Blake Trask

I tend to rate holistically on entertainment in most circumstances. I sometimes rate managers on microphone since they tend to be slanted to Mic over Charisma, but if they have good entertainment skills in general I'll just stick with entertainment.

So far as I'm aware, the game still has the mechanic where someone who recently left you won't re-sign for a set period (I think it's six months). However, I know that the game also recognises when you've brought someone in for a limited time/try-out style deal and doesn't apply the same block if you go for someone who left you but was only there short term. What I'd like to know is what the upper bounds are for those short term deals. I brought in two guys for three months, and I've decided that I'd like to keep them around for longer. However, I want to give them a slight repackage and momentum reset, and so it would be useful to allow them to leave and then come back. If they've been around for a three month/unlimited dates contract, am I going to get locked out of re-signing them if I let their contracts expire?

Even when not actively playing as my RTG character, he still ribs people. I'm so proud.

That makes a lot of sense, thanks. I'll have to study closely who I have and what exactly the notes are saying. If I pick up my 0/0/0/0 Might need to wait for Matt Keith to come back from injury to see where he stacks up since he's mega over.

How many negatives can someone have in terms of being a figurehead before they become non-viable? If it says 'they're almost there but is lacking in a couple key areas' does that then mean no way no how? I've yet to actually ever use anyone as a figurehead because it seems whoever I have in my main event, someone else beats them out in another category and it says they're overshadowed—everyone has at least one or two penalties, and I get worried I'll put my backing behind someone and then it'll turn out to be a failure. I just want to try the feature out!

Going slow at the minute, but I did just beat my personal best for a match grade in my 97 game. OLLIE, very low cult, cracked an 82 for a match partnering with Phoenix III against El Bandido and Neutron. Bandido carried it, naturally, but Manny and III held up their end. Neutron was actually the weak link cause he's old. I'm pretty optimistic about my chances at the moment, but my top rows feel a little stalled. Still, Manny has a charisma/SQ/performance combo so we should get there in the end. Still weird to have to keep remembering I'm a heavily Perf > Pop promotion as OLLIE, though. (Manny celebrated by pulling an elaborate plot on Luis Montero, annoying him and his three proteges but amusing everyone else. Manny loves ribbing people).

Just picked my OLLIE/RTG game back up after a layoff. Took a little bit of reorientation to remember what I was doing but I got back into it. I booked probably my favourite main event of the save so far. After a tag match with Phoenix III & user character Manuia Kaulu losing to El Bandido and Neutron after being attacked by their rivals Torque, Mateo Iglesias and El Demonio, Luis Montero and Phoenix ran in to make the save. That set up a 5 vs. 5 the following week with Montero, all three Phoenixes and Manny going up against my current champ Bandido, Neutron, Torque, Iglesias and Demonio. Montero picked up the win over Demonio (I wanted to have him pin Bandido, but Bandido didn't want to take the fall) to continue building towards their singles match. I'm thinking Montero will probably take that one since Bandido has had the title for a long while now and Montero has entered time decline, so probably only has a couple more main event years left in him, but we'll see. I've developed a lot of love for Bandido during this save.

Zug zug.

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="Pteroid" data-cite="Pteroid" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="41194" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>So here’s a lore question because I can’t seem to find it anywhere in-game anymore: What does the acronym of F.E.A.R in ZEN stand for? I remember that the A.R stands for ‘Agents of the Revolution’ but I’m blank on the whole thing</div></blockquote><p> </p><p> iirc F.E stands for Four Extreme.</p>

That's awesome!

