Dalton

April 22, 2020

Can't wait for this! i already love the locker room rules

April 22, 2020

I really like the Thunderverse, in fact it is by far the most detailed fantasy / custom scenario. The work that went into this mod is ridiculous. There is a downside to all this though, which is the loading times, there is so much data, wrestlers and promotions, it influences the speeds.

I think the amount of promotions need to be cut down, there is way too many small companies that will never get anywhere. With the new game, the independent scene will basically do the work these small promotions do anyway. I know it will be "weird" to reduce the companies by 50%, but it will help in the long run.

Maybe "convert" some of those companies into performance centers or even "tribute" events held yearly. I think that will create a legit explanation as to where all those companies went. It is the same as most RW mods, the data is so massive, it makes playing a WWE level company impossible.

I think any mod should be focused in having similar data levels to what the Cornellverse has, that database is what has been tested the most extensively and is a pretty good foundation point. I think the Thuderverse has a good 30-40% more overall.

Again, this is not a knock on the actual mod, if anything i think the work done here is exceptional.

I totally understand what you're saying here, but I will respectfully disagree simply because I have never had any loading issues, even 5 years deep into a game. If anything, it loads faster than most mods. I also have a middle of the road laptop.

April 20, 2020

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="MHero" data-cite="MHero" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="47493" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>Somehow missed this in the thread. Vice has most definitely been shelved/canned/kaiboshed unfortunately but if you're looking for a territories era mod, I'd definitely point you in the direction of <a href="http://greydogsoftware.com/forum/showthread.php?t=542739" rel="external nofollow">From The Depths</a> It's made by members of the Thunderverse family and is as close to the vision of Vice that we had at some point as you'll get, it is its own standalone universe as well so you don't need to know any TVerse lore to dive in. <img alt=":)" data-src="//content.invisioncic.com/g322608/emoticons/smile.png.142cfa0a1cd2925c0463c1d00f499df2.png" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /></div></blockquote> Just want to throw in my two cents and say that From The Depths is an excellent mod in its own way separate from the T-Verse. It's very in-depth and it's my second favorite behind the T-Verse of course! Really though, I don't see it get nearly enough praise here

April 20, 2020

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="41411" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>Your save is very impressive Dalton, it's really cool to read all the story that you build. I like the involvement of the IWF it's cool to see this side of Europe. I wonder if UWT would be a good partnership for a Japanese company ? It could be a good choice for the heavyweight division ?</div></blockquote> I've never taken a good luck at UWT or their talent so I can't say for sure how they would do in a partnership. I got lucky with the IWF guys, because I bought Nu-Extreme Wrestling in November 2017, and by that point in the game they had signed a good deal of the top guys in IWF. So when I pillaged N-EW, I brought some of them in. I actually started off with like 6 or 7 guys from N-EW, but I kept the top 3 most talented in Leonzio Battaglia, and Nicolo and Tommaso Calicchio. Leonzio and Nicolo have become uber-talented, especially Leonzio. If you were to try to forge an agreement with any European company, I would recommend IWF for sure. <blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="41411" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>With your save I tried my luck with a touring company but it's difficult for me to find meaning behind all matches, it feels like for me that I just put 3v3 or 4v4 where I pick the wrestlers a bit "randomly" in the stable. I mean, it could be anyone from the two factions it would be same for me. Any advice to try have a logic behind all matches ? </div></blockquote> This is by far the biggest problem in trying to stay "true" to puroresu. Basically, it is boring. There's no doubt about it. I've posted about this before, so I will link you to some posts about delving into the Japanese scene. <a href="http://www.greydogsoftware.com/forum/showpost.php?p=2307484&postcount=441" rel="external nofollow">here</a> is an old post by Atticus, Bigpapa42 had a great post <a href="http://www.greydogsoftware.com/forum/showpost.php?p=2385417&postcount=499" rel="external nofollow">here</a>, and I also posted my strategies <a href="http://www.greydogsoftware.com/forum/showpost.php?p=2383908&postcount=488" rel="external nofollow">here </a>and <a href="http://www.greydogsoftware.com/forum/showpost.php?p=2385414&postcount=498" rel="external nofollow">here</a>. I HIGHLY recommend reading through those posts to determine how you can piggyback off of them to make your own game more interesting. Basically there are a few key points that everyone follows: -Tournaments are key. Like do them now. I am active 9 months out of the year, and tournaments take place in 5 of them, whether they be round-robin G1-style or single/double elimination. -Something that can make a 2v2 faction match better is trying to find chemistry. Its a good feeling finding out two random midcarders in a faction have excellent chemistry, and can now be pushed as a tag title contender, and/or take a spot in the tag team tournament. It gives meaning to those who didn't have any before. -I also spoke on this a few times, but just in case you haven't seen it, booking tour shows isn't exactly required per se. I myself only book two tour shows a week (unless tournaments are taking place and require more). I would definitely get burned out. If you only want to do one show a week, then who cares its your game! <a href="http://www.greydogsoftware.com/forum/showpost.php?p=2385731&postcount=507" rel="external nofollow">Here</a> is my standard year to year schedule. You can chop off some of those tour shows with no issue. I just do them because I like giving my talent more experience. Booking puroresu can be a test of patience, but just like NJPW in real life, the payoffs are so so so worth it. For instance, the G1 Climax ends in August, and the winner does not get his title shot until January. That's a looong time. But once January 4th comes around, the wait is well worth it. Like I said a few posts back about Erik van Rijn and Oda Yamawaki, that was a storyline with twists and turns over the span of 3 years plus. There was a lot of downtime between their encounters, but getting to those big matches at the end of the month and seeing the time I put in pay off was well worth it! One last tip about this, if you do 2 tour shows a week like me, and there's 3 weeks until the big show, you can do the same thing that NJPW does, which is book the 2 shows a week 90% the same, with a substitution here or there. I do 1.5 hour shows, so I usually only book 4 or 5 matches a show. It takes literally 5 minutes to book the first show, and then 3 minutes the next show because I'm using a very similar card. I'm just putting over the other team or something in order to build towards the big show. Also, I am almost certain that the scheduling system and other new features in TEW2020 will definitely help solve these issues of boredom <blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="41411" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>I think I will try my luck again on TEW20, maybe with SPLASH! ? But I don't really know how to book the comedy parts. </div></blockquote> Can't help ya there, I am atrocious at comedy <img alt=":D" data-src="//content.invisioncic.com/g322608/emoticons/biggrin.png.929299b4c121f473b0026f3d6e74d189.png" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" />

