4/10 patch Fire Promoter features - Version 2.07.4

how can you setup rivalries?

i did not see any option to do so...

First time I've had a chance to really play since the update: And I got a rivalry!

The rivalries occur as story line situations that the game announces through messages.

I completed my first event since doing the update and in the "Next Month" screen, I got this screen:





I'm pretty sure these two are in the same stable too! I'm going to run an event now and have one of the matches be between them and see how it goes!

Very interesting feature! Really happy to start a new promotion mode again! :)

 Pretty sure it does. After one event Kojima & Rocky Romero now have a rivalry nd every match where they face each other is now a grudge match.

Like I said in a previous post to you, it's like they naively program everything instead of doing the proper sanity checks. When you program, you can almost NEVER just outright do things. You have to ask questions to make sure those things will work so bad things don't happen.

The below is pseudo code like last time, but I wrote it up in the 3 minutes it took my ramen to cook.

//Pretend FindRival is a function of a wrestler object
//returns TRUE or FALSE
bool FindRival()
{

Wrestler Me = this; //A reference to ourselves
Wrestler Rival = null;

//get the first wresler in the promotion's roster list
Rival = Me.Promotion.Roster.GetFirstWrestler();

bool RivalFound = false;
while (FALSE == RivalFound)
{
//are we out of wrestlers?
//break out of this loop
if (Rival == null) break;

//is this me? NEXT!
else if (Rival == Me) continue;

//Are they injured? NEXT!
else if (TRUE == Rival.IsOnExcursion())
{
Rival = Me.Promotion.Roster.GetNextWrestler();
continue;
}

//Are they injured? NEXT!
else if (TRUE == Rival.IsInjured())
{
//get the next wrestler in the list
Rival = Me.Promotion.Roster.GetNextWrestler();
continue;
}

//insert other sanity checks

//if none of those conditions triggered
               //we must have found our rival
else
{
Me.Rival = Rival;
return true;
}

}

//if we got this far, we didn't find a suitable rival
return false;
}

Reminds me of the bug a few months ago where wrestlers would target an invalid wrestler after certain eliminations, and then freeze in place for the duration of the match. SANITY CHECK. Is that wrestler even still valid? Don't just naively assign things.

Skyrim did something similar early on where a lot of scripters would take gold away from the player in conversation scripts that were a part of quests by just directly writing it out in the script. They never checked if the player even had that much gold to give. Players would end up with negative gold values. Instead they should have had a function to modify gold that did the following things.
1 - Make sure you didn't get more than the maximum amount of allowable gold (so you don't go over the max value of a 32 bit integer and wrap to negative numbers in this case negative 3 billion).
2 - Make sure you had at least enough gold to remove.

Two very annoying things happened last night to me in Fire Promoter involving rivalries.

1) The game announced yet another rivalry that included a wrestler who was on a Training Expedition.

2) The outcome of a rivalry appears to be relatively meaningless.

So a second rivalry was announced and I was actually able to book it! After either finishing booking the show or right before I started the show, I got a message saying "The fans are really excited" or something like that.  It said that more fans came to the arena as a result. That appeared to be the ONLY result.

Because guess what happened? The two wrestlers in the rivalry got a 100% rating on their match! Amazing, right?  You'd think this would continue the rivalry and reward me with a cool cut scene? Nope. The whole rivalry was dropped. I didn't get any further messages after the event. Apparently the rivalry is a behind the scenes thing that very quickly culminates in just one match with slightly increased attendance.  And then, no matter what happens in that match, it ends. I didn't get any other messages related to it after the match. 

Granted, I didn't try to put them back into a match on the next show but why should I if the result wasn't acknowledged and I didn't get another graphic discussing the rivalry? It really seemed like an afterthought.