Restructuring The Regions 2020 version!

[d12345]

<p>I would love to get people's thoughts on any regions around the world that they think should include different cities/states than they currently do. I went in and restructured the locations of some of the American cities (and added new locations) in my game. Here's what I noted below.</p><p> </p><p>

NOTE: I think the trickiest ones are Kentucky, Tennessee, New York State, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Colorado and New Mexico as they can really live in multiple regions.</p><p> </p><p>

Tri-State: Added Stamford Connecticut, Loosened up my original idea of the tri-state area to match the game's. All of PA, NY, and NJ included here</p><p>

New England: Added Albany</p><p>

Great Lakes: Added northern Kentucky, Minneapolis</p><p>

Mid-Atlantic: Removed Kentucky</p><p>

Mid-South: Added southwestern part of Kentucky, Memphis, and Arkansas, Removed New Mexico</p><p>

Southeast: Removed Arkansas, Added Bowling Green, KY, Added Nashville & Knoxville, TN</p><p>

Mid-West: Removed Colorado, Removed Minnesota</p><p>

Southwest: Added Colorado, New Mexico, and El Paso Texas</p><p>

Northwest: Added Alaska (which is currently not listed in any region in game), Added Fort Collins Colorado</p><p> </p><p>

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[Morti]

Locations that should be added to Scandinavia from a Norwegian:

 

Bergen, Norway

Trondheim, Norway

Stavanger, Norway

Uppsala, Sweden

Lahti, Finland

Odense, Denmark

 

Would also be nice to rename Scandinavia to Northern Europe since Finland and Iceland aren't in Scandinavia.

[Riotnrrd]

As a native of the area, Kentucky's definitely a tough one. I'd be inclined to put it in the Southeast maybe, or even split it east/west between Southeast and Great Lakes. I've always kinda wished that there was an "Appalachian/Smoky Mountain" region encompassing eastern KY, eastern TN, and southern WV, but I know that would be getting bit too granular for most people's purposes, ha.

[auto45]

Most companies in the southern parts of Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio run shows in Louisville as if its a home region, so it'd be hard to separate from that region.

[d12345]

As a native of the area, Kentucky's definitely a tough one. I'd be inclined to put it in the Southeast maybe, or even split it east/west between Southeast and Great Lakes. I've always kinda wished that there was an "Appalachian/Smoky Mountain" region encompassing eastern KY, eastern TN, and southern WV, but I know that would be getting bit too granular for most people's purposes, ha.

 

It seems like Adam's idea here was to have the Smoky Mountains in the mid-atlantic region. I just don't like the idea of mixing up Kentucky with all of those coastal cities like D.C. and Baltimore.

 

southeast could work for it though.

 

Locations that should be added to Scandinavia from a Norwegian:

 

Bergen, Norway

Trondheim, Norway

Stavanger, Norway

Uppsala, Sweden

Lahti, Finland

Odense, Denmark

 

Would also be nice to rename Scandinavia to Northern Europe since Finland and Iceland aren't in Scandinavia.

 

I'll add these to my game thanks!

 

Most companies in the southern parts of Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio run shows in Louisville as if its a home region, so it'd be hard to separate from that region.

 

So you're thinking Kentucky as a Great Lakes region location?

[Morti]

I'll add these to my game thanks!

 

No problem! Glad to help

[Morti]

If I had the time I would rename all the "Englishified" location names in the default database back to what they are actually called EVERYWHERE else.

 

Like:

Copenhagen -> København

Naples -> Napoli

Florence -> Firenze

Gothenburg -> Göteborg

 

Etc. and etc.

[d12345]

If I had the time I would rename all the "Englishified" location names in the default database back to what they are actually called EVERYWHERE else.

 

Like:

Copenhagen -> København

Naples -> Napoli

Florence -> Firenze

Gothenburg -> Göteborg

 

Etc. and etc.

 

Are we able to use those special o characters in TEW?

[Morti]

Are we able to use those special o characters in TEW?

 

I know é and such work, I think ö works? And if stuff like ÆØÅ don't work then I would still rather have Goteborg than Gothenburg

[auto45]

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="d12345" data-cite="d12345" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="48726" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>So you're thinking Kentucky as a Great Lakes region location?</div></blockquote><p> </p><p> Its hard because it doesn't really fit in any one region. I'd say split it up. Northern part (Louisville, Owensboro, Lexington and up) in Great Lakes and the southern part (Paducah, Bowling Green, ect.) in the South East. Could even make an argument for Paducah in the Mid South or Mid West, but that would get complicated.</p>

[i effin rule]

