EWR/TEW: Discussão Geral

Just three minor items today.

#11: Indy Wrestler Of The Year, injury effects, day one narratives

The criteria for the Independent Wrestler Of The Year has been changed so that it is no longer limited only to workers on independent (i.e. not attached to a specific company) shows; instead, matches from companies below Medium size are also eligible. This gives a wider pool of potential winners and makes the award more realistic.

Injuries now contain an extra piece of information that informs the game how much of an effect they have on a worker's in-ring performance if they wrestle while carrying that injury. Previously this was decided by the injury's level, and so the new way allows a little more accuracy.

Narratives are now allowed to take place on the day the game starts, meaning that mod makers can populate the opening website with welcome messages, special events, etc.

You might want to get comfy before you start this one, it's likely to be long and pretty complex...

#12: Scheduling

The scheduling of shows has been totally redone for the new game. Here's how it works.

Firstly, each company has a Schedule Strategy. These are the options:

Monthly - The AI creates a schedule with a minimum of one event per month.
Almost Weekly - The AI creates a schedule of around one event per week; occasional weeks will be left free.
Weekly - A minimum of one event per week, every week.
Constant - The AI creates a schedule with regular events throughout the year so that the company never goes more than a few days without a show.
TV Or Monthly / TV Or Weekly / TV Or Constant - The AI creates a schedule using the Monthly, Weekly, or Constant strategies that have already been discussed. At the start of each month the company is checked for whether they have an active TV deal; if they do, the events are made dormant, if they don't then the events are made active.
Preset Tours - The AI creates a Japanese-style touring schedule based on the parameters it is given (see below).
Created Tours - The AI creates a Japanese-style touring schedule from scratch.
Preset Seasons - The AI creates a Chikara-style seasonal schedule based on the parameters it is given (see below).
Created Seasons - The AI creates a Chikara-style seasonal schedule from scratch.

In all cases, any preset events that have been added via the editor beforehand are incorporated into the schedule.

For Preset Tours and Preset Seasons, the user can give any number of start and end dates and the AI will work within them. Unlike previous games, there are no limits on these, so tours can start mid-month and can be as long or as short as you like. This also ties into the aforementioned Intent feature, as tours will feature lots of smaller shows leading to big tour-ending major events. The difference between Tours and Seasons is relatively minor, it's just that Seasons will consist of normal events (i.e. no touring shows) and they tend to be longer and have bigger "off seasons" than tours do.

When a new game is initialised the AI will create a schedule for every company (whether they're active or not) based on the settings given. This is different from the past where the AI would check every promotion at the start of each month and react according to what it found. This means the initialisation of a new game is several seconds longer, but it cuts down your daily loading times by half a second or more and so overall you're saving a lot of waiting.

The advantage of this new method is not only speed, but also that the player will always have a fully set up schedule when they take over a company - particularly important if you're running a touring company, as it means you don't have to spend ages putting together smaller shows.

There is also one final Schedule Strategy that I didn't include in the above list, and that's Fixed. This means that the AI will stick rigidly to whatever the database maker has preset for them in the editor. This is quite powerful as it gives total control. For example, if you want a company that has an irregular schedule - say two or three big events some months, some months where it's just one event, and sometimes big stretches without any events - that's entirely viable. This allows the database makers to simulate any schedule they want quite easily.

There is one potential drawback with this new scheduling system and that's that because the schedules get set-up at the very start and aren't then checked each month it means that AI companies don't have the ability to alter their events over time (with the exception of the TV Or schedule that I outlined above). That's where a second new feature comes in, Wake and Sleep settings. For every event, database makers can add in a specific date for when the event should "wake" and when it should "go to sleep" (these are optional). When the "wake" date is hit, the event will go from dormant to active (nothing happens if it is already active), and vice versa for the "sleep" date.

What this means is that database makers can create evolving schedules. For example, if you were making a real world historical database you could have the WWF start with the "Big Four" PPVs, with the other eight months having no events at all. Then you could "wake" the In Your House events in the 1990s, then have them go inactive ("sleep") after a few years to be replaced with newer events, then have the schedule change to its modern irregular style of having big events every few weeks.

Of course, player-controlled companies always have complete control over their schedule as they always have, so the player can do what they want, when they want.

So, overall, these new features mean you can effectively model any schedule you like, no matter how crazy; it gives you realistic Japanese tours; it allows, for the first time, you to get away from the "one event a month" model that TEW has been based on since its inception; and it gives database makers extremely powerful tools to create evolving, real-world scenarios. It makes for a much more active, realistic, and lively game world as a result too, as you're likely going to see independent companies in particular running shows far more often. This gives TEW a totally different feel.

I think this is one of my favourite new features and really freshens up the game. This is also one of the ones that would have been impossible without the rewrite.

The journal will resume on Saturday with another "small feature" entry.

Two more smaller changes to report on today.

#13: AI event instructions, "sticky" searches

The possible instructions for AI events have been expanded, including new match types and the ability to set specific main events as well as 'whole show' booking styles. The possible choices are:

Defend all valid titles (i.e. for "Night of Champions" style shows)
All 1 vs 1
All 2 vs 2
All 3 vs 3
All 4 vs 4
All 5 vs 5
All three way singles
All four way singles
Main event is 1 vs 1
Main event is 2 vs 2
Main event is 3 vs 3
Main event is 4 vs 4
Main event is 5 vs 5
Main event is three way singles
Main event is four way singles

These new options allow for a wider variety of shows to be simulated.

Search criteria are now "sticky", meaning that they remain in place unless the player explicitly resets or alters them. Furthermore, they are unique to each player, so the same screen can have different criteria saved for each user. This makes searching more user friendly as you can leave a screen, come back, and not have to re-enter your parameters

Colt escreveu:Alguém já jogou ou joga WMMA?

Colt escreveu:Alguém já jogou ou joga WMMA?

Colt escreveu:Andas a jogar o 4 ou o 5? Tenho jogado o 5 e estou a gostar imenso.

No meu primeiro e único save já vou em 2 anos e meio (in-game) com a ALPHA-1. Murilo Santinho

andre_sabrosa escreveu:

Colt escreveu:Alguém já jogou ou joga WMMA?

Eu jogo também, o 5 . Já levo 3 anos e tal num save com a UFC, aqui os anos passam muito mais rápido do que no TEW