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<p>Did the economy crash?</p><p> </p><p> Also check your momentum</p>

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="joshspicer" data-cite="joshspicer" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="46722" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>You have my interest. The concept is different and I'm curious where it goes from here.</div></blockquote><p> </p><p> </p><p> Thanks, first proper diary attempt but I wanted to do it on my own terms, meaning playing TEW the way I like to play it rather than just doing what makes a good narrative.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="joshspicer" data-cite="joshspicer" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="46722" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>Lucha Lucha is gonna take Mexico by storm eventually.</div></blockquote><p> </p><p> The good thing is along with current product trends and our product we get extremely good sponsorship income. I already made 1000 literally just waiting for my roster to sign deals.</p><p> </p><p> The bad news is there’s no way we are going to be competitive in regional battles for quite some time and we may have bitten off more than we can chew with our planned War with MHW</p><p> </p><p> </p><blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="smw88" data-cite="smw88" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="46722" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>Fun start</div></blockquote><p> </p><p> The narrative ended up being far more interesting than I am a writer. Although I like where my persona is headed as the now Owner of a new company. The character is almost like a Mr McMahon type where it’s a slightly more plays up version of myself so the fact that it makes a good narrative so far makes me happy.</p><p> </p><p> I was really hoping to land a job, and I think a starting roster of El Critico + random youngsters could’ve been fun along with the counter culture product, but alas it wasn’t to be. It did surprise me a bit as I’ve done Unemplyed starts before and gotten hired before 6 months, sometimes people die or lose the book or one of the owner/bookers decides to hire a booker, I’ve also had games where way more companies open the first year. But instead, it made an interesting narrative, again, as the persona being an extension of me the player, being vindictive over this disappointment. So a lot of the dynasty as we come along will be about that War for regional Mexico, and El Critico will certainly be developing a Hatred for our PC and vice versa.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="Wicked Intentions" data-cite="Wicked Intentions" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="46722" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>Nice little starting roster, but if go by their bio pics... I say Isabella is hotter than Catalina... in my opinion. Can't wait to see the first show.</div></blockquote><p> </p><p> I think the whole deal with Isabella is she looks like a child, hence her lower sex appeal. It’ll likely improve as she ages slightly and maybe I can get her some burritos and churros to her her a little more size on her as she’s one of the tiniest wrestlers in the business right now.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> Thanks, I think the initial shows won’t be too interesting just because my roster is literally 8 people and shows will be like an hour, but I’m interested myself to see how we’ll grade out and the work we will need to do to get to Regional.</p><p> </p><p> Small is right around the corner even though I started on Rock Hard, not quite the same as a genuine 0 pop 0 dollar game, but still a valid start for the sake of the narrative I think.</p>

