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Looking forward to it! It can be a slog, especially when setbacks like that happen, but I'm very much looking forward to the update and the completion of the pic pack!

How is it determined how a gimmick will be received? I have a worker who keeps debuting with a Below Average reception even though it's his default gimmick. He has the performance skills and everything needed for it anyway, but he keeps coming up Below Average. Is there any way to fix generally how well it debuts?

<p>I echo what everyone else has said. Great show!</p><p> </p><p> Also, <strong>H</strong>okuto, the <strong>H</strong>arbinger of <strong>H</strong>avoc? Someone up north might not like this little "game" you're playing <img alt="" data-src="//content.invisioncic.com/g322608/emoticons/biggrin.png.929299b4c121f473b0026f3d6e74d189.png" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /></p>

All I want after last night's SDLive is more Breezango TV time.

<p>World Heavyweight Championship: Diamond Dallas Page vs. <strong>Booker T {©}</strong></p><p> <em>I really want Page to have one more run, but I think you've invested a lot into Booker at this point. Don't get me wrong though, I'm behind Booker as the champion for sure.</em></p><p> </p><p> United States Heavyweight Championship: Mark Jindrak vs. <strong>Shane Douglas {©}</strong></p><p> <em>Shane is a star of this diary. Jindrak is nothing but a look. I'd wait to put over someone with legitimate potential.</em></p><p> </p><p> World Tag Team Championship: <strong>The Hardys</strong> vs. True Heroes {©}</p><p> <em>I think this is the move, if only to keep the tag division fresh. The Thrillers held the belts for a long time, and I think that True Heroes dropping the belts here would help avoid another overly long reign. I think I would put the Hardys over here and then have True Heroes win the belts back down the line. Assuming you're not splitting them to push Punk yet.</em></p><p> </p><p> Cruiserweight Championship: American Dragon vs. <strong>AJ Styles {©}</strong></p><p> <em>Dragon isn't quite there yet, I don't think.</em></p><p> </p><p> World Women's Championship: Manami Toyota vs. <strong>Etsuko Mita {©}</strong></p><p> <em>I don't see her dropping it yet.</em></p><p> </p><p> #1 Contender: <strong>Rey Misterio Jr.</strong> vs. The Destroyer</p><p> <em>I'm a big fan of what you've done with Mike Awesome and Salvation (I was considering doing something similar with Mitchell/Daniels/Mordecai in my 2004 diary), but Misterio should get the win here to take on Booker.</em></p><p> </p><p> <strong>Sting</strong> vs. King Corino</p><p> <em>I think it'll be a DQ. I know it's 2002 and you've done a hell of a job building Corino, but it's just tough for me to pick him over Sting.</em></p><p> </p><p> <strong>"Big Poppa Pump" Scott Steiner</strong> vs. The Unnatural</p><p> <em>One of my favorites in the entire diary.</em></p><p> </p><p> Doomsday vs. <strong>The Natural Born Thrillers</strong></p><p> <em>Clark pisses Bret off backstage and does the job.</em></p><p> </p><p> <strong>Alexis Laree</strong> vs. Daffney</p><p> <em>She's your future, it appears. Get her a win over someone WCW fans have seen before.</em></p><p> </p><p> Yang vs.<strong> "Fallen Angel" Christopher Daniels</strong></p><p> <em>I'm interested to see where Daniels goes. You have a really crowded roster.</em></p><p> </p><p> What will be match of the night? <strong>The Hardys vs. True Heroes</strong></p><p> </p><p> How many championships will change hands? <strong>1</strong></p><p> </p><p> Will Lex Luger make it to the show? <strong>Yes.</strong></p><p> </p><p> TIEBREAKER: How long will the main event be? <strong>16:11</strong></p><p> </p><p> Who will be the next World Heavyweight Champion? <strong>I think RVD is going to win it back.</strong></p><p> </p><p> General diary comments/questions/critiques: I just finished reading this from the beginning. Wow, what a ride. I'm glad I could catch on right at the end of one of the prediction cycles. Everything has been awesome so far. And I mean <em>everything</em>. Including Stevie Ray on the microphone!</p>

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="Jaysin" data-cite="Jaysin" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="25169" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>Payback was a pretty solid show.</div></blockquote><p> </p><p> Agreed. My hopes were really low for it, but it wasn't bad.</p>

