Adam Ryland

It must only be visible with certain privilege levels then.

Should be. If you click Home in the bar above, it's immediately below that. It's only visible while on the first page, not when you're in a sub-forum.

There already is a tech support tab there, it's between Dynasty Forums and Top Game Mods.

You just scroll down the forum. It's https://forum.greydogsoftware.com/forum/117-total-extreme-wrestling-2020-tech-support/

You can't really force the AI to use specific powers as it'll always try and go with the 'smartest' route, so it's better to try and nudge it in certain directions - for example, you might make the powers you want them to focus on slightly easier to hit or slightly more damaging so that they become more attractive options. Alternatively you can limit how often they can use powers so that they have to cycle through different options as the battle continues and they use up their resources.

Please note that if you have license issues with any of my games (TEW, WMMA, CBH/U, WreSpi) you should visit the Technical Support forum for that game (found by scrolling down the forum); there is a license FAQ pinned to the top of each that gives detailed explanations on what to do. License issues might include "I've lost my license and need help retrieving it", "my old PC has died and I no longer have access to my license", or "I am getting an error code when trying to activate my license".

FYI There's a FAQ pinned to the top of the technical support forum that covers this. You need to contact Scott Vibert (scott@greydogsoftware.com) with your details so that he can assist you.

If you're talking about photos of wrestlers holding title belts, they go in with all the other wrestler pictures and you'd need to manually assign them when they become champion. If you're talking about a transparent image of a title that you can overlay on top of a photo, that would be something you use outside of the game to create your own images; the game doesn't contain a feature that alters pictures depending on whether someone holds a title or not.

It means you have a corrupt picture (likely in the picture pack you're using as there's at least one pack floating around that has a bad image in it), you would simply have to remove it. If you can't figure out from context which file it is (e.g. if it always happens when you're looking at the roster for company X then it's likely either their logo or the character alphabetically first on their roster), the easiest way is to replace your picture pack with a freshly downloaded version. Alternatively you can remove all your logos and worker pictures and then re-add them in batches - by seeing which batch causes the error you can then work out which picture file is the problem that way.

It means you can't have clashing coverage in any region.

Mammoth is 100% correct - almost all the 2016 diaries were under the old board where you could only show appreciation by making a post, whereas 2020 diaries tend to be on the new board which favours the Like button. The natural result of that is you're going to get far less posts per diary, so looking at number of pages isn't comparing like-for-like.

I can't help with the link, but I can confirm that I've just tried it and it's working fine on all my computers. Maybe your antivirus / firewall is blocking it for some reason?

You would need to contact Scott for assistance; I'm not aware of any way your license / email could disappear from the system, so it sounds like you may be using the wrong code somehow (to confirm, the order ID, usually starting "VT-", is your activation key). His address is scott@greydogsoftware.com. If you tell him your e-mail address, order ID, and preferably your name and last four digits of the card used to purchase it, he can look you up on the system and see if he can find an explanation.

Do you mean turning off popularity entirely so that matches are just rated on the wrestler's in-ring skill? If so, you can't turn that off, as it's a fundamental part of wrestling. The closest you can get is to use a product that heavily biases in-ring performance over popularity. It sounds like your issue is more with the mod you're playing than the game, so I'd suggest you try a different mod that has more favourable popularity ratings.

They're immortal, as covered in the handbook under User Avatars.

No, there currently isn't.

Top 5.

High ranking in the weight class, an adjoining weight class, or the P4P rankings.

Yes, they can.

Product similarities are based on their make-up, by comparing the similarity of their elements; made up of categories like lucha libre, hardcore, deathmatch, family, in-ring, sport, aerial, MMA, technical, extreme, and 'skit based'. Matching elements give points toward being similar, opposite elements give negative points, and neutral has no effect. The final tally then informs the game how similar they are. The two Burlesque products, for example, and considered extremely different because they have opposite values for lucha libre, which is one of the most significant difference makers because, obviously, it's a totally different culture. Cartoon Wrestling would be closely aligned with things like Respectful Wrestling because ultimately they're gentler, family friendly types of show - you just have to look at something like Chikara to see how the underlying DNA is quite closely linked, which is the point of the comparison.

No, that is hard-coded into the game.

That's a natural effect of TEW2020 using dropdown menus, as if you have an incredibly large number of people on your roster then each box needs to be filled with each name and that takes time. It's not something that can be altered, nor would we go back to the TEW2016 style given that the new system is far better for the vast majority of players (i.e. those who don't have several hundred people on their roster). Ultimately if you're choosing to play a super unrealistic style with gigantic roster then you're going to have to accept that there will be drawbacks with things like speed.

Use patch 1.46.

I think you're over-complicating things. The system is very simple, as follows: 1 - For each area the game looks at each of the weight classes, once for men, once for women 2 - If no companies in that area have a corresponding weight class then nothing happens and you ignore steps 3 and 4. 3 - If there is at least one corresponding weight class then the game counts the current number of fighters in that area who qualify for that weight class and compares them to a minimum. If the number is less than the minimum, the game starts creating new fighters to fill the gap. 4 - If there's a valid era setting, it uses that for the minimum value. If there isn't, it uses 25 (for men) or 15 (for women).

We no longer carry (or support) the old games so you won't find them anywhere on this site. I'm sure there are plenty of download sites with them available though, and no, it's not against the ToS to ask around or anything like that.