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If a worker has a Herniated Spinal Disc, what are the risks if I go with surgery? Is it worth it?

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="DatIsraeliGuy" data-cite="DatIsraeliGuy" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="43724" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>Pssssst, wrong thread.</div></blockquote><p> </p><p> No, I just put in the wrong word.</p>

Ricky DeColt seems underrated, at least by CGC. In my saves, even when CGC is at Cult, they leave him contracted as a non-exclusive PPA. I always sign him, and he becomes a top talent for me.

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="Apupunchau@optonline" data-cite="Apupunchau@optonline" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="43724" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>IN 2015 when he was unemployed he was a must have worker. One of the most talented young up and commers out there. One of the reasons you don't see him picked up so much now is he's employed. So I wouldn't call him underrated.</div></blockquote><p> </p><p> I have a save going where I outbid BHOTWG for him, and I didn't have to go crazy for it, either. It was a big acquisition for my Cult fed.</p>

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="Apupunchau@optonline" data-cite="Apupunchau@optonline" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="43724" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>Most people don't play mexico. But I see him get picked up all the time by people along with El Mitico when running work rate feds, that use a lot of high flying</div></blockquote><p> </p><p> Right. I played a fed in Mexico, but I built it more around Modern than Lucha style. There are so many great workers to snap up. Mr. Lucha III was my figure head, and Mitico and Extraordinario were my next two. I can't believe Mr. Lucha stays unemployed as long as he does. He has been fantastic in every save I've used him. Right now, I'm running a Realism key fed with only medium Modern, and Lucha and Mitico are still two of my top performers.</p>

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="Apupunchau@optonline" data-cite="Apupunchau@optonline" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="43724" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>I think people have a vast difference in what they think of underrated means. Underrated for me usually means a guy who when you watch him you know he's good but you never see him getting picked up in games. He's never on most people's list of must haves.<p> </p><p> People who are not underrated include</p><p> </p><p> Most of the second generation stars</p><p> Jay Chord</p><p> The Gauge brothers</p><p> MAtty Faith</p><p> El Mitico Jr</p><p> Extraordinario Jr</p><p> Casey Valentine</p><p> </p><p> Guys who you see in every small fed dairy or who get instantly picked up for developmental in big feds</p><p> </p><p> Hugh de Aske</p><p> Brandon Smith</p><p> Logan Wolfsbaine</p><p> </p><p> These kinds of guys are not underrated. They are highly rated by everyone.</p></div></blockquote><p> </p><p> Extraordinario is amazing, and I never hear him talked about.</p>

Sterling Whitlock is a great young prospect if you are running a performance fed.

I'm at Regional, with a popularity of C- in my home region. All of my workers are capping out at 41 popularity, and have been for almost a year at least. I've never noticed this happening before. Anyone know why? I put on C+ to B shows, and they all raise my popularity.

Cali Slick is carrying my company right now.

I just fired Ernest Youngman, my former champion. He'd showed up wasted to a show for the 3rd time in 3 months. He was my top performer, but could no longer be relied upon, and the incidents were killing the locker room.

I don't know, but I can say that I often play with products that make gimmicks irrelevant, and I just set everyone's gimmick to none. I never get any negative notes about it.

I am in November 2016 of the C-Verse playing Summit Wrestling in the Pacific Northwest. Ernest Youngman has been my top performer by a wide margin, and had held the title since March, but in October, he showed up too high on pain killers to work at a weekly show. I immediately took the title off of him on the next show, and then he showed up to my big quarterly show unable to perform as well. Right now, I am scrambling to build up Donte Dunn as our new top guy while Ernest cannot be trusted with the title. Ernest and his buddy Avalanche Takano, another main eventer, are angry at the punishments I've dealt out to Ernest, and the locker room is in turmoil.

If you want someone young and cheap to carry promos and help improve other workers on the mic, Garry the Entertainer is very useful.

<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="43724" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>Kid Fantastic is a cheapish pickup early in the game (I think he may start injured?) but he's developed for me into an excellent flier, and even in a promotion which is heavily biased <em>against</em> his Spot Monkey style he's had several A-rated matches where he's been the best-rated performer (albeit in 2023).<p> </p><p> I suspect that, because of his style, he's not likely to get poached by one of the big names either.</p></div></blockquote><p> </p><p> I second that one. His problem at the beginning is his horrendous ratings in psychology and safety. He was botching all over for me, but he does have big potential. You played out your save longer than I did when I had him, but he was coming along really well.</p>

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="Kingster" data-cite="Kingster" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="41194" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>Thanks for the reply. As for #2: Except for ppv buy-rates, over-exposure is not a thing in this game according to the player's handbook. So I don't think that's the issue here.</div></blockquote><p> </p><p> That was what I thought too, and there is no penalty for running multiple events on their own, but when I started televising the weekly ones, I noticed a drop. Several pages back, I asked the related question of why should I ever do TV shows when I can just televise events, and others said that they've seen the attendance drop as well when they televise weekly events.</p><p> </p><p> If you go that route, please let me know what you discover. I don't have a lot of data, and I'd be happy to be wrong. Also, I've never actually run a touring schedule, so that all may work differently as well.</p>

