Game fixes and performance update.

The MMA Manager Game now has a free-to-play mode. - The whole game is free: every promotion, division, and belt, the matchmaker, fight camps, betting, the full broadcast fight screen, unlimited weeks, and careers. - Subscribers get the corner team: focus areas, in-fight shouts, the "go for the finish" and "conserve energy" calls, the ability tree, auto-fight on show night, fighter renaming, and more, including new features. - Exclusive: Subscriber-only feature: the ability tree. Fighters learn abilities in camp and take up to three into the cage. - Founder Subscribers: We thank you for your help and wish to reward you. If you’re currently subscribed to the game, we thank you for helping us launch the game. To show our appreciation (providing you are subscribed and remain subscribed), we will be discounting the subscription rate that Founders will pay). Please note we can only support those people currently subscribed to MMA Manager. If you have previously unsubscribed or stopped the subscription, henceforth we will be unable, due to App Store system, to restore the Founder subscription and reduced rate. Also… - Named finishes are now named: results and records show the actual submission or stoppage type. - Improved UI for Fight camp and pre-fight strategy In this version 26.3.1 - Fixed: weight class changes now land in the correct MMA division. - Fixed: abilities past the fundamentals can now be learned from fight camp.

The MMA Manager Game now has a free-to-play mode. - The whole game is free: every promotion, division, and belt, the matchmaker, fight camps, betting, the full broadcast fight screen, unlimited weeks, and careers. - Subscribers get the corner team: focus areas, in-fight shouts, the "go for the finish" and "conserve energy" calls, the ability tree, auto-fight on show night, fighter renaming, and more, including new features. - Exclusive: Subscriber-only feature: the ability tree. Fighters learn abilities in camp and take up to three into the cage. - Founder Subscribers: We thank you for your help and wish to reward you. If you’re currently subscribed to the game, we thank you for helping us launch the game. To show our appreciation (providing you are subscribed and remain subscribed), we will be discounting the subscription rate that Founders will pay). Please note we can only support those people currently subscribed to MMA Manager. If you have previously unsubscribed or stopped the subscription, henceforth we will be unable, due to App Store system, to restore the Founder subscription and reduced rate. Also… - Named finishes are now named: results and records show the actual submission or stoppage type. - Improved UI for Fight camp and pre-fight strategy

IMPROVED • Scouting now shows fighters of every status by default, adds a nationality sort, and explains clearly when nothing matches your search. • Moving a fighter between weight classes now explains why it can't happen, instead of silently doing nothing. • Clearer messages in the show builder, matchmaker and gym screens when no fighters are available. • Contract renewals are now better indicated to avoid confusion with new signings. • Improved health and retirement function. FIXED • A bug that could permanently freeze a save when promotion title fights were booked onto a week with no show — affected saves are repaired automatically on load. • Entering show night with no show scheduled no longer strands you on a blank screen. • A crash when opening certain fighter screens. • Promotion tier progress now counts your full gate revenue — showcase events had been undercounting it. • Fighters no longer switch divisions while they have a bout booked. • The weight-class option no longer disappears after loading a save. • Fighters no longer lose morale over missed fights when no suitable opponents existed. • The rate-the-app prompt no longer asks again once answered. • Help links on the fighter and training screens open properly again.

- Fixed promotion tiers stalling with the bars full — you can now level up mid-season the moment you hit the targets, not just at the year-end review. - Fixed show revenue not counting, so every bout on your own cards pays out and your revenue now updates every week. - Fixed top promotions releasing everyone, so rosters stay healthy — more fighters to sign, fuller rankings, and more opponent variety. - Fixed new fighters arriving with unrealistic records, so fresh talent can earn its way onto a roster. - Fixed fighters retiring at random — they now retire based on age and record, so prospects don't vanish after a couple of losses. - Fixed managed free agents being left waiting, so a fighter on a winning run gets the contract offers they've earned. - Fixed new games starting with no one to sign — you'll always begin with a real roster, wherever you set up. - Fixed weight moves stranding fighters in divisions that don't exist, and moved anyone already stuck back to a real one. - Fixed champions being re-crowned or trapped under leftover contracts, so they can cleanly relinquish a belt and walk away.

