Hi, Lee welcome to the forums.
The database team is updated quite often, if not daily.
You can follow the updates at the Changelist
Changelist
You can update any individual game or universe that you have created at any time you want. I update and save at least once a week if not more frequently.
Updating is a two step process. When you start the game it opens with a screen that has 7 options. "Continue game (whatever you named your game)", "load saved game", "create boxing universe" ,"options", "update data pool", "delete saved game", "import from TB2"
Click on "update data pool" for step one.
A screen will pop up telling you that you have have imported a specific number of files Click ok and you are ready for step two.
"continue game" or "load saved game" ill allow you to select which universe or game that you have created that you wish to update. Make your selection and wait for the game to load.
Once the game you want to update has loaded you'll see a menu screen with 18 options. The option in the lower right corner is the one you want to select at this point "Update from pool". After clicking on this a menu will appear that will allow you update all or to "cherry pick" your updates by weight classes of by the sex of the boxers. Click on your choice and wait for the updates to load. Over 8,000 fighter files, 8,000 rating files, and biography files are checked. This will take everal minutes. When the process is complete a pop up will appear telling you how many of each of these files types have been updated. Click ok to remove the pop up and then click the save button so that you preserve the updates you just added.
That's how the database updates work. One of the forum members Ice Tea is doing the lion's share of the official updates. Some forum members: John Dewey, professor dp, djday45, and me, have posted our own fighter files in the MODS section of the forums. If you find a thread that we've started in the MODS, you will likely find fighter files in it. Although not officially part of the data base, these files can be uploaded and added to your game if you choose to do so. If you explore the mods section you'll also find fighter files created by forum members for earlier versions of the game.
Have fun, and welcome to the forums and to the game. If you post to the main Title Bout forum more people are likely to say hello. This particular subforum doesn't get visited all too often.
Cheerio, mate.
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