Promo Wrestling World news & patch notes

• Fixed poached champions bringing another promotion’s championships with them.
• Rival championships now remain with their original promotion and are vacated correctly.
• Fixed rival company windows cutting off information and buttons.
• Rival company tabs now remain a consistent size and scroll properly at lower resolutions.
• Added Gemini 3.6 Flash as the recommended model and Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite.
• Genci now retries with a compatible model when the selected model is unavailable.
• Fixed wrestler popularity displaying incorrectly in the World Editor.
• Added wrestler importing to the World Editor.
• Fixed unnecessary push-level and venue warnings.
• Wrestlers' profiles can now be opened from the World Draft screen.
• Replaced confusing World Draft “Fit” numbers with clearer roster-fit descriptions.
• Fixed several smaller World Editor compatibility issues.
• Fixed wrestlers sometimes not leaving the roster when released from their profile.
• Replaced unclear live-show form abbreviations with readable win and loss streaks.
• Interference now identifies the wrestler involved when known.
• Rebalanced Cue Chant so it can no longer overpower match results.
• Fixed several booking, World Editor, era selection, and display issues.
• Improved stability and compatibility across different screen resolutions.

• Added Scheduled Winner information to the live show view and Full Card view.

• Added stronger long-term rival promotion behavior, including reinvestment in talent, training, production, markets, and staff.

• Numerous visual improvements and enhancements throughout the game.

• Added persistent wrestler families and bloodlines.
• Wrestlers can have spouses, parents, children, siblings, cousins, aunts, uncles, and extended family.
• Children grow outside the active worker database and may debut years later.
• Second-generation wrestlers inherit family identity, home region, and softly influenced attributes without becoming clones of their parents.
• Famous family names create additional expectations, opportunities, pressure, and crowd interest.
• Family members now react to releases, injuries, deaths, betrayals, and major career successes.
• Added family trees and relationship information to wrestler profiles and the World Editor.
• Added Bloodline and generational records to Dynasty and the Record Book.
• Added deterministic long-save protections and generation limits.

• Staff members can now retire as the world ages.
• Expanded rare death and career-ending injury systems, with player-controlled settings.
• Improved title, contract, and roster cleanup when a career ends.
• Added Legends and pay-per-appearance contracts.
• Appearance-based deals display remaining dates and expire correctly.
• Retired wrestlers are easier to locate and manage.
• Expanded World Editor controls for retirement, injuries, death, and career-ending status.

• Releases and contract buyouts now have real financial consequences.
• Guaranteed money and applicable remaining obligations are included in release costs.
• Wrestlers can request their release.
• Release requests can be granted, denied, or renegotiated.
• Wrestlers and staff remember lowball offers and poor treatment.
• Negotiation memory can affect future demands and willingness to negotiate.
• Expanded enforcement for no-compete, no-poach, loan, outside-appearance, creative-control, merchandise, name-rights, and other authored clauses.
• Improved contract-interference claims and their financial and reputation consequences.
• Clarified negotiation risks and contract language throughout the interface.

• Added a dedicated in-game PPV Calendar and event manager.
• PPVs can now be reviewed, edited, and managed without opening the World Editor.
• Custom PPVs can recur annually.
• Added PPV artwork and logo support, including World Editor round-trip support.
• Added a full venue browser with venue details and booking history.
• Improved calendar navigation so the selected PPV is focused correctly.
• Rebuilt the PPV Campaign Board into a customizable workspace.
• PPV planning panels can be moved, resized, hidden, restored, and cleaned up.
• Reduced unnecessary scrolling across PPV Headquarters.
• Improved visual consistency between PPV customization and other customizable workspaces.

• Unified match-rating modifiers between the primary and V2 match engines.
• Added parity testing to prevent the two engines from drifting apart.
• Expanded regional audience tastes and tournament heat effects.
• Referee personalities now have meaningful match consequences.
• Previously hidden booking penalties now produce visible feedback.
• Angle fallout is communicated more clearly.
• Rival drama and Greatest Rivalries are now surfaced to the player.
• Storyline progression rules are enforced more consistently.
• Rival Match Lab stakes now settle correctly.
• Stable business momentum, talent loans, product identity, and personality effects have been deepened.
• Failed broadcast-market attempts now enforce their cooldowns.
• Expanded owner confidence and job-security consequences.

• Fixed tournament invitation options that could incorrectly report no eligible entrants.
• Accepting a tournament invitation now takes you to the Tournament Response Desk.
• Decision popups remain open long enough to explain what happened.
• Consequences are applied when the result is acknowledged, preventing disappearing result screens.
• Added a shared result presentation for major office, medical, scandal, retirement, business, and event decisions.
• PPV bidding-war results now confirm inside the original window.

• “Advance One Calendar Day” now keeps you on your current screen.
• Improved first-week tutorial presentation, navigation, and readability.
• Tutorial steps now exit customization modes correctly.
• Improved dashboard customization instructions and hidden-widget guidance.
• Added clearer visible feedback for consequences that were previously communicated only through brief toasts.
• Improved commentary presentation and staff artwork handling.
• Split several large interface bundles to improve loading performance. Thank you for supporting Promo Wrestling World. The move to 1.0 is a major milestone, but it is not the end of development. Your reports and feedback will continue to guide future fixes, balancing, improvements, and new features.

• Create your own events in the World Editor.
• Simple Mode walks you through building an event without requiring technical knowledge.
• Advanced Mode gives you control over eligibility, timing, choices, consequences, hidden information, follow-ups and long-term memories.
• Custom events now run through the real weekly simulation.
• Built-in and custom events respect the world’s event-frequency settings.
• Export and import Event Packs.
• Publish and download Event Packs through Steam Workshop.
• Fixed event timing that could cause events to fire far less often than intended.
• Hidden information now reveals properly when the story calls for it.
• Broken custom events now report why they could not run instead of silently disappearing.

• Added a Community Worlds browser.
• Browse, download and safely import worlds without manually moving files.
• Publish worlds directly to Steam Workshop.
• Workshop imports are isolated and validated before they can affect your current game.
• Added better duplicate handling and clearer information about what a world or Event Pack contains.

