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<p>Started up an SWF game. Running with the starting storylines, but Gilmore and Rogue will spin off into a feud while DeBones chases Remo for the big belt.</p><p> </p><p> I have Eric Eisen running a Donald Trump-esque "Make SWF Great Again" gimmick, basically it boils down to him being as smarmy and insulting as possible while hiding behind his Executive Protection Squad, Bear Bekowski and the Pain Alliance. Occasionally, he attacks a babyface he blames for holding SWF back. So far, it it's doing well. Given Eisen's background, he's an ultra-punchable heel and his bodyguards all have high menace that helps them sell the angles.</p>

Bump.

Quick question: What product settings would you suggest for a Lucha Underground-style promotion?

How feasible would it be to create a US-specific broadcasting network? It's costly as hell, but I was thinking about making a free-to-air network, basically Burning Hammer Online, to try and hook the American audience. Then I'd open an American dev fed, as BigPapa recommended, to build up my stable of gaijin talent.

Oooh, Hinote's a great idea. Could use it as a developmental brand.

I tried to run BHOTWG last night and man, it is just a mess. No touring schedule plus a massively bloated roster makes booking a pain, and the auto-booker useless since it always leaves off four or five main eventers. Tetsuzan-san needs to do some serious roster pruning if he's going to adopt a western model. Or else run a brand split. Hey...they *do* happen to own the King of Fighters title...

Plus, the Thunderverse has a more robust women's wrestling scene, with more women wrestlers, more over women wrestlers and more companies with a women's division.

Yeah, I'm excited for the Thunderverse. I'm not interested in just playing the converted data, but I'm really looking forward to seeing that mod stretch its legs in TEW2016. There's enough new in the C-verse to keep me entertained until it comes out, though.

Thanks for doing this!

I'm toying with running a puro fed, and since BHOTWG no longer tours I'd use PGHW. But if I did it, I'd rely on the auto-booker and focus on the talent acquisition and cultivation, since that's definitely more interesting to me. The events are almost incidental, ha.

I was sad to see the touring schedule go away. That's always been one of the big draws of playing a puro fed for me.

Yeah, we ended up having that last match at the January PPV. I pulled a screwjob on Nemesis because he had creative control and wouldn't drop the belt. Since Cornell was too upstanding to be part of a screwjob, I brought in the Warlords to do the dirty work, and Richard Eisen to be the special ref (keeping in mind at this time he isn't really well known to fans) to do a fast count. Nemesis ragequit the company, he and Phil Vibert hate Warlord Pain (the new NA champ), Eisen and Sam Keith now. I had Keith take credit for the screwjob, but in a kayfabe way, saying he arranged for it because he didn't like Nemesis as competition. My plan is to turn Keith into the head of a super heel stable, and Cornell will be elevated in the process by virtue of his involvement in that infamous match drawing him into a feud with Keith (along with Sean McFly and Sid Streets).

SWF and USPW are the two big Sports Entertainment feds. SWF is more Attitude Era product, while USPW is more modern PG product.

This is awesome. So if they have a .gif profile, does the background automatically load the logo of the company they're with?

So in my '97 SWF game, I pulled a screwjob on Nemesis, who has creative control. I was disappointed that Tommy Cornell wasn't morally dubious enough to participate so I enlisted the Lords of War to join Nemesis' title match mid-way through and Warlord Pain was all too happy to screw over the departing star and win the North American title. Nemesis rage quit and now he not only hates Richard Eisen, who was a replacement ref in the match because Darren Young was too much of a Boy Scout to get his hands dirty, but also Sam Keith and Warlord Pain. Phil Vibert now also hates Eisen, Keith and Pain. This screwjob gave me an idea for a power faction led by Keith, with Eisen playing a dirty ref, that could also seriously elevate Tommy Cornell's stature in the process simply because he was involved in that fateful match. I love this game!

