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Exactly this. That's basically what it was anyway.

WLW starts out a little ahead in company pop and are killing me in the national battles. Emerald Angel has had eight matches in four months, and just one has rated lower than a 94 (four 99s). Sensational Dragon can fart out a 95 match in his sleep too. INSPIRES doesn't have much to compare to that - my best match is a 97 and the next highest is a 95,. It wasn't even the main event!

So I'm about four months in my INSPIRES save and I'm thinking of revamping the structure of the company - cutting the dead weight, getting rid of the brands and sticking to Japan. 1) Other than Remo and Oleg the Destroyer, there aren't enough workers with high popularity to get high show grades outside of Japan. Which leads to... 2) Getting killed in the national battle 3) Didn't realize this when I started, but workers with high pop in the US, but low in Japan, means they can help get high match ratings, but no one with high pop in Japan will want to lose to them (had to redo three months worth of shows) 4) So many shows to book... 5) Many of the workers on the Worldwide brand can't work 6) Can't get high enough show grades to keep from annoying the PPV companies in Japan and the US, which means workers can't gain pop there (they barely gain any for tour shows as it is) I like the idea of two brands (and this is by no means an attack on what @lavelleuk has done here - it's amazing), but for a human-controlled company (namely, me), it might be best to change things up. I'd consider doing maybe a one-month tour in the US for the US Heavyweight Tournament. And what to do with all of those titles...? Thoughts?

I'm playing with INSPIRES now and I significantly cut back their schedule, mostly because I didn't have the patience to book that many shows without it feeling repetitive. I currently have each brand running about 7-8 tour shows per month, plus whatever PPVs they have.

This was from TEW 2013, but I assume it still holds true: 1: Is already being tipped as a huge star for years to come = > 95 overness A+ 2: is definitely one to watch, the sky seems to be the limit of where his career can go = 88 > 94 A- to A possibly A+ 3: is somebody who should be handled carefully, as it's clear that the <30 year old has all the raw materials needed to create a big star in the future = 83 > 88 B+ to A - possibly A 4: " there is a lot of talk that Xis a potential break-out star, there seems to be an almost tangible sense of destiny with the <30 year old" in Hot Prospects <78 > 83 C+ to B 5: "Worker might still be young...." < 73-78 C+ to B range 6: Dark Horse for future Success 67- 73 C to C+ 1: Turn into an phenomenal worker (highest quality of worker) A or A* Psychology + solid other performance 2: Fantastic 3: Exceptional in ring worker 4: Really Fine 5: Very, Very Good 6: Very Good This is in the "Hot Prospects" section in Creative.

Add me to the 'enjoyed the different-from-the-usual-format' group. Good stuff.

I just finished my first month using INSPIRES - getting used to the Japanese schedule and number of titles took awhile to get accustomed. I'm also having a really hard time getting good match/show grades using the Worldwide brand. I've found the number of good workers on the Domestic brand far outweighs the number on the Worldwide brand.

Was it intentional to have venues in Japan with 75,000 capacity but only $1,000 in rental costs?

Gotcha - that makes perfect sense.

I definitely think I'll look into doing that - should make it less tedious to get through some of those months. What was your thought process behind the INSPIRES Worldwide brand schedule? They have several 'lesser' events on their international tours and much fewer 'normal' events than the Domestic brand. Are the lesser events intended for major title defenses and appearances from top stars?

I'm starting an INSPIRES save on the 2022 Alt CornellVerse database that was just released so I'll be keeping an eye on what you do here.

I wanted to jump in and say this looks great. I really liked what you did for the 2018 version and this looks even better. I think I'm going to jump into the Japan scene for the first time with INSPIRES and give that a shot, even though I'm a tad put off with the amount of shows they run - it's a ton!

With the new 'feature' of having certain roles during a segment decay and lessen ratings the longer it goes on (overness/charisma/sex appeal etc...), what do people do for promos where there are workers solely there for their menace or sex appeal (think Chyna during D-X promos or Kane during Paul Bearer promos)? Short angles don't get high ratings, but longer angles get penalized when there are workers there not doing anything.

I’d go Heavyweight, Intercontinental, North American and tag team. The InterCon and NA are the top two singles titles outside of the heavyweight, so I’d include them.

