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  1. Hey everyone, This question has probably been asked before but since there are several ways to skin a cat, I'm curious what methods you guys use to increase popularity and ultimately up a worker's status in 2020. I'm especially curious your method when you have someone debut fresh after signing them. I'm thinking about realism here as well, not just a way to "game" the system. Something logical (or as logical as it can be in pro wrestling world :-)) For example, say you are playing as a well established promotion in the C-verse (take TCW for example). You hire someone with good wrestling skills and good entertainment/charisma/mic skills. He/she is basically a regional indy worker and has very little popularity nationally. How do you debut them? Do you give him/her a push right out the gate with wins over jobbers/very low level workers you don't care about, or do you have them do the J-O-B for more established stars and then eventually give wins a little later? Also, do you debut with some introductory angles? Do these angles just feature him/her by herself (like hype videos or straight up intro interviews) or do they involve more over workers immediately? I ask out of curiosity because I see a big difference between the way, say, a WWE type promotion (especially in the old days) would do this vs. the way, say, a NJPW or even ROH type promotion would do it. And also interested how the difference translates in TEW terms. Thanks!
  2. Hi everyone, question - you know how AEW has been using veteran retired wrestlers, all known for their promo ability, as managers lately (a throwback to the old days). I really like this - in terms of the Cornellverse, who are some retired guys who come to mind that would make great mouthpieces?
  3. <p>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.</p><p> </p><p> 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.</p><p> </p><p> 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. </p><p> </p><p> 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. </p><p> </p><p> 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? </p><p> </p><p> Thanks.</p>
  4. <p>Ugh so I made a really dumb mistake and want to fix it without restarting my save.</p><p> </p><p> I signed a broadcast deal for what I intended to be a B show. I stupidly did not check the details of the show before I completed the deal. Turns out I ended up signing a contract for a second A show that is 2 hours. My intention was a B show that runs 1 hour. </p><p> </p><p> I tried to edit the show details but no dice once the deal is complete. I ended up canceling the deal and the network charged me a fortune for breaking the contract. No biggie, I went into the editor and simply reimbursed myself the money as if it never happened. Cool, except for the fact that now I can't sign a deal for another B show for 3 months because of the cancellation. I really want a B show NOW <img alt="" data-src="//content.invisioncic.com/g322608/emoticons/smile.png.142cfa0a1cd2925c0463c1d00f499df2.png" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /></p><p> </p><p> Any ideas on how to reset the 3 month thing? As you can see I'm totally willing to "cheat" to fix this. Oh lret me also mention I simmed a full week before I noticed the mistake. DUH! Any help is appreciated.</p>
  5. This is more of an opinion question. Currently playing as TCW with data from the 2013 game imported into TEW 2016. I'm really liking the way TCW is progressing so far. An issue has come up involving Rocky Golden - his contract is expiring and the owner Tommy Cornell won't even let me come close to the offers other promotions are making to him. There is a huge bidding war for him going on and I'm not even in the running. Frankly the offers seem ludicrous despite the fact that he has 93 popularity in the US. My only option is to go with it and let him leave or cheat and try to edit data to make him stay. I'll probably just let him go but I was curious - do you think someone like Golden is worth 66,000 a month + 10% bonus per event in a promotion that emphasizes wrestling over popularity? It seems outlandish but at the same time I'm on a roll right now and hate the idea of losing someone so popular. Also, have you guys discovered any good ways to stop guys from jumping ship so easily? I lost Eddie Peak earlier in the year and the offers were equally ridiculous, but he was a negative influence and not as popular so I just went with it. Thanks for any advice.
