Greylocke

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="smw88" data-cite="smw88" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="44186" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>When you change product hit analyse or check product (I forget which) and it will tell you if the match danger or intensity needs to change, <strong>if nothing comes up set both to zero and click again</strong> and it should give you a range for each to be set within based on the product settings</div></blockquote><p> </p><p> Ah, so <em>this</em> is the part I missed out! I never got any prompt about needing to change my Intensity or Danger levels when I hit analyse or check product, but I've also never tried resetting the levels to zero. Thank you very much for the tip!</p><p> </p><p> EDIT: Do you know whether there is also a to check the levels for a second/third brand to which you assign a specific focus?</p>

<p>Maybe it has to do with the fact that WWE stopped treating NXT like a developmental fed long ago. I mean currently there's grand total of one star on NXT TV that's actually a developed product of the Performance Center: Velveteen Dream.</p><p> </p><p> In TEW terms, NXT is really more of a minor third brand with a slightly different product focus. It's grown as big as 205 Live, if not bigger. That's why the indy/foreign stars aren't complaining about being on that brand, because they don't see it as a developmental fed.</p>

<p>Good to see this alive again!</p><p> </p><p> One of the things I don't like about this game is the way it doesn't tell you how much you should be changing your Match Intensity and/or Danger level when you adjust your product. What I do whenever I encounter penalties like this (which will hit you in your very first match o the show) is do immediately click the "back" button to go back to the booking screen, adjust the levels, and then restart the show, and keep repeating until I get the levels right. Logically, one should be able to adjust the levels between matches until one finds the right balance that will please the crowd, and since the option isn't available, I don't feel guilty about this "cheating".</p><p> </p><p> The new "on-the-fly booking" function in TEW2020 should help to fix this somewhat, but I do hope that they will give a clearer definition in the Products screen to warn you whether your Intensity/Danger is too high or low before you run your show as well!</p><p> </p><p> Anyway, looking forward for more of this diary. Please don't let this die!</p>

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="Adam Ryland" data-cite="Adam Ryland" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="46105" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>The parent can adjust some elements of their child company - such as editing titles, adding tag teams, changing worker names, etc - but they cannot actually book a child company's shows for them. You would need to add a player to do that.</div></blockquote><p> </p><p> Does "editing titles" include manually switching the title holders?</p><p> </p><p> If yes, and if both companies are played by humans, does the player of the parent still have that power over the other player's company?</p>

But it would be better if, rather than basing the restriction only on specific company or relationship, we can have the option of setting broader or more variable scopes in the restrictions, such as not allowing your worker to work for another company that is above a certain size, or for another company that has TV/broadcaster exposure, etc.

