[(DOTM) New York is Always a Good Idea (Cverse)]

Shocked by the Joey Minnesota get. Who was bidding for him and how excited are you to have him?

[(DOTM) New York is Always a Good Idea (Cverse)]

Shocking news from Larry Vessey. Did you look to grab anyone from WINNOW, ALPHA, CWW or IPW? I love CWW, and I'd hate to see them just shut down. Not like you're touring the UK any time soon...

[WCW 1992 : A New World of Sport]

I mean, I'd belt up Ron Simmons ASAP. Florida guy like Luger, great sports pedigree, good representative for WCW going forward, could be the first guy that Kip 'makes' as part of his new production model.

[(DOTM) New York is Always a Good Idea (Cverse)]

Surprised you didn't filch Aztec Warfare and call it Imperial Strife.

[(DOTM) New York is Always a Good Idea (Cverse)]

How bad was the hit for picking up Aaron Andrews?

[(DOTM) New York is Always a Good Idea (Cverse)]

Only other Co side ration was Empire Championship Wrestling. But that makes the initials ECW, which comes with its own baggage. I actually quite like the name personally. Lol. In a world with the big three being a Federation, a Championship and a plain Pro Wrestling; Entertainment was the one missing moniker.

Could have always cut the middleman out and gone with WWE.

 

Nationwide title was auto-generated by the game. But I’ve grown to like that too. I was going for a more corporate feel, which is reflected in the upcoming story.

Will the Tag Titles at least be the main event titles for the B-show?

[(DOTM) New York is Always a Good Idea (Cverse)]

First of all, the name is terrible. Empire Elite Entertainment sounds like a holding company for nightclubs in SoCal's Inland Empire. Tell me what the other names you were considering. Empire Pro Wrestling or Empire Wrestling Federation had to be considered, surely.

 

With that said, the idea of switching things up to go national while retaining NYCW as an FCW / NXT B-Show model is fine, and kind of expected at this point. Though I don't know how I feel about an NYCW Nationwide title. Keeping NYCW as a tag company with no singles titles could have been very cool.

[(DOTM) New York is Always a Good Idea (Cverse)]

Surprised that you're making this kind of narrative shift, tbh. Curious to see what you're plotting...

[WCW 1992 : A New World of Sport]

Interesting decision, if all rather too international for a southern product like WCW. Its a shame that all the titles are being retired as a result, given the inherent value of the NWA title, but now we'll have to wait and see how the booking plays out...

[(DOTM) New York is Always a Good Idea (Cverse)]

Alas, I could not secure him for the long-term. USPW buying power too high.

 

 

I will have to demand a monthly Brutus Watch update.

[(DOTM) New York is Always a Good Idea (Cverse)]

Brutus Milano needs to be locked down for the long term.

[(DOTM) New York is Always a Good Idea (Cverse)]

Is it just me or have you been incredibly consistent in strangle-holding the COTT World Tag Team titles?

[(DOTM) New York is Always a Good Idea (Cverse)]

The model you have is fine, I think. It's certainly a blast from the past from older generations of TEW.

[(DOTM) New York is Always a Good Idea (Cverse)]

Surprised you didn't think to try a transition to touring with a highlights show.

[(DOTM) New York is Always a Good Idea (Cverse)]

The Biggins Boys set to take those tag titles straight to the main event.

[(DOTM) New York is Always a Good Idea (Cverse)]

It's easy when you get into the flow. You shoudl try it, this type can be really satisfying.

My problem is committing to a regular roster. I sign people and then I want them gone six shows in.

[(DOTM) New York is Always a Good Idea (Cverse)]

I'm definitely reading all of them. Always enjoyed your dynasties, never had the discipline to try and mimic them.

[Black Canvas Grappling: Invasion of the TITANS]

FEAR's reasoning is pretty much my own as well, it's a shame I've set up the National title the way I have and it ends up preventing any gaijin from competing for it. Might be called American, but that doesn't mean I'll stop guys like Svensson or Robinson from gunning for that one.

I was gonna suggest you maybe use some of the White Canvas Grappling titles (I think there's an International one!) that you could use to better reflect it not being 'Black Canvas' approved.

 

I've always been partial to this belt from Christian Shane.

 

Small world! I was the one who requested it, based on a short-lived yet endlessly fascinating dynasty called Bushido Pro! The visuals and colors stuck with me and I suggested it to Christian who absolutely nailed the look! I've sometimes used it as a title for a Fighting TV Samurai equivalent called Shogun TV that launches its own televised promotion.

