John Lions

As long as your shows (even with penalties) are getting higher ratings than your popularity, and your popularity is going up, the final rating doesn't matter. You can continue to grow and save money until you need to increase your production values to keep growing. EDIT: Actually, I know Adam recently patched that "much better" shows from Small to Regional get a bigger boost in popularity, so it may actually be better to make sure your shows are getting the highest rating possible to grow. I would check how much upping your production will cost you and if it's affordable then make at least some small changes to it.

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="moafnsteel" data-cite="moafnsteel" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="41174" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>2016 is almost in the books for my SWF game and I am on a roll with building new stars and signing some big names (Nicky Champion, El Leon, Joshua Taylor, and three big names from Australia). My current plan is to implement a brand split to help me mix up my storylines, and I have always enjoyed a brand split. I wasn't sure how I am going to do it as I "retired" Richard already (my UC is Jack Bruce) and Jerry is the on-screen authority. My current plan is to have Richard die, and all of a sudden a "bastard" child of his will come forward with claims to the SWF throne. This will help me explain the brand split. Greg Gauge is my current World Champion, as he has shot up and is almost my most popular wrestler, behind only Remo and Jack. This is the first game that I am truly behind pushing three of my favorite underutilized workers: Paul Huntington (who I made into a Dean Ambrose type loose cannon), Captain Atomic-now dubbed Duke Nukem (creative I know), and Stone Cold Marshal Dillon. <p> </p><p> Now onto planning who goes where, although I usually just use a random generator to sort everybody out! I am hoping to make this game last for several years, but we shall see.</p></div></blockquote><p> </p><p> Just a thought that popped into my head, you can always have Richard just come back. I mean he's the boss's son, instant heat for a "screw the rules, I have money!" sort of return to prominence a la Seto Kaiba. Damn, now I want to make a wrestler with a character like Kaiba from the Abridged series now...</p>

I think rotating out your roster using time off is one of the most underutilized tools people use in TEW, because it's hard not to get attached to everyone and want to min max their growth as wrestlers. Sending your big names away for 3-6 months and alternating who is in the main storylines and who is sitting out can really freshen up a game and keep you from getting burned out creatively.

Also, one of the things I've learned with playing long term games is that getting attached to everyone on your roster in a "what if" sort of way leads to it just getting bloated and you run out of ideas. Remember in WWE one of the biggest things that can happen is a big return/redebut either from injury or from leaving for a while. One way to freshen things up I think would be to get rid of EVERYONE on that list you just made. When you thought of expendable, boring characters on your roster, those were the ones you came up with right now. You don't have to fire them all, but (provided $ isn't an issue) you can send them on leave for varying amounts of time, work with your remaining roster for storylines, and have them redebut. They don't need a fresh gimmick or anything, but absence makes the heart grow fonder. Try shuffling your roster a bit more by sending the bulk of the top of your card on leave. Since CZCW starts with such a talented roster, and you've been running so many shows, it can probably feel like with a lot of your roster you have done everything with them and they have feuded with everyone else.

There was a change to pop gains made shortly after release of TEW2016 that changed pop gains from (0.3-0.5-0.8(?)) for bad-ok-excellent industry to (0.1-0.3-0.5). I went on vacation shortly after release and when I came back the pop gains were changed to the point where I would have to forsake immersion to play a smaller company for something like the RTG to stay afloat. That plus the removal of larger pop bumps if you outperform your popularity have kind of kept me from playing TEW16 nearly as much as I put in with 2013. Also, I don't know if the pop change was documented anywhere or not but I couldn't find anything in the patches thread that indicated the change either :/

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="Millsybeast" data-cite="Millsybeast" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="41193" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>I'm the WWE in 2020, and just about to have Wrestlemania 36. I didn't pay close attention to NXT until late last year, and I tend to sign up alot of regen people who look promising. There is this one guy called Nathan Stones who has been doing well for NXT, after the roster callups of last year, carrying the brand. So he just lost the NXT Title, which he held from August 2018 to December 2019, with 14 defences so IMO would be considered a major player in NXT. I called him up, and he's having easy squash matches on the Raw Preshow so far, but I'm not so sure what the short term future holds for him.<p> </p><p> This is him:</p><p> <a href="https://gyazo.com/1226e7bb6132e02272f64720bafb7bb6" rel="external nofollow">https://gyazo.com/1226e7bb6132e02272f64720bafb7bb6</a></p><p> </p><p> I think that due to lack of Star Quality he might never become the main event player I'd hoped for, but what kind of push do you think would work well for him. I thought of a good idea, but just wanted to run it by here first. Basically the idea revolves around Paul Heyman running his own Stable, he see's this rookie who looks like he could be the new Next Big Thing, due to his high Menace and decent Skills. So he makes said stable, and eventually in the long run it makes Lesnar jealous, possibly leading to a Stones v Lesnar fight.</p><p> </p><p> What do you guys think? <img alt=":)" data-src="//content.invisioncic.com/g322608/emoticons/smile.png.142cfa0a1cd2925c0463c1d00f499df2.png" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /></p></div></blockquote><p> </p><p> I think you need to rationalize why a skinny middleweight appears so menacing to everyone... is he legitimately crazy? Does his personality and mannerisms actually make people fear for their lives? Because given his physical attributes it's hard to buy him as a menacing figure. I think figuring that out will help the dynamic with him and Heyman, and also flesh the character out quite a bit more.</p>

