General Gameplay Questions Thread

[John Waylon]

How can I tell what effects my product has on the different game regions? Was the feature to see what products are trending in the business removed?

[km007]

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="D-Lyrium" data-cite="D-Lyrium" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="47568" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>Storylines have been freestyle for about ten years. <img alt=":)" data-src="//content.invisioncic.com/g322608/emoticons/smile.png.142cfa0a1cd2925c0463c1d00f499df2.png" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /> No templates, heat is based almost entirely on how well the segments are rated.</div></blockquote><p> </p><p> Do you know of a mod that offers structured storylines? I liked them...</p>

[EIOEIO]

Sorry if this has already been asked, how do you assign a "protege"?

[Remianen]

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="km007" data-cite="km007" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="47568" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>Do you know of a mod that offers structured storylines? I liked them...</div></blockquote><p> </p><p> There's a spreadsheet floating around that some people use but the game itself again, hasn't supported structured storylines since like TEW10.</p>

[Blake Trask]

<p>Anyone know when you get an extra talent point?</p><p> </p><p>

You get your first point at 50 shows now, but I didn't get my second at 100.</p>

[Jaded]

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="Blake Trask" data-cite="Blake Trask" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="47568" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>Anyone know when you get an extra talent point?<p> </p><p> You get your first point at 50 shows now, but I didn't get my second at 100.</p></div></blockquote><p> </p><p> Did they all raise pop? Remember it's after x successful shows, not just shows.</p>

[Thane of Fife]

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="John Waylon" data-cite="John Waylon" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="47568" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>How can I tell what effects my product has on the different game regions? Was the feature to see what products are trending in the business removed?</div></blockquote><p> </p><p> If you want to see what kinds of products are trending, click on the date block in the upper left corner of the screen. If you want to see if (or where) a specific company's product is trending, go to the Companies screen, go to the company's profile, and click on Product (you can't see it from the Product screen in the office, you have to go through the company profile).</p>

[boydy]

Probably been asked already but how the hell do you release people from their contracts. I can't seem to find it anywhere.

[Jaded]

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="boydy" data-cite="boydy" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="47568" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>Probably been asked already but how the hell do you release people from their contracts. I can't seem to find it anywhere.</div></blockquote><p> </p><p> Go to the roster screen, click on the arrows to the left or right of where it says popularity. It'll change to contract view with a release button.</p>

[boydy]

Thank you Jaded.

[D-Lyrium]

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="EIOEIO" data-cite="EIOEIO" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="47568" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>Sorry if this has already been asked, how do you assign a "protege"?</div></blockquote><p> </p><p> You don't "assign" them, at least not in game. Veteran workers (especially ones who have the Passes On Knowledge attribute) will sometimes take a youngster under their wing, but there's nothing you can do to influence them to.</p><p> </p><p> In the editor, it's under Worker Relationships in the main editor or Edit Relationship in the in-game settings menu.</p>

[EddieFnG]

As I wrote: My company is much bigger than the other company and I offered more than double in money.

 

I just tried the trick with event bonus and still lost even though if offered 50% event bonus and more money per month. Well...i'll will keep on trying and maybe offer 100% event bonus.

 

But contract negotiations are obviously very, very weird this year.

 

They also tend to value contract length a hell of a lot.

[radical]

I mentioned it in another thread but try giving them a per event bonus.. I've noticed lately that workers seem to greatly value those bonuses compared to everything else. . I've offered people tens of thousands of dollars in excess of the competition and they don't prefer my offer until I add the per event bonus. .

 

There was a thread on the tech support forum. Was that you? If so, did anything come of it? The thread is gone now.

[christmas_ape]

<p><strong>Just looking to check how people have gotten on with increasing entertainment stats?</strong> Happy to go into the details but long story short I'm finding it much slower than 2016. </p><p> </p><p>

Now I've seen in patch notes for 1.09 that say;</p><p> </p><p>

Added Charisma / Act / Microphone skill increases outside of angles to allow for faster progress</p><p> </p><p>

So perhaps this has already been addressed, I've probably only done a month of game time since this patch so it could be the case. But I would read that patch note as saying people can now gain skills slowly even if they aren't in angles? So I'd also take from this that the level of skill increase from being in angles hasn't changed?</p><p> </p><p>

Also a side note how come there is this and a small questions thread? Surely it would just halve the eyes each question gets?</p>

[kieranforthewin]

Just finished recording my Last Man Standing pay-per-view with CWA and I don't know if I ran into a bug, oversight or just something annoying that is meant to happen, so I thought I'd post here first before going over to tech support.

