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Who do I contact to recover my license for a game? The hard drive my copy of WMMA5 was on bit it pretty hard and I need to reinstall on a drive of the computer that wokrs.

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="BrokenCycle" data-cite="BrokenCycle" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="44604" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>It's the Notable Character Gets Signed By AI option... <img alt=":confused:" data-src="//content.invisioncic.com/g322608/emoticons/confused.png.d4a8e6b6eab0c67698b911fb041c0ed1.png" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /></div></blockquote><p> </p><p> Ah, yeah... Honestly, I feel you on getting confused by the mail settings. But looks like we both learned something today.</p>

In-game, click the hammer and wrench icon (options) and that'll bring you to the in-game editor. In that sidebar, click Mail Settings. That'll control what mail you do and don't get. I'm not sure specifically WHICH one it is since I'm not the best at the mail but I'm pretty sure you're looking for the "Contract Extension Signed For You Automatically" setting. Turn that to Ignore. If that doesn't work, maybe try Notable Character Signs Contract (With Player).

<p>Working on tweaks to an idea I had for running an XCC diary for the forum. Seriously overhauling the concept of the company itself. It's basically a pseudo-mod at this point.</p><p> </p><p> Vince Whiteman's fly-by-night law practices have finally come back to haunt him and he has been jailed for malpractice. In a desperate bid to save the company Josh Bristow, Wyatt Sullivan, and Michael Andersen have pooled their resources together to buy the company from Vince, leaving the company strapped for cash (Right now I knocked starting cash from 100k down to 50k, I'll run a test at 10k).</p><p> </p><p> However, the company is free to expand under the new management and has decided to use its freedom to expand its roster, now running fights in 8 categories, Super Heavyweight to Bantamweight (all male). No longer trying to push its lighter weight as a gimmick, it now prides itself on providing quality fights, even if the fighters aren't the most well-known.</p><p> </p><p> Shock of shock however, the roster needed to undergo MASSIVE readjustment since it turns out that Vince Whiteman did not own XCC directly, but ran it through a shell company. When Vince was arrested, his assets were frozen and the shell was dissolved, thus nullifying every contract on the XCC's books. While some old favorites have returned to the company, even the existing divisions look radically different, to say nothing of XCC's five new divisions. In addition, many fighters now come from the global MMA scene, providing a distinctly international flavor to the XCC product. (For the sake of not pulling my hair out, every fighter has at least Low Regional Name Value in America).</p><p> </p><p> With all of the chaos going on in XCC, it brought notoriety, but also the most attention the company has ever seen (company profile raised to 34%, just barely Mid Regional). Enough to draw the attention of National Pride TV. Seeing an opportunity to boost its network profile, National Pride has loaned enough money to the company to keep the company solvent, if only barely so. To provide its new asset some security, National Pride TV has signed the fighters directly to the network. While a money-loser for the network at the moment, NPTV has enough money to make XCC's new hires comfortable enough to sign an exclusive agreement with the network. (Mechanically, every fighter now has a 2 year, 4 fight, free release on loss exclusive contract. I know it's cheating getting exclusive deals for Mid Regional companies but between GAMMA, ALPHA-1, and if you're unlucky OMEGA raids, this lets me just worry about booking).</p><p> </p><p> XCC has entered a new, exciting, potentially scary era that sees them both on the verge of bankruptcy and also at the edge of making more money than they ever have before. Can the new leaders of XCC save the company and create a golden age? (I honestly don't know, I JUST made this thing and it needs some tweaks.)</p><p> </p><p> tl;dr: Made a custom mod for the purposes of an XCC diary.</p><p> -Vince Whiteman out of the company. Josh Bristow, Wyatt Sullivan, and Michael Andersen co-own the company and are on Exclusive contracts, set to Loyal.</p><p> -All fighters released from the company. Made a custom roster.</p><p> -Now runs from Super Heavyweight to Bantamweight</p><p> -Set Company Value to 50k, may bump down to 10k if feasible.</p><p> -Fighters set to 2 year, 4 fight exclusive contracts.</p><p> -Company at 34% Mid Regional value</p><p> -Broadcasting deal with National Pride TV</p>

Been waiting on the 300 Update for a while now. This will be fun.

