A few things you can do to make the game better

[drog1602]

After playing around with the sliders for some time, I have noticed a few things and I hope that these help you out as well.


To help the Ai with better positioning:
Turn the Ai Learning slider off 0. This will allow them to play the man more and actually force you outside. I find with this slider on max, that they adjust to more of a box and play less human and allow you to just waltz into the zone too easy.

Turn OFF strategy adjustments...Turn them OFF! This slider is basically a cheat slider for the comeback logic.
To help the Ai hitting game and the hitting in general:
Turn the hitting assistance to max 6 and turn the hitting power to zero. This makes the Ai actually hit more and its easier for players to contact each other, creating a more hockey feeling. Turning the hit power down, turns all these hits into more bumbs and fewer large hits (though you will still see some if the right player is hitting). This also seems to get rid of the over powered hit from behind.

A couple of other suggestion I have for you. Set your passing accuracy slider to max 6. This will help the Ai be a little more creative and makes for more team play game. To offset, turn your pass reception to zero. I also set my pass speed to 4 so hard passes can bounce and saucer pass speed to zero to allow more chance of interceptions and more realistic play.

One other thing to note:
The shot power not only affects the wrist shot, but also the slap shot power. Its more of an overall power setting. Then you can adjust the slap shot power down as well. I prefer to set my shot power on one ( two with my roster edit to adjust down wrist shot ) allow the goalies a better chance to stop slow shots from out far and give out fewer rebounds. I set my slap shot power to max.

Hope some of this helps you guys, let me know!

Cheers!

Here are my current sliders:

Rules
Skill: All-star
Period Length: 12 minutes
Penalties: Maxed
Post Whistle Rules : Authentic
Penalty Time Scaling: 2
Fighting: 3


General

Tuner Set Version: v1.05
CPU Aid: Casual
Broken Stick Frequency: 2
Game Speed: 3
Attribute Effects: 6
Fatigue Effect: 4 h/ 4 c
Fatigue Recovery: 5 / 4
Injury Occurrence: 5 /5
Puck Control: 4 /2cpu
Player Acceleration: 4 Hum / 6 cpu


AI

AI Learning: 0
CPU Difficulty Adjustment: 0
CPU Strategy Adjustment: 0
Human Strategy Adjustment: 0
CPU Face Off Difficulty: 4
Fight Difficulty: 6
CPU Penalties: 6
CPU Teammate Penalties:4


Passing

Pass Assist: 0
Manual Passing: On
Pass Speed: 4
Saucer Pass Speed: 0
Pass Accuracy: 6 / 6
Pass Reception Ease: 0 / 0
Pass Interceptions: 2 /2


Shooting

Shot Accuracy: 0 , 0
Shot Power: 2 / 2
Slap Shot Accuracy: 2 / 2
Slap Shot Power: 6 / 6
One-Timer Accuracy: 1 / 1


Checking

Hitting Assistance: 6
Aggression: 4 / 4
Hitting Power: 0 , 0
Stick Lift Effectiveness: 3 /3
Poke Effectiveness: 1 / 1


Goalies

Goalie Passing: 3
Goalie Cover Puck Frequency: 5
Goalie Screen Effect: 0 / 0
Goalie Reaction Speed: 0 / 0

Custom Ai set:

- I leave the team strategies as they are set for each team
- NZ - FC slider for each team, set at five (5)
- Set the PP carry -dump slider to six (6)

FWD Line 1
Carry /Dump- 7
Cycle/Shoot - 4
Efficiency -10
Block - 8

FWD Line 2
Carry /Dump- 7
Cycle/Shoot - 4
Efficiency -10
Block - 8

FWD Line 3
Carry /Dump- 8
Cycle/Shoot - 5
Efficiency -10
Block - 8

FWD Line 4
Carry /Dump- 8
Cycle/Shoot - 6
Efficiency -10
Block - 10

Def Pair 1
Hold/Pinch - 7
Cycle/Shoot - 4

Def Pair 2
Hold/Pinch - 7
Cycle/Shoot - 4

Def Pair 3
Hold/Pinch - 7
Cycle/Shoot - 4

* All goalies had their consistency attribute set at zero (0)
* All players had wrist shot power lowered by 10pts (NHL/AHL). This was so I could raise the shot speed for slap shots but give the goalies a chance on wrist shots from the side walls or outside the slot.
* Tuner set 1.05 has the best goalies play, especially on short side shots

[Flyersfan75]

Can you put up your slider set with these adjustments included? Keep in mind i'm using revamped2 roster set.

[Cycloniac]

Player acceleration most certainly DOES affect both players with, and without the puck. Feeks terrrible at 6, almost like I'm floating over the ice.

You don't need to raise hitting assistace to max to have a physical game, trust me. I either have it at 1 or 2, and I've had games where I've thought there was actually too much hitting.

[drog1602]

You do realize that I am talking about the Ai settings? No

For human, I set my acceleration at 4

I also don't think there is too much hitting, this is after all hockey. Its about bumping and grinding. But, maybe that is just me.

[Cycloniac]

Quote: Originally Posted by drog1602

You do realize that I am talking about the Ai settings? No For human, I set my acceleration at 4 I also don't think there is too much hitting, this is after all hockey. Its about bumping and grinding. But, maybe that is just me.

How are your penalties looking?

And the AI pass percentages, how are they usually (been having an issue with them of late).

[drog1602]

Here is my slider set for Flyersfan:

Rules
Skill: All-star
Period Length: 12 minutes
Penalties: Maxed
Post Whistle Rules : Authentic
Penalty Time Scaling: 2
Fighting: 3


General

Tuner Set Version: latest
CPU Aid: Hardcore
Broken Stick Frequency: 2
Game Speed: 4
Attribute Effects: 3
Fatigue Effect: 6 H, 6 c
Fatigue Recovery: 2 , 2
Injury Occurrence: 6 , 6
Puck Control: 0 , 0
Player Acceleration: 4 Hum, 6 cpu


AI

AI Learning: 0
CPU Difficulty Adjustment: 0
CPU Strategy Adjustment: 1
Human Strategy Adjustment: 0 or 1 if you don't want to set it yourself
CPU Face Off Difficulty: 4
Fight Difficulty: 6
CPU Penalties: Maxed
CPU Teammate Penalties:4


Passing

Pass Assist: 2 bump this up by one if you have trouble passing
Manual Passing: Off
Pass Speed: 4
Saucer Pass Speed: 0
Pass Accuracy: 6 , 6
Pass Reception Ease: 0 , 0
Pass Interceptions: 6 , 6


Shooting

Shot Accuracy: 0 , 0
Shot Power: 1, 1
Slap Shot Accuracy: 2 , 2
Slap Shot Power: 6 , 6
One-Timer Accuracy: 0 , 0


Checking

Hitting Assistance: 6
Aggression: 5 , 5
Hitting Power: 0 , 0
Stick Lift Effectiveness: 4 , 4
Poke Effectiveness: 1 hum , 6 cpu ( they only poke on loose pucks)


Goalies

Goalie Passing: 1
Goalie Cover Puck Frequency: 4
Goalie Screen Effect: 1 , 1
Goalie Reaction Speed: 2 , 2

[Flyersfan75]

Thanks greatly appreciated

[drog1602]

The penalties vary from game to game, but I did drop my ai teammate penalty slider as they were taking too many for me and creating an unfair advantage.

Passing also varies depending on teams but its around 50 -60% most of the time. I find that with the lower passing speed and the increased interceptions level that it offsets the higher passing accuracy and makes a balanced game.