KevEnoch

Well, that's a pattern I wouldn't have anticipated, but it explains things. Yeah, some of NJPW's events for 2001 do take place at the beginning of the month, and there may be a misalignment. Okay, the solution is definitely to switch to Fixed and manually put in the tour dates. Thanks. Appreciate the answer, because it always bugs me when things appear to make no sense.

I've got NJPW set to generate preset tours. I've also got a series of Events programmed into the editor. One for each month. The tours generate and work fine, but the game will sometimes randomly generate an event, meaning there'll be two major shows for that month. There's no random new event generated for May, September, and October, but there is one for June, July, August, November, and December. I mean, if I have to, I'll just scrap the whole thing and slog through a Fixed schedule, but I can't find any pattern to it. What rules is the game even following?

Simming in 2001, I always figured the problem was that a "small" women's division is defined in terms of 2020 sensibilities. The AI for WWF will immediately hire somewhere between 10-15 women to a historically accurate division, when maybe another 4-5 is all they need.

Still, the one thing I miss from the old EWR game is that every wrestler had the option of a debut angle, and they often gained overness based on that debut. Whether it's a big name from another company defecting, or a new character with a cleverly written vignette establishing their character, that first appearance can pop a crowd or get them interested. Hell, these days MOST of the big crowd reactions are some variation of this.

It is more manageable this way. But I do agree, in particular, the South East region incorporating both Memphis AND Florida isn't really an accurate depiction of the wrestling scene. They were completely separate. On the other hand, I can see lumping in Florida and Georgia; that's fine. Georgia wrestling was kind of a satellite of Florida. Then you take Kentucky, which TEW 2020 labels as part of Mid Atlantic -- they're more of a satellite of the Memphis scene, also acting as a bridge to Ohio and the Great Lakes. Oh well. I think, ultimately, the solution is either to leave the thing unchanged or add Memphis as its own separate territory.

Definitely. Every now and then I discover a contract with no picture because of a news story with a blank.

That'd definitely cut down on the busywork in my 2001 mod, when 2002 rolls around. I already have systems in place to change WWF to WWE and all the PPVs (adding NEW retitled PPVs that begin in 2002 or 3), but the TV shows and titles have to be changed manually still, more work for the player.

Oh, yeah. What did the old WCCW call it.... in the days before hardcore, going back to the '50s, they had a "Brass Knuckles" Championship, emphasis on the brawling.

I've been doing research on small real-world arenas as used by wrestling companies, and mixed in with the theaters, high school gyms and Elks Lodges are a lot of facilities owned and kept profitable by wrestling schools. It might make things feel more realistic if every training facility were given the option box of "can be used as an arena" and a little slider from, say, 50 to 1000 max for capacity. As far as I can tell, oftentimes the "wrestling company" is little more than a front for the moneymaking scheme of the school.

We've got a good selection of ways to narrow down what stables can consist of, so anything with "Trio" can be specified as "Three people," or anything with "Girls" can be specified as "Female," or anything with "Tokyo" can be specified as "Japan." I'd like a box called "Required Leader," initially set to "None," but able to access all workers. This way we can list out potential stables, some historical, some ahistorical, that are patterned after their leader. "Jericho Appreciation Society" for Chris Jericho, "Deadman Inc." for Undertaker, "Straight Edge Society" for CM Punk, "The Flock" for Raven, or potentially anything that occurs to a mod-maker. "The Swiss Army" for Claudio Castagnoli, maybe. "Sweeney Productions" for Larry Sweeney.

We've got a good selection of ways to narrow down what stables can consist of, so anything with "Trio" can be specified as "Three people," or anything with "Girls" can be specified as "Female," or anything with "Tokyo" can be specified as "Japan." I'd like a box called "Required Leader," initially set to "None," but able to access all workers. This way we can list out potential stables, some historical, some ahistorical, that are patterned after their leader. "Jericho Appreciation Society" for Chris Jericho, "Deadman Inc." for Undertaker, "Straight Edge Society" for CM Punk, "The Flock" for Raven, or potentially anything that occurs to a mod-maker. "The Swiss Army" for Claudio Castagnoli, maybe. "Sweeney Productions" for Larry Sweeney.

To help the Power 500 seem more worldly, give a boost to any competitor who held the top title in a company during the year, the longer the reign, the bigger the boost. The world champion of the #2 company should probably be in the Top 10 even if the #1 company has the most popular stars, or at least that's what I've grown accustomed to in the PWI 500. (Acknowledging the PWI 500 has a lot of flaws.)

To help the Power 500 seem more worldly, give a boost to any competitor who held the top title in a company during the year, the longer the reign, the bigger the boost. The world champion of the #2 company should probably be in the Top 10 even if the #1 company has the most popular stars, or at least that's what I've grown accustomed to in the PWI 500. (Acknowledging the PWI 500 has a lot of flaws.)

Big props for 1.35 that already includes more European diversity than before. I'm finally seeing Polish, Hungarian, and other nationalities appear, so finally all those unique names I added to my generator are being used. Love it. But yeah, it'd be nice if people from, say, China, Indonesia, Nigeria, Brazil, places that aren't even used in the sim, would appear as students in the dojos occasionally. Just because I've been doing my best to fill my mod with suitable names.

In the Business section for workers, whether it's in Style Preference or a separate tab of its own, I'd like to suggest Women's Wrestling as an option, so that they'll only be opening women's feds. I suggest this because my mod has a lot of the Japanese female workers from the late '90s and 2000s, and many of the workers would go on to become trainers or owners, but only within the realm of women's wrestling. It's not likely Nanae Takahashi would go on to open Dragon Gate.