Playing CV '97 SWF. So one of the big storylines of courses is that Nemesis is one foot out the door and he inconveniently possesses the North American Championship, creative control and enough overness to deny any attempt to drop the belt to a midcard worker, elevating that worker in the process. So at When Hell Freezes Over, it was Nemesis and Tommy Cornell. Nemesis refused to lose, and I was getting desperate. Unfortunately, Cornell was too much of a Boy Scout to participate in a screwjob finish. Same with Ref Darren Young. I decided to introduce the Lords of War as mid-match entrants. The official storyline was that a mystery benefactor arranged for them to join the match. Darren Young took a ref bump and Richard Eisen, unknown to the fans, came out in ref garb to take over. Everything is copacetic so far. The Warlord Pain pinned Nemesis to an Eisen fast count. Only the Pain, Eisen and myself were in on it. Nemesis stormed out of the company. He already had a hatred for Eisen, but he added a hatred of Keith and Pain as well. Oh, and Phil Vibert, a strong friend of Nemesis, ALSO added a hatred of Eisen, Keith and Pain. About half my locker room was angry at the incident, but you'd be amazed at what a $5,000 bonus will do for morale. My new plan is to have the Lords of War join Sam Keith and Black Hat Bailey as a power faction, with Eisen as their own personal dirty ref. Keith will take responsibility for the screwjob, weaving real life into the kayfabe. His claim will be that he used his influence as champion to arrange for the Lords of War and a crooked ref to join the match, because he couldn't stand Nemesis and didn't like the competition. He'll cut a promo on Cornell, praising his ability and saying that he almost considered letting Cornell in on the screwjob, but Cornell was too morally upstanding. "Did I screw Nemesis? You're DAMN RIGHT I screwed Nemesis. But I did not screw Tommy Cornell; TOMMY CORNELL screwed Tommy Cornell!" That should give me plenty of story fodder in the months to come.

Caught some other oddities. Organic bios where one half of a relationship doesn't start the game debuted and so the other half is always labeled as Mito Miwa. He is simultaneously engaged to Tommy Cornell, married to Tom Gilmore and tagging with Duane Stone and Alex DeColt. Busy guy.

I figure since we've got a new game, we should have a new dedicated thread to everybody's famous evil empire, in any incarnation of the CV setting ('97 or present). After days of waffling, I decided to make my first big game an SWF one, playing from the '97 start date. I'm not actually going to play til we get the full version, right now I'm just exploring the roster and plotting out some storylines. In 1997, we have an exodus of top stars Rip Chord and Sam Strong, a soon-to-depart-for-bloodier-pastures Nemesis and a certain 18-year-old rookie year Tommy Cornell. Total tangent: How'd he get hired by SWF at 18? Was he scouted? A standout amateur? Connected in the biz? My big question is how to handle Cornell. It's obvious he's The Next Big Thing, but he's 18, a rookie and nowhere nowise near ready to carry a belt. I'm thinking of pairing him up with a lower midcarder to start things off, give him a feud with some TV time and lots of wins. But what's a good amount of time to wait before giving him his first run with the belt? A year? My planned big money feud is Sam Keith and Christian Faith. In my reckoning of the history, these two have never faced off one-on-one. Faith only got his big shot at the top after Strong and Chord left, and Keith is a holdover from those days. So my plan is to tease interactions between the two all through 1997, setting up a Supreme Challenge '98 encounter where Keith can drop the belt.

You might want to adjust Jennifer Moran's age and debut date. Tommy Cornell starts out with his organic bio saying he's engaged to Mito Miwa since she doesn't start the game debuted.

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Another question: Does this mod include all the future workers/broadcasters/companies/etc that appear in the present day C-Verse?

Well, either way great work! Can't wait to dig into the mod!

Looking forward to downloading this once it's available again. How's the women's wrestling scene look in '97?

Another way you can play it is to take a page from the John Cena/Brock Lesnar feud of 2014, Frehley playing Lesnar and Champion playing Cena. Book Frehley as an absolute unstoppable beast, the only guy to pin the top guy, leaving Champion badly shaken.

I've had the exact same problem. Picked up some nasty malware on my laptop and every virus scanner I can get my hands on has been unable to remove it.