AceCodey

March 29, 2020

STRONG disagree.

June 5, 2019

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="Makhai" data-cite="Makhai" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="46550" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>I actually think that's overblown, he doesn't have negative relationships with anybody and nobody has a negative relationship with him. Could be laziness on Adam's part, but I think he just got the book, and if you look he's not in any starting feuds and clearly is still getting his feet under him as a booker. The product is changing, but I don't think he's entirely put his stamp on it just yet.</div></blockquote> I'm confused by a few of your posts here tbh, Eric isn't and has never been the Head Booker of the SWF. That's Jerry.

June 3, 2019

Not even sure I'll go ahead with this, but I had this idea for an opening segment and I've been wanting to get back into playing TEW so maybe.

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May 28, 2019

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="46682" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div> - In EWR there was an "Over" rating per wrestler, I can't seem to find this in TEW (might it be replaced by the "Popular" rating?) - How do I gauge the overness of my wrestlers? - What's the best way to take create a main eventer out of a wrestler that's an opener right now? </div></blockquote> <ol style="list-style-type:decimal;"><li>Yes, this has been replaced by the 'Popularity' rating. </li><li>See above. </li><li> I wouldn't necessarily say there's a best way, but in general look to accentuate what the worker in question is good at (if they're a good promo, give them promo time) and book them in segments with other highly popular workers. Winning a lot helps of course. </li></ol> <blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="46682" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>- I can't for the life of me get higher than a "C" rating for my tv show, even with awesome workers as Omega, Bucks and Cody Rhodes(!). How do I change this? </div></blockquote> There could be plenty of reasons, especially since you're a new player. Pay attention to the show feedback at the end of the show, as well as the Dirt Sheet notes that you receive after each match (if you don't know what this is, there should be an option in the User Preferences called 'turn dirt sheet off', turn this off. The dirt sheet is one of the tabs in the show phase that allows you to look at all of the penalties and bonuses to a segment's rating, it's very helpful for learning the game. <blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="46682" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div> - The crowd management is quite difficult, I find. I don't know when to use what type of match as I don't know how the crowd is going to react... some help here would be great (what is the best way to set up the shows?) </div></blockquote> I don't know if I can help much with this, I always turn Crowd Management off because I don't really agree with the concept. As a rule of thumb, highs and lows. You want to gradually build up to the main event with increasingly good segments. I don't know a lot else, sorry. <blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="46682" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>- I'm losing popularity in my main region (southeast). How do I grow (quickly?), what will affect my popularity in the regions? </div></blockquote> Your pop is determined by your show ratings, if a show rates higher than your pop it will increase, if it rates lower it will decrease. There are a few other scenarios that can affect it but that's the most obvious. <blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="46682" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>- I like to use storylines, in EWR Sophie would tell me when a storyline was ready to be finished. How do I know in TEW that a storyline is done, over with? - Does a wrestler's overness grow faster with a storyline?</div></blockquote> <ol style="list-style-type:decimal;"><li>There is no in-game indication of when a storyline is 'finished', so it's up to your own judgement. End it when you feel there's nothing more to do, when you need to move workers on, etc. </li><li>Not that I know of. </li></ol> I'd also suggest going to the Small Questions Thread (<a href="http://www.greydogsoftware.com/forum/showthread.php?t=533452" rel="external nofollow">http://www.greydogsoftware.com/forum/showthread.php?t=533452</a>), you're likely to find the answer to almost any question you can come up with in here!

January 15, 2019

Question, what's the functional difference between a dojo and a dev company in terms of the 'sharpen skills' mechanism?

December 10, 2018

I'm preparing to play a multiplayer game with some friends as USPW (in case you're wondering, they'll be SWF, TCW and SOTBPW). Can I get some rules?

Cheers!

March 22, 2018

Confirmed Matches:

Alex Shelley vs. Jack Swagger (w/Zeb Colter)

Comments: Jack has a real programme going on.

Primo & Epico (w/Rosa Mendes) vs. The Wyatt Family (Erick Rowan & Luke Harper) (w/Bray Wyatt)

Comments: Wyatts gotta look strong.

Camacho (w/Ricardo Rodriguez) vs. Evan Bourne

Comments: Absolute guess.

Fandango vs. Heath Slater

Comments:

WWE World Television Championship Match

Kane vs. Curtis Axel (w/Paul Heyman)

Comments:

WWE World Heavyweight Championship Match

The Miz vs. Dolph Ziggler (w/AJ Lee)

Comments:

Bonus Question - A new sheriff of SmackDown will be named in tonight's episode. Who's it going to be? Steve Austin.

March 18, 2018

WWE United States Championship #1 Contender's Match

Davey Richards (w/Kassius Ohno) vs. Fandango vs. Sin Cara vs. Trent Barreta

Comments: 'Dango is feuding with Dean, so a championship match between the two makes sense.

Primo & Epico (w/Rosa Mendes) vs. The Legionnaires (w/Shantellé Bridgetté)

Comments: I feel like The Legionnaires are probably higher on the pecking order.

