Quick Questions Thread

[Justhereforonequestion]

Hey guys, I just bought the game and I'm very confused about one issue. I can't drag and drop the players in the lineup menu. What is necessary to do that? I mean a manager simulation without a drag and drop feature would be completely crazy, right? So I must have missed something. Help is really appreciated.

[gord]

Originally Posted by Justhereforonequestion

Hey guys, I just bought the game and I'm very confused about one issue. I can't drag and drop the players in the lineup menu. What is necessary to do that? I mean a manager simulation without a drag and drop feature would be completely crazy, right? So I must have missed something. Help is really appreciated.

I'm not sure why you can't drag and drop, but if you click the checkbox next to the player's name, you can click the desired spot in the lineup and the name will be placed there. You can do this for every spot you want to put them in without needing to click the name again.

[drummerJ99]

Originally Posted by gord

I'm not sure why you can't drag and drop, but if you click the checkbox next to the player's name, you can click the desired spot in the lineup and the name will be placed there. You can do this for every spot you want to put them in without needing to click the name again.

I also haven't been able to figure out the drag and drop to lineup. I have to do it the way you way here.

[JeffR]

The drag-and-drop in the lineup only works in the Steam version. For the Standalone version, you need to click on the player, then click on the spot you want to move him to. It's an unfortunate limitation of using Fastspring for the standalone; for some reason, when we build their version of the game, leaving drag-and-drop enabled crashes the game. We haven't been able to find the cause, and Fastspring's support has been something less than helpful. But we're stuck with them, so disabling it in that version of the game was the only option.

[jumpSeat]

Originally Posted by JeffR

The drag-and-drop in the lineup only works in the Steam version. For the Standalone version, you need to click on the player, then click on the spot you want to move him to. It's an unfortunate limitation of using Fastspring for the standalone; for some reason, when we build their version of the game, leaving drag-and-drop enabled crashes the game. We haven't been able to find the cause, and Fastspring's support has been something less than helpful. But we're stuck with them, so disabling it in that version of the game was the only option.

Good to know. Thanks for the update Jeff!

[Justhereforonequestion]

Originally Posted by JeffR

The drag-and-drop in the lineup only works in the Steam version. For the Standalone version, you need to click on the player, then click on the spot you want to move him to. It's an unfortunate limitation of using Fastspring for the standalone; for some reason, when we build their version of the game, leaving drag-and-drop enabled crashes the game. We haven't been able to find the cause, and Fastspring's support has been something less than helpful. But we're stuck with them, so disabling it in that version of the game was the only option.

Ahh, thanks for the answer. Even though it's kind of sad. I have the epic games version so this must be the reason. I tried different settings as windowed mode, all kinds of resolution, game modes etc.

PS I love the historical database, this is THE selling point for someone like me. Good job on this mode. Just wished I would have bought it on steam...

[drummerJ99]

Originally Posted by JeffR

The drag-and-drop in the lineup only works in the Steam version. For the Standalone version, you need to click on the player, then click on the spot you want to move him to. It's an unfortunate limitation of using Fastspring for the standalone; for some reason, when we build their version of the game, leaving drag-and-drop enabled crashes the game. We haven't been able to find the cause, and Fastspring's support has been something less than helpful. But we're stuck with them, so disabling it in that version of the game was the only option.

I'm using Epic version.

[drummerJ99]

Ho exactly do the lineups work? The lines I understand and depth chart i understand. But wasn't exactly sure how the lineups work.

[Jaurxe]

Originally Posted by drummerJ99

Ho exactly do the lineups work? The lines I understand and depth chart i understand. But wasn't exactly sure how the lineups work.

http://manuals.ootpdevelopments.com/...8&page=lineups

[Jaurxe]

Originally Posted by Jaurxe

I keep getting "Didn't Stay In His Assigned Role", but the roles the players pick seem to be random. I've had a player who chose to be a Shadow, so I let him be a Shadow by changing his role outside of that game, but the very next game he didn't stay in that role either and became a Two-Way Forward. Neither of these roles are the ones with the highest numeric value.

