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MANAGER CREATION
You first need to create
your manager. You can click on Start New game to create him by choosing
every skill, or you can just click Quick Match and the computer
will generate a manager for you, assigning him a new name.
Of course if
you want to have full control over what will happen in the game, it is better to create your manager by hand.
The various skills you can assign to the manager and their effect
on the game are explained in the game itself.
TRAIN YOUR BOXERS
From the starting screen, click
on TRAINING. You'll be able to distribute the 25 training point
in the various categories. Every one improve a single stat of your
boxer, up to his maximum potential. Every boxer has an actual skill
and a potential skill. His actual skill can never be higher than
his potential skill. If you don't train your boxers, their stats
slowly decrease.
Now you can click on MANAGE to
see your boxing Fitness and Morale value. Fitness is really important, if it is too low your boxer can't fight. This value is usually at
zero after a fight but slowly increases month by month (but is unlikely that a boxer will have two fights in two consecutive months!). Morale
is important too, but a boxer can have a fight even if his morale
is broken (he won't fight so well of course).
RANKINGS
Click on the RANKINGS SCREEN
and you'll see the rankings for your currently selected boxer. By
default, when you enter this screen, your first boxer is shown.
If you simply want to look at rankings for the 17 different weight
categories, you need to use the left-right arrows on the left-top
part of the screen. If you have more than one boxer, you can change the current boxer displayed using the left-right arrows on the left
part of the screen under the "Select your boxer" text.
Remember that there are various weight categories, so you can have
one boxer rank 70 in Strawweight and another rank 90 in Heavyweight:
this last one will be more popular than the first one, anyway, because
he is in a higher weight category.
ARRANGING A FIGHT
From the RANKINGS SCREEN you can also
arrange a fight. On the list on the right, you'll see a red flashing
name: that is your currently selected boxer. You can arrange a fight
with another boxer of the same category, if the rank difference
is no more thank 5. For example if your boxer ranking is 95, you
can challenge another boxer up to the rank 90.
Once you click on the opponent, his name is highlighted in green
and his stats are displayed on the left. The accuracy of his stats
depends on your manager scouting skill. If you are satisfied with
the selected opponent, choose a fight date (by default is the next
month) and click on OK.
The fight is now arranged. If for some reason you want to cancel
it, you can click on the cancel button, however there's a penalty
for that.
THE FIGHT
Now go on the NEXT MONTH screen.
If you have a fight scheduled for the next month, you'll see the
fight details displayed on the right part of the screen. You'll
see also two icons, on the left an eye and on the right a monitor.
Clicking on the monitor gives you an instant result.
The instant result can be good for a fight that you're sure to win,
but be careful because you may have some surprises (as in real life, it is not always the favourite boxer who wins).
Clicking on the eye lets you watch the fight in real-time. Now you'll be taken to the ROUND screen: here you can set tactics for your boxer for the next round. You can choose which type of strikes
your boxer will attempt, his fighting tactic, and your actions.
To switch the options you simply click on the image on the right
and they will cycle through the various options. To see what each
option does, simply watch the text on the bottom part of the screen
as always.
The images on the left are your boxer physical conditions, and you
can't affect them with actions.
Once you click on DONE, the next
round starts. You'll see a topview of the ring with the two boxers
fighting. Your boxer is the BLUE one, while the opponent is the
RED one. You can adjust the speed of the match using the controls
on the left part of the screen.
The fight will go on until you
win or lose by KO, TKO or by the score at the end of all the scheduled
rounds.
The fight result will let your
boxer advance in ranking if he was victorious, and also some of
his potential skills will increase permanently with every success.
FINDING NEW TALENTS
As you may notice, your starting
boxers aren't exactly very good. So a good move would be to try
to hire new promising boxers. To do this, you need to go to the
BOXER SEARCH screen. Here you can search boxers by skills and try
to hire new ones. Basically you setup your filter on the left screen,
and the list on the right is updated.
If you click "Interested boxers" you'll see only boxers
that are actually interested in being managed by you, while free
boxers shows only boxers that haven't a manager already.
To successfully hire a new boxer isn't easy: it depends on many factors. The most important of all is your reputation, shown in
the upper part of the screen. As you win more and more fights, your
reputation goes higher, and new boxers are more likely to join you.
Your nationality is also imporant, because if it is the same as that of the
boxer you're trying to hire you'll have greater chances of success.
Finally, the new contract conditions are also important. If you set
the boxer shares to low, he may refuse even if he could be interested
in being managed by you.
CONTRACTS
Every boxer has a contract that
you can see on the BOXERS screen in the MANAGE sub-menu. If you
want to keep a boxer under your management, you should try to renew
those contracts (your negotiation skill will be useful in that).
Remember also that old fighters (35+ years old) may announce retirement
during the game.
GOAL OF THE GAME
The goal of the game is to win
the most fights and weight titles possible before your manager retires.
Keep also an eye on the financial situation so he does not go bankrupt. He will retire when
he is 60 years old, so you should have plenty of time to try to
achieve success! Good luck, Boxing Manager!
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