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Does a fighter's feelings on his retirement ever change? Like, if you talk to someone on the day they retire and they don't want to come back, is there a point to checking in on them from time to time or is that the final decision? Thanks.

So close to 300!

<p>With the exception of seeing a major name I absolutely need, I wait until the big 100 packs to update my game. Here are six who I am really hoping to see before 300:</p><p> </p><p> Immanuil Anissina</p><p> Socorro Fragoso</p><p> Karter Demaria</p><p> Kyron Tennison</p><p> Lukas Jankovic</p><p> Albert Bull</p><p> </p><p> Awesome stuff as always with the new work too.</p>

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="LoNdOn" data-cite="LoNdOn" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="45003" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div><strong>Render #237</strong>: Japanese Bantamweight, <strong>Sumiteru Yakatoru</strong><p> </p><p> <img alt="hUgMxCJ.gif" data-src="https://i.imgur.com/hUgMxCJ.gif" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /><img alt="XEpxDQK.gif" data-src="https://i.imgur.com/XEpxDQK.gif" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /></p></div></blockquote><p> </p><p> Did he previously have the name Clear water by any chance?</p>

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="LoNdOn" data-cite="LoNdOn" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="45003" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>You will need to update the database too which was included in the uploaded file. Then they will all be linked automatically. <img alt=":)" data-src="//content.invisioncic.com/g322608/emoticons/smile.png.142cfa0a1cd2925c0463c1d00f499df2.png" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /></div></blockquote><p> </p><p> This works for a new game, but I don't think there is a way other than doing it manually for a saved game. It's not a big deal to scan your render names, click on the placeholders, and select the new renders though. I just have one thing to ask if you can find the time. Can you give a list of names that you used Taker's renders for so I can go through them manually?</p>

How do you get a game in progress to update the new pictures? I switched to the new picture folder and they are now options I can assign manually by clicking a black silhouette on a fighter's profile, but they game won't automatically do it itself. I've tried advancing a day, closing and re-opening the program, and updating the rankings. How does this work?

Thank you so much for all this work. I love it all.

<p>Staskauskus and Diakov are careful builds for me. They both start low level national, but are really one dimensional. I carefully raised them to be my main eventers in between title fights so I can run steady shows. Staskauskus is 11-3 now, but he doesn't really have any great wins. I bring guys up to 8-0 with easy fights before I step them up and that is where Diakov is with all eight of those fights being main events in Russia. He is going to get taken down and subbed when I step him up, but he has been very important.</p><p> </p><p> Uzelac is similar in that he starts popular, but he's also a good fighter in terms of his stats. He is 9-1 for me. Again, I brought him up to 8-0 without a challenge, but then he entered by 1996 lightweight grand prix. He beat Doug Hansen in the first round before losing to surprise eventual winner Davi Carlos Ramos. He'll be a contender for a long time.</p><p> </p><p> I don't know why Funk's render wasn't showing up, but I was able to go in and assign it to him. As for his performance, he fights at heavyweight for me and is 10-2. I never intended him to be a star so I didn't hand feed him to 8-0 either. Instead he has faced maybe the toughest competition of anyone for me. He has wins over Kyushichi Kahaya, Stafford Alois, Stratos Papaiaonnou, Josimar Martins, Jack Cobblepot, Kunimichi Kikuchi with his two losses being a number one contender fight with Fezzik and a controversial decision to Ari Peltonen.</p><p> </p><p> Clearwater is 15-0, 6-0 with me. He was the KDMFC champ and I signed him away when starting the division. He is 4-0 in title fights for me. Jose Ochoa dropped him hard almost immediately in their title fight, but he rebounded for a first round win and otherwise has hardly been challenged in any of his six fights for me.</p><p> </p><p> Anyone else you want to know about?</p>

Just deleting the space makes the most sense to me. He dominates bantamweight so changing his name much beyond that would be jarring when people try to talk about their games comparatively.