<p><strong><span style="text-decoration:underline;">Roster</span></strong> as of January 2017.</p><p> </p><p> <strong><span style="font-size:18px;">MEN'S ROSTER</span></strong></p><p> </p><p> <img alt="Mbu7AII.jpg" data-src="https://i.imgur.com/Mbu7AII.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /></p><p> </p><p> <strong><span style="font-size:14px;">Alphonso Bravo</span></strong></p><p> </p><p> <strong>Age: 18 [Rookie]</strong></p><p><strong> Size: Muscular Lightweight</strong></p><p><strong> Gimmick: Underdog</strong></p><p><strong> Disposition: Tecnico</strong></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> <em>Bravo is a rookie with a lot to prove, he lacks presence and charisma but is a Cique Jr prodigy with excellent fundamentals. He's also a local talent who is willing to work for near nothing, so I brought him aboard as one of the companies originals. He's a good athlete and will make his opponents look good, he may have long term upside for us. </em></p><p> </p><p> <img alt="E2m7Pwu.jpg" data-src="https://i.imgur.com/E2m7Pwu.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /></p><p> </p><p> <strong><span style="font-size:14px;">Cique Jr</span></strong></p><p> </p><p> <strong>Age: 45 [27 Years]</strong></p><p><strong> Size: Muscular Middleweight</strong></p><p><strong> Gimmick: Patriot</strong></p><p><strong> Disposition: Tecnico </strong></p><p> </p><p> <em>Cique Jr needs no introduction and is the biggest star in he company currently. He also eats up almost all of the budget singlehandedly, but he was brought in as the primary road agent and will also singlehandedly stabilize the lockeroom, however small. He's also still in good shape and can still go in the ring, and will be able to carry some of our more green workers.</em></p><p> </p><p> <img alt="xAdI44i.jpg" data-src="https://i.imgur.com/xAdI44i.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /></p><p> </p><p> <strong><span style="font-size:14px;">Doctor O'Haire</span></strong></p><p> </p><p> <strong>Age: 33 [12 Years]</strong></p><p><strong> Size: Middleweight</strong></p><p><strong> Gimmick: Evil Surgeon</strong></p><p><strong> Disposition: Rudo </strong></p><p> </p><p> <em>Local talent Doctor O'Haire has the charisma, gimmick and camera skills required to be a primary rudo in the early days while we build up our resources. He is one of the most experienced guys currently on the roster and has no major weaknesses.</em></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> <img alt="LR3ApIJ.jpg" data-src="https://i.imgur.com/LR3ApIJ.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /></p><p> </p><p> <strong><span style="font-size:14px;"> Fernando </span></strong></p><p> </p><p> <strong>Age: 18 [Rookie]</strong></p><p><strong> Size: Muscular Light Heavyweight</strong></p><p><strong> Gimmick: Band Member</strong></p><p><strong> Disposition: Tecnico </strong></p><p> </p><p> <em>Fernando is extremely impressive with his combination of size and charisma, however he is extremely green who lacks fundamentals. He was hired after his genuine musical ability was discovered. Not only can he provide a wrestler, he can even provide some live entertainment for our shows. He is another prodigy of Cique Jr, and will be looking to his mentor to continue improving.</em></p><p> </p><p> <strong><span style="font-size:18px;">WOMEN'S ROSTER</span></strong></p><p> </p><p> <img alt="9YyuxWt.jpg" data-src="https://i.imgur.com/9YyuxWt.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /></p><p> </p><p> <strong><span style="font-size:14px;"> Elsa Calvo </span></strong></p><p> </p><p> <strong>Age: 26 [5 years old]</strong></p><p><strong> Size: Small</strong></p><p><strong> Gimmick: Occult</strong></p><p><strong> Disposition: Rudo </strong></p><p> </p><p> <em>Mean but pretty, Calvo is the oldest woman on the roster and will be looked to for a good example. I really don't have much of an opinion of her but she can stick around if she impresses and improves.</em></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> <img alt="23snBQj.jpg" data-src="https://i.imgur.com/23snBQj.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /></p><p> </p><p> <strong><span style="font-size:14px;"> Isabella </span></strong></p><p> </p><p> <strong>Age: 19 [Rookie]</strong></p><p><strong> Size: Very Small</strong></p><p><strong> Gimmick: Dancer</strong></p><p><strong> Disposition: Tecnico </strong></p><p> </p><p> <em>Isabella is a decently athletic pint sized rookie trained by Cique Jr. I have no faith in her ability to be of any value of an asset as she is not good looking nor talented, she was however brought in by recommendation from Cique Jr, and she is willing to work for $100 a show so she was brought on board</em>.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> <img alt="MoSJ7TM.jpg" data-src="https://i.imgur.com/MoSJ7TM.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /></p><p> </p><p> <strong><span style="font-size:14px;"> Maribel Mercado </span></strong></p><p> </p><p> <strong>Age: 26 [8 Years]</strong></p><p><strong> Size: Toned Very Small</strong></p><p><strong> Gimmick: Arrogant Heel</strong></p><p><strong> Disposition: Rudo </strong></p><p> </p><p> <em>Maribel is a very underrated wrestler who we are super happy to have. Pretty and solid in the ring and solid athleticism, she will have an impact with LL.</em></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> <img alt="slE7BFj.jpg" data-src="https://i.imgur.com/slE7BFj.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /></p><p> </p><p> <strong><span style="font-size:14px;"> Catalina Vasquez </span></strong></p><p> </p><p> <strong>Age: 22 [4 Years]</strong></p><p><strong> Size: Small</strong></p><p><strong> Gimmick: Fan Favorite</strong></p><p><strong> Disposition: Technico </strong></p><p> </p><p> </p><p><em> Vasquez is the only shared worker currently in LL, but for good reason, she is one of the most beautiful women in Mexico and has a ton of potential.</em></p>

<p><img alt="zgahxKD.jpg" data-src="https://i.imgur.com/zgahxKD.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /></p><p> </p><p> <strong><em>January 1st, 2017. </em></strong></p><p> </p><p> <em>Happy New Year.... Woo. My life has spiraled into a pit of bitterness and anger, and nothing has materialized since the the heartbreak in Mexico, but ever since that day I've had a fire under my ass like no other. I started working overtime and saving every single dollar I had, I've basically been living on the dollar menu, 99c store, bus passes and thrift stores for clothing. Every penny I've earned otherwise is going towards this wrestling company... and it WILL happen.</em></p><p><em> </em></p><p><em> In fact, when the 1st hit is the day I finally pulled the trigger on the company. Swearing vengeance on El Critico for his slight of me, I opened up a company with everything I had saved over the last 9 months. I bought a ring, I setup a small office and after everything was all said and done and the company was only missing talent, I was left with $2500.</em></p><p><em> </em></p><p><em> $2500 dollars....</em></p><p><em> </em></p><p><em> If I can make this work I deserve this. I had spent several months researching Lucha Libre to establish what kind of product I wanted.</em></p><p><em> </em></p><p><em> Key Traditional, Mainstream, Lucha Libre and lots of sexy women. </em></p><p><em> We are going straight into the fire here, OLLIE and the hated MHW are both running amazing shows in Mexico and even CMLL will be hard to beat. Additionally, sharing workers with those more established companies will be difficult, as we will need to work around their schedules constantly.</em></p><p><em> </em></p><p><em> </em><em><strong>Challenge Accepted.</strong></em><em> </em></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> <img alt="B7awTU9.jpg" data-src="https://i.imgur.com/B7awTU9.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /></p><p> </p><p> <strong>Lucha Lucha!</strong></p><p> </p><p> Owner: The Grand Avatar</p><p> Booker: The Grand Avatar</p><p> Size : Local</p><p> Location: Northern (Mexico)</p><p> Style : Lucha Entertainment</p><p> Prestige : 0</p><p> Momentum : 0</p>

