How to stop players from retiring

northjersey · 07-10-2025, 08:22 PM

what's the trick to get players to not retire? I thought it may be the aging attribute but I'm seeing some at 10, some at 13.
Thought it would be age but seeing players retiring at 30 or later
thought it might be whether they have a contract or not, but some players with multiple years left are retiring

northjersey · 07-11-2025, 01:28 PM

forgive me, I guess I posted this last year as well. Someone previously mentioned maxing out the Aging ability to 40 to prevent players from retiring

Poor Casey DeSmith (DAL), at age 33, even his aging ability set to 40, one 3 tries of moving from June 30 to July 1, he still retires (with no recent injuries in his history). I gave up and just re-imported him to my new yearly save. But I think the retirement decision-making still has a bit of work to be done. it's funny most of the other retiring players, that I changed the aging attribute to 40, didn't retire, but respectable back up goalie DeSmith keeps getting chosen. I even verified his contract wasn't expiring

Savoie45 · 07-11-2025, 09:48 PM

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Originally Posted by northjersey

forgive me, I guess I posted this last year as well. Someone previously mentioned maxing out the Aging ability to 40 to prevent players from retiring

Poor Casey DeSmith (DAL), at age 33, even his aging ability set to 40, one 3 tries of moving from June 30 to July 1, he still retires (with no recent injuries in his history). I gave up and just re-imported him to my new yearly save. But I think the retirement decision-making still has a bit of work to be done. it's funny most of the other retiring players, that I changed the aging attribute to 40, didn't retire, but respectable back up goalie DeSmith keeps getting chosen. I even verified his contract wasn't expiring

Not guaranteed to work unfortunately.

northjersey · 07-01-2026, 01:06 PM

guess this wasn't corrected in FHM12. I set several players, aged 33 and higher, to have an aging of 40 (guess that's the max). yes most of these players were marked retired on July 1

also, this is a brand new game, where I have one commissioner manager, and then several non-commissioner managers, marked never fired, yet when I sim from june 30 to july 1 several of those "never fired" are indeed fired (showing no team in the league manager window)

very frustrating

- with commissioner mode enabled why can I no longer retire players???

07-10-2025, 08:22 PM	#1
northjersey Minors (Triple A) Join Date: Oct 2022 Posts: 254	How to stop players from retiring what's the trick to get players to not retire? I thought it may be the aging attribute but I'm seeing some at 10, some at 13. Thought it would be age but seeing players retiring at 30 or later thought it might be whether they have a contract or not, but some players with multiple years left are retiring

07-11-2025, 01:28 PM	#2
northjersey Minors (Triple A) Join Date: Oct 2022 Posts: 254	forgive me, I guess I posted this last year as well. Someone previously mentioned maxing out the Aging ability to 40 to prevent players from retiring Poor Casey DeSmith (DAL), at age 33, even his aging ability set to 40, one 3 tries of moving from June 30 to July 1, he still retires (with no recent injuries in his history). I gave up and just re-imported him to my new yearly save. But I think the retirement decision-making still has a bit of work to be done. it's funny most of the other retiring players, that I changed the aging attribute to 40, didn't retire, but respectable back up goalie DeSmith keeps getting chosen. I even verified his contract wasn't expiring

07-01-2026, 01:06 PM	#4
northjersey Minors (Triple A) Join Date: Oct 2022 Posts: 254	guess this wasn't corrected in FHM12. I set several players, aged 33 and higher, to have an aging of 40 (guess that's the max). yes most of these players were marked retired on July 1 also, this is a brand new game, where I have one commissioner manager, and then several non-commissioner managers, marked never fired, yet when I sim from june 30 to july 1 several of those "never fired" are indeed fired (showing no team in the league manager window) very frustrating - with commissioner mode enabled why can I no longer retire players???