This update focuses on faster day progression, more reliable championships, improved contract negotiations, and a smoother booking experience.
## Performance
- Significantly improved Advance Day processing.
- Reduced long waits caused by repeatedly processing roster, brand, loan, and relationship data.
- Improved general performance when using large or modified game worlds.
## Contract Negotiations
- Rebalanced contract demands so wrestlers with high egos expect higher wages without becoming impossible to sign.
- Redesigned negotiations into a clearer, more compact three-column screen.
- Removed unnecessary sliders and repeated “Current,” “Offer,” and “Not Recorded” text.
- Added a more visible contract-themed background while retaining readability.
- Improved the agent forecast and positioned the Offer button prominently.
- Corrected agent concerns so fulfilled demands are properly recognised.
- Offering a better card position now satisfies a lower-position demand.
- Travel, hotel, title and allowance promises are now evaluated correctly.
## Booking
- Restored wrestler information when hovering or focusing on talent.
- Champions and number-one contenders are clearly identified in the talent list.
- Managers have returned to the booking screen.
- Accompanying talent can now be dragged directly beneath the wrestler they support.
- Removed the confusing whole-match accompaniment option.
- Teams and factions can now be dragged into applicable booking slots.
- Improved accompaniment handling so managers and wrestlers remain outside the match and cannot be selected as winners.
## Championships
- Champion-versus-champion matches now allow you to place either championship—or both championships—on the line.
- Corrected championship transfers after champion-versus-champion matches.
- Fixed title-reign day counts not increasing correctly.
- Vacant championships now remain vacant after saving and reloading.
- Modified worlds now correctly display championships belonging to other companies.
- Improved championship data migration for existing saves.
## Creative Team
- Writers can now suggest storylines to the player.
- Accepting a writer’s recommendation automatically creates it on the Storylines screen.
- Writers with stronger relevant ratings produce better-quality recommendations.
## Custom Promotions and Saves
- Custom promotion names now display correctly in inbox messages and monthly reports.
- Internal custom-company identifiers will no longer appear in player-facing text.
- Improved compatibility and migration for existing and modified saves.
## Additional Fixes
- Improved nationality and hometown handling for wrestlers created through the World Editor.
- Improved transfer, loan, roster-brand, and profile resolution.
- Added further protections against duplicate processing and incorrect save upgrades.
- Completed expanded release, save/load, Steam, achievement, signing, and packaged-game testing.
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