Thane of Fife

What does one need to buy a title belt? If I look under Buy a Classic Title Belt as USPW or SWF, there's a huge list of options; if I do the same thing as QAW or TCW, there are no options. Is it that only Large companies can buy belts?

Ah, I see it. Apparently, I just didn't look hard enough.

On the subject of Prodigy, in previous installment RTG's, you set your potential to Excellent (or optionally to Random). Since there is no longer a place to set potential (that I can see), wouldn't taking a trait like Prodigy be something of an equivalent to that? That would suggest that everyone should get it, unless they choose not to take it.

I don't have any musts (and I woudn't consider myself an expert), but in general (I hope I'm not over-explaining things - apologies if I am): All products are either Popularity>Performance, Popularity=Performance, or Performance>Popularity. This determines whether match ratings are mostly set by worker skill or worker popularity. Pop>Perf products are Mainstream, Comedy, and Risque Pop=Perf products are Traditional, Cult, Hardcore, Lucha Libre, and Daredevil Perf>Pop products are Modern, Realism, Hyper-Realism, Pure In general, for a small promotion, it's easier to put on good shows when you are perf>pop (because cheap workers usually aren't very popular). As a promotion grows, this flips, because it's easier to get people to be popular than to get people to be good in the ring. Products also have variable sponsorship. I think Mainstream gets the most. Traditional and Lucha Libre are close behind, with Comedy just behind them. Everything else is bad. Cult, Modern, Realism, and Daredevil are, I think, still better than Risque, Hyper-Realism, Hardcore, and Pure. In general, at the very beginning of the game, when you lack money and popularity, you want a product that will let you put on good shows (probably perf>pop) but will also get good sponsorship money. Note that, in general, products that are more performance-focused get less money. So, the reason that you're seeing low sponsorship income is because Cult, Modern, and Pure are all bad for sponsorship. If you tried turning two of those to Low instead of Medium, it would probably help you ease the financial burden. Then, when you grow to a more comfortable position, you can turn them back up a bit. It is also worth carefully watching the Trending products in your area - at low levels, tailoring your product to match those can help quite a bit. In terms of roster, I would say that 12 is a lot for a company that small. And $800 is probably too much for a contract. Also note that you don't need (and shouldn't have) an announcer or color commentator. A Road Agent is also an unneeded luxury (you can use a wrestler for that). Ideally, you want to have a referee, but you can use a wrestler for that, too (though it will penalize your matches after the first... two?). Note that two potential exceptions to this are 1) if your user character is very popular, you may be able to use them to get other workers over and thus do better with a popularity-based promotion, and 2) if your product allows it, eye candy matches and sex appeal angles can score very highly for small promotions, and it can be worth using these as your main event (though I wouldn't recommend changing your product just for this).

Her bio says that she had a long-standing offer from USPW, but didn't take it until (relatively) shortly before AAA closed (November 2016, I think). So I think they tried to poach her, but she was loyal to AAA for at least a while. As for AAA, I expected that it was going to close, but I thought that it would be the jump to Cult that killed it, not... whatever happened.

These are pretty minor things, and may be deliberate, but: a) Angel Williams's contract with Border City Wrestling has her set as a Non-Wrestler. While it's probably true that she won't be doing any wrestling for the company (which doesn't have a women's division), I don't think there is any way to change this in-game without using the editor or first terminating her contract (just re-negotiating it won't do anything). In the interest of making it easier to start a women's division, it would be nice if her contract was set to Active Wrestler - I'm pretty sure the AI will still use her as a manager. b) I am a little surprised that - I think - Marc Mero and Rena Mero/Sable are seemingly not in the mod. I'm not asking you to put them in if you deliberately left them out, I was just surprised not to see them and was wondering if it was intentional. Edit: Or just not done yet. But I've been enjoying what I've done with the mod thus far. Thanks!

Another interesting option for a women's promotion could be a GLOW-type company. The Cornellverse often seems a bit delayed compared to reality, so something like that could fit in the '97 period. Say it's been around for 5-10 years or so, but now it's struggling as the rise of AAA is stealing its market. Give them a not-so-great booker, some older women of moderate talent, a couple women with potential who would eventually go to AAA, and some younger women who are more pretty than talented and you've got a company. You could put them at war with AAA and say that "historically," AAA wins and puts them out of business. In game terms, that could put more importance on a big star like Catherine Quine and give some justification for why AAA is a bit more T&A-focused in the '97 data than it is in the present.