April 20, 2020

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="HiPlus" data-cite="HiPlus" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="46105" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>Just smashed out my uni assessment in 6 hours so I wont be stressing about it when the demo is released. (I have two days off work when the demo is released, and was going to do the assessment then, but thought I shouldn't waste time on uni work.)</div></blockquote> I love that you called doing uni work a waste of time and takes away from TEW <img alt=":D" data-src="//content.invisioncic.com/g322608/emoticons/biggrin.png.929299b4c121f473b0026f3d6e74d189.png" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /> But hey you're not wrong!

April 20, 2020

I can only make my resolution smaller, not larger to fit the game.

Ah man, that is unfortunate. Maybe Tom's solution above will work?

April 20, 2020

At this point I’m probably just stinking up the thread with my victory lap posts, and I don't want to derail other discussions going on. So I apologize for this but I just like talking about UPJ sooo here we go

Procession of Champions 2021 is in the books, and thus the second leg of 2021 is complete. It was a successful show, pretty much saving the lack of quality of the rest of the tour. After a disappointing United Cup, decent Junior Mountain Cup and injury-riddled June, July was a lighter schedule and the final event had a great card.

Procession of Champions 2021

-Opening 6-man tag in which Mutiny (Seven Brandt/OMURA/Daga Verde) defeated RENEGADES (Alejandro Lopez/Kato/Goto). Had to put over the new faction in the opener.

-Talisman & Dragon Prince retained the Junior Heavyweight tag titles against the Thunder Dragons duo of Hiryu and Rising Sun. Hiryu has been a strong junior midcarder for me, and so I brought in his tag team partner for the tour and title match.

-James Gilmour beat Magnus Stonebreaker to retain the Intercontinental Championship in a surprisingly great match with a 90 rating. Stonebreaker is improving every day and Gilmour is declining ever so slowly, but I expected a low 80s match.

-Oda Yamawaki over Atonga in a get-Oda-on-the-card-match

-Erik van Rijn over TOKI INK in the first of the Destroy Mutiny matches. Post match Brandt ran down to the ring with a chair, sending EVR running as soon as the bell rang.