<p>Just in case you're feeling generous, five guys important to my SIGMA game in mid 1996 without renders:</p><p> </p><p> Martyn Staskauskas</p><p> Arkados Uzelac</p><p> Lavrentiy Diakov</p><p> Sumiteru Clear water</p><p> Jonah Funk</p><p> </p><p> Thank you for everything you've done whether you make them or not. Your mod is this game for me.</p>

<p>Man, I am in love with this. It has completely revitalized my interest in the game. Awesome work.</p><p> </p><p> Do you take requests for renders or go at your own whims?</p>

<p>This is really cool. Thank you for doing it.</p><p> </p><p> Two things I've noticed in my SIGMA game as they were the first company to open:</p><p> </p><p> 1) Sean Morrison is based in Europe? Awesome for me, but has that always been the case or did something weird happen?</p><p> </p><p> 2) I'm streaming my first card on SportsTube in 1989. Feels a little off to have internet broadcasters.</p>

Under User Preferences, I have "Full Delegation Automatic Contract Renewals Are On" checked and saved, but none of my fighters' contracts are auto-renewing. I have to do them all manually. What else do I have to do to get this to work? Using 1.6 if that matters.

Haha I was literally coming here to whine that I had to wait another day!

<p>My preferred booking scheme is insane and I think unique to me, but unfortunately it wasn't even possible in WMMA4. It requires one night tournaments.</p><p> </p><p> So, historically Adam programs the game to allow 20 matches per card. I use them all. Each show features only one division.</p><p> </p><p> The main event is the world title fight. This is self explanatory. Below it is the eight main tournament. That takes seven fights, so there is eight. The winner of the tournament gets the next title shot.</p><p> </p><p> The tournament fights are chosen by the following. The title shot loser and the three fighters who won a fight in the previous tournament but did NOT earn the title shot stay in as one side of the bracket. </p><p> </p><p> Below the tournament is what I call the four Qualifier fights. The winner of those four fights moves up to fill the other four tournament slots. The four the lost their opening fights in the previous tournament fall to the four Qualifier slots and replace the four that moved up.</p><p> </p><p> This is how the whole card works. The title fight plus the tournament plus the qualifiers equals twelve fights, leaving me room for two more tiers which I call the Mid Class and the Openers. The four winners move up a tier and the four losers fall down.</p><p> </p><p> That is the basics of it, but there are more details to account for all the variables.</p><p> </p><p> For one, fantasy booking is mandatory here. Refusals to fight certain individuals blow this whole thing up.</p><p> </p><p> Two, I keep a list of yet to debut signees and add the newer ones to its bottom. The two that are on the top of the list are added to the Openers. Why only two when it seems like there should be four? Well, because I keep a list of fighters who are "On Warning." These fighters have fallen out of the system completely by losing an opener once already. I take the top two of them and put them back in an opener. If I don't have two fighters available in one list, I pull the remainder from the other. I might also sign someone to add.</p><p> </p><p> Once a fighter has fallen out of the system twice, he is moved to the "Black List." These fighters have to do something really remarkable somewhere or have very high popularity to come back for a third chance and it rarely happens. </p><p> </p><p> Also, injuries and hiatuses. So, first, I track all these on a spreadsheet. It is tedious to set up, but once you have it going it is easy to take care of. You are basically just cutting and pasting four fighters at a time up and down. I book the next event for the division the day the title fight is ready. If a fighter that should be in the system can't go, and there are always some, I remove them to the "Out List" with a note as to what tier they were in when they went out.</p><p> </p><p> I then make a subjective pick on who from the lower tier to elevate to fill their spot. Generally it just goes to who I want to see succeed more. I put a plus sign next to their name on the list, however. Someone who has been jumped up a spot cannot be jumped up a second time. When the Out List fighters are available again, I usually can slot them within one tier of where they were thanks to someone else not being ready. If they get put back in above, they get a plus sign. If they get put in one tier below, however, they get a minus sign. Minus signed fighters always get jumped up a tier when a slot opens.</p><p> </p><p> That's basically it. It is nuts and basically just a world sim, but it is how I played decades of WMMA3. WMMA4 broke my heart, but I can bring it back for WMMA5.</p>