The Nickman

Actually, having WWF not owning WCW and just having them as Sister companies with Talent Trading activated may still be the best way to go.

Anyway, I think the way around this is to set WCW as a Development company (I didn't want to do that) and then have WWF found another child company (the 2000 version of NXT) and then shuffle people around accordingly. Only issue with this is guys like Austin and the Rock won't want to go down to WCW.

That's only for Development, I can't get that to work when it's another company I own. As an example, I can "Take" a worker from WCW on the Child Company Roster screen (note that's different than "Recall" when it's Development), but I can't find a way for WCW to take the worker back. It seems to be a one-way street unless there's some other screen I should be looking at.

Yeah, I thought about doing an alliance, but I'm not sure I like how alliances work in this game for what I want. I think I've almost got it set-up as I'd like, I just can't for the life of me figure out how to send a WWF worker back down to WCW.

Ok, so I'm starting a new game, with a new concept and I'm hoping for some suggestions here, guys. So, essentially, I'm going to play with the very excellent 2000 mod by TheCoolestJedi, and my idea is that Vince has bought WCW and plans to run them as separate companies. So what I've done is set Linda as the owner of WCW and I've set the two companies to have a close relationship and my plan is to play as the booker of both companies. But here's the tricky part... I want to be able to use workers (and possibly belts, not sure I can do this) on both shows.. I'm going to run Raw on Monday and Nitro on Thursday (and get rid of all other A and B shows), but what's the best way to make this a thing? Talent Trade seems like an ok option and is probably my fallback, but in experimenting I've found if I make WWF own WCW I can effectively "call up" (it's not development though) WCW workers to the WWF roster, but I can't find a way to send them back down. How would you handle this situation? Would you use Talent Trades or WWF owning WCW (you can't have both, unfortunately) or even WCW as a development company of WWF? Or some other approach I haven't thought of here?

Yeah, I think I'm boned, I've tried absolutely anything and there's nothing I can do to save the company mid-save.

Has anyone else played the "WCW Goodbye and Goodnight" mod and found WCW inexplicably closes at the end of the first month due to their parent company (Fusient Media Ventures) closing or something? I'm currently stuck booking Slamboree on the last day of the month and whatever I do, when the show finishes my company closes. I've tried using cheats to add money, but nothing stops them closing. Does anyone have any idea of how I can somehow sidestep this issue in PM mode? I'm happy to try anything to save my game, I'm really happy with how well I've booked the first month. I have a funny feeling I'm juicy-fruited here, but just thought someone else might have an idea.

I remember once I had Foley fight two people in a Handicap Match (can't remember who it was now) and I changed his name to be "Mankind, Cactus Jack & Dude Love" before the match. It then showed up on my card as Mankind, Cactus Jack & Dude Love defeated Team X in a Handicap Match

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="The Nickman" data-cite="The Nickman" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="47520" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>So it's the first Raw after WrestleMania X8 and the landscape of the WWF is about to change forever! As there's never enough characters available to flesh out angles as much as I want, here are some of the cliff notes to explain my head canon:<p> </p><p> - At the start of the show, Vince comes out, rebrands from WWF to WWE and announces a new brand split.</p><p> </p><p> - He appoints his daughter Stephanie to take over the Smackdown brand, but in the interests of competition, he appoints his old foe Eric Bischoff to take the reins of Raw.</p><p> </p><p> - The major titles will be decided by a "coin flip", essentially the WWE Title and World Heavyweight, US & Intercontinental, both sets of Tag Titles and the Womens/Cruiserweight divisions will be on separate brands.</p><p> </p><p> - All other workers will be drafted as usual over the next few weeks.</p><p> </p><p> So without further ado, welcome to the first Monday Night Raw of the "brand split era"...</p><p> </p><p> <img alt="20020401.png" data-src="https://i.ibb.co/rmLX9Ht/20020401.png" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /></p><p> </p><p> I have to admit I've made a big mistake here, I forgot Triple H was the US Champion and he's been drafted to Raw already. He was supposed to be drafted as part of the coin flip for US vs Intercontinental titles, so that's something I'll have to rectify somehow in the near future.</p></div></blockquote><p> So the draft and the brand split continues as we have Stephanie McMahon's first ever Friday Night Smackdown and the draft centers around the tag division...</p><p> </p><p> Once again I've made another minor mistake here (I was drinking heavily back when I booked these shows a few weeks ago), instead of it being the Outsiders drafted to Raw (they were already drafted on Monday Night), it's meant to read as KroniK.</p><p> </p><p> The recurring storyline throughout this show is Mike Awesome being taken out (I had to send him to rehab), so I had to find a way to deal with that and take the tag titles from him in a realistic fashion.</p><p> </p><p> <img alt="20020405.png" data-src="https://i.ibb.co/SPCbJC5/20020405.png" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /></p>

It’s really good quality, I like what you've done

Good start, I really enjoyed the format! One small thing, could you show the results for each match just a few seconds longer? A couple of them were really short, and I think there was one you didn't even show. Apart from that though, your format was really smooth and I thoroughly enjoyed your first Nitro!

This is true, although I think you're still better off not having any unimportant vs unimportant worker matches because I think they benefit more from having higher rated matches and they just don't get that when facing other unimportant workers. That's the way I've always viewed my B Shows anyway, although to be perfectly honest, I hardly ever play with B Shows. I usually cancel them at the start of any new save.

You won't get penalised if you have a recognisable worker in the match, it only happens when they're all unimportant.

Cheers man. As with most converted mods, I’m having quite a few problems with steroids and drugs in my workers, and it’s belting around my backstage rating a bit, particularly now that I’ve split the roster back into Raw and Smackdown. For some reason Smackdown has a much lower backstage than Raw which is 100%, even though I’ve tried to balance the personalities. And then literally yesterday, after reading a comment on this very forum I realised I could try and talk people out of doing drugs. So I worked through the whole roster talking everyone out of every drug that was an option. I reckon I got about a 50% success rate, so that’s hopefully going to help quite a bit. The big one that refused to change was Triple H with steroids and I’ve already fined him several times. I suspect a suspension is coming up next, so plan on getting the US belt off him next Raw (Plus I stuffed up the draft and that title’s meant to be decided by “coin flip”). I plan to be pretty heavy handed with anyone who refuses to quit drugs moving forward... I’ll make sure they don’t have any belts so I can suspend them/send to rehab next time they test positive.

My angles are almost always six minutes, unless I get to the end of the show and have to cut time, then I cut the lesser workers’ angles down to five or four minutes until everything fits on the show. Same with matches, most matches are five to eight minutes, main event is usually twelve minutes or so. On PPV’s the good matches are 16 minutes so I can use the Slow Build note, other matches are 8 to 12 depending on who’s involved. It’s Sting and Undertaker, man. I assume Sting flew in from the roof to a tremendous applause and Undertaker straight up walked out and murdered somebody.