[PC & Mac] EHM 2004 Official Patch v1.0.7

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This is patch 1.0.7 for EHM 2004 for the PC (aka SI Patch 366 / 367 / 368).

This is the final ever patch released for EHM 2004. You do not need to install any of the previous patches before installing this one. If you encounter any difficulties, please ask any questions in our unofficial Technical Support Forum.

Mac Edition: https://1drv.ms/u/s!AsXFKQMOdPqgiHy54c2GLO8Jc-Ej
PC CD-ROM Edition: https://1drv.ms/u/s!AsXFKQMOdPqgiHsaGYzJbcrmVs2j
PC Softwrap Edition: https://1drv.ms/u/s!AsXFKQMOdPqgiH3x7aJZ4t3NIGbT

NHL Eastside Hockey Manager Patch History
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Version 1.0.1 - 02 July 2004
Version 1.0.3 - 27 August 2004
Version 1.0.5 - 10 September 2004
Version 1.0.7 - 23 October 2004


NHL Eastside Hockey Manager v1.0.7 Changelist
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News
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Competitions
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-Fixed SH goals for teams in the competition stats
-Tweaked the GM confidence evaluations for national teams after major tournaments

Screens
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Fixed bug with Team Orders setting the Unit Orders to wrong setting

Other
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-Fixed a rare suspension bug that occurred when successfully appealing against the ban
-Tweaked weird heights/weights for young players

Data
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VERSION 1.0.5
Changes since v1.0.3
====================

News
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News now sent to shortlisting teams when a player is made available

Competitions
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Tweaked playoff scheduling to reduce back-to-back games
Corrected assignment of teams entering Swedish Allsvenskan
Corrected WHL playoff home ice advantage picking
Corrected some european leagues Playoff team picking orders

Other
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Fixed the initial non-player salary issue at the start of a game
Tuned the number of extra scouts assigned for NHL teams at the start of the game
Tuned player evaluation in trades
Fixed NHL games played limits in waiver rules
Tuned head coach control over lines when using human selections
Fixed overaged players in CHL not getting dressed in spring time
Fixed a player regeneration crash with a corrupt(edited) database
Fixed html otuput of player stats(goals, assists etc)
Fixed ranomisation of player height/weight when only one of these was set in the database
Fixed incorrect ban string being shown when a player has been released from his team whilst still banned

Data
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Additional minor data fixes


VERSION 1.0.3
Changes since v1.0.1
====================

News
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Fixed crash clicking on pundit name in news item
Tuning media distribution in Finland, Austria, Canada, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Norway, Russia, Slovakia, Sweden and the UK
Fixed bug that meant cup win speculation news would speculate about topies being brought back to "<nation>" instead of just "back home".
Added news item for winners of the UK EIHL Regular Season champions.
Toning down the Cup Glory speculation news items - now only happen for teams when they have won the series
Fixed retirement news items not remembering the staff's job once he has retired (i.e. news item content changed when the person retired)
Made news about transfers of players who are assigned to an affiliate, be sent to them as well, because they will want to know about players they will lose
Player waivers news also sent to current team he is playing for, if it's not the NHL owner team
Corrected BNL Cup progress news items
Fixed player sent to juniors news saying he was sent to/from the same team

Screens
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Corrected headers for Swedish Elitserien Relegation Playoff table
Fixed a crash on the team award screen
Fixed Career Totals for average ratings which included the seasons with no average ratings
Fixed a rounding issue with qualifying offers on the contract offer screen
Added option to list free agents regardless of contract status in player search screen
Moved scouting report to its own tab in the player profile
Contract offer screen now displays the salary request as the total sum over the contract
Tactics screen allows you to swap players in lines with the instructions carrying over with them
Fixed the average rating oddities when displaying the player career history

Match Engine
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Tuned scoring across different leagues
Tuned goalie performances
Tuned player ratings
Tuned home-ice advantage