• Watch Live now carries stories, rivalries, turns and results across the entire broadcast.
• Added automatic broadcast continuity, including callbacks to earlier matches and important moments.
• You can optionally join the commentary booth using your microphone.
• Offline speech recognition is included with the game and does not require an online transcription service.
• Talk naturally with your assigned commentators during matches.
• Commentators can answer questions using real records, title histories, streaks and previous match results.
• Added booth chemistry, disagreements, predictions and post-match reactions.
• Producer voice commands can trigger supported broadcast calls without interrupting the match.
• Player commentary stays visible through synchronized captions.
• Added an optional commentary review and Call of the Night.
• Fixed awkward pauses, repeated responses, bad timing and commentary continuing into the wrong match phase.
• Fixed tag matches sometimes identifying the winner’s partner as the loser.

• Added Chase the Record storylines.
• Added Retirement Tour storylines with a full twelve-week arc and a proper final match.
• Added Double Turns.
• Heel and face turns now happen when the segment airs instead of changing the wrestler while the show is still being booked.
• Turns now receive their proper crowd reaction, news coverage and storyline consequences.
• Rival promotions can create and remember more major career stories.
• Retirement tours no longer leave wrestlers permanently trapped if the story is abandoned.
• Retired wrestlers properly vacate championships.

• Added Start New Record Era.
• Starting a new era resets the active race without deleting anyone’s lifetime career history.
• Previous eras remain available through the archive selector.
• Championship reigns already in progress only count the time lived inside the new era.
• Record Book columns can now be sorted ascending or descending.
• Record Era ranges now show real calendar dates instead of internal game date codes.
• Fresh careers receive a proper introductory empty state instead of a wall of zeroes.
• Cleaned up the Record Book background and overall presentation.

• Tours now develop an actual story across every stop.
• The game remembers the tour’s opening, momentum, setbacks, high point, low point and finale.
• Tour news and impact reports reflect what really happened.
• Advertised headliners are checked against actual availability and medical status.
• Regional popularity, crowd promises, travel costs and tour profit remain tied to the real scheduled shows.
• Fixed tour heat and momentum being lost between stops.

• Gimmick freshness now affects performances before an act becomes completely stale.
• Strong crowd reactions can re-energize a gimmick.
• Rival bookers recognize stale acts and can repackage them.
• Added clearer freshness information to wrestler profiles, roster cards and the gimmick editor.
• Repackaging history and cooldowns are now tracked properly.

• The World Editor can now author the templates used when new promotions enter the world.
• Rival championship reigns properly contribute to world records.
• Important rival title changes now appear in World News.
• Regional audience tastes have a stronger effect on match reception.
• Tournament momentum and prestige now carry into the wider simulation.
• Rival popularity, factions, fatigue, team chemistry and roster decisions have been tightened.
• Referee personalities now influence matches instead of existing only as profile information.
• Rival promotions continue operating across every supported difficulty setting.

• Creative-capital costs are actually deducted when forcing protected finishes.
• No-shows now produce real follow-up consequences.
• Injury grievances can affect relationships and future decisions.
• Acquisition costs and income now appear in company accounting.
• Carriage disputes only affect the active matching television deal.
• Network, investor and front-office decisions have clearer consequences and confirmation safeguards.
• Trust, wage demands, suspensions and time away now properly affect wrestler availability.
• Round-based match rules are enforced by the match engine.

• In-game milestones are now connected to Steam achievements.
• Fixed achievement requirements that previously referenced statistics the game never recorded.
• All 40 achievement definitions now have reachable progression paths.

• Development Centers now live with the roster and training tools instead of Advanced Utilities.
• Event Studio shows its complete catalog count in the sidebar.
• Search now reaches Event Studio, Community Worlds, Workshop tools and commentary settings.
• Added safer confirmations for destructive save, import and business actions.
• Improved keyboard navigation, modal focus and screen-reader announcements.
• Continued cleanup of editor layouts, number controls, backgrounds and dense workspaces.

• The game now identifies itself as version 1.0.0 throughout the executable, saves and packaged files.
• Existing Early Access saves continue through the migration system.
• Improved long-career save-size limits and history cleanup.
• Broadcast-project finances now stay bounded and run inside the weekly advance.
• Living-world systems fail safely instead of stopping the entire weekly simulation.
• Removed another source of nondeterministic weekly results.
• Updated packaged dependencies and confirmed zero known production dependency vulnerabilities.
• Completed additional multi-year, large-world and long-session simulation testing.

• Founder Mode and Owner Career: Start from nothing and build a promotion show by show.
• World Draft: Run the lottery, scout prospects, work the War Room and experience a full Draft Night.
• Match Engine v2: Every major match type now runs through one deeper match simulation.
• Match Lab: Create your own match types, rules, finishes and signature attractions.
• Watch Live: Full entrances, music, crowd audio, match narration, producer controls and interactive commentary.
• Living Rivals and Talent Wars: Rival promotions hire, fire, trade, poach, negotiate and compete with you.
• Permanent Trades and Super Shows: Negotiate wrestler packages, cash, prospects, draft picks, loans and joint events.
• People and Pressure: Wrestlers and staff remember promises, injuries, disputes, careers and major life decisions.
• The Booker’s Desk: A rebuilt inbox focused on decisions, deadlines, reports and weekly office work.
• World Tours: Take your scheduled shows overseas and manage markets, venues, travel and tour stories.
• Event Studio: Create, share and download custom events and Event Packs.
• Steam Workshop and Steam Cloud: Share worlds, download community creations and protect save slots.
• Dynasty and Record Book: Track careers, title reigns, tournaments, Hall of Fame classes and historical record eras.
• Tournament Overhaul: More formats, better brackets, invitations, consequences and live tournament presentation.
• Managers, Staff and Secondary Careers: Build ringside, commentary, medical, creative and front-office teams.
• Women’s Divisions: Create complete women’s rosters, championships, brands and shows.
• Expanded World Editor: Edit the wrestling world, its eras, promotions, workers, venues, rules, events and development systems.
• Deeper Presentation: Hundreds of entrance themes, improved show graphics, crowd reactions, title cards and broadcast storytelling.
• Steam Achievements: Forty achievements tied to real career and world milestones.

