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sabotai · 05-22-2015, 11:41 PM

I've been toying with the idea of doing a total historic recreation for awhile and am going to give it a shot. I'm not going to use the auto-scheduler, or the auto-aging system. This will be done "old school" style, keeping track of things in a few spreadsheets.

Start Date: January 1st, 1880

Rankings and Scheduling

At first, there will be no rankings. History is very spotty for this decade. Fighters disappear (at least from boxrec.com) for a good bit of time here and there. So, no rankings. Probably not until the turn of the century when history, at least for the top guys, is more complete.

Scheduling...I'm just following their actual history right now. When a fighter fights someone not in the database, I just add the result to their record and move on. When both are in the database, I sim the fight. In the case where a fighter goes on to fight for a title, if they lose their previous fight, the winner of that fight will fight for the title instead. I'm sure this will be the beginning of a butterfly effect, causing me to rearrange schedules as the effects ripple through history. That's one of the fun things of doing it this way, the "what if?" game.

Traits and Events

Another wrench I'm throwing into this game is have a list of possible traits and events for fighters.

Example if an event: When a fighter loses by KO, there's a 10% chance he'll gain the "Shell Shock" trait - he'll get a -2 penalty to his Aggressiveness, Killer Instinct and Punching for his next 2 fights. There's also a 25% chance that the trait will be permanent.

This is, in large part, how I'll be handling aging. Fighters are at risk to these types of events. I also have the "aging" event. Not yet set on how I'll handle it, but after a certain set of parameters is met, a fighter will have an X% chance to lose a point in a few of their attributes. Something like that. I'll see how it goes.

I'm still fleshing out the events ideas (so I won't be using them at first). I''ll be adding more as I think of them and if anyone has any ideas, I'm all ears.

For now, I'm just going to use everyone's Prime rating.

Titles

No titles at the start. I'll start crowning champions sometime during the middle of the decade.

Anyway, let's get this started.

05-22-2015, 11:41 PM	#1
sabotai All Star Reserve Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: South Jersey Posts: 841	Historical Recreation I've been toying with the idea of doing a total historic recreation for awhile and am going to give it a shot. I'm not going to use the auto-scheduler, or the auto-aging system. This will be done "old school" style, keeping track of things in a few spreadsheets. Start Date: January 1st, 1880 Rankings and Scheduling At first, there will be no rankings. History is very spotty for this decade. Fighters disappear (at least from boxrec.com) for a good bit of time here and there. So, no rankings. Probably not until the turn of the century when history, at least for the top guys, is more complete. Scheduling...I'm just following their actual history right now. When a fighter fights someone not in the database, I just add the result to their record and move on. When both are in the database, I sim the fight. In the case where a fighter goes on to fight for a title, if they lose their previous fight, the winner of that fight will fight for the title instead. I'm sure this will be the beginning of a butterfly effect, causing me to rearrange schedules as the effects ripple through history. That's one of the fun things of doing it this way, the "what if?" game. Traits and Events Another wrench I'm throwing into this game is have a list of possible traits and events for fighters. Example if an event: When a fighter loses by KO, there's a 10% chance he'll gain the "Shell Shock" trait - he'll get a -2 penalty to his Aggressiveness, Killer Instinct and Punching for his next 2 fights. There's also a 25% chance that the trait will be permanent. This is, in large part, how I'll be handling aging. Fighters are at risk to these types of events. I also have the "aging" event. Not yet set on how I'll handle it, but after a certain set of parameters is met, a fighter will have an X% chance to lose a point in a few of their attributes. Something like that. I'll see how it goes. I'm still fleshing out the events ideas (so I won't be using them at first). I''ll be adding more as I think of them and if anyone has any ideas, I'm all ears. For now, I'm just going to use everyone's Prime rating. Titles No titles at the start. I'll start crowning champions sometime during the middle of the decade. Anyway, let's get this started.