Mitsunari

So my last attempt at a diary/youtube series failed due to my computer failing so after building a new machine have finally got around to reinstalling Total Extreme Wrestling. Never been much of a written content creator but always enjoyed doing video content. Have two series that I might make a diary/diary's for don't know if its best to make separate or just combine them The first is a series that's already started on youtube. Which is the NWA using real world chronical august mode. Episode 1 is out, 2 is scheduled for later this week but already recorded episode 3 so getting ahead even if I was going to release two episodes a week on Monday/Thursday. The second series that I kind of want to do, if anyone is interested in following would be Tokyo Joshi Pro. Been watching the Princess Cup on DDT Universe. Plus I am a fan of Yuka Sakazaki and Maki Itoh. Would be using again the same mod as the NWA save. When you think of Japanese real world saves I imagine the majority would gravitate towards NJPW. So could be a little different. Let me know if anyone is interested in following these saves and I'll be happy to create a diary for one/both.

Ah yeah just looked and its set to Internet Free-To-Air so that explains the lack of income from the show. Guess I'll need to move Power to a different network then or eat the loss. At least that explains the lack of broadcast revenue.

Hi guys, Just a quick question about the mod as a little confused. Playing as the NWA yet don't seem to be getting any broadcast revenue from NWA Power. Currently aired two episodes but not a penny in income from the show. According to the current game I should be getting 55% of the revenue. Both shows according to the game drew about 10,000 views so would expect some income from them at least. Any ideas? Is the mod meant to work this way or is there some bug with the broadcast deal? Very confused.

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Chapter 1 Friday 11th October, The Major League Coup. So how does one redefine themselves? People say to redefine yourself you must understand who currently are. Well, what was Impact Wrestling? That was something I was still learning. The roster was hungry for success, talented workers but lacked the star power the other major promotions had. To move the promotion forwards this was something I needed to change. Matt Sydal, they were certainly some eyebrows raised when I suggested making that signing. Still, he ticked the boxes we were looking for. An older wrestler who has the experience and most of all some name power. Once we had him signed him putting him into the X-Division title picture was an east decision. The next problem was the tag team division. Like with most of the roster we had talent but lacked a solid face team we could build the division around. They were a few names that came to mind. Ed and I went and talked it over for a few days. He was keen on bring in Enzo and Cass. I was not sold on the idea. While they added name value the flipside was the reputation, they had for trouble backstage. No the team I wanted to bring in was the Von Erich’s. They were the type of team we could build a division around. They had wrestled for Impact Wrestling before of course. In was Slammiversary 2014. The show was in Texas and the Von Erich’s happened to be a household name. Ross and Marshall were brought in to wrestle due to this fact. Still, that was a long time ago and the Von Erich’s had gone on to make a name for themselves in Major League Wrestling. I told Ed that they were the future of our tag team division. It didn’t take long for Ed to come around to the idea. He made a few calls to the Von Erich’s and sent over the contracts the same day. I told you Ed was ruthless. In a matter of hours, he had the Von Erich’s signed on the dotted line and just like that the owner of MLW was on the phone to me. You see Major League Wrestling had an agreement with us. This was carried over from when I took charge. By snipping the Von Erich’s that agreement was shattered. Still, I wasn’t hired to make friends. I was hired to run creative and ensure the product aligned to Ed and Anthem vision. There was a cold war happening in the wrestling industry. While everyone was looking at AEW who had just won for the second straight week against NXT. Everyone else was making moves and if we were not aggressive, we would be left behind. Even if that meant on stepping on some toes along the way. The promotion wars would not stay cold for long.

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I'm not sure what to think about this? Guess he has had enough of PWG and their fanbase that he called fake and is now planning to show them some good old school wrestling. https://imgur.com/gallery/bkWG17J

Thanks, my idea for the Diary was Impact would be done in Video format. Then in the background, you would have the written entries that are kind of written from a perspective in the future, reflecting and shooting on the event that are happening in the game. Stuff such as hiring, booking decisions the behind the camera stuff. You don't need to read the diary entries to enjoy it but they are there to add perspective to the stuff you do see on TV. Kind of like a companion piece.

