BigBen87

You can definitely send them down to a developmental promotion to just wrestle there or whatever you want. But you can send them to the Performance Center (right now, only SWF has one) if you want them to keep training. Kind of like the NXT people who don't get on shows or only work the Florida circuit. I've been running SWF and RIPW together to experiment. I've been block taping RIPW for the month and then sending all the unrefined, but talented people to the performance center for the rest of the month.

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="a0161613" data-cite="a0161613" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="47503" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>I haven't got an SWF save yet but did i read that the match focus is Three Ring Circus?<p> </p><p> If true that seems to not be optimal; wouldn't it be better to change that to push the focus onto the main event?</p></div></blockquote><p> </p><p> It works okay, but I book my cards to basically have an all-out kickoff match, a multi-man match at the halfway point, and the big main event. Then I have a storytelling match and two calm the crowd matches scattered just before the midpoint and just before the main event.</p>

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="Blackman" data-cite="Blackman" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="47503" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>Jesus, how do you book this? I've tried (a little) but can't seem to book a 70 show. You get smashed with "not enough interesting storylines". Once you turn off "strict storylines" it suddenly rises to 80, which is fine, or 83 when I change product settings to what it used to be.<p> </p><p> I had Remo vs Mikey Lau as main event, which is kinda meh but should be suitable for TV.</p><p> </p><p> If you need 5 hot ones and only 3 are hot, you NEED to boost the 2 others somehow by having main'ers come in. I don't like being forced into one general direction though. <img alt=":(" data-src="//content.invisioncic.com/g322608/emoticons/frown.png.e6b571745a30fe6a6f2e918994141a47.png" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /> Or can I just make up a new storyline and will it immediately count?</p></div></blockquote><p> </p><p> There seems to be a real advantage to running a lot of shorter 4-5 angles instead of longer angles. In most of my games, I have about nine storylines and feature about 8-10 angles per 2 hour show.</p><p> </p><p> In order to get to five "hot" storylines, I usually run 2-3 angles for two of the new stories (Something like Angry Gilmore/Crippler or ZWB/Starr). You need more than one for each story because your initial rating is something like 90% of the rating you get from the first segment in a storyline.</p><p> </p><p> Generally, this means you'll have the hot storylines quota met by the end of the first show and then they stay pretty hot from there.</p>

I'm also a big fan of the booking analysis screen telling you if you're overusing someone on a show. It's been particularly helpful for me when I need to scale back a match or an angle on B shows. Similarly, big fan of the road agent warning about stamina issues when booking matches.

More or less. Like if it's a number one contender match, but you don't want to inject the champion, you just advance the storyline using the button because that is obviously the point of the match. Also, I imagine I'd use it to build someone up for a longer term feud. Like, in WCW, the storyline wasn't Goldberg vs. Wrestler of the Week/Month, it was Goldberg's Streak, so I'd use the advance storyline for all the matches until it got to the payoff of the storyline.

I've booked about a month of SWF and RIPW and, honestly, this is just way, way, way easier to book and tell stories. The "advance storyline" road agent note is super useful when you don't want to just inject a character randomly to progress a story.

I got a 0 match playing around with RIPW. I had super inexperienced powerhouse Zap Powerson squash some other ridiculously inexperienced developmental guy and the crowd was very angry that the match was too long (3 minutes).