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="The Final Countdown" data-cite="The Final Countdown" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="25169" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>Luke Harper would've been interesting, at least to me. I feel very comfortable in saying it would've been a much better match, and there's natural backstory there with the destruction of the Wyatts.<p> </p><p> My biggest gripe here isn't with Jinder himself. It's the fact that he went from low tier, bottom feeding jobber to world title challenger in one match. They could've at least had him win a couple of brief midcard feuds before doing this. Have him beat Mojo at Backlash, maybe a Zayn or a Harper or somebody like that at the next PPV, and then have him win a #1 contender's match. What they did instead was lazy and stupid.</p></div></blockquote><p> </p><p> I hear you completely. I'm not saying it wasn't lazy or stupid, I'm just saying that it's something fresh and different and so I'm going to be open and optimistic toward it.</p><p> </p><p> I'm a huge Luke Harper fan. I was rooting for him in the match. I think the guy has the talent to be champion, both in the ring and on the mic and has been horribly booked as it stands. That being said, we've already seen Orton vs. Harper a bunch of times and we know who the winner is going to be. While we know who the winner of Orton vs. Mahal is too, I think it's cool that they're giving him a tryout in the main event scene.</p><p> </p><p> Basically my bottom line is this: I don't necessarily agree with the choice. But I think they've done far worse things, even in recent memory. I don't get the backlash here as much because at least they're trying to build someone new. (In an extremely hasty and thrown-together manner, but building nonetheless). This could end up being the worst pile of garbage WWE has ever put on TV/PPV, and I'll eat my words then, but I have no problem rolling with this for a month when there's a PPV every two weeks.</p>

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="The Dynamite Sid" data-cite="The Dynamite Sid" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="25169" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>I'm not going to re-up to the Network because I have absolutely no desire to see Randy Orton vs Jinder Mahal in a pay per view match. That's a tea break match on Monday night so it has no chance of holding my attention on pay per view. There are far better wrestling shows out there that I currently subscribe to and if it's a choice of a WWE subscription with Jinder Mahal in the main event or for the same price a subscription to ICW and New Japan then it's a no contest<p> </p><p> It's not as if the rest of their matches and stories currently are so stellar that this is one bad mark against an otherwise great product. The whole roster is either treading water, bad or AJ Styles. In fairness Raw seems to be picking up but I can't bring myself to sit through 3 hours</p><p> </p><p> EDIT: and 205 Live is great</p></div></blockquote><p> </p><p> But if someone else from that match had won - say, Sami Zayn, who has an equal chance as Mahal of beating Orton for the belt (read: 0%), you would have re-subscribed?</p><p> </p><p> I completely agree with you on the WWE product as a whole, I don't want to sound like I'm unapologetic with respect to the company. I just don't think there's really anyone in that match that would've been interesting against Orton to begin with, so my question is simply "why not Mahal?" It's a B-level (C-level?) PPV. I just don't think there's a big problem with giving the guy a shot. After all, SDLive is "the land of opportunity." I guess that's a good thing until it's someone people don't deem deserving.</p><p> </p><p> On the Reigns/Cena point, I don't want to get into that because I think we all know where that will go. I don't feel that Mahal was a good pick for any of the reasons you mentioned, but even still, I wouldn't want Mahal shoved down my throat like Reigns or Cena regardless of how much I like (or dislike) the guy.</p>

<p>If you're not going to re-up the Network because one guy is going to lose in 10-15 minutes to the champion, then *shrug*. Your call. Ellsworth fought AJ Styles and that wasn't a big deal, though? And AJ/KO is on the same card.</p><p> </p><p> I am at the point with WWE that their formula is so stale to me that I welcome anything different from what I've seen a million times. And this is different so I'm going to be optimistic. I've never seen Jinder in a proper feud or legitimate match, so we shall see.</p>

Would you call Samoa Joe incompetent for essentially ending Tyson Kidd's career? What about AJ for injuring multiple people with the Styles Clash? You shouldn't. Accidents happen. Hotshotting him to the top is a fair criticism. Calling him incompetent for one isolated accident is not.

It'll be Corbin I think.

<p>This opinion is probably unpopular, but I'm in on Jinder as #1 contender. It was a 6-man match, where really anything can happen, with no one who has been booked particularly strongly. I think the (kayfabe) omission of Baron Corbin is an oversight, but taking it from a strictly kayfabe standpoint, it's entirely believable that Jinder could've won that match, especially with help from two guys.</p><p> </p><p> As for the non-kayfabe standpoint, screw it. It's something different. It's a breath of fresh air. There's like 85 PPVs per year, I'm down with someone random getting a push. I don't know enough about Jinder to like or dislike him, but I'm interested to see how he does with his shot at the belt. It can't be any worse than another Ziggler title shot, at least in terms of the promos beforehand. I don't mean to take away from Dolph in the ring. I'm cautiously optimistic toward the whole thing.</p><p> </p><p> EDIT: Oh, and to add (nominally) to a previous discussion: YES to Strowman winning the belt. I've been a big fan of his for quite a while now - I think he's exactly the type of big man that WWE has been looking for for a long time.</p>

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="Shift" data-cite="Shift" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="42619" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>It's slowly progressing, unfortunately I've had some family trouble to deal with these past months so I haven't been able to work on the mod as much.</div></blockquote><p> </p><p> No worries! I'm sorry to hear that. I hope everything works itself out.</p>

How's the picture pack coming?? I'm excited to use it.