<p></p><div style="text-align:center;"><p><strong>Chapter 1</strong></p></div><p></p><p></p><p> </p><p> <strong>October 3rd 2019: Success and Failings </strong></p><p> </p><p> I still remember the nerves before that first edition of Impact Wrestling. Ed had me flown down from Toronto on Monday and put up inside a hotel. The anxiety made it hard to sleep. Worries about what would happen tomorrow when I arrived for the creative meeting and put the show together. They were some decisions I had already made. The wrestler and the fans would just need to accept them.</p><p> </p><p> The bound for Glory main event needed to change. Rob Dan Dam was the most popular person in the company. It made sense to hotshot him into the feud between Sami Callahan and Brian Cage. Brian and Sami were not keen on the idea at first but as it played out on TV they eventually started to warm.</p><p> Another problem we had was the Tag Team Division. The Division was very Heel heavy with only the Deaners and the Rascalz, neither which you could build a division around. We needed to bring in more talent. Make them the cornerstones of the division for the other to challenge.</p><p> </p><p> In terms of the show, it seemed to go well. The feedback show drew a 0.46 TV rating with a total of 376,442 views. I am not really sure I could have called the show a success, but it was a start. With impact booked we could turn out attention to other matters. Improving the quality of the roster was paramount but who?</p><p> </p><p> New Japan Pro Wrestling was on the move. Over the course of the first week, they had offered numerous contracts for exclusive written deals. The biggest signing being Alberto Del Patron, but their once allies Ring of Honor were also targeted. I’m not sure you would have called it a War, but it didn’t take long for hostility between ROH and NJPW to start as they raided the promotion for talent.</p><p> </p><p> We were lucky as our roster was protected by exclusive written deals for the most part. However major talent such as Killer Kross and Brian Cage both had contracts expiring and it was critical we kept hold of our biggest talents. The first episode was done but there was a lot of work to do before our next episode…</p><p> </p><p> Now if memory severs these were the matches we had booked for the next show.</p><p> </p><p> ---</p><p> </p><p> Brian Cage VS Eddie Edwards</p><p> Taya Valkyrie VS Madison Rayne</p><p> Rhino VS Michael Elgin</p><p> The North VS The Rascalz</p><p> Ace Austin VS Rich Swann</p>

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Real World October 2019. Playing as Impact about to debut on AXS TV. Lots going on as NXT just moved to USA network, AEW is about to start on TNT and NWA Power on Youtube. Should be lots of competition for talent, just letting the mod play through now and that they aren't any major flaws. Sim a few years into the game just to make sure everything is working and then be good to go.

Whenever a game is sold on steam they take a cut. Which is normally around 30%. So for the game to go to steam they would have the make enough sales from it being on the platform to make up for the income lost on steam. One can assume that because the games don't go straight to seem Adam has calculated that the loss of income from each sale isn't negated by any more expected sales and so isn't worth selling on that platform when it comes to a new release. However, it is worth putting the older games on steam that are at the end of the sales life as might get a few extra buys that he wouldn't have normally got.

The game just installs over the beta. Everything from the demo is still linked. Been modding your RW October mod for a while during the demo. Installed and working perfectly now I've reset the date. Just letting it run on a watcher save in the background before starting a long term game with Impact.

Oh, it's true! It's damn true. And downloaded.

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="nerodragomir1" data-cite="nerodragomir1" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="47578" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>Yeah, Landxx mods seem to have super O.P stats. I rememeber really loving one of my NJPW saves in 2016 using Landxx but the mods not really for you if you want a real challenge. His mod is great if you just want to get super highly rated shows from everyone.<p> </p><p> Sometimes feels like I would need a mod like Landxx to get a high scoring show in 2020 right now though. I routinely get matches rated under 10 when booking Raw or smackdown.</p><p> </p><p> Who would have thought viscera vs job guy could get that low?!?</p><p> </p><p> Serious question here, but how am I supposed to get a guy over in 2020 based off of matches?</p><p> </p><p> If a guy comes in at zero pop. How am I supposed to get him to be recognizable? What if I don't want to do promo's? Do I need to have him kill my recognizable guys? That doesn't seem fair. I should be able to have him smash jobbers for a bit. I shouldn't be getting a 6 rating. That seems too low for a squash match with viscera.</p><p> </p><p> Personally I give all viscera matches at least a 50 score because he's a BOI & I love him!</p></div></blockquote><p> </p><p> I did a little test on Sunday while watching NASCAR. Loaded up the C-Verse and SWF picked some random person with little to no popularity. Booked them in squash matches with people on the card, including a couple of hired local talent. Just had the auto booker do the rest of the show.</p><p> </p><p> Below is the result.</p><p> </p><p> <a href="https://imgur.com/gallery/QjtqlWJ" rel="external nofollow">https://imgur.com/gallery/QjtqlWJ</a> </p><p> </p><p> Highest popularity was 5 and seen as an unknown. By the end the three-month trial he was at 38 and seen as recognisable. Had I also been booker properly and putting him in segments/storylines as well as having him win on TV/Events sure he would have ended up with higher popularity than he did? Still, it is possible over a three month period to take someone from 0 to at least recognisable mid-carder.</p>

