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Regarding having great Wrestling and poor secondary skills, or great secondaries and poor Wrestling, there's a thread going on in the Noob Help forum about that very question found here: http://www.mmatycoon.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=8877 The short answer is that you don't really want to shortchange any of the three: your Primaries, your Secondaries, or your Physical attributes, as all of them are called upon in roughly equal measure to determine the success of a particular move.

The examples in the wiki give only one instance where that Physical attribute is applied, most skills will call on some or all of the other physical attributes to some extent.

As far as fighter aging, you fighters age one year every 13 real life weeks. Things like training, contracts, sponsorships are counted in real life days, i.e. a 30 day sponsorship lasts 30 real days.

Aye, the Peak Condition concept is to be a new fighter's first gym, an alternative to the Cozad gyms. This is a fitness and sparring style gym, not intended to provide coach training. There's no way to hire coaches that are worth a damn and still maintain a $24 price point. Regardless of what kind of fighter you want to roll, from pure striker to bjj master, every new player has a home at Peak Condition. When you're brand new, you don't need a $600/wk gym full of double elites. You need a clean gym with new equipment to work your basic Physical stats and spar your Primary skills. You can do that for $24 with my gym and the original Peak Condition in Vegas. The objective is for a new player to sign on with Peak Condition fresh out of Cozad, work on their Cardio, Strength, and other Physicals, mix in some sparring, then they'll be ready to venture off in whatever direction their career takes them, whether it means QFCs, starting up with an org, or just moving on to the pricier Elite gyms when they're ready. I guess you could say I practice what I preach, since it's true my originally created guys that I signed with Peak Condition Las Vegas are still there, still working their physicals and sparring from time to time. It may be odd, and believe me I'm tempted almost weekly to just send my guys out and get 'em bloody, but I also like just training, reading the forums, and helping out where I can. I'm scoping out elite gyms to do the finish work when the time comes, but my guys still have one or two areas that I can improve at a fitness gym, no need to fork over big money to an elite gym quite yet. I just don't see working knees and elbows when my MT is at mediocre or whatever. Hopefully the poor guy who started this thread is getting something of value from my ramblings about gym philosophy LOL

Haha no no, I only bought the 5 paid extra slots yesterday, I've been VIP with my original 10 since a couple days after I joined the game, around Halloween last year. I've got two 22 year olds I'm getting impatient with, a newly rolled 22 year old, and a whole ton of 18 year olds I'm building. It really is a case of testing my patience and keeping my guys in training. Every time I get close to turning them loose to fight, I see one more little thing I want to work on before I do. It's almost an obsession. I would just hate to lose a QFC or my first org fight due to being 1 level too low in speed, or flexibility, or Wrestling. Of course there's no real way to know that...but I'd just *know* LOL

Peak Condition Fitness in Amsterdam invites every new fighter to leave the default Cozad gym, and get the most for your money while getting VASTLY better facilities to train up your fighter. Cozad gyms are computer-run and you won't be offending anyone by leaving them. They are purposely of inferior quality: crappy equipment, dirty facilities, and overcrowded conditions, because the game intends for you to join a player-run gym like Peak Condition. Cozad also costs more than twice as much as Peak Condition's weekly fee of only $24. From the wiki about Cozad: New fighters don't need to spend hundreds per week on Elite training early in their careers, and don't need to overpay for overcrowded and underquality coaching sessions. Peak Condition will give you the absolute best environment to build up your Physical attributes (Strength, Cardio,etc) and work your Primary Stats (Boxing/MT/Wrestling/BJJ) through sparring. Gym cleanliness and equipment quality also affects your fighter's development, and Peak Condition maintains pristine/brand new facilities at all times. Veteran managers who want to give their fighters that extra boost in their Physicals between Elite sessions are also more than welcome to spend a week or 2 (or more!) at Peak Condition. We are an ideal starting point for a vet manager who wants to start up a new fighter here in best city in the land...Amsterdam! Check out our gym page for helpful new player tips and sparring schedule! Also, it's my pleasure to provide advice on everything from supplements, training strategies, fight strategies, game mechanics, you name it! Value for your money is what it's all about, and at Peak Condition, we go the extra mile. Here's how to do it: Follow the link in my signature to the Peak Condition Fitness page and just beneath the Sparring Schedule, there is a dropdown menu that says Join Fighters. Just pick your fighter's name in that menu and click Join and you're done! Best of luck and happy training! Cheers!