[Black Canvas Grappling: Invasion of the TITANS]

Nice to see the American title make an appearance. I once set up a scenario where I realized I had so many Texas-originating wrestlers that I wound up setting up Texas Rules (Deathmatch and Tornado) for whenever they held single and tag titles

 

Not sure about the Six-Man titles. I feel like that's always hard to pull off.

[Ignite The Fire ~ ZERO1-MAX]

This might be an odd tangent for me to touch on, but for me, ZERO-1's vibe and roster thematics lend itself very well to these things: 1. 2000s gaijin of the kick-and-grapple kind, not big hosses ala AJPW 2. ex-NJPW veterans, particularly who were around when Hashimoto was, even tangientially and 3. people with some sort of combat sports background, be it judo, karate, mma or sumo.

 

This might be a "no shit" mentality, but I think that ZERO-1 grabbing onto a bunch of ex-indie guys from BJW, FMW, etc... in the early 2000s really contribute to their brand's decline as a cohesive thing until it became nothing more than a super-indie and then just an indie. Masato Tanaka was an incredible talent (and still is, IMO!), but I think he kind of heralded a tendency to just sign guys who had a modicum of popularity but not much synergy.

[Ignite The Fire ~ ZERO1-MAX]

Masato Tanaka & Shinjiro Otani vs. CW Anderson & Steve Corino

Ryouji Sai vs. Katsuyori Shibata

NWA International Lightweight Tag Team Championship: Ikuto Hidaka & Minoru Fujita © vs. Kaz Hayashi & Katsuhiko Nakajima

Kohei Sato & Yoshihito Sasaki vs. Rikiya Fudo & Tomoaki Honma

Fuyuki Takahashi, KAMIKAZE & Takuya Sugawara vs. Keiji Sawaragi, Mammoth Sasaki & Hi69

GENTARO vs. Osamu Namiguchi

Matt Sydal & Jack Evans vs. Taichi Ishikari & Tatsuhito Takaiwa

[What's Going on in Your Game?]

15 months into a game playing as RPW on the 1997 mod, and I've finally broken 0.01 for TV ratings - my TV show jumped from about 4k viewers to 7.5k off the back of a good monthly event.

 

I've barely played TEW in over a year, and only a handful of shows on 2020 at all, so I'm almost having to learn to play from scratch, especially as RPW's product is so different to what I'm used to running. But I'm having a lot of fun booking an hour of TV a week and just concentrating on gradually improving my small indy roster - that just happens to include Tom Gilmore, Rich Money, Brent Hill, Chris Morrisette and Steve Flash, among other CV stalwarts.

 

You should find the worst wrestler in the database and put him in the roster with those guys to see how well he improves.

[Ignite The Fire ~ ZERO1-MAX]

Pretty interesting. I always felt that ZERO-1 became pointless after Hashimoto died as anything other than a random super-indie in Japan (point proven given it's decline in the past decade), so it'll be interesting to see you shape it's identity this early on. Frankly, besides the Fire Festival Sword I was never a big mark for their events.

 

Tally ho, CGN91!

[BCG Thread]

I just started booking BCG as my first real MALE Puroresu game (both realife & C-verse) as the style has always fascinated me but as a huge C-verse mark I never really went across that pond until I randomly rolled companies for a new offline save. I've been having tons of fun getting good ratings and managed to have no prominent injuries or stolen talent so far.

 

I just finished Legacy (I can't remember if this is a default event, I'm playing a slightly modded databased and using some awesome logos I found for the company) and the next big thing on the schedule is The Maeda Grand Prix. I was wondering how other more experienced people have booked the tournament, G1, Elimination, some other cool third way I didn't even think of. Also how many people do you usually have for it.

 

Also if inclined to offer advice, how do you book the Challenger Series, is there a gimmick to it or just a normal Midcard title?

 

I've started looking at the Grand Prix ala the Formula 1. Twenty wrestlers in a round-robin, which makes for nineteen shows. The wrestler with the most wins wins the Grand Prix.

 

I hate the Challenger Series title. One of the renders made for it has three medallions that go with the title, so I do three matches every tour for the medallions, and then the medallion holders challenge the champion. If one of them wins before hand, the others still challenge, and then it restarts the next tour. No one who was in a medallion challenge match the prior tour can be on the following one.

[Black Canvas Grappling: Invasion of the TITANS]

I like that you have that comfort level of booking an all-gaijin main event. That feels very 1980s All Japan, Funks vs. Brody & Hansen to me.