ShadowAngel85

I was wondering the same actually, since this guy gets constantly recommended by creative and i never heard of him. So i started to dig, because i was really, really curious about this. I looked through my own wrestling magazine/newsletter archive (90 gigs covering everything from 1951 to 2015, from local newsletters to PWI, so chances are very high that there would be a mention of the name at least). I looked on the RSPW archive, wrestlingclassics, general online searches and even downloaded a 400 page book named "Obituaries in the Performing Arts 2004" (he supposedly died in January 2004 in a car crash according to Cagematch), which does cover wrestler deaths and additionally looked for a car crash on January 25, 2004 and since the only other information is Iowa, i looked there. Not a single mention at all (but obviously he could've lived in any other place at the time of course) and i even looked for variations of the name, since "Rochr" sounds extremely weird to me, so i also looked for Roche and Rocher, which are way more common, but there was nothing to be found at all. By now i'm actually convinced, that this person never existed. If the data on Cagematch (and that's the only site that lists him and they barely have any information) is correct, it is extremely strange that a wrestler, trainer and promoter, who was supposedly active for 25 years and died in a car crash, has not a single piece of information online. No pictures, no match listing, no info on the promotion he supposedly ran, no match videos and not even any info on the supposed car crash.

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="cmbell27" data-cite="cmbell27" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="53447" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div><p> p.s. I only use it for my B shows but its even too bad for that.</p></div></blockquote><p> </p><p> Same, since B-Shows mean next to nothing i just Auto-Book them and maybe tweak a thing here and there but the amount of angles is insane. Not only does it create a long promo before every match but also books people just talking. Sometimes 4-5 of them in a row. </p><p> Like in one of my last B-Show episode (1992 WWF) it goes: </p><p> Angle: Wendi Richter</p><p> Angle: Texas Tornado</p><p> Nikolai Volkoff vs. Repo Man</p><p> Angle: Earthquake</p><p> Angle: Mountie</p><p> Angle: Gene Okerlund</p><p> Angle: Roddy Piper</p><p> Angle: Bulldog, Bret Hart, Tatanka, Nasty Boys, Papa Shango</p><p> followed by match between all those. </p><p> Angle: Earthquake, Eddie Guerrero</p><p> Match betwen those two</p><p> And all the promos go like 6-7 minutes</p><p> And none of the angle people are in any storylines, except Piper and Richter. </p><p> </p><p> I just fired up TEW2016 to compare it and it's totally different. It booked 3 Angles, 2 were storyline related without being tacked onto a match, 1 was tacked onto a match but also storyline related. The remaining time was 5 Matches. (That was WWF, 1991)</p><p> It's a lot more logical. </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="MJ13" data-cite="MJ13" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="53447" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>Vince it and change it just before the show starts.</div></blockquote><p> </p><p> That's not the point though. It worked great in 16, so why is it so broken now?</p>

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="tommyrjackson" data-cite="tommyrjackson" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="53225" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>I've wanted this so bad for years now. Chart Wars 3 is still the holy grail (to my knowledge) but is pretty buggy and is now very outdated</div></blockquote><p> </p><p> Yeah, i played the Chart Wars' games back then and was so hyped for Chart Wars: Rise to Stardom, which of course never saw the light of day and the creator just vanished (well, not really, he joined Sports Interactive, but never made a message and just left the Osiris Games forum behind, it remained active for quite some years with people hoping something would happen)</p><p> </p><p> I also really loved Kudos: Rock Legend, were you just controlled a band. A graphically better Rockstar (also a fun game, even though you basically always died from drugs <img alt=":D" data-src="//content.invisioncic.com/g322608/emoticons/biggrin.png.929299b4c121f473b0026f3d6e74d189.png" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /> ) basically</p><p> </p><p> A new functioning game like that would be amazing. All those shovelware band/record label manager games on Steams & Co. are just too casual and crappy.</p>

I have to make a few corrections to the post regarding Germany and a few additions in regards to the TV situation: It didn't drew at all in the 80's. The WWF even only started being shown here on TV in late 1988 on Tele 5, altough it was only every once in a while (As part of "Ring Frei", a weekly show that would alternate between wrestling (both WWF and GLOW), Boxing and Sumo). Also the show was a mixture of matches from Prime Time, Wrestling Challenge, as well as Wrestling Spotlight. It wasn't until 1991 that Tele 5 changed Ring Frei to just being the WWF, every week on Friday and expanded the time slot, Superstars and Wrestling Challenge were then shown. The first time the WWF came to Germany for shows was in April 1992 with the mentioned European Rampage Again Tour. They completely ignored that country in the years prior. In 1989 the WWF only did 4 shows in Europe: April 10 in Italy (the event was televised on Tele+2) and in October 10 to 13 in England (televised on Sky One), Belgium and France (both untelevised). So, WWF would be relative small in popularity in western europe at the time. WCW was also shown on TV, it started in 1989. More details below. Wrestling didn't really get big here until late 1990 when the wrestling boom happened. So for 1989 and Germany: - WWF is on a graveyard slot (it was shown at midnight that year) on Tele 5 on Fridays, as i said, GLOW was shown as well. - WCW started on April 2, 1989 on RTL on a graveyard slot (it didn't even have a proper timeslot, but was shown sometime between 11 pm and 1:30 am), usually on Sunday Also, a common mistake, found in nearly all mod databases is the confusion of RTL and RTL 2. Two different stations. RTL 2 only started in April 1993. RTL in 1989 was the biggest private TV station (market share that year was 10%, which was significant), while Tele 5 was considerably smaller. WWF was also on Eurosport that year, which was receivable in western Europe and the UK.

I just tried as owner, put on some good shows, got more tv deals and wasn't doing too badly - but still went out of business after the first month.

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="iruleall15" data-cite="iruleall15" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="50332" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>Because it removes completely unrealistic abilities. I love the change. People cant cheese the game and force people into the business.</div></blockquote><p> </p><p> And in what way does "People cheesing" their game affect you? I mean this isn't some competitive multiplayer game, it doesn't even have a leaderboard, so why do you care so much about how people want to play their game, that you think stupid restrictions are a positive? </p><p> </p><p> I really don't get this mentality. </p><p> </p><p> Let people play the game they want to play, because you surely expect them to accept your way just the same, and if some want to "cheese", let them. It won't hurt you.</p>

I started as NWA in the Killing the Business mod, first thing i did was to re-hire Cornette as Color Commentator. One day after making the offer, he died (it wasn't that bad of an offer, i swear!)

An alternative for online (and 2 different PCs) would be Parsec which is a streaming program. 1 Person is the Host, the other person connects to the host and gets access. I haven't tried it with TEW but other games (like NBA 2K19 because it doesn't allow MyLeague Coop Online) and it works fine as long as you have enough upload speed (10mbit should be enough for TEW)