***spoilers*** EWR October 2021 Update

[mkpunk]

I apologize this being late. I have the draft updates as of tonight.

Super-Light: https://www.mediafire.com/file/n2gijnfsfhcfbwo/October_Draft_Super_Light.zip/file

Light: https://www.mediafire.com/file/jnqcvqo1cvkz44v/October_Draft_Light.zip/file

Full: https://www.mediafire.com/file/oxk48n3phj070fi/October_Draft_Full.zip/file

FAQ:

What is a full, light or super light update?

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I post three updates each month, a Super Light, a Light and a Full update.

The Super Light update is just the DATA folder update for the new month. It is the smallest of the files and perfect if you update PICs, LOGOs and BANNERs yourself.

The Light update is the DATA folder update for the new month with PICs files. PICs for new adds (not workers who become staff or staff who become workers) are in the PIC folder. If I found updated PICs of workers or PICs of workers whom I haven't gotten a PIC of previously, it is in the Updated PICs folder. If a promotion changes its logo or has a new banner, I include a LOGO or BANNER folder.

The Full update is the DATA folder updated for the new month with everything. This is suggested for new users of EWR (or perhaps this month more so than others.) This has every PIC of a worker or staff in the PIC folder. Every logo of a promotion in game whether playable or Japanese touring commitment in the PIC folder. It also includes a banner for every playable promotion in the game in the BANNER folder. The folders and files are in regardless of updates or not.

Included with every update is a pic update txt file. In the pic update, it shows for workers and staff with existing pic files, what their pic file path is in the new month's data.

 

How to successfully import data

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You can do this by one of two ways, by copying the folder itself or the files.

By folder:
Select the folders you wish to copy from the export folder.
Right click and select copy.
Go into your EWR4-2 folder.
Right click and select paste.
When asked to update existing files, check yes.

By file:
Select all the files you want.
Right click and select copy
Go into your EWR4-2 folder.
Go into the sub-folder you are transferring over (DATA for data, PICS for worker and staff pictures, etc.)
Right click and select paste.
When asked to update existing files, check yes.

I would STRONGLY advise NOT to move the data files for a save file! Doing this can ruin morale for workers and mess with your title picture.

Also, I would do by file for updated pics, unless you do the full update

You uploaded the files after the beginning of the month/I just found it and we are in the current month, why do I start in the next month? And how can I fix this?

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EWR plays off of your computer's clock. Most Windows computers now run on internet calendars that have your time already set for you by default. When you play EWR, it goes by your computer's calender. If it says June and you are starting a game with the June data, you will actually stary your game in July, not June.

If you want to start a game in the actual month of the data update:
First, you want to make sure your computer's calendar is manual and not automatic. Automatic is your default calendar for most modern Windows versions. If you keep it automatic, you'll start in the next month. Depending on your version, this maybe different to turn off so I would Google the steps for your particular Windows OS.
Second, once your computer calendar is in manual, set your calendar back to the appropriate month. If you are using the current data, set your calendar back to sometime last month. If you are doing a classic update or a what if for a specific period, set it to the preferred period. Say for a WWF Invasion data starting in June 2001, you set to May 2001.

What are these weird Japanese touring promotions that I never heard of?

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The Japanese touring promotions are set by 12 promotions in Japan at the time of EWR 4-2's release in mid-2003. These are set by different stats or ticked boxes. For instance, a worker with shooting ability ticked, could get signed to BattlArts or PRIDE, but if they do not, they would not tour with BattleArts or PRIDE. Of the 12 promotions listed, only All Japan (AJPW), Big Japan (BJPW), FMW (now FMW and FMW-E), Michinoku Pro, New Japan (NJPW), NOAH, Toryumon (Dragon Gate) and Zero1 still exist. The rest cannot be edited, replace or removed since Ryland lost the source coding and moved on from freeware to software in the TEW series. I use WMF as DDT, but most are not used for other promotions. Since there is no Joshi touring promotions, Joshi wrestlers are fully "free agents" in the game as oppose to wrestling for Stardom or Tokyo Joshi Pro.

Why is worker X not added to WWE? Why is worker Y not renamed to worker Z now that they are released? Why is worker A not renamed to worker B now they got their PC name? Why is the WWE 24/7 title holder not current?

