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6 hours ago, filip_croatia said:

Or start with some lower level league team in Sweden or Czech. Or, take some weak team from weaker leagues and try to win Champions league. Plenty of challenges.

Although I find these lower leagues interesting... ultimately you will find the perfect combination to always win and keep your core player pretty much forever. I find it more harder to create a Dynasty at junior level or even the AHL since your core is always changing. Even if you find a rare gem at junior draft, you have 3 or 4 years with him max, same with AHL stint. Maybe there's some leagues out there that mimics that kind of behavior but I never found something more satisfying than keeping a successful franchise at junior level.

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13 hours ago, hfxhabslover said:

Love the game!  Have played it since 2003ish.  It's eaten thousands of hours of my life.  It comes and goes now as new seasons are released.  And while I find new ways to challenge myself, I ultimately end up dominating the league I play in.  I wish, respectfully, to ask if there are any plans to perhaps incorporate difficulty levels as a new feature of the game.  I naively don't know how much work that would require.

Cheers.

You make the difficulty yourself. If you play at the highest level at first (read NHL, KHL) then the game is running on easy, but keeping a successful junior franchise? Or even an AHL team where you have to deal with whatever the AI is doing with your club? It's very challenging. I also don't tweak the tactics and let the coach do his thing (since we all know tactics tweaking leads to easy win). So following these rules and not abusing the trade logic, I always have a challenge each years.

As for the rest, Riz, thank you for all the hard work. EHM is my longest standing running game (since the early 2000) and while not perfect, enjoyed the hell our of each release... so I can't wait to see what's next.