Dalton

<p>Alrighty, I am starting my first diary here on GDS. I will be playing as UPJ from the ThunderVerse due to my familiarity with them, and loving puro. You can read a small update from my game <a href="http://www.greydogsoftware.com/forum/showpost.php?p=2383526&postcount=485" rel="external nofollow">here</a>, a small guide on my booking <a href="http://www.greydogsoftware.com/forum/showpost.php?p=2383908&postcount=488" rel="external nofollow">here,</a> and a long, rambing reply about how I book puro <a href="http://www.greydogsoftware.com/forum/showpost.php?p=2384139&postcount=490" rel="external nofollow">here</a>.</p><p> </p><p> My question I have for you guys is it hard to get into a diary of a game that is already three years in? I've been playing this save for like a month with no plans of starting a diary until recently. I can definitely just start a new save for a diary, and keep playing this one on the side for sure, and I don't want a diary to slow down my progress, but it is a kick-ass save that I want to share. </p><p> </p><p> So yeah, better to start a diary with a fresh and new game, or is it just fine to roll with an already-started game?</p>

No problem, I enjoy talking about wrestling and TEW. This will be another loooong post because I'm bored and want to talk about my game. I am by no means an expert of the game, and this UPJ game is one of the first that I've lasted a decent amount of time in. It's really only because I fell in love with the ThunderVerse and can't play any other mod at the time being. Okay I'll try to answer the questions and give more tips. In terms of new hires, it was kind of something that happened over the span of my almost three years of game time (Jan 16-Nov 18). I'm one of those guys that hires my favorites at the start. I TRIED to keep it to a minimum, but some guys I just love, like Fergus Storm, Seven Brandt, Graham Mackenzie, Kris Phoenix, etc. These are guys I was familiar with in my DRAGON game, and thus gave me characters I understood and could book. With that being said, as time went on, and I got a hang of the UPJ roster, I learned I did not need to rely on those guys. Fergus Storm hasn't even won a title for me. In fact, now that I am checking, the only one who has is Kris Phoenix, who had a transitional reign as my Junior champion. I learned that I had a plethora of talent in the Jr. division, with even more talent out there in Japan (like Junichi Matsuo and Dragon Prince) that were either unemployed or working smaller promotions. Other guys that start in the stable that you don't see were guys that over time I released. Des Miller was a shitty backstage personality who gave me grief, so he was let go early (which cost me a lot of money due to his contract), Dustin Lefever gave me his notice like a month in, and since almost all of the contracts have expired over my gametime, if they were bad workers, I let them go. The Hunters for example never did anything for me, so one after another they were cut. Pain & Torture were a special case for me. They were Main Eventers for like two years, but I couldn't for the life of me get a good match out of them. Nevertheless, I had them as the "gatekeepers" for my tag division. In 2016 and 2017, their records as a team (they never had matches without the other) was 36-9 and 15-12, and had a short reign as tag champs in late 2016-early 2017. I didn't release them until August of 2018 when their skills became too subpar compared to my other teams. I also want to mention that I will never ever ever simply sign the best talent available. If there is a reason to sign a native Japanese star, then I will, but it is very rare. UPJ is at war with HONOUR and DIASPORA, and I could so easily sign away their guys who aren't loyal to them, but that would just make the game unfun. I am not a big fan of "gaming the system" like that. Nobuhisa Yasutake is a superstar right now for HONOUR, FKPW, and IWJ (IWJ Triple Crown champion, HONOUR Heavyweight champion, and was FKPW champion from July '17-August '18), but I don't want to sign away an HONOUR star, especially their champion. Being the hypocrite I am, I did sign away Fergus Storm at the beginning of the game though . When HONOUR let Hiro Date walk after his deal expired, I signed him for the last month of my tour. I didn't have plans for Juro Deguchi and was just going to have him in a undercard tag match, but now he had a decent