01-20-2021, 02:56 PMPremierBromanov Wrote:

01-20-2021, 02:47 PMAgentSmith630 Wrote: This is not one of the options I've heard being thrown around, and it's an interesting one for sure. One of the appeals of Milestones is seeing how your player stacks up against the rest of the league. I don't think they should be removed altogether, but reworked in a way that doesn't give an unfair advantage to those who are on better teams like you mentioned.

One of my favorite ideas, which I've seen tossed around and generally met with approval, is to incorporate the TPE earned from Milestones into Championship Week. Allow the TPE earned from Milestones to be applied towards tasks for that specific PT, allowing those who earned milestones to get a break. It's a neat way to still have the Milestones, but to not allow those who earned more to get an advantage over those who didn't. I'd love to know if this idea has been discussed in HO and what the opinions are about it.

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.