Competitions
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Fixed bug where some UK games are rescheduled for Television coverage
Corrected overtime win points to 2 in UKBNL
Corrected team picking order for UKEIHL playoffs
Corrected which years the game thinks are olympic years for games passed 2084
Fixed bug whereby playoff teams would not get the correct home advantage in first game
Fixed news item bug in Czech Extraliga relegation playoff
All Finnish leagues now look at goal difference then games won in tiebreak situations
Removed overtime from UKBNL playoff first leg games, added Sudden Death to second leg games
Reversed French East and West conference teams
Adjusted Swedish Elitserien prize money total and interval
Added overtime and shootouts to Swedish Elitserien Relegation playoff
Fixed promotions/relegations between Finnish National and Finnish First divisions
Tweaked playoff scheduling for Finnish National divisions
Tweaked playoff scheduling for Czech Extraliga
Corrected number of games played in the French Super League Third Place playoff
Corrected bug whereby French Super League games were sometimes scheduled before season commences
Corrected bug whereby game info is sometimes not displayed on first and fourth stages of European Hockey Tour
Fixed vanishing suspensions picked up in exhibition games
Reduced number of back-to-back games in Playoffs
Setting draw date for UKBNL Cup final stage to earlier date
Fixed problem whereby Olympics Bronze Medal game is not scheduled correctly
Fixed bug where NHL All Star MVP award was giving 2nd and 3rd placings
Slight alteration to the UKEIHL playoff scheduling
Fixed bug with UKEIHL history record
Added sudden death to Danish Cup overtime games
Removed OT in UK Challenge Cup first leg games
UKEIHL player history records for Group Stage games now correctly recorded under Playoff Games
Corrected relegation/promotion from and to the Swedish First Division and the Allsvenskan
Fixed TV revenues incorrectly awarded during certain Cup Competitions
Shortened International breaks lengths in UKBNL
All canadian and british leagues now calculate Winning Pct. using points gained rather than games won
All World Cup U-20 games now pick stadiums from the correct host country
Fixed Finnish Elite League Best Goalscorer award picking the best forward instead of just the one with the most goals
Belarus, Ukraine and Kazakhstan nationals are now not counted as foreign players in the Russian league

Network Game
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Fixing possible crash on the league progress screen
Fixing the titlebar graphics showing the wrong one on the host sometimes
Fixing possible issues with the trade screens not responding to mouse clicks
Fixing issues on the trade screens where picks were added to the wrong team
Fixed issue where the game would freeze if 2 humans were viewing the same game, and the second human wasn't a GM of the teams involved

Other
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Fixing hall of fame error when manager has previous entry, but is no longer managing there, and is no longer managing in ANY active league
Fixed re-signing non-playing staff memebers while they were still under contract and seemed not interested in a new contract
Fixed the player actions so trialists cannot be sent back to juniors
Fixed the player actions so contracts cannot be offered to players until the trade has been confirmed
Fixed so player rights are still kept after the player leaves from a try-out back to free agency (trial)
Finetuned the player reactions to small roster sizes (across the organization) to slightly more lenient
Fixed a crash when trying to setup a starting future transfer for NHL players
Fixed head coach changing team captain while user was not coaching games
Fixed QMJHL weekly awards that were not getting cleared down properly
Tweaked Finnish Elite League playoff MVP award
Fixed arena expansion promises as result of ultimatum being 'forgotten'
Fixed prize money being given out more than once at the end of a season
Fixed bug that would meant a player can't be trained to become a Center
Tuned trading and free agent signings
Tightened the rules for head coaches so they won't make unnecessary roster changes when left in control of games
Tuned players taking staff roles
Tuned goalie selection routine to play backups less often in minor leagues
Tuned coaches to be less interested in taking up assistant managerial duties
Tuned player movement in European leagues
Tuned players' willingness to test free agent markets
Fixed college teams running out of players problem
Tweaked european team transfer funds
Tweaked attendance changes
Added support for scouting teams in non-selected leagues
Changed the detailed scouting report to be revealed also when scouting a team or a draft instead of just individual scouting
Changed titlebar font to be it's own special font, so people can over-ride it with their own (forum request)
Added support for all star team titlebar pictures (forum request)
Fixed re-initialising problem whereby "process_fixture()-invalid stage set" message would appear
Fixed a problem loading/saving when Windows was using a Unicode locale
Tweaked player salaries in lower leagues
Tweaked non-playing staff salaries in all leagues
Fixed auto-resigning from club side when resigning from a national side
Fixed large BOOST_TEAM config cash injections
Changed limit of BOOST_TEAM cash injection to 50000000 to stop overflowing error
Fixed deduction of cost of arena expansions from the ARENA_EXPANSION config
Added the development payments to european teams when NHL teams sign players
Fixed bug whereby weekly awards would sometimes be awarded in the future
Changed the "make offers" GM option selection of "None" to also prevent Assistant GM from re-signing people when on holiday