<p>Hey, I tried to search the thread but couldn't really find anything on this. Two questions: I'm trying to convert your 2014 RWC from the last game to TEW2016 for my own personal use; is that cool?</p><p> </p><p> Also, if that's cool, you wouldn't happen to have access to old picture packs, would you? I can totally work with the one you have now, but just some looks are different than they were then (Rusev, Strowman, Alexa Bliss, to name a couple).</p><p> </p><p> Great job on the RWC stuff, it's a really great and comprehensive mod.</p>

<p>Cool mod! I'd be interested in using TNA.</p><p> </p><p> And I really like the latest background you posted for the pictures. Looks much better.</p>

<p>Hey everyone, </p><p> </p><p> Not sure if this belongs here but I figured it might be better than its own thread clogging the board. I've been away from the game for a while because life has been busy and I want to play again, but I'm not really inspired by any of the RW mods (I've tried a bunch of CV games and they've never worked for me).</p><p> </p><p> I had a 2004 game that ran for over a year, but I screwed up the file when I converted it from 2013 to 2016. I'm particularly interested in 2014 post-WM30 or maybe '93 WWF or 2006 TNA, but there isn't really much on that front. Maybe I could use the 2005 mod, but my real question here is: what do you guys do in this situation?</p>

<p>I guess this isn't strictly about the game itself, but for those of you who use Excel spreadsheets or other means to keep track of your game, how do you keep track of what happens each week in your feuds?</p><p> </p><p> Do you have separate sheets or notes or whatever for each feud? I'm having trouble keeping focus because I have a large roster in my current game with two brands and I sort of get mixed up with what I've had happen already.</p><p> </p><p> I could make this a thread too, but didn't want to clutter the board.</p>

Dude, I fell out of reading diaries in general but I just read your final few shows and this was amazing. In the purest sense of the word. A bittersweet epilogue, but I love the touch of Bret coming in with the IC belt. And the Blind Guardian song obviously caps it off as only Hansi can. Phenomenal diary and I can't wait to see what you're up to next.

<p>I'm actually watching the Homecoming right now. You have some guys but there are some missing. I'm not sure which are missing but here are the people that were there so far:</p><p> </p><p> Cowboy Bob Orton, Nikolai Volkoff, Koko B. Ware, "Dr. Death" Steve Williams, Mae Young, Fabulous Moolah, Harley Race, Hillbilly Jim.</p><p> </p><p> Just some other random ones I've looked for since I've been playing the mod were Madusa (HOF), Woman (only noticed because I looked at Kevin Sullivan's relationships and she wasn't there), Lou Albano, George "The Animal" Steele, Paul Orndorff (made some appearances more recently), Tony Atlas (managed Lashley for a bit).</p><p> </p><p> You mind if I update this list if I think of any? I'm not saying add like, Andre the Giant or other dead wrestlers, but maybe those who could feasibly make appearances. I don't mean to pile work on to you because I know you're gonna do an awesome job with the mod. This is just some minor stuff that might help enhance the game world <img alt="" data-src="//content.invisioncic.com/g322608/emoticons/smile.png.142cfa0a1cd2925c0463c1d00f499df2.png" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /></p>

<p>Obviously I love the mod and can't wait for this to be released.</p><p> </p><p> Is there any chance you're adding a few more legends/retired wrestlers? I feel like it's somewhat slim pickings for Randy Orton <img alt="" data-src="//content.invisioncic.com/g322608/emoticons/biggrin.png.929299b4c121f473b0026f3d6e74d189.png" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" />. Plus there's the RAW Homecoming in 2005 where they have a ton of legends show up. And HOF ceremonies and whatnot.</p>

I want Bischoff and Bryan. Actually, I want a terrible RAW GM and a roster I don't like so I won't feel bad cutting back on my wrestling intake. And Bryan on SmackDown.

I am absolutely checking this out. I love Hive's July '94 mod, but I've been waiting for a '93 one for so long.

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="Russelrules44" data-cite="Russelrules44" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="25169" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>And with that. The trilogy is complete. All the members of the Shield have won the WWE title.<p> </p><p> THAT is how a cash in should be done.</p></div></blockquote><p> </p><p> All of them held the title within 8 minutes of each other <img alt=":p" data-src="//content.invisioncic.com/g322608/emoticons/tongue.png.ceb643b2956793497cef30b0e944be28.png" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /></p><p> </p><p> AMBROSE BABAAAYYY!!!!</p>

<p>I love Tye Dillinger. And American Alpha. And Nakamura. And Aries. And Asuka.</p><p> </p><p> The main event of NXT is its weakest facet. And I don't mean that as an insult really, I'm just bored of Balor and Joe. There's much more interesting stuff going on elsewhere. I fell asleep a bit in the middle of the main event but woke up for the ending. The Muscle Buster was awesome.</p><p> </p><p> I agree with what you guys were saying, it seems like American Alpha is headed for the main roster after this feud with the Authors of Pain.</p><p> </p><p> Curious to see how Bobby Roode fits into all this as well.</p>