This update fixes the title bugs many of you reported — thank you for the emails. • Belts now change hands immediately: win a title fight and your fighter is champion straight away, and a champion who loses drops the belt on the spot. • Existing saves fix themselves — any belt currently stuck on the wrong fighter is corrected automatically on your next weekly advance. • Retired champions no longer reappear holding a belt they'd given up. • Drawn title fights no longer freeze the belt — the title rebooks as normal. • Rematch clauses after title fights are now honoured properly. • Fixed watched fights simulating at the wrong weight class.

Champions & titles - Champions now defend against a proper spread of contenders instead of being rematched with the same opponent again and again. - Fixed a bug where a champion could be shown as "stripped of the belt" yet still hold the title on a fresh contract. - You can now hand back a title and leave a promotion while you're still champion, instead of being locked in. - Lower-tier promotions now book their vacant title fights properly, so belts no longer sit unclaimed. - Orphan champions now not resigned by wrong promotion. Your promotion - Fixed phantom income that could appear on your promotion (the ~180k that showed up with no event and wouldn't clear), and the tier-progress counter that could get stuck — revenue and progress now follow the shows you actually run. - Your roster now clearly marks which fighters are on a promotional contract. Fight cards - Cards no longer label every bout "Main Event" — fights are ordered by standing, with a proper main event on top. Stability - Fixed a save error that could stop a week advancing (or make it roll back) — tied to a fighter in a training camp. Weeks now advance reliably. - Fixed a crash that could occur when viewing certain Hall of Fame record lists. Performance - A batch of speed and battery improvements — weekly advances are noticeably faster and lighter on your device, especially with lots of fighters and promotions. - Game world size has been improved to stop population expansion.

- More performance improvements. - Promotion fixes for tier 3 rankings and champions. Thanks to everyone who has submitted bugs, feedback, and Wishlist items to us via the app. If you experience any issue please contact us through the app links.

- More speed and performance updates. - Tier counting fixed. Thanks to everyone who has submitted bugs, feedback, and Wishlist items to us via the app. If you experience any issue please contact us through the app links.

- Loads of big performance and game speed improvements. - Bug fixes for hangs during weekly updates. - KO:TKO ratio optimised further to real-world ratio. - Fix for managed champions never being booked by the promotion. - Fixed Summit Combat dead calendar. - Added player-initiated release when promotion has issues booking fights. - Fixed promotion scheduling so that 0-0 or novices do not fight more experienced fighters or fighting higher up the card than is realistic. Thanks to everyone who has submitted bugs, feedback, and Wishlist items to us via the app. If you experience any issue please contact us through the app links.

- Fix for fight screen UI issues in iPhone version.

- Fix for contracts getting stuck.

- Promotion tier progression optimised and made more fun.

- Improved game advance times. - Fixed promotion auto-re-negotiating player controlled fighter contracts. - More performance and UI optimisation.

- Improved performance in older game saves due to GOAT calculation. - Improved game update time per week.

- Fixed fighter promotional contracts from potentially overrunning. - Increased frequency of promotion reputation points progress bar updates. - Updated show count logic for promotions.

- Fixed labels on dashboard not updating correctly. - Calibrated finishing routines in fight model. - Fixed scoring bug whereby some majority draw results could result in a points decision. - Fixed more title issues (* see below)

 * Please note, if you continue to have an issue with title belts not transferring we have added a report button to the Options Menu in the Dashboard. You can help us resolve this issue by sending this email to us via this link to identify game world conditions. We apologise for the issues in this area.

- Improved promotion tier progression milestones and added a new tier progression card to the promotion dashboard. - Fixed promotion roster screen to only show fighters signed to promotion with either no or non-exclusive existing promotional contracts. - Fixed an issue whereby fighters become frozen in a promotion contract and prevents future instances from occurring. - Fixed orphaned fighter contracts. - Fixed the lack of contenders appearing for some champions. - Updated fighter attribute generation so that a broader range of probabilities are used in the creation of each fighter and their attributes. - Updated the fight model to improve the finish rate calibration and decrease the number of fights going the distance. We have also reduced TKO resilience factoring. - Fixed an occasional crash when advancing the game. - Fixed a discrepancy between the data source of the ranking and champions promotion tabs. - Small promotion title and UI fixes.

