Etwas verspätet gibt es dieses Mal die Stats Updates für März 2013 im Paket mit dem April. Wie immer findet ihr sie in unserer Download-Datenbank.

Die Stats Updates für Februar 2013 sind ab heute bei uns verfügbar. Wie immer sind sie in unserer Download-Datenbank zu finden.

Zum vierten und letzten Mal im Jahr 2012 konnten wir nun die begehrten WrestlingSims.de-Diary Awards vergeben. Wir gratulieren dazu ganz herzlich DonBoromir, der trotz seiner kurzen Mitgliedschaft innerhalb der Community bereits einen bleibenden Eindruck hinterlassen hat und verdient den Award für das beste Feedback verliehen bekommt.

Den Award für das beste Diary konnte zum zweiten Mal im Jahr 2012 The Lizard King gewinnen, der es damit auch als erster geschafft hat mit einem Diary zwei Awards zu bekommen.

Danke natürlich an alle User die abgestimmt haben. Allen die leider nicht gewonnen haben bzw. nicht nominiert waren sei gesagt, dass ihr euch nicht entmutigen lassen solltet. Denn Schon in drei Monaten finden die nächsten Wahlen statt.

Wie einige von euch schon bemerkt haben werden, wurde Wrestlingsims erweitert. Der Name "Wrestlingsims" verrät, dass es hier primär um Simulatoren im Wrestlingbereich, und allerart Dinge die man mit ihnen anstellen kann, geht. Einen großen Aspekt nehmen die brühmten Diarys ein, die mit den verschiedenen Spielen simuliert werden können. Da wären z.B. EWR, TEW, TNM und bald auch unser erstes eigenes, noch in der Entwicklung befindliches Spiel, LeagueWarz 2.
Um unseren eigenen Produktionen mehr Raum zu geben, haben wir das Unterprojekt www.Wrestlingsims-Games.de gestartet. Dort erfahrt Ihr Neuigkeiten zu allen Spielen die unter dem Wrestlingsims Banner veröffentlicht werden. Natürlich hat LeagueWarz 2 momentan Priorität, da es als sicher gilt, das es 2013 endlich fertig wird. Doch danach wird es auch andere Spiele geben, mit Wrestlingbezug. Diese werden sich zwar eher in der Sparte Minigame oder/und MobileApp befinden aber der Spaßfaktor wird stimmen. Eins haben alle Spiele auf www.Wrestlingsims-Games.de gemeinsam: Sie sind Freeware, also komplett kostenlos und werden von Wrestlingfans für Wrestlingfans gemacht! .

Nun sind auch endlich die Stats Updates für Januar 2013 bei uns verfügbar. Wie immer in unserer Download-Datenbank zu finden.

Ab dem heutigen Tag findet ihr unter dem Link in der Überschrift den offiziellen Blog zu League Warz 2. Dort werdet ihr alle Neuerungen und Updates bis zum Release erhalten. Zudem gibt es auch Screenshots und einige Beschreibungen, um euch das Spiel näher zu bringen.

Total Extreme Wrestling 2013 ist erschienen. Ab heute haben Spieler nun die Möglichkeit die neueste Version aus dem Hause Grey Dog Software für 35,95 $ ihr eigen zu nennen. TEW2013 steht als digitaler Download exklusiv über die Grey Dog Homepage zur Verfügung. Wie üblich hat Adam Ryland die Verbesserungen und neuen Funktionen bis zum Release in seinem Developer´s Journal bis zum endgültigen Release bekanntgeben, worüber wir euch natürlich auch hier auf dem Laufenden gehalten haben.

Über die offizielle Grey Dog Homepage ist nun die erste spielbare Demo zu TEW2013 erschienen.

We are pleased to be able to announce the release dates for TEW2013.

Sunday December 9th - TEW2013 Public Beta Release

Sunday December 16th - TEW2013 Retail Release

As you can see, we are following the same successful model as for the past several games, which is that we will be releasing a public beta first then the official game later.

For those of you not familiar with the concept, the Public Beta is a version of the game that allows you to play as many times as you want, but only for one month of game time before it 'locks' that particular save game (the save game can be unlocked with the retail version if you wish to continue it). This serves two purposes; it allows you to play the game thoroughly and get a good idea of whether you would like to purchase it, and it also allows us to fix any last-minute bugs that got through before we start charging for the product.

Note that the editor will be fully operational in the Public Beta, and so mod makers will be able to start work without needing to wait for the Retail version.

As always, we are not stating an exact time for the release; this is to avoid a situation where lots of people 'camp out' on the site at a specific time and all start hitting reset over and over again, as this puts enormous pressure on our servers and doesn't help anyone. To try and make things as easy as possible, we will be having an IRC channel open on both days where people can chat - the aim being that if people are in there talking rather than constantly bumping an "is it out yet? \ pre-release random chat" thread then the server will be under less pressure and you'll still be able to find out as soon as it is released.

If people wish to upload the files to their own servers and give out mirror links in order to ease the pressure then they are more than welcome to.

Details on purchasing the game via PayPal will be forthcoming.

We will finish the journal with a random selection of features that didn't get their own entry, either because they were too small to warrant one or because I didn't have time to fit them in. This list is in no particular order, nor is it complete - there are lots of other features that have been left for the player to discover for themselves while playing the game.

- Gimmicks can be created in-game when at the assigning stage, removing the need to go back to the main editor.

- The entire storyline section has been revamped to be more user friendly and flexible.

- The tag team section contains a list of "incomplete tag teams", i.e. those that exist and which you already have one member (or both but haven't yet activated the team).

- A worker's personality types are easily visible from any list without the need to go into his profile to look it up.

- The dirt sheet, previously quite hard to read when showing a lot of information, has been upgraded to be more user friendly.

- The AI will stack legendary events and season finales with top talent to make the most of them and rightly treat them as being special.

- Morale \ backstage ratings take into account brand splits.

- Physical recovery rates are more pronounced in how effective they are between young wrestlers and people who are past their prime.

- The venue selection screen has been redone to provide more information and be more user friendly.

- If a wrestler will refuse a match because it is too risky, he will now tell you when you try and add him, not wait until you've finished the rest of the booking and go to save, thus saving you wasting effort.

- Initial momentum is scaled to promotion size rather than segment ratings, thus eliminating the issue of smaller promotions having a very difficult time getting high momentum.

- Gimmick can now be classified as generic or non-generic; the latter meaning that if more than one person in a promotion uses it, the person playing it worse gets penalised for coming across as an inferior version.

- Virtually every item in the game can be imported.

- The load and delete menus now show lots of information about the game, including time and date of last access.

- No penalties are incurred for not using an announcing team if the event was not televised.

- When viewing a show's output, you can now review the road agent notes you used for that segment.

- If a worker gets injured by another, a negative relationship can form.

- To add more of a booking challenge, some workers can refuse to work with specific others if they have a particularly negative relationship.

- Battle royal booking now includes full filters and an "exclude already booked" button.

- A wrestler's death during a calendar year makes him slightly more likely to win awards due to sentimentality.

- Narratives have been added to create new bad habits for workers.

- More realistic penalties have been added for workers using dispositions or gimmicks that don't suit them.

- Storylines will lose heat if not advanced on major shows if at least one participant was involved; this stops the cheap tactic of "freezing" a good heat grade by not doing anything further.

- A worker's loyalty is now easy to see from any list or profile screen.

- Loyalty was too powerful in previous games, and has been rejigged; workers will now be able to work elsewhere, and the AI is smarter about using it.

- Touring companies have an increased chance of bringing back workers who ended previous tours as champions.

- Running a dojo now involves ongoing costs.

- New dating relationships used to be quite rare due to the imbalance of men to women in most promotions. Major work has been done on addressing this so that more happen.

- The tag team screens list all the previous tag titles that a duo have held.

- When negotiating with someone you can set whether they are to go directly to development or not, thus eliminating the issue of signing someone only to find they don't want to go.

- When booking storylines, a list of who is currently already being used is easily accessible.

- The regeneration options have been further expanded to include Regenerates With Picture, Without Picture or No Regeneration, as well as the aforementioned Legacy options.

- A worker's freelance status is easily visible from all list and profile screens.

- A Clone Match button is available in the editor, allowing you to take, for example, a 1 vs 1 cage match and quickly populate versions for 2 vs 2, 3 vs 3, etc.

- You can now get mails from trainers telling you when they think that someone is ready to be called up.

- Rather than just being cosmetic, the head trainer of a dojo now affects the rating of the facility and can also develop a mentor relationship with students.

- The settings in the Era section have been overhauled, expanding the number of categories and refining the amount of control you have over each, including allowing nearly every section to be applied to specific game areas only if desired.

- The way battle royals are rated has been completely overhauled to be more realistic.

- From the Product screens you can now pick an existing company and import their product settings directly.

- Estimated monthly costs and income are shown on the Finance screen to help financial planning.

- Alter egos can have minimum and maximum age requirement settings.

- Road agent notes during a match can be hard to read, especially in multi-man matches; this has been redesigned to be more user friendly and easy to read.

- Injuries can be limited by gender.

- During negotiations, a worker's AI regarding assessing offers has been upgraded, and they are now far better at taking the package as a whole into account rather than biasing so heavily toward company size.

- The Product screens now include premade products that can be quickly applied.

- Gimmick and turn 'staleness' is no longer done on time elapsed but on the number of appearances the worker has made and on the types of show he appears on. Also, the tolerance level before a gimmick becomes stale now relates to the quality of the gimmick too (i.e. a really good gimmick lasts longer).

- The user can now set what specific things to look for during drug testing.

- AI TV booking has been upgraded to be more realistic in regards to the number of matches and angles and how they are used.

- TV shows now have prestige, based on how many seasons they run for. This allows the AI to bias toward preserving or bringing back their most well known shows.

- AI companies are more aggressive opponents during wars, especially in regards to raiding.

- The code regarding calculating wages has been completely overhauled to take more factors into consideration. It also no longer works in 'bands', meaning that you're far less likely to see an identical wage demand from lots of workers who are at the same level of popularity.

- A worker who has been away for a long time will get his momentum rebooted when he returns.

- PPV buy rate calculation has been overhauled, both in terms of being more sensitive to the importance and quality of the show being presented, but also taking previous shows into consideration (for example, hitting the view with many pay-per-views in a short period of time will see them start thinking twice about buying from you).

- Morale \ Talk To Worker is now incorporated into the roster screen itself, saving the user from having to flip between two different sections to handle related issues.

- A version of CBH's "return to base" has been added, allowing the user to skip the web site and go straight to his or her office upon starting a new day \ turn.

