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I played the game for the 2nd time earlier today. Yesterday when I played I found some things unintuitive, so I decided to record myself so I could look back and see what I instinctively tried to do in certain situations regarding clicking and things like that. I hope this is helpful. Marking emails as Unread is irrelevant on the email screen, it doesn't do anything to the colour or change anything graphically, so you don't know which emails are unread and which aren't when you load emails. Every single box with a scrollwheel should be scrollable with the middle mouse button. On every table like this, I instinctively start to use the scrollwheel. The lack of scrolling is particularly noticeable on the "Compare Prestige" section for Titles. There's a lot of info and every other way of scrolling is either slow or inaccurate, so I just found myself giving up on looking through it. When adding a participant to an angle, I can no longer instantly view their profile as the View button has been removed. I now have to go the Roster and find them manually. This is an issue with Freestyle Angles, because I didn't know the best thing to rate the worker on without looking at their profile. When adding road agent notes for a match I kept looking for a button in the bottom right, before realising that on this screen I need to X the window. The booking screen trains you to press Book Segment to confirm everything, as X'ing out means it gets rid of everything you've done, but then Road Agent Notes wants you to X out. On the roster screen for a Worker I didn't realise that all of the words below the "Company Status" box were clickable. There isn't anything to suggest they're clickable. This is the same with the logo that indicates whether they're a Wrestler, a Referee, a Road agent etc, as well as the "Currently Holds X title" or "Doesn't hold any titles" text. When booking a match, anyone with a non-wrestler push doesn't show in the roster list, even though you're able to book them in a match by choosing "View Entire Roster". This was an issue when I needed to book an Eye Candy match, but none of my female roster would show up because none of them were classed as wrestlers. I was still able to book them in the match by viewing the whole roster under the dropdowns, but this doesn't also show the whole roster on the roster list. When booking a match, if I want to move the window by dragging it at the top, I have to click and hold on the right side. If I click anywhere on the left of the middle, it won't let me select and therefore move the window. I may be misunderstanding the feature, but I can't work out how "Drag & Drop" works. I've tried turning it on and the only change is that with it turned on I can click a name and hold to scroll through the list. I can't seem to do any dragging or dropping. The autobooker booked a title match even though I selected No to that option. When running a show, the Segment Rating is the most underwhelming part of the screen, even though it's the most important. There is also a huge amount of space in the notes section, but none of the notes are anywhere near long enough to fill out the entire width of the box. This information being underwhelming is also the case when viewing the shows of other promotions. The universal scale for skills is, with the worst first, Red-Orange-Yellow-Light Green-Darker Bold Green. This game goes Red-Light Green-Darker Bold Green-Yellow. I'm unsure whether the Yellow is meant to represent Gold, but it doesn't look Gold in any sense, and feels very wrong. I received an email about the cost of my steroid plan and it states "You can alter your drug test settings via the Medical section of your control room." It's actually the Drug Testing setting of your Office. I can't see any text calling anything a Control Room. Being able to press the Escape key to exit a window would save lots of clicks. I'm not initially sure what Promises are. I read the handbook but they don't offer much information. I thought maybe it would be if you talked to a worker and said "I'd like you to increase your size", but I did this, it was successful, but it wasn't added to the Promises section. I wanted to put one of my Events on Pay-Per-View. I didn't care which, I just wanted it on a PPV channel. To do this I had to look and search through Cable Pay-Per-View, Terrestrial Pay-Per-View and Internet Pay-Per-View. After searching through all 3, none of them had any interested parties. An "All Pay-Per-View" option would be handy. I wanted to hire some good in ring workers. Usually I'd just select search for "Good" then "in ring worker", however, I now have to manually type the skills in. I'm not sure what makes a good worker in the context of this game, so I don't know what to search for. This way opens up more custom searches, but the difference between a worker having, for example, 85 basics and 88 basics is irrelevant to me when I'm looking for someone to hire. Presets that autofill the skills box with the relevant numbers would make things much easier. Another company made a contract offer for one of my workers. I loaded up his profile from the email I received and I couldn't find a way to see how long his contract was as the Negotiation button wouldn't work because he wasn't in the final month of his contract. I then loaded up the Contract screen and it said he had 2 years, 11 months and 3 weeks remaining. I then moved on the next couple of days and my worker had been signed by this other company and his contract expiry changed to 28 days. This could potentially be an issue due to having to change the database from May 2001 to January 2002, but even still, there were nearly 3 years remaining on the contract.