opponent who could put him over at a PPV. Another example is GUSHIKEN, a guy who worked for UPJ for 20 years before going to DIASPORA. He was let go, and then announced he would retire in three months. So, I signed him to a one-month, one appearance contract and replaced one of my small tour shows with a "GUSHIKEN Retirement Show". The show was literally no different than a regular tour show except I changed the name of it, and put him in the main event, him and Kinjo lost to EVR and Deguchi. All of this was just for immersion purposes, and had no effect on my game really. On top of all this, if either of those companies has a Written deal expiring on a guy I want, I will definitely fight for them. That's how I signed James Gilmour, who has had a GREAT run in UPJ for me (UPJ Intercontinental Champion, 13 defenses). Due to my previous game in DRAGON, I learned to appreciate some of the top guys over there, and of course I wanted them for this game as well, seeing as they usually started in Japan anyway. I signed Jung DRAGON and Ryotaro Naruto at the same time, then Cameron Cody's, Evan Kuja's, and both members of the Ambassador's Club's contracts expired around the same time, so I signed them all and made an "invasion" angle out of it. Talisman's excursion ended recently as well, and he is a STAR, so he was signed too. For contracts, I am a big believer in PPA deals for puro touring companies, EXCEPT FOR TOP GUYS. Most of the time for my guys, their Written deal is approximately the same price as 5-6 appearances on a PPA if not more. I carry ~50 active wrestlers at a time, and I run anywhere from 9-15 events a month depending on tournaments, specials, etc. I want to use all my guys at least once a month. My average main eventer gets 6-7 appearances a month (but they're on Written so who cares), and my average midcarder would get about 4-5. Of course, this all depends on if there is a tournament and stuff like that. Some months, if I have a big storyline that will dominate my tour shows and thus leave others out of the mix and down to 1-2 appearances for a tour, then it saves me a lot of money having them on a PPA deal. Top guys = written, upper mids/future stars= exc. ppa, midcard and under=PPA. Touring contracts are there own beast, and I used to sign a lot of guys to touring before I got a nice understanding of the UPJ roster. Now I try to keep my tour contracts to like 2 or 3 a tour. These guys almost always are a part of the six-man tags at the beginning of tour shows, and I look at their performance in each match to see how they compare to my regular guys. If they're good, I sign them to a PPA. That's how I got Corvis Jones, Nathan Jordan, and Sean Girven, among others. Okay now onto scheduling. This is the primary reason I love puro companies now. The scheduling may seem way too complicated at first, but it is so much easier. The biggest thing is no dramatic sports-entertainment storylines. I am nowhere near creative enough to come up with interesting angles to keep myself going. I almost always just did post match attacks, hype promos, etc. It gets repetitive. Puro is different. While yes, storylines definitely exist, they are more about performance in the ring. The G1 winner gets the main event of WK, New Japan Cup gets a title shot of his choosing, etc. I translate that over to UPJ, making booking SO MUCH EASIER. In terms of actually doing it in the game, I do two weekly shows, one on Monday and Wednesday, naming them something like UPJ Road of Champions Tour (Mon.) and UPJ Road of Champions Tour (Wed.), and then change the names of them for the next tour. I wish I could name them Night 1, Night 2, and so forth, but I don't want to rename them every week because I would occasionally forget and then my show history would look wonky, so I do the next best thing. Tour shows never have a singles match unless its for a tournament. Tour shows are previews of the upcoming events. If Oda Yamawaki and Juro Deguchi are fighting at Procession of Champions, they are tagging for the tour shows until the PPV. Tour shows can sometimes be a drawl to get through, but finding fresh combos and stuff like that make it worthwhile. Tournaments also speed everything up. Before I start ANY game, especially puroresu games, I create a spreadsheet and format it for three tours: for UPJ it is January-March, May-July, September-November. That means there are three tour-ending "supercards." Ozeki