-Darren Williams over Hiroaki Yamato to win the International Openweight belt in a good match. Yamato is exploding in skill and popularity, and I want him in a position to chase a title and win it back at Hall of Immortals to give him that “Immortal Moment” (honestly sounds better than WrestleMania Moment).

-Eternal Italy (Leonzio Battaglia/Nicolo Calicchio) defeats Generation Next (Girven/Jordan) to retain the tag belts in a rematch from their match last month where EI won the titles. Sean Girven will be winning the IC belt from fellow Englishman Gilmour at Hall of Immortals.

-Meiyoshin won a hell of a match (93) against Cameron Cody to dethrone the champion after one full year to the day, and 8 defenses. This will lead right to Talisman vs. Meiyoshin at Hall of Immortals

-In the main event, Kintaro Kinjo retained the UPJ Heavyweight Championship against United Cup winner Danny McManus in a 99-rated match! Kinjo’s streak of unbelievable matches continues. He can do no wrong, even in the early stages of time decline. I almost don’t want to take the belt off of him anytime soon…but I have better plans.

Now with that in the bag, that leaves the final leg of 2021. That tour from September to November is host to the Junior Tag Classic, Super Tag League, and the coveted Hall of Immortals! I hope to get through HoI by the time the TEW2020 demo comes out, as I think that the timing will line up nicely enough for me to finally put that bow on the game.

Procession of Champions ended up being the 501st show I booked in this game, which is wild to me because I can never focus on anything this long

April 20, 2020

March 1987 - March 2010

WWE World Television Tag Team - Michael Bennett and Karl Stevenson 1x
WWE World Television - Jon Moxley 5x
WWE Lightweight - Kofi Kingston 3x
WWE Women - Gail Kim 5x
WWE IC - Bobby Roode 1x
WWE World Heavyweight - Shawn Michaels 11x

I am amazed at your game honestly each time I check this thread you are a year further in!

April 20, 2020

Gave the WMMA demo a shot and looks like my resolution is slightly too small. It's a shame. I was really excited for 2020.

The resolution on your device can't be changed?

April 19, 2020

Where will Seven Brandt be working? It's almost certainly going to be a major company

April 19, 2020

Just finished June 2021 with UPJ, which means I am two out of three months into the middle (May-July) tour. It was probably my most noteworthy tour thus far due to the shakeups that occurred.

May: United Cup & Stars of Battle Tour

The United Cup was a decent tour. It spanned 5 nights and was host to a number of 80-89 rated matches with the only one higher than that (90) being the United Cup Final, in which Danny McManus scored a huge upset over Oda Yamawaki in the final. McManus also defeated Kintaro Kinjo and Sean Girven (who I kayfabed as a favorite to win the tournament due to him being seen as a future megastar) before besting Oda.

There’s a few reasons why I put Danny McManus, an Englishman, over one of the Three Pillars of UPJ in the final. Firstly, I didn’t want another Erik van Rijn/Oda match yet, nor did I want another Kinjo/Oda match. If Kinjo is the Summit winner, EVR is the champion, and Oda is the Cup Winner, then it seems like UPJ relies wayyy too much on them. The three of them have had plenty of matches between each other and I am trying to save title matches between them for Hall of Immortals so I don’t “oversaturate,” even though the game doesn’t recognize that. Secondly, Zack Sabre Jr. won the 2018 New Japan Cup by beating Naito, Ibushi, SANADA, and Tanahashi. That’s a murderer’s row and if he could do it, then McManus can too

Now the main event of Procession of Champions is set with the winner of Erik van Rijn and Kintaro Kinjo at Stars of Battle versus Danny McManus.

The tour shows leading to Stars of Battle were standard, except the RENEGADES team of EVR/Seven Brandt/Fergus Storm/sometimes TOKI INK constantly defeated Kinjo’s Hall of the United Throne team, with Seven Brandt picking up the pinfall each and every time.

Stars of Battle was a fantastic show, best wrestling show in the first half of 2021 actually.

-Hiroaki Yamato (21 yr old game generated Ozeki Dojo graduate who is 100% the future best wrestler in the world no question) defeated Nicolo Calicchio of the IWF to retain the UPJ International Openweight Championship

-Generation Next (Sean Girven & Nathan Jordan) beat Seven Brandt and Fergus Storm to retain the tag belts when Girven pinned Storm

-Cameron Cody retained the junior title in a three-way with Dragon Prince and Alejandro Lopez

-Kintaro Kinjo defeated Erik van Rijn to become the NEW UPJ Heavyweight Champion in ANOTHER 100 rated match! I don’t know what I did but after years of playing TEW, I just got my first two 100 matches within like 10 shows of each other.

