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EWR November 2021 Update

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I vastly updated the event names for this month's updates. WWE announced most of their 2022 PPV slate (minus the two Saudi Arabia shows that are widely rumored) and I have updated a number of the other federations in game.

Charlotte Flair I have lowered her attitude to 65 and behavior to 75. This is due to her recent backstage issues with WWE. Likewise, Kylie Rae I have lowered her attitude to 75 and behavior stat to 60. Now I am not knocking her for her mental health issues, but it shows that she is unreliable and can be a problem since it wasn't just a one-off and happens yearly regardless of promotion size. Charlotte's attitude was dropped lower due to it being "in-ring" and not "at home" like Kylie's

I didn't get to add as many workers as I would have liked (mostly lucha and a few OVW ones), especially for Camp Leapfrog. I am hoping if not for December's update, this will be fixed for January's. Due to my recent arm injury at the end of September, I had to pick-up some unexpected shifts that were offered by my second job this month to make up money. Thanks a lot workmen's comp.

A number of workers were added back in from past databases, because they returned to working. A few names became staff since they are retired and became active again. Other staff added include a few retired wrestlers long not in the game but active as staff for WOW or OVW.

Over the next few months I'll work more finding birthdays. If anyone wants to help, I am welcome to it. This is a hard part of the update process, even with trying to keep them in a file.

Super-Light: https://www.mediafire.com/file/nmss8c5lxzfqdqh/November_2021_Super_Light.zip/file

Light: https://www.mediafire.com/file/ht9e8ylifk3zlhc/November_2021_Light.zip/file

Full: https://www.mediafire.com/file/z78jxkncl7yd6zf/November_2021_Full.zip/file


 

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

 

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. 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.

 

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 prefered period. Say for a WWF Invasion data starting in June 2001, you set to May 2001.
Third, create a new game as normal.
Finally, once the new game is running, you can set the computer calendar back to the present by manual or automatic.

 

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? Why is worker A not WWE Cruiserweight Champion? 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. 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.

 

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On 02/11/2021 at 20:03, WeirdViper said:

IDK what u wanna do with ROH since they are shut down till the new year

take them out for now

put all workers on open deals

totally clear roster

leave as is

something to think about

I'm leaning towards removal since they won't be active for at least three months.

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Brace yourself, the firings have begun, so far it...

- B-Fab
- Ember Moon
- Eva Marie
- Franky Monet
- Gran Metalik
- Harry Smith
- Jeet Rama
- Jessi Kamea
- Karrion Kross
- Katrina Cortez
- Keith Lee
- Lince Dorado
- Mia Yim
- Nia Jax
- Oney Lorcan
- Scarlett Bordeaux
- Trey Baxter
- Zayda Ramier

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55 minutes ago, TheWho87 said:

Brace yourself, the firings have begun, so far it...

- B-Fab
- Ember Moon
- Eva Marie
- Franky Monet
- Gran Metalik
- Harry Smith
- Jeet Rama
- Jessi Kamea
- Karrion Kross
- Katrina Cortez
- Keith Lee
- Lince Dorado
- Mia Yim
- Nia Jax
- Oney Lorcan
- Scarlett Bordeaux
- Trey Baxter
- Zayda Ramier

I saw a number of these...

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Just to clarify two things, for now I have the released WWE superstars under an old name if they had one. Also no Full Gear update. I'm taking my brother to see it in theaters and working the next day so I wouldn't have time to do it sadly.

Also, yes I realize I need to switch the AAA and AEW tag straps.

Edit: I am looking to add XPW to the update. Not for this coming December update but likely the January one.

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On 10/11/2021 at 08:26, Dave said:

I think Ric Flair and Mia Yim are two wrestlers missing from the data. There may be more.

Ric Flair is too old to be in the game as a worker (same with Vince McMahon and now Col. Robert Parker) hence why he is not. Mia Yim hasn't been reverted back to Mia Yim (as I believe the releases happened right after the update went live) and is still under her last used name Reckoning as Weird Viper stated. She has already been changed in my database like anyone who wrestled under a previous name and was released with her. Obviously I cannot rename Keith Lee since he used his name both on the indies and WWE.

Also obviously there are a ton of workers not in the game. Two previous update creators ago had over 5,000 workers. Since I took over as it was streamlined by the previous update creator to about 1,300 workers by removing those who don't work North America or were in Japanese promotions mostly. Note, Mark Shurman, Devin Cutter and Mason Cutter have all been removed due to being inactive and I'll check for more. That said, I am expecting a number of adds for the December and if not, January update. 

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On 04/11/2021 at 17:13, mkpunk said:

I saw a number of these...

I have already seen the new releases as well. For now here is what the recent WWE releases will be known as in game:

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Ashante Adonis will go by Elijah King
B-Fab will go Briana Brandy
Bronson Reed is now JONAH (as per his debut in NJPW)
Carolina will return to Jessy
Drake Maverick will be renamed Rockstar Spud (until Triple H offers him his job back again)
Ember Moon will return to Athena
Franky Monet will go back to Taya
Gran Metalik will revert to Mascara Dorada
Isaiah Scott will be back to Shane Strickland
Jaxson Ryker will be renamed Gunner for now
Jessi Kamea I have renamed to Jessie Elaban
John Morrison will go back to John Hennigan (until he debuts as Johnny Whatever)
Karrion Kross will be back under Killer Kross
Oney Lorcan will be back to Biff Busick
Shane Thorne will go back to Shane Haste (for now)
Tegan Nox will revert to Nixon Newell
Top Dolla is going by AJ Francis (for now)
Trey Baxter is already confirmed to be going back Blake Christian for GCW
Zayda Ramier is going to return to AQA

 

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WWE have renamed some referees because #Priorities

Aja Smith is now Daphne Lashaunn
DA Brewer is now Dallas Irvin
Tom Castor is now Derek Sanders

They also renamed Mei Ying / Karen Q to Wendy Choo, Tian Sha seems to be dead now too.

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On 19/11/2021 at 09:57, TheWho87 said:

WWE have renamed some referees because #Priorities

Aja Smith is now Daphne Lashaunn
DA Brewer is now Dallas Irvin
Tom Castor is now Derek Sanders

They also renamed Mei Ying / Karen Q to Wendy Choo, Tian Sha seems to be dead now too.

Mei Ying is still on the WWE roster page (I was using it for new kyky pics) so imma wait on the Wendy Choo rename.

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On 20/11/2021 at 13:10, KingCrippler said:

Also, the entirety of the Dark Order are still heels with the gimmick "lackey" 

They were set as tweeners due to the nature of the gimmick and the limitations in game. Not sure what to do with Uno and his gimmick.

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