<p><img alt="zgahxKD.jpg" data-src="https://i.imgur.com/zgahxKD.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /></p><p> </p><p> <em><strong>August 1st, 2016</strong></em></p><p><em> </em></p><p><em> Please.... Please. This is it, 6 months have passed since I went on this mission to take over the wrestling industry. Absolutely no jobs have opened up in the 6 months, and I've been forced to sit on the sidelines while it all unfolds.</em></p><p><em> </em></p><p><em> That is, until now...</em></p><p> </p><p> <img alt="TweE3A4.jpg" data-src="https://i.imgur.com/TweE3A4.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /></p><p> </p><p> <em><strong>El Critico</strong></em><em>, legend of lucha libre, and perhaps one of the most underappreciated. Now towards the twilight of his career, he's always been good enough for the big leagues, but he remained a OLLIE loyalist for years. Enter </em><em><strong>Mexican Hardcore Wrestling</strong></em><em> El Critico's brainchild to bring something totally new to Mexico, a DAVE-style rebellious counter-culture fed that still remains faithful to the core of lucha-libre.</em></p><p><em> </em></p><p><em> It's a brand new company and the smallest in Mexico, but it was also an opportunity. One that I've been dying for. I took a trip to Mexico and tracked down El Critico after an OLLIE show, if I was going to pull this off, I'd need to pull out all the stops. </em></p><p><em> </em></p><p><em> My Spanish was …. rusty.. to say the least, but luckily I had planned for this scenario earlier and bought some drinks for a local who spoke English and convinced him to go to the local wrestling show with me. </em></p><p><em> </em></p><p><em> "Hola Senor...."</em></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> <em><strong>August 6th, 2016</strong></em></p><p> </p><p> ….<em><strong>Tiger Salvaje Jr</strong></em><em>. This can't be real. I didn't get it... I didn't get the job. Me, the best in the business, the genius who only needed an opportunity. I was passed over for a mediocre kid who has no experience and no credentials.... I mean sure, I also don't have experience or credentials, but damn it I at least can dedicate myself full time to the job. He chose a mediocre tag team guy wo works for two other companies as his booker.</em></p><p><em> </em></p><p><em> El Critico is a moron! Originally I was planning to make my fed in America if it comes to this, but this complete slap in the face has made me full of vengeance and wrath. I will now open directly in the area of</em><em><strong> Mexican Hardcore Wrestling</strong></em><em>, declare war on them and run them into the dirt, just to prove a point. I am now even more motivated than ever. </em></p><p><em> </em></p><p><em> Be afraid wrestling world... be very afraid </em></p>

<p><img alt="zgahxKD.jpg" data-src="https://i.imgur.com/zgahxKD.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /></p><p> </p><p> <strong><em>February 1, 2016</em></strong></p><p> </p><p> <em>One month has passed and still no opportunities, I had reached out to several wrestling companies without a head booker, but they were all run by gung-ho owners who refused to have someone else in charge of the day to day operations. Hmph, we'll see how far the mighty Warrior Engine and it's brand of dumpster wrestling goes without my creative genius! They will be filing for chapter 11 in a few years! Senile old fools....</em></p><p><em> </em></p><p><em> Looking at the world of wrestling unfold before my eyes. Allen Peckerhead and </em><em><strong>USPW</strong></em><em> are on a machine to destroy wrestling as we know it, signing just about every worker with any kind of promise from every major indy in the country. I'd honestly love a shot at booking USPW, but I know it will probably never happen, at least any time soon. Still they managed to sign </em><em><strong>Donnie J, Roger Cage, Hell's Bouncer, Greg Black, Masked Cougar and Nelson Callum</strong></em><em> all in one month. They are draining the independents of life while also making their rivals weaker all at their massive financial firepower.</em></p><p><em> </em></p><p><em> Must be nice...</em></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> <strong><em>March 1st, 2016</em></strong></p><p> </p><p> <em><strong>North of the Border Pro Wrestling </strong></em><em> was in the news today, big news on the wrestling sites, apparently business is in a slump and they are scaling back on company growth right now. All of this, and do you think they'd remove that bimbo from her post? Of course not, I am still sitting here jobless while nepotism runs one of the greatest talent pools North America has ever seen into the ground. </em></p><p><em> </em></p><p><em> It makes me sick... </em></p><p><em> </em></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> <strong><em>April 1st, 2016</em></strong></p><p> </p><p> <em>The status quo remains and I'm finding it difficult to remain patient. I just need </em><em><em>something</em></em><em>. Bills are piling up and I've already maxed a few credit cards, I've had to take a part-time job changing tires for an auto-repair shop. It's vapid and grueling work and I hate every second of it, but it is the only thing keeping food in my belly and a roof over my head while the world of pro wrestling dances in its endless circle of complacency and monotony. </em></p><p><em> I'm going to need to change a lot more tires soon, if this continues I'm going to need to open my own promotion. Maybe that is what this world needs, a full blown unsupervised and uncontrolled assault from The Mad Genius himself....</em></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> <em><strong>July 1st, 2016</strong></em> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> <em>Well I'll be damned, Eisen is doing it. Peckerhead is losing the war to the Eisen brothers and has fallen in size, the only thing keeping them afloat is their massive broadcasting network giving them lobal reach, but in the United States, their show quality is tanking in spite of their signing sprees. Steve Decolt was brought in, but hes not a household name in the States, they are going to need to poach some bigger names in order to win this war. Still, in spite of the complete booking failures, I wouldn't bet against Peckerhead. In this world, money talks. and BS walks.</em></p><p><em> </em></p><p><em> My birthday just passed, and I still am jobless...Happy Birthday to me I guess. I have half a mind to root for SWF in this war, just because Eisen and co are less likely to poach my stars if/when I start my own promotion, but this war will be much more interesting when I am the one fighting in it</em>.</p>

