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<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="lazorbeak" data-cite="lazorbeak" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="41194" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>Has anyone else run into this issue where touring companies appear to be losing money across the board, in every country? I'm not sure if it's travel costs, the lowered attendances, the higher expenses or what, but in tests I'm running, every AI promotion running tours is operating at a loss. A cult promotion running three 2K shows and a 10-15K event in a month, along with PPV, has lost about four million dollars in two years of play-through. A national promotion has lost even more, going from ten million dollars to debt in two years.<p> </p><p> Has anybody else noticed this and is there a fix? Do touring expenses just need to be lowered across the board? And are workers being paid travel expenses for every tour show they work?</p></div></blockquote><p> </p><p> I've continued to fiddle with this and I'm still seeing every "big" touring promotion lose mountains of money. I think it's a combination of the lowered attendance and per show worker travel costs? I'm not sure what the best fix is, other than maybe just lowering touring company expenses? Maybe the touring system needs to be fiddled with a bit?</p>

Has anyone else run into this issue where touring companies appear to be losing money across the board, in every country? I'm not sure if it's travel costs, the lowered attendances, the higher expenses or what, but in tests I'm running, every AI promotion running tours is operating at a loss. A cult promotion running three 2K shows and a 10-15K event in a month, along with PPV, has lost about four million dollars in two years of play-through. A national promotion has lost even more, going from ten million dollars to debt in two years. Has anybody else noticed this and is there a fix? Do touring expenses just need to be lowered across the board? And are workers being paid travel expenses for every tour show they work?

<p>Am I not seeing it or is there no longer a way to modify the length of an existing TV show?</p><p> </p><p> Ah, I found it. For anyone else looking, it's under broadcasting, tv controls, and edit details.</p>

I know in some ways NXT has advantages that the main roster doesn't, but it's unbelievable how much more I care about random NXT midcarders because they have real, understandable characters that cause their actions to make sense. I talked about Eva Marie a week or two ago saying she's getting to be passable, and I actually loved the storyline in the Asuka match where she is clearly outclassed and could be knocked out by a big move at any moment so she's just trying to find an opportunity to steal a win. Similarly I loved the Revival's storyline being a natural reaction to losing their titles. I was worried they were turning babyface after the crowd got behind them crushing jobbers, but then they attack a (previously injured) Zach Ryder as part of their "destroy all the tag teams so we get another title opportunity" plan. Main roster storylines tend to feel way too much like workers have been plugged into a WWE 2k storyline and have to wrestle no one except each other for four to twelve weeks.

Back in my day, we didn't "take time off" just because we were "injured." We just developed a crippling pill addiction and mixed it with other drugs in social situations!

Keep this under your hat, but "go away heat" is still "heat." When the crowd is loudly chanting at a worker, they are showing they care about that worker. Fans like hating things; see, for example, John Cena's reputation among men who go to ppv's. And considering her place on the card, I strongly doubt that anyone is actually giving up on the product because she's around. That Bayley match she had in NXT was electric. Again, she's improved from dire to below-average, but it wouldn't make any sense to cut their losses since fans actually seem to have an opinion about her.

I think you may be overreacting. She was perfectly cromulent in a pretty decent throwaway match. Obviously she'll never be a great worker, but she's actually over.

Yes, this story certainly reflects badly on... someone.

I think he'd shatter like fine china. Dude can't stay healthy.

And I 100% disagree with this. If she debuted as the face of the diva's divison, maybe, but as mentioned earlier, Lana got pretty over doing a similar shtick, despite not looking like an ersatz Pamela Anderson. Then once Sable was over, there was very little pushback on her being carried by Jackie or Luna because the crowd actually cared and wanted to see her.

I know nobody likes Sable, but the gap between the crowd reaction to her and the crowd reaction to Eva Marie is a country mile. 1997 crowds were so excited to see Sable it killed Marc Mero's career. She only started getting pushed when it was clear she was drawing way more heat than Mero.

Imagine if the Four Horsemen were Mongo McMichael, Paul Roma, Sid, and Jeff Jarrett.