Is there any way I can interpret which roles my players are going to choose? Does the hidden Coachability stat affect whether the player will revert to another role? Do any other hidden stats affect this? Just looking for some clarity.

Does anyone have any advice for this? It feels pretty pointless assigning roles to players because they practically never stay in them.

[jumpSeat]

Originally Posted by Jaurxe

Does anyone have any advice for this? It feels pretty pointless assigning roles to players because they practically never stay in them.

Well despite how it may feel, I still think assigning a role is a good idea. Even if it's just as a baseline. That way when you do manage a successful 'pep-talk' between periods, at least you know what he's going back to.

[oldfatbaldguy]

Is home-ice advantage working the way it should? I'm a quarter of the way through my first season so sample size is small, but what I'm seeing in the WHL and NHL standings (I play in the WHL) is that a lot of teams are doing much better on the road.

[JeffR]

Originally Posted by oldfatbaldguy

Is home-ice advantage working the way it should? I'm a quarter of the way through my first season so sample size is small, but what I'm seeing in the WHL and NHL standings (I play in the WHL) is that a lot of teams are doing much better on the road.

It isn't in 2D mode at the moment. Turned out to be several things causing it and took us a while to track down, but it'll be fixed in the next update.

[oldfatbaldguy]

Yeah, I'm playing 2D. Thanks.

[GreatMonkey]

I'm slightly visually impaired and I was wondering if there was a way I could change the settings to make the game fullscreen mode or to change the size and style of the fonts?

Thanks for your help. Looking forward to playing the game.

[JeffR]

Originally Posted by GreatMonkey

I'm slightly visually impaired and I was wondering if there was a way I could change the settings to make the game fullscreen mode or to change the size and style of the fonts?

Thanks for your help. Looking forward to playing the game.

There's no way to change the fonts other than heavily modding the skins, and even in that case a larger font won't fit properly into a lot of interface elements. But you can set the game to fullscreen and adjust the resolution size from the Settings menu on the start screen.

[oliviermt]

Hi! Thanks for the game it's really awesome.

I have a couple questions about No Trade Clauses.
First, is there a way to quickly see which teams a player is willing to be traded to even if he has the clause (if not, it would be a very nice QoL update).
Second, it seems to be always the same 4 teams every players with NTC want to move to (in my save Seattle, Toronto, Tampa Bay and Washington), is this a bug or intended?

Thanks a lot!

[hurkadurk69]

Can teams from the 4 tier in Sweden(HockeyTvåan) get promoted? If so, what should I do to improve the chance of a specific team getting promoted?

Also, can you created Arenas in this game? Not with the 'Contruct new Arena', I mean created them like you can create a player. Hell, I would be happy if I could edit them. When I tried to edit the name it changed back and the "new" Arena got deleted

Also, can I download someone elses custom Setup? Would like to have more leagues in Sweden without the hassle lol

[Bigdummie]

Originally Posted by JeffR

There's no way to change the fonts other than heavily modding the skins, and even in that case a larger font won't fit properly into a lot of interface elements. But you can set the game to fullscreen and adjust the resolution size from the Settings menu on the start screen.

Hi Jeff, I tried that and I can see the players names better, but cut off play by play, so that's not going to work. Maybe down the road, this could be addressed as even with reading glasses, its hard to follow the action. Thanks for your consideration, I do like the 2D action.

[JeffR]

Originally Posted by oliviermt

Hi! Thanks for the game it's really awesome.

I have a couple questions about No Trade Clauses.
First, is there a way to quickly see which teams a player is willing to be traded to even if he has the clause (if not, it would be a very nice QoL update).
Second, it seems to be always the same 4 teams every players with NTC want to move to (in my save Seattle, Toronto, Tampa Bay and Washington), is this a bug or intended?

Thanks a lot!

No way to get a list of NTC-waive teams at the moment. Generally, players will prefer to move to teams that have a good short-term outlook (as well as a few other factors), so there'll be a lot of overlap from one player to another.