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It seems there was a roster update posted yesterday. Has anybody had a chance to see what changes it made? At this point, does it make more sense to just wait for an opening day roster?
Rosters still aren't out yet. Something about EA having to wait until the rookies have played in 10 games before they can put them in the game.Are we ever going to get this going?
The rebounds are really the only thing I've noticed through 100 games or so of HUT.If anybody else can think of ultra cheesy tactics that people abuse in VS play (which admittedly, I haven't played as much of), let's hear them. We will have a strike policy similar to what I use in the Madden league. So, it won't be a one violation and you're out thing. But having to enforce legitimate play is definitely something that has become an issue with the NHL series.
Outside of that, I'm excited to get this started! Let's hope it works! lol :lol:
Yeah, cherry picking and rocket passes down the ice are awful too...but I've never known that to be much of a VS problem. I guess you could just take one skater and keep him past center ice, then when an AI grabbed the puck and you took control, just try to rocket it down before your "former self" skates back into position where you should have been in the first place, lol. But man, that seems like a lot of work just to cherry pick one guy. Plus, that's a way more obvious thing that people should know is wrong.The rebounds are really the only thing I've noticed through 100 games or so of HUT.
The only other thing I've dealt with won't apply since it involves International ice and cherry picking.
Yup. That's how NHL 14's "Invite" system works... When I was setting up the league, it asked me if I'd like to invite friends. I chose yes...and then went to each person's gamertag...and it created an XBL message... You know it's bad when I wish that the NHL team sat next to the Madden team in class so they could copy off their paper. My expectations are extremely low. I'm just glad the menus seem to be somewhat faster this year. It still feels like CompuServe dial-up...but it's an improvement.Nate, I got an XBL message telling me to join the league, but I received no invite in game. I put in a join request, anyway.
Yea it is absolutely ridiculous the cherry picking and rebound spamming you see being done in HUT once you get to the higher divisions.Yeah, cherry picking and rocket passes down the ice are awful too...but I've never known that to be much of a VS problem. I guess you could just take one skater and keep him past center ice, then when an AI grabbed the puck and you took control, just try to rocket it down before your "former self" skates back into position where you should have been in the first place, lol. But man, that seems like a lot of work just to cherry pick one guy. Plus, that's a way more obvious thing that people should know is wrong.
The rebounds is just something people have to be aware of. It's not bad to take a shot from the outside if it's all you've got. And yeah, sometimes people are going to get dumb bounces. Those things happen. But it's different when it's the ONLY thing you're doing. Anyone who has played online at all has seen it. Some people...every time they cross the blue line just throw it on net and crash. There's no cycling the puck. There's no set up plays. It's just straight garbage and hope for a lucky bounce.
We'll have to be fairly diligent with watching out for it too, because while I want to say doing it "sometimes" is ok (like I said, sometimes that outside shot is all you have), if people start showing patterns of "oh crap, I need a goal...better start going for rebounds", they'll be subject for disciplinary action as well. Ultimately, it's just not something you want to develop a reputation for. People will notice. And I encourage others to contact me and give me a heads up if someone is trending in that direction. No one needs to be crucified for doing it once. But if multiple people are calling you out on anything, then yeah...it's probably true.
Yes, indeed. That's why I'm hoping it'll actually help us keep things moving. Just like last year, again, we're better off not having a lot of members so people won't have so many games against human opponents to schedule. It's funny seeing the range in schedules though because the Rangers opened up the first 2 weeks with a west coast road trip, so Rob has zero games to play. I guess some teams will just have times like that, while others will be very busy.I am assuming Conference CPU games are OK to play?
Meh, there was nothing better about 13. The game is just in a state of mediocre and that's the way it is. This was an annoying turn of events, but I guess on the positive side, it gives us a fresh start with the newest patch updates and tuner set. The divisions will now be named properly, rosters will actually be complete, salaries will be accurate (all of this was screwed up in our initial league).Looks like EA is off to a great start. I'm starting to want to go back to 13 more and more.
EDIT:
Just sent in the new request and did the switch.
In addition to Panoramic15, we're still waiting on Vulcan2422 and garrett007 to rejoin. Let's try to get this taken care of today, guys.I'll be joining the league tonight.
It could happen. Pretty sure we're just waiting on Gary, unless he put it in after I got off last night...can't say that I noticed, (#stopurturningmeon) and Panoramic15...who said he was going to send his join request 2 days ago, lol. So, yeah...either Thanksgiving or one of the eight nights of Chanukah :lol:Maybe I'll be able to play my first game around Thanksgiving lol.
Yeah, that's probably what we should do. I was going to put a "join deadline" of tomorrow. But at this point, nobody should be shocked if things start moving without them. And yeah, people can join at any point. So, if Gary, or Panoramic15, or anyone else decides they want to play, we can add them down the road.I haven't actually looked, but we can't do anything right now with rosters or anything, right? And if people can join mid season, couldnt we just advance to week 1 for now, so that people who are in can play their games, but just wait for Fary and Panoramic to advance to week 2?