Summit, Procession of Champions, and Hall of Immortals (I always have a PPV in each month though, just "minor," with special TV events sprinkled in). The TVerse states that the Ozeki Summit is Historic (and is always main evented by the final to the Ozeki Summit round-robin tournament), PoC is Above Average, and HoI is Historic. I treat all three as Historic really, but HoI is the be-all end-all. It is my Wrestle Kingdom. In order to figure out who I want to main event my Hall of Immortals, I gotta figure out the rest of the year's main events. It takes like half an hour to figure all of this out, and trust me, it is worth it. You get immersed in the world, and that immersion is what brings you back to keep playing more and more. Also, setting these goals makes you play until you reach it, so you can see how effective your stories are. I WANT to see if Kintaro Kinjo still has it. Kinjo won the United Cup, and wanted a shot at champion Erik van Rijn. He lost, and thus was back to fighting for another shot. He went on a tear, and pinned Eikichi Minamoto (#1 contender) and Erik van Rijn in the same tour, setting up a match with Minamoto at the next PPV, winner main eventing Hall of Immortals. Kinjo wins, and now I have him booked against EVR. He will lose, signaling a changing of the guard, further cementing 30-year old Erik van Rijn as the present and the future of my company. I also want to follow the meteoric rise of Sean Girven, whose team with Nathan Jordan put up A* matches with Ignite Zero, and his singles run in the United Cup saw him upset EVR, setting up a main event of the next PPV. He lost, but he had a 94 rated match and now I know I can count on him in the future. See? It takes a little bit of imagination, and some liberties being taken with TEW, but these stories are SOOOOO much better than sports-entertainment storylines in my opinion. It will take a lot of in-game time to see these stories pan out, but man oh man are they worth it. Puro stories test your patience, but in the end the payoff is magical. When I first started my most recent save with UPJ, I had a vague understanding of the roster and stables, but as time progressed in the game, it's become almost real to me. I'm the one booking it, but it is sad watching Waotaka Eda's body break down and his ratings drop, only to form a tag team with (and get carried by) Eikichi Minamoto, win the Super Tag League, and soon dethrone Ignite Zero's 6 month reign as champions at Hall of Immortals! TEW is 100% about immersing yourself. I've learned it is okay to not have a plan for each guy at each PPV. If you don't have a plan for one of your main eventers, that's okay, put him in an undercard six-man tag with his stablemates to give them experience. Can't figure out ANYTHING for him? Okay, have him get pinned by someone on a tour show, now he has an opponent for the next show. Tournaments also help a lot. Have your midcard champion lose to someone during the Summit, now he has a ready-made feud. He can lose the title, claw his way back to the title scene, and win it back three months later. Right there is an entire tour's booking for a title. In addition, every single title should not be defended every single PPV. Have the champion tag with a stablemate at a PPV against the guy you want him to defend against in the future. I never have my Heavyweight champ defend his title the PPV before Hall of Immortals, because he already has an opponent picked out, or his possible opponents are fighting to face him there. Have him win a tag match or something. ____________________________ I am probably missing so so so much, but I don't want to just ramble. Man I really need to do a diary of this game lol. And again, it MAY sound daunting, but in reality it is so so so much easier than a Western fed. The startup of a game is longer for me, just because I gotta figure out the entire year's main events in order to book anything, but that's because I like to look ahead and give myself goals to reach. After that initial time, the months FLY by. I can book an Ozeki Summit in one or two sittings, because I used a generator for the matches so I just gotta plug them into the game and choose the winners. I'd be happy to keep talking about any of my game or booking puro in general. I am not an expert, but I got enough of it down that I enjoy it a lot. If I made any mistakes I apologize but I am not proofreading any of this