- The Size screen now includes a Spillover pop-up, explaining the concept and giving a table of which regions spillover into which others.

- Spillover has been altered to be more realistic for the UK and Europe.

- There are new female-only independent shows to help give unemployed women more places to develop their skills.

- There are more independent shows in general, allowing workers more opportunity to develop. The number can scale based upon how many unemployed workers there are in the area.

- When doing your initial User Talents, there are preset option available to speed up the process.

- Upon signing a new PPV deal the user will automatically be given the option to automatically set all his or her events to be PPV sized, thus saving him the trouble of going to the Schedule screen or potentially forgetting.

- The entire Trends feature has been overhauled to play a much more important part in the game.

- The rate of new worker generation can be greatly increased so that users who want to fill up an area quickly can do so.

- The entire e-mail section has been upgraded to be more user friendly.

- The Schedule section has been overhauled to be more user friendly and require less clicking, including a button to set all the events to their "best" level automatically.

- Multi-man tag teams can get experience boosts from the tag teams contained inside them, and teams can also gain experience from being in these matches.

- When viewing networks, an on-screen prompt will tell the user if he is viewing a station who he doesn't have the requirements to get a contract with, thus saving potentially wasting time with a doomed negotiation.

- The need to be off-screen for a period of time to do a big gimmick change has been removed in favour of smarter AI in handling said change.

- The Dominate road agent note has been too easy to exploit in the past, and so has been revamped to have more potential drawbacks and penalties if used badly.

- Giving a wrestler a road agent note like Protect, Dominate or Keep Strong now gives a slight increase in their willingness to suffer a loss.

- The code that governs opening new promotions has been totally overhauled to provide more realistic and effective results.

- Events can be set to be never on pay-per-view from the editor, primarily for scenario usage.

- The storyline section now has a history button, where you can view previous storylines that have been held.

- Currently turns and gimmick changes in development promotions carry over to their parent promotion once the worker is called back up; the two are now treated as being entirely separate, so a worker will return with the same settings as when he left.

- Custom venues can be outgrown, especially for smaller promotions, and so now can be sold off to raise cash.

- You can now edit custom venues via the Investments screen.

- The Finance screen is easily accessible from all negotiations-based screens, making things more user friendly.

- The promotion's name can be inserted into angle commentary in the same way that worker's names and genders can be.

- Alter Egos can now have their own masks.

- The user has the option of turning off the e-mails giving you your latest TV ratings, as they can often annoyingly fill up an inbox.

Each person involved in an angle now has a Storyline Change rating; this is a value running Major Defeat, through Neutral, and up to Major Success that indicates how that worker looked at the end of the angle. In essence, it gives context to the angle.

It is this value that allows storylines to take into account who is doing well in kayfabe terms, and to evaluate booking at a deeper level than in previous iterations.

When in the development section of the game, you now automatically get access to a report giving feedback from the trainers on how the worker is doing, focusing on where they are in their potential improvement. This report is shown on screen whenever you click a worker, and so doesn't require extra clicking and makes scrolling quickly through the entire roster quick and easy.

Assuming an Internet connection can be found (otherwise the feature is ignored), the game will automatically check the GDS server when first loaded and give you a pop-up warning if a new patch has been released. This will help make sure that you always have the most recent and bug-free version without the need to check back constantly. Note that this is merely a warning, you are free to ignore it - there is no auto download involved.

A concept taken from the WMMA series, TEW2013 will feature a Size Limiter; this means that an upper limit to the size rating of a company can be set.

For example, you might set it so that your promotion is limited to Cult size, meaning that even if you increase your popularity to levels that would make you a National company, you stay at Cult. This can be very useful if you think that the jump to National would be too much for you, and you want extra time to bring on board more star wrestlers, get yourself a TV deal, etc, etc.

Size Limits can be set via the editor before the game starts (this can be useful for scenarios or historical mods too). AI promotions will stick to what they are assigned. User companies can turn their Size Limit on or off, or alter it, whenever they like.

In previous games, steroid usage has been almost exclusively bad - primarily increasing the chance of early death. In TEW2013 it will be more balanced; although negatives still remain (early death, increased injury risk, roid rage, etc), there are also now positives (quicker skill increases in certain categories, slower skill decreases in certain categories, faster recovery from injury, etc).

TEW2013 keeps track of how often announcers work call shows together, creating an Announcing Team Experience value. The higher the experience a team (whether two or three people) scores, the more bonuses they will get.

These values can be preset in the editor.

This feature therefore helps stop the user from simply hiring the best announcer available and best colour available and then getting rid of them when you can afford someone better - instead, it encourages developing a team over time and actually crafting a duo (or trio) to represent your company.

A new addition to the game is Recent Fortunes; this exists for every wrestler under contract, and is a measure of how strongly they have been booked recently in kayfabe terms (that means in terms of what the audience sees as being "real", i.e. losses, humiliations or setbacks in angles, etc). It is closely associated with Momentum, with the different being that Momentum shifts by segments ratings, Recent Fortunes shifts by the actual content.

For example, if a wrestler gets hit with too many bad things in a row - losses in matches, coming out of angles looking weak - then he will gradually build up a negative value ("a stigma") for Recent Fortunes. As the fans are therefore seeing him as being weak, he will find it harder to build popularity until the stigma has been removed through stronger booking. The opposite of course applies for a string of good things happening to him.

Recent Fortunes can be set via the editor.

It should be noted that Recent Fortunes doesn't apply to everyone; as enhancement talents and other low-level workers are expected to lose quite a lot anyway, their Recent Fortunes have little or no effect on them.

This feature therefore brings more reality to the game as instead of being fixated on just the final ratings, you must also balance the content of what is happening to each wrestler. It also punishes lazy, cheap booking - never bothering to come up with any real direction for Midcarder X and simply using him whenever you need an easy victory for a main eventer or rising star will soon land you in trouble, as you're going to end up with a wrestler who has been made to look so weak that he'll stop gaining popularity and will require effort to get 'back on track'.

When setting up a worker to debut a new gimmick, the user now has the option of deciding how much input the worker will have in the process. This can range from having everything be tightly scripted by the creative team all the way through to letting the worker have complete control and be allowed to improvise as he sees fit.

The choices bring up a risk vs reward scenario; the more natural and improvised a gimmick, the higher the chance it has of being better than normal as the worker's personality and preferences give it a boost...but equally, there's more of a chance that it could bomb badly as the worker makes errors of judgement. On the flip side, tightly controlling what happens eliminates both extremes, so you neither have the 'good' chance of an awesome gimmick happening nor the 'bad' chance of a disaster.

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Developer's Note: Next week will be the final set of journal entries. On Friday we will be announcing the release dates for the traditional public beta that we always do and the full retail version of the game.

In order to improve the strategic element, the user now has a cap on how many user talent points he can accumulate over the course of the game. This therefore means that your initial selection is more important, and sacrificing a weak area in order to gain a strong one is more likely to have a long-term impact.

In previous games, a person who was a positive backstage influence would cancel out someone who was a negative backstage influence. To make it more realistic, the seniority \ importance of the worker is now taken into account; i.e. a main event star who is an egomaniacal jerk might take six or seven midcarders who are nice people to balance out his effect on the backstage harmony rating.

The Hall Of Immortals has been redesigned. Instead of a gallery that is fairly cumbersome to navigate, the inductees are all in a list down one side of the screen. Clicking one brings up previous accomplishments so that you can get a sense of why they are in the HOI.

Every worker whose role in an angle involved talking or acting can now be set to either follow the script or be allowed room to improvise. Scripted is automatically the default. There are pros and cons to both.

A worker who is scripted is much less likely to go disastrously wrong but, as a result, also does not have the capacity to interact with the crowd as naturally or 'go with the flow' and so loses the ability to overperform.

A worker who is left to improvise around a few basic points has the opposite pros and cons - with no 'safety net', there's always the chance he could go completely wrong and end up bombing, but equally he could work with the crowd's reactions to create something special.

Workers who improvise will naturally improve faster at Microphone Skills, Charisma and Acting than a worker who is tied to a script.

On top of that, the breakdown of the angle will also affect things. For example, if six people in an angle are following a script but one is improvising wildly, the six may end up struggling or being completely thrown off because of the improv work. Similarly, if everyone is improvising then it can get really messy.

On top of that, some workers have preferences to scripted or improvisation, and some may even demand - or use their creative control - to make sure they get their way.

This system is therefore simple for the player to use - it's simply a matter of ticking check boxes - but adds a whole new strategic dimension to the use of angles.

To increase the user friendliness of the game, the house show system is now automated in TEW2013.

The interesting \ useful bit - being able to book specific matches that you'd like to happen in order to test out chemistry - remains under the player control.

The dull bit - setting up and occasionally updating which regions to visit, setting the order of the visits, setting which days it should happen on - is now handled automatically by the AI. The AI does this 'smartly', automatically running a schedule that doesn't interfere with your events or TV shows and hitting the regions that are either necessary to maintain your popularity (a priority) or you can get good revenue from. It also automatically updates itself as you go along, so if you suddenly change to a completely different schedule of events or rise in size, the AI will make appropriate changes to the house shows instantly.

This therefore removes one of the duller, admin-type parts of the game from the player's radar and allows him to concentrate on the more interesting stuff, without losing any of the benefits of having house shows.

Following on from the previous entry, the selection of angles has also been given an upgrade to increase user-friendliness.

When selecting an angle, you will now see two sets of boxes, Content and Rated On.

The Content box contains ten terms that describe the angles, ranging from Action and Alliance to Turn and Video. Using the right and left mouse buttons you can scroll backwards of forwards through three states - Contains, Doesn't Contain, or Neutral. Crucially, multiple terms can be in multiple states. So, for example, with two clicks you could search for all the angles that ARE to do with alliances but ARE NOT videos. Because of the flexibility of the system, you can easily narrow down your potential list of angles very quickly.

The Rated On box contains the six things that a person can be rated on, ranging from Overness to Menace. Again, you can use the right and left mouse buttons to scroll between Contains, Doesn't Contain or Neutral, and have multiple states on multiple terms. When applied, it looks at everyone involved in the angle. So if Menace was set to Contains, you would find every angle that contains at least one worker who was being rated on that. As a further example, you could search for any angle that contains at least one worker rated on Overness, one worker rated on Menace, but nobody on Microphone skills - this would allow you to find the 'Monster Unleashed' angles from TEW2010 very easily.

The user still has access to the traditional filters too.

This method allows for a huge amount of flexibility and for the user to narrow down the choice of angles extremely quickly and efficiently. This therefore will make finding the right angle - even if the mod you are using has an enormous amount - a breeze.

