I really wish they would improve national team play significantly:
- Get a license with IIHF so that we can have KHL players and real national team jerseys. Pretty please?
- More realistic teams (they used the teams from the 2010 Olympics for four years goddammit. Now they will likely update them to the 2014, but they will only be realistic for like 1 season. For the lower ranked countries they are also including fake players instead of real players actually in the game! For instance, I manually have to put Stephane Da Costa, Antoine Roussel and Pierre-Eduard Bellemare into team France).
- Make it simpler to edit the rosters of national teams. I shouldn't have to "trade" players to put them in the national team. Have a national team selection feature which enables you to pick a squad from all the players of that nationality.
- Fix the EA world tournaments, make them customizable. You can only have either 8 teams or 16 teams in the EA world tournaments. All teams also advance to the knock-out phase, eventhough the commentary suggest that a team has to win a certain game to advance to the playoffs. I remember one of the old FIFA games had a "Create a Tournament" mode were you could select the number of team (4, 8, 16, 32) the number of groups (1, 2, 4, 8) and the number of team advancing from each group (1,2,4). Bring me that. I would like to be able to set up a 12 team tournament with 2 groups with the top four from each group advancing to the knock-out round.
- Make it possible for one nation to be the host of a world tournament (like Olympics and World Championships) or have it rotating (like the World Cup).
- Add Slovenia they're a top country. Add Hungary as well and you have all the nations from the elite division and Divsion 1A.
I really wish they would improve national team play significantly:
- Get a license with IIHF so that we can have KHL players and real national team jerseys. Pretty please?
No more glitch goals pleeeease!!!
Put in multiple commentators. CBC people for games in Canada, NBC for the states. Would be epic and it would keep the commentating fresh!
I would like the option to turn off the commentary, but still have the in-game and ambient sounds.
Totally revamp how scouting works in be a gm.
Instead of having your scout keep annoying you with pop up messages
Set budgets for coaching, scouting, training staff, medical staff, and marketing/ticket sales based on the overall budget the owner gives you
Then set the budgets of the different departments in each of those
Coaching:
Head coach- improves all roster players (also you can hire coaches based on strategies that will be used in simmed games, and what skills they improve)
Assistant- slightly improves all roster players, improves special teams (again you can hire two, one based on PP strategy, one based on PK strategy, and both impact certain skills)
Goaltending coach- improves goalies
Video coach- allows team to adapt to opposing strategy better (might be to hard to program )
Minor league coach- improves minor league players
Scouting (All improve scouting in the particular league):
WHL scout
OHL scout
QMJHL scout
NCAA scout
SEL scout
SM Liga scout
DEL scout
NLA scout
Extraliga scout
Any added leagues scout
Russia scout
Rest of World scout
Pro scout (how much other teams players overalls have changed (due to their coaching) should not be known exactly, a range should be given and better pro scouting would make this smaller)
Training staff:
Ups strength, size etc (these are attributes the coach wouldn't effect)
Medical staff:
Improves injury recovery time
Makes the players more injury resistant
Marketing:
Brings more income to be used for future seasons
MORE SCORING PLEASE!!! The top players dont seem to even get a point a game.