<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="44604" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>Nicknames are only assigned when a new fighter is generated. If you create a fighter and leave it blank they will not gain one during gameplay. If you create someone and do give them a nickname then they'll retain that permanently.<p> </p><p> Glad you're enjoying the game!</p></div></blockquote><p> </p><p> Sidenote to this question. If a fighter with a nickname regens, will they regen with the nickname of his original fighter or will they have a new nickname?</p>

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="lieon02" data-cite="lieon02" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="44604" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>Hey I am sorry if i seem lazy. I was wondering what popularity it takes to move from local to mid regional size? <p> </p><p> I am really enjoying the game.</p></div></blockquote><p> </p><p> 33% in the region.</p>

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="Mike Louis" data-cite="Mike Louis" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="44606" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>While doing my latest test run of my <em>Womanly Art</em> mod project, I ran WCL 33: Kanegawa vs. Esch in Los Angeles (Saturday Week 4 September 1982) and in one of my undercard bouts, Ashley Perry beats Lupe Vazquez via a body kick TKO. Two weeks after the event, I find out that both Ashley Perry and Lupe Vazquez were busted for recreational drugs and their fight turned into a No Contest. <img alt=":confused:" data-src="//content.invisioncic.com/g322608/emoticons/confused.png.d4a8e6b6eab0c67698b911fb041c0ed1.png" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /> To make it even worse, their match was rated (Good) as one of the better fights on the card. <img alt=":(" data-src="//content.invisioncic.com/g322608/emoticons/frown.png.e6b571745a30fe6a6f2e918994141a47.png" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /></div></blockquote><p> </p><p> I feel your pain. One of my best fights ever was a four and half minute war between Azor Portela Nunes and Lamont Banner. Banner's first professional loss in that save.</p><p> </p><p> Two weeks later, Nunes was busted for recreational drugs AND PEDs. I didn't even know you could fail more than one drug test.</p>

