The Nickman

I just can't book TV without naming my angles. I just can't. I've tried and I just can't do it... you've seen my shows, that's how I book. My biggest problem seems to be figuring out who to face each other each week, I'm fairly good with filling out the show with angles around that each week. I try and rely on the autobooker to give me my matches for the card, but they're just not usually good.

I also am constantly in awe in the way Zero advances through a game of TEW... takes me FOREVER to book the week to week TV, it's just such a grind!

And now we have Eric's first episode in charge of Smackdown!, where he was only successful in stealing one title back from the WWF guys, although he did also finally secure Chris Jericho's signature in exchange for not having to defend his Intercontinental Title against both Benoit and Guerrero...

Can't you just turn them off and on again? Used to work in previous versions of the game.

I have got the first Raw on the Road to WrestleMania booked though... essentially Vince will book Raw and Eric will book Smackdown! up until WM18, both trying to screw the other guy's workers over as much as possible

Haha I just wanted to use her and the Fink in some capacity... could you actually imagine that pre-show segment in real life? Takes me a LONG time to book TV and I have nine more shows to book before WM18... could be a while yet

So in my game Brian Pillman had an eight month injury (which he was working through) and then I had to send him to rehab for four months. Now I can’t see his injury anywhere because only his rehab is mentioned on the Medical tab... has he magically been cured?

NICKMAN'S INVASION - FEBRUARY 2002, following WCW SuperBrawl XII WWF Championship: Hollywood Hogan (6) - exchanged the title with Kevin Nash on WCW Monday Nitro WCW World Heavyweight: Booker T (5) - defeated Kevin Nash at the Royal Rumble WWF Intercontinental: Chris Jericho (4) - defeated Rhyno at Halloween Havoc WCW United States: Shawn Michaels - defeated Scott Hall on WCW Monday Nitro WWF World Tag Team: The New Age Outlaws (7) - defeated Kevin Nash and Scott Hall on WCW Monday Nitro WCW Tag Team: Lance Storm & Mike Awesome - defeated Edge & Christian at Survivor Series WCW Cruiserweight: X-Pac (2) - defeated Dean Malenko on WCW Monday Nitro WWF Women's: Trish Stratus - defeated Victoria at Starrcade WWF Hardcore: William Regal - defeated Rob Van Dam on WWF Smackdown! WWF 2001 King of the Ring: Edge, defeating Val Venis in the KOTR Final WWF 2002 Royal Rumble: Goldberg, after last eliminating Steve Austin

NICKMAN'S INVASION - WEEK 1, MARCH 2002 While I've got some TEW2020 motivation happening again I thought I'd continue my ages old Invasion angle, carrying over from TEW2016. This show wasn't very good because I picked it up after a several month hiatus and the show was half booked already, so it's a bit disjointed. Anyway, here's SuperBrawl XII, February 2002. We edge ever closer and closer to WM18, where the final battle between WWF and WCW for control of the company will take place!

How do you get very warm momentum on Unimportant workers? I have another thread about this just recently, I really struggle to "game" the momentum system like in previous years. http://www.greydogsoftware.com/forum/showthread.php?t=550714

Haha who is Rockin Rockin??

Yeah, that's what I think too. The penalty to the match rating means nobody really gains much in the way of pop, whereas if you chuck one recognisable guy in there, the match rating is much higher and everyone benefits. Cheers for your input, I think I'll continue to book B Shows the way I currently do.

Oh wow, no Taker for a year really changes things up. I have to say, I really enjoy anything that forces me to alter my booking and “think on my feet”, it seemed like TEW2016 didn’t have anywhere near enough injuries. Like I said, I was tempted to go with Rockabilly and Bret for the win there and have unlikely Tag Champs, but HBK really is a major pain. Having Rockabilly take the pin and Bret allowing it to hand the titles to Owen had to be the next best thing.

Yeah, that’s exactly what I thought and the reason I don’t do Unimportant vs Unimportant. Thanks for your input.

I think you’re missing my original question though.

Just completed In Your House 15: Cold Day in Hell, May 1997... WWF Championship: The Undertaker (retained against Vader) WWF Intercontinental Title: Rocky Maivia (defeated Hunter Hearst Helmsley) WWF World Tag Team: Owen Hart & British Bulldog (defeated Steve Austin & Shawn Michaels © and Bret Hart & Rockabilly) WWF European Title: Ken Shamrock (defended against Marc Mero) Royal Rumble 1997: The Undertaker Next stop... King of the Ring!

Ok, so finally got around to booking In Your House 15: Cold Day in Hell (I really struggle with the grind of booking week-to-week TV)... Jim Neidhart was supposed to team with Bret in the three team Tag Title match, got injured a few days before. I couldn't figure out who to make Bret's partner, so gave it to Rockabilly, who was in a programme with Mankind before Mankind got injured. Toyed with the idea of making Bret and Rockabilly champs, but Shawn would have absolutely NONE of it. Was hard enough getting him to drop it back to Owen & Bulldog. Now, onwards to King of the Ring, where Faarooq will face Undertaker for the WWF Title (mimicking real life, where the Nation will split into three factions following this) as well as the King of the Ring tournament. Probably going to have HHH still win the KOTR, but in my universes that means you always get a WWF Title shot at Summerslam. So... Hunter Hearst Helmsley vs the Undertaker at Summerslam for the WWF Championship anyone??

You can always turn that penalty off if you hate it though

So is there any benefit to having an Unimportant vs Unimportant match on a B-Show? I realise that B-Shows don't impact your company's popularity at all, but I've always shied against these type of matches because they rate so poorly due to the penalty and poor-rated matches don't seem to get workers over quickly enough. Better off having at least one Recognisable (or better) worker in the match to avoid the significant penalty, right? Am I reading this situation correctly? What do you guys do with your B-Shows?

Have you ever thought about changing your match focus just for this event and then changing back? Make one where the last match isn’t so heavily weighted like in Normal Focus?

I’d be happy with this suggestion. I’ve never struggled with money in any iteration of TEW, and always turn on paying the costs of everything in my Backstage rules because of this fact. Would be good if turning on paying for travel felt like it made an actual difference. Saying that, the financial aspect of the game is so minor to me that it doesn’t really bother me either way.

Oh wow, would be keen to see about your game in the “what’s happening in your game” thread over in the main forum. While you’re there, post your champions in the “who’s your champions” thread too!

Yeah, I really want to book the Corporation and the Ministry a bit differently too. Both fantastic stables, but the Corporate Ministry really fizzled out and the whole angle was ruined with the Higher Power thing.

I dunno guys, I don’t think anything WWF/E ever did would be called “High Risk”. To me, even their most Hardcore or Last Man Standing type matches would be no more than Medium risk, despite how much they pumped themselves up. High Risk is some of the extreme type stuff ECW and smaller feds do IMHO. Actual Deathmatches and the like.

Yeah, I had Taker win my 97 Rumble, Austin will win 98. Not sure about 99, will see how different my WWF is by then compared to real life.