 

I don't play with mandatory pre-booking just as an FYI. I always pre-book my pay-per-views for organisational purposes as the pre-booking screen says since I have the preference off. The Last Man Standing pay-per-view ends with a royal rumble. Earlier on in the show I had a tag match where Lightning Lomas suffered a back injury meaning he couldn't compete later on in the battle royal so I took him out. I like this as it's cool on the fly booking (though his tag title reign is screwed). The issue is since I took him out the battle royal, I've technically not 'lived up' to the pre-booking I made for the show, as Lightning Lomas is not in the match. The game told me as much but I thought maybe since I've literally HAD to do this since it's on the fly, maybe it'll let me off.

 

Nope, the event that definitely would've been a blue rating, got a 78 with the red error message saying how fans were expecting the "battle royal" and were upset it wasn't on the show. I realise writing this I sound a bit mad which wasn't my intention as I'm just genuinely just wondering if this is avoidable? In my opinion, with mandatory pre-booking off the red message saying the fans were expecting _____ shouldn't exist but I can get past that. It's just irritating I literally HAD to change the booking on the fly due to an injury and it affected my grade, it feels like a potential oversight.

[Malioc]

Hi guys,

 

I came across a few questions:

- I just started to use house shows. To put wrestlers on duty I have to select each one by hand. Is there a way to only show available wrestlers (most workers are only handshake contracted and still show in the list)?

- I would like it, if the schedule of a wrestler only shows events when the wrestler are available there. I had a newly signed guy not be able, and the shows still shown there. Is there a different schedule view?

 

Thanks! =)

[nickjames19]

Morale Issues

 

Is there another way to try to address individual's morale issues besides giving them bonuses and time off?

[LethalBuzzKill]

I haven’t used it in 2020 but I believe you could use your post event speech to improve morale in 2016.

[Jonny2284]

Am I missing something obvious with training facilities, I created one in the first year of the game, knowing it would take a year for my first graduates.

 

It's set as mostly male students with fluid graduation. And I got absolutely nothing. I did an upgrade in early 2021 and figured maybe it reset the counter so I waited.

 

Just started 2024 and still not a single graduate, in fact looking through the other facilties nobody has any alumni that weren't historic.

 

I've checked in the editor, graduation is definitely enabled.

 

Am I missing an obvious option somewhere that's hindering me or have I hit a bug?

[The Nickman]

Just finished recording my Last Man Standing pay-per-view with CWA and I don't know if I ran into a bug, oversight or just something annoying that is meant to happen, so I thought I'd post here first before going over to tech support.

 

I don't play with mandatory pre-booking just as an FYI. I always pre-book my pay-per-views for organisational purposes as the pre-booking screen says since I have the preference off. The Last Man Standing pay-per-view ends with a royal rumble. Earlier on in the show I had a tag match where Lightning Lomas suffered a back injury meaning he couldn't compete later on in the battle royal so I took him out. I like this as it's cool on the fly booking (though his tag title reign is screwed). The issue is since I took him out the battle royal, I've technically not 'lived up' to the pre-booking I made for the show, as Lightning Lomas is not in the match. The game told me as much but I thought maybe since I've literally HAD to do this since it's on the fly, maybe it'll let me off.

 

Nope, the event that definitely would've been a blue rating, got a 78 with the red error message saying how fans were expecting the "battle royal" and were upset it wasn't on the show. I realise writing this I sound a bit mad which wasn't my intention as I'm just genuinely just wondering if this is avoidable? In my opinion, with mandatory pre-booking off the red message saying the fans were expecting _____ shouldn't exist but I can get past that. It's just irritating I literally HAD to change the booking on the fly due to an injury and it affected my grade, it feels like a potential oversight.