To improve the user-friendliness of booking angles, the screen in question now includes a special "quick filter" feature.

Just above the area where you select the workers who are involved are a line of buttons, split into two - on one side are the buttons Everyone \ Faces \ Heels, while on the other are buttons for each possible push (i.e. Main Event, Upper Midcard, etc).

With the latter set, right-clicking cycles through on or off (i.e. clicking Main Event once turns it off, clicking a second time turns it back on) while left-clicking makes that the only one turned on (i.e. left-clicking Upper Midcard turns everything else off except Upper Midcard itself, which is turned on).

By default, the filter starts with Everyone and all the pushes turned on.

Beside each worker is a tick box indicating whether the quick filters apply to them or not - the default is that everyone is ticked. If unticked, the dropdown box simply contains all the workers who are available.

As an example, if you had an angle with two people in it and you wanted the first to be one of your main event heels and the second to be a babyface manager or personality, but couldn't remember which workers filled those roles, you could do it in just a few clicks. You would just have to click Heels and left-click Main Event to get an appropriate list. You would then untick the first worker's filter box, click Faces, left-click Manager, right-click Personality, and you would have an appropriate list.

This improves the experience as, unlike previous versions, you do not have to remember which workers are at which pushes in your company, nor who the faces and heels are. Also, as the filter is on-screen and does not need to be opened in a separate window, it is quicker to use. Finally, unlike most other filters, this can be applied to specific boxes, not all at once. This therefore makes booking angles a much easier and more user-friendly process.

Some of the 'lower level' decisions - like TV cancellations, for example - can now be handled immediately rather than having to make the request, wait a day or two to hear back, then deal with them. This makes things quicker and easier on the player and helps reduce loading times.

In previous games the user has had access to Top 10 lists via a promotion's profile; these are now Top 100s.

The times available for pre and post show times have been extended; the user can now have up to an hour or pre-show content, and up to half an hour of post-show content.

There are two new hiring rules that are specifically for helping Japanese promotions, although they can be used elsewhere.

The first is "No Foreign Workers" which, as the name suggests, means the company will only hire workers from its home area.

The second is "No Foreign Workers (Except For Tours)", which obviously modifies the first rule to allow touring contracts to be offered.

The hope is that the use of these rules will allow Japanese companies to assemble and maintain rosters with a more realistic ratio of natives to gaijin.

As a useful cosmetic change, the in-game website has been remodelled. It now features a list down the right hand side containing every story, and a center section that will show the one that is highlighted in detail.

This gives two benefits. The first is that it removes a lot of clicking, as even if there are a hundred stories they're all only a scroll and a click away. The second is that it makes getting an overview of the days' events much more accessible, as you can instantly see all the major stories (and, in most cases, every single story headline).

Today we will be looking at the improvements to the Advance Booking section, which is now known as Pre Booking in TEW2013.

Firstly, instead of a limited selection of basic types, any match from the database can be pre-booked. This allows gimmicks like ladders, cages, etc, to be used.

Secondly, the user can now pre-book angles as well as matches. Again, any angle in the database can be used.

As a change from previous games, the regular booking screen now includes an Add From Pre Booking button; this allows the user to select something he has pre-booked and add it directly into the show's booking grid. Once added, the user then has the ability to alter it as he sees fit, or add new items like road agent notes, etc.

In order to reduce the number of clicks and make the interface more user-friendly, whenever you are looking at a worker or company you will have access to a Quick Info Tab at the side; this is an area which has between two and four tabs at the top that allow you to quickly view information that in previous games would require you to open the related profile and access a sub-screen.

For workers, the four tabs are: Skills, Popularity, Behaviour (a summary of their personality), and Relationships.

For companies, the two tabs are: Popularity and Roster (with double-clicking enabled to allow jumping straight to the worker highlighted).

Each company can now set one of their events to be a 'season finale' if they wish; this means that it will be a natural point where major storylines will finish and new ones begin.

A season finale event gets an attendance boost due to the excitement felt by the fans and the wrestlers will work hard knowing that it's an important show, but on the downside expectations will also be higher so the show needs to be good to avoid coming across as a disappointment.

Companies are limited to having one season finale every twelve months, otherwise they incur penalties.

In previous games every region impacted buyrates in the same way, which causes an imbalance - for example, an American promotion would get much higher buyrates than a Japanese promotion of the same size because USA has 11 regions, Japan only has 8. To address this, different regions now contribute different amounts.

The user can request that members of his roster gain or lose weight; obviously this will not always be accepted and there is a maximum limit to how often you can do it.

If a worker is set to turn on his partner during a match, he will both be less likely to complain about losing (as there's a good reason for it) and will be exempt from overness and momentum hits as a result of the loss.

Unlike in previous iterations, promotions that have gone out of business before the database's start date can now be added in; this allows them to appear in the Companies screen (when filtered for Inactive companies) for completeness, and also means they can be referenced in things like End Of Year Awards and Employment Histories.

To aid mod makers, the Mass Edit feature has now been significantly upgraded to allow for maximum flexibility and power. Amongst the changes are:

- Being able to make workers active or inactive in specific game areas

- Being able set all age-related stats

- Being able to remove all contracts at once

- Increasing or decreasing the "years service" part of contracts

- For every stat you can now Set it (i.e. "set to 18"), Increase Numerically (i.e. "add 12"), Increase By Percentage (i.e. "increase by 50%"), Decrease Numerically, and Decrease By Percentage.

- Being able to set all the different scouting levels

The actual menu system has also been divided up into two boxes - a topic and an amount - to make it much easier to use.

New to TEW2013 are gradual turns; this means that once you have set a worker to make a face or heel turn he will automatically begin foreshadowing the change and you will get appropriate feedback.

For example, if you turn Wrestler X to turn heel then you may see "The fans are really not buying X's subtle heel mannerisms" in the road agent notes, giving you a clue that he might not have what it takes to play a heel.

Furthermore, the game keeps track of the gradual turn. Surprise turns (i.e. little or no build up) are good for occasional swerves or shock value, but do too many of them and they will lose their impact entirely. Likewise, foreshadow a turn for too long and the fans will get bored and frustrated that you are not 'pulling the trigger' and the turn will get heavy penalties when it does happen. All of these things are hinted at (or flat-out stated) in the road agent notes to help you identify what is going on.

In previous editions, massive promotions, once running smoothly, will usually be able to generate immense profits. In order to prevent this from becoming too much of an issue, companies will now have to pay tax. This is done on monthly profits, and is done on a tax "band" system - i.e. the higher your profits, the higher the rate of tax you will pay. This helps keep the game world more balanced, as promotions that are struggling financially will only be mildly affected (if at all), while the behemoths will take a large hit (but one that won't stop them being wealthy, just from being ridiculously over-the-top Scrooge McDuck wealthy).

o increase the realism of the game, a new feature called 'Indy Sleaze' has been added to TEW2013. Randomly occurring and only applicable to promotions below National size, this introduces things like wrestlers not getting paid, arguments that cause someone to quit before the show, workers not bothering to turn up, petty feuds turning nasty, etc, etc. These will often result in new relationships forming or people leaving a promotion.

Indy Sleaze only happens to AI promotions. This is to balance things out, as in previous games only the player had to deal with random incidents and morale-related issues; with the new feature, the AI now may have to deal with no-shows and walk outs too.

Indy Sleaze incidents are reported in the Internet section.

The two graphical calendars (i.e. the ones that use green ticks and red crosses to show availability) have been upgraded so that they also show an icon on any day on which you have a show to book; hovering over the icon will give the name(s) of the show(s). This makes it easier and quicker to plan ahead, as you don't have to memorise your current schedule (or flick back and forth between the two).

The maximum allowed length for picture file names has been increased from 30 to 35 characters, by request.

New to the game this year are Alliances (AKA umbrella organisations). These can be preset via the editor or created during gameplay. There is a separate Alliance section, accessible via the main taskbar, in the game where all current Alliances can be seen.

An Alliance is a governing body that oversees a grouping of two or more companies. Every Alliance has a name, logo, profile, and founding date, plus eligibility criteria - the latter defines which companies (by location, size and style) can join the Alliance. The Alliance can also be defined to have a maximum number of members if needed, otherwise the default is that there is no limit to how many members can be part of an Alliance.

There are six types of Alliance, which are described below. An Alliance can have any or all of these types enabled, as long as one is active. The types cannot be changed once an Alliance is active (to stop abuse with one member changing the rules each time to benefit themselves).

Public: This means that each member's prestige and momentum can be affected by the fortunes of other members, i.e. if one promotion rises in size then all can get a small boost, and if one promotion goes bankrupt everyone takes a hit.

Consortium: This means that the monthly profits from all the members are combined together into one 'pot' which is then divided equally amongst all the members. This 'spreads the wealth' and allows profitable companies to help absorb the losses of the others.

Bordered: This means that no member is allowed to run shows outside of their home area (i.e. USA, Canada, etc) if another member is based there.

Territorial: This means that each member is only allowed to run shows in their home region.

Protective: This means that no member can run shows in the home region of another member (unless it is also their own home region).

Trading: This means that the members will have access to the Alliance Loan feature (described below).

In all the above cases, the rules are automatically enforced, the user cannot choose to break them.

As well as those six, there are also two other features which are automatically available in any Alliance - the first is that all members can access Talent Trades with all other members (this is usually limited to companies who have a working agreement), and secondly Alliance members cannot hurt each other during the monthly regional or national battle features.

As mentioned above, Trading Alliances allow the use of Alliance Loans. An Alliance Loan allows you to borrow a worker from another member temporarily. The Alliance brokers the deal, taking a small admin fee to do so. Unlike Talent Trades, companies cannot reject loan requests (although workers themselves can refuse to go). As the loans are brokered by the Alliance, the wages of the worker are also usually cheaper than they would be from a Talent Trade. The Alliance itself keeps track of loans and will step in if any company abuses the system. AI companies do make use of this system, including taking workers on loan from user-controlled companies.

AI-controlled companies can and will leave Alliances during gameplay if they feel they are no longer beneficial to them, although you can preset (via the editor) whether each member is permanent or not for historical scenarios - if so, they will not be able to leave.

The user can create a new Alliance from his control room at any point, there is no minimum size requirement, and can also choose to quit an Alliance whenever he wants or attempt to join an existing one. He can also choose to invite in new companies to join an Alliance he is part of, although in all cases a new addition must be ratified by every other member first - vetoes can happen if the new company has a bad relationship with an existing member, poses a threat to an existing members, or if the owners do not get on.

It should be noted that leaving an Alliance has the potential to create hostile or war-like relationships with the other members of the Alliance who you are leaving.

