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I agree, i'll work on this. Seems pretty straightforward though. Question though, do you want regional titles? Multiple world titles? Both? And how do you want the game to react to that? Ie. Is that fighter then ranked higher? Fight more often etc etc.

I honestly am not quite sure about this. What i have in one of my current worlds is the Ring Title which is the top of the mountain, next down are the WBA/WBC/WBO and then finally i have the regional titles like the NABF/EBU. The problem i see is that for the smaller regional titles you need to be able to sort by country.

Now this the game DOES do, but perhaps a little differently then you may have experienced in the past. The schedule for a "newcomer" basically works like this:

1) Determine whether the fighter is active
2) Roughly 80-90% chance of fighting a journeyman, OCCASIONALLY target another newcomer (seemed pretty realistic to me).
3) Target a random active journeyman.

Now the trick here is this, the scheduler works top down. And by that what I mean is that the World Champions opponent is allocated first, then the contenders, then the veterans etc etc. So what that potentially means is that the only available opponent for a ranked fighter MAY be a newcomer. You will notice that this happens more frequently with a lower amount of fighters. Once you pass the 25-30 active fighters it happens very infrequently. Another thing to watch out for is the number of Journeyman fighters available. Its a good idea that your 'Pool' contain about a 3:1 ratio of TCs before you start play. This is because they will fight more frequently, and retire faster then their better counterparts.

I'd like to point out that I deliberately made it like this, because I want Muhammad Ali and Joe Blogs the TC to start on EXACTLY the same terms. Suspend what you know to be true, because when they start their careers you don't 'KNOW' which is better then the other. The results they generate will determine that. In the universe I am running now I had some very interesting results:

- Danny Williams was unlucky enough to start his career early in the game, and was matched against superior fighters. As a result he quickly became a Journeyman. As the universe expanded, he was matched against poorer and poorer fighters and he dug himself out of a hole.

- Trevor Berbick dodged a bullet and was matched against absolute hacks right up until his 15th, 16th fight. So even though I know that Jeffries was superior, he lagged behind in the rankings until they finally fought each other. Very realistic! Think Primo Carnera.......

I definitely understand this better now. In the universe i am testing right now i started with fighters that debuted in 1960-1964. Now i understand some guys are just gonna get some tough draws and i am beginning to kinda like this so far.

Yes I found the same, but until such a time that the game can support an import of a schedule this is the limit we work with.

No complaints here i do think this is better than the current system i use with an excel spreadsheet and a lot of work.