Who is the Grand Avatar? He is not a man of power, nor a man of influence. He is not a man of menace nor of acclaim. The Grand Avatar is an enigma, but ultimately the Grand Avatar is simply a man who believes himself to be the best damn businessman and professional wrestling booker in the world. But the man in the shadows had one small problem, he was nobody... He had no connections, no money, no power. All he had was the gift of persuasion, known as a master diplomat and motivator, he could easily influence those around him, but with no foothold into the industry it would be difficult to convince someone to give him the book. The Avatar pondered, he had no real funds available to him, otherwise he would just make his own promotion and take over the wrestling world in a hostile takeover. Still, if he was not able to convince someone to give him a job in 1 years time he would start his own backyard promotion, just to draw attention to himself... or perhaps, even more daring, take over the wrestling world from the absolute bottom. He was crazy enough, to do it, but he'd rather not go that route. Now all he could do was wait... GAME RULES Unemployed Start All default settings on sans Fog of War and Dirt Sheet Hidden Relationships set to High Injuries set to High Newgens set to High and begin immediately. Default reputation is set to High, mainly because I need to be able to get hired or at least be able to start my own fed if I cant. I will sim until I get a job as a booker or owner(if an owner dies I will certainly take that spot) if I cant get a job in a year of simming I will open a Rock Hard backyard fed and run it until I either feel like jumping ship when available to me or build the company into a global powerhouse. This dynasty ideally ends when I reach Global #1 with any company. Unique Rule Due to the nature of the diary, I will be keeping a running tab on my personas financial resources, which we will be calculating by taking half of the Miscellaneous expenses each month and adding it to our "pool". The main purpose of this is if we go bankrupt or leave our current company our combined admin fund will be used to start a new company if we go that route. If we for example, have millions of dollars saved, I'll be creating a Cult sized company with the starting money of the fund - a million dollars. Current Bank = $0

<p>Attendances being fixed means it’s not longer going to be feasible to build a mega region and bankrolls millions in one region before going to TB on Cult.</p><p> </p><p> Which I’m fine with but there better be huge improvements to the overall system if that’s the case</p><p> </p><p> Going from regional to National is the worst thing ever in current TEW</p>

<p>If you are on TV in UK you don’t need workers with pop in that region as you can run shows in your home region and still reach that audience.</p><p> </p><p> His death should have zero impact on your TV deal unless your overall show grades are tanking in every region.</p>

<p>No, againit has nothing to do with the AI and everything to do with the disporptionately low max overness and skill caps for generated workers.</p><p> </p><p> It also applies to human companies</p>

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="Zero" data-cite="Zero" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="46710" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>I say only two because that is how many I personally developed. In Japan and Europe, random generated DOJO guys have made it to main event and have flooded the main event scene of my small-cult promotions.<p> </p><p> If there is one flaw I see with the system is that the CPU doesn't build talent well (specifically when it comes to sports entertainment based promotions. AJPW and NJPW all have random generated talent wrestling in their main event scene with Chono and Muta</p><p> </p><p> Edit - I could have turned more into top talent (Upper Card to Main Event) but I decided not to because they don't fit the narrative of my promotion. I use a lot of those talented superstars in my lower and open positions so I can release them and allow them to develop on the independent scene with some popularity from being in my promotion.</p></div></blockquote><p> </p><p> </p><p> I’m talking about main eventers in the biggest companies.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> Literally anyone can main event a sub National company.</p><p> </p><p> You could build your shows around La Creatura La Navidad if you wanted to and not have any issues at all.</p>

Notable that workers with sub 70 overness caps do exist they are just extremely rare. I think they are nearly as rare as the amount of workers with A or higher overness caps. An overwhelming majority of the workers in the game will fall somewhere between 70-80.

Well yes 30 years in all of the starting workers will be retired or like 50 years old. Secondly NBT means nothing. All NBT means is >76 max charisma and psychology. You can get all of this on a crappy 74 max overness worker and be a glorified mid carder, in fact I actually think this is more common than otherwise. NBT is generally completely useless with the exception of seeing if your worker has charisma or the potential for charisma, that’s all it’s useful for. Hot Prospects will tell you everything about your worker, what his max overness is and what his performance skills will cap out at. EDIT: NBT tells you the max overness as well but you can also get this information from Hot Prospects, and NBT won’t tell you the general performance caps, ie how good your worker will actually be, it just tells you he has psychology threshold that isn’t completely awful. And I believe basics as well, can’t remember as it’s been a while. But you literally could have like a 78/78/40/30 performance worker and he’s NBT as long as he also has a max charisma of 76 or higher. Even though this worker is actually really bad.

What is his star quality and max overness?

Of course all of this could be solved by simply removing overness caps from TEW entirely which I’ve advocated for years, but I have been constantly shouted down by people who have zero understanding on how TEW works mechanically. Usually every time I mentioned it basically could be summarized as “something something Billy Gunn”. There is a better solution, but it’s much more complicated and I doubt it will be implemented when most people are satisfied with the status quo because of how TEW is most commonly played. 1-3 year dynasties with the same set of workers and big companies.

90 SQ with 60-70 max overness is worthless actually, and for some odd reason that is the majority of newgens with that roll. In order to produce a > 800 National battle worker you need someone with a minimum of 80/100 but 100 cap is so rare it might as well not even be talked about. So let’s say 90-95 which is more common for top, top prospects. You need a minimum of 89 SQ just to be competitive with th WORST of USPW AND SOTBW. Granted both these companies frequently have guys in the 900 range, which requires you to have a prospect with literally 98-100 SQ to even have a chance. Granted this is a lot different than the day, 15 or so workers who already are at this level and maybe 6-7 more with variance that can conceivably reach this. I’m talking guys like Ugaki and Kawashima if/when Pride goes bankrupt, or Magnum Kobe or Jack Avatar or Swoop McCarthy or sometimes Ricky Decolt and eventually Tommy Jr.

