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***ThePyroAlpaca*** · 05-04-2025, 03:05 PM

MyLittleHexx · 05-04-2025, 03:13 PM

Written Option 2:
I would add loot pools to the game. Every player starts with a base set of gear, which give buffs to certain stats. The starting gear can be based off your primary role when you create, so a two way forward would get +1 to positioning and +1 to passing. As your team plays games, each player on the team has a chance to get a new piece of equipment. The rarity could range from common to legendary, and the stats could be tied to any role valid for that player. So a forward could get a legendary sniper helmet, but would not be able to get a legendary goalie or two-way defenseman helmet. At the end of every season, you could reset the gear back to common for the players primary role. Or each player gets three seasons before the equipment is reset. That way it prevents the league from having legendary equipment for every player in the league.

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egregious · 05-04-2025, 03:29 PM

"Rookie, choose."
"What? Choose what?"
"You either drink the fucking coffee, or I punch you. Choose."
"What kind of fucked up choice is that? What kind of Barista are... ooOOF!"
"You play too many video games, and it's fucking up your game, rookie. You're an addict."
"You're a fucking addict too! Coffee all the time! Latte! Cappuccio! Fucking Kickstarter vacuum brewer! And th-hyUNGh."
"One vacuum-brewed cortado coming up. You better beat this boss."
"Unh. Now you're enabling me? What the fuck is this?"
"You can choose for me to keep punching you while you keep playing. Which will suck when you get to practice all bruised tomorrow."
"Yeah, but if I take the coffees I won't sleep."
"You're playing video games at night. You're already not sleeping. Shiny Rainbow asked me to bring you some fucking Pony Pummelling Power so you learn the consequences of not sleeping."
"And I'm gonna be a better player if I'm bruised or twitching on caffeine overdose?"
"That's only two of the options."
"What's the thieeYOUFF!"
"Both, of course. Here's your coffee. The foam is organic Western Canadian Oat milk. The topping is crystallized cardamom sugar. The beans are high-altitude grown from the eastern slope of Mount Cameroon, home-roasted by me."
"That's.... fucking good coffee. I feel like I've snorted those flowers from Wakanda."
"Yeah. That's the terroir. It will also make you feel the punches more acutely."
"You are a fucking sadist, Chubby Barista."
"Enjoy your final night of gaming, rookie. You will get no sleep."

roquefort · 05-04-2025, 03:32 PM

ISFL affiliate

Otis Boudreaux · 05-04-2025, 04:01 PM

Written Option 1:

Everyone knows that something doesnt become a problem, until it is. But one thing I have learned over the years is that everyone deals with stress differently. So what seems odd to me, may just be their way of dealing with pre-game stress and coming down from a game. I have also learned that many of these online games have a social element to them. So maybe this is their way of dealing with being away from home.

I have noticed they do this on away game trips, but how do I know this isn’t normal behavior for them? There is a good chance this is how they choose to spend their free time.

One thing I have definitely realized is that I don’t know a lot about why that is how they choose to spend their time. So, the easiest way to deal with that is to ask. Maybe this is a GOOD thing for them. But I wont know until I ask.

So how do I deal with it? I ask them, I talk to them. I get to know them before I judge their behavior. Hell, who knows, I might even learn some tricks to help with my pre-game nerves?

You never know until you ask…

Bluedog25123 · 05-04-2025, 04:04 PM

Oskar is sharing a room with Joe for the first time on this road trip. as they are getting settled in Joe pulls out an Xbox that he has in his suitcase and hocks it up to the TV. Oskar hadn't paid much attention before but now that he thinks about it He is playing games on his phone a lot when the team is traveling too. Oskar is not against video games he bought the Oblivion remaster when it launched and thinks video games are a good way to decompress after a long day. Oskar doesn't think it is an issue because Joe is present at practice and is engaged in games and hasn't had any discipline issues that he knows of. Oskar asks Joe if he can play. The two end up spending a couple hours playing SHL 25. After they are done an Oskar kust casually metions to Joe that he is doing a great job but you have to stay focused in this league if you want to excel and have a long successful playing career.

brocksamson · 05-04-2025, 04:05 PM

written option 1

There is one youthful teammate who has been given the great and august honor of rooming with a certain Malamute when on the road... They are rooming with a man... but not just a man, not just a hockey player, and not just a Nobel winner from 2008... They are rooming with THE sole winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 2008 and the Distinguished Professor of Economics at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Indeed, they are rooming with Paul Krugman. Who is of course, who I am.