Corey Graves vs. Shark Boy

Comments:

The Shield (Roman Reigns & Seth Rollins) (w/Dean Ambrose and Summer Rae) vs. The Usos

Comments:

WWE Intercontinental Championship Match

Antonio Cesaro (w/Aksana) vs. Christian

Comments: Feel like this isn't gonna change hands on a TV show.

Brock Lesnar & Curtis Axel (w/Paul Heyman) vs. Tyson Kidd & ??? (w/Natalya)

Comments: Brock perhaps ditches Axel or lays him out with an F-5 to give Tyson and easy win.

Bonus Question - Who is ???: DH Smith.

March 7, 2018

Really interesting start, looking forward to seeing where this goes!

February 27, 2018

Roman was carried in his "good" matches. Lesnar will phone it in, and Roman will just stink up the joint. We will get that and of coarse the fans will crap all over it.

Your overt bias against Reigns ruins the credibility of anything you say.

February 26, 2018

Its going to suck, Lesnar does not care and Roman is terrible. I hope Lesnar goes into business for himself and does stuff to make Roman look weak.

Roman has consistently put on good PPV matches for years, saying that Roman is terrible is just factually incorrect. Come on man.

February 25, 2018

My friend and I have just passed Elimination Chamber, which was booked by him. Here's the link to the video of us running through it:

February 4, 2018

Started a YouTube series with my buddy, one of us booking RAW and the other booking SmackDown, starting from just after Royal Rumble. First three shows (RAW, 205Live and SmackDown) are up, including some major announcements, a WWE Championship #1 Contender being decided and the beginning stages of the Elimination Chamber Qualifiers!

Here's the channel if that interests anybody: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYAOHR7u3iLM9xei9Ca4P9w" rel="external nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYAOHR7u3iLM9xei9Ca4P9w</a>

January 31, 2018

I think the point TheWho is making is that because of the mammoth size of his mod and the manner in which he releases updates (every month), it is impossible to perfectly mimic real life. In the case of the Velveteen Dream's stats, there was probably a time where he wasn't as good as he is now, and this time is what TheWho used when making his stats potentially over a year ago, or even more.

The CornellVerse and even Real Life mods with a set date (such as a 2004 mod) are always going to be more accurate, because the creator can spend all their time perfecting the stats, not having to worry about, for example, Kofi Kingston suddenly becoming far more charismatic than previously thought possible, or the wild improvements Dream has made.

It's unfortunate, but if people want releases every month with updated champions, rosters and etc, there are going to be compromises. The statistics are compromised.

Being aggressive instead of offering actual improvements to someone who is in a race to maintain the accuracy of over 6000 workers and countless other factors is ridiculous.

January 23, 2018

Just wanted to say, this is easily my favourite dynasty on the forums right now. Really good stuff.

January 12, 2018

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Just found it cool thinking about how this lad starts with about 45 Refereeing, and as my company's grown he's transformed into a great referee.

September 5, 2017

"For God sake you come out here with your zipper open"

"I busted it actually. Big Dog."

Roman Reigns is officially the best promo in wrestling history, and any contradicting opinion is factually incorrect.

August 10, 2017

Starting my first "proper" game with the AWF, mod seems really great so far.

July 24, 2017

My gut impression for Emma has always been that she's a proper manager and not your typical attractive valet that people like Hannah and Krissy Angelle appear to be.

July 24, 2017

<div style="text-align:center;">Battleground Review

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Comfortably a Match of the Night Contender. Was surprising to see Xavier Woods as Kofi's partner instead of Big E, but the match didn't really suffer as a result, a testament to the versatility of New Day's members. My only major criticism is that there was blatant cheating taking place in front of the referee. During the early minutes The Usos did the classic heel team thing where the illegal partner cheap-shots the babyface...but the referee saw everything. Most of the time the referee is meant to be distracted because this is DQ or at least worthy of a warning, but I guess not? Anyway, New Day get the win in what was a good opener, I'm looking forward to the rematch, especially considering the only alternative is New Day versus Ascension. Ha.

<div style="text-align:left;">Shinsuke Nakamura vs. Baron Corbin</div>

A solid enough match, but this didn't belong on a PPV / Network special. I'm not convinced by Baron Corbin really, he still needs work if he's going to become a decent WWE Champion. The match wasn't bad by any means, but nothing special. Nakamura gets a DQ victory after Corbin low-blows him, probably setting up another match for later. If they build this better and perhaps go for something like a Falls Count Anywhere stipulation this could be much better at SummerSlam.

<div style="text-align:left;">Women's Five Way</div>

This was slightly better than I expected. SmackDown's Women's Division is really weak so it was nice to see Natalya actually get the win here, WWE attempting to salvage her after the last few years of destroying her credibility. Lana and Tamina continued their alliance of sorts, but I must say it was weird to see the big bad Tamina tapping out to the Disarmer in far less time than it took to get Lana to tap. Becky then tapped out Lana before being immediately rolled up by Nattie, who went on to defeat Charlotte to win her shot. Naomi offered her a handshake, which she rejected. Overall not bad, but probably the weakest or second weakest of the night.