The real story is what happened after the main event. As Kinjo was celebrating, EVR stood back up and walked over to Kinjo. Kinjo dropped the championship ready to fight against The Renegade. However, EVR picked the title back up and handed it to Kinjo before shaking his hand. Kinjo left the ring and left EVR alone, allowing the almost 40,00 fans in Hokkaido to give him a standing ovation. As he soaked in the applause, Seven Brandt came down to the ring and embraced him, but it’s a swerve! Brandt planted him with the Seventh Sign (double-underhook DDT) in the middle of the ring! Down came TOKI INK and OMURA, both standing off with Brandt before pausing…and putting the boots to EVR! And now Fergus Storm came running down the aisle and squared off with the three mutineers, but backed off and left the ring, seemingly conflicted. Brandt gave one more Seventh Sign to EVR before the three of them posed over his lifeless body to end Stars of Battle 2021.

The stables are now changed quite a bit, with two new factions forming here in May, with Eikichi-gun being the other one. The original plan was for Eikichi Minamoto to lead a heelish crew of bullies to reassert his position in the company by taking the Openweight title and becoming the mini-“final boss” of the belt, a la Shibata or Hiroki Goto. Unfortunately, he was put out of action for a year with Adhesive Capsulitis, which may or may not end his career? Not sure how that injury works. I hope it doesn’t because he isn’t in time decline yet even at 42 years of age. Now, Eikichi is playing a manager role, recruiting unaffiliated talent that are “lost in the shuffle” and would be stronger in numbers. Basically guys that are talented or interesting but that I have no immediate plans for.

Current faction lineup from most face to most heel:

Hall of the United Throne

HW: Kintaro Kinjo, Captain UPJ, Evan Kuja, Hiroaki Yamato, Gao Xi

JHW: Kozue, Jin Fujiwara, Shingo Hashi

FEARLESS

HW: Oda Yamawaki, Sean Girven, Daijiro Otsuka

JHW: Nathan Jordan, Kris Phoenix

RENEGADES (now a neutral faction)

HW: Erik van Rijn, Kato, Goto (Ignite Zero joined after seeing what Brandt did to him)

JHW: Fergus Storm (eventually sided with EVR in June), Alejandro Lopez

The Crown (mix of GWBF and DRAGON talents)

HW: James Gilmour, Danny McManus, Darren Williams, Arron Lennox, Owen Richmond, Thomas Beaumont

JHW: Cameron Cody, Ryotaro Naruto, Paul Crowley, Ebi Kadivar

The Kings of Wrestling

HW: Atonga, Leonzio Battaglia, Nicolo Calicchio, Tommaso Calicchio (Italian trio collectively known as The Families), Shinji Uchikawa

JHW: Talisman, Dragon Prince

Eikichi-gun

HW: Eikichi Minamoto (currently a manager), Magnus Stonebreaker, Bray Fulner, Kohei Hidaka

JHW: Tiger Singh

Mutiny (good name right? Rose up against their leader)

HW: Seven Brandt, TOKI INK, OMURA

JHW: Meiyoshin, Daga Verde

June: Junior Mountain Cup and Destiny events

The 2021 Junior Mountain Cup was the biggest yet, expanding from one 8-man block to two 10-man blocks! I could probably never do this again. It was so much booking. Literally 5 shows a week for three weeks.

It was a pretty standard tournament. At the finals, Meiyoshin beat longtime rival Talisman. The two of them actually won the 2018 Junior Tag Crown before splitting and feuding. Meiyoshin now has a title shot against Cameron Cody.

I also threw together a Dr. Texas tribute show on a Sunday during the tour, as he passed away the week before. He hadn’t worked for UPJ since 1990, but had two Heavyweight title reigns with two tag title reigns, so I felt like I should do a quick show in his honor.

After the tournament, the Road of Destiny shows were rough. Seven Brandt, reigning Intercontinental champion and hottest act in UPJ, was injured until like 3 days after the final Destiny show, and Junior champ Cameron Cody was put out of action until mid-July. Brandt was supposed to lose to James Gilmour due to interference from EVR. So two title matches for a split-tour month are gone. Oh well, I had to improvise and basically use Destiny Genesis on Saturday as a set-up show for Destiny of Wrestling on Sunday.

