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Two nice little nuggets in full game testing so far as I've seen one promotion being taken over and another promotion selling their training centre. Previous testing on the demo even saw TV shows being brought back.

So, the game is out and it's time to do proper testing and get releases out. Some may be new to here, so my history doesn't matter and you can skip over it. For those who knew me, worked with me or had mod input from me, prior to my heart attack then you know it all and no need to roll it out here and bore everyone to tears. This is supposed to be fun, a hobby and so let's keep it that way. Thanks to Adam for releasing another game, thanks to the few who have engaged and chatted with me recently. My timeline is as follows: 1993 1993 is out as a V1, that's been live during the beta on another site. I'm going to do some long run testing and then release it again with any edits included. From there, I'd hope you'll all play, dissect, rip it apart and give feedback on here. It's also still a mod with no name. 1990 This has been worked on for the past week or so, not even completed editing rosters and titles. I have edited products for each yet to debut promotion and cut down popularity etc for yet to debut workers. Uses the early 1993 build as a base and I've already captured that probably everyone has had the FULL start date slightly wrong. This will begin in September and be called The Coming Storm. That title is a nod to the excellent work by Justin on 1991 and 1992, thanks also to Justin for the recent chat and I wish him all the best going forward. Others: I had hoped to continue with my 1985 "Strive to Survive" from 2016, but for some reason permission has been pulled. I don't understand it, but can't really get in to the drama as my ability to cope with stress since my heart attack in December is next to zero. I have completed a V1 though and will test it here and there on the off chance the permission returns. I also had hoped to release 2002 on 2020, again some permission snaffoo there and the same can be said for 1980. What I will say about 1980 is that it's really the only mod I'd expect to be asked for joint permission on. That said, it was a pleasure to work on, I see it as a work of art between myself and Alv. It's also my nod to the UK and European scene at the time, I put more time in to Joint Promotions than for 87 and then 85 for example. So, whomever ends up working on The Big Bang need only give me the appropriate credit. Same with any of my other work anywhere, for anyone. One small aside though, if anyone releases 1985 with the same start date (October) as my 2016 release then credit me, "Blatantly stolen from..." should suffice. So, getting to the point, there may not be more to come after 1990 and 1993. I hope you'll enjoy them both and give feedback where possible.

Not sure what irks me more, the way it's laid out or the fact a German promotion will try running in Western Europe or a French will try running in Central Europe. Just does not happen, ever in any era at any time under any circumstances.

The inability to filter on attributes in the editor is my new pet hate.

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="Powerful_Fox" data-cite="Powerful_Fox" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="49064" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>Would there be any chance of adding a match type with rounds in it like the old school british wrestling? I dont think it can be created by an end user and it could have an impact on the post match report such as "worker x defeated worker y 2 minutes into the 3rd round" etc.</div></blockquote><p> </p><p> The AWF went with that style also, the 2 out of 3 falls sort of hits the mark though not from a match report viewpoint.</p>

NXT UK makes things tough, not just in real life. If you bumped them down they'd no doubt just take it back up to meet the broadcaster requirements. They're almost a tertiary promotion as it is, if we could set a location for tapings then you could almost merge them in to NXT and have a US and UK brand with all UK brand TV and events set accordingly for the UK. But, then again, would ICW still bump up to compete with that? Tapings get changed by the AI across all mods, sometimes down from 4 or however to 1 and other times up from 1. To be fair that's two things we've cried out for...tapings and AI working to cut costs

Take a fantasy mod, create a mdb for it and then pull that in to excel. From there, add a column for "New Name" for absolutely every table you get and then rename everything. So long as you tweak a few stats per worker from there, edit every bio or profile and move promotions around, nobody will know. That's just in my humble opinion...it'd definitely be less work than starting from scratch. I do believe you can create from templates for some things, not tested it. So you could do that here and there, whilst selecting to go with organic bios or whatever the term is for bios that are written as the game plays. From scratch, you'd need to understand how every possible size of promotion would be configured and even with what the preferred roster size of an owner would be. Small with medium is different to other levels. I suppose build your world on paper, i.e how many workers you want, roles and where your however many promotions will be. TV...venues...by this point I'm probably putting you off the idea completely.

That's where Kayfabe Memories comes in or perhaps even World Class Memories. For WWF and WCW you can also get details from historyofwwe. I've found through quick tests that the game may easily change any. Guess work will be needed also, unless you can get the detail from a WCCW or AWA DVD. Oh and of course Wikipedia, you can definitely get detail on there. I do know GLOW was a group of blocks that were then repeated, not entirely sure how many were taped in each block. Continental was usually taped then aired, by 85 they'd moved in to an arena. Houston was weekly, part of the Sam Houston Coliseum shows. WWF tended to be three at a time, WCW maybe two at a time, Georgia weekly, Reslo was weekly and Catchen was more tour highlights, ITV wrestling for Joint Promotions (this all feels very familiar...85 mod by any chance? It's okay, IW:KK pretty much gives it away) was two at a time and basically one show split in two. Heck, why not just rip them all straight from the 1985 mod.

Very easy to check on wrestlingdata or cagematch. Kayfabe Memories is also very good.

Depends what you think of as finished. From talking to a few, it's pretty obvious that some modders are happy enough allowing the conversion process to complete some of the newer fields. Fair enough to me as they should be mapped really, there's certainly very few blanks. It's not like body type in the past. Going through a few thousand workers to fix things that weren't broken in the 2016 releases, for what is basically a hobby, is just nuts. Also, to be fair, not a single one is claiming to be complete if you read the detail.

Yes, very easy to convert and run with what you get from there. "Official" releases, may even get used less I suppose as everyone decides to just mod themselves. There are plenty of people doing the work though, on here and elsewhere across various sites. 80, 85 and 93 have been out since week one or two of the demo, Who has his real world released and I've seen a few historical ones on here also. Easily the most releases early on that I've seen anyway.

All three are, just posted on a different site and I'm not sure if I can say where.

As is 80, 85 and 93.

Good to see another 2002 mod.

<p>European promotions, from CWA, VDB and FFCP in the 80's to EWF in the 90's and beyond to GWF or Freestyle Championship Wrestling, ICW and WXW, do not look to grow beyond their region or even home country.</p><p> </p><p> Is it possible to have the growth in European regions set more akin to Hawaii where a promotion would look for dominance of that region only?</p>