• Prospect Week. The build-up before anyone picks. Mock drafts, promos, and a web of who's tight with who — because the guy you draft has friends, and they're watching where he lands.
• The Prospect Showcase. Scout your picks and get eyes on them working before you commit a pick.
• The Lottery. Order gets decided, and everything you planned gets rearranged.
• The War Room. Your board, your targets, your plan — right up until the man you wanted goes two picks before yours.
• The Green Room. The camera stays on the wrestlers waiting to hear their name. Some nights that's the best part. Some nights it's brutal.
• Launch Night. The draft itself.

• You don't get to see everything. Scout blind, work through the fog, and live with the gaps in what you know.
• Rivals will snipe your guy. They want him too, and they're not waiting.
• The Wrestlers react to where they land. Wanted, buried, overlooked — they feel it, and they know exactly what they were worth.
• They remember what you promised them. Make a promise on draft night and it's their memory
• It follows them for years. The number one pick remembers it. So does the last name pick. Every draft is recorded, and the whole roster remembers who was picked ahead of who.

• You can take the company on the road. This didn't exist before — the world outside your home country was scenery, and now it's somewhere you go.
• A tour doesn't invent new shows. It moves the ones already on your books somewhere else. Your Tuesday TV is still your Tuesday TV, it's just happening in Tokyo now. Same with PPVs and one-off events.
• Markets and Tours have their own pages, with shortcuts from Booking and the Calendar. Every show on a tour gets a TOUR marker so you can see the run at a glance.
• You plan the route week by week and pick the building for every stop. Travel, venue fees, production, holds and cancellation all come out of your pocket — so a tour into a market that's never heard of you can absolutely lose money.
• You can advertise up to three headliners. Put a man on the poster and then leave him home, and the crowd remembers it. Skip a promised name at a stop and your standing in that market takes the hit.
• The show report tells you how the tour actually went: how the crowd took it, whether the market grew or cooled on you, whether your advertised names showed up, and who came home a bigger star than they left.
• When a tour wraps you get the full accounting — what you took in, what it cost, whether the market's better off, who broke out, and a running history of every tour you've run there.
• Japan, Mexico, the UK, Australia, Canada and Continental Europe have their own flag backdrops. The Middle East and South America use regional artwork instead — they're not one country, so a single flag would be wrong.
• Fan Outreach and Tours are two different things. Outreach is a one-off push in a single market. A tour is a multi-week run on the road.

• Every promotion in the world now has a standing and relationships with you — allies, rivals, and everyone in between — and it moves based on what you do to them.
• There's a trade system... in a wrestling game! Build a package with wrestlers, cash, and future considerations, and go make a deal.
• Trades are off by default. Don't want trades, keep them off. Want a new experience, turn them on for a save from the Trade Desk itself, or under Settings → Gameplay → Living Rivals. Your call whether trading belongs in your world.
• Trades are a real negotiation. Rival offices counter, hold back the guys they won't move, and want what their roster actually needs. Lowball a rival and they'll react like it.
• Loans and working agreements let allied promotions borrow each other's talent.
• Super Shows: put a card together with another promotion.
• Rival companies make smarter calls about their own rosters, and your relationship with them matters.

• A wrestler is no longer equally famous everywhere. Being over in the States doesn't mean Tokyo knows who he is. Every wrestler now carries a separate reputation in every market.
• New Popularity tab on every wrestler's profile — a number and a red-to-green bar for every market, home and abroad.

• Introducing Match Lab, a complete custom-match creation and management feature.
• Better work on injuries, title presentation, commentary and storylines.
• Create, edit, save, and reuse custom match types throughout Booking.
• Custom matches integrate with simulation, crowd response, commentary, injuries, ratings, results, and save migration.
• See if the match you create wins over the crowd, if so, save it for a future show, but don't overuse it, the fans will remember.

• New — start with nobody. You can begin a promotion with zero wrestlers on the roster. Empty locker room and you build the whole thing from scratch. The game points you at your first signings instead of leaving you staring at an empty card.
• Fixed: the World Editor could tell you a save worked and then quietly put your old values back.
• The editor handles media, imports and catalog edits more safely, keeps your live schedule intact, and stays responsive on big worlds.
• Autosaves are safer and saves are smaller.

• Fixed numerous behind the scene bugs
• Titles and belts load properly, search is more reliable, and the Inbox reads better.
• The usual round of navigation, font and performance polish.

Big Update

The Match Engine

• The new match engine is now on for everybody — every match type in the game runs through it. You don't have to touch a setting.
• I spent a bunch of rounds playtesting and tuning it: ratings are honest now, finishes actually read like finishes, and the play-by-play doesn't sound like a robot wrote it.
• Every wrestler has their own moveset, and the commentary calls their actual moves by name.
• Lazy booking hurts you now. Run the same match twice in one night and your rating will feel it.

Watch Show — it's a real broadcast now

• The show you watch IS the real match — not a copy. What you see is what happened.
• Show-open title card in your promotion's colors, pyro, crowd noise under the whole show, the bell, and the crowd reacts to who's actually out there — faces get cheered, heels get booed, and a hot crowd will break into chants.
• Full ring entrances. The music hits, they come down the aisle, you get the hometown, the weight, the nickname — the whole classic announcement. Even interviews and promos get proper entrances now.
• Tag teams, trios, stables, and factions come out TOGETHER, to the team's own music, with everyone on the stage.
• The announce desk remembers things. "He has NEVER beaten this man." Old betrayals, losing streaks — they bring it up. And the commentators are real people with names and their own styles.
• The broadcast knows your storylines. It talks about the feud where it actually is, calls turns live when they happen, and announces match rules correctly — including the big team stuff like six-mans and faction warfare.
• Interviews actually say something now. Who it's about, what's at stake, what title is hanging over it. And if someone just turned, they explain themselves on the mic.
• Producer calls actually change the show, there's a skip-to-results button if you're in a hurry, and venues and commentators show up on the broadcast.