<p>@Stennick</p><p> </p><p> <span>http://i.imgur.com/ntuHmBw.jpg</span><span>http://i.imgur.com/lAk1s0R.jpg</span><span>http://i.imgur.com/x6OzSX0.jpg</span></p><p> </p><p> @Eisen-verse</p><p> </p><p> <span>http://i.imgur.com/c0XY9SH.jpg</span><span>http://i.imgur.com/BqsrbXo.jpg</span></p><p> </p><p> I cut a bald and a long hair Samoan/Pacific Islander from the ThunderVerse onto a C-Verse background for you, so you can pick whichever one fits your character the most!</p>

<p><span>http://i.imgur.com/nHEEfLD.png</span></p><p> </p><p> <span>http://i.imgur.com/VPi0Kj2.png</span></p><p> </p><p> And the Eisen legacy continues... let's hope there aren't any complications with a 41 year old mother!</p><p> </p><p> I just realized BJ O'Neill is Samoan, so now I'm imagining a half McMahon-half Roman Reigns child dominating the WWE twenty years from now...</p>

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="Socko" data-cite="Socko" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="41194" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>For sure, I'm aware of how it works. I was curious whether people thought that the mechanic works well in their opinion. <img alt=":)" data-src="//content.invisioncic.com/g322608/emoticons/smile.png.142cfa0a1cd2925c0463c1d00f499df2.png" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /><p> </p><p> </p><p> That's the kind of info I was after, and it sounds pretty solid based on that. Thank you. <img alt=":)" data-src="//content.invisioncic.com/g322608/emoticons/smile.png.142cfa0a1cd2925c0463c1d00f499df2.png" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /></p></div></blockquote><p> </p><p> I started a Local company in Australia running 1 show a month and I'm currently a quarter of the way into year 4 of my run. I really like Fog of War! I've been playing with Fog of War on, Variance on, and Dirt Sheet off to make it more difficult for me to just auto push the "best" workers, and it's been very rewarding watching as my wrestlers slowly grow and I learn more about their strengths and weaknesses through trial and error. Highly recommend it!</p>

Was there a change to pop gains in one of the more recent patches? I haven't had the chance to play in about a month, but before I was getting 0.5% pop gains with an average wrestling industry at local and now it's down to 0.3%. I can't find anything in the patch notes about Adam changing this so it seems strange to me.

Is Ross Henry an American football player or a football (American soccer) player? His bio says he played for the Colorado Rapids (which is a soccer team in our universe), but he's American. Are the Colorado Rapids a football team or a soccer team in the CornellVerse world?

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="Benrollo" data-cite="Benrollo" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="41174" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>Sounds like a great game! (don't want to quote the whole long post)<p> </p><p> One thing I've always wondered with 21CW... and it's a small thing...</p><p> </p><p> How do you pronounce Faust's surname? Fow-st? For-st? Something other than this? ha</p></div></blockquote><p> </p><p> Pretty sure it's "Fow-st," since I think the character is a reference to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faust" rel="external nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faust</a></p>

I'm taking a look at the past winners/past MAW champions and comparing them to get a good gauge of that for you. One thing to note is that MAW always seems to try and bring in a couple big names from their COTT allies, so borrowing at least one to two guys is a good idea if you want to keep the theme. With a few exceptions, it seems like the Rip Chord invitational was used to push someone to the main event. Some guys who won the RCI won the MAW title shortly after winning (Mainstream Hernandez, Greg Gauge), and some former champs like Vessey and Findlay O'Farraday went from "former MAW champs" to "MAW Hall of Famers" after multiple tournament and more prestigious MAW title reigns following. In other cases, Steve Flash won the tournament as an outsider, probably as a thank-you for the hard work he's done in his career throughout the independent scene, and Greg Gauge won it the year prior while holding onto the title. You have a couple of options. You could have Greg Gauge compete in the RCI and not defend his title, either having him repeat or have him lose and have a tailor made defense for whoever pinned him. You could have him main event against someone you don't want to get the "rub" of competing in the RCI, and give it to a mid-upper midcarder to and try and give them a push over the year to develop. Or, you could let everyone but Greg compete and push whoever wins straight into a feud with the champ (if you don't want to give it to an outsider). In the end, it's all up to you, though I tried to give some context of the event in previous years based on title history for you!

