, I noticed that Japanese teams and the Russian team follow the rule but with the Korean teams it seems something is wrong.

Notice the pictures below.

https://imgur.com/BGkctKT
https://imgur.com/ogekNSg
https://imgur.com/2AvNa1I

On Korean teams only, Japanese players don't count as foreigns but in Japanese teams Korean players are considered foreigns, for that reason at least from my end Korean teams are way more stronger because they can get Japanese players to their teams, plus 3 more foreigns.

I'm currently playing with Tohoku Free Blades from Japan and Korean players count as foreigns, notice the following screenshots.

https://imgur.com/36lBqGa
https://imgur.com/2nL6YiB

How one can fix this?
If not, hope devs can fix it for the next update because aside AIHL is not a popular league, my first job playing was a Japanese team and was interesting to do it but this is a little frustrating because Korean teams are more strong than all Japanese or Russian team.

I hope this helps for the future!
Greetings!

JeffR · 03-26-2018, 11:44 PM

The real ALIH foreign player rules are a little difficult to implement because they treat the league's member nations differently. Japanese and Korean players are considered non-foreign for all teams, while Russians are considered foreign on the non-Russian teams. We get close to it by setting Japan as the base nation for the league, which lets Japanese players play anywhere, but that doesn't help the Korean players. However, as a practical matter that's not too unrealistic: the Japanese teams in real life usually don't sign Koreans - there's only a single Korean on the rosters of the 4 Japanese teams right now. Korean teams are free to sign as many Japanese players as they want, both in the game and in real life, although they tend to be more aggressive about doing that in the game.

maikgianino · 03-27-2018, 02:04 AM

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Originally Posted by JeffR

The real ALIH foreign player rules are a little difficult to implement because they treat the league's member nations differently. Japanese and Korean players are considered non-foreign for all teams, while Russians are considered foreign on the non-Russian teams. We get close to it by setting Japan as the base nation for the league, which lets Japanese players play anywhere, but that doesn't help the Korean players. However, as a practical matter that's not too unrealistic: the Japanese teams in real life usually don't sign Koreans - there's only a single Korean on the rosters of the 4 Japanese teams right now. Korean teams are free to sign as many Japanese players as they want, both in the game and in real life, although they tend to be more aggressive about doing that in the game.

I didn't know that.
Not sure how you guys can fix that but it's hard to fight against Korean teams like this because Korean players seem to be better than Japanese

And also as I said there is plenty of Japanese players in the Korean teams.

Thanks for reading!

03-26-2018, 03:09 PM	#1
maikgianino Minors (Double A) Join Date: Mar 2018 Posts: 147	AIHL Foreigns Issue \| How to fix it? Hello everyone, I hope you all are doing great! I noticed something as I'm playing in the Asian League Ice Hockey. The problem is the foreigns rule. As the picture below shows the rules indicate a maximun of 3 foreigns per team, but since the ALIH has teams from South Korea, Japan and Russia it seems the rule is not correctly working for all teams See first picture. https://imgur.com/l5usznT Now with those rules, I noticed that Japanese teams and the Russian team follow the rule but with the Korean teams it seems something is wrong. Notice the pictures below. https://imgur.com/BGkctKT https://imgur.com/ogekNSg https://imgur.com/2AvNa1I On Korean teams only, Japanese players don't count as foreigns but in Japanese teams Korean players are considered foreigns, for that reason at least from my end Korean teams are way more stronger because they can get Japanese players to their teams, plus 3 more foreigns. I'm currently playing with Tohoku Free Blades from Japan and Korean players count as foreigns, notice the following screenshots. https://imgur.com/36lBqGa https://imgur.com/2nL6YiB How one can fix this? If not, hope devs can fix it for the next update because aside AIHL is not a popular league, my first job playing was a Japanese team and was interesting to do it but this is a little frustrating because Korean teams are more strong than all Japanese or Russian team. I hope this helps for the future! Greetings! Last edited by maikgianino; 03-26-2018 at 04:37 PM.

03-26-2018, 11:44 PM	#2
JeffR FHM Producer Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Kelowna, BC Posts: 17,234	The real ALIH foreign player rules are a little difficult to implement because they treat the league's member nations differently. Japanese and Korean players are considered non-foreign for all teams, while Russians are considered foreign on the non-Russian teams. We get close to it by setting Japan as the base nation for the league, which lets Japanese players play anywhere, but that doesn't help the Korean players. However, as a practical matter that's not too unrealistic: the Japanese teams in real life usually don't sign Koreans - there's only a single Korean on the rosters of the 4 Japanese teams right now. Korean teams are free to sign as many Japanese players as they want, both in the game and in real life, although they tend to be more aggressive about doing that in the game.