🚨PWFT Community Update: THE DRAFT IS LIVE! Plus Conclude Rivalry Fix, Tracking Inactive Wrestlers, Friends Lists and SO MUCH MORE!
Quick note before getting into it:
I've been building PWFT for over a year and a half now. Since I started, I had a grand vision for what the draft could be like. I've been building this for months, and it was really important to me to get this out today.
Today is my 28th birthday. I can't think of a better way to spend it than giving this community something they can hopefully enjoy and have fun a lot of fun with.
I think PWFT is delivering on another first for the wrestling industry here - I don't think any draft has ever been built like this before. Besides the seamlessly interconnecting to your calendar, we build 3 versions of the draft so you have total freedom to experience in a way that is most fun for you - Quick, Standard, and Retro.
This is the draft I always wanted in my wrestling games. I hope you like it.
THE DRAFT
Here's how it works:
- Go to the Draft Tab to create your first draft
- Select which draft format you'd like to use: Quick, Standard, or Retro.
- Choose which brands will be involved in the draft pool. Drafts support up to 6 brands. Cross promotional drafts are allowed.
- Specify what wrestlers you'd like included
- If Standard Draft - select how many rounds you'd like and how many picks per round there should be
- Select a date on the calendar to link your draft to.
- Start your draft!
A bit about the modes:
Retro Draft
Inspired by my favorite version of the draft. Matches being made with wrestlers from opposing elligible brands will populate a Draft Match option when creating the match. Once enabled, you can select how many picks this match would be worth.
If Brand A wins, they make X picks from Brand B.
Once the match is resolved, you'll see a pick pending on the top of your match card - clicking it will bring you to your draft where the magic happens.
We built an animation to simulate cycling through the wrestlers. When you hit stop, the wrestler and their new brand will populate.
Tags, multi wrestler matches, even battle royals and rumbles are supported. For example, if there is a triple threat match or a rumble, the winning wrestler's brand will select from a pool of the losing brands.
Standard Draft
This is today's version of the draft, with picks happening throughout the show, manually selected one at a time. It's the closest version to what you'll find in 2k (but improved). Here's how it works in PWFT:
In the setup stage, you'll select how many rounds you want in your draft and how many picks per round there should be.
With your draft set, head over to the linked show. When you add to card, you'll see a new option - add draft segment. This will create a segment that will be your key for starting the selection process.
On the draft page, select your desired wrestler per brand for each round as appropriate.
Quick Draft
Don't feel like working through the calendar and want to bang out a quick draft? With minimal set up, you can jump right into a draft! This format is for manual selection. You can keep drafting until the pool is depleted, or hit complete draft at any time.
The Draft is completely FREE for all PWFT users. If you have Founder’s Access, the experience becomes significantly more immersive as I tried to make this feel as premium as possible.
If you haven’t subscribed yet, Founder’s Access is the best way to support PWFT and directly fund future development for awesome features like the draft. It's also how you'll get images in the draft to get the absolute most out of your gameplay experience!
MORE FIXES
It wouldn't be a PWFT update without more fixes, features, and upgrades. Thanks to those who contributed feedback!
Conclude Rivalries Bug Fix
- Last update, we added the ability to conclude rivalries, but got reports that once they hit a certainn lenght, they wouldn't conclude. This has been fixed! Your rivalries should now conclude without issue. Thanks to those who called this out - u/FrancisPbc123, u/FoxAnnual2217
User Profile & Friends List
As we look to make PWFT more social, we want to ensure users are able to connect with their friends to see what they are booking - the next step in a true multiplayer mode. We've also upgraded your profile - now you can have a bio and even tag your socials! Connect with friends, and view thier universe now on PWFT!
Track Height, Weight, Billed From
u/BullFigures put up a post talking about the template they use for their wrestler notes, and we realized we needed to add more here. Further, if you populate this info, your draft experience will be even more immersive! Edit a wrestler to change thier info!
Optimized Calendar UI for Tablets
We want PWFT to be seamlessly accessible from any device, and know a big chunk of our users have tablets. Our calendar was wonky on this device, but is now cleaned up and should feel much smoother.
Timed Entry Rumble UI Revamp
We've upgraded the Rumble Control Room to be even more immersive, expandinf the size of the modal, giving it a more sleak look, and incorporating images if you have Founders Access.
Wrestler Inactivity Tracker
We've gotten several requests over the last few months for a way to track inactive status, with our most recent request coming from nikkijp91 on the PWFT Discord. Now after 2 weeks, inactivity time will populate under the wrestler name on the roster page. You can even sort by inactivity now!
Brough Back Editing Notes Retroactively
When we added the ability to go back in time and change your booking date, we got rid of the ability to retroactivley edit notes. We realized you shouldnt have to go back in time to change the booking notes text, so we've brought this back. Shoutout to Brenman on the PWFT Discord who asked for this.
PRS Team Calculation Bug Fix
Stormie on the PWFT Discord called out how tag teams PRS scores were being calculated incorrectly between the wrestler sheet and the actual rankings page. This was isolated to teams and was because of an issue in factoring in strenght of schedule that would impact rankings and divisions. This has been fixed!
I hope you all enjoy and feel the love. Reach out with any questions or if things are not working how you expect. We'll get it fixed quick! Keep the feature suggestions coming too!
Happy booking. Happy drafting.