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="Zero" data-cite="Zero" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="46710" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>I have to disagree. I have several dojos scattered across the world in my WWF 87-2002 game and have had a ton of talent come through.<p> </p><p> I will admit the best workers have come from WWF Europe and WWF Japan but I have turned two of them into upper mid-card talent with the possibility of being a main event talent that I will launch once I create my brand split.</p><p> </p><p> Usually they spend three years in development but once I bring them up to the main roster, I have them work dark matches with my top talent for two years. After two years, I decide to pull the plug or not.</p><p> </p><p> A few guys I released ended up getting better working for AJPW, NJPW, and WCW. I picked them back up later.</p></div></blockquote><p> </p><p> </p><p> “Depends on the baseline talent of the mod”</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> Also you literally just told me that you’ve had two workers in 15 years turn into good midcarders which is exactly what I just said.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> Also there is no “possible” main eventers. In mods it doesn’t really matter especially if you are already playing as WWF, but in CVerse where you need to beat either USPW, SOTBW or both you aren’t doing that with new gene.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> If you are lucky you might get a guy who contributes 800+ which is a weak main eventer once every decade.</p>

<p>Short answer no.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> Long answer, depends on the relative worker skill of the mid in question.</p><p> In real world mods like RWC by Fleisch absolutely as the standard is very low.</p><p> </p><p> C-Verse/Default/80s mods? No chance. You might get one or two guys in a save that cap s a solid midcarder. Genuine main event national level guys just doesn’t happen.</p>

<p>I don’t care if they are true to life but I really like that wages are larger now.</p><p> </p><p> Top workers in current games make peanuts really.</p><p> </p><p> More importantly I’d like to think these changes will actually provide an avenue where financial management becomes a part of the game after Cult and big companies can actually lose money and even potentially go out of business. </p><p> </p><p> Currently outside of losses to revenue streams you can just bid whatever you want for workers without repercussion</p>

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="K-Nection" data-cite="K-Nection" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="46705" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>One of the very reasons I particularly hate about region battles is what you just layed out here. Personally dont think a battle should even occur unless there was an event held in the region.</div></blockquote><p> </p><p> I feel the same but I think it’s an artificial measure to make sure everyone doesn’t hit cult like some earlier games.</p>

<p>This my personal progression as I moved from arena to arena and size to size.</p><p> </p><p> <img alt="7E24fs1.png" data-src="https://i.imgur.com/7E24fs1.png" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> <img alt="VMoMWOv.png" data-src="https://imgur.com/VMoMWOv.png" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> <img alt="JUUecEh.png" data-src="https://imgur.com/JUUecEh.png" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /></p><p> </p><p> <img alt="Ssoxs5V.png" data-src="https://i.imgur.com/Ssoxs5V.png" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /></p>

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="Editor6" data-cite="Editor6" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="46696" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>I have questions.<p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> This seems contradictory...?</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> How many shows are you running to start out?</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> How are you affording these guys (who I can't imagine will cost less than everyone you've dumped, even on PPAs) with so little cash on hand?</p></div></blockquote><p> </p><p> You run in one region pre TV, meaning our goal is never to boost worker popularity in our home region because it literally doesn't matter and causes odd and bad overall game behavior when it happens, in addition to making workers disproportionately expensive relative to their overall worth. This is even more obvious when you hit cult and the game by default will one you to move around a bit, assuming you don't autoset back to Tri-States every time (which is recommended until you can sell out TV arenas in the other areas) you will see how, with the default game behavior and playing normally how absolutely awful having a 78/5/5/5/5/5/5 El Mitico Jr with a forced Main Event push is after you hit Cult.</p><p> </p><p> That being said, the old guys are popular nationally, so they can get stable grades all the way up to, and including after you hit cult, as well as providing roster depth even after they are to be phased out.</p><p> </p><p> Most importantly, the few prospects you've been hoarding on your roster, usually guys like <strong>Acid</strong>, <strong>Ernest Youngman</strong> and maybe one of the 1 or two new gens that doesn't generate with screwed up stats(assuming you don't fix them like I do) can use these old timers to get over once you hit TV/PPV. Since jobbing more popular workers is still generally the most efficient way of pushing prospects with low to mid popularity.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> For the second question, after you've run enough shows and gotten popular enough to turn a profit on your shows, you will have much more money to spend on workers.</p><p> </p><p> The second thing is these workers aren't actually that expensive. For example in my most recent game I ended up signing Big Smack Scott and I think his stats had already started mildly deteriorating so I got him for 2500 an appearance, higher than some of the guys I cut sure, but at a time where I was losing money on shows and with almost half the overness, star quality and ability to produce grades in angles.</p><p> </p><p> The boost a guy like Big Smack will give you in angles alone is nearly enough to stabilize your companies climb, and he will likely massively boost the guy you are feuding with him as well making it even easier. After a while he outlives his usefulness but in the beginning hes basically a superboss.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="Makhai" data-cite="Makhai" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="46696" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>You're going to bleed through cash if you retain the same product, I have no idea how you're going to soak the losses here until these guys could move the needle enough to break even. As much as I loathe the idea. The fastest and most consistent way to grow quickly is to sign cheap hotties and have them shake their cans for $200 a pop. You'll grow fast, turn a profit faster and you won't need to putter along.</div></blockquote><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> It takes roughly 25 good shows to start turning a major profit with PSW. I accomplished this by April running 2-3 shows a week. Also a hint I should've put in the original post, rather than run in Pennsylvania Park, run in a generic venue, this, along with your roster moves to cut down worker costs will dramatically cut down costs should have you more than fine financially.</p>