  6. <p>Hello everyone, question about momentum and win-loss records. So in my current save I've hired a lot of talented young guys and I can't push them all at once. I also have some veterans I like for various reasons and I don't want them to be forever damaged by lots of losses.</p><p> </p><p> Is there a point of no return with losses and bad momentum where you can't ever push the worker properly again? Does this have something to do with their current push i.e. keeping them as enhancement talent or opener prevents them from being permanently scarred by lots of losses? I just don't want to permanently ruin someone who doesn't deserve it because of a bad losing streak. </p><p> </p><p> Thanks for any help.</p>
  7. So I need help cheating :-) Started a save that I really like but way too many of my higher end workers are in time decline. Is there any way to edit some of them out of time decline? Tried searching but couldn't find anything. Thanks in advance.
  8. Hey all, I have a question about product settings. This may be more of a general booking question but I think it relates or complicates the game to some extent. Say you have a performance over popularity fed but you still want to run angles, storylines, feuds etc. So the emphasis may be on the matches, but there are still outside the ring shenanigans and blood feuds. Now, if you want to blow off a feud with a brawl based gimmick match (think first blood, Texas death, falls count anywhere etc.) does the blow off match rate poorly because the hardcore setting for your product are very low or non-existent? I ask because in 2013 I remember having a problem with this where, even if I had two strong brawlers in a gimmicks match it didn't seem to rate well. I'm trying to channel realism to an extent here because in old school style rasslin feds and even in very heavy performance oriented feds like ROH there have been really good brawling gimmick matches to end storylines and feuds. Anyone else have a problem with this? Does hardcore need to be set a little higher to simulate this properly?
  9. <p>Wow thanks for the super detailed write up! I really appreciate it. Gonna study this and try to emulate. I'm not new to the game but tend to fizzle out after first few months but now I'm finally at a point where I'm getting past the initial stages so this is really helpful.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="d12345" data-cite="d12345" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="41194" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>I'm in TCW as well and have been having trouble holding guys down - as those pay rise requests get expensive! First thing you need to do is make sure that your guy actually has potential. Look for them in the 'Hot Prospects' or 'Next Big Things' tabs in your Creative Meeting. Next thing is TAKE YOUR TIME. Give any real push from bottom of the card to main event a 12 month window.<p> </p><p> I'll demonstrate my push for Bulldozer Brandon Smith as an example. I'll go month by month. You can get a guy over faster than this but I like realistic sustained pushes that don't sacrifice my upper card by having them job to nobodies.</p><p> </p><p> Bulldozer Brandon Smith's push:</p><p> </p><p> January 2016 he was working in Japan for BCG. Great he'll improve his skills for a few months and I won't have to pay him.</p><p> </p><p> March 2016 - I signed him up at the end of BCG's tour. He had 55 pop in the Kinki region of Japan (awesome in case I want to expand to Japan later on I have a ready made midcarder in their market). His popularity in the states is 32 all around.</p><p> </p><p> I run some vignettes, which didn't do anything for him. I just did that for continuity in my in-game stories. He had a pre-show match week 3 on Total Wrestling where he beat Jimmy Foxx. He made his televised debut at Just Another Day in a win against Dazzling Dave Diamond in a match rated 32! 32! Don't panic though, my card was stacked and needed something garbage to put before my Technical Masterclass bout to calm the crowd. By the end of the month his popularity went from 32-44 just off of 2 preshow wins against Jimmy Foxx and a ppv win against a 50 pop Dave Diamond. Great start.</p><p> </p><p> April 2016 - Lossed to Mighty Mo and lossed in a tag to The New Wave where he was protected. Then he spent the rest of the month beating my lower - midcard jobbers. Goes into May with 51 pop after beating Jimmy Foxx AGAIN at the PPV. He is a supporting member of a storyline where I debuted a new division - 'The Openweight division' (think X-division where big guys and little guys can compete against each other for a lower tier title).