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<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="ShaunGBD" data-cite="ShaunGBD" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="47409" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>What's the first thing you gonna do In tew2020?<p> </p><p> Mine is check on TCW</p></div></blockquote><p> </p><p> same thing we do every night. Try and take over the world. <img alt=":p" data-src="//content.invisioncic.com/g322608/emoticons/tongue.png.ceb643b2956793497cef30b0e944be28.png" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /></p>

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="Tom Bombadil" data-cite="Tom Bombadil" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="41290" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>Tom Bombadil<p> ThunderLance Wrestling</p><p> End of 2018 (Year 3)</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> Goals for previous year:</p><p> -<span style="color:#FFFF00;">Improve my performance in Regional Battles. Currently 3rd out of 3 usually, but sometimes I can edge out NYCW.</span> Regional battles stopped happening, and I'm not entirely sure why, but I'm not complaining.</p><p> </p></div></blockquote><p> </p><p> Regional battles will stop if one of the promotions involved grows to National, loses enough popularity in the region to drop out of the battles, or goes bankrupt. I know that many of the regional US companies are unstable, so it is not uncommon for the regional battles to die out after a year or two if you are putting on solid shows and they are not from the region, but mostly working through spillover.</p>

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="TheBryanStinberg" data-cite="TheBryanStinberg" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="41290" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>Alright wanting to give this a try, gonna try to create a crusierweight character and hopefully turn him into the next AJ Styles...anyone have some suggestions how to go about with the stats?</div></blockquote><p> </p><p> Star quality is probably the most important as it cannot be improved through experience the way most others can. I'd recommend that you put some effort into stamina, basics and psych. THey don't have to be 60+, but if they are too low you'll struggle to get started and your initial worker base tends to be poor so being able to be your own road agent can be a huge help.</p><p> </p><p> The others should be based on what you want to work on, but remember that if you run a show every month, you'll be improving 3-4 points per stat every year at a minimum. You don't have to put any wrestling skills at 75, as they will reach that level naturally after a few years, and likely long before you reach the point where you see age based declines in stats.</p><p> </p><p> That's about all I can suggest. If you look over all the pages you'll see that just about every combination has been tried, and if you can get the promotion to survive 3+ years, you can succeed. Its the first 18 months or so that cause people the most trouble as a 0/0/0/1000 company can struggle to survive.</p>

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="James Casey" data-cite="James Casey" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="41194" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>A couple of quick q's.<p> </p><p> Is there any penalty to running a mix of PPVs and TV specials? Monthly PPVs didn't become an option in real life until 1994/95, so playing a historic mod I'd rather follow that model, at least for a time.</p><p> </p><p> When running angles, the impression I get is that either everyone should improvise or no-one should - there's always going to be conflict if not. Does that seem reasonable, or can you successfully mix improv and scripted roles in a single segment?</p></div></blockquote><p> </p><p> I've regularly had only one worker be "unscripted", it has backfired a couple of times when the least experienced worker in the angle got lost, but if all the workers are experienced at angles and have decent skills they come through. The unscripted person tends to get better ratings though.</p>

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="FlameSnoopy" data-cite="FlameSnoopy" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="41194" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>I think you're confusing promotion loyalty with the loyalty relationship. They're two completely different things. Promotion loyalty appears only in Japan (in CV and RW), while the relationship can occur anywhere.</div></blockquote><p> </p><p> I figured it was personal loyalty, but I'm still puzzled as to how it came about in both cases.</p><p> </p><p> I'm also wondering if the loyalty from the Japanese Wrestler, who IIRC came from the WWA dojo in Japan and doesn't have a specific loyalty to 5SSW, will change things. I'd love to keep her if she was willing to stay in the US.</p>