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="Kingster" data-cite="Kingster" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="41194" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>Can anyone help me here? Especially the first one would be much appreciated.</div></blockquote><p> </p><p> I have never tested it, so I can only give you my best guess on #1, but I would bet that you can get past the Young Lion effect with a tag match, since you can use a tag match to also get past the effects of chemistry or even lower popularity sometimes, especially if you don't give the Young Lion the pinfall. it would be consistent with how the rest of the game usually operates.</p><p> This would make some logical sense, as one of the tried and true uses of tag teams is for an older, more popular worker to get a younger one over.</p><p> </p><p> As for #2, I think you want a highlights show, as regularly televising events starts to lower attendance a bit. In full disclosure however, I have never run a touring promotion.</p><p> </p><p> I know neither of my answers are very concrete, but I wanted to at least take a crack at helping you out.</p>

C-Verse specific question...my company is a member of the COTT alliance, but we have now risen to Cult, and I'm signing workers to written contracts, even taking them away from some alliance members. Shouldn't they have kicked me out by now?

Well, from what Apu says, it sounds like it won't be a huge mechanical problem either way (though the divide seems to give you an advantage from what he says), so I'd just go with what you imagine your promotion to be. In my experience playing this game, I sometimes design products with the hope of producing a big rating or cornering some market, but I tend to lost interest in those saves faster. The saves that have staying power for me are the saves where I really like the idea that I'm presenting with my product. Right now, I'm running Key - Modern, then Medium - Traditional, Mainstream, Realism, and Lucha down in Mexico. i don't get any of the trend bonuses in Mexico, but I get to bring a variety of styles together in a performance based, strong kayfabe production, and focus on the aspects of the game I enjoy the most, so I am enjoying it.

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="Apupunchau@optonline" data-cite="Apupunchau@optonline" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="41194" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>The negative for face/face and heel/heel matches in a company with face heel divide is minuscule in comparison to all the other bonuses you can get on a match. Heel/Heel will do a little more damage but it isn't really anything to worry about. Was running Heel/Heel main events and still pulling high 80s in my cult fed with a face heel divide.</div></blockquote><p> </p><p> I don't do it with any regard to bonuses or penalties. It's just the product I prefer to run. The original question was about what it's like to run without the divide, so I just threw in my two cents of experience.</p>

Newton revealed Kirk Jameson as his new tag partner, and they won back the titles. SWF inexplicably released Atom Smasher, who is only 33 and still improving across the board. I signed him onto my Cult promotion, and he's a main eventer now.

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="sportsfanmas" data-cite="sportsfanmas" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="41194" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>Has anybody tried running a company without a face/heel divide? I'm tempted to because I have some storylines coming up that could end up being heel vs. heel, and I don't want my ratings to get too effected for an awkward face/heel divide. I'm just not sure what eliminating the face/heel divide would do overall. Anybody?</div></blockquote><p> </p><p> I almost never use face/heel divides. I generally like to run feds that simulate real athletics, whether I go performance based or not, and I prefer to have a promotion where anyone can face anyone, though I do still tend to write angles with certain wrestlers in my mind as heroic or heelish. I suppose the guys that can play faces or heels very well don't get that bonus anymore, but I don't have any trouble putting up good grades.</p>

In my "next generation lucha" promotion, Edd Stone has broken his neck, and is out for the year. He is one half of the current tag team champions, and his partner, Davis Wayne Newton, must now find a new partner, with whom he'll team up with and attempt to retain the belts.

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="BrokenCycle" data-cite="BrokenCycle" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="41194" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>You're greatly overreacting to what Storytelling matches do. I'm running TCW in the Cornellverse and have no issues. Only one match on the card really matters, the main event, and the second best match sorta matters? You can do anything you want to in the undercard and it means almost nothing. <p> </p><p> I think the term "Storytelling" for a match aim is way off. I read some guy on here sum it up perfectly when he said it was like Billy Gunn vs Ken Shamrock at KOTR 99, but I think that's a little too hard to grasp in a game without context. </p><p> </p><p> Think of the match aim as like a mini calm the crowd. It pumps the brakes on the crowd, instead of slamming on the brakes. </p><p> </p><p> A lot of the times I use the match aim as my match after the opener. But I have also used it as Storytelling/Co-Main/Main and it hasn't burnt the crowd out. I think you're really overthinking it. It's not that damaging to match ratings, or performance, and you could get by without putting any effort into it at all.</p></div></blockquote><p> </p><p> Another good example would be Triple H vs. the Big Show from 2005, when H broke Show's hand. It's a good storytelling match that doesn't tear the house down.</p>

Pretty much, haha. I've never been able to clearly determine who the best performers were simply by looking at the skill ratings. Keeping records of the performances, with some simple calculations helps me prioritize my workers. Moneyball wrestling or something. I guess it might seem soulless, but the narrative of my games are actually more entertaining to me if great performers emerge unexpectedly, and I don't just push everyone who I like at the beginning of the save.

<p>Lucha de la Próxima Generación - October 2017 - Cult</p><p> Key - Modern</p><p> Medium - Lucha, Mainstream, Traditional, Realism</p><p> </p><p> LPG Mexicano - Mr. Lucha III (won from Amo del Gato)</p><p> LPG El Norte - Hector Galindo (Won from Masked Cougar)</p><p> LPG Equipo Mexicano - The Blue Chippers: Edd Stone and Davis Wayne Newton (Won from Los Principes de la Lucha: Mr Lucha III and El Mitico Jr.)</p>