Entrance Music

• Every single wrestler in the current era — all 224 of them — has their own theme song now. Every team, stable, and faction too. Your existing save picks them all up automatically.
• You can change anyone's theme right from the edit button on their card, with a play button to preview songs. Same thing for teams and stables, and in the World Editor. You can upload your own clips and trim them to the part you want.
• Fixed the bug where you couldn't hear the music during shows. Turns out the themes were getting buried under the crowd noise — I remastered every single one louder, the crowd quiets down when a theme hits, and the pop comes right AFTER the music instead of stepping on it.

Storylines & Turns

• Heel and face turns are REAL now. Their alignment flips, the crowd treats them different, they get new music, and they cut a promo on the next show explaining why they did it. The deeper into a storyline it happens, the bigger the shock.
• The crowd can push a turn on its own — a heel the fans love will get a face-turn pitch, and a worn-down babyface can snap. The crowd leads, you decide.
• Partners can turn on each other after a loss. Storyline endings care about who actually won. And when a big feud pays off, the fallout can spin into a brand new storyline.
• New storyline types: Worked Shoot, Monster, and Mystery Reveal.
• Run-ins, ambushes, and brawls have real consequences now.

Teams, Stables & Factions

• You can make Trios and Factions in-game now, right from the same create buttons — pick the type from a dropdown and it tells you the rules (trios are exactly 3, factions need 4+ and a leader).
• Fixed the tag team edit button opening the wrong screen. It shows the current members now and has a proper dropdown to add people.
• Cards are labeled so you can actually tell what's a stable, faction, tag team, or trio.
• Added big team matches — six-man, eight-man, ten-man, full faction warfare — plus new stable and faction angles.

Championships

• When you create a title you pick Men's, Women's, or Intergender — and it only shows you wrestlers who fit, from YOUR promotion. Works in the World Editor, templates, exports, and Workshop too.
• Tap a title card to flip it over — last three champs, longest reign, and what brand it's on.
• Fixed belts showing two champions at once, and title match eligibility after a title changes hands.

Roster & Locker Room

• Fixed wrestlers coming back from injury but staying "Unavailable" forever. Booking cards also show honest labels now — injured, on vacation, holding out — with an icon telling you how long.
• Fixed roster card backs getting cut off, fixed the roster search box, and the locker room boards don't run forever anymore — they cap at 10 and scroll.

Dashboard

• Cleaned up the dashboard — no more giant blank gaps. Cards size to what's in them.

🧩 Steam Workshop — Share Your Worlds (New!)

☁️ Steam Cloud Saves (New!)

🎨 World Editor — Big Visual Facelift

🛠️ Fixes and Polish

Promo Wrestling World — Brand Split & Draft Night Update

Hey everyone! This is a big one. You can now split your promotion into rival brands — two (or three) competing rosters under one banner — and setting those rosters up plays out as a full televised Draft Night! You can also finally run a separate TV deal for each of your shows, upload logos for your shows and PPVs, and there's a big pile of fixes and polish on top.

🟥🟦 Brand Split — Run Rival Brands (New System!)

Split your one promotion into two or three rival brands, each with its own roster, weekly show, and championships — then let the crowds argue over which side runs the better show.

• Name and color each brand. The color carries everywhere so you can tell them apart at a glance.

• Brand rules are enforced across the board — a brand's show only books its own roster (the booker, Auto-Fill, and AI Book all respect it), a card that breaks the rules won't run, and the Booking Assistant tells you exactly what to fix.

• PPVs stay cross-brand automatically, so the big nights still mix everyone.

• Brand championships can only be defended on their own shows — leave a belt Global and both sides can chase it.

• Cross-brand appearances — a per-segment toggle in the Segment Editor lets you sneak a wrestler onto the other brand's show for invasion angles, open challenges, and dream matches. Off-brand wrestlers are greyed out until you flip it.

• Free Agents — mark any wrestler as a free agent (not tied to a brand) so they can work both shows. There's a Free Agents popup that lists everyone unassigned with one-click "assign to brand" buttons.

• Everyone you sign gets a brand — pick it right in the contract negotiation; call-ups, poaches, and other signings auto-land on the thinnest roster so nobody slips through unassigned.

🎬 Draft Night — Set Your Rosters Like a Live Broadcast (New System!)

Schedule a Draft Day and it plays out like a televised event.

• Watch it unfold — the on-the-clock brand in its own colors, a big pick number, slow dramatic reveals with wrestler portraits, crowd reactions, an analyst/fan ticker, and round-break "Draft Desk" beats.

• Or make the picks yourself — when a brand's on the clock, draft from a fit-scored shortlist (with "Auto best available" and "Auto-pick the rest"), or just sit back and watch the whole thing run.

• Auto-draft for an instant one-click redistribution, and improved roster balancing so the split is fair.

• Choose whether free agents get thrown into the draft or stay unassigned.

• Final results show — draft grades per brand, the night's biggest headlines, and fun superlatives (Biggest Steal, Best Value, Biggest Reach).

• Set your opening rosters your way the moment you create a split — draft it live, make the picks, auto-split, or assign by hand.

• Draft Day reminders hit your inbox, calendar, and dashboard, and the Brands tab lights up when it's time to run it.

📺 Multiple TV Deals — A Network Per Show

• Negotiate a separate TV deal for each weekly show — signing a deal for your second show no longer wipes out your flagship deal.

• "My Deal" lists every active deal — flagship and secondary side by side, each renegotiable on its own.

• The negotiate flow now tells you which show a deal is for, and a show's network picker only offers networks you've actually negotiated with.

🖼️ Show & PPV Logos

• Upload logos for your shows and PPVs in the World Editor — they now show up in Booking, TV Contracts, and on the Brands screen.

• Better venue image upload and persistence, and they display properly while you're booking.

🎨 Brand Color, Everywhere

• Each brand's color now shows on the roster board (a dot on every wrestler, plus a CHAMP crown on champions), the calendar (each brand's show gets tinted), the roster card backs, the booking projection strip, and the booked show's name — so you always know whose night it is.

🛠️ Fixes and Polish

• World Editor pull/push is fixed for TV tier, show logos, PPV logos, venue images, and brand assignments — edits round-trip into your game reliably.

