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We did at one time but most are gone. I think @Beaviss and @Kendrick we’re the last couple. RIP @Sandro

Fact. Source: I frequently have to put French subtitles in.

Well it is the league’s top 3 scorers all against one another haha.

I demand resims! Totally could have passed Cast with that /s Seriously though with how short the WC round is I imagine we’ll push updates through.

If Smirnov and Sterling keep up pace you're better off coming to Seattle

I foresee a career for myself with very good numbers but ultimately very few awards as I'll likely continue to be behind you most of the time haha. Clearly we'll need to decide on a shared destination when FA rolls around and build a super team.

In all honesty if Boubabi could have kept himself from getting banned and kept going he surely would have. Gotta keep in mind cornerstone still had what, 2 seasons left? Would also be interesting to see this list with people who played in the 12 cap era italics or something. It does make a difference.

Did you not check the OP before asking this? I updated it Tuesday.

48th. Not bad to be honest since I’m only in my second season. I mean also dead last but we’ll ignore that haha

Oh it 100% is, Nintendo’s are as well they are just slightly cheaper emulation. And yeah, I have gone back to play some older games. Their mechanics aren’t great but for the sake of nostalgia I’m willing to pay if some of my favourite games are in there. I can emulate them but the ROM’s are hit or miss with disc based games.

So... PS1 Classic is apparently an official thing. Anyone else thinking of picking one up? I’m curious what the lineup is gonna look like to justify $130 (CAD) for it.

White never won the Brooks. He won the Szatkowski without leading in either category haha

Oh I don’t deny it but in general it’s gonna suck to have a production that would have won the Brooks dating back to Seasonf 5 and still lose.

Please continue doing so.

How mad will you be if I Jason White you and take it in the final game again? Seriously though, it’s gonna be really frustrating for whichever of us loses it. Likely we’ll both have the most goals since S5...

Always like seeing a hat trick.

Taking after @Devise‘s current model are we? If so you aren’t being sneaky enough until you’ve fallen literally off the draft board haha

Durability and such? I think we have tested and it causes issues with the CPU players. There’s a reason our default 99’s are that way. An all leadership build would be hilarious but sadly not worth wasting time on haha. This is the kind of thing PP2 was supposed to allow, weird fun builds, but everyone just used it to make the regular build with 2 guys and get burnt out.

I think he kinda made it popular. Scotty new the tricks before anyone because he was the only one with the engine to test for awhile. Hardly can say every trend stems from Scotty though.

While interesting in theory the backend tracking of this would be hell and I'm personally against anything randomized. Though I guess if we had only a few options and none were really *bad* it wouldn't be that major. But still, the tracking and coding would be hell.

Archetypes have been brought up a few times. It would potentially fix the problem but it could also potentially make it worse if everyone just decides to pick the one that they know STHS will like the most. On a personal level I just don't like the idea of capping out attributes, especially when we already have people who can basically max out. P.S unrelated but your sig still says Kovalchuk has no team.

I took a couple of weeks off of ranting because I was simming the WJC and didn't need the points but I'm back now with more old man ranting! Back in my day we had diversity in our builds. Some guys were 2 way forwards, some were assist specialists, some were shutdown D-men, etc. Now, this is probably because none of us, save Scotty, had any lick of a clue as to what we were doing when it came to how STHS functioned. Basically no one had read the manual and the guide that now exists in basically every locker room to instruct where to spend your points wasn't floating around yet. So what happened? Well, I was thinking about it yesterday when discussing diversity with @Beaviss. Ultimately I think we just all kinda learned what does and does not work in the sim engine. For example, @Will's last player John Locke proved you can be a hell of a scorer without wasting any points on passing. Someone before that (Boubabi maybe) realized that spending on Defense, even as a forward, makes you score more for reasons that don't tally make sense. Even before that we realized that skating is kinda essential, as is puck handling. So where has this all led us? Well unfortunately it has led us to a place where all builds are basically the same. only real difference being centres put points into Faceoff while wingers usually put it into checking. Everyone goes for max scoring, Puck Handling, Skating, and Defense (or at least to 90) as those have the biggest impacts. Just look at the top players, you'll see this build everywhere. So, has this made us better or worse as a league? Hard to say. It's nice that we have kinda figured out the system but also worse because now everyone is basically the same which makes things more random and more boring. So how would we change it? Hard to say. Some say lowering our ratings might do it. Others say that we would need to use a different version of the sim. I think probably a combination but I'm not here to give solutions, I'm here to rant. So yeah, discuss. Does it suck that the concept of builds has kinda gone down the toilet or is it cool that we all kinda learned how to game the game? You decide.