Subject: Questions & Answers

From what I've seen here, the devs have made quite a few tweaks to the engine over the course of beta and 7 seasons of playing. It's not perfect yet but, it's getting closer.

Is anyone else a programmer? If so, offer a specific fix.

In my kitchen I have NO problem if one of my cooks disagrees with the way I am doing things; IF he uses logic in his argument AND has a specific plan/idea to improve it. Otherwise he is just causing strife. I didn't ask him to work here, he asked me if he could. If he hates it that much he is free to go.

If PPM is that bad, why not go back to HA for a couple years until those guys here at PPM get their $hit together and have the PERFECT engine. Prove to them that it is so bad here that they don't deserve you.

A lot of this complaining reminds me of those customers that call me out of the kitchen to complain about how their filet was cooked yet, they ate the whole freakin' thing. Guess it wasn't THAT bad.

PS we now have TWO "why didn't I win threads"

hint-hint, wink-wink, nudge-nudge

For the NC topic:
Ok then, sorry that you lost several times quite unexpected in your NC cup history. Nevertheless you had some successes like a second place in season 1.
Guess what, I lost my first cup games in soccer both in season 1 and 2. It was quite hilarious against very weak teams. That effected my sponsors and everything very much, but I didn't complain a lot and I except upsets as part of the game.

For the bubbles topic:
Excuse me? How arrogant of you to call me ignorant just because I don't agree with you. You can't bust my bubbles because I very well know it when a win was lucky - I just want to have the right to be happy about it. And I also know that too many upsets lead to a lot of upset, but if everything becomes too predictable then it gets boring and you surely take away some fun for the weaker teams. If a manager does a good job he deserves an unexpected win once in a while, regardless if he (by chance?) has a top-class competitive team or not.

For the record:
Of course you can criticize, complain about, discuss whatever you want. Go on and do the important and lousy job you say you do. But please don't be so arrogant and give others the impression your something special because you have been around so long and contribute so much, as you imply with the above post. You surely have your merits but others care for this game too.
No offense.

I just do not get what to do with penalties... 7 days ago it was 0-8 for my opponent, today it was 1-8 for my opponent (you). You had 16-1 in PP shots against me today (if we deduct those shots from total number of shots it was even game) but obviously my goalie had good day... And I have great tech-agr. ratio. I have 3,2 penalty per game in my league, and in last 2 CL matches - 8 per game

Regarding importance - I do not know what to say, it is obvious that playing higher importance does not give enough boost compared to energy loss..

If you feel offended by my sentences, it's all in your mind. I can't help you with that.
All best.

Oh yeah, sorry, I forgot, it's just me.
Have a nice day.

It's not fair to the teams who win to dismiss them as "lucky" and not worth winning. Sure, some of those managers may not read this forum, but every time you write them off, you are dismissing someone's opinion who plays this game.

So every time you (and I mean that in the plural you, like everyone in this thread) who just writes everyone off because they "shouldn't have won" it may be offensive to them.

We are all here doing the same thing here and trying to win. So when someone wins besides you, think about the fact that for once instead of losing over and over again they finally got that coveted win.

Can I get an AMEN!!!

"......luck should exist in match calculation, but in smaller extent........"

Thats the key to a better game engine!!!!

I must say that such tactics like in PPM in real hockey doesn't exist. Playing Defensively? What that mean in real hockey? In real hockey every line, every player in it have a special task, so all lines have special tasks and you can't just as head coach (manager) of your team tell them all to play Defensively (I just used that for example), It's nonsense.
Anyway, if You want to talk about that particular match we can continue that on football forum or via PM, as it is not good to spam this thread football, I just hope that You agree with me on that?

They both were an upsets, but you lost due to penalty in one and due ti free kick in the other match, so this is not so big upset. This is the huge upset:

hockey.powerplaymanager.c...

Hmm not entirely true. In the 90's the Dallas Stars under Ken Hitchcock played defense first hockey and won a cup by it.

By defensively, the tactic means the style of play...

Consider the Pittsburgh Penguins... they are more of an attack minded team due to their strong offensively talented lineup.

It doesn't mean simply "defense only".

huge upset indeed, but still there are some things which cause that result:

-bad tactic.... I think you shouldn't play defensive against a much weaker team
-very low shooting/offensive-defensive ratio

first of all, this is Q&A topic, as revangst mentioned, and I needed with my poor english to read many pages of discussions to understand, that there is nothing helpful for me to improve my team..
and second - in previous season there was only a few tactical things, that we can affect, mostly to guess countertactic..
now it is more exciting, because there are a lot of Unknowns - shooting ratio, PP/PK tactics, countertactics, importance, tactics depending on your and oponents team's strengths.
I haven't read, that someone have right answers to the Unknowns, the only thing I understood from you - Random.... phe, it's not serious!

Agree.a lot of posts and nothing usefull. Sick of reading posts about random and why i lost that game.

Low shooting/off-def ratio should not be important at all and it's total nonsense, if this kind of comparision is implemented in the engine.
Shooting should be compared only to opponent's goalie and vice versa. Offense & defense comparision should be used only to calculate offense zone time, number of shots etc.