<p>Time for the year-end recap for 2003, a very busy year for XCC.</p><p> </p><p> XCC was still a Mid Regional when the year started. We cracked into High Regional in February and then the expansion of our media started from there. We started the year getting our primary exposure from National Pride TV in America while building a global presence on SportTube. Thanks to that presence, we managed to outgrow National Pride TV and move on to East Coast Today, only to drop them near the end of the year for a Pay-Per-View deal with Public Access Select. On top of that, we have expanded Pay-Per-View coverage into The British Isles (in what's fastly becoming our most popular market thanks to our excellent deal with United Kingdom Choice), Japan, South America, Asia, and Central America. On top of that, we're on Mexican television via Los Deporte Hoy and SportTube is still a vital piece of our media machine as it is our only broadcast options for Europe, Russia, Australia, and Africa. Our media presence is quickly becoming global and by this time next year, we will only be even bigger.</p><p> </p><p> Our roster has expanded in size as well as star power. We still only run Heavyweight through Bantamweight. With our expansion to National level drawing close (seriously, I'm 98.1% Regional in America), we are set to debut our own reality TV show within the year. With WEFF's financial struggles being so dire that two years in they sit at a mere 250k while we have amassed well over 2 million dollars, women's MMA is the likely option. A big plan this year is to acquire WEFF, take select stars from WEFF and have the first season of The Xtreme Contender. WEFF will be re-branded to Xtreme Canadian Combat and serve as a farm system for the glut of prospects at the lower end of our roster, as well as a home for lower-end fighters.</p><p> </p><p> In addition to acquiring the WEFF, there is a plan to go on a talent raid the day we hit National. The talents that GAMMA and Alpha-1 have been poaching for the past two years are coming home, as well as select stars from SIGMA, KDM-FC, TOP, and OMEGA. Make no mistake, XCC will not settle for being #3 for long. We're gearing up for war.</p><p> </p><p> In the last of the company and global scale recaps, the End of Year Awards gave us the surprise of being named Company of the Year. On top of that, Luiz Machado won Submission of the Year for a D'Arce Choke of Ivan Bokhour. That'll be nice for him to sit on as he recovers from scar tissue removal surgery.</p><p> </p><p> Lastly, it's time to recap the divisions of the company.</p><p> </p><p> XCC Heavyweight Champion - Mason Archer: Heavyweight went from being a premier division in 2002 to a lackluster one in 2003. Leon Banks, the star of the division set to fight the like of Frank Sheedy and John Rivero, saw his competition dry up quickly as Sheedy hit a sharp age decline and John Rivero left for Japan. Expected contender Duke Aiona lost his debut fight that would have established him as a contender. Aiona has won one fight all year and is currently out injured. Mason Archer defeated Banks in a competitive fight for the title. Heavyweight has some middling star power right now. The current star of the division right now is Christopher Sharp, who tore through all of his fights this year. The other notable names came from a spree of un-retirements I orchestrated earlier in the year. For heavyweight, the legend fighters I signed are Ari Pettonen and Gary Sampson, who won his debut bout in the XCC. If I can swing it, I want to try and pry Hassan Fezzik away from Alpha-1. He's 37 and on a decline, but Alpha just lost fifteen million dollars in an accounting scandal while I'm only making more money. If I can pay him James Foster money to come to America, I'm doing it.</p><p> </p><p> XCC Light Heavyweight Champion - Linfield Ballard: Light Heavyweight is currently a dance of its three superstars. Linfield Ballard won the title in a fight against Raymond Rearden, a hot prospect in the division. Hyun-Shik Lim bolted for GAMMA like I predicted. Ballard then defended the title against Anthony LeToussier in a blockbuster card for XCC. The third piece of the puzzle is a surprisingly game Ricky Heath who has revived his career here and is gunning for Ballard. There are some prospects I like, but this division is primed to be enhanced in the upcoming raid.</p><p> </p><p> XCC Middleweight Champion - Sutton Ripley: Middleweight did not go how I planned at all and I couldn't be happier about it. One of our weakest divisions last year is now bursting with star power. Sutton Ripley has defended his belt against both Dexter Darling and Neil Napier en route to becoming one of the world's top 5 Middlweights and one of the biggest stars in the company. The talented Mr. Ripley anchors a division that features the likes of Dexter Darling, World Top 10 Middleweight Neil Napier, JJ Reid, Maarten De Vries, and the career revivals of Bambang Sriyanto and Mac Fuller. The Mean Machine is looking extremely good for being in his forties. A special mention also goes to Tom Essy who isn't on the star level of the mentioned fighters but can beat any of them, including Ripley, on any given Sunday and looks to be a shining star in the division for years to come. I don't know what this division will look like next year, but it's in good shape as it is.