<div style="text-align:left;">AJ Styles vs. Kevin Owens</div>

The only match tonight that genuinely annoyed me, which is a shame because in terms of the in-ring work it was a very good match. Owens and AJ are two of the best workers in the company so that's obviously no surprise. And then the finish happened. The referee was knocked out after Owens threw AJ into him, and from there the two traded submissions, AJ locking in the Calf Crusher, then Owens countering into a Crossface, then AJ countered with one of his own. The referee finally woke up and immediately saw Owens roll AJ into a pinning predicament while still locked in the Crossface, with Owens getting the 3-count. This was a horrible, horrible finish. Firstly, I don't know why the ref-bump happened because it doesn't influence the finish at all. Secondly, how did AJ allow himself to get pinned? All he had to do was release the Crossface and he'd be fine. He then started arguing with the referee as if something illegal happened when in reality he just got pinned. Finally, switching the title to Owens so soon after AJ won it was pretty dumb. Good match but the finish tainted it.

<div style="text-align:left;">John Cena vs. Rusev</div>

I didn't watch this. Cena won. Woo. 'Murica.

<div style="text-align:left;">Sami Zayn vs. Mike Kanellis</div>

Yet again this match didn't belong on PPV, especially after these two fought just under a week ago. Sami murdered Mike for the first few minutes until a Maria distraction allowed Mike to connect with one of his admittedly great punches. Mike dominated for a bit until Sami fired up, made his comeback and eventually hit the Helluva Kick. A retread of their SmackDown match, not all that interesting.

<div style="text-align:left;">Randy Orton vs. Jinder Mahal</div>

The greatest Punjabi Prison match ever.

July 24, 2017

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="Kitarzu" data-cite="Kitarzu" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="41303" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>Thanks. I wonder if someone in the past ever thought of Chase as the C-Verse on screen equivalent of Paul Heyman. Phil Vibert comes first to mind but given the evolution of Emma in TEW 2016, now the parallel could fit even more.</div></blockquote> Emma's very much open to interpretation so you could really paint her from the cold-hearted business-type manager to a valet who flashes people to distract them - so I guess it depends on your image of her. Vibert has that suited-up look and owned a Cult-level hardcore federation that went broke after years of challenging the big two, so he kinda sticks out as the best comparison to Heyman imo.

July 21, 2017

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="Kingster" data-cite="Kingster" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="41303" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>Looking to start a serious SWF game for the first time. And while reading stuff about their workers and the promotion, a question came up: Has it ever been mentioned how the Chase Agency broke up in SWF kayfabe?</div></blockquote> Well The Chase Agency had two "alphas" so to speak, with Brandon James and Rogue both being around that Main Event level (and both men at some point being SWF Champions), so it's not a stretch to imagine that they broke up because of in-fighting between them. What Huntingdon had to do with it all is beyond me.

July 20, 2017

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WrestleMania went quite well.

July 19, 2017

I feel like there are posts on here similar to this so I apologize if it's already been addressed and if the question is a bit long. This is something of a general booking philosophy question. So running an American fed, performance over popularity, essentially 80 percent matches and 20 percent angles for TV. I'd like to think the angles are old school style, interviews mainly and the occasional sneak attack perhaps, but no illegitimate children storylines. Essentially this is TCW in Cverse or NWA Territory style in real world.

Here's my issue: I really hate where two guys in a feud face off against each other directly on free TV. So I see two options to fill TV time, a bunch of enhancement talent matches and one or two more competitive matches with higher-tier guys. Storylines are progressed mainly through angles on the show. Alternatively, what I would call Japan style: almost all multi-man tag matches where feuding rivals square off but not one on one. Storylines are advanced primarily through the matches, occasional angle here or there.

Here's the problems I run into. A TV show with lots of squash matches in this type of promotion seems to do poor ratings (haven't tested extensively, maybe I'm wrong on that?). Even if you have a competitive match or two for main and semi main event, the rating seems to suffer from the lackluster undercard. Good angles don't seem to help enough.

Yet if you do lots of Japan style multi man matches, someone has to take the pin and lose. Often that is a guy I still want to keep strong going into a PPV. So the match ratings are better but the long term effects are blah.

So I'm curious, what do you guys think of the two approaches, or is there another approach that I'm missing? Perhaps putting some guys who are low on the card, but not jobbers, in the multi man matches and having them take the pins is a better solution (Seems to be done a lot in japan) but I feel like it hurts match ratings. I know it's a balance, the question is in your experience what is the best balance?

Thanks.

It's difficult because if you were an SE company with say 60-70% match ratio you could probably get away with putting on one good match a night (like an ME v a midcarder) and then have the rest of the show filled with squash matches, with your angles carrying you.

I feel like the Japan-style is the right way to go here.

July 18, 2017

A couple weeks away from the first ever SWF Championship Games Tournament, where the winner will become the Number One Contender for the SWF Championship. This is how the bracket's looking:

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