All companies are limited to being in one Alliance at a time.

Alliances will automatically shut down if they are ever reduced to just one member.

Using the Era section, the mod maker or user can now alter how much higher or lower pay-per-view buy rates will be compared to the default level; "buy rates" meaning the number of people purchasing the PPV. This allows, for example, pay-per-view to become more and more important as you move from the seventies through to the nineties, then have it tail off and start to become less important from then on.

Following on from the previous entry, wrestlers will now take a company's TV status into account when negotiating contracts. So a company that has weak or non-existent TV coverage is going to be significantly less attractive than one that does. Again, this makes your TV status key, as it is in real life.

For this first time in the series, the PPV ratings that a company can achieve are now significantly impacted if they do not have a decent TV show; this is to simulate the effects of not having the primary means of hyping \ selling your shows. This makes it even more paramount for large companies to get and maintain a strong TV presence, as without it they will suffer greatly.

The basic unit that is used to control TV and PPV ratings (i.e. how many viewers equates to one 'point') is now customisable at both the database level and via Options. Although this is purely cosmetic, it means that users can monkey about with the figures to their heart's content if they wish to create certain effects.

Using the editor the user can now pre-set how many defences a champion has already had, rather than having them always start from zero.

A fifth user talent, Diplomacy, has now been added. This is used when handling incidents, and affects the chances of good or bad responses. For example, if you choose to suspend a worker for a drug test failure then having a high Diplomacy talent would mean an increased chance of it causing the worker to see the error of his ways and get himself clean. A low score would mean he's more likely to just get mad at you.

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After large events the user will have the option of giving a speech to the locker room. These speeches allow the user to single out between one and three workers who appeared on the show and give them specific praise (ranging from Given Some Encouragement to Praised For A Great Performance) or criticism (ranging from Told They Could Do Better to Ripped Into For Their Night's Work).

The choices go towards a worker's motivation. However, it is not simply a case of picking some praise and getting a boost. Firstly, the game keeps track of recent speeches, and it will normally take at least two or three positive comments to build up to a motivation boost. Secondly, some workers will actually get lazy if you're constantly praising them, and may need a few harsh words to keep them focussed. Thirdly, it is not only the workers you choose to comment on who are affected - if you praise one worker repeatedly, then someone who dislikes him may get annoyed that they're not also getting praised. Similarly, some workers may get upset if you haven't praised them in a while. It therefore requires some juggling to make sure you don't end up giving some people worse motivation.

You will get on-screen responses and notes to help you see and understand who is being affected by your speeches. Also, a history of previous speeches is available on-screen so that you can keep track of what you've done previously.

The feature is entirely optional and can therefore be skipped entirely if you wish.

You can now turn all chemistry-related features off via the Options menu if, for whatever reason, you don't believe chemistry exists in reality.

On the Roster screen there is now a "Managing" button; this generates a pop-up that will show who that worker is currently the manager of. This is simply for ease of use, as in previous games you could only see who a worker's manager was, not the other way around.

Another new road agent note is Limited Involvement; this indicates that a specific worker should have as little ring time as possible (obviously this can only be used in matches where there are enough partners or opponents to cover his or her 'absence'). As they are barely involved they have a much smaller impact on the match's final grade, are ineligible for certain penalties (such as those related to stamina, etc), cannot get injured, etc, etc, but also cannot gain as much popularity or momentum. There are also some penalties involved in using it to stop it being abused. This note therefore allows you to protect workers or hide glaring weaknesses.

We will look at three of the new road agent notes today.

Injury Infliction: This means the match is stopped because one worker has beaten up another so badly that they have to be stretchered out.

Kayfabe Injury: This means that one of the worker's get injured during the match and so it has to be stopped (but he's just working the audience, the worker isn't really hurt).

Replacement Referee: The original referee gets knocked out near the end of the match and is replaced by the worker specified; he is then the referee for the finish.

Today we'll take a look at three time-saving improvements that have been made to the road agent notes section; all of them are relatively small, but will save you a lot of time in a section of the game you use a lot.

Firstly, they are now context sensitive; this means that road agent notes that don't make sense are left out of the selection entirely, meaning you have a smaller, more efficient list that therefore makes it easier to find what you need. For example, if you are running a standard singles match then you won't see the ladder match finishes, the cage match finishes, etc.

Secondly, the road agent notes are now in a large list box rather than a drop down menu. Again, this is a small change, but it does speed up the process as you can both see most of the list immediately and it means it takes one click, not two to get to what you want. Also, the list is now broken up with sub-headings to make it more logical and ordered.

Thirdly and finally, the simplest of the three changes - you can now double-click any road agent note to add it, rather than having to select it and then click on a button further across the screen. This simply speeds up the process (especially if you are doing multiple items).

Tomorrow we'll look at some of the new road agent notes that have been added.

When booking battle royals, there are now four extra road agent notes to give you more control over how it unfolds. The four are:

Finalist: The worker makes it to the "final four".

Runner Up: The worker is the last person eliminated.

Most Eliminations: The worker eliminates more people than anyone else.

Iron Man: The worker lasts longer than anyone else.

Related to the previous entry, workers now have the ability to sit out their contracts if they are under a non-compete clause but are extremely unhappy. This means their is a stand-off - the worker will not turn up for any shows and so cannot be used, but as he is not working the company does not have to pay him. This then continues until the deal expires (or the company releases him). This is quite a rare occurrence though, and would only happen in extreme circumstances.

As well as Creative Control, which was in previous games, there are now two other clauses that can be used as "sweeteners".

The first is Hiring Veto; as simple as it sounds, if a worker has this clause in his contract then he has the right to stop you making offers to anyone who he doesn't want in the promotion (this only applies to new signings, not re-signings).

The second is Auto Wage Match. If Worker X has this clause and Worker Y is signed to a deal of the same type for a higher wage, then Worker X's contract is automatically updated to match it.

Of course, both these clauses make the contract more attractive to the worker but sacrifice some of your control.

Another new part of contracts is the Non-Compete Clause, which is only available for written contracts. If a worker is under a non-compete clause then he cannot leave the company unless the contract expires or he is released; i.e. no matter how unhappy he gets, he is locked down to that promotion. Of course, as the worker has less freedom under a non-compete clause including one in negotiations makes the offer less attractive.

It is important to note that workers who are not under non-compete clause always have the option of handing in their notice if they get too unhappy - even if they are under a written deal. This is different to previous games where all a worker could do is request a release if he got too miserable.

Today we will look at two more terms that are part of contract negotiations.

The first is intended push; as simple as it sounds, this guarantees an active wrestler that he'll have a minimum push for the duration of the deal. This ranges from Never Lower Than Main Eventer all the way down to Opener, and includes "Normal Push" (the default setting, means there is no guarantee). Obviously the higher the push you guarantee, the more attractive the offer.

The second is availability; this covers what shows a worker will be contracted for. The options are All Shows, PPV Only, Major TV Shows And Above and Everything Except House Shows. So if a worker was contracted for Major TV Shows And Above then he wouldn't be available for booking on 'B' shows or house shows. Again, the terms affect the attractiveness of the offer and are strictly enforced.

We will look at some more terms in the next entry.

Related to the above, some of the TV-related screens now come equipped with a Suggest A Name button which uses the generator to randomly give you inspiration.

As with the other sections already mentioned in previous entries, TEW2013 will allow the user to edit the previously in-built TV show name generator.

Each potential name can be defined by area (whether it is available for US companies, Canadian companies, etc).

By default, every database will start with the same set of names that TEW2010 had in-built, so for those mod makers who have no interest in this, there's no need to do anything at all.

Negotiating with a worker is now a far deeper experience, and these entries will explore two of the new contract terms.

The first is Roster Usage; this is where you specify what role on the roster the worker would be contracted for. This runs from "Whatever Is Needed" and "Exclusively In Ring" to "Exclusively An Announcer" and "Exclusively A Referee". This offers a balancing act of sorts, because whatever you choose will be strictly enforced.

For example, offering someone a position as exclusively being a colour commentator has the advantage that it makes the contract a more attractive proposition to them (as they know they'll have a defined role and won't be having to ever go in the ring and take bumps), but has the drawback that you're then locked into that choice for the remainder of the contract. On the flipside, offering "Whatever Is Needed" gives you the freedom of using them however you like (as in previous games), but is a less attractive proposition to them (as they're basically at your beck and call) and so you may have to pay them more to get them to accept it.

The second term is Intended Role; this tells an in-ring competitor how you are planning to use them. Each of the defined roles can carry certain pros and \ or cons. For example, "As A Special Attraction" means that the worker will not complain if he is rarely used, but he will expect to be booked strongly when he does appear. "Nostalgia Act" means that they will not expect to be used very often and know they'll lose most of their matches. "Icon" means that they'll expect incredible treatment. Obviously "good" roles make a contract more attractive, "bad" ones makes them less so. You can also pick "Normal" role, which means there are no pros and cons.

These two terms - as well as the others that will be discussed in future entries - allow a deeper experience to contract negotiations as there are more tactics and strategy involved in the process.

There are two very minor changes to the UK game area. The first is that it has officially been renamed to British Isles as it apparently was not clear enough that "UK" was not a political division; the "Ireland" game region continues to be a geographical construct that includes both Northern Ireland and the Republic Of Ireland. Secondly, the "Midlands" game region is now "Central", and covers the center of England and Wales.

Taken from Comic Book Hero, in some areas of the editor you can choose to switch between the usual input method, sliders, and a secondary option, text boxes. This can be useful if you'd prefer to tab 'n' type your data.

In some areas of the editor, particularly worker skills and the popularity screens, the game will automatically show what grade the current value would equate to. i.e. you would see "91% (A)" after the slider.

Another change to the way contracts work involves bidding wars.

Once you've made a contract offer you are officially "in negotiations" with that worker, and this means that you will be alerted when any other company offers, alters or withdraws a contract to that person. At any time you can view all the current contract offers (including the full terms that the AI is offering) and, crucially, the worker's current position - this will tell you which offers he is seriously considering, which he's leaning toward, how long he expects to wait before making his decision, etc. You can alter your existing offer whenever you like in order to improve it.

How long the worker's decision takes will depend on many factors, including his status within the game world (i.e. an unknown, unemployed wrestler is not going to take multiple weeks to mull over a contract offer) and how many other offers there are - a full-blown bidding war will usually cause the worker to sit back and take longer over his decision, allowing the promotions to improve their offers as they offer and counteroffer.

Once a worker has considered all of his offers he will make a decision on which contract offer he prefers. That promotion will then be able to choose to either complete the contract signing or withdraw. If they withdraw, the worker then reconsiders the offers that are left, and so on.