Pushing anyone not in the ring is REALLY REALLY hard at low levels. I'm working my way up through small and the only time I've had a segment actually increase a worker's pop was in a C rated segment, so I don't think pop can actually increase in segments rated below that (this is all just from my experience so I could be wrong)

Not sure if it's any different when bringing a team up but whenever you hire a team, you have to go into tag teams and add the team yourself. Clicking "auto name" once you pick the two wrestlers in question should auto fill it with whatever their tag team is called, and you should be good to go If it doesn't, just put in the name the team had in development.

In the middle of May 2019 in my 0/0/0/0 game and Ricky Storm just got signed by TCW! Looks like he managed to surpass Leigh Burton from that first graduating class! Really liking how much more "open" companies seem to be with signing people from other regions in this game (at least from what I've noticed).

If you know you can't win the regional battle, your only option is to lock yourself at Local until you can build enough pop that you don't drop back down to local or get to the point where you can place higher than 7th.

http://i.imgur.com/1NzVgDq.png Just pulled off this amazing match 1 year and 8 months into my 0/0/0/0 game (Luke Amaro = Surfer Dude Lucas). 4 months and these guys will want their new contracts, and hopefully they don't want too much!

As I progress in my Australia game, here are four retired wrestlers whose regens I gave a younger alt (while keeping in the spirit of the original)! http://i.imgur.com/NwpB3lt.jpg Septimus Stubbs regen http://i.imgur.com/HgciE7X.jpg New Zealand Pit Bull regen http://i.imgur.com/7CrFDBR.jpg Max Langstrom regen http://i.imgur.com/4Emtenu.jpg Drifting Dom Drago regen

Just finished a year on the most recent patch with WPL, my 0/0/0/0 company based in Western Australia. A middling economy and high wrestling industry let us run 15 shows before the first year ended, starting the first 6 months with 2 shows a month and alternating months until the end of the year. Right now we are sitting at 8.7% popularity and are only 6.5k in the hole, so a couple months off and we should be in the black shortly. The biggest struggle has been keeping things fresh. My UC is a retired wrestler, with middling psychology, color, and announcing, so he's been acting as our (bad) road agent. We also operated without a referee for the first few months until we started making some money through sponsorships. We have eight men on our roster, all on two year deals, with the highest paid members being paid less than $300 and everyone earning between 100-200 an appearance. The pickings are slim in Australia, so our skilled performers are Blackwell Bush, Rob Edwards, Surfer Dude Lucas (rebranded Luke Amaro), Christian Blithe, and Lothar Prellinger, rounded out by the undercard guys Ferdy Lloyd, Sexxxy SJB (Juvy Blair) and Bryant Hall. I've brought in a few fresh faces on part time deals, but the exposure they get causes their wages to increase too much even their sparing appearances. Our first champion was crowned in April, with Rob Edwards winning the Young Lion's Cup and becoming the WPL National champion. Rob Edwards, despite being an honorable fighter whose vicious Roundhouse Kick was notorious for KOing all of his opponents, has been putting his integrity aside ever since the Young Lion's Cup. He paid off Bryant Hall to walk out on the semi final match, letting him take out an exhausted Luke Amaro in the finals, and cheated to beat him in their rematch. Meanwhile, Prellinger, upset at being bounced in the first round of the Young Lion's Cup, brough in Annihilus to interrupt the semifinals match between Bush and Amaro, leading to the two teaming up to fight him off. In our December show, though, Edwards ended up being upset by Blackwell Bush in what seemed like a routine defense. After six months of holding onto the gold, Edwards leaned more and more on cheating to hold onto his title, and Amaro had enough, interfering and preventing Edwards from cheating to beat Bush. Amaro's set to have a final blow off match with Edwards, while Blackwell Bush looks to be a much stronger champion on our heel-heavy roster. I'm excited where things are going with this game! Local games are VERY difficult in TEW2016, and I'm loving the challenge of balancing everything. I've done a great job of building up my stars, so I will need to make sure I have a "war chest" so I can pay my guy's increased salaries. I'll also need to be able to double my roster by the time we hit small, though I may cap us at local for the time being so I can stock up on funds. In other Australian news, RAW and APW have recently taken some huge shots at each other, with RAW taking APW's reigning champion Nathan Mackenzie and main eventer Alexander Banks, with APW retaliating by picking up Skyscraper, Nicky Gilbert and Echo. I've never really seen APW fight back against RAW, so it'll be interesting to see what becomes of both promotions.