It really is. It looks fantastic but the likelihood of TEW 2020 ever looking like this is essentially zero.

I keep subconsciously trying to do this anyway, so this would be such a great addition. Saves so much clicking and mouse movement.

Yeah, this is a very strange design decision. Red as the lowest on the scale all the way to green as the highest is essentially universal.

Graphically this feels like an Excel spreadsheet that's been made into a game - it feels very "default", from the fonts to the boxes. Whether that can be changed with skins, I don't know, but the larger issue is that it feels very busy and poorly laid out, which is a UI issue rather than graphical. I appreciate that there are more features packed in, but even with things that are the same as '16, it's night and day in regards to how user friendly they are. Firstly, from '16: It's simple but it's fine. The boxes have some colour to them, the font is uniform throughout and everything is sectioned clearly and appropriately. Compare it to the same options in '20: Default fonts, default boxes, no organisation, different font sizes and very hard to read and organise in your own mind as you're scanning through it. Another example, the size section. All the info is the same, but look at the difference in how user friendly it is: In '16 your eyes are instantly drawn to the large numbers and the big, bold colours. You can see every figure for every region on one screen and the quick and minor information, how to get to the next level, is displayed briefly at the top. Now compare this to '20: The info you want to see is in a tiny font, you have to scroll through each area as opposed to everything being displayed on one page, the minor game information on how to get to the next level takes up a 3rd of the screen and it's also the section with the most colour, which draws your eye towards it. Excuse the long post, but I didn't want to say "I don't like the UI" without giving reasons as to why.

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="Jaysin" data-cite="Jaysin" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="46105" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>Does 2020 have the same resolution as 2016?</div></blockquote><p> </p><p> It's larger.</p><p> </p><p> </p><blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="Adam Ryland" data-cite="Adam Ryland" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="46105" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>As we've confirmed before, TEW2020 is going to be at a 1366x768 resolution which means that it's physically wider than previous games.</div></blockquote>

You may have inspired Adam's latest update on TEW2020! http://www.greydogsoftware.com/forum/showpost.php?p=2400916&postcount=126

If DDP and Nash are in a tag team at the moment, you could add Kanyon to a stable with them, as DDP and Kanyon were in the Jersey Triad together with Bam Bam Bigelow. You could feud DDP, Nash and Kanyon with the Four Horsemen, then have Bam Bam return from rehab to even up the numbers. Or even have AJ initially side with the Triad before turning on them and joining the Horseman, depending on how long Bam Bam has until he returns. With Sting and Booker, why don't you put them in a tag team and feud them with Totally Buffed? After their Iron Man match at Starrcade, they can do the whole handshake and respect deal. The next night on Nitro run an angle resulting in Sting getting attacked by Totally Buffed until Booker runs down for the save.

I like that. Totally Buffed are over as well so they could probably win the titles after a quick feud with Palumbo & O'Haire, then hold onto the titles until I've built some other face teams up. Another question for everyone - any ideas on what to call a WCW single's tournament in the style of King of the Ring?

I'm currently planning out a WCW Lives 2001 game for when 2020 comes out and I'm stuck as to what to do with the Tag Team Titles. Chuck Palumbo & Sean O'Haire are the champions and I'm unsure what to do with them. The standard go-to feud is with Lance Storm & Mike Awesome, as they're close in overness, but I'm wondering if anyone has any ideas on a different direction to go?

Trent Acid was a favourite of mine. He was pushed to the World Title in a WCW 2001 game. Scoot Andrews was another. On a little more of an obscure note, did anyone else hire the Altar Boys tag team? I've never seen a single match of theirs in real life yet I often seemed to hire them in 2001 and beyond scenarios because they always had a good Speed stat.

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="EricSpade" data-cite="EricSpade" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="46105" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>10 defenses is a very fair number for the Epic Reigns. I did some research (and excluded house show title defenses since those don't happen in TEW).<p> For the WWE Championship, 20 out of 136 reigns would qualify.</p><p> WWE World Heavyweight title, it was 2 out of 55.</p><p> WCW World title, it is 3 out of 64.</p><p> NWA World title (counting the TNA and WCW years), it is 45 out of 96, which is almost half.</p><p> ECW World title, it is 11 out of 33.</p><p> ROH World title has 14 out of 30 qualifying, so another where it's almost half.</p><p> IWGP Heavyweight title is 3 out of 69.</p><p> GHC Heavyweight title is 2 out of 32.</p><p> AJPW Triple Crown is only 1 out of 62.</p><p> AAA Mega title is 1 out of 17.</p><p> </p><p> So for most companies, it really is a rare feat to have an "Epic Reign" and then there are a few outliers where it is a bit more common.</p></div></blockquote><p> </p><p> Very cool. Out of interest, where did you find the stats for this? When I made my post I attempted to find them, especially for the WWE title, but couldn't find anything.</p><p> </p><p> I'm curious if lesser promotions will qualify. Just checking on Cagematch and looking at Matt Taven, his most recent ROH World Title run will qualify as an epic title run with 11 defences, but it's ROH, which is in the doldrums right now. In real life it wouldn't hold the same weight as, for example, Okada's 2 year reign with 12 defences. I'm curious if the game will weigh that up or if it will just be a standard "10 defences and you're in" type thing.</p>