<p>Just realized I have a second question. Although the first hasn't been answered by anyone. <img alt="" data-src="//content.invisioncic.com/g322608/emoticons/tongue.png.ceb643b2956793497cef30b0e944be28.png" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /></p><p> </p><p> My question is if something changed to loyalty. As some people might know I have been running an all women promotion in the US as part of a dynasty. I was running my latest show this morning and when I looked at the locker room I had 2 new relationships.</p><p> </p><p> First I had a brand new hire with the note X is loyal to Ashley Roberts (user character). This new hire is from the US, and I was puzzled as to when US workers started to declare loyalty.</p><p> </p><p> Second I had a Japanese wrestler on an excursion who I had hired to a 2 year deal with the note X is loyal to Ashley Roberts. This one has me more puzzled since the worker in question refused to sign a PPA longer than 2 years and in theory would return to Japan as soon as the contract is up. I have the double question of how did I gain loyalty and how will that affect the contract end? Will they decide to stay in the US?</p>

I have a slightly strange question. Has anyone other than me tried to turn a non-referee into a referee and if they did how long did it take to train them so that you didn't get the road agent notes that they were terrible?

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="Dr_Avalanche" data-cite="Dr_Avalanche" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="41194" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>Does language skills improve with time if a worker is exposed to the language in an area (a Japanese worker with passable English in America, for example)?</div></blockquote><p> </p><p> yes</p>

looks like a workable start.

It's pretty much tied to match quality, the popularity of the champion and the prestige of the types of matches its contested in. If you have it change hands all the time and "falls count anywhere" its not going to mean as much as a title that is only contested in the monthly PPV shows. The easiest way to improve it is to make sure the matches contesting it are as good as possible, as that will push the prestige up.

Part of this depends on your company size as well. I seem to prefer trying to take a local company and make it as far as I can before growing bored. One thing I've noticed is that even my main eventers rarely get their popularity too much above the popularity of the promotion and a true midcarder never does. However, that doesn't mean you can't see increases. I've had one midcarder go from F+ popularity up to E+ without causing someone else to completely tank. It was a combination of good matches and losing matches to more over wrestlers while having "keep strong" as one of the road agent notes, so that they look capable even though they lost as expected. But it does take time. You'll hear tales of someone going from no popularity to main event popularity quickly, but its always for a national/international company, with the wrestler receiving a "monster" push and doing main events matches that score very high. For a regular midcarder, you have to just keep them working hard at interesting fans. Angles help A good gimmick can really help. Wrestling matches they do well in helps and growing your company helps. It will be slow, but you'll see results.

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="James Casey" data-cite="James Casey" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="41290" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>Does anyone else use an announcer/colour guy before getting TV? Alex Braun is my new owner, so I have him as colour and road agent. His first show was better than the one before, so I brought in Rob Miskovsky as announcer, and got my best show rating in months...<p> </p><p> So, coincidence? It was a well-booked show headlined by the very over American Elemental II against David Stone for the title (B)... but I do wonder how much Alex and Rob may have contributed to that.</p></div></blockquote><p> </p><p> I ended up with Marvin Earnest as my owner. He wanted to be a color commentator, but I used him as an announcer right from the start. and in 2018 I hired Grace Harper to be a color commentator. </p><p> </p><p> It does seem to improve your shows a little, especially if they turn out to have good chemistry or high stats.</p>

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="SsnakeBite" data-cite="SsnakeBite" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="41194" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>Hey, everyone! I have a worker who was wasted on drug during multiple matches he was involved in and I'd like to know if there's a way to warn him to cut that out and punish him if he doesn't, kind of like with locker room incidents.<p> </p><p> He is one of the few guys on my roster who is good at both matches AND promos, he's never put on a bad match and he's improved his skills nicely since joining so I don't want to fire him if I don't have to but I'd like to make him stop before he injures someone or hurts the company's reputation.</p><p> </p><p> Oh and I should specify that I do not allow drugs backstage so I would have thought stuff like that would have been part of the locker room incidents.</p></div></blockquote><p> </p><p> If you have someone who shows up on drugs, but its not apparent until he's in the ring you can go to the medical part and demand a drug test. This will cost your promotion money, but if you catch him with the drug test you can demand he get cleaned up.</p><p> </p><p> Otherwise you have to hope he shows up too drugged out to wrestle and you get a backstage incident, but that doesn't always happen. I had a game where I finally fired a wrestler because my promotion was too poor to afford a drug test, but he was always in drugs in the ring and his opponents would complain after the match.</p>