</p><p> </p><p> May 2016 - Spends the month racking up a few losses in open match against high work rate guys so he can improve. He loses to Human Arsenal, Benny Benson, Greg Wright, and tags with Brent Hill. At Total Mayhem he squashes guess who?... Flying Jimmy Foxx! Pop at the end of the month 59.</p><p> </p><p> June 2016 - I have 2 shows a week at this point so he works 7 televised matches and a ppv. He goes 6-2 with his losses being to Human Arsenal and Art Reed. Beats a bunch of jobbers and gets a heavily tainted win against Dr. Love Fonzarelli. At Excessive Force he beats a high work rate jobber I got from ACPW Johnny Grunge aka [i forget his original name right now]. Pop is 63 at months end.</p><p> </p><p> July 2016 - 7 matches and did not wrestle on the PPV. Had him in a throw away segment. He went 2-5. However he worked with some top guys work rate wise and pop wise. He took L's to Joel Bryant, Mighty Mo, Wolf Hawkins, and Ricky Dale Johnson. His pop is at 64.</p><p> </p><p> August 2016 - His first storyline! Hint: He comes out on top against my lightweight high work rate jobbers. He's a big bad heel and the storyline is called "Bulldozer Hates Vanilla Midgets." See where I'm going here? He spends the next couple months squashing the lightweight guys while also taking flash pinfall losses to the smaller guys who I want to get over like Fox Mask, Benny Benson, and Greg Wright.</p><p> </p><p> August to December - His record against those vanilla midgets is 9-7. All losses he was protected. He rarely dominated as I wanted to get some of those vanilla midgets over as well. Some of those losses came to non-midgets Ricky Dale, Brent Hill, The Fonz, and Troy Murdoch. Get it? He's a bully who only beats up little guys. He also lost to some of those midgets: Matt Hocking, Fox Mask, and Tigre Salvaje Jr. His wins came against some developmental call ups, one night jobbers, and a few contracted enhancement talents.</p><p> </p><p> However he always won at the PPVs. September win vs Fox Mask, October win vs Tigre Salvaje Jr, and November win vs Matt Hocking. In August he interfered in an All Action Title match and took out both competitors.</p><p> </p><p> His popularity in December is 72 in the USA, Major Positive momentum, and he has Great success in his Vanilla Midget storyline (that I haven't ended yet). This is where I am currently in my game.</p><p> </p><p> A guy from March - December going from 32 pop Opener to 72 pop Midcarder without giving him any kind of rocket push is great. He never beat anyone with pop over 55 at the time of the match. He had some high rated angles with Ricky Dale and Dr Love however. </p><p> </p><p> I don't WANT to push him into the main event but if I did for the sake of your question here's what I would do from this point:</p><p> </p><p> I would feud him with a high up the card babyface like Mighty Mo, who has pop around 82. I'd have him draw with him a few times, cheap count out wins, and at the ppv put Bulldozer over tainted (always protecting or keeping strong Mighty Mo cause I want him to still be a main eventer too). Bulldozer's pop would be about 80 at that point.</p><p> </p><p> Then I'd have him go at it with my babyface champ (someone like Wolf or Sammy Bach). He doesn't need to ever win just be protected in losses. All the matches need to have the 'Open' note as well to make the contests appear even.</p><p> </p><p> That would get him into the mid to high 80s with in the next 2-5 months depending on how realistic you want to be with it. Et voila you have a new main eventer from a jobber in just about a year.</p></div></blockquote>
  10. Hey everyone, does anyone have any good examples of how they took a rookie prospect and turned them into a big star in a performance > popularity fed? A general outline of booking strategy for the prospect and possibly specific matches/storylines/turning points in the buildup would be awesome. I currently have a lot of good prospects in my TCW save and feel a little lost with how to get them more over. Thanks.
  11. Quick question/opinion: I am playing as TCW and running the promotion with a heavy performance over popularity tilt. Think ROH/NJPW/Evolve style. I want to run a round robin tournament similar to the G1 Climax. Has anyone run something like this successfully with a TV show/ppv based promotion? The scheduling is kind of a nightmare because with only one TV show a week, there's only so many matches you can get done. I could make the number of wrestlers involved very small, but it doesn't feel the same. Or maybe just scrap round Robin and go single elimination? Curious on everyone's thoughts.
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