Unless something has changed since Tuesday, that's not true. IMPACT streams its shows on Twitch, and she hosts the show there.

I agree that CZCW should have either a Women's Division or an Integrated roster (probably several of the smaller promotions could get away with integrated rosters). One thing that might work with both this and the managers discussion would be to allow some of the current female non-wrestlers (like Karen Killer, Lady Melissa, Dream Girl, or even Emma Chase) to wrestle, and to add other women who are willing to wrestle or be valets. That would give them a chance to actually get work, add some depth for a potential women's division or AAA run-through, and drop in some women for the indies without inflating the women's wrestling scene beyond what it's canonically supposed to look like. You could potentially also toss in some more older women who happen to have strong, negative relationships with Heidi Brooks, which could help to explain why there is talent around that's not being used.

Could you just set the appropriate workers to have higher (or maybe even equal) pop in the specific region where they work?

This one's for a made-up, all-women's fed in the US using the 1994 Clash of the Titans mod. Current date is January 2000. Franchise Players 1. Madusa Miceli 2. Toshie Uematsu 3. Fantasia 4. Amy Lee (I pushed Uematsu pretty much solely on the merit of a highly rated gimmick, and she has really come through for me. I guess Madusa is more over nationally, but I consider Uematsu my #1 star.) Next Big Things 1. Stacy Keibler 2. Wesna Busic 3. Amber O'Neal 4. Yuki Miyazaki Hot Prospects 1. Stacy Keibler 2. Alexis Laree 3. Amber O'Neal 4. Wesna Busic 5. Jazz (It'll be interesting to watch Keibler's career. I hope I can build her up well.) Talk the Talk 1. Madusa Miceli 2. Katie Bruce (automatically generated referee with amazing entertainment skills but no pop) 3. Lilian Garcia 4. Megumi Kudo 5. Kayo "Knockout" Noumi (I'm surprised Uematsu isn't on this list, because she consistently puts on fantastic angles) Show Stoppers 1. Madusa Miceli 2. Megumi Kudo 3. Jaguar Yokota 4. Wesna Busic 5. Kayo "Knockout" Noumi Ring Generals 1. Madusa Miceli 2. Fantasia 3. Toshie Uematsu 4. Jaguar Yokota 5. Yuki Miyazaki Who's Hot 1. Sable 2. Reggie Bennett 3. Megumi Kudo 4. Toshie Uematsu 5. Madusa Miceli Who's Not 1. Jazz 2. Stacy Keibler 3. Torrie Wilson Time Decline 1. Reggie Bennett Hot Prospects 1. Rhonda Singh 2. La Tigresa 3. Nattie Neidhart 4. Emma Bach (regen of Fabulous Moolah) 5. Candi Devine

Maybe there's more to this than I know, but it seems a bit tasteless to me to apply this to Paige (presumably) for having her sex tape leaked when it's not being applied to anyone else, including wrestlers who have had public affairs or who are known for having had many relationships. On a separate note, I'm curious how you plan to set up Impact's roster - Integrated or with a Women's Division? I feel like, either way, it could not quite work out right.

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="DatIsraeliGuy" data-cite="DatIsraeliGuy" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="47318" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>as per the Franchise Players for WWE, there's no one who should be higher than Brock. He is the biggest name in wrestling, hell in most of combat sports.</div></blockquote><p> </p><p> Some searching with Google Trends would actually appear to suggest that Becky Lynch may be a bigger name than Brock Lesnar is (or that they're very, very comparable). Both are slightly but notably above a second tier, including folks like the Undertaker, Randy Orton, and Charlotte Flair, and they're all notably above the rest of the roster (that I looked at, anyway). And all of those people are way, WAY below John Cena.</p><p> </p><p> Of course, Google search trends don't necessarily equal popularity, but it seems like a reasonable correlation.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> Slightly more on topic, if I can still pick a number, how about <strong>143</strong>?</p>