Destiny Genesis:

-EVR beat Jung DRAGON in Jung’s one-night return (he is terrible now, 39 performance rating)

-Talisman & Dragon Prince defeated Bludfire (Blood TIGER & Ryder) to retain the junior tag titles in a match just to get another defense in.

-Nicolo Calicchio defeated Nathan Jordan in a match before their tag title match tomorrow

-Ignite Zero beat Kintaro Kinjo & Oda Yamawaki in a special tag team main event (originally this was the Brandt/Gilmour IC match but plans had to get pushed back)

Destiny of Wrestling:

-Hiroaki Yamato over Paul Crowley to retain the Openweight title

-Eternal Italy (Leonzio Battaglia & Nicolo Calicchio) defeated Generation Next to win the tag team titles! I want to give Girven another singles push as IC champion soon, probably at Hall of Immortals, so they needed to lose to an established team, and Eternal Italy was the perfect team for it.

-Kintaro Kinjo defeated Kato to retain the Heavyweight title in a slightly disappointing match with a 90 rating. Previously they’d hit 94/95.

June was definitely a rough month. On the bright side, Procession of Champions should be a good show, and Seven Brandt will be back soon so I can resume (start) the RENEGADES/Mutiny storyline.

Quick champions roll call before July starts:

UPJ Heavyweight Champion: Kintaro Kinjo (3rd reign, 1 defense)

UPJ Intercontinental Champion: Seven Brandt (1st reign, 3 defenses)

UPJ International Openweight Champion: Hiroaki Yamato (1st reign, 2 defenses)

UPJ International Tag Team Champions: Eternal Italy (Leonzio Battaglia & Nicolo Calicchio) (1st reign, 0 defenses)

UPJ Junior Heavyweight Champion: Cameron Cody (2nd reign, 7 defenses)

UPJ Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Champions: Talisman & Dragon Prince (1st reign, 2 defenses)

April 19, 2020

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="TheLeviticalLawKid3" data-cite="TheLeviticalLawKid3" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="47493" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>One of the biggest things for me, and it’s probably not that big of a deal to many, is the consistent style of all the pictures. The renders are awesome. I also agree with what The Celt said about characters. The Japanese scene in the C-Verse feels really flat to me, especially Burning Hammer. UPJ has been one of my favorite games because of the characters, even if there are very obvious parallels to Tanahashi, Omega, Nakamura, Liger, etc. on the roster. Speaking of which, if the powers that be want any ideas for UPJ’s expansion — check Dalton’s game updates in the 2016 thread. <img alt=":cool:" data-src="//content.invisioncic.com/g322608/emoticons/cool.png.f00d2562b2c1d873a09323753efdb041.png" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /></div></blockquote> Hey thanks for the shoutout <img alt=":D" data-src="//content.invisioncic.com/g322608/emoticons/biggrin.png.929299b4c121f473b0026f3d6e74d189.png" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /> didn't expect to see my name while reading through the thread! I recommend people also check out LeviticalLawKid's posts in the 2016 thread as well. I enjoy reading his posts about UPJ (and everyone else's) as much as I like playing as UPJ lol. A little change here or there in the beginning of a game can result in an entirely different game which makes it exciting to read and compare them to your own game. Also gives a bunch of ideas to bounce around for the save as well. For instance I bought the COBRA Openweight Championship and renamed it the UPJ International 's Openweight Championship after reading Jon the GOAT's and Atticus's posts about introducing the Blue Rhino Openweight title. Saying that, anyone interested in the T-Verse but unsure of where to start should definitely just take some time to read through the entire thread <a href="http://www.greydogsoftware.com/forum/showthread.php?t=533987" rel="external nofollow">here</a> because everyone has had fantastic stories that they've told. <blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="Atticus" data-cite="Atticus" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="47493" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>Yeah, whoever gets Gao is going to be incredibly lucky. I like the idea of Gao coming into UPJ with Dagger and an invasion force, but I imagine Dagger's return may be too celebrated for that. Then Dagger having good friends in both HONOUR and DIASPORA makes things tricky too if Dagger guides Gao. He could be DIASPORA's heavyweight ace or an ace in waiting for HONOUR (assuming none of their top guys got poached). There's something fun in Dagger having Gao as a top guy in DIASPORA and Taheiji as a top guy in HONOUR as they war on against UPJ. UPJ in general has a couple of exciting prospects who will have only been wrestling for a few years in 2020 that I'm pumped for too. Would also love to just see them go full NJPW and add like 3 extra belts, bring back the junior tag belts, do two tag leagues, a UPJ Cup because why not? Almost feel like UPJ will be entering the phase New Japan hit in 2013/14 right before gaining more popularity in the States, but I don't really know what American they could bring in to get that started. Maybe Leati if he becomes more popular and polished.</div></blockquote> I also would love to see more tournaments to start off the game with UPJ outside of the Summit and Junior Mountain. I created a United Cup, Super Tag League and Junior Tag Crown just to give my game something to look forward to and plan for. Obviously it makes booking puro 1000x easier and more realistic as well. I hope they do something major with the junior division too in order to fend of DIASPORA. Maybe a big time steal to kick off another resurgence (Talisman please!). The junior division definitely starts off a bit lackluster (still better than HONOUR imo outside of Fergus Storm) but definitely has potential.

