RFG Questions

[Bogie]

New name update!?! What's that? TBCB 2030?

[pilight]

Originally Posted by Bogie

New name update!?! What's that? TBCB 2030?

I adapted Dogzilla's OOTP namesets to TBCB. Check it out here:

https://forums.ootpdevelopments.com/...92&postcount=3

[American_Ernesider]

Originally Posted by pilight

Before you get started, you need to decide on your structure. What weight classes you'll use, how many belts, stuff like that. You also need to decide what your initial batch of fighters will look like. Will they all be set at the beginning career stage or will you create a mix?

You'll need to figure out scheduling. How often fighters fight, how many rounds, such like that. I described my scheduling technique HERE. I've tweaked it a bit since then, adding a run of fighters ranked 1-350 fighting 1+ rated fighters, but it's basically still the same one I use now. It's worth noting that the autoscheduler will only do 999 matches at a time so you may need to run each setup multiple times.

Don't forget to activate auto aging!

You'll also need to decide how many and how often to add new fighters.

At some point you'll have to decide if you're going to move fighters up in weight class. If you decide to, you'll need to establish some guidelines for when a fighter will move.

I am not sure if I am doing something wrong with the scheduling. I tried to follow something close to what you had described in the post you linked, but I have run into issues with fighters fighting in the same month regardless of my parameters.

Could you walk me through one month in your world? Specifically, do you run the bouts as soon as your first parameters are scheduled and then reschedule for new parameters, run those bouts, rinse and repeat?

[pilight]

I schedule every bout on the same day, which alleviates the problem you mention.

If you just do a year and a month and allow the autoscheduler to pick a random date, you'll get fighters fighting multiple times in a month. That's because the autoscheduler is dumb and only looks backwards to see if a fighter has sufficient days inactive.

If a fighter is a 0 and gets scheduled to fight a guy with 0-4 fights on the 24th, he might be chosen again to fight a guy with 5-9 fights if the fights is scheduled before the 24th because the auto scheduler looks back and sees he's been inactive for X days before. It does not look forward to see that scheduling this fight would keep from having X days inactive before his next one.

[American_Ernesider]

Originally Posted by pilight

I schedule every bout on the same day, which alleviates the problem you mention.

If you just do a year and a month and allow the autoscheduler to pick a random date, you'll get fighters fighting multiple times in a month. That's because the autoscheduler is dumb and only looks backwards to see if a fighter has sufficient days inactive.

If a fighter is a 0 and gets scheduled to fight a guy with 0-4 fights on the 24th, he might be chosen again to fight a guy with 5-9 fights if the fights is scheduled before the 24th because the auto scheduler looks back and sees he's been inactive for X days before. It does not look forward to see that scheduling this fight would keep from having X days inactive before his next one.

Ok. That makes so much more sense. In prior universes, I have normally done scheduling based on specific dates so probably didn't encounter this. That said I know I have messed up past universes due to the month/year only.

So, do you schedule one date each month for all bouts to take place in your universe? Or do you do it weekly with specific dates? (You may have answered this in your original, just wanted to confirm.)

[pilight]

One date each month.

It hurts the realism, but I haven't found another way around the autoscheduler limitations.

[American_Ernesider]

Originally Posted by pilight

One date each month.

It hurts the realism, but I haven't found another way around the autoscheduler limitations.

Awesome and thanks for the additional information. I can live with the fact that the dates may look off, but better that than having your universe adversely impacted with people fighting more frequently than your rules should allow.