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="Riotnrrd" data-cite="Riotnrrd" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="48726" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>As a native of the area, Kentucky's definitely a tough one. I'd be inclined to put it in the Southeast maybe, or even split it east/west between Southeast and Great Lakes. I've always kinda wished that there was an "Appalachian/Smoky Mountain" region encompassing eastern KY, eastern TN, and southern WV, but I know that would be getting bit too granular for most people's purposes, ha.</div></blockquote><p> </p><p> Me too!</p><p> </p><p> In fact, You could easily break Kentucky up into Mid South, South East, Mid Atlantic, Mid West, and Great Lakes. I don't think there is any state the size of Kentucky that has such vastly different regions.</p>

[d12345]

Its hard because it doesn't really fit in any one region. I'd say split it up. Northern part (Louisville, Owensboro, Lexington and up) in Great Lakes and the southern part (Paducah, Bowling Green, ect.) in the South East. Could even make an argument for Paducah in the Mid South or Mid West, but that would get complicated.

 

Me too!

 

In fact, You could easily break Kentucky up into Mid South, South East, Mid Atlantic, Mid West, and Great Lakes. I don't think there is any state the size of Kentucky that has such vastly different regions.

 

I've been breaking up locations in other states so I'll do that for Kentucky too.

 

I've never thought Louisville would consider themselves Great Lakes but I'll def trust ya'll locals.

[wwe9112]

hey don't forget West Virginia (the state)! Huge wrestling state! Unfortunately, we have a low population thus no one hears about us unless it's about coal lol.

[codey_v2]

Colorado just doesn't make sense as a southwestern state to me. Geographically, maybe, but none of the major cities are on the western side of the state. It's pretty much divided by the Rockies with most of the population situated on the eastern edge. Honestly, I would classify most of it as midwest based on your map.

 

Personally, I'm totally for keeping Colorado in the mid-south for the game because the culture in Colorado doesn't match the midwest at all to me, and I say that as someone that's lived in Texas, Oklahoma, and Colorado.

[LoganRodzen]

Really glad this was edited at some point. I saw it a few hours ago and New England made me cringe seeing NY partially included (no offense to you New Yorkers out there).

[d12345]

Colorado just doesn't make sense as a southwestern state to me. Geographically, maybe, but none of the major cities are on the western side of the state. It's pretty much divided by the Rockies with most of the population situated on the eastern edge. Honestly, I would classify most of it as midwest based on your map.

 

Personally, I'm totally for keeping Colorado in the mid-south for the game because the culture in Colorado doesn't match the midwest at all to me, and I say that as someone that's lived in Texas, Oklahoma, and Colorado.

 

The argument here is that culturally Colorado has more in common with Utah, Arizona, and Wyoming than they do with Texas and Oklahoma.

[BHK1978]

Albany is the state capital of New York, so it does not belong in New England.

 

I never got why Louisiana was considered South East, one of Mid South Wrestling biggest market was New Orleans.

 

If I had the time I would rename all the "Englishified" location names in the default database back to what they are actually called EVERYWHERE else.

 

Like:

Copenhagen -> København

Naples -> Napoli

Florence -> Firenze

Gothenburg -> Göteborg

 

Etc. and etc.

 

I think it is safe to say that the vast majority of people who buy this game speak English and therefore would not recognize København. For me personally looking at the list you posted I was only aware of Napoli and Göteborg. I never even knew there were alternative spellings of Florence and Copenhagen.

[d12345]

Albany is the state capital of New York, so it does not belong in New England.

 

As someone who grew up in the tri-state area I can tell you that upstate New York is not considered a part of it. The real tri-state area would be New York City, New York on the Hudson, New Jersey, a bit of Connecticut, Long Island and Philadelphia area. So I just didn't know where to put it.

 

Buffalo, Albany, Rochester, and Pittsburgh really have nothing to do with the tri-state area. They are honestly more Great Lakes region places.

 

With that said, I get the reason why the game has those cities included.

 

I never got why Louisiana was considered South East, one of Mid South Wrestling biggest market was New Orleans.

 

Same. What I'm doing is splitting Louisiana into 2 regions. New Orleans and Baton Rouge are South East. Shreveport, Monroe, and Alexandria are Mid South.

[BHK1978]

As someone who grew up in the tri-state area I can tell you that upstate New York is not considered a part of it. The real tri-state area would be New York City, New York on the Hudson, New Jersey, a bit of Connecticut, Long Island and Philadelphia area. So I just didn't know where to put it.

 

Buffalo, Albany, Rochester, and Pittsburgh really have nothing to do with the tri-state area. They are honestly more Great Lakes region places.

 

With that said, I get the reason why the game has those cities included.

 

I think I had this conversation before, maybe it was with you. I remember watching Yankees games back in the 80's and 90's and whenever they would talk about the Tri-State area in commercials or what have you, it was always listed as Penn, NY, and NJ (When they would show a map of the region for car dealerships). I have read arguments regarding a small part of Connecticut being part of the Tri-State region (like you said) but I mostly have heard people saying that CT is part of the six New England states.

