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I think one thing the TEW series has consistently lacked, for me, has been the depth with non-wrestlers. You have to have them, but they really don't live up to the potential of their purpose / importance (outside of announcers). I'd love to see the role categories revamped a tad... I'd have them set as Wrestler, On-Screen Personality, Broadcaster, Backstage Staff as being the main four. Within that I'd split it a tad... Wrestler would be Full-Time / Part-Time. There needs to be more of a difference between the Full Time and Part Time guys... as of now, Occasional Wrestlers can be used as much as Full Time with no issue. These are the guys that should be asking to not work house shows and whatnot... the full time ones shouldn't have that issue at all, regardless of age. On Screen Personalities... this is where you would have your Manager, Valet, Bodyguard, Authority Figure and Referees. Managers are meant to have high Charisma and Mic skills, Valets are meant to have a good look and sex appeal, Bodyguards are meant to be menacing. Authority Figures are all about entertainment and charisma, and Referees speak for themselves. This category should allow for an easier time to convince them to get in the ring for a one off or short series of matches (unless they have the Never Wrestles attribute). For Broadcasters... this is where you have your Commentator, Colour Commentator, Ring Announcer and Interviewer. Their skills speak for themselves (though I'd add Ring Announcing as a new skill). They should be eligible to negotiate doing a one of match, but it should be a difficult thing to convince them. Finally Backstage Staff is where you'd have your Road Agents, Writers and Personel. Simply put, there's a lot of people like... Kevin Dunn, Mark Carrano, Court Bauer, Paul Heyman, Jim Cornette, Stephanie McMahon who are, in terms of the game, not qualified to be road agents per say. Having a Writer category and a Personel category would help place them within the confines of the game. For gameplay purposes, your road agents are responsible for match notes and their skill level affect the match quality in that sense. Writers would be useful to assign them to a segment and their skill would affect those. Personel is in charge of backstage atmosphere, drug testing, medical and disciplinary logs. Larger companies would require more of each, depending on roster size. I'd also make it so that this category would be essentially non-eligible for matches, and you'd have to negotiate with them to request they make an on-screen appearance or so. I personally sorely miss the writers team feature from TEW05 (I think it was). It made it a bit more dynamic in my opinion, and can be adapted with more depth today where the type of product dictates how many writers would be necessary. Aside from that, during gameplay I'd love to see more attention given to the non-wrestlers. Managers are vital to gameplay, but also are hardly recognized. When you sim a company, the managers just stay with who they are. The AI doesn't change their clients, it doesn't change their alignment, etc. They should be a larger factor... they also should be eligible for Hall of Immortals / Hall of Fame inductions and should have their own set of eligibility requirements.

I was just thinking, it'd be cool to have a Linear setting for the championships. Meaning the title is defended every time the champion is in a match (or rather in a match specific to the title settings). On the other end of the spectrum, would be fun seeing a 24/7 Setting for the championships, where the title is always on the line and any time the champion is pinned, a new one is crowned, regardless of the match (or angle).

I didn't know how else to call it, but basically this is something that would be really handy for historical mods. Having certain workers be "booking agents" of sorts and starting an "agency". Similar to workers starting a school/dojo. This would allow workers to be contracted to their agency directly and they can negotiate a contract for the agency with promotions, as opposed to the workers themselves. This puts every worker signed to the agency at an "on loan" or something contract, or at least have the ability to request to loan workers for the show. This would be helpful to emulate scenarios like Fabulous Moolah's stable of women in the 1960s - 80s, and Billy Wolfe in the 1930s into the 60s.

Oh that makes sense. Thanks

Do the Alliance Titles count towards the Hall of Immortals achievements? Provided they are over 70 prestige anyways. Or do, as an example, the NWA World Title reigns never count towards it?

<p>Ok cool, thanks. I haven't come across it yet and was just wondering.</p><p> </p><p> And yes, it's too bad there's no option in the game to preset the randomly generated title names (similar to having wrestler names in the editor).</p>

<p>I've played a watcher game with a modified 1985 data and the NWA title has drastically swayed away from Flair. I'm 4 years into the game now and my title history looks like this... </p><p> </p><p> Ric Flair (5) - Wk 4 May 85 to Wk 4 Jan 86 (26 defences)</p><p> Kevin Von Erich - Wk 4 Jan 86 to Wk 4 Jul 86 (40 defences)</p><p> Rayo de Jalisco Jr - Wk 4 Jul 86 to Wk 1 Oct 86 (15 defences)</p><p> MS-1 - Wk 1 Oct 86 to Wk 1 Nov 86 (7 defences)</p><p> Jerry Blackwell - Wk 1 Nov 86 to Wk 1 Nov 86 (0 defences)</p><p> Ms-1 (2) - Wk 1 Nov 86 to Wk 3 May 87 (26 defences)</p><p> Jerry Blackwell (2) - Wk 3 May 87 to Wk 2 Nov 87 (41 defences)</p><p> Bobby Eaton - Wk 2 Nov 87 to Wk 2 Feb 88 (16 defences)</p><p> Kamala - Wk 2 Feb 88 to Wk 1 Mar 88 (2 defences)</p><p> VACANT (injury)</p><p> Brett Sawyer - Wk 1 Mar 88 to Wk 3 Mar 88 (4 defences)</p><p> Gino Hernandez - Wk 3 Mar 88 to Wk 4 Aug 88 (37 defences)</p><p> El Halcon (current) - Wk 4 88 to current (Wk 1 Apr 89) (44 defences)</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> So it's been very up and down in terms of popularity, though the MS-1 and Jerry Blackwell year(s) were particularly bad for the prestige. </p><p> </p><p> In WWF I had Wendi Richter, a 4 time champ at the time with a popularity in the 80s through every area... drop the belt after over a year to Ebony (from GLOW), who had never won a single match up to this point and had a popularity in the 20s through the US / Canada. She was the least over woman in WWF ... it blew my mind.</p>

Just a quick question. Will AI controlled companies in TEW 2020 ever reactivate retired titles? Is that a thing? I'm playing a historical mod and was going to add in some championships that come up later in history, but set them as retired so that WWE didn't have about 25 active belts at the start (for example). I'm just wondering, if I do that, will WWE ever reactivate them or are they doomed to be retired forever?

Just curious... Is there a way to find out who is managing what worker in other companies? Like if I'm playing a watcher game, I know in the results it won't show the managers, but is there somewhere to see this information?