<p>There was literally only 1 match on the card with both good story and action: the opening match. And that was the one and only reason I'm still kinda watching Smackdown (already given up on RAW, 205, and NXT after Royal Rumble). Well, the main event was fine, I guess, and probably the only safe match to end the show with a happy crowd, but unless they can get Ambrose to stay after this, there's no long-term benefit out of that. Good nostalgia callback, I suppose. I guess I should call it a plus that for once WWE actually ended a PPV the right way.</p><p> </p><p> The Shane/Miz storyline has been refreshingly well-written throughout and Miz's face-turn has been really well-executed. The matches weren't brilliant but still sufficiently fun to keep the story strong. Never thought I'd ever want a Miz/Bryan match where the Miz topples Bryan's heel title reign as a babyface, but that's exactly what I wish for now. Would be a perfect way for that old feud to come full circle. But at best that won't come till after Mania (and might not happen at all), so there' isn't really a lot I'm looking forward to for the biggest wrestling event of this year.</p><p> </p><p> The rest of the show was messed up by either terrible/non-existent writing or inadequate performer. Asuka/Mandy was only other match that was actually logically booked. Unfortunately it involved Mandy Rose and Sonya, so the action was sloppy as hell. And while the booking of the match itself made sense, it still ended with the SD Women's title left in limbo with no clear challenger for WM. The RAW tag titles match ended with 2 popular new faces acting like sore losers and heels (and why the hell is Aleister Black in a tag team to begin with? His character should have been a loner). US Title match was the best match action-wise, but there isn't much of a story beyond the fact that Mysterio and Andrade didn't like each other and fought a bunch of time. The Women's tag champions, despite retaining, became a footnote the post-match segment and were nowhere to be seen. Having monster hosses in your women's division is useful, but they need to find better women for that role, because Nia and Tamina are just painful to watch. Tamina ought to be released by this point considering how long she's been in the business and hasn't improved an inch. Many of the Diva Search contenders made more progress in their ring work than her in shorter time.</p><p> </p><p> They're trying too hard to create another "Daniel Bryan" moment for Kofi, to the point that they've actually succeeded in replicating the Rey Mysterio effect in in the 2014 Royal Rumble, where a babyface like Mustafah Ali (and to a lesser extent Kevin Owens) who would otherwise have been well-received gets booed for his big return match. I'm not even a fan of Ali, and I feel bad for him. Thank god this wasn't the main event.....they had too many of those where ALL the contestants are booed by the crowd, which is a real pity considering how hard all 3 guys were working. The action was great, but it's only going to be overlooked because the crowd was just too busy rooting for a guy who's not in the match. This was the 2014 Rumble all over again.</p><p> </p><p> And meanwhile, that above-mentioned guy, Kofi Kingston, loses a meaningless handicap match. It's actually refreshing that for once a tag team actually wins a handicap match against a single guy, but Kofi pretty much just got destroyed without ever looking like he was putting up enough of a fight to possibly win. I understand them wanting to postpone the Bryan/Kofi encounter for Mania, but this match did Kofi no favours at all. He didn't come out looking like a star.</p><p> </p><p> And then you have Becky Lynch. By this point I'm no longer surprised by the booking simply because her story hasn't been coherent for months. If anything I'm surprised by how many people are still invested in Lynch despite the terrible booking. Having your arguably most popular babyface get beat up for most of the match only for her to win via DQ and literally "saved" by outside interference doesn't give me any reason to want to root for her more. The only interest I have in this storyline is my curiosity at how long Becky can possibly sustain interest in her WM match via the sheer force of her popularity against the odds of bad creative booking.</p>

<p>Apparently, Ric Flair was legit drunk and wasted on RAW during the segment.</p><p> </p><p> It'd be hilarious if they reveal next week on RAW that Batista didn't actually do any damage to Flair. He just broke into the locker room, found Flair already passed out on the floor and just dragged him out.</p>

<p>Apparently, the latest rumours regarding Ambrose is that he pitched the idea for WWE to announce his departure in advance with the potential for a swerve where he shows up after his current contract has expired. WWE lets him run with it to see if he can generate enough buzz, and will offer him a new contract with ‘right to refusal’ creative clause if he succeeds (if he doesn't then he leaves as planned).</p><p> </p><p> No legitimate source that i know of, so probably fake. But if it somehow comes to fruition it might just get me to start following their regular TV shows again.</p>

<p>PWInsider reported that they're having issues trademarking their company name, logo, and event name:</p><p> </p><p> <a href="https://wrestletalk.com/news/aew-having-trademark-issues/" rel="external nofollow">https://wrestletalk.com/news/aew-having-trademark-issues/</a></p>

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="milamber" data-cite="milamber" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="25169" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div><strong>Women's Tag Title Chamber</strong> - Good match even though it was sloppy at times. Everyone worked hard and the Tornado Tag rules made it more exciting. The modified finisher was a nice touch. <strong>I'm shocked Nia and Tamina didn't win. Vince probably doesn't want Sasha and Bayley to jump ship to AEW</strong>.</div></blockquote><p> </p><p> Seriously? I'm pretty sure Sasha and Bayley have been slated to be the first tag champions for nearly a year now even before the tag titles were officially announced. It was literally the only reason to keep this awful friendship storyline between them for so long when everyone was looking forward to Sasha turning heel on Bayley. I think they might even have debuted the titles earlier if it wasn't for Sasha's short injury break.</p><p> </p><p> And the fact that they were the only established face team all year long (Naomi and Carmella was a last-minute thrown-together filler) made it pretty obvious that they had to win here. Any heel team winning here would be terribly short of challengers. Meanwhile, we have at least 4-5 heel teams that can be rotated to challenge face champions long enough to last a year if booked well (which it probably won't be , but still).</p><p> </p><p> This match was the second-most predictable to me, other than Rousey beating Ruby (which I think everyone saw coming).</p>