Same, such a cool little feature. At the moment the game considers a 5x champion as more impressive than someone who has held the title for 5 years, so this is great. I initially thought 10 defenses may be too few, but looking through the Triple Crown and IWGP defenses, only 4 reigns have had 10 or more, so 10 seems a fair number.

<p>Is there a way to recall my workers from a Loan I sent them on?</p><p> </p><p> I've released the worker I had on Loan and ended the working agreement with the company, but my workers stay on Loan and I can't find a way to recall them.</p>

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="Asaemon" data-cite="Asaemon" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="41191" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>I have set a owner goal in my save that Buff is groomed for success since day one. So Hogan have orders from Ted/Eric to push Buff and book him strong.</div></blockquote><p> </p><p> You can manually set owner goals?</p>

<p><strong>WCW Lives - March 2006</strong></p><p> </p><p> <strong><em>WCW World Heavyweight</em></strong></p><p> CM Punk</p><p> 4 defences</p><p> Won at Starrcade 2005, from Carly Colon</p><p> </p><p> <strong><em>WCW United States Heavyweight</em></strong></p><p> John Cena</p><p> 2 defences</p><p> Won at Starrcade 2005, from Kurt Angle</p><p> </p><p> <strong><em>WCW World Tag Team</em></strong></p><p> The Wrestling Machines (AJ Styles & Bryan Danielson)</p><p> 3 defences</p><p> Won at Starrcade 2005, from Mike Awesome & Lance Storm</p><p> </p><p> <strong><em>WCW World Television</em></strong></p><p> Chris Jericho</p><p> 2 defences</p><p> Won at Starrcade 2005, from Bobby Roode</p><p> </p><p> <strong><em>WCW Cruiserweight</em></strong></p><p> Rey Mysterio Jr.</p><p> 13 defences</p><p> Won at Starrcade 2004, from Jushin Thunder Liger</p><p> </p><p> <em>Tournament Titles:</em></p><p> </p><p> <em><strong>WCW Tag Team Turmoil</strong></em><em> - the winner of a Tag Team tournament, culminating at Tag Team Turmoil in November, who go on to face the Tag Team champions at Starrcade</em></p><p> 2003 - CM Punk & Carly Colon</p><p> 2004 - Goldberg & Cena</p><p> 2005 - The Wrestling Machines (AJ Styles & Bryan Danielson)</p><p> </p><p> <em><strong>WCW Starrcade Battlebowl</strong></em><em> - a Battle Royale held at Starrcade</em></p><p> 2004 - Ric Flair</p><p> 2005 - Bob Sapp</p>

I can actually envisage Warrior and Hansen in a tag team. Warrior and Kobashi however.. now that is a hilarious image.

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="Derek B" data-cite="Derek B" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="41194" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>It's all production value penalties. They must be competing with someone who has higher levels than them, which will be hurting their overall show ratings. <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> Ah, what Liger!Liger! said makes more sense now. Thank you.</p><p> </p><p> <img alt="hn9h697.jpg" data-src="https://i.imgur.com/hn9h697.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /></p><p> </p><p> The 5 cult companies are all my child companies and they're all hostile with each other, annoyingly.</p><p> </p><p> Is there any way I can influence them to up their production values? Pump them full of money and hope they upgrade them? NWA:Wildside I use as my premier child company, so I'd rather they were getting the high show ratings at the expense of the others.</p>

