Morning all.

Head office and the Rookie mentor team has agreed a change to four of our player builds.

Defense is being removed as a weakness option for all builds. This is due to its high level of influence defense has for skaters on ice performance, the ease of misunderstanding it's importance by new players, and the lack of current players affected by any such change - there are no players playing with a defense weakness.

STRENGTH has been chosen as the attribute to replace DEFENSE in the three forward builds,for the offensive defenseman build DEFENSE has been removed only.

Specific build changes:

offensive forward weakness: Choose one of Checking/Defense/Strength

sniper forward weakness: Choose one of Checking/Defense/Strength

playmaking forward weakness: Choose one of Checking/Defense/Strength

offensive defenseman weakness: Choose one of Checking/Defense/Strength

There was a lengthy discussion via a suggestion thread that lead to this change. Thank you to all that took part. Especially to DrunkenTeddy who kicked it off and lead the discussion.

The player creator tool has already been updated and the build templates in the forum will be updated shortly.

Due to this change Playmaking forwards, Sniper forwards and Offensive Forwards are permitted to change their WEAKNESS ONLY to one of the two allowed weaknesses for free, linking this post in the update - Strength changes are not permitted as part of this change. Players with a free strength/weakness change will still have a free change left.