</p><p> </p><p> XCC Welterweight Champion - Rufus Stephens: Sadly, Welterweight is about as weak as it was last year. Jack Humphreys, shining star of the division lost a tune-up defense to Agustin Gonzales and hasn't been looking sharp the rest of the year despite racking up decision wins. Thankfully Rufus Stephens seems to be a stabilizing force in the division. The Strategist is simply far too skilled as a wrestler for the current fighters to really trouble him as he grinds opponents down for five rounds. The only National level fighters in the division are Stephens and Humphreys. Humphreys is going to get a shot at the belt in what will be a good-drawing main event, but I don't see it being very competitive. This is a division I am looking to aggressively supplement in the raid.</p><p> </p><p> XCC Lightweight Champion - Ross Smith: Ross Smith went from being a probable Hall of Famer to an actual Hall of Famer this year. In a bout of serendipity, I checked for eligible inductees into the Hall and Smith came up. Instead of clicking Future Inductee like I did with Ziskie, I accidentally hit Induct. ...I decided to roll with it and make 2004 the year we opened the XCC Hall of Fame with Ziskie and Smith as our inaugural inductees. With three defenses this year against Henry Baldwin, Chuck Brown, and an absolute war against Davi Carlos Ramos, Smith is the undisputed king of the XCC Lightweight division. Smith is set to defend his title at January's mega-card in the co-main event against the debuting Luke Hilton, who was my first shot in the war against GAMMA after a long and protracted bidding war. Smith is the favorite in that fight and with superb wins on smaller odds, I have confidence in him. After that, though, lies an even greater challenge. The crown jewel of my retirement signings and the reason I did them in the first place. At some point in the future, Ross Smith will defend his title against the legendary Go Yamamoto. Lightweight is heavy at the title level, but lacks for contenders. If Smith can defeat Hilton and Yamamoto, he will be the king preparing for war against a veritable army. But the man hasn't lost a fight in two years or even look that bothered in a fight. I'm confident in my man.</p><p> </p><p> XCC Featherweight Champion - Philip Ziskie: Smith may be one of the monsters of the XCC, but The Kid will forever be the greatest man who ever set foot in our cage. He only made two defenses of the title in a slower year than last year's three-defense year, but he fought off Rafael Tavares and David James Diggle in trademark fashion, finishing both with his legendary left hook. He's set to headline January's mega-card in a High International draw against the one and only Lamont Banner. Banner has taken the overturned loss to Nunes personally and ran through Ward Maloprop in his comeback from Nunes (breaking Maloprop's jaw) and Luiz Machado (breaking his nose and bloodying his eye to the point Machado got surgery). Banner is a man possessed and Ziskie is next in line. I have building up to this fight for two years and I could not be happier. The rest of the division is strong as the usual crew of Gaffigan, Frye, Diggle, Nunes, and Tavares have been putting out classic fights like clockwork. Not only that, but Jackson Gray has now gone two years in a row without having a fight of Great or less. This division doesn't need added starpower, but it will undoubtedly receive one of the biggest stars of the raid as I'm gunning for Tomohiro Takeuchi, the world's top featherweight. Featherweight has always been the cornerstone of XCC and is arguably the strongest division of any company in the world at the moment.</p><p> </p><p> XCC Bantamweight Champion - Markus Waller: Bantamweight took a bit of a backseat this year to the rapid expansion of the other divisions. Bantamweight is still producing exciting fights, but the star power of the division hasn't been keeping pace with the rest of the company. Bantamweight went from maining and co-maining the card to being the middle or lower part of the card these days. Waller made his lone defense against the white-hot Ollie Rockmetteler and handed One Minute Ollie his only XCC loss. Rockmetteler took his frustrations out on Stevie Little (formerly Stiffy Little, but I HAD to change his name if I wanted to book him seriously). Little had gone on his own shock two-year undefeated streak and is now a star of the division in his own right. Brian Claremont is still producing fantastic fights, Mitchell Bryan is the reason Bantamweight sees the highest number of Leg Kick TKOs in the company, and Dominic Ash has won his last five fights in a row en route to becoming the #2 Bantamweight in the world. Britt Dickering also rehabbed his image on the local scene and has won his return fight. While he will probably be exposed again, I won't say no to the exposure. Previous stalwarts like Willy Bassett, Roddy Wickham, and Zach Steggles have seen the division pass them by and they have a long way to go in rehabbing their image. KDM-FC isn't at the bad finances level of WEFF where it looks like I could buy them outright, but I am cleaning out their bantamweights to try and inject some life in what is my best fight division but my worst money division.</p><p> </p><p> 2004 is starting off bright with Ziskie vs. Banner, a High International fight with Smith vs. Hilton as a Mid International co-main. Not bad for a High Regional company that was only sitting on 100k two years ago and was actually in the red two months in. The next year is going to see XCC get even bigger and we could realistically surpass Alpha-1 as the #2 company in the world if we play our cards right. The goal was to become the biggest company in the world in five years. Going into year three, we are well on our way to our goal.</p>