Unlike previous games, bidding wars happen entirely in this offer-and-counteroffer style; there is no "timed" negotiation screen where you have to fight it out with others. This therefore allows multiple users to battle over the same worker, and means that if you do lose out it is because your offer wasn't good enough, not that your time management was poor.

The first of the changes to the contract system that we'll cover in this journal involves the method of offering deals.

In previous games you would request negotiations, wait some time for a yes or no, and then begin putting together offers if they were interested.

In a more realistic and time-saving method, with TEW2013 you will instead first make an initial approach that will get an instant response - rejections at this point are limited to reasons that you would not be able to negotiate your way around anyway, such as them being contractually unable to talk to you, being unavailable, etc. If they have no objections, you will then immediately be able to put together a full contract offer and send it to them.

There are several advantages to this, the main ones being:

1 - Time wasting is cut to a minimum; if a worker is never going to join you anyway, you find out immediately, not after waiting several days for a response.

2 - Because the worker gets a proper contract offer - with specific terms and values - to think about, you have the opportunity to entice them with big offers. This is superior to the previous method where they could reject you outright before even hearing your offer because they were basing their response on your promotion's size, etc, not on what you were offering.

3 - The user has less to remember; because you get instant reactions, you can get everything done right there and then. You don't have to remember who you've made offers to and how good they were or what sort of offer you were planning to make.

To add to the realism, TEW2013 marks the first time that owners and head bookers can prioritise their own promotion over others.

Simply put, if a worker is an owner or head booker of a promotion that has a show on a specific night, they get to ignore the usual rule whereby they'd work for the biggest promotion that they're under contract with who have a show.

This also has a knock-on effect that owners and head bookers will now be more likely to accept work elsewhere (on non-exclusive deals, obviously) as they know it won't impact their promotion as much as it would have in previous games.

An issue that could crop up in previous games is the AI giving the same worker or team multiple title shots in a row due to a small pool of challengers. The AI in TEW2013 now keeps track of the 'last contender' and, unless under extraordinary circumstances, will never allow the same person \ team to get two shots in a row.

The End Of Year awards have always been sent to the player in the form of e-mails in previous games; something which can get annoying over time as they clog up your inbox. In TEW2013, this method has been replaced by having proper Internet stories about each one.

Previously, finding a worker's race actually took some digging; in TEW2013 it is now visible on all roster and profile style screens, in brackets after their nationality.

In previous games, company relationships would mostly only change when either the player initiated it or when a new owner took over an AI-controlled promotion. This meant that without the player's involvement, company relationships were often very static.

In TEW2013, in order to make the game world more dynamic, owners of AI-controlled promotions will now reevaluate their company's pacts once a year to see if any changes are needed.

New to TEW2013 is a feature that sees AI-controlled promotions able to have their own "official" feuds.

When a new feud is created you will be able to read about it in the Internet section, as well as reviewing all the current feuds via a promotion's profile. Feuds are either singles or tag.

If a promotion has current feuds it will work them into its cards by increasing the chance that people who are feuding are booked together in angles and matches.

The way final show ratings are calculated has been upgraded in TEW2013.

In previous games, the rating was calculated by creating an initial rating based on the match grades (usually 70% of the main event, 20% of the penultimate match, and 10% of the average of the rest) and then tweaking that slightly based on the angle ratings. While there is nothing wrong with this approach per se, it does force every promotion to concentrate predominantly on matches as they provide the majority of the points.

The new method better incorporates angles by using a two-fold system.

Firstly, an overall angle rating is now created based on a similar method to the matches; it is usually made up of 70% of the best angle rating, 20% of the second best, and 10% of the third best. Obviously these ratios change if there are less than three angles.

Secondly, and crucially, the overall grade is then created by looking at how the show was split (in terms of time) between matches and angles. So if a one hour show featured half an hour of matches and half an hour of angles, the overall rating would be made up of 50% of the overall match rating plus 50% of the overall angle rating.

This is a key change because it means that promotions have far more leeway in how they operate; a company that can pump out great angles but features awful matches had little chance in previous games, whereas in TEW2013 they will be able to operate like that and still have the chance to thrive. It also fundamentally alters the game world, as it means that great entertainers who are poor in the ring are no longer considerably less valuable than great wrestlers who are dull, as they can provide a much bigger positive impact on shows.

New to the editor is a section called 'Free Pictures'; this is essentially a storehouse for all the worker pictures that you may have that are not being used anywhere else in the game.

Each picture, when added, is tagged with data that identifies how it can be used. When new characters are created during game play, TEW can then look through the Free Picture store and see if there are any appropriate pictures available that can be used.

The identification data includes: Gender, Acceptable Positions (wrestler, manager, announcer, etc), Acceptable Sizes (Very Small to Giant) and Acceptable Races (White, Black, Asian, etc).

There is also a Yes \ No box for "Use Once"; this allows you to say whether the picture can only be used once per game. If it is set to only be used once, the entry is deleted after use, meaning that you won't end up with two workers using the same picture.

This system therefore allows any unused pictures to be recycled in a useful way, without needing to mess about with complex file name identifiers.

The Talent Trade feature has been upgraded for TEW2013. It is now also available directly from the Control Room \ Office rather than the more obscure route of having to go into a promotion's profile first, for ease of use.

You can now offer up to five workers in exchange for your target worker. This allows you to potentially use several of your stars to snag a mega-star target. The AI will not be fooled by mere bulk though - it will recognise that five terrible workers doesn't equal one good worker, as five terrible workers are still useless even if there are five of them.

You can now also offer cash incentives. This can either be in addition to the worker(s) you are offering for trade, or as an alternative - the latter meaning you are essentially 'buying' the worker you want temporarily.

The 'restricted areas' settings (whether or not workers were limited to being employed by companies in areas they had been set to be available) were previously only available via the Database Information section of the editor; for the new game, they are now readily available from Options, meaning that they can now be changed (as many times as necessary) at any time.

The three settings are: Off (workers can sign for companies in any game area), Semi (only International or Global companies can sign workers who are not set to be available in their area), and Full (workers can only sign for companies in game areas in which they've been set to work).

For example, if Wrestler X was set to work in USA, Canada and Mexico then he could always work for any American, Canadian or Mexican company, but if a Japanese promotion wanted him: under Off settings he could work for them, under Semi settings he could only work for them if they were International-sized or above, under Full settings he could not sign for them.

When picking his or her avatar, the user will now not only have the option of selecting from a series of pre-made specialist avatar characters, but also the choice of selecting from any existing character.

If the user decides to play as an existing character, he will take on all their existing skills, relationships, teams, etc, etc. The only limit is that the user's avatar can still only be employed by the promotion the user is with (i.e. the one he is head booker of), so if the selected character works for other companies he will lose those contracts automatically.

Once all the players have selected their characters, you will automatically be given the choice of removing all the pre-made specialist avatars from the game world; if left in, they become regular AI-controlled characters.

A very simple addition, the maximum number of active players has been increased from four to eight.

Linked to the previous addition, players can now drop out of a multiplayer game whenever they like, via the Options menu. The only limitation is that at least one player must remain active. Once the user drops out, the character that was his avatar turns into a regular AI-controlled character and continues on.

One addition to the game is that new users can join a game that is already in progress, via the Options menu. Simply put, they pick their avatar and starting promotion in the same manner as they would if they'd been there from the start and are then added last to the order of active players.

Matches now have two names, Record Name and Match Name.

The former is essentially the name used for database work; it's what the match is called in the editor and when the user is looking for matches when booking.

The latter, which is the new addition, is what the match is referred as during shows and histories.

For example, a match could have a Record Name of "1 vs 1 Ladder" and a Match Name of "Ladder"; this allows the user to continue to use the naming scheme that he is comfortable with when searching or editing, but in histories you won't see the ugly "Big Cat Brandon defeated Robbie Retro in a 1 vs 1 Ladder match", instead you'll see the nicer "Big Cat Brandon defeated Robbie Retro in a Ladder match."

(Obviously the Match Name does not have to be unique, unlike the Record Name.)

Related to the above, some of the tag-related screens now come equipped with a Suggest A Name button which uses the generator to randomly give you inspiration.

Joining the other editable name generators are tag teams.

The user can edit the formerly pre-set list of names that can be applied to tag teams that are created during gameplay.

The settings include gender (Mixed, All-Male or All-Female), which game areas the team are based in, and which styles of wrestler are eligible for it (i.e. so you could set 'Team Armbar' to only be eligible if both members are Technicians).

A concept taken from Comic Book Hero, 'name matching' will be part of the upgraded importer in TEW2013.

In previous games you could not import certain items, such as tag teams or relationships, because each character is stored as a unique ID number, one which may not be the same from database to database (i.e. Sam Keith might be #3 in one database, #99 in another). TEW2013 gets around this by comparing actual names, essentially 'smart looking' for who the tag team \ relationship \ whatever is meant to involve.

While it obviously cannot be successful 100% of the time - primarily because so many wrestlers have so many identities - it should be able to work correctly in the majority of cases. This will therefore make mod making and database tweaking considerably easier and more powerful.

Employment histories will make their debut in TEW2013. Exactly as it sounds, the game keeps track of a character's start and finish dates for every promotion he joins during game time, together with what type of deal he signed. As you'd expect, histories can be preset via the editor too. This allows you to see a worker's career path easily and quickly via their profile.

NB: As you can probably imagine, doing employment histories for the CornellVerse is going to be an insanely mammoth task given that everything prior to 2004 is going to have to be worked out almost entirely via title history dates, oblique biography references and inferences (and quite a lot of characters don't even have that to work from).

So that nobody has unrealistic expectations, let me be clear that I'm therefore not intending to have employment histories filled in for the release day database, as I think dedicating a month (or more, likely) to this would either result in the game being delayed or testing suffering. My intention is instead to do them afterward when I can concentrate on them properly, and to release them separately with one of the patches.

AI-controlled companies can now make use of dark matches on their shows in order to better develop their low-level talent.

'Repetitive booking' has been altered so that it now takes into account where a match has been seen. For example, if you run a match that is only seen in the Mid West, that would no longer count toward being repetitive if you then ran the same match just in the Tri State region (as the fans won't have seen it before).

The criteria that are used to decide a company's size has been altered for TEW2013. I won't go into specifics here, as we may tweak them before release, but essentially the main thrust is that the higher levels are now harder to achieve, and crucially, the National -> International -> Global levels have been reworked to involve more of a "stepping stone" style.