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I go by what happens in the month most times. Unless I say it is based around a specific PPV event (namely WrestleMania) or draft, the update is intended to reflect the wrestling landscape as of the end of the month. If WWE releases people on the first, it will be reflected in the next month's update, even if I am late in posting it. If you wish to change it after you download it, be my guest. I just try to make it true to the game.

Some workers may not be renamed either due to changes after the calendar month ended or is using multiple names through different promotions. If a worker is in AAA, I typically use the AAA name like with Taurus despite being Black Taurus elsewhere (Impact, PWG, etc.) because I go with typically the biggest promotion.

In the specific case of the WWE 24/7 title, half the time it changes hand so often that we forget who actually is the current champ.

Why is worker T marked as male, they are transgender?

 

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A few workers in the game namely Nyla Rose and Edith Surreal are trans wrestlers. Nyla is female because she wrestles females exclusively. Edith however is male since Edith wrestles both men and women, though now more so women. Due to the game being made in a time when male workers complained about putting female workers over, if Edith who identifies as female was booked over a male wrestler, the male wrestler would complain about putting over a female. Should Edith win a Women's title, this would change it, but for simplicity, Edith is "male" for the game to cause less issues. The game was built during a time of binary genders (despite having Mexican exoticos) and due to the source code being lost, there is no way to fix it so that a male worker will gladly put over a female. This is not me being a bigot, but playing to an arcane freeware game.

There is a time or two due to being normally more anal... excuse me, detailed oriented in regards to alphabetical order of added workers. This month in particular, I was off because of the time crush to get everything set.

 

 

Edited October 5, 2021 by mkpunk

[magik]

Thanks a lot for continuing to make updates for EWR.

I've been playing it on and off for years.

[Dan Wallace]

Thanks for the update

[mkpunk]

If someone can suggest another free upload service, I may add it in there since some people don't like Mediafire...

[WeirdViper]

Add Jackie Redmond as staff for WWE

and Sasha prob deserves a bump in overness

not sure why Brock is still unsigned and not signed to WWE

and i dont think Omos should be on an open contract

Edited October 7, 2021 by WeirdViper

[DNorth]

Thank you for continuing to upload updates! 

I was wondering if you had a specific process to determine the stats of the new wrestlers you add? 

I would be glad to contribute as I noticed I was interested into using some unavailable workers (mostly from the deathmatch scene to be honest) 

Thanks again for all your work mate! 

[mkpunk]

5 hours ago, DNorth said:

Thank you for continuing to upload updates! 

I was wondering if you had a specific process to determine the stats of the new wrestlers you add? 

I would be glad to contribute as I noticed I was interested into using some unavailable workers (mostly from the deathmatch scene to be honest) 

Thanks again for all your work mate! 

I try to watch the new workers and compare them to similar workers. Bron Breakker I compared to Rick Steiner's stats since he wrestles like his dad.

[DNorth]

On 20/10/2021 at 06:20, mkpunk said:

I try to watch the new workers and compare them to similar workers. Bron Breakker I compared to Rick Steiner's stats since he wrestles like his dad.

Ok, I can see the logic there! 

I was also thinking about looking for match(es) between a new worker and an already available one, comparing their abilities during said match(es) and determine the new worker's stats based on that comparison

Do you think that process could fit in? 

[mkpunk]

On 22/10/2021 at 17:19, DNorth said:

Ok, I can see the logic there! 

I was also thinking about looking for match(es) between a new worker and an already available one, comparing their abilities during said match(es) and determine the new worker's stats based on that comparison

Do you think that process could fit in? 

It is hard in a way unless they match up. Like say Trey Miguel who I first really saw against Kotto Brazil in MLW a few years back. They are similar. Now if Trey Miguel's first appearance for me was against say Mads Kruger (to use another MLW name,) it would be harder to use this logic.

FYI, due to all the WWE PPV line-up changes, I'm virtually keeping the WWE PPV line-up the same:

January: Day1
February: Royal Rumble (not February like in the real world)
April: WrestleMania
May: TBA (keeping Backlash)
June: TBA (keeping Hell in a Cell)
July: Money in the Bank
August: SummerSlam (not July like in the real world)
September: TBA (keeping Extreme Rules)
November: Survivor Series

March, October and December will stay as is as well.

[mkpunk]

November update should be up before midnight tonight. Just finishing things up.