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750 games; Playing out every game
Topic Started: Feb 27 2017, 03:15 AM (266 Views)
bigrowdy
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Cpu vs cpu. Over 750 games and i still enjoy this over watching T.V.
I know I am a strange bird. that being said, thank you guys for providing such an awesome past time.

Oh I might want to add I use the 96-97 mod or 95-96, i forget...the greatest era of hockey IMO.
I also use Vod's awesome 1.5 launcher.

Cheers
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trent
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Hey, we all have our perversions. I can't get enough watching and playing the 90's era. :D

Do you utilize the scoreboard calendar and watch how the other season games end? I do that all the time during the season. Part of the fun. :good:

PS: Do fights occur when you play CPU vs. CPU?
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I have the same habit. :D I really love to watch these CPU vs. CPU games because there are no human error involved. :P

Especially big tournaments like Olympics, WC or WCH are the best way to see which team is the best. That's also entertaining to watch those games because you still wish that your favorite team wins. It's like watching the real sport. :D

Sometimes games are 100% identical and that's why I will take a first faceoff and then let the CPU teams handle the rest.

@trent I'm not sure, but I think that there are fights too like in Human vs. CPU games. I has been a long time since I last time watched CPU vs. CPU games so I don't remember anymore. :thinking:
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trent
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I never really got into those manager games. When you can't watch the gameplay it's not very exciting. Yeah there is that ice tracker but watching that is like watching the paint dry. :D

I never thought that you can actually use NHL04 season as a manager game. But you can... there are almost as much stats and features as in the real manager games.
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I thoought I was the only one doing that lol.
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trent,27 February 2017
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Hey, we all have our perversions. I can't get enough watching and playing the 90's era. :D

Do you utilize the scoreboard calendar and watch how the other season games end? I do that all the time during the season. Part of the fun. :good:

PS: Do fights occur when you play CPU vs. CPU?

I watch EVERY SINGLE game. however I do recap a night sometimes by going back to the calender.



I might also add that being an old RPG'er I have devised a set of d6 charts that I use to account for "Coaching" strategies and line re configurations. I'm pretty happy with it. It gives the sense of random real life events in that very occasionally a superstar like Mario Lemeiux misses a game w/out injury ( maybe a child is born or a relative passes away) and some bench players get a chance to play as in real hockey.

Seperate from this:
I have also determined that injuries in this game seem to be hard coded to about 20 or less players at any given time. I always have about that amount and when player comes off injury, another player somewhere will likely get injured. Injuries set to 7. so it all works out.

I use my own AI settings which usually involve 8 minute periods, this makes the average scoring a little higher (6.3) as opposed to 5.1 but the number of shots per game is more realistic at 30 per game and this helps with the save percentage of the goalies keeping them mostly in the low .90's.
The scores vary greatly here too from 2-1 to 6-5 and everything in between.

Thanks again guys for this amazing work....off to my season now....
cheers.
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You're welcome. I wish more people told similar stories... gives us motivation to keep going. :good:
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trent,27 February 2017
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Hey, we all have our perversions. I can't get enough watching and playing the 90's era. :D

Do you utilize the scoreboard calendar and watch how the other season games end? I do that all the time during the season. Part of the fun. :good:

PS: Do fights occur when you play CPU vs. CPU?

and yes fights certainly do occur. And with Vods 1.5 launcher they occur outside of a scoring chance as if two fighters ask each other "Ya Wanna go?" and the fights usually happen right before a face-off. As in real hockey....
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