[2000 Historical Mod: The Millennium Bug]

When I start a game, I get bombarded with what look like broadcaster warnings about requiring minimum popularity in more regions than they cover.

[[RELEASE] September 1995: The Monday Night Wars (BETA)]

The title history for the Royal Rumble lists Shawn Michaels as winning the 1996 Rumble when the game starts, four months before it happened.

[TEW 2020 Small Questions Thread]

Is there a way to turn off the penalty for not building up a turn? I keep forgetting to set turns so they build up in segments before I do it, and now my turns are failing just because too many of them have been sudden.

[Booking is awful and needs to be fixed immediately.]

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="The Nickman" data-cite="The Nickman" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="50201" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>In all seriousness, it’s probably quicker to go to preferences and change it so you add your segment at the end of the show just for that segment.<p> </p><p> Again, this is an annoying fix, but it works ok.</p></div></blockquote><p> </p><p> I did that. But I also tend to book the show opening and the show ending and then fill in the rest a lot of the time, so either way I'm clicking those annoying little arrows a lot.</p>

[Lots of people been asking about storylines. I have something that may help :)]

Download it and find out

 

If you can't be bothered to give a basic explanation of the RAR file you want other people to download and use I can't be bothered to download it and figure out what it is.

[Lots of people been asking about storylines. I have something that may help :)]

What is it?

[January 2004 Ruthless Aggression TEW 2020 Mod]

Mod looks nice so far. The only issue I see is for some reason the Royal Rumble is scheduled for Wednesday January Week 1. In real life it was January 25, a Sunday, so maybe Sunday week 3? Week 4?

[Struggling with organization and story telling (long term)]

Storytelling advice straight from Eric Bischoff (and me, a semi-retired actor and short film writer/director): start at the end and work backwards. So if it's January 2004 and I'm WWE, and I decide I want Eddie Guerrero vs Brock Lesnar as my Mania main event, then I work backwards from there to where I'm starting and plan whatever major plot points I want to hit. If you know where you eventually want to go, it's a lot easier to figure out how to get there.

[Roster overview with filter]

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="brat99" data-cite="brat99" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="50062" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>You should be able to do this as it was added in one of the early retail patches (if I remember correctly). Just do your filtering on the roster screen, and it should carry over when you hit the contracts button which seems to have replaced the overview button from 16.</div></blockquote><p> </p><p> I've noticed that, but it would be more convenient to be able to filter on the overview screen rather than filter on one screen and then switch. Also filtering wrestlers vs nonwrestlers would be really useful.</p>

[Sponsorship: Expanded]

I suggested a much deeper sponsorship/advertising mechanic back in the original suggestions post when TEW 20 was first announced. Doesn't seem to have gotten anywhere, but I'd still love to see it. That's one part of the management side of the game that is severely lacking.

[Roster overview with filter]

For companies with big rosters, especially with a brand split, it would be really helpful to have a roster overview like in TEW 16 that shows all the talent, their perception, disposition, gimmick, planned turns/gimmick changes, and such, with a filter similar to the roster screen. I just looked at the 2004 mod and really wish I had a way to just look at perceptions for each brand separately instead of having to remember who is on Raw/Smackdown.

[Crowd management thread]

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="Blackman" data-cite="Blackman" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="49925" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>Sorry, that's the match times. I thought that would be obvious and I didn't want to stuff more information or symbols on there. <img alt=":p" data-src="//content.invisioncic.com/g322608/emoticons/tongue.png.ceb643b2956793497cef30b0e944be28.png" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /><p> </p><p> </p><p> Storylines sometimes seem to lower the match ratings. Might be dependant on entertainment skills, might lower the significance of W/L. I don't really know actually. <img alt=":confused:" data-src="//content.invisioncic.com/g322608/emoticons/confused.png.d4a8e6b6eab0c67698b911fb041c0ed1.png" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /></p></div></blockquote><p> </p><p> Instead of + or - for match times it might be easier to understand with > or <</p>

[1996: Monday Night War - HYPE]

Interesting choice of time period. I would've thought a 1996 mod would aim for right before Nash and Hall left, like TEW 16's 1996 mod.