I might as well post my champs and brief rundown of the year. I finally have a save I'm comfortable running past the first year with now that I'm getting a hang of how I want to play WMMA5. XCC, opened Welterweight through Heavyweight (originally planned to do Super, but never had it develop fast enough and produced too many bad fights to wanna run it out of the gate. Maybe a few years down the road.) Heavyweight - Leon Banks: Heavyweight was a big moneymaker division for me early in the expansion. The initial plan was to get my big fight to be Leon Banks vs John Rivero. That fight never happened since Rivero didn't start ranked. Banks won the belt in a fight with Frank Sheedy and only made one defense against Collins Lundie. John Rivero has since signed with Alpha-1 after he was a total killer in the division. The next defense will be Leon Banks vs. Duke Aiona with the winner going on to face Mason Archer. Light Heavyweight - Hyun-Shik Lim: Light Heavyweight was kind of a trainwreck. The initial plan was Trevor Murray vs Jethro Munter, but Murray tore his rotator cuff. So then the fight became Jethro Munter vs Jon Silvers, which Silvers won in an upset by knockout. Then while Silvers was recovering, he signed with GAMMA and vacated the belt. While I was deciding on what my next title fight was going to be, Hyun-Shik Lim got cut and decided to move to Amercia. I threw bags of money at him until he decided to come here. He'll probably get signed by GAMMA after a fight or two, but I'm milkin' him for what he's worth while he's here. Middleweight - Vacant: So I didn't have the best crop of Middleweights to start my expansion. I settled on Glenn Pimm vs Keith Plaice as my title fight and Keith Plaice got an upset knockout (running theme for the year) and then defended against Woody Fierstein. Then Plaice left for GAMMA (also a running theme) and there never felt like a right time to crown a new champion until Sutton Ripley came into the company. Sutton Ripley vs Joey Valdez is booked for February in what should be a steamroll win for Ripley. Unfortunately for Ripley, he's going to be fed to Dexter Darling, who is the most popular guy in the company. Darling vs Ripley is going to make me money hand over fist, so I don't feel too bad about Ripley losing. Welterweight - Jack Humphreys: Phil Ball was the initial champ for Welterweight and he actually had a good fight to win the belt against Linton Berry. Unfortunately for Phil, Jack Humphreys entered the company and got slaughtered. Phil is the only ex-champion from my expansion divisions not to leave the company yet, so I've got a soft spot for the guy. Amazingly, he's made weight for both his fights. Gas tank's crap, but he puts in a good effort and stays at 170. Humphreys may go to Alpha-1 at some point, which would put Welterweight in a bind as the depth is crap right now. Lightweight - Ross Smith: Ross Smith has been Lightweight's rock and I will probably induct him into the Hall of Fame even if he doesn't deserve it out of sheer gratitude. Bosco Curbeam had a hell of a fight against Darren Southall for his first defense, and then he AND Southall left the company, along with Elvis Milissis who I wanted to make a contender. Smith fought Weatherly for the title and made a defense against Nicholas Bretton. Smith is the odds-on favorite for every fight so as long as he stays, he's made. ...Until someone more popular comes in. Featherweight - Philip Ziskie: As long as Alpha or GAMMA don't open a Featherweight division (which has happened in other games), Ziskie is THE MAN. Not only in Featherweight, but also in the company. Dexter Darling is the new hotness, but Ziskie is the kingpin of my money fight division. Every time he's cleared to fight, I immediately book him in a title defense and watch the Brinks truck back up. The belt is at 86% prestige right now. This year alone he made three defenses against Sammy Gaffigan, Anthony Ray Shenkman, and Easton Frye in my three biggest-drawing cards of the year. Both the main event and the overall card for Ziskie vs. Frye was a Low International. The company is Mid Regional. Ziskie is absolute magic and I love him. His destined challenger was supposed to be Lamont Banner, but Azor Portela Nunes screwed that up in the most spectacular fashion imaginable. Not only did he have a one round war that ended in about 4:50 with a Thai Knee KO he then managed to pop for PEDs AND Recreational Drugs. Banner may technically be undefeated, but he took a hit to his popularity (and probably his ego) with that fight. Ziskie, Frye, Gaffigan, Banner, and Davis James Diggle are all HUGE draws for me right now, so Featherweights are basically main eventing cards when I can get them. In one final note, I want to give a shoutout to my company's (not from Blurcat, but I'm pretending XCC gave him an award) Fighter of the Year, Jackson Gray. In a bizarre turn of events, a normally boring fighter who was one fight from being cut produced three of the company's best fights in the same year. He only went 1-2, beating Rory McEnterry and losing to Lucky Lyman and Rafael Tavares, but he had a Fantastic and two Great fights. Since I give a Performance Bonus to every Great and over fight, Gray cleaned up well this year. Bantamweight - Markus Waller: The title lineage for this got screwy. Willy Bassett beat Roddy Wickham in the most boring fight my company had all year. Then I lined him up against Riveron Potter-Pirbright in what was supposed to be an easy win for Wickham. ...You know what I said about surprising knockouts? R-P-P spent four rounds chopping Wickham down until he got a leg kick TKO. Now all of a sudden, I've got the title on a pretty boy who's the underdog against every Bantamweight that'll make me money. So I had to decide on who to put the title on next. Claremont and Steggles were options as they're exciting knockout artists and Ollie Rockmetteler is an exciting fighter as well. But I went with Waller in the end as he can be a grappling counterbalance to the striker-heavy top of the Bantamweight pecking order and unlike Bassett, he actually puts on good fights. I honestly don't know who to book Waller against in his first defense. Bantamweight usually puts on the best fight of the night, so I'm playing the division by ear.