Now, my youthful energy may not be at the preferred level of the young whipper snapper with whom I am boarding. But I am spry for my age and have enough energy to play professional hockey. What I lack, and what this youngin' has, is the energy to play video games all night! But little does he know that I have brought smash bros 64 on this road trip. And he is about to be dog walked.

*Brenadyr* · 05-04-2025, 04:10 PM

Written option 2: I would steal the potential system from Valkyria chronicles, specifically 4 as it is at its best in that one. Every character has a couple of personal skills, some positive and some negative, that activate under various circumstances based on their personality. For example one character is very timid and shy, so they get debuffed if a lot of enemies can see them. It is a great mix of telling us something about the character and gameplay. Characters also get a set of potentials based on what class they are, though these are more rigid, representing the training they undergo and their role in the game. The personal potentials would be very difficult to add into the SHL and maintain any semblance of balance, but the class, or role in the SHL's case, potentials would be very easy to add, every 500 TPE your player has they get a potential based on what their role is in FHM.

oknom · 05-04-2025, 04:32 PM

Option 2

Honestly, we have plenty of RPG elements that are going on within the sim. That side of things is just a little harder to see unless you are a GM or on the sim team. Sure the index and streams make some of that visible to the average user, but how do you know when something statistically improbable really happened? Was that playoff series an upset or a coinflip, despite what the seedings may say? Was that 6th place team really a contender that got a late start this season?

I think even with every game there are SO many RPG elements going on that just need some polish to be more apparent to the average user. Think about some of the more exciting events in RPGs, critical hits or finding a rare drop like a shiny pokemon or loot. How can we translate that rare and thrilling event into SHL terms? Shorthanded goals? Fights? Defenseman goals or even, gasp, hat tricks?!?! There needs to be some type of indicator on the stream that could help clue in your average user.

***SchwarzNarr*** · 05-04-2025, 05:02 PM

pt pass

*MikeLiut* · 05-04-2025, 05:19 PM

PBE affiliate

***JaytheGreat*** · 05-04-2025, 05:21 PM

Option 1

Yeah it would be pretty hypercritical of me to be worried about a younger player playing video games since I did the same at the time, and even now to be honest. So I would be playing games with him and not chastising him. Considering I have the newest gaming consoles I probably helped him pick him out a new console. That's probably why we get along so well is our love of video games, I know that when I was coming up some of the veterans would hide my consoles and controllers and it would piss me off more then motivate me or get me focused. Knowing what the other vets would do me being around keeps them at bay. On weekends we have tournaments over different games with the loser having to pay for dinner or drinks or having to carry the winner's bags, it really helps move the season along.

Rest In Peace Dangel

1st SHL Goal - S52 Game 1 vs Tampa 3. New England Wolfpack , Jakub Bruchevski 1 (Eko Van Otter 1, Delver Fudgeson 2) at 8:10

Scarecrows

DarthDaevin · 05-04-2025, 05:31 PM

Graphic Option 1:
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swoosh · 05-04-2025, 05:39 PM

Graphic Option 1: Create a box art for SHL 82 video game, must feature player that is not your own.

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Wearingabear · 05-04-2025, 05:46 PM

So here lies the dilemma that Ubba Lodbrok, center for the Philadelphia Forge of the Metropolitan Division in the Eastern Conference of the Simulation Hockey League, formerly of the Anchorage Armada of the Simulation Major Junior Hockey League, and current representative of the Finnish National Team, has to face coming into this road trip. His roommate, none other than Nor Ge, is obsessed with video games. To the point that he stays up way past curfew playing them. Now, of course, he's young and doesn't drink all that much, so he bounces back pretty easily. But Ubba is of course concerned that he won't be able to focus when the going gets tough. That is, of course, if he's not playing the correct video games. Point and Shooters don't do much to help dexterity or critical thinking, it may help with reflexes but let's be real. That's not why anyone plays those games.

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