• Fixed a World Editor spreadsheet import bug — imported wrestlers left without a company were sometimes accidentally signed to your promotion instead of staying free agents.

• Cleaned up dead nav/search routes, and rival scheduled shows show up on the calendar again.

• Sidebar activity glow is just the icon now — the tab keeps its normal colors; the icon goes gold when a tournament or Draft Day is waiting on you.

• Rename your brands any time on the Brands screen.

• Polished the Finance tabs/customization and the tournament desk (UX + performance).

• A big pass of save-safety and regression coverage under the hood — World Editor templates, imports/exports, brands, media, and advancing time.

Thanks as always for playing and for all the feedback!

Promo Wrestling World — Calendar, PPV, Championships & Feud Payoff Update

📅 Click a Day, Sim to It

• Click any future date on the calendar and you'll sim right to it. You get a quick heads-up first — how many days, how many of your shows and rival shows run on the way — then off you go.
• Cleaner calendar look — days are easier to read, the day you picked gets a highlight ring, and past days aren't washed out anymore.

🏠 Dashboard Week Calendar & Side Tabs/Panels

• A live 7-day calendar is now on your dashboard by default, with your shows and rival events at a glance.
• Same click-a-day-to-sim option right from the dashboard — no need to jump to the Calendar tab.
• Siide tab panels have a hover over option. When collapsed, side tab panels now have an option to enable hover over that allows you to view the whole tab panel section. This is off by default. Don't forget you can drag and drop collapsed panels to other areas on your screen!

  💰 PPV Weekends Got a Real Command Center

  Building a pay-per-view finally feels like promoting a big event instead of just filling slots.
  • A dedicated PPV HQ screen — see the whole card main-event-down, empty slots and all, with estimated buys and projected revenue right there.
  • A readiness checklist grades your show before the bell: hot feuds, title matches, star power, a payoff-ready storyline, enough booked matches. It tells you flat out if you're "PPV Ready," "Needs Work," or "Not Ready."
  • Campaign timeline — a countdown that walks you through Plan → Build → Sell → Produce → Night Of.
  • Pricing strategy — pick your buy-in tier from Value up to Supercard, and watch how it swings your buyrate and reach.
  • One-night production upgrades — "Go Big for PPV" to splurge on spectacle for the big show, then drop back to your weekly setup after.
  • Network bidding war for PPV distribution deals, plus a "Create PPV" button to schedule a one-off event without touching the World Editor.
  • Handy side panels: hottest feuds, championship spotlights, your top stars, and the storyline pipeline marked "Payoff Ready" when an arc's ripe.

  🏅 Championship Overhaul

  Titles are way deeper now — they've got identity, history, and a lifecycle. Plus a Create A Title option!
  • 13 title formats to pick from when you create or edit a belt — World, Women's, Tag, Women's Tag, Trios, Mixed Tag, Cruiserweight, Hardcore, Television, Regional, Heritage, Tournament Cup, or fully Custom. The format sets holder count, defense cadence, and eligibility.
  • Title lifecycle — set a belt Active, Inactive, or Retired, and hide the ones you're not using.
  • A real prestige system — belts build prestige from defenses, reign length, and PPV exposure, shown as a score on every title card.
  • Title history & lineage — pop open any belt to see its full list of past champions and how long each held it.
  • Hall of Reigns — an all-time top-10 longest reigns board with gold/silver/bronze podium spots.
  • Belt art — swap any championship's look from a bundled gallery or upload your own.
  • A championship control header up top showing your top prize, total/active/vacant counts, and average prestige — with a warning when active belts are sitting without a champion.

  🥊 Feuds Pay Off Now

  • Blow-off and payoff matches in a hot feud get a real rating boost — the hotter the storyline, the bigger the bump. A slow-burn rivalry finally cashing in feels like an event.
  • Big blow-offs reward the wrestlers involved — a one-time momentum and popularity bump when a red-hot feud pays off, plus a news beat to mark the moment.

  🏆 Tournaments — You Control the Bracket

  • Player tournament brackets now advance properly on your end — you move the bracket along yourself and results resolve cleanly, instead of stalling.

  🔎 Search and Ctrl+K Navigation

  • Ctrl+K opens the command palette so you can jump to screens, wrestlers, titles, storylines, stables, and promotions.
  • The top search bar now gives quick inline results without stealing focus while you type.
  • It also supports fast actions like Save Game, Run Show, and opening Genci from the command palette.
  • Full keyboard flow — type to filter, arrow keys to move, Enter to go, Esc to bail.

  🤖 Dashboard Widgets Cleaned Up

  • Genci's dashboard card is now real insights — the hottest feud, a rising star, an open title — instead of clunky filler.
  • The onboarding widget turns into a Quick Actions launcher once you finish onboarding, instead of leaving a blank gap.

  🧾 Rival Shows Report the Real Number

  • Rival show recaps and world news now pull the actual rating the sim gave that show, so what you read matches what really happened.

  🛠️ Fixes and Polish

  • PPV card editing now opens the card builder cleanly and returns you to PPV HQ instead of kicking you to the wrong screen.
  • Genci championship advice now respects active vs inactive/retired titles.
  • Tryout signings drop the day after their show now, not weeks later — and a "Tryout" badge on the roster card makes it clear they're not a full signing.
  • Upgrades has its own tab next to Empire (same style as Free Agents / Talent Wars under Contracts), and the leftover tab strip got pulled off the other Business pages.
  • World Editor venue cards show the full state/region instead of cutting it off, and you can finally set capacity freely — clear the field and type 5500 without the old "50 minimum" fighting you.
  • Under-the-hood safety guard so the weekly upkeep can't double-run and double-charge you if a sim overlaps a week boundary.
  Thanks as always for playing and for the feedback — a lot of this came straight from your suggestions. Keep it coming!

Promo Wrestling World — Big Backstage, Tournament, Injury, Live Show & World Editor Update

🏆 Tournaments Got a Complete Overhaul

• Quick Tournament — one click and you're running one.
• Create House or Invitational events right inside the Create flow.
• Real bracket engines — round-robin and gauntlet formats simulate properly now.
• Tournament Night is its own tab (top strip + sidebar), with a clean screen when nothing's running.
• Winners feel it — results ripple into momentum, popularity, aura, title shots, and fresh rivalries.
• Live broadcast mode for tournament night, cleaned up.
• The calendar shows the real date instead of "Week 4."
• Gold sidebar glow when a tournament or invite is waiting on you.

