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I did a month or so in WEFF, and will probably do another month in GAMMA. Maybe. I'll just spend a little time to exploring the menus and save the real dive into the game for next week. Probably fiddle with female character creation. I played enough to ease my appetite.

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="Adam Ryland" data-cite="Adam Ryland" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="44604" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>Well, to be clear, I didn't say it was the last, I said it was <em>likely</em> to be. Between TEW and other projects I'm considering, I just don't see how I'd realistically have the time to do another WMMA in the future.</div></blockquote><p> </p><p> I'm sure the other projects will be worth it <img alt=":)" data-src="//content.invisioncic.com/g322608/emoticons/smile.png.142cfa0a1cd2925c0463c1d00f499df2.png" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /></p>

Why is this the last in the series? <img alt="" data-src="//content.invisioncic.com/g322608/emoticons/frown.png.e6b571745a30fe6a6f2e918994141a47.png" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /> I feel like that's a large bomb to drop in the midst of this release.

I've always low key hated Matt Dean.

<p>TCW September 2017</p><p> </p><p> World: Bach (Sammy Bach)</p><p> Tag: Canadian Animals (Freddy Huggins and Edd Stone)</p><p> International: Guide</p><p> Women's: Nicole Easter (Lauren Easter)</p><p> </p><p> Grand Prix 2017: Aaron Andrews</p><p> </p><p> Also, I did a 'NXT/Tough Enough' style thing. Nicole Easter won the first one, and I have a <a href="http://challonge.com/9sn96hec" rel="external nofollow">second season</a> going on right now. I will probably do a low-level belt off of it, dunno yet.</p>

Pumped

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="Sharkn20" data-cite="Sharkn20" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="41193" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>How do you handle PPVs?<p> </p><p> Just one Show and done? Just signed a 3 month P.P.V. deal and I have to do one every single week as it appears in Schedule. Is it how it works? Doing it that often the ratio decreases? </p><p> </p><p> Thanks for the input in advance.</p></div></blockquote><p> </p><p> Depends on the company, such as your size and your schedule (touring/regular). You might wanna go to the 'small questions' thread up top for some more detailed analysis on how to book your schedule.</p>

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="Lo-Drew" data-cite="Lo-Drew" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="43724" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>I'll throw in someone who I always find a use for, both in the midcard and in the main event(like in my current TCW). <p> </p><p> John Greed.</p><p> </p><p> I love Greed. Bit on the older side when you start(around 37 I believe) but he has pretty good entertainment skills. He's fairly decent in the ring, not great, but not bad at all. Plus, he has high SQ, which is great. I've found him to have a nice "utility man" quality to him as I can plug him into any situation and he'll generally produce. Need him in a tag team? That would work. Need him to be paired with a monster and/or a stable with him as the mouthpiece? That would work too. He's one of my favorite guys in the C-Verse due to his versatility.</p></div></blockquote><p> </p><p> Yes. </p><p> </p><p> I had nothing for him until I did a roll call for the Occult gimmick and I gave it to him. He had the rating up to Legendary within a month or so and he basically got himself over. I just changed his name to Greed to turn him into a Bray Wyatt-esque stable leader. I didn't do him any favors at first but he started to shoot up the card on his own promos and I just started to go to work for him in the storylines. I don't think I never got far enough in that game to give him the big title, but he was on his way to at least a quick run with it. </p><p> </p><p> The biggest downside with him is age, but his promo work is still worth keeping him around if you give him a chance to raise his stats.</p>

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="sabataged" data-cite="sabataged" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="41343" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>I ran a stable called Revolution with Peak, Titan, Killer Shark and Floyd Goldworthy. I rename Eddie Peak to Defiance, Titan stuck with the name and Killer Shark was renamed to Kratos. Eventually I had Goldworthy bring in Marat to replace Peak as the leader and Peak turned face. <p> </p><p> I got Peak up to mid 90's pop from this stable though.</p></div></blockquote><p> </p><p> I also like that name for Shark. I used Poseidon for one of my saves. I put him in a stable where everyone got new 'code-names' and that was his.</p>