[[Beta Release] Risky Business(January 1985)]

Unfortunately that was something that couldn't be helped. Same thing happened in just about every other old school mod because of the old contract system. In fact, I seem to remember asking folks back when I worked on the mod what to do to try to keep the Von Erichs from signing elsewhere. Yet on the other hand, we wanted the option to be there if someone wanted to sign one of them up.

 

I'm thinking put everyone on exclusive handshake deals, or something like that, might be the solution in 20.

 

I wish there was a way to tune the game so that during this time period workers would only take exclusive deals.

[[Beta Release] Risky Business(January 1985)]

My biggest problem with this mod in 16 was that workers would sign like 6 different contracts with different companies because they're all PPA and non-exclusive, when in real life they would only be working for one company at a time. Hopefully the new contract system in 20 makes that work better.

[Iron Clad Written Non-Exclusive Contracts]

If he’s working for 2 companies, how is he exclusive?

 

This. Signing an exclusive deal with company A shouldn't be possible for someone with a written, iron clad deal with company B, because going exclusive with A would violate the contract with B.

[Modify perception system for Tiny/Insignificant companies]

Perception should really be partly based on how you use someone rather than just popularity. I was under the impression that was how it worked but maybe I'm wrong.

[TEW 2020 released!]

What do people like about them? I don't disagree I'm still learning the ropes about what makes it different

 

It feels more realistic to me. I admittedly haven't played enough to see how it works (or if it works), but in real life card position is a combination of how you portray someone and how the audience sees them, and perception gets at that more closely than the old push system where you just throw people into categories and what they do during shows doesn't really matter.

[TEW 2020 released!]

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="Questiontime101" data-cite="Questiontime101" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="49492" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>I have been playing the demo again to see if I could get into this game but it's just not working the main thing that I am not liking about this game is how they got rid of Main events, uppers, mid cards, lowers, open and all this out of ring ones for this new one that rates them on how well the fans know them so you can have an in-ring working as the main start but then you will have a non-wrestler in there what was so wrong about the old way of doing it. TEW 2016 was a lot more of a wrestling booker simulator game than TEW 2020 it took 4 years to get a new game and this is what we get adding a little bit of new stuff and then removing all the good stuff from 2016 out of it</div></blockquote><p> </p><p> Perception might be one of my favorite new features. My only issue is that I wish it was easier to distinguish wrestlers from non wrestlers, because I don't know squat about the Cverse and keep thinking of booking some Major Star in a match only to find out he's the ring announcer.</p>

[Great job improving the UI]

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="TheJG" data-cite="TheJG" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="49642" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>I wish they'd announce that though - "we can't change this due to coding limitations" - then you'd just think oh, fair enough. Whereas at the moment it just seems like a lot of issues are being ignored.</div></blockquote><p> </p><p> I think this is one of the biggest problems with the game's release. There's very little communication and essentially zero transparency, so people keep bringing up issues because they feel like they're being ignored. Then other people come and attack them for bringing up the same issues. They respond, and then get themselves warned or banned for their troubles. Some acknowledgement would go a lot way, even if it's just to say "no that's not going to happen."</p>

[TEW 2020 released!]

But at what point are you just shouting at the clouds? You are well within your right to feel the way you feel and say the way you feel but the same posts over and over aren’t going to make it any more likely to get fixed what you feel is broken. You are also well within your right to not purchase the game. These games are written in the language Adam clearly is comfortable working in and e-license doesn’t look like it’s going anywhere either.

 

Reacting to the beta and reacting to the 1.0 release are two completely different things, and he's got just as much right to criticize the 1.0 release as other people have to post one-liners about how awesome they think the game is. But only the people that criticize the game ever seem to get flamed for it.

[TEW 2020 released!]

I agree with pretty much everything Teemu said. I'd only add that, while I really like the perception system, I'd like to be able to more easily distinguish between wrestlers and non wrestlers on the contracts screen (which is the closest we have to 16's roster overview, which I used a lot).

[TEW 2020 released!]

The game looks like the two-week delay was only to fix the RTE crashes, re-arranged office buttons, and make a new default skin (which looks curiously like a custom skin that a player released within a day of the beta release, but is uncredited). Still a no-buy for me until I see a lot more improvement. Very disappointed.

[Better visual representation of skills]

I join the chorus of disappointment.

[Convince me to book your favourite fed]

GSW because watching people hit each other with blunt objects is fun.