Editorials / Opinion
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HZ Under The Hood: #2 Energy
Welcome to the second edition of Hockey Zone Under The Hood, exploring how ship settings work in detail and how they have changed over time. Your ship’s Energy can be spent on four areas: A ship’s Energy is defined in the settings as InitialEnergy. As with a lot of the settings, the highest it can…
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My First Time As A Ref
The other night while RSHL was taking place, someone mentioned in blue chat that some games were starting late because it took several minutes to find a ref that was online. I asked on Discord why this was the case and this is the response I got: It got me thinking, how difficult could it…
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P1d: SHF @ HR recap
RSHL @ recap plus a bonus Beer League preview of @ Sponsored by Viop’s Bone Broth™
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Making an Arena
High Road approached me earlier in the preseason to make an arena for them, and it seemed like a perfect opportunity to do a small article on the process I go through doing one if anyone is interested in doing one themselves in the future. To make an arena, you’ll need a map editor. Currently,…
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p1d smuggled out from prison…
Fresh from the ipt-blick, a review of the season so far by master viop: Review of vs : Preview of vs :
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RSHL.BLOG Scoop: Ship Settings not as advertised
The Secret Changes That The Shadow Council Don’t Want You To Know About You won’t believe what the weasel slapshot speed is… click now to find out more!!1!1! Have you been mis-sold HZ Ship Settings? You may be entitled to compensation, call 555-BIGE for more information… Levi Pilots Join Warbird General Strike For Collective Bargaining…
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RSHL S39 Season Preview
“The Lower Bracket” I think this season there is a clear line between four teams that will be competing essentially for the final play-in spot and four teams that will be competing for the top two seeds to escape both the play-in game and the opportunity for the 1st seed to pick them as an…
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Everest: always a climb too far
A spotlight on the career of David Seaman #1 a.k.a. How does Daveo still not have a cup? The Hmm Years A young David Seaman would find his break in the RSHL in Season 9 with Hmm. Rather than playing in the spider that he would become known for, David started out in net like…
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HZ goes to the polls…
With 24 hours left on the 1 Ship Rule vote, just over half of the eligible voters have submitted their opinion on whether to press ahead with limiting teams to one of each ship. The rule has been trialed during preseason, as well as being used in several previous off-season events. Opinion is split on…
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HZ Under The Hood: #1 How Your Ship Moves
The first of hopefully several posts detailing how ship settings work in hockey zone, and how they have changed over time The Basics You jump in your ship, press the arrow keys (or WASD if you are so inclined) and away your ship goes, so it can’t be that complicated, right? There are three elements…