Hi TLC the unrepentant power game here. I know many people here play TEW as a booking simulator, but Im here to approach TEW differently, as mostly a strategy game. When it comes to TEW and getting the vaunted Global #1 spot we know two things 1: It isn't necessarily hard. 2: It takes a very long time. Thus, the premise of this thread is EFFICIENCY. Doing things as efficiently as possible while not outright cheesing. All if fair and love and war and abusing the game is a fun pastime of mine, however there are a few levels that even for the purpose of this challenge/guide I will not stoop. 1: Using the editor to boost finances or workers purely for an advantage. I do and will alter the stats of newgens however simply because I just can't take how terrible the RNG on new gens is, I will go insane if I don't edit them. I just cant handle the 85 overness/80 aerial fantastic worker destiny roll cruiserweights who cap out at 24 stamina and 16 athleticism(how is he so unathletic and yet have such an awesome aerial onslaught!??!). Nor will I tolerate another 98 menace all 90s physical skills Muscular Giant with 6 star quality and 90 max overness.(Please Adam fix this for 2020 I beg you) 2: Using freestyle angles to grant success to people who are losing in the angle. This is just silly and I refuse to do it on principle even if it is technically the most efficient. Its like being able to select both wrestlers as the winner of the match. 3: I will generally book my shows like an actual wresting company, using cohesive matches as part of storylines and not just spam battle royales 10 times a month. Other than that, everything else is fair game. To the first point, Pittsburgh Steel Wrestling. Game Start I tend to choose Sheik-Al Avatar for this one because he seems to fit the company and product the most, but really any of them would work. I'd imagine if you were choosing purely for efficiency KP Avatar would be the best, or maybe Jack, but really they are all equally irrelevant. As far as the build goes, I went really max into motivating as we need our scrubby workers to get high grades so we can get to the next level. Negotiating is never important if you are playing as the owner, which I am, if you play as Head Booker....it probably still isn't very important. I put about 2-3 points into it. Creativity is average, nothing more nothing less, giving the workers good gimmicks that suit the products is already good enough most of the time. Leadership slightly above average just to maintain a good locker room. Liberal workers tends to be jerks and we will be using a lot of them for this company. Diplomacy again is not important unless you want to make jerks into nice guys or make them more manageable, what we are going to do is mostly just keep the bad attitudes to a low and fire them if they cause too many problems. Product PSW default product is Pop > Perf , which is a slightly variation from the big 3 Pop >> Perf companies and makes ring skills a little more valuable and viable to get over. Puroresu is nerfed as usual which is always irrelevant, and you are getting very little sponsorship money or TV slots because your product is super edgy. You aren't required to run storylines but I recommend doing so as they boost your match grades. You can as a purist keep the product the same, but even if you are looking to be as efficient as possible theres a limit to how many changes you can make without a huge pop loss and trust me you can't afford a pop loss with PSW's current finances. Either way the one thing you will notice is that they have High T&A which requires you to have 1:10 women on your shows, but they have no womens division. I highly recommend adding a womens division to satisfy this requirement more easily, especially as due to your product, sex appeal will carry your show grades for a long time. PSW has one of the products with high risqué and high T&A that essentially allows you to run Bra and Panties matches with a bunch of untalented former strippers and get ridiculously high match grades for a regional company, note, this wont work if your T&A and Risqué is not set high enough, as the fans wont care that much about sex appeal. Finally your fans are extremely vocal which means they'll throw a fit if any of your workers is super terrible, we wont be using super terrible workers because that's dumb, so it doesn't matter. In addition, this doesn't seem to apply to eye candy matches so the only terrible workers we will be using the fans will be too distracted by boobs to notice. Roster and Finances You'll notice PSW has a ridiculously small 250,000 in the bank, its quite absurd the job Mitch Naess has done, he should be slapped in the face for such poor financial management. In addition, the company is only at 38 pop in Tri States which means you lose money on all your shows. The quest to not go bankrupt starts with you making some smart, prudent roster decisions, as you probably will go bankrupt otherwise as you make literally no money from sponsorships due to your product. For the Roster I tend to exclusively focus on Unemployed workers, mostly because our strategy revolves around running a lot of shows, and sharing workers in this game is terrible. Not only are your workers unavailable at times where you want to run shows, but other companies can randomly make them lose popularity which is a nuisance I'd rather not deal with. Remember that Womens Division I recommended? Well you need 20 workers to not incur penalties at regional size, and you have 22 and need to fire way more than that. Joanna Silver should almost always be hired, as she is young, beautiful and liberal and will cost you about $400 dollars per appearance. The downside is irrelevant as we will be using our workers almost certainly. Bonnie Clyde and Power Girl are other good cheap options, both under $500 dollars. You can then pick up Amy Galaxy for another 500 and you have a functional division for literally $2000 an appearance. And they will outgrade everyone on the roster except the main eventers. SPEAKING of $2000 an appearance, old washed up JD Morgan makes $2000 an appearance, despite having 29 overness and being 47 years old. Needless to say, this is an absurd waste of money for a company in financial trouble... (PS: Fire him immediately). Johnny Martin is pretty good still, but very old and not very over, he also makes $1800 a show. Fire him as well. Greg Black makes about $1900 a show and has no use on the roster as he has no charisma or star quality. Fire him as well. We'd consider firing Madman Boone as well but hes heavily beneficial to the locker room being a positive influence locker room leader and is one of our few reasonable over guys with charisma and SQ left so he gets to stay. Speaking of locker rooms, PSW's default locker room is legitimately terrible, and given we are in no financial shape to offer catering or any of these things to give the atmosphere a boost, we are going to get rid of some bad apples. Little Bill Lebowski is snap fired, as he is not only a negative influence he is 41 years old and costs about 1100 a show, and hes not good or over. Cerberus is tempting to keep as he sort of embodies what PSW is about, but hes also just the worst worker humanly possible and has zero charisma or SQ, hes also not over so his menace is not even usable and we wont be pushing anyone, at least intentionally until we get a TV deal in like 2 years.