Prologue Part 5 Diary Entry 5: Saturday 28th September... Rumblings from the east For all his faults, and Ed had many of them, his major flaw was how he could rub people the wrong way. You don’t rise to top of an organisation like Anthem without being both ruthless and cunning. Ed had both characteristics, but he was also intelligent. For the most part anyway. New Japan Pro Wrestling, they had established themselves as the undisputed number two promotion in the world. The fans were disenfranchised with the product us and WWE had been putting out. They went looking for an alternative and New Japan delivered. They experienced massive growth in an era the wrestling industry was on the decline. In the weeks leading up to me taking over Impact. I spent many nights locked in my hotel room. Watching how they presented and booked its stars. Hoping to learn from the blueprint they had laid down. Ed saw the importance of allying ourselves with New Japan. If we could get the likes of Hiroshi Tanahashi, Kazuchika Okada and Tetsuya Naito on our programming. We could become the most talked-about show in wrestling. Despite All Elite Wrestling and NXT battling it out every Wednesday night. Ed well he was an ambitious guy. It’s a shame he rubbed people the wrong way. While I was sat in my hotel room. Ed was meeting with representatives from Bushiroad, New Japans parent company. AXS TV was New Japans home in America. Ed offered a deal if you could call it that. We enter a working agreement or AXS TV drop New Japan programming. The Japanese are a proud people and they don’t take kindly to blackmail. I didn’t know this at the time but the rumour around the locker room was the representative from Bushiroad had Ed escorted from the building and put on the first flight back to Toronto. See Ed wasn’t the only person with ambitions. New Japan had been making moves both on home soil and abroad. World of Stardom, yeah, I hadn’t heard of it either. They were a Joshi promotion based out of Tokyo. Still, the company was valuable enough for Bushiroad to buy it out. They wanted to dominate both the men’s and women’s scene on home soil. Their ambitions didn’t end there. We both knew they wanted a piece of the action in North America and back home in England. They had mainly allied themselves with promotions like Ring of Honor and Rev-Pro Wrestling. That was going to last forever. They had dipped their toes in the water and then decided to jump straight in. They didn’t just throw Ed back on that plane they followed him. He was still somewhere over the ocean when the news broke. New Japan announced the establishment of a US-based subsidiary, New Japan Pro-Wrestling of America to be based in California. The Kings of Japan had a new goal in mind to become the number one company in America. Ed poked the bear and then lead it straight to me. The End And so the stage is set. New Japan of America looking to take over. An impending war between Impact and the NWA while WWE/NXT and AEW engage in an arms race while battling on Wednesday Night TV. Looking forward to getting some episodes done with this save Impact should be out by the weekend.

They have already shown that they can make a more modern style UI using the software and game engines they currently have. If you go threw the images of Bowl Bound College Football, I know its a different game but it's still made by Grey Dog Software. And while it looks dated know it was much closer to the old Football manager interface from the 2007 era. With the side menu for options etc. Bowl Bound College Football UI FM 2007 UI Now both UI look dated by todays standard, but atleast it was modern looking for the time, it was released. I don't know if they used a different programing language for BBCF or it was a choice from the developer of that particular game but it shows they can make more modern looking UI's. If the UI is limitation of using VB6 then the question remains why stick to that platform thats 22 years old now and not look to advance the game forward onto newer code?

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="Charvalos" data-cite="Charvalos" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="49289" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>I won't pay 35$ for a game developed with a technology not supported by Microsoft since 2008 and with a UI stuck in the late 90s.</div></blockquote><p> </p><p> While I am buying the game this is my biggest disappointment. 2020 should have been the year to bring the game forward. Leave visual basic in the past and bring the game over to a modern engine. Instead, we are stuck with a game technology-wise is pretty much the same as it was in 2004.</p><p> </p><p> If you look at comparative games. This is currently going to be retailing for more than Football Manager 2020. About the same price more or less than Out of the Park Baseball 2021 and Starters Orders 7 and more than Motor Sports Manager. All using much more modern game engines.</p><p> </p><p> If you image a developer created a game on Unreal 2 and then released it for a $35 price tag in 2020 they would be slaughtered. Yet it's perfectible acceptable for TEW to be in this state. The only reason TEW gets a pass is that its the only real game of this type on the market.</p><p> </p><p> I want to see Adam and Greydog do well but in its current state, it seems like TEW has reached the end of what's capable on visual basic and needs a rebuild on a new engine to really move the game forward. I honestly think if the next version of TEW after this is the same game, still running on VB then it will be the end of this franchise.</p>

I'll be getting the game on release day.

