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I have a gimmick idea, but I want to give it to a face so I’d like some help tweaking it - The wrestler is a smart, skilled wrestler but pretends to be goofy and clueless. As part of that, he “sells” that the moves he takes are actually hurting him even though he doesn’t actually let himself get punched or kicked. And then he wins every match through what appears to be an accidental rollup or quick pin. The problem is, while I can see the pretending to be a goofball getting over as a babyface, the actual method and tactic seems pretty heelish. Any way to tweak it to be a bit more heroic?

Loco Dos

That’s a pretty good option. Kind of like Brett vs Owen, while also giving you an excuse to put a newbie in with a veteran for a stats rub. You can also do the reverse with the newbie babyface either being a former mentee from a previous promotion or former fan and the veteran being a lazy or cynical heel, with the newbie trying to return him to a serious competitor.

Evolution Road? Only The Strong Survival Royale? Bushido Battle?

Another one I remembered - this one requires at least 3 people: Veteran face, veteran (rival) heel, and new to the company monster. Everyone’s got an RDJ retirement storyline. This was mine. Remo Richardson was hired from SWF and came to TCW ready to prove to everyone that despite the two companies’ reputations he could still absolutely crush anyone who got in front of him. After a few squashes against guys I wanted to have “lose upward” (this obviously only works with an established outsider) RDJ confronts him and says he won’t allow Remo to run roughshod in HIS house. First match - Remo v RDJ - close loss by RDJ Second match - Remo v RDJ - complete loss by RDJ. Angle - Remo is brutalizing RDJ when Tommy Cornell runs down to save - * face turn for Cornell * Angle- Cornell says that he and RDJ were rivals, but he and Remo are enemies Angle- Cornell promises to make Remo bleed the same way Remo made RDJ bleed. Third Match - Cornell v Remo (First Blood). I had Cornell win their match due to RDJ assistance because I felt the three month build and payoff was right for what I wanted, but I think you could definitely either have a count out or close loss and keep the feud going another couple months.

I’ll have to look back at some of my old saves, but here’s one of my favorite dumb feuds: Freddie Huggins vs Edd Stone. Stone asked out Laura Huggins, which annoyed Freddie. Freddie started getting possessive, especially when Laura started valeting for Edd. He began running in on matches, etc. Finally, Huggins challenges Stone to a match for Laura and wins. At that point, Edd says “All right, fine, man, I’ll stay away. Here, let’s have a beer together and toast to no hard feelings?” To which Freddie, playing a straight edge gimmick says “sorry, I’m a teetotaler. I don’t drink.” And Edd says “Dude, I don’t even know what that means. But it’s not cool to refuse to drink to no hard feelings.” Which led Edd constantly trying to trick Freddie into drinking a beer with him, before finally turning heel and trying to actually force Freddie to drink. It finally ended with a keg match where Freddie won by forcing Edd’s mouth under the keg for a drink. My favorite thing about Edd Stone is that I always see him as this lovable idiot weirdo who can constantly lose and still bounce right back without it hurting his push because he always thinks he’s awesome.

Ok, that actually is good to know about the strict penalty. Am I correct in assuming that there would, in that case, probably also be a smaller boost to face v heel matches? I was thinking about making SWF loose divide because I enjoy having heels feuding.

That doesn’t seem that surprising to me. I like Kairi Hojo and Stardom is worse without her, but she’s not on the same level, esp in terms of charisma and star quality as Kana - Kairi is a likable/lovable person who you want to see succeed as a wrestler. Kana is electric and dynamic. You could easily convince me that she will someday be looked back on as one of the greatest women’s wrestlers of all time. Kairi will be looked back on as a good women’s wrestler. In my mind, Io is between those two - more star power than Kairi but about the same charisma, so that’s probably where destiny rolls factor in.

In match score terms, does going from a strict face/hell divide to a loose face/heel signficantly affect it?

I’m more amazed that after 20 losses over 6 months, she still is popular enough to get an 81.

I don’t understand people who see Jay Chord and Greg Gauge as clones. Sure their stats are similar, and both come from wrestling families, but Chord instantly makes me hate him whereas I respect the Keith boys. I always see Greg as the Owen Hart to Matt’s Brett Hart (except I’m a massive Matt Keith mark and never really liked Brett). Both kids are hard working, love the business, grew up around it, debuted at 16 and worked their way up. They’re marks for the business. Whereas Jay Chord’s sneer strikes me as spoiled and entitled - he’s a wrestler because he’s naturally talented and it was easy for him to break into the business. He’s here because happy collecting the check, and he’ll put on whatever match you want and it’ll be a great match, but it’s a job. As long as it doesn’t affect his pay, he doesn’t care about his push or the belt or any of that.

What do Attributes like “Ahead of Their Time” mean by “relevancy phase”?

Actually I’ve wanted to build to a trio for Gilmore and James and couldn’t figure out who to add, but that solves both issues at once. Thanks.

I always liked Stardom’s “High Speed” name for their belt, rather than High Flying. So maybe something like a match where the first person to stop moving loses? No rest holds, no pinfalls, no submissions. Indie shows tend to be spot-fests anyway, so this at least gives them an excuse.

Has anyone here ever tried exporting one of their mid-game .mdb’s to AirTable(or the tbd? Whichever is the data export, not the mod)? I’ve been wanting to learn AirTable, and this would be a good motivator. I’m just wondering whether the mdb would have too many entries for the default AirTable plan, which is a total of 5,000 rows across all tables.