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="Derek B" data-cite="Derek B" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="46105" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>Fighting is literally just another category to rate a worker on.... like Entertainment or Overness.</div></blockquote><p> </p><p> I'm just wondering what stats make up the calculation, since I personally doubt that there will be a new "Fighting" stat implemented to the workers. Is it calculated from a combination of top-row + performance + Overness stats similar to how match ratings are calculated (since fighting angles share some similarity with actual in-ring action), or is it more slanted towards other stats like Acting, Stiffness, etc? Or a combination of ALL of those(which realistically it should, but it seems rather over-complicated for the purpose)?</p>

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="milamber" data-cite="milamber" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="46243" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>Good to see a fellow Joshi fan on the boards. Stardom and DDT (mostly for TJPW) are the only wrestling services I subscribe to.</div></blockquote><p> </p><p> Same here (well, DDT too, but it's the same service as TJPW so same difference), although I've only been following for little more than a year. I've fallen so much in love with the product of TJPW and DDT shows that TJP is the the one wrestling company that I stay completely up to date with every single event (Stardom and DDT have way more shows, too many for me to be able to spend the time watching everything especially since i also try my best to dig into old archived shows, so I do miss a number of events often).</p><p> </p><p> Anyway, my concern was more about the exposure putting Sakazaki (and TJPW) on WWE's scouting radar. Stardom is already subject to WWE raids, and I don't want that to happen to TJPW's already-small roster. Their current roster is perfect as it is. Like I said, it'll be good news for the wrestlers themselves to have their work seen by bigger crowds and more fans and I probably should be happy for them, but I'm just a little protective of my personal favourite promotion.</p>

I'd like to know if the expanded non-booking aspects of the game (Merchandising, ticketing, etc) will be set as optional aspect of the game (that can be turned off/on)? Thanks.

<p>OMG, they got Yuka Sakazaki on the show! Now I absolutely have to watch it. Her and Jericho on the same show is 100% effective bait for my money, even if the rest of the show turns out crap.</p><p> </p><p> I really should be happy that she's getting exposure on what's likely to be a major US event, but now I'm getting paranoid that she might get poached from TJPW. :/</p>

Late to the party as usual, but I've just read through the journal and just wants to express my love for the on-the-fly booking feature. That's something I felt should have been in the game since several generations back. That's really the most realistic feature that reflects RL booking. Any person who's ever run/managed any sort of event (wrestling, entertainment or otherwise) will know that 90+% of the time events don't happen according to plan and last-minute (re)arrangements often need to be made to minimize potential damage (or in some cases make the show even better than planned). On-the-fly booking is IMO the one thing that really separates real bookers from fantasy armchair bookers. If implemented well it should be most immersive feature of all.

Amazing return and showcase for Tyler Breeze on NXT. It's almost sad to watch and reflect how far he's been underutilized on the main roster and how NXT used to have a wealth of colourful and non-generic characters to complement the good wrestling in the good ol' days.

<p>Making the Mixed Match challenge a round-robin tournament this year is beyond pointless when 2 teams with terrible win-loss records end up in the Finals anyway. WTF?</p><p> </p><p> And the stipulation of making the winners No.30 in the Rumble match is wasted too. There ought to be <em>at least 1</em> favourite in those teams that can actually be a credible potential winner in the Rumble for the stipulation to matter.</p>

Love the way the crowd was actually agreeing with Miz when he demanded that Bryan should apologize to him and admit to that he was right the whole time. I bet no one could have predicted that reaction 1 year ago.