Download Link In my experience, Comic Book Hero is at its most fun when you're playing with characters that you recognize and have attachment to. While I like the Infinityverse, it has more oomph to me to see Spider-Man get in a fight with Doctor Octopus. With that in mind, this is a mod I've been working on for a while now. While there is still lots of room for expansion, I'm getting to the point where I'm slowing down, so I thought I'd release it. Essentially, the premise here is the combination of lots of different characters from a variety of media properties, all mashed together more or less at random. At the moment, the mod includes exactly 300 characters; properties represented herein include (but are not limited to): DC, Marvel, Buffy, Star Wars, James Bond, The Lord of the Rings, and so forth. This is a mod where Wonder Woman can go back in time and hook up with Conan, where Captain Kirk and Han Solo can team up to fight Xenomorphs, or where the Power Rangers can stop Galactus from destroying the planet. Some general notes on the mod: All pictures are taken from live action media (at least, that was my intention). Popularity is generally based on scope rather than power. So Superman, who is usually Earth-based, is lower popularity than Darth Vader, who operates on a galactic scale, even though I think most would agree that Superman would probably win in a straight fight between them. Most characters are rated as being bisexual. This is true even where there is no indication of such - who am I to stop people playing out their Superman/Aragorn slash fantasies? I have made no effort to test relationships. That is, there is no guarantee that Superman and Lois Lane can reach any particular relationship level. For similar reasons to the previous bullet point, very few romantic relationships are initially included in the mod. The mod includes six time periods. The Modern Day is the most fleshed out. The Primordial Era and Medieval Times are reasonably populated. If you choose a character from a different period, I would recommend buying Time Traveler with your starting points (or just edit it onto your character). The mod includes 20 pictures specifically for user-created characters - ostensibly 10 males and 10 females. They all start with "user" in the pictures list. Some you may recognize, some maybe not. There are also some pictures for people I never got around to adding - Sailor Moon and Livewire come to mind. There may be others. You may wonder "Why is/isn't so-and-so in the mod?" Likely reasons for the latter are that I don't know them very well, I couldn't find a picture for them, or I just didn't think of or get around to them. For the former, chalk it up to strange taste on my part. The download link includes a README file that gives rough metrics I used to assign statistics to characters. You can use this to add characters of your preference in a way in-keeping with others, or to lambast me here for badly misrepresenting your favorite. If you're looking for a good character to play as, I personally have had a lot of fun with Black Canary. Her popularity is low, but she's got great stats to move up with, she's a member of the Justice League, and she's a leader of the Birds of Prey. So there's a lot of stuff you can do with her. Similar characters, like Daredevil and Batman, also tend to be very strong for their popularity. Some pictures of the mod in action: Jean Grey does what she does best: The world's cutest heroic pairing: The ultimate showdown of DC vs Marvel:

Some thoughts on Impact as it stands in the January data (some of these may be more finicky than you care about): -Petey Williams's contract is set to be Exclusive as a Road Agent, but he's wrestled a few matches on Impact recently, so he should probably be allowed to work in-ring. -Rich Swann and Willie Mack have been teaming for a while, I feel like maybe they should be listed as a tag team. -Jessicka Havok has a Havok alter-ego for Impact, but she's not set to be working under it. -Katie Forbes should be managing RVD. -Joey Ryan is set as a Heel - I think he's actually a Face. -Ace Austin should probably have a higher Weasel gimmick score. Various gimmick notes: -Johnny Swinger should probably be working a Comedy gimmick rather than a Cocky one (I like Epic Failure, personally) -Katie Forbes should probably be using a Babe gimmick rather than the one she currently has. -Madison Rayne is working a Weasel gimmick - I think that a Cocky (or even better, Comedy) gimmick would be more appropriate. Fabulous Heel, maybe. -Moose should probably have a Cocky gimmick rather than a Brute gimmick (I like Arrogant Heel). -Taya Valkyrie seems to be playing more of a Weasel than a Cocky type. I'd go with Old School Heel. -Joey Ryan should probably have a Comedy gimmick (Comedy Relief, maybe). -Kiera Hogan should be Sidekick. -Mahabali Shera maybe a Bad Ass gimmick. -Josh Alexander should probably be working under what I would consider a Legitimate gimmick (Machine, probably), but his Legitimate rating is not very good. -Fallah Bahh is probably using a Weirdo gimmick rather than a Simpleton one.