📺 The Live Show Got a Big Glow-Up

• New broadcast presentation — proper matchup graphics, a commentary feed with play-by-play / color / crowd lanes, a live crowd meter, and a results rail down the side.
• Producer calls, stage effects and sound — the booth reacts and the big moments hit harder.
• Replays & bookmarks — flag and rewatch the moments you care about.
• The on-air clock means something now — it tracks the match's booked time instead of ticking real-world seconds, so a 9-minute match and a 25-minute match actually read differently.
• A new slower pace option plus more commentary — matches breathe, and longer matches get more back-and-forth on the call.
• Cleaner end-of-show results screen.

🤕 Injuries Are Real Now (New System!)

• Availability tiers — wrestlers can be Limited, Angles Only, or fully Out.
• Work them hurt at your own risk — tanks their performance and carries real aggravation (re-injury) risk.
• Match type matters — ladder/TLC, cage, hardcore crank the danger up.
• Clearer recovery — rehab and return timelines you can plan around.

🎤 Your Wrestlers Now Come to You (New System!)

• They'll ask for bigger feuds, pushes, heel/face turns, repackages, tag teams, creative direction, or time off.
• Accept, Defer, or Decline — saying yes to a feud or push creates a tracked promise; deliver it or morale and trust take a hit.
• Pitches show up in your Inbox, the Recommended Next card, Genci's advice, and the Locker Room.
• Built-in cooldowns so nobody nags you every week.

🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Locker Room Redesign

• Five-column board: Needs Attention, Promises, Requests, Mood Watch, and Stable Veterans — side by side.
• Per-Worker Profile breakdown is open by default with a six-trait spider chart, tiers, plain-English explanations, and an auto read on strengths/weak spots.
• Promises and requests update live and are clickable.
• Relationships you author in the World Editor now actually show up here (rivalries, alliances, mentorships).

🎬 Booking & Creative Tools

• World Editor promo/angle templates now show up when booking — pick them in the Segment Editor and they actually affect the segment's rating.
• Angle template narrative lines appear in show recaps — the lines you write (with {talker}/{target}) now headline the segment in the results.
• Custom Match Gimmicks and Match Stories are now bookable — pick them on a match and they drive rating/injury modifiers and chain bonuses (previously authored but unreachable).
• Pick exactly which show you're booking, and Auto-Book is now respected during Quick Advance.
• Hitting Cancel in the Segment Editor returns you to the Card Builder instead of dumping you back to Booking.
• Booking factors in injury availability and risk warnings.
• Fixed a handful of booking and watch-show completion blockers that could stall a show.

⏱️ Match Length Actually Matters Now

• Live length guidance in the Segment Editor — it tells you the sweet spot for the match type, whether you're too short or dragging, the exact rating swing, and warns you if a low-stamina wrestler is going to gas in a long match.
• Set the ideal length per match type in the World Editor — author the "sweet spot" yourself for any match type, custom ones included.
• Iron Man is an hour now, like it should be.

🔍 Rivals & Scouting

• "View roster" buttons all over World Intel — click any rival promotion to see who they've got signed and go poach them. It was always possible, just buried; now it's obvious.

🌍 The World Editor Now Drives the Game

• Authored relationships are live — rivalries/alliances/mentorships surface in the Locker Room.
• Staff skills actually matter — trainers, medical, and production staff now apply their authored skills, not just their presence.
• Custom name pools are used — your first/last name lists now feed scouting and generated talent.
• Title defense cadence works as intended — defense-frequency is read in the right units.
• "Disable Aging" actually disables aging now (it was reading a different setting) — works from the editor and the in-game Settings menu.
• Smoother editing — fixed text fields losing focus after a single letter and the selection jumping back to the top while you edit.
• Hardened the data wiring across Promotions, Media/TV, and Import/Export so edits round-trip reliably into your game.

🎨 New Art + One-Click Art Tools

• 220 new worker portraits added to the bundled avatar library.
• 53 new championship belt designs added to the bundled title belt library.
• "Fill Missing" tools in the World Editor — one click fills every worker without portrait art, or every title without belt art (only touches the blanks).
• Auto Pick per worker/title — quickly assign one suitable bundled image to a single wrestler or belt.
• Change Avatar & Change Belt now include the new art for manual selection too.
• Smart assignment — auto-fill avoids reusing the same portrait/belt where it can, never overwrites your custom or hand-picked art, and matches belts to the title type (World, Tag, Women's, TV, and so on).

📰 Press & Media

• Expanded Press screen and world news so the world reacts to what you do.
• Better breaking-news ticker and news articles.

📥 Inbox & Injuries

• Injury alerts open the wrestler's profile directly — no more digging through the roster.
• The injury info on the profile is now red and impossible to miss.
• Message pop-ups close after you hit their action button.

📋 Week Recap

• A richer end-of-week recap so you can see what actually moved each week at a glance.

🤖 Genci (Your AI Advisor)

• Worker meetings work offline now — real in-character conversations, not a generic summary.
• Better next-step advice and how-to coaching.

🆕 New Game & World Setup

• Smoother, more guided new game / sandbox world setup.
• World Editor safety improvements — safer era storage, save/import handling, and worker CSV import.

Patch Notes

Custom Worlds & Sandbox

• Added Sandbox to the main menu for players who want to build a blank/custom world more easily.

• Added an Add Promotion path in the World Editor so custom worlds can add more companies/competitors.

• Fixed custom database start years so eras like 2013 no longer get forced back into 2026 date behavior.

• Made network deal imports safer for custom databases (targetRating, reach, fee, target, networkStrength) so imported worlds load with sensible TV deals.

Dashboard

• New default layout is cleaner, with the rarely-used "Your Week" card hidden.

• If you've customized your dashboard it stays as-is; if you never touched it, you get the new layout automatically.

• Added a "Recommended layout" button in Customize, and Reset now restores the clean layout too.