<p>I created a stable today.</p><p> </p><p> </p><blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="41174" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>Steve The Overlord is a Florida native who has been appearing on shows in the south since late 2017. His 'incompetently evil' gimmick is a fun one, and he's never afraid to make a fool of himself for laughs. He is part of the four-man Evil Inc stable which was imported to WAM wholesale from the independents, and also ostensibly the leader, but is always costing both his allies and himself with his bombastic, egomaniacal behaviour.<p> </p><p> Mostly Mad Morrison (full name, Mostly Mad but Mostly Meticulous Medicine Man Melvin Morrison MD) is a youngster from Fort Lauderdale who portrays a crazed scientist character, always coming up with bizarre inventions to get ahead. He is often associated with his friends Steve the Overlord, Henchman José and Henchman Muhammad as Evil Inc. Many-M is probably the worst wrestler of the bunch, and as a result most often appears as a backstage character and occasional manager (which also enables him to use his weird and wonderful invention props more often). </p><p> </p><p> Henchman José (José Espinoza) is a youngster of Mexican descent, although he was born and raised in Florida, so holds dual-nationality. An enormous fan of both lucha libre and American-style sports entertainment, Espinoza dreamed up the idea of a cartoonish group of characters who could appeal to both audiences, and thus was born the stable known as Evil Inc. José, along with Henchman Muhammad, plays the long-suffering lackey who is always ignored, which inevitably results in the group's schemes falling to pieces. When WAM opened in 2018, it was Espinoza who saw opportunity, pitching the stable to owner Carl Anderson and winning jobs for all four members.</p><p> </p><p> Floridan Henchman Muhammad (Muhammad Al-Shakir) is a talented lightweight wrestler who makes up one quarter of the group known as Evil Inc, a stable of would-be villains who turned up together in WAM in 2018. Although his matches have been very good and he's dedicated to his character, Al-Shakir has always been a bit of an odd one out as he's simply not that great at playing a heel. Still, this just means that WAM could easily have a ready-made turn storyline on their hands.</p></div></blockquote>

<p>To be clear, this refers to the mechanic where working for a big company causes a worker to begin rising in popularity to a minimum threshold depending on the company size.</p><p> </p><p> That mechanic is still there, it's just the increases aren't quite so rapid, as it was causing curtain jerkers to become midcard tier popular within a few appearances.</p>

Funnily enough, the workers mentioning they want a callup mechanic was added because people didn't like it when you called up a worker who had been stewing silently about being in development and had enormous morale penalties. Can't please everyone with this one, I guess.

Re-renders are a matter for personal preference. There are what, ten different Jack Bruce renders? I've actually gone back on certain renders to older versions because I liked those better--I think it's probably the more prudent thing to avoid changing too many and allow people to adjust as they like and what they like better.

Those are some kick-ass islanders, Bison!

<p>I wouldn't say I'm the best/most experienced alter out there, but I do do my own edits now and then. I've had a little bit of luck doing that with GIMP and the 'select contiguous region' tool/manually selecting chunks of the picture and adding them to existing selections.</p><p> </p><p> Then using the 'colorise' tool (sometimes 'hue', off the top of my head).</p><p> </p><p> The one I did most recently was darkening a Mark Adonis render to make him look pacific, which worked fairly well but also wasn't that big a change.</p>

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="rocco100rounds" data-cite="rocco100rounds" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="41194" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>What do those politic news headlines actually do? Playing as TCW and had a headline saying Jay Chord is using his backstage politics to get ahead.</div></blockquote><p> </p><p> It's something that pops up now and then as a flavour thing with certain kinds of negative personalities (usually very manipulative ones).</p><p> </p><p> Doesn't have an effect that I'm aware of.</p>

They will learn on their own by practice in segments of a decent length. However, my understanding is that improvements from segments function in the same way as improvements from matches. Sure, you'll get better just by wrestling, but your progress will be faster if you're wrestling against good workers. I believe the same applies to working segments with high-entertainment wrestlers. They've got better people to learn off. I think therefore it's best to have the trainees entertainment rated, as they're then actively practicing. Having them unrated would be a bit like the limited involvement note, since they're not really utilising their own skills. I do a 'fan meet and greet' as a staple preshow angle with four stronger entertainers and four trainees all on entertainment which seems to work well.

I still remember Bryan Vessey taking on Ernest Youngman as a protege and removing him as a positive influence entirely.

When a mentor takes on a protege, the protege's personality will shift towards that of their mentor immediately. I don't think there's a progressive effect.

<p>Thanks for looking =)</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> Now Shuji's lump of a son is in my data =D</p>

Putting together yet more second generation workers. The latest are the successors to Nation of Filth and Demons of Rage (trained by, not related to), Filth Factor (Grime and Belch) and Grievous Bodily Harm (Arson and Assault). I'm having fun with this.

This is really silly but I'm not going to have the game in front of me for another eight hours. How is Shuji Inuaki's name spelled?

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="King Bison" data-cite="King Bison" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="41174" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>snippy snip</div></blockquote><p> </p><p> That's really cool!</p><p> </p><p> I've recently been developing a lot of affection for the NBTs so awesome to see they did so well.</p>

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="TheZies" data-cite="TheZies" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="41174" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>Long? term? save? <p> </p><p> I don't understand.</p></div></blockquote><p> </p><p> A save game that has lasted in the long term?</p>