I've been playing AJJ, which is my first Japanese company since probably like TEW2010. I'm enjoying myself. I can still kinda run storylines and have some head-canon going, but I don't have to worry about creative angles or meta-gaming too much. The emphasis on in-ring performance makes it much easier then your Sports Entertainment companies. I also like how AJJ's roster is split by stables. It makes me feel like it has an MMA vibe where every trains out of a different camp. It also makes it fun to make new 'camps' or trade people in and out. I never would have really taken this kind of route in any other 'verse', but I feel like I might use it a lot now in future games.

This is less of a creative question and more of a 'general booking tips' question. I'm trying a joshi promotion for the first time, and honestly its my first time in Japan since PGHW a couple/few TEW-versions ago. I don't think I've done Japan since the Young Lion system was implemented. While I do watch japanese wrestling, my knowledge as a 'mark' in that world is very low. What is the best way to handle the young lion system, especially in a smaller promotion? I guess the biggest problem I'm having is how to put a title on a young lion without pissing everyone off because they went over a veteran. Or having them defend it, after that. First off, I hate Killer Shark and I think he's terrible. He's useless solo and as a tag team unless you get lucky chemistry. For me, he had bad chemistry with almost everyone I put him with, on top of the fact he just generally sucks. With that in mind, what I'm doing with him in TCW is putting as the brute in my Phantom Thieves (only Persona nerds will get it) stable under Sammy Bach's leadership. That way I don't have to use him outside of his menace, which is his one redeeming quality. I let him fight on dark matches to hopefully groom him, but so far so bad. The name i gave him was Triton, king of the sea.

<p>I started a new TCW, which has a little bit of an issue of having a lot of older people in upper half of the roster, so as usual I wanted to bring in a younger stable of guys to try and push up the roster (at least the midcard level of popularity). It seems like I always do the same thing in every company and I'm sick of doing the typical Shield-invasion gimmick, or the blue-chipper/next-generation type thing. </p><p> </p><p> The three I've hired are fairly usual hires: Kirk Jameson, Greg Gauge, Rudy Velasquez, with Haley Buck as their manager. </p><p> </p><p> What kind of gimmicks/names could I do with the group that are a little off the beaten path? I planned on them being heel but that's pretty open at this point. I'm really just trying to do something fresh.</p>

<p>I can't seem to get Des Davids out of my tag team division. He always ends up there. He was with American Machine and then went solo briefly when I let Machine go, then he floundered in a couple tags before he went on a run with Marshall Dillon (which is where he is now).</p><p> </p><p> I'd love to give him a solo push with one of my midcard titles but he's like second or third in my mind at any given time.</p>

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="marsupial311" data-cite="marsupial311" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="41303" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>Primus Allen is great but I can't see any reason a user controlled big three company wouldn't sign Marat just for the push in National Battles. Even if you put him on an events only contract or literally do nothing with him, the value in National Battles immediately moves any of them to #1 in the US.</div></blockquote><p> </p><p> He's useful but not mandatory. SWF is already winning in the star quality rankings at the beginning. I still don't have Marat and I'm over a year into it. I might sign him NOW that I've established myself with him.</p><p> </p><p> I took Liberty from USPW and he's useless in the ring. I imagine that's how Marat will be for me if I sign him. Good angles but useless in a PPV match. Bear and Primus regularly get 80's and 90's in their individual match rating.</p>

I didn't do the Marat thing and I've been fine. Bear Bekowski and Primus Allen (and Scythe, though he's taking a little longer) have grown into perfectly fine upper card monsters with way better match ratings then I'd ever get out of Marat.