Data
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All NHL/high minors players moved to the correct teams as of trade deadline 2004
Contract details corrected for NHL/high minors players, correct NHL rights added for minor leaguers
Biographical, draft, and player histories revised/added for everyone in the NHL/high minors
Ratings reviewed and revised for most NHL/high minors players, and many minor errors corrected thanks to forum feedback
Retired players removed
Aggressiveness/fighting ratings corrected for key NHL/high minors players
Non-playing staffs for all NHL/high minors leagues revised (missing staff added or moved to the correct team)
WHL and QMJHL ratings revised to help with scoring and correct errors with their injury ratings, some Junior A players added in Quebec/Maritimes
All 20-year-old North Americans in NHL/high minors have their junior rights set correctly now
Several full-season injuries added to the config file

Translation/Text
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Added Czech translation
Added ability to drop in different language databases for new languages
Allowed gender arguments to be taken from file rather than hard coded. ( for new languages mainly )
Fixed some instances of strings being cut off in non-English mode
Removed some obsolete translations from the language database - should speed up changing languages
Corrected some inaccurate genders in German and French database records (team and award names). This fixes grammar issues in news items.
Miscellaneous language fixes (English, Swedish, French and German)

Mac Specific
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Fixed problem where saved games would not display standings screen columns properly
Fixed problem where saved games would not calculate Overtime points scored correctly

VERSION 1.0.1
Changes since v1.0.0
====================

Fixed bug where pundit.cfg wasn't picked up properly, so custom media source names were not used
Fixed bug where the same player was mentioned twice in a scouting report about the next opponent
Fixed an error message that was a result of huge trade offers involving tens of players
Fixed a problem that might cause old news items to change when players rights expired or are traded
Fixed sorting of player contract details in team screen for national sides
Fixed the titlebar colors in draft screens to use the related comp colors
Fixed the wrapping of the subtitle in draft ranking screens
Fixed bug on comp screens where the game settings for score displays wasn't used
Fixed crash when using "Change Bid" menu item in staff screens
Added the missing attributes view for personnel screen
Fixed error on shot chart screen when lots of players had taken shots in the game (exhibition games mainly)
Fixed fine screens being overly respondent to mouse clicks
Fixed maximum 1 week fine rule for NHL
Fixed a rare crash on the Mac when trying to access the non-player profile screen (only for NHL contracted staff)
Fixed bug where the wrong team occasionally got the home advantage in NHL Stanley Cup finals
Fixed foreign/non-EU players limits for Swedish teams
Corrected Finnish Elite League number of regular season games
Fixed rare bug where Swedish Elitserien played incorrect number of regular season games
Fixed salary caps for UK leagues
Corrected the overtime/shootout points awarded in European Hockey Tour games
Fixed a bug with the network game not refreshing the screen on some players in certain cases when a new player joined in
Fixed bug where GM vacation options (return at next match/Head Coach controls games) were ignored with multiple humans
Fixed some French strings, and fixed some problems with French grammar due to the team names being the town names in French, instead of the nicknames.
Fixed trade delays