<p>Pop Caps</p><p> </p><p> Has anyone done some definitive testing on artificially breaking popularity caps? I assume they work in 20 like they did on other versions, but I noticed that the text on the Hot Prospects doesn't change if you do it, so I wasn't sure if they still worked the same way as before.</p>

Sonofa! The only reason I noticed is because I went to do something that was long (LOOOONG) overdue and that's make an off-line copy of it - and now it's too late. Awful that an all-time great dynasty like that disappeared into the ether.

I recently went looking for Eisen-Verse's TEW13 dynasty Where Men Become Legends, but it seems that it didn't survive the messageboard reorganization. Is anyone able to look in the backend of the board and see if it's still there somewhere? Would be a shame if it was lost forever. I think this was a link to it: http://www.greydogsoftware.com/forum/showthread.php?t=522476

I definitely will give them a weekly show - more realistic in my opinion. I did in the demo but never looked at the finances of it - I can't imagine it's that much of a hit for SWF to make it not worth it just from the development aspect of it. I'm also planning on putting them on the SWF Network, that way when you call them up, they aren't completely unknowns all over the US.

John Greed? He has an occult gimmick. That's who I'm using.

Basically Davids says Brown has "weak-ass Hollywood blood" in him and he isn't tough enough to take the title from him (Brown has a Hollywood Cool gimmick). Davids defeats Brown at the January PPV. ZWB wins #1 contender match but his title match is interrupted by a Brown attack on Davids - he attacked b/c of something personal Davids said about Brown. ZWB didn't like his title challenge getting interrupted so he attacks Brown later and they have a 3-way match at the February PPV. Davids gets upset in non-title match in March so he defends the title the next week and beats down his opponent after the match, but Brown runs out for the save. Davids tells Brown if he wants one more shot, Davids wants to make it count and wants as few rules as possible getting in the way of beating his ass, so he proposes a no-DQ match. Brown accepts, Davids retains. That's it. No idea who Davids takes on after that.

Anyone else enjoy writing your midcard feuds than the main event ones? The storylines involving up-and-coming workers always seem to come more naturally and are more fun. For instance, I have a storyline in SWF where I resurrect the DAVE Unified title and have it fought under no-DQ rules. I have Eric Tyler come in and mentor Steven Parker to turn him into a bloodthirsty monster and have him take that title. I have almost the whole thing written out through Supreme Challenge. The Des Davids vs Lenny Brown was easy to plan out, as was John Greed creating a dark cult starring Scythe. I'll soon have one where Bret Starr leads a legacy stable with Matty Faith, SoVen, James Diaz and Dreadnought. Looking forward to that one. I haven't written a thing on the Rogue vs Remo vs Valiant program, and only have a vague idea on where to go with Golden's title reign. I want to put Gilmore and Atom Smasher together but don't have a good idea for them (trying hard not to rip off Eisen-verse). The heavyweight title programs are almost always the ones I write last and really have to force something decent.

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="HarryFandango86" data-cite="HarryFandango86" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="47568" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>Should storylines really be advanced if they are booked on a pre-show? I thought this was nerfed in 2016</div></blockquote><p> Same here. I thought I saw in the patch notes that it was put back in for some reason.</p>

I'm thinking of hiring 4-5 tag teams to beef up the division, because I love tag team wrestling, then 4-5 more singles wrestlers as long-term projects. So to you answer your question, yes.

I use Excel for everything, but it isn't great for random notes or thoughts that I get every now and again, and your proposed setup looks tempting. However, I don't want to use multiple applications for this game because it'll make it harder to keep up with everything, so I think I'll just stick with Excel for now.

I feel like we get one of these threads every few months. I keep a pretty detailed one myself. One tab keeps track of my roster -- color coded by push/perception and disposition -- then I have tabs for each feud I have going. There are three tabs: the type of angle it is, what is going on in the angle (I can get detailed on these) and what show it's on (STV 1-Aug or UPR 4-Oct). Another tab keeps track of my show ratings and company pop level week by week, then another has each worker's popularity month by month, with how much they've risen or fallen. Then there are notes all over to keep track of potential hires, ones listed as 'hot property' in the news section, names of workers' finishers, etc... I'm interested in connecting it with an exported database file, but I don't have the time to figure that out right now. It would save me a lot of typing though. It's a jumbled mess but it works for me.