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="vbase" data-cite="vbase" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="41194" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>Reasons may include, but not limited to:<p> </p><ul><li>as said above, having only two matches on the card<br /></li><li>not having storytelling or steal the show etc type of matches<br /></li><li>not enough storylines (I think there is a penalty for that, correct me if I am wrong on this one)<br /></li><li>not having meeting the angle/match ratio<br /></li></ul><p></p><p> </p><p> The next time you do a show, at the end of the show, when you get the whole show summary etc, along with the comment that the show increased/decreased popularity in regions, you'll get the reason you're looking for. It does tell you why the show got a much lower rating than the matches or lower than what it would've been if you had complied with the requirements.</p></div></blockquote><p> </p><p> This is my child company, so I can't see the show summaries etc. Having only two matches on the card hasn't been a hindrance before, this is their highest rated show:</p><p> </p><p> <img alt="YTyvAwU.jpg" data-src="https://i.imgur.com/YTyvAwU.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /></p><p> </p><p> It's the fact that their show ratings have dropped that makes me assume something has gone wrong when I dropped the danger and intensity. I could be getting the rating ratios wrong and it's how it's meant to be, but it doesn't seem right.</p><p> </p><p> </p><blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="Liger!Liger!" data-cite="Liger!Liger!" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="41194" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>Most likely Production Values is the answer you're looking for.</div></blockquote><p> </p><p> Like mentioned, it's a child company, so as far as I'm aware this couldn't be an issue.</p>

<p>I'm having issues with low show ratings for my child company. This is my child company:</p><p> </p><p> <img alt="0NEcfIN.jpg" data-src="https://i.imgur.com/0NEcfIN.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /></p><p> </p><p> Why are they getting such low show ratings considering the two match ratings? I don't think the lesser rated angle is affecting it that much, based on the other screenshot I'll post below.</p><p> </p><p> I remember I changed the product intensity and danger from 70% to 50% because I was getting too many injuries, and from then on the show quality seems to have dropped. I'm aware that when you adjust a product it takes time for the fanbase to readjust, but I changed the settings way over a year ago. Strangely both the settings I changed actually changed back without me doing anything, but the low show ratings have continued. I mean, look at this:</p><p> </p><p> <img alt="mOEMA87.jpg" data-src="https://i.imgur.com/mOEMA87.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /></p><p> </p><p> I don't understand how that show has only scored an 85. I feel like I may have altered something that's affecting it, so any help would be appreciated.</p>

<p>I was looking through the MDB file for my save for the best and worst matches and I found this gem:</p><p> </p><p> <img alt="pC8js7f.jpg" data-src="https://i.imgur.com/pC8js7f.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /></p>

Thank you! This is exactly what I wanted and I'm a little embarrassed I didn't realise it was there.

<p>Are there any quicker ways to do a watcher game? I wish TEW had a holiday mode like Football Manager.</p><p> </p><p> I'm currently looking into auto-clickers for inactive windows but struggling to find anything suitable.</p>

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="JRev1313" data-cite="JRev1313" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="41194" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>Since user relationships were mentioned, has anyone seen any positive ones formed naturally or know if they do? I know some handling of incidents can lead to stuff like loyalty along with shoot interviews with released talent potentially praising the user but I'm talking in terms of relationships that spawn in the game normally.<p> </p><p> I was thinking how unique that could be if your user character ended up in a dating relationship or in a friendship and the backstage environment minefield you'd have with people thinking it's special treatment (ala Triple H and Stephanie or Bischoff and Hogan respectively). I was hoping that the pep talks after big shows would lead to something like this since it mentions relationships but I'm guessing that positive ones only lead to morale changes and negative form relationships.</p></div></blockquote><p> </p><p> Yep, I ended up with a loyalty relationship with Lance Storm. I'm not sure of the exact cause, but I believe it was motivational talks after a PPV. He always gave the "very happy" reaction. I also pushed him hard all year, giving him the World title and having him main event every PPV. He's also turned into a locker room leader.</p>

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="Killa Cam 4 TEW 2005" data-cite="Killa Cam 4 TEW 2005" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="41194" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div><span>http://i.imgur.com/l3Bu0mQ.jpg</span><p> </p><p> Chris Jericho died on my active WWE roster game back in May 2017. (I posted about it) <img alt=":(" data-src="//content.invisioncic.com/g322608/emoticons/frown.png.e6b571745a30fe6a6f2e918994141a47.png" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /></p><p> </p><p> Its almost May 2018 in my game</p><p> </p><p> <strong>How do I create a "Tribute Show" in Chris Jericho's honor for the Independent guys to wrestle in like how there is one for Dusty Rhodes & Ultimate Warrior already in my database?</strong></p><p> </p><p> I'm playing as WWE and just want Indy guys to perform and book the show</p></div></blockquote><p> </p><p> You can't add a show but why don't you edit one of the pre-existing tribute shows to be a Chris Jericho tribute show?</p>