01-20-2021, 05:46 PMMazatt Wrote:

01-20-2021, 02:56 PMPremierBromanov Wrote: My recent spitballing was to move seasonal milestones to career milestones. Ie, allow players to claim a small sum on TPE for important milestones in certain stats. for example, 50 goals, or 200 hits. This is a huge aspect of the NHL already, as fans love to track N00th goals, points, assists, ect. Humans love stats, the NFL knows this the best. They've infused their sport with nigh-meaningless stats to keep people engaged not just in the sport, but in the data it creates. We should be similar. Achievements have always been a decent way to engage certain players in all sorts of games. We even have one for 2k TPE. So the next logical evolution in the SHL is a system that puts our stats and data to work for us.

I feel like these carries on with the same issue of the "rich get richer" style of play and has too many holes to be realized. Just off the top of my head, D and F would need different milestones to make it fair, unless forwards get an inate ability to earn more TPE, which in turn makes swapping between forward and defence all that much more complicated.

The biggest thing just reading it over again, is that this doesn't do anything to cut down the rich get richer mentality of current milestones. Who are the players that are going to be hitting 200+ goals/assists or hits? It's the top players in this league that are already established at high TPE rates. This change would offer something up to young players that they can earn consistently, but it once again gives the top earners an advantage in how much TPE they can earn compared to the little guy rebuilding. Even if it's only 10 TPE over the course of a career it doesn't feel equitable for in-sim performance to be treated the same way but over a longer period of time. Maybe if we instead take the career milestones and then turn that back into cash, as is being suggested for current milestones, then it could make sense and wouldn't support the rich get richer mentality, but at that point there'd be little use in switching since TPE would be an irrelevant factor.

money is certainly an incentive that makes sense, given its the biggest hurdle for new players and the gateway to consistent earning.

But regarding the rich get richer mentality, I think that still holds true, but I think this way is much better season to season. The current system is binary. 0 you missed it, 1 you got the milestone. So if you're on the cusp of being good, you get nothing. The career milestones changes each season from binary to a percentage. So while elites still get the 1, being average still gets you 0.5, or being almost good enough gets you .75. Over the course of 5 seasons, the best are getting 5 total hits. But the mediocre can still get 2.5 or 3 or even 4, rather than none. Multiply that by whatever the reward is. That's my mentality: make it feel good to progress through your career no matter what, while still rewarding our top earners.

And yeah, maybe one won't hit 200 goals in your career as a mid-tier earner, but the current milestones are pretty ridiculous in comparison. This way, you can get a little reward for your 50th or 100th goal. Or other, less praised stats like hitting, shot blocking, fighting, etc. Let players work towards a goal they really like (SB in particular are easy to rack up on a bad team). It's not without its drawbacks, and could easily be throttled too, but I think the big hole here is that this idea requires a lot of work and 4 TPE on CW requires none.