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="ProfetinhaPT" data-cite="ProfetinhaPT" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="41290" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>Uhm, so the other 5 wrestlers you speak off, wouldn't be used or I just rotate them... Already got a little bit of an idea. So the better thing to do, is to hire 12 cheap wrestlers, do a monthly show consisting of 3 single matches. 6 wrestlers per show, no more.</div></blockquote><p> </p><p> I've managed to get through the early months twice. Both times I did the same thing. (this is with the computer selecting my owner and giving me Marvin Earnest who I put in as an announcer)</p><p> </p><p> 1) hire 5 wrestlers looking for cheap but skilled. Only one cost more than $300.</p><p> 2) Hire the cheapest referee possible</p><p> 3) shows were set up with 3 singles matches and lasted only one hour</p><p> 4) rotate opponents so over the course of 3 shows all 3 faces faced each heel ones. (I use face/heel divides.)</p><p> 5) rinse and repeat until my sponsor money was enough to allow me to start adding people. This usually occurred shortly after the promotion was at F popularity in their home region, so 10-15 months into the game I would start adding wrestlers, but I did that slowly to ensure I never started losing money again. (this is with 1 show per month, some people front load the show schedule and then take a few months off.)</p>

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="Tom Bombadil" data-cite="Tom Bombadil" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="41290" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>Alright, my fed made it to Small! Anything I should be aware of now?</div></blockquote><p> </p><p> As Dr. Hook said the 4 production values will now start to be compared to any other "small" sized company in the same country as you. If you are US based that means NYCW, GSW, IPW usually, and sometimes PSW and MAW if they are still open. (they seem to close in 2017 quite often.) I would recommend not trying to match GSW's level right away. They have levels that as insanely high for a small promotion.</p><p> </p><p> But yes, you will be penalized. It seems to be about 2 grades if you can make it so you only have 2 production values not at the top. (from D+ to D-, or C to D+, etc.)</p><p> </p><p> Also since you have overness above 11.0% in one region you are now eligible to get dragged into regional battles. This means if 3 or more small or regional sized companies put on a show in the region the quality of the shows will be compared. The one with the best show for the month suffers no penalty. After that you lose popularity based on your position. Second place suffers a drop of about 0.2%, 3rd usually sees a drop right around 0.5%. Again this only happens if there are 3 or more small or regional sized companies. You'll get a mail at the end of the month if you are in one.</p><p> </p><p> Beyond that you just have to keep putting together the best shows possible and slowly building your roster. Other than that there isn't much of a difference between local and small. (except that at small you can get your ticket sales to cover show costs, something that really doesn't happen at local sized.)</p><p> </p><p> At regional you might be able to look for a TV station to show your events. It depends on your company's overness.</p><p> </p><p> Cult is the big jump, costs go up a lot and you can finally sign workers to written contracts. This can often kill an unprepared company.</p><p> </p><p> National/International/Global are all relatively similar with the biggest changes being how you want to handle TV and adding the ability to hire workers globally.</p>

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="The_Monk" data-cite="The_Monk" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="41290" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>one other question...when I set up the company in the DB is that when I assign the owner? or do I just create an empty company and then start my game as booker, and then find hire an owner?</div></blockquote><p> </p><p> Some people have used the DB editor to assign an owner, if they know one who has the personality they want. If you don't assign an owner the company will look for one. Usually you'll receive an e-mail about Friday of the first week with the new owners goals.</p><p> </p><p> One thing, unless you want the owner to adjust your product definition, make sure the min and max levels for each of the product types are the same otherwise you can have an owner come in and change the promotion.</p>

