Hockey Dynasty Status Update Topic

Quote: Originally Posted By god_mike on 5/24/2010
if it ends up being like GD or HD, i won't bother playing it. i gave up on both because you develop a player for three or four years, and then they're gone. also, the better teams get to recruit easier, which seems unfair to me, regardless of how realistic it is.

i want to be able to develop a franchise player in my minor league system and watch them play a ten or fifteen year career (or twenty-six year) with my franchise before thinking about retiring and then see them enter the HOF with my team's jersey on. HBD is the best game on the site, and the hockey simleague is the second best. put the two together and it's a recipe for a masterpiece. :>

I agree 100%. HBD >>>> HD/GD.
6/4/2010 5:33 PM
If WIS goes with the Pro option (=HBD), then they really need to change up the drafting process. Their "draft" system in SIM hockey is attrocious! No matter how you set up your options, half the time you end up with a player you either didn't want or can't use. At the very least, they need to allow you to set up lists where you can rank the players according to what you want. Although, I would prefer some option where you can actually decide on which player you want individually. You need to be able to have the option to respond to the choices made by the other owners.
6/5/2010 3:32 PM
I also wanted to give a quick update on the Hockey Dynasty situation.  We're still going to have a full community-based discussion on how this game is going to be implemented.  Right now, we are in such high demand from the parents (Fox Sports) to drive their new online games division, our roadmap is always being modified.  Rest assured, a Hockey Dynasty is a great game to add to the games portfolio and we will kick off the discussions as soon as we can.  It won't be much longer.  For more info on the Fox Sports gaming portfolio we're now in charge of, see this:

msn.foxsports.com/fantasy/sports-games
6/18/2010 4:47 PM

I love how hockey is nowhere to be found anywhere on that page.

6/18/2010 5:57 PM
Okay, unquestionably hockey dynasty has to be shaped as much like HBD as possible.  That game is addicting!  I have only played SLH twice and they were both the trial dealies...  I didnt like it at all.  I really hope that they dont make anything even close to FC Dynasty, that game sucks badly, and I have given it ample opportunity, I had a team right from the 1st season up till a month ago when I decided it wasnt getting better, and likely wasnt either.
As for Herb Brooks being the first worlds name that is just crazy.  Even Americans know that hockey is Canadas game!  So why have the dude that won the Olympics for USA back in '80 be the honoured chosen one?  I should think that the first world should be called Gretzky for obvious reasons, then Orr, then Lemieux, then Howe etc... HBD uses player names, why change it to coaches?
6/19/2010 8:34 PM
i agree greeny, and this is tough coming from a flames and penguins fan who thinks mario was a better player, but how can you not call the first world Gretzky?  and even if you do use coaches, what about Scotty Bowman?  (i don't know any of the great old coaches of course.)  :>
6/21/2010 10:41 AM
Posted by yogsloth on 6/18/2010 5:57:00 PM (view original):

I love how hockey is nowhere to be found anywhere on that page.

ditto.  :?
6/21/2010 10:43 AM
hbd style hockey dynasty would be awesome. Taking forever to start developing the game would not be awesome.
6/29/2010 12:51 AM
Yah if this doesn't get off the ground before the world ends in 2012 I am going to be seriously peeved! :)
6/29/2010 3:04 PM
why is it that the baseball sims seems to be more involved.
as in pitch count why not have a selected amount of ice time for a player with a cap at 29 min say.
if i want lidstrom to play more now i have to double shift him which fatigues him , and the boy does not fatigue in real live.
have a faceoff artist come in in late game siuations as you do with lh and rh specialist in baseball
I mean does the guy in charge of the hockey sim know anything about the game , no offense intended , just it would seem logical to work some of these key elements in .
7/5/2010 7:04 AM
No offense, but I would think it's easier to program in to have someone come into a game to face a LH batter in the 8th inning, than to program in to have someone come in to take a faceoff with "x" minutes left if you're trailing by "Y", then immediately get off the ice for a line change. Heck, right now, faceoffs are only taken by the guy on the ice that's taken the most in RL.

Baseball is a game that stats work perfectly in, which is why it's easier to program in more variables. Just compare a hockey box score to a baseball box score. Which one gives you a lot more info? Besides, for baseball, you've got stats in nearly every category going back 100+ years. For hockey, you've got less than 30 years for a lot of stats, less than 15 for things like ice time. Most of us "know" that Joe Malone played nearly 60 minutes a game back in the early days, but you don't have exact numbers to prove it. However, you do know that Babe Ruth hit 60 home runs in 1927 or that Ted Williams hit .406 in 1941. The stats are there.

Sorry for the rant, but Mike Welch does plenty enough for us, and I can't stand it when people A)insinuate that he doesn't know hockey and B) try to compare baseball stats to hockey stats, because there is no comparison at all in the level of complexity.
7/5/2010 11:10 AM
this sim is great. and I thought this forum is for ideas .
not every plyer on a hockey team plays close to equal mintues my top d man should play at least 25-29 min a game and my 6th d man 7-10 min a game .
it would be safe to estimate that the likes of orr,Howe,harvey played a heavy amount of ice time .
they opened up a shootout mode which i would think does not have enough history .anyway
7/5/2010 11:24 PM
Actually this one is for Hockey Dynasty, not changes you want to make to the regular sim.
7/6/2010 3:35 PM
Yes,Mike does a great job.But,this is a Hockey Dynasty.Please leave Baseball out of it.
7/11/2010 8:08 AM
When it comes to the minor leagues that I hope we will have in hockey dynasty I hope WIS is smart and uses the CHL and the AHL.  This idea of using all these american colleges as the feeder leagues is clearly not even close to what happens in real life.  The vast majority of N American born players played in the CHL, not in american colleges.  And the AHL feeds a lot more players to the NHL then those colleges too.
7/13/2010 10:47 PM
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