April 17, 2020

Curious which lucky company snatched up Gao Xi too, assuming they haven't put him through an excursion. It'd be fun to see if he becomes a super young ace for one of the smaller companies.

I'd love it if Gao Xi went to UPJ, but he was rejected by the Ozeki Dojo and was trained by Dagger Ito, so the chances of that are slim, UNLESS Dagger Ito makes up with the UPJ brass now that the Matsumoto brothers are gone forever.

April 17, 2020

Being a puro mark and big fan of the Japanese scene in the T-Verse, the new features regarding excursions, contracts, and scheduling has me elated. I can't wait to see how UPJ expands, or if HONOUR is still a threat to UPJ, or how DIASPORA's Heavyweight division looks! Mostly, I wonder if UPJ has "Westernized" a little bit a la NJPW with so many gaijins, New Japan of America and their U.S. title.

Talisman should be back from excursion so he should be high on the card for DIASPORA. HONOUR's founder and best worker Kenta Sonoda is an old man now. In UPJ, Kintaro Kinjo's getting up there in age and Oda Yamawaki seems to be the next Ace, so we will see if that stays true. I don't believe that there was any standout American star on their starting roster because Erik van Rijn is Dutch. So I hope they have some sort of American there to drive an American expansion. Or Europe with EVR like I did in my game (83 pop across Japan, 82 pop across Europe )

April 17, 2020

WCW Lives Save, or more specifically:
Having Kanyon live up to his potential, 92 pop in the US.
Stealing The Rock for ALL THE MONEY.
Stealing Brock before he even hit the main roster.
Building CM Punk, John Cena and Jamie Knoble as the future.
Starrcade 2003 in its entirety.
Beating WWF in the ratings, national battles, pop and importance.

I will never have a better save than this. I'm sure of it.

I'd love to hear more about this!

April 16, 2020

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="jhd1" data-cite="jhd1" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="42555" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>Never say never...</div></blockquote> Ahhhhhhh yes

April 13, 2020

Name: Peyton Henry

Size: Middleweight

Style: Technical

Appearance (please understand that I many need to take creative license): A white male, brown haired and toned (not ripped), gear is similar to what Jay White would wear. I went through the LondonVerse renders and basically he looks like Dieter York but with maybe not as skinny and with longer hair (like Adrian Gray)

Bio: A young (21) American from New York City who wrestled in the areas for a very short time before heading off to Japan in hopes of being trained in the style of puroresu. His ultimate goal in wrestling is to lead a faction in the largest company in Japan, and win the world title at their biggest show. He may not seem like he has the charisma to pull it off, but give him a chance and he'll blow you away.

Additional Information: Definitely a positive influence backstage!

April 13, 2020

Obligatory "well it depends on the critera"

For USA/Canada, promos/skill/drawing power: Hogan, Austin, Rock, Flair

Same critera in Japan: Rikidozan, Inoki, Tanahashi, Mutoh

April 13, 2020

I can dig it, especially since I've got Hart and Gilmour together now. Mackenzie just hit Time Decline, but I like the idea of a British/European outsider stable. Could also use this to freshen up Deguchi-gun and FEARLESS with some young talent.

I wouldn't be able to do this as I've already been booking them for years, but you could potentially go a different route and host a co-promoted tour with GBWF as @old_gregge did a few pages back with CLLM. McManus and Williams have been working in Japan since I started the game, working numerous tours with basically every company in Japan, so they are plenty over enough, assuming they have done the same in yours. Align a guy with a certain stable for a week or two tour, end it with a big (well, mid-sized) show that gives your Intercontinental Champion an extra defense against McManus or Williams or something. The Staffordshire Saints are not over at all to start but you could pad a tag title defense in there as well!

