Belarus Extraleague A Relegation Issue

hagakure · 08-14-2020, 11:39 PM

I was GM of the Orsa Lokomotiv and the owner's goal for me was avoid relegation. We finished last, and the bottom two teams are supposed to be relegated. All through the off-season, I made deals to improve the team. In June, I was told Orsa was very happy with my services and my contract was extended (we should really have an option to negotiate our contract renewals, by the way). July 1 -- beginning of the new season -- my development report said, "You were tasked with keeping the team in the league and you did that, but just barely." It went on to say the owner was very satisfied and confident etc. The very next email above it said I was fired. A check of the team's roster shows that it was relegated after all. Seems like the AI didn't know the relegation was coming and was caught by surprise by it. In gameplay terms (and real life waste of my time), I spent a grueling off-season (can't fast-forward past a week in challenge mode) clicking the sim button and wheeling and dealing, only to be fired a few RL hours later, the team relegated, and all the people I signed wiped off the roster.

Adam B · 08-15-2020, 02:43 AM

This isn't really a bug. When you get relegated, your team moves to unplayable, so you're fired otherwise you'd be stuck unable to do anything. Perhaps we'll need to look at adding a trigger to fire you a little sooner.

hagakure · 08-15-2020, 10:20 PM

Thanks for your reply.

Correct... I knew that being relegated to League B would be unplayable, but when it didn't happen at season's end, and I was then signed to a contract extension, and the computer actually said we weren't being relegated until the moment it actually happened... that's the bug part, and it unfortunately led to me playing for a couple of hours what ended up being a dead-end scenario.

08-14-2020, 11:39 PM	#1
hagakure Minors (Rookie Ball) Join Date: Jun 2020 Location: Maryland, USA Posts: 39	Belarus Extraleague A Relegation Issue I was GM of the Orsa Lokomotiv and the owner's goal for me was avoid relegation. We finished last, and the bottom two teams are supposed to be relegated. All through the off-season, I made deals to improve the team. In June, I was told Orsa was very happy with my services and my contract was extended (we should really have an option to negotiate our contract renewals, by the way). July 1 -- beginning of the new season -- my development report said, "You were tasked with keeping the team in the league and you did that, but just barely." It went on to say the owner was very satisfied and confident etc. The very next email above it said I was fired. A check of the team's roster shows that it was relegated after all. Seems like the AI didn't know the relegation was coming and was caught by surprise by it. In gameplay terms (and real life waste of my time), I spent a grueling off-season (can't fast-forward past a week in challenge mode) clicking the sim button and wheeling and dealing, only to be fired a few RL hours later, the team relegated, and all the people I signed wiped off the roster.

08-15-2020, 02:43 AM	#2
Adam B Hockey Community Manager Join Date: Dec 2015 Location: A Hockey Rink Posts: 2,515	This isn't really a bug. When you get relegated, your team moves to unplayable, so you're fired otherwise you'd be stuck unable to do anything. Perhaps we'll need to look at adding a trigger to fire you a little sooner.

08-15-2020, 10:20 PM	#3
hagakure Minors (Rookie Ball) Join Date: Jun 2020 Location: Maryland, USA Posts: 39	Thanks for your reply. Correct... I knew that being relegated to League B would be unplayable, but when it didn't happen at season's end, and I was then signed to a contract extension, and the computer actually said we weren't being relegated until the moment it actually happened... that's the bug part, and it unfortunately led to me playing for a couple of hours what ended up being a dead-end scenario.