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="Blackman" data-cite="Blackman" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="44606" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>Signing castoffs is probably why playing smaller orgs is more fun than GAMMA.<p> </p><p> I've looked at an old watcher game I did and GAMMA's champs in 2012 were Reggie frickin' Barbera (MW) and Claremont (WW!!!). Talk about weird. <img alt=":p" data-src="//content.invisioncic.com/g322608/emoticons/tongue.png.ceb643b2956793497cef30b0e944be28.png" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /></p></div></blockquote><p> </p><p> Beat GAMMA to the punch on both of them. Claremont's my biggest draw at bantamweight even though Bassett has a deathtrap on the title, so he's knocking over every top 10 fighter to get back there.</p><p> </p><p> Barbara is my pet project at middleweight. He's been crushing Mexican gens that OMEGA didn't sign in awesome fights.</p><p> </p><p> OMEGA is a thorn in my side. FIVE times my budget and almost my whole roster is double-booked in Mexico. They're first on my takeover hit list.</p><p> </p><p> Got to the end of year 1. XCC won Coty, Moses Amokachi won RotY, and Steggles va. Ballinger was FotY. 2002 was a good year for XCC.</p><p> </p><p> EDIT: Phone autocorrect butchered this post.</p><p> </p><p> Thinking of basically replaying this as a dynasty for the board when I get more of a hang of the game.</p>

<p>Playing my first game of WMMA5. Felt I'd play XCC as that was my favorite game I had in 4.</p><p> </p><p> By the end of April 2002, A-1 opens a featherweight division. Lost Ziskie AND Banner. GAMMA and A-1 took pretty big chunks out of lightweight and featherweight too.</p><p> </p><p> Luckily my roster isn't hammered so hard since my first move was to open every men's division from Super Heavyweight down to Welterweight so I run every men's division. Still, losing so many of my big hitters is gonna hurt future shows. I've been rising really fast in popularity and I'm gonna need to make some new headliners and fast. Right now I'd say the face of the company is Sammy Gaffigan if I can hold on to him. If not I guess I'm building around Leon Banks.</p><p> </p><p> EDIT: Got to September and my tactic of shamelessly signing every notable GAMMA castoff has paid off. Nathan Chambers got cut, neither GAMMA or Alpha-1 offered him a contract. He's making ten times more than the next guy on the roster but I don't care.</p>

Thanks. I'm working on a mod based on historical fighters and I can use this to basically start a fighter who died or retired before the start of the database as a regen by setting them to start a year after the game start. This actually clears up A LOT of confusion I had. Thank you so much.

How does fighter regeneration work? What happens when a fighter regenerates and what causes it?