<p>Anybody have any tips/tricks for doing a comedy fed? In particular, I'm gonna start with POW, but I want to try all of these little comedy gems in T-Verse to see what I like more.</p><p> </p><p> How should the booking be focused? What main stats should I put looking at?</p><p> </p><p> I'm trying to do it without cheating but if money becomes a problem, I'm not above it >_></p>

What are the main stats I'm looking at for 'Story Telling' and 'Comedy' matches? Is it literally just comedy? Psychology? Entertainment?

<p>SWF January 2017. Brands split into Supreme and Elite. The split is pretty new; only a couple months old.</p><p> </p><p> SWF Elite Tag Team - High Velocity (Elmo Benson/Troy Tornado)</p><p> SWF Elite Vixen - Jaime Quine</p><p> SWF Intercontinental - Steven Parker</p><p> SWF World Heavyweight - Angry Gilmore</p><p> </p><p> SWF Supreme Tag Team - Vacant (recently created)</p><p> SWF Supreme Vixen - Joanne Rodriguez</p><p> SWF North American - Sammy Smoke</p><p> SWF Supreme - Remo</p>

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="MHero" data-cite="MHero" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="41303" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>The easy answer is politics.<p> </p><p> I prefer to think of it as Spade constantly choking under pressure and not showing what he can really do. He's been there for years so something has to give. Maybe his gimmick, he's very plain gimmick wise. Maybe his look. Maybe he's going to just end up as a tag guy, always building for the big hopespots for his partner. I don't really buy into the narrative that he'll be a big stat but I'm often wrong. <img alt=":p" data-src="//content.invisioncic.com/g322608/emoticons/tongue.png.ceb643b2956793497cef30b0e944be28.png" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /></p></div></blockquote><p> </p><p> He's doing okay so far in my game, about 10 months in. He was in a Shield/Nexus type storyline with Greg Gauge, Ekuma, J-Ro and Primus Allen. It's just now coming to an end this month, and it's driven him up as far as Upper Mid (though he's back to midcard now). I'm sure he'll eventually get the tag titles with Gauge since they drive in good numbers and have good chemistry.</p><p> </p><p> Ekuma is the only one of that group that never got out of the lower cards, mainly due to his awful stamina.</p>

How often do people use 'auto-allign' for roster positions. Is it better to make your own main event/upper card/etc? I tend to use the auto every time I have a show, but I dunno if that's just easy mode and I should be using it better.

<p>I'm doing SWF as well. I'm only on the fourth month. Valiant just won the title and will likely carry it close to Supreme Challenge. Joey Morgan just turned heel (and Brandon James face by extension) and joined Eisen's authority stable. If Morgan keeps on track and keeps his nose clean, he'll take the title off Valiant and defend against Jack Bruce at Supreme Challenge, cementing him as champ for probably the rest of the year (or until the Eisen storyline is over).</p><p> </p><p> TCW has fallen to Cult, so they are less of an issue, but USPW is taking all of the good talent, from me and from others. I've lost Zimmy Bumfhole so far, and a few TCW/NOTPW prospects to them. I kept Squeeky and I'll probably keep Eric Eisen. I'm waiting for them to drop to Cult so I can start throwing my weight around a bit.</p>

<p>March 2016</p><p> </p><p> SWF World: Valiant</p><p> SWF North American: Hollywood Bret Starr</p><p> SWF Tag Team: Jefferson Stardust and Huey Cannonball </p><p> SWF Vixxen: Sara York</p><p> SWF Young Lion: Greg Gauge</p>

Those are all awesome. Thanks, guys!

Doing an authority angle with Eric Eisen running the stable. It currently has Bear Bekowski, Hollywood Bret Starr and Jaime Quine. I need a name...I don't wanna use 'The Authority' >.>

I'm likely going to start my QAW game today (been doing TCW to start, but QAW was my longest in '13). I'm gonna start with restricted areas on, as I always feel gamey otherwise, but if it's too difficult then I'll switch it off.