(A year and a half if we are very efficient and dedicated). Hes also a very negative influence, fire him with the quickness. Vendetta is a judgment call I kept him on my personal save but he started acting out so I had to fire him, but if you can get him under control hes probably worth keeping, very few guys in the database have his star quality, age, and willingness to work high risk. Ditto for Xavier Reckless especially since firing him essentially leaves you with an extremely barren tag division where you won't be able to pick up new tag teams until you start turning a profit and can afford some of the better independent teams. He's also quite good even though he seems average, simply because he already has one top row stat of >60, has over 70 athleticism, good flashiness and >70 stamina, all which matter greatly for working main event level matches even if just as a midcard fill in. Combined with being only 29 years old and he would be an auto keep if he wasn't so toxic. After the signings and releases you'll likely end up with 20-22 workers. Which leaves 1-2 spots available to sign random cheap prospects to job. Felipe Caballero is a good one here, as he is super cheap at $400 dollars a month and is generally good enough to be an elite midcarder by the time you get on TV. Now that this is done, TIME TO SIGN ALL THE TOP PROSPECTS IN THE WORLD TO 10 YEAR DEALS AND RUN A GIANT PROSPECT FARM! Just kidding. Seriously don't do this. Although, oddly this seems to be a dominant way of playing, since 2016 this is just an extremely inefficient way of playing smaller companies, it wasn't even that good in 2013, but in 2016 where workers can demand raises at all points of their contract whether PPA or Written this is just awful. Most players will have the urge to sign the not so secret "sleeper" prospects like El Mitico Jr to their rosters. Don't. He's completely worthless to you in every way. He's not over but will be more expensive relative to his card position due to his skills, his STARTING pay at near enhancement talent level popularity is $800 per appearance. He has 2 popularity in Tri-State. Note, he will never get any more popular in all of the US until you get on TV in over a year, so even if you push him in just that one particular area, he will be so unpopular in the region that older, more popular workers nationally will always refuse to lose to him even if hes pushed as a main eventer for you. Secondly, he will actually cause those workers to lose popularity if have him go over anyway, unless you use the Protect note, which is absolutely never ever to be done for any worker ever on a Pay for Appearance deal. We don't care how popular our workers are, if anything the more popular the worse, the more they will cost, and the more attention they will attract from big companies. Unlike in 2013 and prior games, workers who get substantially better in both stats and overness will be huge targets for the big 3 to sign away on writtens, and you will have spent all your time and resources building up someone for someone else to use. In addition, you can actually build workers up high enough they wont even negotiate with you even if they aren't directly poached. It is simply not efficient to build workers up in any way without TV AND writtens as soon as we hit Cult. Even when it comes to prospects, even just having them on your show builds their skills to be poached by someone else. You are better off leaving them in the pool and signing them later after your company has grown in size, they don't move the needle for you at all anyway, almost all of our grades will be coming from our main eventers and divas. And finally, increasing popularity to get grades doesn't matter, since we can rather stably get grades far beyond a regional companies normal capacities with just regular matches, a few diva matches, some main event angles and a regular rotation of main eventers in a medium risk match. Do this enough times, make enough money, and then get TV/Writtens and start boosting your guys with SQ up in pop so you can compete in the National Battle. Simple as that. Hiring Strategy Long story short, for future signings, we are mostly going to be focusing on popular old workers who drop out from major companies. This is guaranteed to happen every game with little variance on this end, so this strategy will be stable and work almost all of the time. After you run your first 6-7 shows or so, you should be turning a profit which means you can then run as many shows as you want. Due to PSW's product, you do have some pretty big limits on how many shows you can run in a week without injury and fatigue, but you can still run 2-3 shows a week rather reliably. Run them in the form of Specials for max impact, as you still want your main eventers to be getting very popular in the TriState Region so that you can easily get 70s and 80s by the end of the year. For the most part, workers like Big Smack Scott, Joe Sexy , Joel Bryant and Danny Fonzarelli will be dropping to the Unemployed line. Sometimes even guys like Tyson Baine and T-Rex. You should be signing these guys immediately as soon as they hit the unemployed line, as they are all very over and most of them even are very charismatic. These guys will generate super easy grades for your and balance out your roster because until then you are generally relying literally on 1-3 guys which is problematic with repetitive booking penalties. In my current PSW game sitting at #5 Cult ahead of TCW but behind SWF, I still have a ton of these old guys on my roster from the regional days, and some of them are insanely over post TV. El Demonio for example is 85 average across the US and a Main Event Tag Team title holder despite being old and bad. Its really easy to book guys who are already over in this game. It's also very smart and efficient. And with the experience stat coming to TEW2020, it seems old guys are getting even more OP, especially for smaller companies. The Climb Now onto the climb, remember how I mentioned about not intentionally pushing guys until TV/Writtens? That has one caveat, you have a guy on your roster with insanely high top row skills in Ernest Youngman. Pay attention to his destiny roll in the Creative Meeting screen, if its "Big Star" or better and generally