Overview
A very short tutorial about well-naming your CAWs
Introduction
Hello!
Fire Pro Wrestling World arrived to Early Access mode with full Workshop support. That gives opportunities… but also gives problems.
Some players already started adding tens or even hundreds of wrestlers into the Workshop. Sometimes well-preparing them, sometimes… uhhh… not.
In the result some players may notice their wrestler list in some places (like Transfer Team/Wrestler panel) looking like this:
For now we may know that “The” means The Undertaker, “Hulk” is Hogan, “Atsushi” is Onita etc. But bigger and bigger rosters will generate more and more problems. Finally, players downloading wrestlers will find themselves accidentally selecting not the wrestlers they wanted (John Cena and, for example John Morrison are rather indistinguishable in that case…)
But we, as the creators, may change it and help players organize their rosters. It really takes a little time to make a wrestler nicely done – but even that small tweak may bring waves of satisfaction of players, who are looking at the list and already seeing, who is who:
First Name? Last Name? Which is which?
We need to get one thing straight: fields named “First Name” and “Last Name” are very, VERY misleading.
Why? Game was made by Spike Chunsoft, a company located in Japan. in Japan, names look like this: 岡田 和睦 (OKADA Kazuchika), 丸藤 正道 (MARUFUJI Naomichi) or 三沢 光晴 (MISAWA Mitsuharu). You may see the pattern there – Family name being first, with given name going after that.
As you can see, Japanese-languaged players and English-languaged players have different opinion for what is “First name” and what is “Last name”. That is the main (and probably the only) reason, why people downloading wrestlers from Workshops have to deal with multiple Chris’es, John’s or even The’s.
So, for the purpose of this tutorial, let’s rename those fields.
First Name is our Main field. 8 character limit.
Last Name is our Sub field. 12 character limit.
The third field is a information, what sign stands between Main and Sub fields. It may be a dot, a equation sign, a space or it may be entirely turned off.
For example, let’s see at this CAW, shown on lists as Zasada.
Krzysztof – first name (translating to Christopher) – is not distinguishable. There are many Chris’es in pro wrestling world. Notice, that maker decided to Swap Order to make the unique surname being the Main name for this CAW.
That’s it. SWAPPING ORDER helps a lot in terms of editing.
How to name a wrestler well then?
Have some hints. 😀
1. – check, how many characters a wrestlers ringname has.
2.1. – If a wrestler has less than 9 characters, you are already set. Put the whole wrestler name in the First Name (Main Field), set space indicator to “None” and set a Last Name (Sub Field) to ” ” (one space character)
2.2. – If a wrestler has more than 9 characters, look at his family name. His surname has less than 9 chars? That solves everything.
Swap the order, Put his first name in the Last Name (Sub Field), leave the space indicator as is, put his last name in the First Name (Main Field). Done! 😀
2.3. – A wrestler has a one word, long name (ex. The Undertaker)? Someone is made a shortcut of his name. Let’s use it (using Taker as an example)
Swap the order, Change the space indicator to “None”, put “The Under” in Last Name (Sub Field) and Taker in First Name (Main Field)
For wrestlers with 9-char lastnames – in some cases they may be easily modified to keep the name rather recognizeable. Examples of that are Psycosis, Chris Mordezky or Cedric Alexandr. Until Spike Chunsoft will do something about that, we are forced to use this method.
In case of Nicknames – if a wrestler doesn’t have any known nickname, just put one space character. Simple to deal with.
Longer names problems
There are names, which are very problematic for now. Like CHIKARA’s Mark Angelosetti or Mike Quackenbush.
If we would like to have them also neatly organized – let’s hope that Spike Chunsoft decide to increase the number of characters in Main Field. 🙂