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="Hashasheen" data-cite="Hashasheen" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="41174" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>This isn't quite about any particular game, but as I'm often based in Japan and run Japanese promotions, I've recently started trying to find good Japanese covers of old songs for my top wrestlers. Inspired by Minoru Suzuki, I guess. <p> </p><p> Anyway, I've just found my first great cover to use for a babyface ace ( </p><div class="ipsEmbeddedVideo"><div><iframe width="200" height="150" src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/KT-54Dh1GKg?feature=oembed" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="" title="スチュワーデス物語「What a feeling」1983 麻倉未稀"></iframe></div></div>). I figured I'd just mention it here, and see if anyone else tries to do this sort of thing in their games and if they have any favorites?</div></blockquote><p> </p><p> What a great idea... I've dabbled in the whole "themes for my guys" shtick before, but as someone who also deals primarily in Japan, that was near-impossible because I can't speak a lick of the language.</p>

I mostly use an offshoot of Atticus' booking strategy which is here. I bookmarked that link and looking back at it, he was also replying to you as well lol. But yeah, it is mostly the same. I’ll use my game as an example. Here’s two stables: RENEGADES: Erik van Rijn, Bruiser Cassidy, Seven Brandt, OMURA, Fergus Storm, Aydan Farrell, Corvis Jones Hall of the United Throne: Kintaro Kinjo, Graham Mackenzie, Captain UPJ, Kozue, Jin Fujiwara, Shingo Hashi, Evan Kuja I TRY to keep tour show matches between factions (in reality, if I have 5 matches on a tour show, only like 3 will actually be faction vs. faction and the rest have touring guys or multiple stables teaming up). So say I want my main event of my PPV to be Erik van Rijn (champion) vs. Kintaro Kinjo. EVR is the leader of RENEGADES, the heel faction that is the T-Verse equivalent of Bullet Club basically. Kinjo leads Hall of the United Throne, the pure-babyface faction. So in the tour shows leading up to the PPV, I’ll have a combination of 6 to 10 man Hall vs. RENEGADES matches. Usually Kinjo and EVR will be in the matches, but sometimes it will be just other members vs. members. A nice wrinkle to that could be the addition to midcard titles. So in this example, say Seven Brandt is the Openweight champion. During these Hall vs. RENEGADES matches on the tour, I can have Graham Mackenzie pin Brandt, setting up another match at the PPV while keeping the faction warfare ongoing. Another wrinkle is the “special” shows that happen during the tour, but before the PPV. For example, leading up to Hall of Immortals (the final Historic PPV of the year), I have an event titled the “UPJ United Forces Tribute Show” which is a TV special. I might have a tag title match, Junior Heavyweight title match, or something like that on the show, with the main event being a preview of Hall of Immortals. So for this, I would have a tag team match, probably EVR and Brandt vs. Kinjo and Mackenzie, two title matches at the PPV. Adding to all of this, I run a total of five tournaments throughout the year, where the matches typically take place on the tour shows. During the Ozeki Summit Tour (G1 Climax), I will have an upper-midcarder or low-end main eventer beat the Heavyweight champion. I do this because I need the champion to lose a match or two so someone else can win the Block so he can challenge the champion at the next big PPV. Usually that big PPV is like two or three months away, so I have other smaller PPVs in the meantime. One of those PPVs will be main evented by the champion defending against the person who pinned him in the Summit. If the winner of the Summit was pinned by someone during the Summit, that can be another match on one of those smaller PPVs, defending the “#1 contendership”. This whole strategy is what New Japan does. When Kota Ibushi won the G1 Climax, he had to defend his #1 contendership against KENTA and EVIL because they beat Ibushi during the Climax. Okada, the champion, also had to defend his title against the people who beat him (SANADA and Minoru Suzuki). I hope that all makes sense. I can definitely elaborate more if needed. I plan out the Heavyweight title matches for basically the entire year before I do anything else. I also keep a VERY detailed spreadsheet on Excel if anyone wants to see it. It maps out all of my PPVs, specials, stables, tournaments, round robin matches, and my entire year’s worth of events (because the TEW schedule system doesn’t allow a weekly event take place on the same day as another event, even if its 8 months away). It’s just easier to keep track on a spreadsheet so I can change my schedule on TEW throughout the year.

Event importance gets built through putting on good shows. You can edit the importance manually in the ingame editor, but the real way to raise importance for an event is to put on a good show. It will take a few years.