Navigation & Sidebar

• Sidebar entries that contain grouped sub-tabs now have a dropdown arrow, so those sub-tabs are easy to find instead of being tucked away in the top tab strip.

• Sections with dropdowns: Roster (Tag Teams, Stables), Booking (PPV), Contracts (Free Agents, Talent Wars), Development (Scouting), Competition (World Intel, TV War), and Dynasty (Hall of Fame).

• Removed the redundant standalone "Teams" entry — it now lives under Roster.

• Dropdowns are hidden when the sidebar is collapsed — in compact mode the icon takes you straight to the main screen.

• Moved World Intel under Competition (between Competition and TV War), where the rival standings, territory, and inter-promo intel belong, instead of being buried under Press.

• Cleaned up Press and World News into standalone screens by removing leftover single-tab strips.

Create / Edit Wrestler

• Height and weight now default to ft/lb.

• Fixed the weight arrows not working in ft/lb.

• Added up/down arrows to the Height field (works in ft/lb and cm/kg).

• Holding an arrow now adjusts faster instead of one click at a time, for both height and weight.

Contracts & Talent Wars

• Renamed "Poach" to "At Risk" so it's clear these are your vulnerable workers, not rivals you can steal.

• Fixed signed workers staying stuck in At Risk — re-signing or defending now clears the pressure.

• Fixed defended poach offers lingering as active threats instead of resolving.

• Worker profiles now show their promotion after signing, matching current roster members.

• Fixed a profile crash when opening certain wrestlers after contract/poach updates.

Scouting & Development

• Fixed a scouting/development roster bug where a scouted worker could reappear in Scouting after being signed, developed, or called up.

• Signed prospects now properly leave the market, free-agent, and scouting pools when moved into Development.

• Called-up workers now sync correctly into the player roster and world ownership records.

Show Results

• Promo recaps now show the actual participants instead of just listing the segment as "Promo."

PATCH NOTES

Multi-Weekly-Show System (NEW)

• Run up to three weekly TV shows per promotion - a Flagship, a Secondary, and a Developmental show, each on its own night, just like the real promotions.

• Set them up in the World Editor (Schedule Template tab): name each show, pick its day, and assign a network - with a guard that stops you double-booking your own night (with an opt-in override if you want two on one day).

• Every weekly show is tied to a network deal. With a network it airs as a real TV show on that deal; without one it runs as a House show (gate/merch only, no TV check).

• Launch a 2nd/3rd show mid-game from the TV Contracts page - you can only sign with networks that are actually offering you a deal, and you unlock the slots by growing (TV tier + roster depth + an active TV deal; the Developmental show also wants a developmental program).

• Name a show on launch and rename it later from the Weekly Shows panel, which also shows each show's network and remaining contract length.

• Real tradeoffs - each extra show carries its own production cost, and over-booking the same wrestlers across every show tires the crowd of them (overexposure), so a deep, rotated roster matters.

Dashboard & Page Customization

• Freeform dashboard customization - drag cards anywhere, resize, hide, and rearrange them, with stronger guardrails so widgets no longer overlap or snap incorrectly.

• Widget swapping - drag a widget onto an occupied space of the same size and they trade places.

• New optional Dashboard widgets with themed styling and background art.

• Names, promotions, shows, and wrestlers inside the new Dashboard widgets are now clickable when they reference game entities.

• Rolled the customization out across all the pages: Competition, Empire Hub, Finances, Locker Room, Press, TV Contracts, Free Agents, Upgrades, Storylines, Staff, PPV Build, and Regions.

• Better borders/framing on Locker Room and Regions so customized sections no longer look like loose floating elements.

• Split grouped World News sections so each can be moved independently.

• Dragging a widget near the top or bottom edge now auto-scrolls the page, so you can carry a widget from the bottom all the way to the top.

• Re-showing a hidden widget now drops it right below your lowest widget instead of way down the page.

• Clearer Week Calendar background art on the Dashboard.

TV Contracts

• Reorganized into three sub-tabs - My Deal, Offers & Networks, and Expansion - so the page is no longer one endless scroll.

• Each section now has a subtle tinted panel so it reads clearly over the page art.

• The Offer Board no longer scrolls inside itself.

• New Weekly Shows panel - see your lineup, unlock progress, and launch/rename shows.

• Retired the old "Second Weekly Show" broadcast project (the new weekly-show system replaces it) and added a new Production Overhaul project - upgrade your studio, lighting, and crew for a lasting production-value and audience lift.

• Reworked the default layout so sections are better organized.

• Fixed Broadcast Expansion appearing detached at the bottom and staying fixed while scrolling.

• Cleaned up the Offer Board behavior and button layout.

Booking

• New styled show picker - quickly switch which of your weekly shows (or upcoming PPV) you're booking from a clean dropdown.

• Improved the right-side guide panels at smaller window sizes (no more squashing/cutoff; the rail scrolls properly).

World Editor

• Issue focus - the "Fix in..." buttons now filter and jump you to the affected area, with red outlines around the exact fields/sections that have validation errors.

• Issue focus now covers the whole editor, not just Titles.

• Fixed title vacancies not staying vacant after save, close, reload, or push to current game.

• Fixed promotion TV tier changes not persisting after save/push.

• Fixed promotion fan-count edits leaking into the active game.

Onboarding & Guides

• Added/updated guide steps for Dashboard customization and Genci/API settings.

• Fixed the onboarding flow getting stuck when Run Show was disabled before the scheduled show date - it now points you to advance to the next show.

• Onboarding now opens Booking through the side-nav flow.

• Fixed the final onboarding card's positioning/cutoff.

Promo Wrestling World — Update 6/24 (Early Access)

🎬 Show Results, Reworked

• Two-axis ratings. Every segment shows Quality (the work) and a separate Crowd reaction (Flat → Warm → Hot → Red Hot). A 4-star match with a quiet crowd reads very differently from a 4-star match that brought the house down — now you can tell which is which at a glance.
• "Why it worked" line. Each segment gets a one-line read: "Carried by the work — strong match, quiet room," "Crowd carried it — hot reaction, ordinary match," "Firing on all cylinders," and more.
• Quality vs. Business. The star rating (critical quality) and the money (gate, TV, attendance, net) are now clearly separated — a great-but-low-drawing show and a workrate-dud-that-printed-money read as the two different stories they are.
• Cleaner stars — removed a confusing hover number; the raw scores still live in the Score Breakdown.