It really depends on what you are trying to do and how quickly. If you want to hotshot someone to the main event then he Goldberg Push... is one way of quickly moving someone up the card. WWE and WCW have both used this in the past with Goldberg, but also Ryback used the same template when he got to the main event before finally losing to CM Punk as another big example. Putting them in storylines is another way. There isn't a right or wrong answer. To be honest, if I was doing this properly, I would use a mixture of the two. Have a storyline where he feuds with someone. Worker A beats Worker B Work B is annoyed as loss, cuts a promo on worker A Worker A beats someone else Worker B attempts to attack him be fails Worker A challenges Worker B to a match Worker A beats Worker B again Worker B attacks worker A after the match... ETC spread that out over the course of a month or a month or on TV/PPV so you have the worker in a feud while he has his domination run.

the ones I said... Victor being selected as the person you want to get over Then Dominate, Decisive, Pinfall Victory... Had him beat Remo a few times until he handed in a request to leave, which we rejected then just picked random people on the card after that. They are two matches he lost because I forgot to select the victor note. One against Remo and the other against Randu Unleashed. All the rest were victories.

Since I have nothing else to do, decided to load up the game and jump into the C-Verse. For the purpose of this little experiment loaded up SWF. Then signed some random guy called Wolfie Tagg who seems pretty much like an unknown. Don't play the C-Verse so maybe he is the next John Cena? Don't know what his pop-cap ls like. Spent the save booking him in squash matches, then letting auto booker do the rest as I have no intention of carrying on the save. Here are the results. Now, this is just from booking 5 minutes or fewer squash matches against people on the roster and nothing else. Sure if you run angels and stuff with the worker you could boost that quicker. He went from unimportant to recognisable in that short amount of time. So yeah, seems like he was getting over.

One minute match with the following road agent notes. Dominate, decisive, pinfall victory. While you are at it set the opponent for burial. Make him long strong damn it. Your main event scene might not be happy, but you can create new main eventers.

Prologue Part 4 Diary Entry 4:Thursday, 26th September, The Ultimate Opportunist It could not have been more than a couple of days before I was due to take over from Don Callis and Scott D’Amore. Ed Nordholm and I were having our daily meeting over breakfast. My role was still unofficial at that point. Still, we would meet every morning and discuss the business. This was Ed’s way of making sure I was familiar with talent before taking over at the next show. It’s here that the news broke in the wrestling media. “NWA appoint Scott D’Amore and Don Callis” I still remember the headline like it was clear as day and Ed’s reaction from hearing the news. It’s no secret that there was bad blood between Ed Nordholm and Billy Corgan. The news story read as followed. ‘The National Wrestling Alliance is due to enter a new era. Today we announce that NWA wrestling will be returning to your television screen. Our new weekly show NWA Power will be shown on demand on the NWA official Wrestling YouTube channel. NWA Power is bringing back studio-style wrestling. As part of this new era, we are pleased to welcome Scott D’Amore and Don Callis to the creative team. These men are both vastly experienced in the wrestling industry. We look forward to having a long and successful partnership together’ We were both stunned. Was this planned? It was clear from the few meetings they did not like me. After the betrayal from Ed they liked him even less. Now it made sense the reason my calls fell on deaf ears. Billy Corgan had gotten the better off us. --- ((So it looks like the full release of the game will land next Thursday, so episode 1 should finally be out this time next week. In the meantime, we have one last little bit of prologue, adding the final touches on the world-building to come early next week. Then the diary starts properly from then.))

Lol, someone in marketing must have misprinted the posters... XD Ed won't be happy with them when he finds outs. Thanks, October 2019 until now has been a very interesting time to be a wrestling fan. Well, pretty much the whole of 2019 really going back to the announcement of AEW. To quote Brian Zane from, Wrestling with Regret. An arms race between promotions heading into the end of September and then October. With AEW and NXT both starting to air on primetime TV. But then the Impact moves to AXS, the NWA announcing power. New Japan Pro Wrestling making moves firstly buying Stardom and then announced the formation of a new American subsidiary of the company, named New Japan Pro-Wrestling of America. In reality, this happened at the end of the month but for fitting in with the world I've added them in to start as I didn't want to have to add them while in-game. But its was certainly a busy month in the wrestling industry with lots going on and lots of competition to sign talent and tie them down to written deals which has been going on all year.