April 13, 2020

They’ve got Mercury, I believe, but that’s it. PWI has been able to hold onto their dudes. It’s strange.

And the logo is the *American* Puro Society one. Forgot the American in there. It’s not great, but it’s a placeholder and something I can jettison for a name.

Since you have Graham Mackenzie, have you thought about bringing in the other GBWF guys for a run? I have a great stable with Gilmour, Danny McManus, Darren Williams, Staffordshire Saints, and Thomas Beaumont. I kept Graham Mackenzie as an opponent to them because he was in United Throne.

I know it's a lot of foreigners, but by keeping them banded together as an outsider faction instead of integrating them directly into the roster then it makes it more realistic and gives them all a purpose.

April 13, 2020

Still at Cult (B- across the board in the US and has been stuck there for a while), behind a National PWI (B+ in the US), which is just behind me in the global rankings. Not sure if there was a scandal or something, because I can't figure out how they've plateaued while PWI is decently ahead. They're also strong financially, which makes the Hart poach even weirder, now that I look at it.

That is so weird to me. In every single TVerse game I've played, AWF steals a bunch of PWI guys like Scott Hart, Tyler Mercury, Marco De Francesco, Eli Morton. They dominate.

I started an alliance with PWI and GBWF and took the Puro Society logo from the database. It's great to be able to borrow PWI guys for one-offs, especially with Morton's past with UPJ. At some point, he's going to either face off with his old FlatLine partner Eda or team up again.

What's this logo you're referring to? I don't have it for some reason..

April 13, 2020

I'm buying TEW2020 as soon as it comes out, no question. I look forward to that day. It will be rough giving up my 5 year save I have with a puro company, so hopefully I can figure out a way to convert it to a database and bring it over to the new game. If not, that's okay too. After reading about all these features in 2020, I cannot WAIT to take advantage of them.

April 13, 2020

It's actually incredible how you and I took different approaches to UPJ, and yet still have a lot of similarities.

I like the idea of Jung DRAGON winning the Junior Mountain Cup. I was a huuuge fan of him in my DRAGON save awhile back, so I brought him into UPJ, but he went into time decline like a year later and lost all his skills overnight is seemed. He tagged with Ryotaro Naruto as the Golden Dragons and won the tag belts (Heavyweight too, as I just reinstated the junior belts in 2020).

Yamawaki winning the Summit is always good. So talented. I never used Christian Prophet for whatever reason. Maybe I just saw him as a hardcore guy, but then again he has done very well in DIASPORA and HONOUR. I like that you used the Ozeki Summit event as more of a normal PPV, rather than a one-match show. I should do that as well, I usually just have a midcard title match and the Summit Final with a bunch of multi man tags.

I like the Hall of Immortals card a lot. Obvious good main event, if Jung DRAGON is still talented then he should have a great match with the ultra-skilled Matsuo. Huge tag title match too. Scott Hart must've cost you a pretty penny to take him away from America. IC match in a steel cage is different, so I am interested to see how you make that puro-friendly. The Fallen is a great name for Cody and Grace. I think they're both Small sized, so putting them in a tag is definitely a good move so they can compete. If you have Yasutake, it may be a disservice to hold him to an Openweight match, unless he just hasn't gotten over yet.

Just a few notes comparing it to my game because I enjoy looking at how things pan out differently:

-I so badly wish I could've used Deguchi in my game, but when I started the game he was already deep in time decline a 41 years old unfortunately. It was a huge challenge to pull a 90 rated match out of him. I let him go in in January 2020 with a farewell show because I barely used him. No one else has signed him either.

-I'm happy you signed Eikichi Minamoto back to UPJ. He is 42 years old for me right now and has not started declining at all yet. In this upcoming tour he will be started a new faction named Eikichi-gun (Minamoto-gun is too many syllables lol) with a bunch of other unaligned guys including Magnus Stonebreaker.

-Junichi Matsuo was a stud in my game, and I gave him the Junior title in Nov. 2017. He lost it two months later, and then in February of 2018 just a month after losing the title he suffered a spinal injury at a LETHAL event and retired. He's a talented manager now and I've thought about bringing him in to lead a small crew (Matsuo-gun).

