Playoffs in be a gm .....

[crosbie87]

Hey everyone,

Just finished my 1st year and finished 2nd in the east with 102 points. I get to the playoffs ... and i get killed in both the games I play and also get killed in the 2 games i simulate ....... I play on all-star and my games are always close but i dont ever get killed .....

My question is ... are the playoffs so hard that it makes it impossible to win? Does anyone here lower the level to make it playable ? It seems the goalies are unbeatable ...

[high34]

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I'm not finding much of a change in gameplay from Playoffs to regular season. You (the gamer) just might be trying to score too hard. Being too fine rather just letting the game flow.

You may be performing the virtual version of the Washington Caps. Simplify, don't let your butt pucker up when games get close. You will be fine.

[savoie2006]

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Well, I know the intensity picks up come playoff time and the cpu usually plays as such, but this is realistic in a sense. It's the stretch run for the cup, you either step your game up or go home.

[onlybygrace]

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Simulating in the playoffs??? You don't deserve the Cup.

[pf8363]

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its supposed to be harder, its the playoffs. do you watch the nhl?

[Mythicos74]

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Simulating in the playoffs??? You don't deserve the Cup.

I for one simulates games in the playoffs because the odds that I'll lose 4 out of 7 games are almost non-existant. So to make things exciting, I sim games 1-3-4-5-7 and play games 2-6.

Believe me, playing in a must-win situation in a game 6 when you trail 3-2 (because of the sim) adds A LOT to the experience.

And it is coherent with the fact that I play 1 NHL and 1 AHL game per calendar week because, you know, I want to complete a dynasty before I die.

[canucksss]

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And it is coherent with the fact that I play 1 NHL and 1 AHL game per calendar week because, you know, I want to complete a dynasty before I die.

this draw a smile from me........ because this is my intention (but not to finish 25 years). in case, 2012 is a disappointment or not much change from 2011, i rather play 2011 and perhaps finish 25 years of being a GM who knows =)

[Vikes1]

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I want to complete a dynasty before I die.

Well said Mythicos.

Myself, I play all my games...so I understand what ya mean about the wanting to finishing a dynasty before you kick the bucket.

I'm sure hoping that a customizable season length is added to next years game, so I myself can live long enough to make the most outta the GM mode. The big majority of GM mode imo kinda goes to waste, when you can only get through so few of seasons. [without simming] Pretty tough to develop a team or draft picks when I can only get through 2 to 3 seasons.

Please EA Vancouver....options, options, options.

[TNKNGM]

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Simming games 1-3-4-5-7 of a playoff series

YOU HAVE TO BE KIDDING ME!!!!!

So if your series comes down to a GAME 7 - YOU WOULD SIM IT?????????

I don't even know what to say - just buy strat-o-matic hockey or play a hockey board game or something.

[Borgskier]

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I play BAP, but I thinks it's close in gameplay to GM. In BAP your player gets experience points at season end that typically will allow you to level up all 3 types of experience. This helps offset the playoff intensity and stay competetive. I'm finishing up conference now and these post season games have been very fun since you get to play the same team several times on each others' ice. I can't imagine simming any of those games, but I don't usually sim at all anyways.

[Mythicos74]

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Simming games 1-3-4-5-7 of a playoff series

YOU HAVE TO BE KIDDING ME!!!!!

So if your series comes down to a GAME 7 - YOU WOULD SIM IT?????????

I don't even know what to say - just buy strat-o-matic hockey or play a hockey board game or something.

No, I'm not kidding you.

My thinking is if I don't manage to win the series by the 6th game (meaning the sim has to win me 2 games out 4, since I'll win games 2-6), well so be it:
in my first season, I lost in the Eastern conference semi-final in 7 games. I lost in the 3rd round in my 2nd year. Now I'm just past the trade deadline of my 3rd season, I'm 1st overall even though I play but one game a week. I must be doing something good as a GM :wink:

Yes, it is frustrating to lose to a simmed game, but at least each season's outcome isn't known in advance.

And just by the way, and I don't mean to be too harsh, but if you don't know what to say (your own words), why comment at all?

[TNKNGM]

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No, I'm not kidding you.

My thinking is if I don't manage to win the series by the 6th game (meaning the sim has to win me 2 games out 4, since I'll win games 2-6), well so be it:
in my first season, I lost in the Eastern conference semi-final in 7 games. I lost in the 3rd round in my 2nd year. Now I'm just past the trade deadline of my 3rd season, I'm 1st overall even though I play but one game a week. I must be doing something good as a GM :wink:

Yes, it is frustrating to lose to a simmed game, but at least each season's outcome isn't known in advance.

And just by the way, and I don't mean to be too harsh, but if you don't know what to say (your own words), why comment at all?

Hey .....to each his own......I probaby could have worded it better

I prefer to play all the games, that's all.......personally - I don't care what you play or don't play....again, to each his own

[bill2451]

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perhaps the problem is with your difficulty level then, if you know you're going to win every game you play

that seems to be the issue. Why not up the challenge on the ice?

[Mythicos74]

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perhaps the problem is with your difficulty level then, if you know you're going to win every game you play

that seems to be the issue. Why not up the challenge on the ice?

Well, I play All-Star, with sliders similar but not identicasl to TNKNGM:
http://www.operationsports.com/forum...ner-2-0-a.html

The only thing really would be to cranck up CPU's speed (or play Superstar) but I adamantly refuse to play a game where a speedster like Patrick Kane gets outskated and outsped by the likes of Mike Commodore. It's just wrong.
I accept losing a simmed game, but I can't deal with the fact that my faster skaters get beaten to the puck by the slowest CPU skaters; it makes me want to throw my gamepad.

So I play with as high as I can go (from the CPU's perspective) with the settings, but not at the cost of suspension of disbelief (from my point of view). It's a fine line, and it takes me a couple weeks each year to figure the settings out.

EDIT: I just realized the guy I'm arguing with is the guy that made the sliders that largely influenced mine. Weird

[onlybygrace]

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Simming a Game 7...wow.

I mean, to each...their...own.