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="The_Monk" data-cite="The_Monk" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="41290" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>excellent cool, and so im clear the 1000 is what you start with to hire talent a boss etc and the company you create literally only starts out with an owner and you?</div></blockquote><p> </p><p> correct</p>

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="michael20001" data-cite="michael20001" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="41194" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>Ah thank you. It's mostly because i do my planning on paper, and having to set up storylines in game too just felt like an extra thing to do. But if it does have an effect i'll keep on using them.</div></blockquote><p> </p><p> Storylines are very useful. If you can keep the heat up on a storyline the wrestlers in it will see increases in their match and angle ratings if at least 2 people in the storyline are involved. It's a great way to help build up the scores of some of your matches. It is usually modest, but it definitely helps.</p>

That be a lot of locker room heat.

<p>Since my dynasty has been posted through my first year I can post here on my progress.</p><p> </p><p> I'm running a young woman who is in charge of a head T&A all women's wrestling promotion running in the Mid Atlantic. The product is popularity over performance, but the only requirement is for one storytelling event per show. Risqué is medium though so eye candy matches tend to do rather well.</p><p> </p><p> After 1 year I had $2500 in the bank and was at 9.3% popularity. I did this by running 1 event per month, but had a very good (B+ or higher) wrestling industry for several months, which is how my popularity is so high after only 12 events.</p><p> </p><p> Of course not many events did lessen the improvement my wrestler had so in 1 year and 12 events I've only gone from this</p><p> <a href="http://s670.photobucket.com/user/mvargus/media/Kitsune_Start_zpssatgprjp.jpg.html" rel="external nofollow"><span>http://i670.photobucket.com/albums/vv68/mvargus/Kitsune_Start_zpssatgprjp.jpg</span></a></p><p> </p><p> to this (pending adding 5 to Flash as my first year roll was a 25, I took the screenshot before adding in the points.)</p><p> <a href="http://s670.photobucket.com/user/mvargus/media/Ashley_end2016_zpshgr1w75e.png.html" rel="external nofollow"><span>http://i670.photobucket.com/albums/vv68/mvargus/Ashley_end2016_zpshgr1w75e.png</span></a></p>

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="James Casey" data-cite="James Casey" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="41194" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>So, I'm at Local and getting slapped down by RIPW every show I run because of their vastly superior production values.<p> </p><p> I've raised each category 1 or 2 levels (basically got all the cheap-ish ones).</p><p> </p><p> Does being closer, but still worse, than a rival have any impact on the effect on my show ratings? </p><p> </p><p> My 5 shows pre-Local were C+, C, C, C, C. </p><p> </p><p> Post-Local they've been D+, D, D+, D, D+, D+.</p><p> </p><p> I'm not changing any of my general booking approaches and my workers are much the same, so I'm not sure whether raising my production values is reaping any benefits, or if I'd be better off banking the 2k or so a month it's costing me to have the bare minimum required at Local.</p></div></blockquote><p> </p><p> In my experience whole letter grade (from C to C-). Being behind in all 4 is worse and will drop a C+ grade all the way down to D+.</p><p> </p><p> I've had something similar happen to me in that my show grades dropped from C- levels to D- levels when I first went up to small. They improved once I had my Music and Broadcasting levels equal to my best rival, but kept dropping until I managed to raise all 4 to the level of my rivals.</p>

