How could the EASHL be improved?

[Qb]

Redshirt_EA has told me that there are still some "details to finalize" regarding the EASHL, so community feedback could help to make (or re-visit) decisions. Let's try to keep this EASHL-only so it's easier to follow...


I'll kick it off with a few simple suggestions:

1. Lock the player indicator icons to position. For example, the center is always green, the RW is always red, etc. This would eliminate confusion that happens occasionally... I know I've caught myself watching the wrong guy early in a game, especially if we just played a multiple-OT game.

2. Have the captain's 'C' on the designated 'captain' for that game. Perhaps this seems small, but I always thought it would be a nice little touch. Maybe some of the more creative of you out there can think of ways that the captain designation could be of significance...

3. Require three players for an EASHL game. This one is obviously a much bigger issue than color indicators or Cs on jerseys, but it's on my mind. Something about playing two people has always bugged me. I know a lot of times it can be an easy win for a competent team of four or five, but I'd much rather play against (and with) human players.

[Scheib43]

1. Better Matchup system - Hope that a playing with 5 would be most likely match up with a team of 5, then 4, then 3, etc. It would save time when teams of 2 constantly quit at the matchup screen.

2. More goalie abilities - Little things like not getting stuck on the post or being able to cover a puck laying next to the net. Also, the goalie should have a limited range while holding LT to skate. There is no way that human player should be able to skate to center ice

3. Goalies become the random player when penalty is called - If there is a human goalie, let the human become the 6th player even if it is a random player with random abilities.

4. Fighting in EASHL games needs to be changed - It shouldn't be tied to the fighting portion of the character entirely. You should be prompted to press some button to accept the fight challenge. It's not fair that a player automatically gets thrown into a fight if someone on the other teams hits the Hook/Fight button

5. Improve length of games - Don't allow so many timeouts per team per game and there shouldn't be so many replays during the game. Leave a single replay for a goal and then during the time between periods. It should take no longer than a minute to move to a new period.

6. Show team ranking/division before or after games - Most D1 teams seem to avoid playing others outside their division, but it would be nice to see what the rank of the team you are matching up against and that leads to...

7. Division rankings need to be less confusing - Even if it's not changed completely, all the rankings shouldn't be based on points based on games played. I'm not saying that teams that play more don't deserve to get some more points, but it penalizes teams that can't get 2000 games played.

8. Name CPU Players - I know it's probably silly, but I think it would be a neat little touch to be able to name 5 players and one goalie for your team so if you are playing with less than a full team the CPU named player will play. I can only handle so many Ramjingsings on my team


Other than that, the game plays almost perfect online. The main glitches are gone. I hope you keep the same base that you have after patch 2 and go from there. It's by far the best online experience in any sports game ever.

[Qb]

Quote: Originally Posted by Scheib43

I can only handle so many Ramjingsings on my team

And what about Bob Gatsis? FTR, Mr. Gatsis was a CPU winger who took 5 tripping penalties IN ONE GAME for us. Bit of a running joke on our team...

[tyler289]

I'd just like to see more face/hair/equipment options. Along with everything else you guys posted, which are all great ideas.

[LanteriX]

Make larger teams I guess would be something I'd like to see. Not sure if anyone would ever have that many people for a club, but maybe allow teams to have multiple lines and implement some kind of fatigue system?

[tgalv]

i think the league should be strictly 6 vs 6 but if they don't want to do that, at least have an option to search for how many players you want to play against. and also whether you're going to play manual goalies or not.

fix the game logs. make them go back a lot longer and not have games disappear when teams are deleted. then actually do something if people are cheating.

the current dressing room system is horrible.

should be able to view recently played teams without manually searching for them.

how about a team feedback system? display it next to the team at the matchup screen. would be nice to not waste my time playing against teams that no one else has had a positive experience with.

team practice mode.

[catcatch22]

Practice mode where you and your team can hit the ice and just run dls and team strategies alone against the AI or have no opposition on the ice at all.

Similar to the practice mode that is already in the game but incorporated online.

[Solucopa]

what they said ^ and get rid of the stupid *** flippy glitch goal, ya its not as bad as before but those who master it can still score it at will pretty much. The little flip's only use seems to be that goal(besides looking fancy)... so why not just take it out of the game.