-It's cool to see that you used Eli Morton for a match. He was fired by AWF in April 2019 after making racist comments. It took literally two years for that penalty to go away, and so I JUST signed him in April 2021 at 38 years old, which is an off month so now I'm going into May 2021 with him. I'm not sure what to do with him because I have the rest of the year planned out already, but I might give him a world title match against Kinjo in like September before Kinjo faces Oda at HOI.

-I'm sad you let TOKI INK go! He is by no means a stud worker and is definitely a career midcarder, but I like using him in an enforcer role, i.e. Bad Luck Fale to Fergus Storm's Prince Devitt.

-Mr Yamashita still works for me strictly because Honour Katsumoto took him on as a protege, and I really don't want to let Strength & Honour go because they are locker room leaders and I like the idea of having them around as it's realistic. They work like 5 times a year and always lose.

-Sean Girven is a damn superstar for me, which is hard because he is the third gaijin behind EVR and the extremely fast rise of Seven Brandt. I try to stay at least semi-realistic, so it's tough to find a role for him. I've still been using him in a tag team with Nathan Jordan as Generation Next, but I want to give him a singles run with a title so badly. He had a short IC reign and has had countless world title shots that he always loses. I need a placeholder reign between Yamawaki and EVR in 2022 so those two can battle at HOI a final time (with Oda FINALLY beating him in the main event!), so I might give it to Girven, a la Jay White in 2019.

-Pain & Torture never really did anything for me. I gave them a reign or two but they sucked in the ring. They were basically placeholder champions while I had other plans for a team or wanted a short singles run for someone in a tag team, which I did with Kato.

-Furosuto sucked for me too. It's a shame because every other player I've seen in this thread had good plans for him.

-Ram Diablo, a good worker who went south in a heartbeat. He works Canadian independents since 2019.

-I like the Young Lions Cup idea, I floated that idea for myself just yesterday, but nixed it altogether. That being said, I am shocked you are using Dragon Prince as a young lion! I know he's young but he is so talented and is loyal to Shikoku Pro (he starts off with loyalty right?) so I just use him as a top junior guy. 96 SQ is nothing to scoff at!

-Waotaka Eda is another guy who started off in decline so I could never find a role for him. Once I hired Eikichi in 2018, they had a long run and I think three reigns as champions as Warrior Code before I finally let Eda go in 2020.

With those out of the way, I have a few questions for you Levitical:

-I see you signed most of the DRAGON main event scene, as did I, so is your DRAGON similar to mine in that they basically suck now? Most of their starting roster has left and they are stuck with scraps and without a TV deal.

-You said AWF is flailing, which I didn't even think was possible. What are they like right now?

-Do you have plans for Sean Girven in the future? And Nathan Jordan? Both of them can run their respective divisions for me if I honestly wanted them to.

-Is Deguchi still giving you high ratings?

-Who do you think will be Eikichi's partners? Older guys or new upstarts?

I just finished the Ozeki Summit and now go into the United Cup. Kinjo beat Girven in the final to give him a final run on top now that EVR will be enveloped in a long story with Seven Brandt. Kinjo will beat EVR for the title in May, and Brandt will turn on EVR and split RENEGADES into two factions whose members are TBD. Brandt's faction will be named Mutiny, as he rebelled against his leader.

I haven't had a major shakeup regarding factions since 2016, so the middle tour of 2021 is all about that. The RENEGADES fracture and Eikichi-gun starting are the focal points.

Here's my game in May 2021 for anyone interested:

http://www.mediafire.com/file/2rzxbipmgagujm4/UPJ_May_2021.zip/file

April 12, 2020

Just caught up on everything again, and I'm still loving it! I'm trying to sink my teeth into and catch up on the Japanese scene in the C-Verse before TEW2020 comes out, as I was mainly a T-Verse player this game cycle. Your dynasty is showcasing a ton of the guys outside of the bigger companies. Kudos CGN, gonna try to not wait two weeks before I read again lol.

April 12, 2020

Halfway through the 2021 Ozeki Summit and just had my first 100 rated match ever in TEW!!!

Before this I had 17 99 rated matches. Finally hit the big one. I am shocked actually because Kinjo is in time decline, albeit rather recently. Kinjo was penalized for that and for inconsistency. I actually thought there had to be no negatives for a 100 rating, but I haven't really dove deep into studying the mechanics of the game. Fittingly the match was a time limit draw, and both of them now sit at 90-92 pop across Japan!

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