There are two reasons for this. One is that getting above National is now much harder than in previous games, where it was too easy. Secondly, it's now not possible (except in very extreme circumstances) to drop several levels at once, as it was in TEW2010. Due to the "stepping stone" style, you can now only ever drop one at a time. This stops companies from going from Global all the way to Cult because they lost a region or two in their home area.

Related to the above, some of the event-related screens now come equipped with a Suggest A Name button which uses the generator to randomly give you inspiration.

As with worker names, TEW2013 will allow the user to edit the previously in-built event name generator. 'Events' refers to any show that is not TV.

Each potential name has two sets of options to make sure it is correctly used; gender (whether it is available for male-only companies, female-only, or mixed gender) and area (whether it is available for US companies, Canadian companies, etc).

By default, every database will start with the same set of names that TEW2010 had in-built, so for those mod makers who have no interest in this, there's no need to do anything at all.

Following Comic Book Hero's lead, TEW2013 will be switching to using Microsoft Access as its database. This has several benefits to the user, the four main ones being:

1 - Anywhere in game that involves searching, retrieving, writing or sorting of data is now exponentially faster than it used to be. This means faster response times, faster navigation, and less waiting overall. (NB: To avoid misunderstandings, please note that while the game is considerably faster now, between-days load times are still almost identical to TEW2010 - this is because TEW2013 is so much bigger and deeper than the previous game that all the extra processing needed negates the amount of time that was saved by being faster. You'll see the speed benefits better in all the other areas of the game, such as when reading profiles, histories, etc.)

2 - Performance degradation on long-term games is far less severe; i.e. whereas in previous games the load times would get noticeably and significantly larger with every year that you completed, TEW2013 handles it in a much more graceful manner.

3 - Everything is now contained within one single file, making distribution easier.

4 - Data corruption is now virtually impossible.

New to the game is the ability to attempt to talk a worker out of their decision to retire. It will not always be successful of course (it is based on personality, current career situation, etc), and is limited to workers who have retired by choice, not through injury.

To make things more realistic, both Networks and PPV Carriers now have improved coverage.

In previous games, each had a single size rating and then a setting for each region as to whether they were seen there or not. In TEW2013, each region now has its own size rating. This allows more realistic simulation, for example when trying to model the real life major US networks that are shown in the UK, but on obscure or little known channels.

Taking a cue from CBH, many of TEW2013's screens now include "?" buttons - clicking these brings up a mini help file on the item in question. This means the user rarely has to go and load an external help file, and it's very easy for even veteran players to check the meanings or uses of certain features with a single click.

All of the filters in the game - including the ones in the editor - now no longer reset back to their defaults once you leave that specific page. They retain your choices until you leave the game area (such as leaving the editor or moving to an entirely new section of the game).

In previous TEW games, the date at which new worker generation began was locked once you started a new game; in TEW2013, the date can be edited via the Options menu at any point. This means you would no longer be forced to either grin and bear it or abandon your game if you find that you disagree with the original setting.

In the Venue Selection screen is a new button, "Select Best Venue". This uses the same code as in the previous entry, but selects the best venue for you from that specific region. (For those of you not following, the difference between #32 and #33 is that the former works out the best region to use itself, in the latter you have control over it.)

When you first enter PM mode to run a show the AI will now automatically "best guess" a venue for you and assign it, coupled with a pop-up telling you which one (and which region) it has picked. You are not locked into this choice - you can easily go and change it in the way you normally would - but it does mean that in a lot of cases you can entirely skip the time consuming process of heading to Venue Selection, finding a venue, and booking it.

Der persönliche Assistent can durch den User verändert werden. So gibt es alternative Einstellungsmöglichkeiten für die einzelnen Bildschirme.

- Quick Finance: Gibt einen Üerblick über die Finanzen der Liga

- Recap Last Show: Ergebnisse der letzten Show

- Quick Roster: Liste der Wrestler unter Vertrag mit Verlinkung

- Birthdays: Geburtstagsliste mit Alter des jeweiligen Wrestlers

- Booker's Advice: Eine Liste von Themen (Show erstellen, Finanzen managen, etc.) mit Erklärungen wie die verschiedenen Bereiche in TEW2013 zu behandeln sind. Man könnte ihn auch als "How to"-Guide betiteln (Früher musste man dafür das laufende Spiel beenden.).

Das bekannte "Extreme Eye" wurde in TEW2013 stark verbessert und ist nun der persönliche Assistent. Es gibt drei Hauptänderungen:

1. Der Assistent befindet sich direkt in der Mitte des "Office" und ist grundsätzlich geöffnet und auf dem neuesten Stand während man zwischen den einzelnen Feldern hin und her klickt.

2. Die meisten Einstellungen im Assistenten-Bildschrim sind verlinkt, so dass man nicht extra wild im Menü suchen muss, sondern ein einfacher Klick reicht völlig aus, um zum gewünschten Punkt zu gelangen. Wenn der Assistent z. B. einen Push für einen bestimmten Wrestler vorschlägt, gelangt man mit nur einem Klick sofort zum Profl des Wrestlers.

3. Der Assistent überwacht mehr Dinge als das Extreme Eye, daher wird es mehr nützliche Nachrichten und Alamierungen geben.

Zum ersten Mal kann man in der TEW-Serie die Alters-Einstellungen eines Wrestlers ändern. Dabei gibt es vier Einstellungen:

Maturity Age: In diesem Alter verliert der Wrestler die Fähigkeit schneller als normal weiter zu lernen und sich physisch weiter zu entwickeln.

Decline Age: Ab diesem Alter baut der Wrestler körperlich ab.

Relevancy Age: Ab diesem Alter nehmen auch die Unterhaltungsfähigkeiten des Workers ab.

Retirement Age: Dieses Alter gilt als Richtlinie für das In-Ring-Karriereende - es bedeutet jedoch nicht, dass ein Wrestler garantiert in diesem Alter seine Stiefel an den Nagel hängt. Es bedeutet lediglich, dass der Wrestler sich ab diesem Zeitpunkt Gedanken darüber macht. Durch hochdotierte Jobs kann es natürlich weiter herausgezögert weren.

All diese Angaben können mit einem exakten Alter versehen und zufällig eingestellt werden. Dabei sind die gleichen Altersangaben wie im normalen Gameplay zu beachten - "Maturity Age" kann nur zwischen 18 und 30 eingestellt werden. In diesem Ramen befindet sich auch die zufällige Einstellung.

In früheren Spielen wurden diese Daten mit jedem neuen Spiel neu berechnet, indem eine versteckte Einstellung benutzt wurde. Bei zufälliger Einstellung gilt dies weiterhin, ansonten richtet sich das Spiel nach den Einstellungen des Spielers.

Um es der KI zu ermöglichen realistischer zu handeln, haben TItel nun eine bestimmte Verteidigungseinstellung, die es erlaubt, sie nur im TV, bei Großveranstaltung, etc. zu verteidigen.

Dies ist vor allem für Spiele in der Vergangenheit sehr interessant, als es noch weitläufiger TV-Titel zu gewinnen gab, die fast ausschließlich im TV ausgetragen wurden. In Japan z. B. wäre es fast undenkbar einen Titel bei einer anderen Veranstaltung als den größten des Jahres zu verteidigen.

Diese Änderungen betreffen jedoch nur die Ligen die durch die KI gesteuert werden, der menschliche Spieler kann Titel wie gewohnt verteidigen lassen wann und wo er will.

Eines der Hauptprobleme bei langzeitspielen in TEW2010 ist die Main Event Szene, die vor allem in größeren Ligen, über die Zeit stagniert - ältere Stars verbleiben dort bis zum Ende ihrer Karriere.

Dieses Problem wurde in TEW2013 gelöst. Durch einen großen Schwerpunkt auf den physischen Abbau der Wrestler wird die Situation so realistisch wie möglich. Während es weiterhin für manche Stars möglich ist über Jahre hinweg an der Spitze zu stehen, wird es für den Großteil immer schwerer ihre Position zu behalten und sie werden die Karriereleiter langsam aber sicher herunterklettern.

Neben vielen weiteren Effekten des physischen Abbaus gibt es nun einige Aktionen, die Veränderungen am Körper der Wrestler vornehmen und ihr Können immer mehr einschränken - schließlich hat man mit 40 oder 50 Jahren nicht mehr die Kondition wie in seiner Primetime. Wie gut ein Wrestler bei den Fans ankommt ist nun ebenfalls in diesen Aspekt mit einbezogen.

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Daraus ergibt sich für den Spieler ein interessantes Dilemma, der sich entscheiden muss wie weit er einen Wrestler tatächlich ausreizt bevor es zu viel für dessen Körper wird. Langzeittests im Spiel haben gezeigt, dass die Veränderungen ein realistischeres Gameplay garantieren. So kann es gut sein, dass ein früherer Main Eventer einer großen Liga sein Glück bei einer Kleineren sucht, da er dort weiter oben mitmischen kann. Diese Dynamik gibt den jüngeren Wrestlern die Chance aufzusteigen.

Die Art und Weise in wiefern sich die Spielwelt über eine gewisse Zeit entwickelt wurde in TEW2013 ebenfalls verbessert. Die Gewichtung der Region in der man veranstaltet wird zu einem Schlüsel des Spiels, wenn es um Ligen-Größe geht. Jeden Monat wird jede Region neu berechnet und aufgrund der Anzahl der Ligen die vor Ort sind und welche Größe sie haben, ergibt sich die Wichtigkeit der einzelnen Regionen. Als Beispiel dient folgendes:

Wenn das Spiel mit fünf "National-Sized" Ligen am Monatsende da steht,, die ihren Sitz in London haben, ist der südliche Britishe Raum als sehr wichtig einzustufen. Wenn es dagegen keine einzige in Schottland beheimatete Ligan gibt, wird Schottland keine gewichtige Rolle spielen.

Das System kreiert sozusagen eine dynamische Spielwelt, die sich anhand der in ihr geschehenen Ereignisse verändert. Z. B. könnte eine Liga aus Kalifornien zum "Global"-Level aufsteigen und so den gesamten Bereich der Ostküste wichtiger für das Business machen als die Westküste.

Jede Region hat einen "Minimum"- und einen "Maximum"-Wert der Wichtigkeit (die ebenfalls editiert werden können), damit einige Dinge nicht zu unrealistisch werden. Außerdem gibt es eine automatische untere Limitierung aufgrund der Größe der Region, damit Regionen mit hohen Populationsraten nicht völlig unwichtig werden. Auch die größen der Regionen verringern sich mit der Zeit. Auch hier gibt es veränderbare "Minimum"- und "Maximum"-Werte.

