Saffir

I started in 1985. I think at some point I am going to give Dusty his flowers and give him a gold watch World Title run to end his career, hoping he can be convinced to retire close to the end of his current two year contract. It did start a couple months ago in the game, so I have time for the World Title scene to be coming around to him. He just started hitting time decline when he was involved in that 100 rated match. I plan on moving him into a road agent role instead of commentary.

Working on a long running save in my TEW game as JCP, later turning it into WCW, I've been doing this on and off for awhile now, using the 80s Risky Business mod (hope it gets back to being updated soon but some others seem to have done other 80s mods since). I had split JCP from the NWA fairly early on, and changed the name to WCW. Thanks to the Horsemen's feuding with Dusty Rhodes and Magnum TA, as well as strong performances from Jake Roberts, Ricky Steamboat, and Randy Savage, I got WCW to Big over the years. Tully Blanchard, Roberts, and Savage have all jumped to the WWF, and Steamboat jumped to NJPW recently. Sting, Luger, Rick Rude, Kerry Von Erich, Scott Hall, Jim Duggan and Big Van Vader have stepped up to be solid upper-midcarders/occasional main eventers. I'm trying to build a light heavyweight division, I did steal Owen Hart and Dean Malenko from AJPW and Lanny Poffo from NJPW(Mainly as veteran help). I did steal Bret Hart and Bobby Heenan from WWF. So far I haven't found anyone that Heenan's got great chemistry with so maybe he moves into the commentators booth eventually. Hart's being introduced the same way Steamboat was introduced to NWA/WCW, only this time the Horsemen are picking on Owen Hart. Flair's going to be dropping the World Title to Bret at Wrestlewar. The Road Warriors were big busts in WWF, regularly jobbing to Robert Fuller(as Tennessee Lee) and a partner of his choice. I stole them when I had the chance, and built them into the dominating team they were in real life. They spent most of 1988 as the WCW Tag Team Champions, before losing to Dusty Rhodes and Magnum TA at Bunkhouse Stampede. My only 100 of this save so far, in fact, was a six man tag on a late year WCW Saturday Night where Ric Flair teamed up with the Road Warriors to take on Sting, Dusty, and Magnum. My biggest flop is Curt Hennig. I signed him from AWA to be a big part of the Horsemen, but he failed drug tests and wouldn't stop taking hard drugs even after a rehab trip. He kept saying that he can't shake the habit. His star quality's dropped big time and his stats have been going down, it might be time to let him go, sad to say.

Doesn't hurt that they're pretty attractive on top of being able to rock. Gotta love the 80s big hair,

Don't forget divorce could be a factor, or it could delay the birth/debut of a worker if the worker's parent marries someone else?

It seems, at least to me, that AI companies don't seem to do much with managers. The AI does quite a bit with handling stables in their promotions, adding, removing, and even breaking up stables. I'd like to see the AI promotions have their managers take on clients much more often, with news stories to match. When things run their course, the AI can have a manager remove a client, and there can be a news story going along with it, showing that it could be because of a turn or a mutual split. The AI can also break up teams more often, and have news stories stating that so-and-so tag team have split up. Much like with managers adding and removing clients, it could be a mutual decision, or because of a turn.

That show must have been taped on a Saturday Night

Going with Zenk, Blanchard, Stewart, and Milliman!

Now that we have a bonus question, I say that Larry does sign with Vince. Larry would be loyal enough to do the right thing and go out on his back, losing to Colon. Plus, there should be some outsiders winning the early rounds, at least. He wraps up the Trooper feud, puts him over, and go gets paid as his career winds down.

Bracket 1 Tom Zenk vs. Mr. Saito Col. DeBeers vs. Perro Aguyao Bracket 2 Tully Blanchard vs. Ken Patera Wahoo McDaniel vs. Chris Adams Bracket 3 Carlos Colon vs. Larry Zbyszko Jonnie Stewart vs. Riki Choshu Bracket 4 Jake Milliman vs. The Iron Sheik Greg Valentine vs. Bruce Hart SPECIAL FEATURE MATCH (Afternoon Session) Jerry Blackwell vs. Kokina Maximus

Verne's not a fan of Mark Callaway? Not too surprised that he's willing to pass on a (potential, in this timelime at least) generational wrestler

Sometimes I wanna scold some of the talent that send me these messages when they're about wrestlers I'm using as jobbers-low card talent filler. They're likely never going to be pushed! Calm down!

I read a few dynasties, and this is one of them. Keep up the good work, you don't need to change anything!

That makes sense, thank you! Bummer for some of my upper card/main eventers though.

Search seems kinds funky so I had a hard time finding an answer to this, but what makes star quality decrease? I have a few wrestlers in my prime that are losing star quality earlier than I'd expect. Their ratings are good-great and they don't seem to have anything obvious that would cause them to lose it over time.

Agreed 100%. I'm running an 80s save myself and there's a lot of interesting talent I'd like in my promotion that I'd probably never get to use. It's not a total problem for US based promotions, though, but the Mexican scene's been devastated because of how aggressive NJPW/AJPW are in locking up international talent.

Seeing who you use as local talent, and how obscure they could be, is low key one of my favorite parts of the dynasty. Hans Dunshee and Slade Gorton are some pretty deep cuts.

The squash at the end was interesting! Might be something in the cards for Jerry Allen? I always felt that dude was in the Paul Roma/Jim Powers tier - great look, but missing something important that doomed him to midcard at best.

Yeah, I'd definitely like to see a mod like this - what if you don't run with Bruno at the top of the WWWF? Heck, I also wouldn't find seeing a mod that goes back earlier than the 1930s with some of the all time early era greats like Frank Gotch, truly see how different a wrestling world ends up being.

I definitely like the 'sex-related scandal' idea. Also, maybe the effects could differ depending on status of workers? Married workers get dinged much harder than single workers would.

I'd like to think B, though I can see Watts blowing things up if he can't put his biases aside.

I leave them be for the most part, occasionally using them as local worker/jobbers if their safety is decent enough and I stick them on B shows. I hire them as non local jobbers if they get one of those fluff pieces saying that they could be a big thing, although most likely I don't push them beyond lower midcard unless their skills grow fast enough and they have a good attitude.

I've noticed that AI companies tend to ignore wrestlers sitting in the free agent pool, instead choosing to acquire workers that work for other promotions. I'd like to see AI companies try to pick up some free agents from time to time to shore up their roster, especially those that pop up from time to time in the news sections as 'Ones to watch' or 'the next big thing'. I shouldn't be the only one trying to sign those guys!

I mainly lurked but I really enjoyed the diary! While it did seem like the gap between you and WCW was really wide, I thought that eventually with the way people were getting popped for drugs, there'd be enough good castoffs to give WCW a boost. I also wondered how you'd book around that when it had to come down to letting people go that you had plans for.

<p>What is it with wrestlers with a "Driven" personality type and whining about wrestlers far lower on the card? Seems like they do it way too much.</p><p> </p><p> EDIT: I can understand once in awhile for a personality like this, but it seems like they do it every show for wrestlers that are serving their purpose to put others over or develop. I could expect that out of Egomaniacs/Scumbags/other negative personalities, but Driven isn't really a negative personality.</p>

The mod has them set for Normal on Event frequency. I'm going to switch that to Often, and of course change the events to have as many title matches as possible. Hopefully it works!