How playing matches works

I recently finished porting the 'play match' functionality to the offline version. This gave me an opportunity to go over it as a whole, and I thought you might like to take a look at how this part of the game works under the hood.

Note: You can view the code snippets attached in a gist here.

Let's walk through what happens when you play a match:

• Check for a "holy shit moment," generate text for it, and award or unlock artifacts. Identify any bloody superstars based on traits or gimmick matches, and update the visuals with blood effects.

• Calculate the match's rating, which takes a bunch of factors like workrate, traits, penalties, blood etc. Check if the match is 'hot', again affected by many factors including the rating.
• Change the popularity and overness of the winner and loser(s). These are done together as overness change depends mostly on popularity change.
• Process the match's superstars, check for face of the company / rank changes, simulate injuries, reduce appearances, debut new gimmick if set, update win/records, workrate xp, kayfabe points, fatigue and morale. Also, assess any existing streaks and either end or extend them.

• Process the match's championships, change or add to the reign and update prestige xp.
• Process the match's feuds, which includes updating hype based on the match's rating, start or blowoff feuds, check if a feud got 'hot' or 'stale', run a feud's consequence if present, and update the feud's prestige xp.
• If a gimmick match was selected, apply any selected consequences (like make loser unavailable), update prestige xp and generate battle royal / elimination text.

• Assess any consequences associated with the selected match finish (like alignment turns) and run them. Get any superstars selected for interference/distraction and increase their popularity slightly. Boost hype of any feuds between interfering talent and match talent.
• Save a match's attributes (winner, loser, championships changed, rating) for viewing in history.

Most actions, like injuries, have associated checks: goals, talent requests, messages, company alerts, news etc that they trigger.

Finally, there are some others parts to the code which I've omitted, like handling tournaments and cashins.

I hope you enjoyed this little look at the game's code. If you liked it, let me know and I'll do another one for the 'play segment' function.

Thanks for reading!