I like to do the same thing with most of my fighters, just to make it easier to keep track of them. The first thing I ever train is Cardio. If I created a 10 Conditioning project fighter, I go to Part-Time immediately, since I will need 2 rest for every 2 Cardio sessions anyway, and the $200 I get for Part-Time will come in handy for buying supps. I'm not rolling around in cash, so while a small session Circuit training would be ideal, no noob can afford that for long. After the first week or so, I move to full time training of Cardio to get to my desired level. Respectable should be an absolute minimum before you do other training types, and Superb or better is preferable. Once Cardio is at Superb or better, I go on to Strength. Some say work other stuff first since Strength gains fast no matter whether you do it early or later on. If it's an 18 year old, that's true. If you are going to put your fighter in fights, then you'll want to have your Strength at a good level before you do, there's no time when you'll ever regret being too strong in a fight. After that, I just set my guys on a week or 2 of pure Yoga. After juggling Energy with the other physicals, it's nice to just set up 12 yoga sessions and let them run. Doing Yoga with Superb cardio takes so little Energy you don't have to rest at all that week. Following that, work in Sparring, some Yoga when your energy is high, maybe a Cardio session to keep your Conditioning from degrading. All of this can be done at the cheapest fitness gym you can find. Make sure they maintain the gym equipment and cleanliness, and you'll definitely help yourself if you take a good quality supplement while you train. Once I get my Physicals and Primaries to desired (beastly) levels, I start searching for an elite gym that's affordable and can offer coaching in the areas I want to shore up. About this same time I would consider turning my Physical beast loose on an org or QFC, just to generate a little cash for the inevitable cost of elite training. I put some other training and new player tips on my gym's page, feel free to take a look. Cheers!

VIP is absolutely worth it, I couldn't imagine playing this game without it.

Training cardio first has an impact on every single training session you do after that. Say for example, at Abysmal (10) Conditioning, a Cardio session takes 6.25 points of energy. At Superb (90) it will take ~4 points. Getting your Conditioning to Respectable, or better yet, Superb, before moving on to other training is simply getting the most efficiency out of every subsequent training session. Strength is usually mentioned second because it's the 2nd easiest attribute to raise. Weight sessions with a quality Muscle supplement will yield very fast results and get your strength to good levels in a short time as well. It's also nice to see some quick pops after watching the pops you just did for Conditioning slow down as the levels got higher. Most other training types are slower and take more attention to energy management, so they can be focused on after you have a good solid base of Physicals to build on. If you have an 18 year old, you won't be "fight ready" for longer than a 22 year old would, which is even more reason to ensure that you have a very good base of Physical stats and Cardio before you move on to Primary sparring (Boxing/MT/Wrest/BJJ) and then fine-tune your guy with elite coaching.

I was looking in the Skill Pops section of the Tycoon Assistant and thought of a couple features that would be nice. 1) Ability to see the type of training session that yielded the pop. I did wrestling sparring and got a flexibility pop today, but 3 weeks down the road I'm not going to remember what session caused the pop since only flexibility and the date are going to be shown. Simply another column listing 'training session" with Weights, Cardio, Boxing Sparring, etc showing what caused the pop in question. 2) Followup to the previous, but the ability to choose what categories are shown in the Skill Pops section. Say I want to see the date, the skill, and the type of training that caused a pop, but don't care how many weeks it's been since the last one. Maybe ability to collapse a column or a simple toggle list. 3) Ability to sort the Skill Pops list by the different categories. The default can be the date, but say I only wanted to see Flexibility pops, or all pops from BJJ Sparring, Striking Defense coaching, etc. I'm always a 'more customization is better' kinda guy, and this isn't really asking for info that's hidden or not publicly available, just making the screen more useful and manageable. Cheers!

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I like this idea. Not that it's sooooo hard to manage a lot of fighters but it can be cumbersome and this idea would help a lot toward customizing it how a manager likes it. Could be a VIP perk, since only ppl with 10+ should really have an issue keeping track of their guys.

Could just have a lefty/righty toggle and have a handful of "handedness" specific fight commentary dependent on that toggle. "Oh my! Look out Cro Cop, Joe Schmoe just laneded a left head kick you could hear up in the rafters!" "Wow! Joe Schmoe just landed a right cross that sent Mel Mann into la la land"

for post whoring? the title isn't quite specific

is this the right thread

I have a question

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Have you noticed if it has gone from -- to ++ in that time? I imagine the general consensus will be to try to get a small class elite Circuit session if that's affordable, but I really would have thought that 2 straight weeks of yoga should have popped Balance as well.

In his defense, the gym in Hilo just had a philosophical overhaul and went from being a 50 dollar gym to a 250 just this week. True though, when you're in money troubles explore some of the low-cost but high quality "Cozad alternative" gyms, every town has them, I'm not familiar with St. Petersburg, but I'm sure you can get training for under $60 in Hilo.

Speed comes from Weight training, at a much slower rate than Strength gains. It should also come from Circuit training, if you can afford a small session with an elite trainer. Cheers!

Man, how is this post still not Pinned and in the Noob Help section? So much valuable info...a lot to read but some of this stuff would save a new player from making a mistake with their first fighter or 2.