 Please continue to send any bugs to us using the Issues link in the dashboard. Also keep those requests coming from the Wishlist link in the main game lobby!

- Fixes issue where onboarding screens can prevent opening screen working correctly.

- Title/champions bug fixed! A number of labels and tables were showing incorrect data and have been fixed to show the correct title data for player-controlled fighters. Thanks for your patience on this. Please continue to send any bugs to us using the Issues link in the dashboard.

- Fixed issue where a champion could be moved to a different promotion and, if champion, their title vacated. - Fixed issue where post-fight a title could be incorrectly vacated via the rematch process. - Fixed issue where higher tier promotions could see small numbers of fighters in weights such as light heavyweight. - Fixed issue a fighter had an upcoming fight incorrectly displayed due to fighter retirement or contract expiry. - Fixed occasional crash when swiping on promotion onboarding screens.

- Fixed critical residual bug affecting title status of fights involving player-controller fighters, resulting in them then not becoming champions on winning. - Fixed promotion update spamming if a manager had multiple fighters at the same promotion. Lack of opponent messages now appear approximately monthly in this situation. - Improved the situation whereby fighters were not found opponents for a long time at promotions due to lengthy cooldown periods in some instances, as well as fewer free agents being used for the opponent pool in times where no rostered opponents were available through scheduling or cooldowns. - Fixed the issue of same-week fight offers/bookings.

- Fixed issue where fights offered by champions were not being registered as title fights. Thus wins did not result in player controller champion becoming champion. - Improved title fight UX for fights offered by champions to player-controlled fighters and for any subsequent title defences. - Fixed issue whereby a decaying relationship with another promotion could cause crash on weekly update.

This is the biggest MMA Manager update to date. We have torn out the boxing-derived career systems and rebuilt the entire MMA world around how real-world mixed martial arts actually works — a pyramid of promotions, contracts, pipelines and politics. ## A full promotion pyramid The MMA world now contains 25–30 active promotions spread across five tiers. Tier 1 is the apex, Tier 2 holds the major outfits, Tier 3 is a busy mid-tier, Tier 4 is stocked with feeder leagues, and Tier 5 is you — the player's own promotion. Each promotion has its own roster, its own per-weight rankings, its own belts, and its own show schedule. No world rankings. ## You are a manager *and* a promoter Your existing stable is preserved — you still sign, develop and corner your fighters. But you also run a Tier 5 promotion from day one. You can book your own roster on your own shows while simultaneously brokering deals with bigger NPC promotions for your best prospects. ## Contracts that feel like MMA Promotion contracts are show-plus-win with escalators, exclusivity clauses and matching rights. Every fight runs through the new escalator engine — a win advances the pay scale, a loss freezes it. Manager commission, career earnings and promotion cuts settle automatically at fight-end using the live contract value. ## Relationships and pipelines A new relationship system governs every manager-to-promotion interaction. **Cold**, **Known**, **Preferred** and **Pipeline Partner** — each level unlocks more. At Preferred you get showcase opportunities with a lenient acceptance threshold. At Pipeline Partner threshold(once in game levels are hit) a formal pipeline is created with quarterly retainer income ranging from **$10k at Tier 4 up to $100k at Tier 1**. Finder's fees on placements scale with the depth of the relationship and whether the fighter was on the promotion's wish list. ## Rankings, title defences and matchmaking A new matchmaker fills each show's card respecting weight, ranking proximity and contract status. The title engine handles vacancies, defences and champion updates per promotion — so a belt at one promotion means something specific to that promotion. ## Redesigned individual result screen ## Loads of game tweaks and fixes We’ve been listening to player feedback. We’ve updated XP amounts considerably per fight, fixed text contrast with backgrounds, ever improved our fight model as well as tons of new quality of life features and bug fixes to make this a huge game update.

- Fixed issue whereby make fight button might not appear on fighter screen. - Fixed issue whereby a champion could not offer a single fight to a fighter who is designated as a mandatory challenger for any organisation. - Fixed issue where if a fighter left company after court action the promoter name and gym slots were not updated. - Fixed show finance display issue whereby showcase labels were incorrectly displayed in finance screen when a main event.