Automatic Roster Moves
I'm in the ECHL GM'ing my hometown Adirondack Thunder (didn't even take them over through commish mode, got an offer) and I have my roster moves set to only be done by me, not the AI. I get some automated moves when AHL/NHL teams make moves, which I understand, but I just simmed from game one of my Kelly Cup Finals to game two and it did a bunch of demotions with no notifications, sending 4 of my dressed players down. This is super frustrating. Is there any reason for this? In the playoffs there is no roster limit.
Posted Dec 31, 2019, 5:02 PM UTC
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Ideally, I'd like to have the no-limit roster size in the playoffs, but that would have some ugly implications for the roster AI (for which the allowed roster size is an important consideration) - if, for example, the NHL and AHL had no playoff roster limits, they may wind up recalling all of their contracted players from your roster, which just creates a different problem.
That said, we're looking at ways to improve the AI's handling of parent-farm relationships that would likely prevent this sort of thing, mainly by defining the mininimum/maximum number of players they send to you. That'd make running minor league teams a lot more predictable and practical. Unfortunately, it's going to require a lot of re-coding of the way we handle loans, so it's not going to be happening in the immediate future.
In the meantime, when something like this happens to you, assuming you're not playing in challenge mode, turning commissioner mode on and moving the demoted guys back manually would only be fair.
Fair enough. Thanks for the response and the peek at the back end.