*LONG POST INCOMING* Oh man, this is the best mod for the best game I have ever played. I've spent countless hours playing, along with my trusty excel spreadsheet to keep track of booking plans, stables, schedule, tournaments, and so many others. I wanted to try something fresh in TEW, so my first longform T-Verse game was with DRAGON, which I went over two years with before my roster basically became half-DRAGON, half-PWI/AWF (Doherty, E. Paro, G. South, btw Talisman is superstar). So after I was done with that, I went with UPJ due to my newfound NJPW fandom, which I am now two years into. This promotion is my favorite of any mod ever. I am a huge fan of factions in wrestling, and they make booking simpler and more logical. My first major move was to have Juro Deguchi (a Nakamura clone) turn on Kintaro Kinjo (Tanahashi clone) to form his new faction, The Kings of Wrestling, with his three muscle: Pain, Torture, and Ram Diablo. With their help, Deguchi won the inaugural UPJ Intercontinental title tournament in March, and held the title until November at Hall of Immortals. After coming second in both the Ozeki Summit and the United Cup, Kinjo had a new mean streak to him. He set his sights on Deguchi for tearing apart the United Throne, and after beating Ram Diablo in October, headlined the Hall of Immortals against Deguchi, winning the IC title. Unfortunately for me, they had awful chemistry which I didn’t know because they never faced off 1 on 1 before HOI, so the rating was an 80, bringing down my entire show. In other news, my tag team division is the best in the world, bar none. Ignite Zero held the title for my entire first year, beating out Pain & Torture, Graham Mackenzie and Captain UPJ (who had excellent chemistry as a team, so Graham joined the United Throne), Ryotaro Naruto and Jung DRAGON (who both left DRAGON and are now known as the Golden Dragons), and Generation Next (Sean Girven and Nathan Jordan, best friends who also have great chemistry as partners). Ignite Zero and Golden Dragons got me my two highest rated matches at 99 and 98! Generation Next was right behind at 97. Seriously, if you haven’t signed Sean Girven yet, you are missing out. He is putting up 93+ matches with everybody in my main event scene. Gen Next beat Ignite Zero in February 2017. Erik van Rijn is definitely the future of the company, if not the present. He had a nice long feud with Oda Yamawaki (who I have majorly disappointed with) who took the title off of him for the second half of 2016. EVR scratched his way back to the #1 contendership, and beat new champion Kato in his second defense in July 2017. He has held the title ever since (in June 2018). The Junior scene has kind of been a mess. My destiny roll for chemistry has screwed me royally, as each guy has a handful of guys they don’t mesh with causing more booking problems. My current champion is Kris Phoenix, who won the title from Junichi Matsuo. Current stables from most face to most heel: Hall of the United Throne: Kintaro Kinjo, Graham Mackenzie, Captain UPJ, Kozue, Jin Fujiwara, Shingo Hashi, Evan Kuja FEARLESS: Oda Yamawaki, TOKI INK, Daijiro Otsuka, Sean Girven, Kris Phoenix, Nathan Jordan Kings of Wrestling: Juro Deguchi, Ram Diablo, Pain, Torture, Junichi Matsuo European Union: Tommaso Calicchio, Leonzio Battalgia, Nicolo Calicchio, Das Feuer, Javier del Toro (I bought Nu-Extreme Wrestling in Europe for their pop, and took some contracts with me) DRAGONS: Jung DRAGON, James Gilmour, Ryotaro Naruto, Cameron Cody, Paul Crowley, Ebi Kadivar RENEGADES: Erik van Rijn, Bruiser Cassidy, Seven Brandt, OMURA, Fergus Storm, Aydan Farrell, Corvis Jones My Main Unit is led by Ignite Zero, Eikichi Minamoto, Waotaka Eda (who sucks), and Tiger Singh. Having stables is the way to go guys. It really simulates New Japan and the rest of Puro perfectly, and is a ready-made feud option for turns.

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="Hollywood" data-cite="Hollywood" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="42555" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>Does anybody have a link to the "Alting tools" packs? It had a bunch of overlays of steel chairs, beards, and the like and was hoping to use it but I can't find it on my system. TIA!</div></blockquote><p> </p><p> I believe you are looking for this from Asaemon... this is the list of mods that he made with a couple of them being overlays like beards, masks, etc.</p><p> </p><p> <a href="http://www.greydogsoftware.com/forum/showthread.php?t=544320" rel="external nofollow">http://www.greydogsoftware.com/forum/showthread.php?t=544320</a></p>

I'm playing in the ThunderVerse as DRAGON and I have grown consistently over the first two years. I am still at Cult, but will probably reach National in a few years. My pop hasn't grown in Canada very much (less than 20 across the area) but I have a PPV deal that gives me Medium coverage in the USA and Canada. I want to expand into Canada and raise my popularity across the board there. I want to do a weekly event "tour" for a while to grow until I can get a broadcaster there. The only problem I have is that some of my main eventers get pissed when they are left off a show, but I do not want to use all of them for a tour in an area that will grow fast without them being on the show. My question is how do I expand into Canada and not end up irritating my roster?

<p>Just wanted to give a monumental thank you for the Diablo mod. The Nintendo promotion was the first game I ever reached two years in. Also this mod basically single-handedly got me into comics, so my pockets are hurting. </p><p> </p><p> Seriously though, the BEST mod for TEW no question.</p>

<p>Haven't found an answer to this anywhere so asking here.</p><p> </p><p> Is there any way to add a title to a company in a save? One of the companies in my game doesn't have a main event title, and I can't edit the level of a midcard title of another company in the editor.</p>