<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="Nachtfalter" data-cite="Nachtfalter" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="46941" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>Just like with your 1993 mod, you've very clearly put a lot of effort into this - the amount of work that you must have put into the accurate fight histories alone is incredible, so already thank you very, very much!<p> </p><p>
I've only just started looking around, but here's some things that stuck out to me so far: In January of 2000, the UFC was still owned by SEG to the best of my knowledge. I believe Zuffa was founded and took over in early 2001. Similarly, the now-standard weight classes were introduced in 2001. In 2000, the UFC called the 205 pound weight class Middleweight and the 170 pound weight class Lightweight if I'm not mistaken (e.g. Frank Shamrock was UFC Middleweight champion, not UFC Light Heavyweight champion - even though the weight class would later become the Light Heavyweight division and thus his reign is part of the lineage of what's now the Light Heavyweight title). Not sure if that's on purpose for the ease of future gameplay, but it kind of hurts immersion into the time period for me.</p><p> </p><p>
Also, and this is really just my personal view, I have a hard time accepting PRIDE as an International sized company. The size system in WMMA in general doesn't really simulate reality well, so there's not really any right or wrong way to approach company sizes, but for my personal game, I'll probably try how it plays with the UFC as High Regional and PRIDE as Low or Medium National.</p><p>
The same essentially goes for some fighter popularities. I wasn't an MMA fan in 2000, so I can't really call to personal experience, but I doubt that, for example, Randy Couture would qualify for National popularity in 2000.</p></div></blockquote><p> </p><p>
I appreciate your thoughts, thanks for playing the mod!</p><p> </p><p>
Like i said on my initial post, since it was only 1 year to Zuffa take over the UFC, ive decided to put them as UFC owner already just because there is no way to force someone to be the future owner when you edit. Bob Meyrowitz would be the owner for a long time. I did the same for weight classes and regulated regions. The ideal would be a 2001 mod but i couldnt handle one more year of editing records and events.</p><p>
About the weight class name, PRIDE didnt had a Light Heavyweight class also, it was called Middleweight. I've decided to unify weight classes just to not mess with world rankings, it would be a little confusing so i made it simple.</p><p> </p><p>
Finally about popularity, PRIDE was huge in japan and you cant really compare to UFC at the time, it would be unfair to put PRIDE next to UFC in popularity since PRIDE was doing shows to 60000+ people supported by a huge TV contract and UFC was doing really small shows without any TV deal, so i think these are fine. </p><p>
Some fighters popularity i based to the company size, for example Randy never came to the sport as a totally unknown, he was an elite wrestler with a bunch of olympic trials runs, so for me this is a mid or high level regional already. He got the UFC belt in 1997 and UFC is a Low National company, so i thought it was fair made him a Low National fighter.</p>