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="milamber" data-cite="milamber" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="25169" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>Outside of WWE I mostly watch Stardom and Tokyo Joshi Pro (I'm really into joshi wrestling and wish I had time to watch more like Sendai Girls, Wrestle-1 and Ice Ribbon). Also Lucha Underground. I watch New Japan and DDT casually and the occasional indy event but they don't interest me enough to watch regularly.</div></blockquote><p> </p><p> Heh, your watching habits are really close to mine. I still follow WWE out of mostly habit (well, that and easy accessibility) even though they're no longer my favourite shows. LU and TJPW are by far my favourite promotions at the moment, and I've also been following Stardom as much as I can (although I have to admit not enough to get really up to date due to how often they put up new shows even while I'm still digging through the old ones, but that's more due of lack of time than of interest), and I'm a casual watcher of DDT.</p><p> </p><p> The major difference is that I can't stand stand New Japan, personally. In fact, NJPW was what put me <em>off</em> Japanese wrestling for so many years. When I started looking for japanese matches many years back, NJPW was (comparatively) more accessible so naturally I started with that......and was so bored that it gave me an overall bad impression of what Puro is.</p><p> </p><p> I'm so glad that I decided to give myself another shot at Japanese wrestling over a year ago, because when I tried out Stardom and DDT I was pleasantly surprised that I enjoyed them. Dragon Gate's product wasn't exactly my cup of tea either so i don't follow them (not that i have the means to anyway), but from what little I saw I still liked them better than New Japan. Turns out that my mistake was choosing to the wrong promotion to start watching. <img alt=":p" data-src="//content.invisioncic.com/g322608/emoticons/tongue.png.ceb643b2956793497cef30b0e944be28.png" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /></p>

Don't think Starrcade was ever meant to be more than a glorified house show. I don't recall them promoting it at all until last week......and since I usually watch RAW and Smackdown one week later, the show was already over before i even found out about it. It's less relevant than the old Tribute to the Troops shows.

Hopefully, having Lesnar get the better of Strowman on RAW means that the latter should finally get that win over Lesnar that he's been due for so long at Crown Jewel. It's more than a year late, but in this case better late than never.

I find it a rather worrying sign that they kept the arena lighting much darker than their usual events. I'm hoping it's not a way to hide low audience attendance......

<p>BOO at them removing the NXT UK Women's Title match from Evolution. <img alt="" data-src="//content.invisioncic.com/g322608/emoticons/frown.png.e6b571745a30fe6a6f2e918994141a47.png" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /></p><p> </p><p> I wonder if it was by deliberate design that out of the 3 Japanese competitors in the MYC, 2 were both eliminated by Toni Storm and the last one is facing her in the Finals.....</p>

<p>Roman's departure is definitely the most impactful event that'll have a lasting effect on WWE's booking within the past 3 years at least.</p><p> </p><p> While not a fan of his forced run as top face, I do look forward to his eventual return as a performer.</p><p> </p><p> The Women's matches on NXT UK were apparently taped as part of a tournament to determine their Women's Champion, but there was zero mention of that during the airing. I'm guessing it's because it started airing way later than they planned, and they couldn't finish airing the tournament matches before Evolution. Wonder if they'll mention the tournament at all during Evolution itself. They haven't even named No. 1 contender yet and the event is this weekend.</p><p> </p><p> They went with the worst and most predictable solution to the Aleister Black storyline just as I was starting to get interested. :/ It's like it's become mandatory to give every character the same tired old "dark side" or "mean streak" or "bitter face turns heel" story even when they don't need them. Johnny Gargano was perfectly fine as a straight babyface and they just had to do an unnecessary heel turn. I'm actually surprised Bayley and Ember Moon managed to escape that fate before they were promoted.</p>

How many times does Strowman have to run into the turnbuckles shoulder-first before he learns to not do so? I know it's a common spot in wrestling, but he does it every single match now. It's almost becoming a trademark move for him. He does that more than he does his finisher these days.