with Exceptional or Fantastic as the working skill, we can spam him in the main event(always losing) and then have him just clean up literally everyone else to keep his momentum high. The reason for this is because no one else on the roster is close to the potential match grade output as Ernest Youngman is, and if you don't totally get screwed on the roll(this is random but happens often, for example I just ran a test game and he hit like a 76 max overness cap which is terrible) by the end of the year or a little more than a year you can be pumping out 90 rated matches in your main events with Youngman as your feature. Theoretically, Logan Wolfsbaine and Xavi Ferrera are capable of this but they are far too green and not popular at all, so I tend to just release them at the end of their contracts. Logan especially as he generally goes to Japan and they do all the work developing him for you. The main point of all of this will be to collect a huge bankroll to get on TV, as this is the only viable way you will be getting to National. So we will ONLY RUN IN TRISTATES until we can make our own broadcaster. At some point during the 2nd year you should be making close to 700k a month just with 5 shows. You can easily step this up to 2 weekly and make a million. 3 weekly if you have the nerve. We are going to need 19 million dollars Never ever make a tiny broadcaster, it is a waste of money and will ruin your save. You have been warned. At Small, you will get normal levels of pop growth for your roster as well as decent pop growth for your company. I recommend running Free-to-Air, as post-distribution, money not longer has any relevance, and we're still going to be running mostly out of Tri-States just so we don't go into the red. Free-To-Air gives you the fastest pop growth and that's all we care about at this point. Since eventually, after about a year of growing across the entire US on free to air, we can just convert to a normal PPV/TV company and drop our custom one for a later time, that later time being when we want to hit international and can easily make a 4-5 region broadcaster with out at that point insane cash reserves built up from years of successful PPVs. At this point the game should be autoplay at this point, and you can just book a normal wrestling company until you hit the goal. Just bear in mine you will need to wait out USPW for national battles, what I recommend is freezing your company at Cult with the manual controls, then waiting for a slew of their stars to be available via contract expiry. Then hit National and steal like Rocky Golden or Dead Pool and you should have a decent chance assuming you've built up guys like Fro Sure or Gargantuan. PHGW usually goes out of business and by the time they did in my game I was able to buy them out, absorbing all of their pop in Japan(huge actually, as this expanded my income by allowing Japanese broadcast and saved a ton of time on the International climb) and absorbing the contracts of their top guys like Kozue Kawashima and Masaru Ugaki. Also overness caps work globally, so if a guy has 90 or so(or better yet 100) overness in Japan through working with Pride, he is 100 percent certain to also reach that level in the United States assuming proper booking, so they are really low risk prospects to add to your company. A 920 in the National Battle will generally beat out everyone except Giant Khoklov, Rocky Golden and Champagne Lover(USPW will never get him either) That's pretty much it for PSW, I will likely do one the next company I do, which probably will be GCG but haven't fully decided yet. The thing about TEW is that almost all companies mid-game is very similar and every companies late game is exactly the same with nearly no exception, its really just navigating the early game with a clear plan. PSWs is slightly more intricate due to the volatile finances but still pretty clear cut. Other Things of Note You get a bonus for running a high risk match and a penalty for low risk, the default database has no high risk matches specifically for divas, but a lto of custom databases have say, a naked match where you strip them total nude instead of just to lingerie, this is a very high risk match and gets a huge bonus. You can book this often, but not on TV or PPV as no broadcaster will allow it except your own, same with deathmatches. Generally I tend to favor high risk matches over very high, as wrestlers who are neither conservative or liberal will still work them. Very High I save for special occasions in its own designated division which is the PSW Hardcore title. Additionally, after Cult I now have two brands, the main Brand which is all the liberal workers .that have been developed by the company after years, including having its own developmental and a few neutral guys to balance out the roster like Mainstream Hernandez and Youngman. The second brand is everyone else. This is done for organizational purposes and also because having two brands allows pop growth faster. The 2nd brand hs its own PPVs and stuff, so I don't need to worry about running deathmatches or anything on that brand, just mostly regular TLC/Thumbtacks/Ladder/Steel Cage/NO DQ matches. EDIT: What I mentioned very often about things, especially when it comes to the opinion on prospects, only applies to sub-Cult AMERICAN companies. This does not apply to various other regions, some due to AI behavior, competition and other factors. By far the biggest gameplay difference is Japan, which features both loyalty and a young lion system which makes the prospect game completely different. Its one of the reasons Im considering a Japanese company next, as the American system for me is essentially "solved" in a way, ditto for Mexico which is really just a simplified version of the American system...with some minor but relevant differences and a little more risk-reward element due to early access to TV and the massive SOTBW problem I have yet to efficiently solve.

<p>The only person who fits the Cody role for me is Greg Black. Who is basically a top indy darling that was released by the big company after being given a comedy gimmick.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> For Omega I'd use Phenomenal E.</p><p> </p><p> The Young Bucks have no C-Verse equivalent. You can use the Amazing Bumfholes if the fact that the Bumfholes have and actively work in one of the big companies doesn't bother you, or the fact that both Bumfholes are massively more talented than either of the Bucks.</p>

<p>Book nothing but regular matches and you will be fine basically.</p><p> </p><p> That's how the game works.</p><p> </p><p> Crowd Management only comes into play when you are doing hokey unnecessary things like having Epics or Spectacles which usually actually diminish your grade even in perfect scenarios compared to just making a regular match.</p>