Neu ins Spiel geschafft hat es das Konzept der standardisierten Matches und Segmente, die helfen sollen, den Booking-Prozess zu beschleunigen. Wenn ein Spieler den ersten Klick zum hinzufügen eines Matches oder Segmentes während dem Erstellen einer Show macht, wird er, statt eine riesigen Liste von wählbaren Aktionen wie es noch bei TEW2010 der Fall war, einige Standard-Matches und Segmente sehen. Die Idee dahinter ist, dass der Spieler seine am häufigsten gewählten Matches und Segmente als Standard behält und so viel schneller am Ziel seiner Booking-Einstellungen ist, ohne lang scrollen oder alles mit Filtern differenzieren zu müssen.

Wenn der Spieler nun etwas nutzen möchte, dass nicht standardmäßig angegeben ist, kann er einfach, durch den Filter zur "traditionel" also altgewohnten Methode gelungen, die ihm Zugang zu allen Verfügbaren Aktionen gibt. Noch einmal zum Verständnis... das Konzept dient dem Zweck häufig gewählte Aktionen schnell wieder zu finden und mit einem simplen Doppelklick zu öffnen, während selten gewählte Aktionen trotzdem nur einen Klick davon entfernt sind angezeigt zu werden.

Diese Standards können natürlich über den Editor vor dem Spiel eingestellt werden. Im Spiel selbst kann der Spieler seine Standard-Einstellungen nach seinen eigenen Wünschen modifizieren.

Falls keine definierten Standards gefunden werden, schaltet sich das gesamte Feature ab und zeigt die Matches und Segmente in der gewohnten Art und Weise an.

Die beliebten "End of the year"-Awards werden in TEW2013 stark ausgebaut - mit sechs neuen Kategorien. Diese sind:

- Tag Team Of The Year
- Announcer Of The Year
- Colour Commentator Of The Year
- Manager Of The Year
- Referee Of The Year
- Independent Wrestler Of The Year

Alle Awads können zudem im Editor verändert werden.

"New Worker Generation" - das ist der Code, der es ermöglicht komplett neue Charaktere zu erschaffen und existierende Charaktere wiederaufleben zu lassen. Dazu wurden die gesamten generierten Stats-Werte überarbeitet, die dadurch sehr viel realistischere Resulte mit sich bringen. Es beinhaltet vor allem eine größere Vielfalt, größere Ausprägung aufgrund des Stils, der Größe und der Orte wo veranstaltet wird. Außerdem eine bessere Entwicklung wie sich ein Wrestler über eine gewisse Zeit verbesser/verschlechtert. Es gibt ein besseres Zusammenspiel zwischen verschiedenen Aspekten (z. B., dass ein großer Wrestler nicht nur spezielle Fähigkeiten für seine Größe hat, sondern, dass sie auch auf die Gimmicks zugeschnitten sind, die er spielen kann).

Zusätzlich gibt es zwei Areale die stark verbessert wurden. Zunächst einmal den so genannten "Finshing Move Name Generator". Dieser ermöglicht es Tausende von einzigartigen Moves zu benennen. Jeder Wrestler bekommt einen eigenen auf ihn und sein Gimmick zugeschnittenen Finishing Move. Diese Moves sind in verschiedene Arten unterteilt. So werden große Wrestler keine Top Rope Moves zeigen, technische Wrestler werden sich dagegen eher auf Submission Holds verlagern. Ein Extrapunkt ist zudem die Zeit zu der man spielt. Moves werden in den 1980er Jahren anders sein und in den 2000ern.

Der zweite Bereich sind Biografien. Diese beziehen sich nun detailiert auf die einzelnen Wrestler und gehen dabei natürlich auch auf die jeweiligen Finisher ein. Weitesgehend geht es hier aber auch um die Herkunft (bis zum jeweiligen Bundesstaat), die Größe, das Gewicht und das Gimmick. Dies hilft den Charakteren eine tiefere Persönlichkeit zu geben.

Einige Wreslter, je nachdem wie ausgeprägt ihre Persönlichkeit ist, können nun ein "Shoot Interview" abhalten, nachdem sie von einer Liga entlassen worden sind. Es geschieht in der Form eines Internet-Berichts, der einige Zeit nach dem Interview auftaucht. Der Wrestler wird sich darin über seine miese Behandlung und die Liga an sich schlecht reden, was das Verhältnis zur Liga nachhaltig beeinflusst.

Ein neuer Aspekt im Editor nennt sich "Tribute Shows". Dieser erlaubt es spezielle einzigartige Events abzuhalten, die keiner einzelnen Liga zugeordnet werden - wie z. B. Tribute Show, Celebration Show oder einmalige Events.

Beim erstellen der Events können der Name, die Person für das Tribut (optional), ein Logo, die Größe, Nummer oder Jahr im Namen, das Datum, die Anzahl der Shows und eine Option für die verfügbaren Wrestler im Editor eingestellt werden.

Außerdem gibt es die Möglichkeit "Tribute-Shows" für im Spiel verstorbene Charaktere abzuhalten. Die Art der Show richtet sich dabei am Charakter selbst; d.h. anhand der Popularität richtet sich auch die Größe der Show. Gerade die Größe kann hier entscheidend sein wer an der Show teilnehmen kann. Eine große Show ermöglicht es sogar Wrestler, die bei anderen Ligen unter schriftlichem Vertrag stehen für den Abend aufzutreten.

Die "Tribute Shows" habe außerdem ein Extra zu bieten, nämlich die Freunde und Familie des zu ehrenden Wrestler auftrten zu lassen. Deshalb kann man z. B. den Sohn einer verstorbenen Legende im Main Event der Show auftreten lassen.

Im Zusammenhang mit dem #12 bekommen einige Worker-Screens einen bestimmten "Suggest A Name"-Button. Klickt man diesen, so öffnet sich der "Worker Name Generator" und spuckt einen zufälligen Namen aus. Dies ist vor allem für die nicht so kreativen Spieler eine Inspirationshilfe.

Um die maximale Kontrolle über die Spielwelt zu verschaffen, enthält TEW2013 den "Worker Name Generator", den es bereits in TEW2010 gab. Der "Worker Name Generator" ist eine Ansammlung von Vor- und Zunamen, die verwendet werden um neu im Spiel generierte Wrestler zu benennen. Der Generator enthält eine Option, die zwischen männlich und weiblich unterscheidet, zwischen Vor- und Zuname und eine Verknüpfung zur Herkunft bzw. bestimmten Nationalitäten aufstellt (so kann ein schottischer Wrestler nicht automatisch den Namen "Akira" bekommen).

Dieser Teil des Editors erlaubt es die Anzahl an verfügbaren Namen zu erhöhen und somit eine häufige Wiederholung der Namen zu verhindern. "Default" als Einstellung lässt jede Database mit den selben Namen wie in TEW2010 starten, so dass jemand, der daran nicht interessiert ist, keine Veränderungen vornehmen muss.

In TEW2013 steht die "Legacy" für einen Gegenstand oder Namen, den ein Wrestler einem anderen vererben kann, wie z. B. eine Maske oder ein Name und ist Teil der "Regeneration"-Einstellung. Falls ein Angestellter die Einstellung "Yes as a Legacy" eingestellt hat, kann sein Name oder ein Gegenstand nach seinem Karriereende oder nach dem Tod, von einem Erben benutzt werden. Gibt es z. B. einen Wrestler mit dem Namen "The Masked Grappler" mit dieser Einstellung, würde sein Name und sein komplettes Outfit vererbt werden und der Wrestler erscheint als "The Masked Grappler II".

Dies kann man sowohl vor dem Spiel wählen, als auch im laufenden Spiel durch den Computer generieren lassen. Dies Option erlaubt es dem Spieler einen speziellen Namen, Spitznamen, ob die Legacy an einen Blutsverwandten übergeht, ob eine Maske involviert ist und der Zusatz des Namens ("iteration 10" bedeutet, dass der Wrestler "The Masked Grappler 10" heißen wird).

Legacies ziehen sich über mehrere Generationen und enden erst, wenn der nächste Name nicht verfügbar ist oder der aktuelle Halter der Legacy das "B-Respect"-Level am Ende seiner Karriere nicht erreicht.

Mehrer Wrestler können derselben Legacy angehören. D. h., dass der Erbe alle drei Phoenix Wrestler in CornellVerse Lucha Scene, egal in welcher Reihenfolge sie ausscheiden, mit der richtigen Nummer bezeichnet wird. Als Zusatz für Luchadors gibt es die Bezeichnung "Jr" anstatt "II" oder "2".

Diese Feature dient vor allem dazu Lucha Libre Themen realistischer gestalten zu können, was aber auch für einige japanische Wrestler genutzt werden kann.

Nach dem gestrigen Eintrag folgen wir nun mit Teil 10 des Developers Journal - "Motivational Speeches". Der User hat die Möglichkeit zwei Arten frei zu schalten, wenn sein "User Image" ein bestimmtes Level erreicht (und genauso verliert, wenn das "Image" sich verschlechtert).

Erlangt man einen hohen Wert im "Loyalty/Velvet Glove"-Sektor, spielt man sich Motivational Speeches frei, mit denen man seine Popularität im Backstage Bereich nutzen kann, damit die Angestellten extra viel Arbeit an den Tag legen.

Ein hoher Wert im "Fear/Iron Fist"-Sektor führt zu "Psycho Sermons", was man mit einer Wutrede vergleichen kann, die vor versammelter Mannschaft abgehalten wird und sie durch Furcht dazu bringt sich bis ans Limit zu verausgeben.

Beide Arten von Speeches können vor monatlichen oder jährlichen Show genutzt werden. Wenn sie genutzt werden, verschaffen sie den Mitarbeitern einen zeitlichen Motivationsschub für den Zeitraum der Show, was dazu führt, dass sie eine bessere Performance abliefern. Da sie ihre Wirkung nur in gelegentlichem Einsetzen entfalten, können sie nur einmal in drei Monaten verwendet werden.

In TEW 2013 wird jeder Spieler ein so genanntes "Image" haben, das als Reflektion seiner Reputation seiner Person im Lockerroom darstellt. Es gibt bereits einen Punkt "Reputation", der sich aber nach den Erfolgen des Spielers ausrichtet.

Das Image wird in Form eine Graphen auf zwei Achsen abgebildet - vertikal zeigt die Werte von "Feared" bis "Inspires Loyal" (also ob man gefürchtet wird und ein inspirierendes Auftreten hat), horizontal von "Velvet Glove" bis "Iron Fist" (das darstellt wie diszipliniert man angesehen wird). Ein Punkt auf dem Graphen zeigt den aktuellen Wert und verändert sich natürlich mit fortschreitender Spieldauer und Handlungen. Wenn der Spieler z. B. einen Angestellten feuert was Backstage auf wenig Gegenliebe trifft, wird den Spieler eher bei "Iron Fist" und "Feared" einordnen, da die Angestellten glauben, dass er seine disziplinarischen Maßnahmen knallhart durchzieht.