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="Jericho Rules" data-cite="Jericho Rules" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="41290" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>So I decided to start over, as I was unable to get a job after three years of simming. I have done much better this time around so far. I managed to meet my owner goals, one being that I have $10,000 in the bank by the end of year two. It was actually difficult to reach while running shows, so I took the last three months of the year off and reached the goal thanks to sponsorship money.<p> </p><p> Company Details </p><p> Size: Local</p><p> Funds: 12,141</p><p> EDIT: I forgot to add my rolls:</p><p> </p><p> 1st Year: 43. "Internet Sensation" One of your wrestlers (random roll from the list) has become an internet video hit due to a pirate recording of his last match. +2 pop for your company in every area that you already have popularity in and +10 pop for the wrestler in all areas. [Randomly selected Whippy The Clown (which seems fitting)]</p><p> </p><p> 2nd Year: 5. "Lean On Me" Gain Strong Friendship with random wrestler in your promotion. -15 to both your character's and the random wrestler's Bad Personal Extras (Smoking, Drinking etc), and set to Reformed. [Randomly selected Sky King]</p></div></blockquote><p> </p><p> I'm a bit surprised you had to shut down to get to $10,000 in funds. Both of my games that have made it past 2018 (starting in 2016) have had the owner give me that requirement for one of my first critical ones and I've had $10,000 in the bank by June 2017 running 1 show a month.</p><p> </p><p> But I do run really tight rosters.</p><p> </p><p> The first game I didn't add anyone above the original 6 (5 wrestlers, 1 referee) until December 2016 when I was making over $1,000 per month</p><p> </p><p> The second game is being written up as a dynasty (Kitsune Wrestling) and does have the advantage that its an all-girl promotion so even in 2018 has only 4 wrestlers costing more than $350 PPA. 3 of those were due to giving raises, and one was just hired in June 2018. </p><p> </p><p> Otherwise your promotion looks like its started out much stronger this time.</p>

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="benjybates" data-cite="benjybates" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="41194" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>Hey guys, I mostly play as heavily angle based pop feds (WWF etc.) I'm thinking of trying Puroresu out in TGA. How difficult is the transition to a puro performance fed? <p> </p><p> I've actually never played a performance fed (or puro) before</p></div></blockquote><p> </p><p> I just noticed you never received an answer. I don't run the performance feds often, so I am limited in what I can say, but in my experience they tend to be actually easier to book and to get workers over in as you just have to find workers with good skills and put them in good matches. It is entirely possible (although quite unlikely) to get two workers to put on a B+/A level match even when neither has B level overness in a performance fed if they are good enough wrestlers. Its not possible in a WWE type fed where popularity matters too much to allow the fans to give an A rating to such a matchup.</p>

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="CelticCandian" data-cite="CelticCandian" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="41174" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>So im playing as the booker for TNA and one of the rivalries i have is Jade vs. Sienna for the Knockouts title<p> Now i use the Auto booker for my B show, Xsplosion, and one of the matches was Jade vs. Solo Darling and i forgot to set it for no title matches so Jade and Solo Darling ended up being a title match with Solo Darling winning and didnt even realise until the Impact after when i was setting up the matches <img alt=":mad:" data-src="//content.invisioncic.com/g322608/emoticons/mad.png.69834f23b9a8bf290d98375f56f1c794.png" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /></p><p> </p><p> Has anyone else had something like this happen to them?</p></div></blockquote><p> </p><p> I don't use the auto booker for just that reason.</p>

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="Untouchable" data-cite="Untouchable" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="41174" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>My save isn't going too well. <p> </p><p> NOTBPW was bought out by SWF in January of 2018</p><p> PGHW just closed in October of 2018</p><p> PSW were bought out by SWF in June of 2017</p><p> I bought out MAW in August 2017</p><p> ACPW went bankrupt in June 2017</p><p> Mexican Hardcore Wrestling went bankrupt in May 2018</p><p> SAISHO went bankrupt in March 2018</p></div></blockquote><p> </p><p> It looks like your game had a slightly worse economy than some, but many of those closures are relatively normal. PSW, MAW, MHW, ACPW and SAISHO all fail at least 50% of the time. I don't think I've had one game where ACPW was open in Dec 2018, and MAW might have made it one time.</p><p> </p><p> This game is a bit brutal to the AI run companies.</p>