 

There is no map that I could find where they have upstate NY listed as part of New England.

 

But at the end of the day this is not really that important to talk about. I just saw Albany listed as being part of New England and was like, "Wait what?"

[Morti]

I think it is safe to say that the vast majority of people who buy this game speak English and therefore would not recognize København. For me personally looking at the list you posted I was only aware of Napoli and Göteborg. I never even knew there were alternative spellings of Florence and Copenhagen.

 

I get that, the english spellings were just always really annoying to me. But that may just be me

[D-Lyrium]

I get that, the english spellings were just always really annoying to me. But that may just be me

 

I get that it would be annoying as a native of one of the affected places, and some of them (Napoli especially, as a lot of non-Italians probably know the football team better than the city, so would be unlikely to know it as Naples anyway!).

 

But to say that "that's how they're known EVERYWHERE else" is a little disingenuous isn't it?

 

In Spanish and French, Copenhagen is Copenhague. In Italian it's Copenhagen. The Dutch just change the C to a K. Even in Swedish, literally next door, it's Köpenhamn.

 

So when you say "everywhere else" you mean Denmark and Norway, maybe a few others. A far, far greater number of people will recognise Copenhagen, Gothenburg or Florence than København, Göteborg or Firenze.

 

As someone who grew up in the tri-state area I can tell you that upstate New York is not considered a part of it. The real tri-state area would be New York City, New York on the Hudson, New Jersey, a bit of Connecticut, Long Island and Philadelphia area. So I just didn't know where to put it.

 

Buffalo, Albany, Rochester, and Pittsburgh really have nothing to do with the tri-state area. They are honestly more Great Lakes region places.

 

With that said, I get the reason why the game has those cities included.

 

As a Pittsburgh sports fan who's never been to America, hearing Pennsylvania included in the tri-state area seems normal, but hearing Pittsburgh as a tri-state city seems weird...

[Griggsy96]

Being from Pittsburgh, seeing it listed as a Tri-State city really doesn't feel right to me. To be fair, though, it really doesn't fit as a Great Lakes city either. It is kind of in between those two, not fitting into either category.

 

The best designation for it would be to call it a "Rust Belt" city, along with Buffalo, Rochester, Baltimore, Cleveland, Columbus, Toledo, Detroit, Grand Rapids, Madison, and Milwaukee.

 

But that really isn't realistic to have the Rust Belt as a region in the game either. Alas, Pittsburgh is going to be the square peg in the round hole of either the Great Lakes or the Tri-State.

[Teh_Showtime]

Something that regions influence even more than just which cities are where would be local workers and who can be eligible for one night deals. When you consider that as well beyond the geographic identities, there’s no way I’d consider upstate NY as Great Lakes region. Those workers aren’t really driving to Chicago on 1 day notice to work a show as much as they would in Rhode Island or Massachusetts.

[Sinner]

Years ago Colorado was split north and south. From the live events to the TV shows. The north section, Denver area was mid west AWA.

While the south area Colorado Springs, was WCCW/NWA.

 

And Minnesota is ALL mid west IMO.

 

As I mentioned this was years ago but in my mind it would still be the same.

 

For what its worth, $.00

[d12345]

I think I had this conversation before, maybe it was with you. I remember watching Yankees games back in the 80's and 90's and whenever they would talk about the Tri-State area in commercials or what have you, it was always listed as Penn, NY, and NJ (When they would show a map of the region for car dealerships). I have read arguments regarding a small part of Connecticut being part of the Tri-State region (like you said) but I mostly have heard people saying that CT is part of the six New England states.

 

There is no map that I could find where they have upstate NY listed as part of New England.

 

But at the end of the day this is not really that important to talk about. I just saw Albany listed as being part of New England and was like, "Wait what?"

 

Haha very well could've been me. My thinking was closer to what Teh_Showtime said above. If you lived near Albany you are much more likely to drive to a show in Western MASS or Vermont than you are to ever travel down to a show in NYC or Philly.

 

Samely for a company from Boston, I would imagine them doing a show in Albany isn't really 'branching out' into the Tri-State region.

 

The best designation for it would be to call it a "Rust Belt" city, along with Buffalo, Rochester, Baltimore, Cleveland, Columbus, Toledo, Detroit, Grand Rapids, Madison, and Milwaukee.

 

Agreed. I've always thought of Pittsburgh as being somewhere between Mid Atlantic and Great Lakes.

 

New Question: I want to get Nassau, Bahamas into the game because they do a large college football bowl game there.

 

I'm split between just including it in the Puerto Rico region since it's in The Caribbean or including it in the South East region since people from Miami really shoots over to The Bahamas like it's another neighborhood in the city. Any southerners with thoughts on that?