Das Image-Level ist nicht auf eine bestimmte Liga reduziert. Natürlich wird er aktuelle Wert bei einem Wechsel übernommen. Es beeinflusst das Spiel in zweierlei Hinsicht:

Zunächst ergibt sich ein direktes Bild des Lockerrooms auf den Spieler ("Fearde" & "Iron Fist" Charaktere werden beispielsweise gefürchtet sein, so dass sich Angestellt zwei Mal überlegen einen Fehltritt zu landen - für die Moral im Backstage Bereich kann es aber auch negative Auswirkungen haben.

Über den zweiten Teil wird es morgen ein Update geben...

Heute präsentieren wir euch die Stats Updates für September 2012. Wie immer sind sie in unserer Download-Datenbank zu finden. Das EWR Update folgt.

Etwas verspätet gibt es zum zweiten Geburtstag - der im Mai des Jahres anstand - nachträglich einige Neuerungen. Die Homepage und die Community von WrestlingSims.de erstrahlen in neuem Gewand. Wir hoffen, dass euch das neue Design gefällt und ihr weiterhin aktiv in der Community dabei seit.

Außerdem gibt es Erweiterungen der Unterthemen, wie die "Diary Generation-X"-Board Kolumne und einige neue Wrestlingsimulatoren.

Zusätzlich wurden nun auch die Stats Updates für TEW 2010 in unsere Download-Datenbank aufgenommen. Von Oktober 2011-August 2012 sind damit alle veröffentlichen Datensätze vorhanden.

Falls einige Dinge Probleme bereiten und nicht 100%ig funktionieren, so teilt es bitte einem der Administratoren mit, damit die Fehler schnellstmögloch behoben werden können.

Neu im Booking-Bildschirm ist das so genannte "Assistand Booker" pop-Up. Diese Sektion erlaubt es dem User schnell bis zu zehn Matches für die jeweilige Show fest zu setzen. Es gibt für jedes Match zwei Einstellungsmöglichkeiten - "Type of Match" und "Level of Match". Die Matchart kann wie üblich ausgewählt werden und reicht von 1 vs. 1 bis hin zu Battle Royals. Das Matchlevel gibt dafür an ob es im Main Event, der Upper Midcard oder im Opener stattfinden soll.

Hat der User diese beiden Einstellungen vorgenommen, so wird mit einem einfachen Klick der Rest durch den "Booker AI" automatisch durchgeführt und mit Workern gefüllt. Der computergesteuerte Assistent nutzt dazu Wrestler die für die Show zur Verfügung stehen und bisher noch nicht auf der Card vertreten sind. Titelmatces müssen weiterhin durch den User eingestellt werden, aber Referees, Road Agents, die Matchlänge und der Name werden automatisch generiert.

Wennimmer mögliche nutzt der Assistent feste Tag Team und verfolgt die typische Heel/Face Logik, es sei denn, das Roster hat keine solche Einteilung. Falls Matches nicht stattfinden können, gibt es eine Notiz an den Spieler - z. B. wenn man ein Main Event Match booken möchte, aber keine Main Eventer bzw. Upper Midcard zur Aufstockung verfügbar sind.

Die erstellten Matches werden dem Booking-Fenster automatisch hinzugefügt. Von hier an kann der User natürlich wie beim normalen booken Veränderungen nach seinen Wünschen vornehmen und sogar ganze Segment und Matches löschen. Es gibt kein Limit wie oft der Assistent benutzt werden kann - also auch keine Strafen dafür. Der Assistent erlaubt es also Cards schneller als jemals zuvor zusammen zu stellen, während der User weiterhin die Macht hat alles nach seinen genauen Vorstellungen abzuändern.

Die Arbeiten an League Wars 2 schreiten immer weiter voran. Heute gibt es einige neue Screenshots zum Spiel. Eine Veröffentlichung ist weiterhin fest für 2013 geplant.

Das bekannte "Power 100"-Feature aus den vorherigen Version bekommt für TEW2013 eine Generalüberholung. Zunächst wurde die Gesamtzahl auf 500 aufgestockt und damit zu den magischen "Power 500". Dies macht das Feature um einiges besser, da ein viel größere Prozentzahl an Workern im Spiel umfasst.

Zweitens wird in jedem Wrestler-basierten Bildschirm (Worker Screen, Roster, Roster andere Ligen, etc.) das "Power 500 Ranking" automatisch angezeigt - ein nützliches Extra, um zu sehen, wie sich der jeweilige Worker schlägt. Außerdem wurde eine Statistik eingeführt, die eine Zusammenfassung früherer Platzierungen darstellt.

Heute gibt es zwei weitere neue Features zu vermelden, die beide unter den Punkt "Flexbible Show Times" fallen. Wie der Name schon sagt, ist das Booking nun nicht mehr in soweit limitiert, dass die Segmente und Matches die Show auf die Minute genau füllen müssen. Man hat nun einen Spielraum ("Flexible Event Times") von 25% auf jeder Seite des Limits (z. B. für eine zweistündige Show hat man zwischen 90 und 150 Minuten zur Verfügung). Für TV Shows ("Flexible TV Times") kann man einen Under- oder Overrun von fünf Minuten einrechnen.

Auch dieses Feature lässt den Spieler das Booken der Shows natürlicher und realistischer duchführen und vor allem schneller durchführen, da man nicht mehr nachträglich alle Segmentzeiten genau an die Gesamtzeiten anpassen muss.

Neu für TEW2013 ist die Möglichkeit, dass Worker über einen gewissen Zeitraum ihr Gewicht verändern können. Jeder Charakter hat von nun an ein Mininmal- und Maximalgewicht (in Relation zu seinem Startgewicht), das über den Editor verändert werden kann. Es gibt mehrere Gründe, warum sich das Gewicht eines Charakters verändern könnte (Steroideinnahme führt zu einer Zunahme der Muskelmasse, im Alter können die Worker fett werden wenn sie nicht mehr regelmäßig trainieren und nehmen ab aufgrund von gesundheitlichen Bedenken, etc.).

Die Charaktere können ihr Gewicht mehrmals in ihrer Karriere veränderen und ihre Veränderungen können auch ihre Punktewerte beeinflussen. Diese Feature soll mehr Realismus und Einzigartigkeit ins Spiel bringen.

TEW2013 wird als erstes Spiel der Serie das "Fog of War"-Feature beinhalten, welches es schon im WMMA gab. Jeder Charakter im Spiel hat nun fünf Betrachtungs-Kriterien ; In-Ring, Entertainment, Gimmick, Announcing and Refereeing. Diese Kategorien dienen als Indikator dafür wie viel über den Charakter im jeweiligen Bereich bekannt ist und wird zwischen Level 1 und 10 angegeben.

Jedes Mal wenn ein Charakter einen Auftritt absolviert, der eine oder mehrere diese Eigenschaften anspricht, erhält er so genannte "Scouting Punkte"; sobald genug Punkte erreicht sind, erreicht der Charakter des nächste Level. In den niedrigeren Leveln benötigt man zum Aufstieg weniger Punkte - als Beispiel kann ein Rookie von In-Ring Level 1 zu 2 nach relativ kleiner Anzahl von Matches aufsteigen, während es von Level 9 auf 10 deutlich länger dauern wird. Zusätzlich hat er die Möglichkeit durch die größe der Zuschauerzahl vor der er Aufritt zusätzlich seie Punkte zu erhöhen.

Die Scouting Level werden im Charakter-Bildschirm angezeigt und je nachdem in welchem Level man sich befindet, bekommt man die verschiedenen Kategorien angezeigt. Hier ist ein Beispiel, um das Ganze zu verdeutlichen.

Level 1 zeigt eine Kategorie ("Overall") die in schwach, durchschnittlich oder stark eingeteilt wird.

Level 5 zeigt zwei Kategorien ("Entertainment" & "Camera") die in neun Bezeichnungen von abgrundtief schlecht bis exzellent angegeben werden.

In Level 10 gibt es alle sechs Kategorien ("Microphone", "Charisma", "Acting", "Star Quality", "Sex Appeal" und "Menace"), die von 1 bis 100 reichen.

Jeder Levelaufstieg wechselt zwischen der Anzeige weiterer Kategorien und dem Detailgehalt für die Beschreibungen der Kategorien.

Das Konzept dahinter bedeutet, dass je erfahrener ein Charakter ist, um so mehr wird die Arbeit mit ihm zum Glücksspiel, was das gesamte Roster-Konzept deutlich realistischer machen soll und weniger ein Vergleich von Zahlen und Werten. Natürlich können die Scouting-Level auch über den Editor verändert werden. Diese Feature kann komplett über das Optionsmenü abgeschaltet werden.

Nun sind auch endlich die Stats Updates für August 2012 bei uns verfügbar. Wie immer in unserer Download-Datenbank zu finden.

Grey Dog Software gab soeben das Erscheinen von Total Extreme Wrestling 2013 im letzten Quartal 2012 bekannt. TEW2013 wird als digitaler Download exklusiv über Grey Dog Software für 34.95 $ zu bekommen sein.

Wie üblich wird Adam Ryland die Verbesserungen und neuen Funktionen bis zum Release in seinem Developer´s Journal bis zum endgültigen Release bekanntgeben, worüber wir euch natürlich auch hier auf dem Laufenden halten werden.

Das Journal soll gegen Ende August - Anfang September starten. Als kleinen Vorgeschmack erklärte er schon heute, dass die Spieler den Wechsel von TEW2008 auf TEW2010 als größten Schritt in der Serie empfangen, was mit 200 Neuerungen aufwarten im Gegensatz zu seinem Vorgänger aufwarten konnte. In TEW2013 sind bereits über 200 weitere Verbesserungen implantiert und es werden am Ende wahrscheinlich über 350 sein.

Zum zweiten Mal in diesem Jahr kühren wir auf WrestlingSims.de die Sieger Diary Awards. Dieses Mal für die Monate April-Juni. Wir gratulieren TheLizardKing, der es Razor Blade gleichmachte und ebenfalls sowohl den Award für das beste Diary, als auch für das beste Feedback gewinnen konnte. Außerdem bedanken wir uns bei allen Teilnehmern für die rege Teilnahme an den Awards. Allen die leider nicht gewonnen bzw. nicht nominiert waren sei gesagt, dass ihr euch nicht entmutigen lassen solltet. Schon in drei Monaten finden die nächsten Wahlen statt.