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="Kitarzu" data-cite="Kitarzu" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="25169" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>I almost totally agree with Fleisch, except... <p> </p><p> 1) Reigns has the right charisma to play only as the strong silent type, a bad ass, either babyface or heel. He hasn't the right skills to be the speaking headliner of a global wrestling company, like John Cena has been in the last ten years, unless you consider WWE a family friendly oriented entertainment company and that's another story. </p><p> </p><p> 2) From the in ring perspective, he is still too spotty, but that could be also WWE fault the way he's booked. His Wrestlemania match could be good, because Triple H is a great ring general, but this issue could be more evident if his future opponents aren't good wrestlers.</p></div></blockquote><p> </p><p> To be fair, even John Cena has struggled to be the "JBL is poopy" babyface of a PG product. </p><p> </p><p> As far as ability, I think he's fine. He's nothing special, but can be paired up with the right guy (like, say, Seth Rollins) to produce very good matches.</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>Billy Jack Haynes, Sakoda, Big Vito, and Luther Reigns have all sued for concussions.<p> </p><p> Ivan Koloff, Blackjack Mulligan, Barry Windham, Koko B Ware, and Dynamite Kid all sued for injuries.</p><p> </p><p> The family of Matt Bourne sued WWE for wrongful death due to injuries he sustained while working for the company. Same with the wife of Big Daddy V.</p><p> </p><p> In nearly all of the lawsuits, the defense was that the workers are considered independent contractors and therefore WWE is not responsible for their healthcare.</p></div></blockquote><p> </p><p> No, again, this is not true. WWE is fighting these lawsuits by transferring the venue to Connecticut based on a clause in the contract, consolidating them, and moving to have the cases dismissed on statute of limitations issues. Several of the wrestlers you mentioned have been joined into a single class action.</p><p> </p><p> What you're talking about is one class-action lawyer convincing wrestlers he met at some convention to join in a class-action lawsuit. Unfortunately, pretty much any claim any of these wrestlers have is pretty much defeated by the statute of limitations. The attorney threw in fraudulent concealment, but that would require some showing that WWE knew the dangers of concussions in 1988, or 1995, or whenever, and that they intentionally didn't tell wrestlers in an attempt to defraud them. That's unlikely to pass a motion to dismiss under the heightened standard for pleading fraud.</p>

I haven't had your experiences. It's not great, and the default settings are dire, but I do like the counter system in theory, and fiddling with the AI and finisher strength fixes a lot of other issues. It's still a bit sluggish due to the stamina system, but I find it plays fine with a wired 360 controller. It's a huge improvement over the PC release of WWE2k15, which I got for maybe $5 and found virtually unplayable. It was like a demo of wwe2k16.

This is not true. The independent contractor/employee designation has never been won on the merits by the WWE, ever. The Raven lawsuit was dismissed for being beyond the statute of limitations. I have no idea where you're getting the idea that ex employees are "constantly" suing WWE. I think the only guy who's ever won an injury claim was a jobber who took a Rocker Dropper incorrectly and was paralyzed. And he won! Then there was Jesse suing re: home video payments, and he won that, too. They did have two touring rosters for over a decade starting in 02, the problem is they're so bad at creating new stars that they were unable to sustain a Smackdown/ECW/Whatever brand independent of their flagship. At this point, with injuries, they'd have to really talent raid to fill two healthy rosters.

Shane voluntarily left, and gets six figures for one night's work. The poor guy.

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="plotulus" data-cite="plotulus" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="32668" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>So it's probably a stupid question but what's the password for this file?</div></blockquote><p> </p><p> This mod isn't password protected. If you're asking for how to open the CBH files outside of CBH, that's not information Adam Ryland gives away.</p>

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="Teh_Showtime" data-cite="Teh_Showtime" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="25169" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>Big E might be my favorite guy on the entire roster. He's about as complete of a wrestler as you can ask for. His offense looks credible, he's got great size and strength but can still bump and is a good base so he works great with small guys too. Charisma by the boatload, good on the mic, and still improving as well. Though for all the potential he has, he takes some incredible bumps that make me worry for him.</div></blockquote><p> </p><p> I agree with all of this. Big E is amazing and I'm glad they've given him a showcase after he was kind of lost in the shuffle pre-New Day. I also like that they do a good job of protecting him a la Edge in Edge & Christian, since he's clearly got more potential at this point. This is also the most entertaining as a character Kofi's ever been.</p>

Yeah it wasn't clean at all. Triple H had him completely beat, then had concussion symptoms as part of a really tasteless angle in 2013 (even in 2013 we knew concussions were pretty bad, and a chronic problem for certain wrestlers), so the match was a no-contest/unofficial countout where the focus was all on the angle. Then Trips tried to have a re-match to beat up Axel to show how tough and cool he was, but Vince had them ring the bell twice, awarding the match to Axel without him doing anything. Pretty much the opposite of "putting someone over."

Hope you're enjoying this!

Probably? In the editor, try creating a "new picture folder," which should create an empty folder. Then add the pictures into them. Then, make sure the picture pack selected from the database info panel matches the name of the picture folder. If that doesn't work, I would recommend checking the technical support section.

New version is out as of this week! Hello people discovering this game via Steam! Current stats: 63 Heroes, 16 Anti-Heroes, 197 Villains, 25 Wildcards, and 48 civilians. A new picture file is also available.

You mean the run that got his name out there nationally and most likely paid him more than he ever made elsewhere, and is now looking to hire him back at a higher rate? The poor guy!

Just got around to watching London, and it was unsurprisingly great. I love that I actually understand why characters are faces and heels. Joe was entitled to be frustrated, but the way he did it was unsporting so he's the bad guy. Agreed, he needs constant 10 minute promos about tater-tots. Seriously he's a great worker who can both generate sympathy and not look like a doofus, which is about all he needs to do at this point. The Joe storyline has also been a great slow build. I don't understand this at all. The story was pretty clearly that Jax wasn't experienced enough to take advantage of her size. She made two covers, one a Jericho one-foot cover, the other a two-hands-on-the-shoulder cover. The idea that Bayley is suddenly unbeatable because she beat a woman who had only won squashes doesn't make any sense to me.