It says it in the Player's Handbook under "Hiring Workers." The contract is considered a tryout contract if it is less than three months AND three or less appearances.

Here's the rest of what I've put together: http://i.imgur.com/dx5Lc7I.jpg Banky Bremner http://i.imgur.com/ZOqGVXM.jpg Con McReady http://i.imgur.com/7Iit1RO.jpg Elvis Robinson http://i.imgur.com/6omi7hj.jpg Gyula Lakatos http://i.imgur.com/TmLH7Hk.jpg Hack Greer http://i.imgur.com/tip1rWR.jpg Izzy Descartes http://i.imgur.com/qq28IJa.jpg John Temperance http://i.imgur.com/89vrYua.jpg JT Ace http://i.imgur.com/C5810fn.jpg Maniac Monster http://i.imgur.com/952EGCW.jpg Paul Reinhold http://i.imgur.com/4lOIBqw.jpg Richie Fox http://i.imgur.com/b9JMqT1.jpg Sexxxy SJB http://i.imgur.com/SEPn7Br.jpg Surge http://i.imgur.com/bTo0AP8.jpg The Gladiator http://i.imgur.com/XC3D0eS.jpg Toby Tough http://i.imgur.com/1ma4fGJ.jpg Foggy Missed Also, I usually replace Caleb with Robin Newman since that render seems to fit the description so perfectly. With the new version, I'm also swapping Bryant Hall and Bullseye, Brian Rampage takes Toby Tough's original render since it's basically a downgraded version of it anyway, and, with the Northern Lights getting rerendered in 16, I am using Reggie Tate with Alton Vicious's render and Quick Zee with Riddick Jordan's render (from 2013). Obviously all credit for the actual rendering of these goes to sebsplex, whose awesome renders sucked me into this game and world for hundreds of hours.

Thanks man, I know us Australia players are a small niche in the TEW2016 fandom but I knew someone would appreciate it! I'm going through and rerendering/replacing all the yet to debut Australians in the database, so since I have at least one person using them I'll be sure to upload them

Most of my time in the C-Verse has been spent in Australia, where I fell in love with the renders done by sebsplex. Over the past couple iterations of TEW, though, some of the newer and older renders of Australian C-Verse wrestlers seemed "out of place" and, thanks to the old GDSverse renders that haven't found a home in the C-Verse, I've attempted to re-imagine them. The credit for all of these renders, of course, goes to sebsplex and the members of the community who inspired them. http://i.imgur.com/MsAfNEb.jpg Anguish http://i.imgur.com/RK8ODS7.jpg Barney Mason http://i.imgur.com/dw0LlIx.jpg Boot Camp Mikey http://i.imgur.com/phVRX3X.jpg Christian Blithe http://i.imgur.com/y2Zo9Lg.jpg Christopher Gerard http://i.imgur.com/NKs5POG.jpg D-Pod http://i.imgur.com/PMeO8Dd.jpg Felix Harding http://i.imgur.com/lOuo6NS.jpg Fuyuhiko Wakabayashi http://i.imgur.com/zSqn7QM.jpg Gareth Case http://i.imgur.com/c7SaBCO.jpg Kalliope Woodchuck http://i.imgur.com/r84Z1HE.jpg Kian Owens http://i.imgur.com/hnF6wu8.jpg Lorenzo Oliverio http://i.imgur.com/DglncWU.jpg Misery http://i.imgur.com/DZbRLNK.jpg Pink Spider http://i.imgur.com/rZJMONV.jpg Pumpkin Jack http://i.imgur.com/BeNJ3xq.jpg Rob Edwards http://i.imgur.com/kwLz5c8.jpg Surfer Dude Lucas Some are quite a bit different from their original renders, but, not being able to render myself, I'm a bit limited

Due to my love of the Australian C-Verse (mostly thanks to sebsplex's awesome renders) I found that a few worker images seemed out of place. Using the GDS-Verse pictures and modifying them, I change them whenever I play; two of the ones I had to do a lot of work on to get right were Pink Spider and Pumpkin Jack: Pink Spider http://i.imgur.com/a1PWzpA.jpg Pumpkin Jack http://i.imgur.com/nHXCeQ6.jpg