EHM The Blue Line

Even though the rules of the game state that you're not allowed to go on vacation, in this situation I think you should try going on vacation with it set to have you return on August 12th. See if it gets past the error. If it does, you'll be all set. If not, I think you're out of luck.

I'm trying to join a challenge for the first time but I'm bad at grasping loads of instructions, so I would need some clarifications.

1. Can I sign all prospects (the ones who can join the team at the time) at the start of the challenge?

2. Is it possible to fire the head coach in January, make an assistant the head coach and sign a new assistant coach.

3.Should I get screenshots of every signing (just in case)?

Thanks in advance!

1. Yes.
2. No--I believe must wait 6 months..so not til end of February.
3. Yes always good to do in first challenge, til you know the rules for sure. Better safe than sorry.

visualdarkness wrote:I'm trying to join a challenge for the first time but I'm bad at grasping loads of instructions, so I would need some clarifications.

1. Can I sign all prospects (the ones who can join the team at the time) at the start of the challenge?

2. Is it possible to fire the head coach in January, make an assistant the head coach and sign a new assistant coach.

3.Should I get screenshots of every signing (just in case)?

Thanks in advance!

1. Yes.

2. Yes, but if you got space for a new assistant coach from the beginning you can sign a new one and then after 6 months you can fire your head coach and make the assistant coach that you signed in the beginning to your head coach.

3. Yeah, that's always a good thing.

2. Right..forgot about taht. I went with the mean answer.

Yup. Batdad is right on all 3 points. In regards to point 3, when you post your stats you should only post the screenshots we ask for in the stats recording thread. All other screenshots you take should just be held onto in case something is called into question.

And just to clarify your first point, when you says "all prospects", you do mean all prospects that the Oilers hold the right to, correct?

joehelmer wrote: 2. Yes, but if you got space for a new assistant coach from the beginning you can sign a new one and then after 6 months you can fire your head coach and make the assistant coach that you signed in the beginning to your head coach.

The main point is that the person you hire as a head coach must be employed by your team in some capacity for 6 months before you can make them your head coach. If that person is employed by the team at the start of the game (30th August 2006) you can't offer them the head coach job until the end of February 2007. They could be your Assistant GM, an assistant coach, a scout, or even a trainer/physio for that matter. In the first season of a challenge though, it's not going to happen until the end of February 2007.

Concerning the nr 2, it was just me not being able to count 6 month. Of course i meant January.

<i>And just to clarify your first point, when you says "all prospects", you do mean all prospects that the Oilers hold the right to, correct?</i>
You all understood my rambling correctly, I'm impressed!

visualdarkness wrote:Concerning the nr 2, it was just me not being able to count 6 month. Of course i meant January.

You mean February.

One more question, I haven't seen anything about signing other teams non-playing staff, am I free to sign them?

bruins72 wrote:

visualdarkness wrote:Concerning the nr 2, it was just me not being able to count 6 month. Of course i meant January.

You mean February.

WTH?!
What flu did a catch today?

You can sign as many as you want to fill up your staff rosters. But of course, game will not let you sign NHL staff. You can only fire one A-coach, one scout I believe. But you can hire as many as you need.

You're allowed to fire 2 scouts and 1 assistant coach and hire as many as you like. So in season 2, you can fire another assistant and 2 more scouts but if you also had a scout or assistant who's contract expired, you could sign another to replace him as well.

As batdad said, you can sign staff that are already under contract to other teams but the game won't let you sign other NHL staff. I'm always signing staff away from European leagues or Canadian Junior teams.

Just making sure, but I assume I can recall my prospects for training camp that are already on loan? (ie. Recalling Eberle for training camp)

If under contract to you you can bring em up, send em down, waive em, buy em out, release em, hug em, kiss em, shoot em, stab em. The only thing you cannot do is trade em.

batdad wrote:If under contract to you you can bring em up, send em down, waive em, buy em out, release em, hug em, kiss em, shoot em, stab em. The only thing you cannot do is trade em.

Thanks a ton, have a feeling I'll want to do both of these things somewhere down the line.

Well not as much as you would if this was a Leafs challenge.

When posting my first 1-20 stats, does it matter how many games the other teams have played when posting the conference standings?

And for individual stats, have I understood correctly that it's the total and not only during the interval of the games?

You post your 1-20 stats once you've completed 20 games. If you waited for every other team to reach 20 games, you might have 21 or 22 games played by that point.

Individual player stats (like G, A, PIM, and all that) are the total for the season. If you check the example screenshot in the rules, you'll see where you get this from. EXAMPLE

Thank you! I was pretty sure of both the answers but I found more secure to ask and doublecheck.

If two players got the same stats (Penner and Horcoff both got 15 assists), should I write both names?

That's what I usually do. On the name line for assists, I would type "Penner/Horcoff".

visualdarkness wrote:If two players got the same stats (Penner and Horcoff both got 15 assists), should I write both names?

Yes, I always do this when two players got the same number in goals, assists, points, +/- or PIM.

A example from the last challenge:

Most Assists : 12 - Hejduk/Wolski

I got a problem, the goals for/against stat isn't the same in in the standings and team stats. Is this normal, I haven't seen it before?
http://yfrog.com/jbscreenshot062gx

I wonder if the team stats ones might not be counting empty netters? Either way, the rules state that you should be getting those numbers from the standings. Follow the examples in the section of the rules for stats recording.