📋 Booking & Show Flow

• Run a show, see the results — right on the booking sheet. After a show, the card updates with the actual graded segments instead of leaving pre-show projections on screen. Tiles flip to "Final Card Results," labels change from "Expected" to "Result," and completed segments dim so it's obvious the show is in the books.
• New show-recap banner. When a show wraps, you get a clean recap up top — final rating + grade, the Match of the Night, and one-click View Full Results / Book Next Show.
• The right rail goes live. After a run, it shows your real gate, attendance, and net profit (relabeled "Final" / "Net Profit"), not the old projection.

⚔️ TV Wars, Promises & Weekly Fallout

• Go head-to-head and you'll feel it. Same-night TV wars and clashing PPVs now show up in your show results and weekly recap — including how the audience split between the two shows and what it did to your rating and gate.
• The world pushes back — and now you see it. Kept and broken promises, bad press, locker-room fractures, team chemistry, and head-to-head clashes all roll into a clear weekly rundown instead of happening silently in the background.
• Break your word, pay for it. When a promise falls through, the wrestler's morale and trust take a visible hit — and they'll remember it.

👥 Teams, Stables & Factions

• Tag teams and stables are organized into one cleaner Teams area.
• Deeper factions. Support for bigger groups, clearer leaders, and rules for who belongs — and your custom stables survive export and re-import intact.
• Honest tension. A shaky stable is flagged as at-risk, but low unity no longer means someone's guaranteed to turn on the group next week.

🧰 Show Card Builder

• Full previews again. Auto-book previews no longer get clipped or cut off at the bottom.
• Dropped confusing internal jargon (like "heuristic" and "shaky") for plain language.
• Know why a segment is weak. When a part of the card is projected to underperform, the builder now explains why in plain English — and how to make it better.

🛠️ World Editor

• The blue is back. Editor pages were reading as dark/black slabs — every page is now the proper navy blue, consistently, across the whole editor.
• A front door for new modders. An intent picker on open ("tweak my save," "build a world," "import a pack"), a clearer Simple ↔ Full Studio toggle, task recipes on Home, a Ctrl+K search hint, and an in-editor explainer for how Push / Pull / Save Template actually work.
• People, unified. Wrestlers and Staff now live as lanes inside a single People hub instead of duplicate, half-working sidebar entries.
• Consistent tabs. Catalog switchers (Match Types / Gimmicks / etc.) moved to a clean top bar instead of cluttering the list column.
• Clearer "your edits are a draft until you Push" messaging, and friendlier "fix this in People/Promotions" validation links.

📅 Calendar & Advancing Time

• No more running a show early. You can't Run or Watch a show before its scheduled date — book that PPV weeks out, but you'll need to reach show day to run it. (Fixes shows getting marked "completed" in the future.)
• Time won't skip your show. Advancing no longer fast-forwards past a booked-but-unrun show — you're prompted to run it first, with a one-click "Run & Advance."
• Advancing is clearer. "Advance to Show" and "Advance to PPV" now tell you up front when a show still needs to be booked or run first, and your date, booking sheet, and next show all stay lined up.
• Booking moves on with you. After a show runs, you're taken to your next unbooked card instead of getting stuck on one you already ran.
• Calendar buttons and tooltips were renamed and cleaned up so "jump to," "view details," and "advance" are no longer easy to mix up.

🐛 More Fixes & Stability

• Save before you quit. Closing the game during an active save now warns you about unsaved progress, with Save & Exit / Exit / Cancel.
• Numerous smaller consistency, layout, and copy fixes throughout the game and editor.

Early Access v0.9.1-beta.1 ✨ New

• Game-wide visual overhaul — translucent glass panels and cinematic backgrounds behind every screen, with cleaner, more readable layouts throughout.

• New custom backgrounds for major areas: Finance, Scouting, Settings, World Editor, and the Dashboard sections.

• Custom artwork on the Dashboard's key widgets — CFO Summary, Mission Control, and Next Show.

• Customizable dashboard-style layouts on more office screens — reorder, resize, hide, and restore widgets where supported.

🔧 Improved

• Booking: more compact match and segment cards, clearer separation between segments, and smoother scrolling.

• Larger championship belt art on the Titles screen so titles read at a glance.

• The active sidebar tab now glows in its section's color, so it's always clear where you are.

• Development Center: stronger panels and clearer section outlines for easier reading.

• World News, Press, and World Intel: cleaner navigation and presentation, with better story-image handling.

• World Editor: consistent background and logo treatment across its dashboard and tabs.

• Tag Teams and Stables now show wrestler avatars consistently.

• Readability passes across TV Contracts, Locker Room, Empire, Teams, and other office screens so text stays crisp over the new backgrounds.

• Theme Studio updated to work cleanly with the new glass surfaces.

• Existing Early Access saves remain fully compatible.

🐛 Fixed

• Inbox: clearing and marking messages now behaves correctly.

• Various stability and navigation issues found during release testing.

This has been a long time coming, and I’m really excited to finally get it into your hands. PWW was built out of a long-time love of wrestling sims and a desire to create a game with deep customization, strong world-building, immersive simulation, and a world editor that gives players real control over the kind of wrestling universe they want to create.

At launch, you’ll be able to jump in and start building your own promotion, shape your roster, run shows, and create your own worlds with the editor. There’s already a lot here, but this is still just the beginning. Early Access is going to be a big part of helping shape where the game goes from here.

If you pick it up, thank you. If you run into bugs, have feedback, or have ideas for where you want to see the game grow, I want to hear it. That kind of feedback is a huge part of why I wanted to release the game in early access, and it’ll help make Promo Wrestling World better over time. Your feedback is priceless!

Thanks to everyone who has followed the game, wishlisted it, asked questions, and will be helping make it even better! It really means a lot to this solo developer!

I hope you enjoy Promo Wrestling World!