Yeah, that annoys me too in 2020. I also like to use pre booking as an organisational tool for my television (I have mandatory booking turned on for events/PPVs and off for TV), but in TEW2020 if you pre-book a segment for TV purely as an organisational thing (say you want to use it next week not this week), you still get dinged for not using it.

 

That shouldn’t be a thing if penalties are switched off.

[Remianen]

Am I missing something obvious with training facilities, I created one in the first year of the game, knowing it would take a year for my first graduates.

 

It's set as mostly male students with fluid graduation. And I got absolutely nothing. I did an upgrade in early 2021 and figured maybe it reset the counter so I waited.

 

Just started 2024 and still not a single graduate, in fact looking through the other facilties nobody has any alumni that weren't historic.

 

I've checked in the editor, graduation is definitely enabled.

 

Am I missing an obvious option somewhere that's hindering me or have I hit a bug?

 

You have to wait. Plain and simple. There is no mechanic in the game that guarantees you'll get graduates at a particular time, other than by setting a specific date/month they debut. I have a maxed out PC that's supposed to generate 12 women a year and I got my first pair in JUNE. That means I'm going to get roughly 10 more graduates in the next six months. We'll see. I'm dubious, to be honest, but I can't say anything until the year ends.

 

Also, take a look at your era setting (if any). That could have an effect on how many people debut as well. Give it a year without any meddling with your training camp and then see what happens.

[D-Lyrium]

Just finished recording my Last Man Standing pay-per-view with CWA and I don't know if I ran into a bug, oversight or just something annoying that is meant to happen, so I thought I'd post here first before going over to tech support.

 

I don't play with mandatory pre-booking just as an FYI. I always pre-book my pay-per-views for organisational purposes as the pre-booking screen says since I have the preference off. The Last Man Standing pay-per-view ends with a royal rumble. Earlier on in the show I had a tag match where Lightning Lomas suffered a back injury meaning he couldn't compete later on in the battle royal so I took him out. I like this as it's cool on the fly booking (though his tag title reign is screwed). The issue is since I took him out the battle royal, I've technically not 'lived up' to the pre-booking I made for the show, as Lightning Lomas is not in the match. The game told me as much but I thought maybe since I've literally HAD to do this since it's on the fly, maybe it'll let me off.

 

Nope, the event that definitely would've been a blue rating, got a 78 with the red error message saying how fans were expecting the "battle royal" and were upset it wasn't on the show. I realise writing this I sound a bit mad which wasn't my intention as I'm just genuinely just wondering if this is avoidable? In my opinion, with mandatory pre-booking off the red message saying the fans were expecting _____ shouldn't exist but I can get past that. It's just irritating I literally HAD to change the booking on the fly due to an injury and it affected my grade, it feels like a potential oversight.

 

Yeah, that annoys me too in 2020. I also like to use pre booking as an organisational tool for my television (I have mandatory booking turned on for events/PPVs and off for TV), but in TEW2020 if you pre-book a segment for TV purely as an organisational thing (say you want to use it next week not this week), you still get dinged for not using it.

 

That shouldn’t be a thing if penalties are switched off.

 

Have you got Pre-Booking Bonuses turned off, as well as Mandatory Pre-Booking turned off?

 

It would make perfect sense that if bonuses are turned on, then you'd get the resulting penalty for not delivering the promised match (though one midcarder in a battle royale does seem harsh). Like, a "I know you didn't have to promise me anything, but you did, and you've failed to live up to it" situation. You can't really expect to get the bonuses but ignore the penalties because it's not mandatory.

 

But if bonuses and mandatory pre-booking are both off, I'd take this to the tech support forum if you haven't already.

[nickjames19]

I haven’t used it in 2020 but I believe you could use your post event speech to improve morale in 2016.

Thank you.

[nickjames19]

Ending Turn

 

I've encountered a message " You Cannot End Your Current Turn, Until you've Dealt with all the decisions awaiting your attention." Not sure how to proceed, thank to proceed, thank you.

[D-Lyrium]

I've encountered a message " You Cannot End Your Current Turn, Until you've Dealt with all the decisions awaiting your attention." Not sure how to proceed, thank to proceed, thank you.

 

Look in the bottom right, the icon with a tick and a cross in circles will be lit up in yellow. Click on it, you probably have a worker's contract signing or something to deal with.