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  1. 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?
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. In match score terms, does going from a strict face/hell divide to a loose face/heel signficantly affect it?
  8. I’m more amazed that after 20 losses over 6 months, she still is popular enough to get an 81.
  9. 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.
  10. What do Attributes like “Ahead of Their Time” mean by “relevancy phase”?
  11. 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.
  12. 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.
  13. 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.
  14. I’ve done it with an Ipad using both Steam Link and Rainway (or maybe it’s called Raindrop?). It is definitely slower and clunkier, not going to lie. But it’s also not unplayable. It really depends on how impatient you get. I’d say it takes 30 - 50% longer to book a show, though how often you rename segments vs auto-name is going to be a big factor in that 20% variance. If you already have the Surface, there’s no reason not to try it. If you’re thinking about buying a Surface just for this, I’d recommend against it.
  15. Is there a way to run the Freebird Rule with the Tag Belts without manually moving belts? I thought there was in TEW 2020, but I have forgotten how.
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  17. So, this is a story about how me forgetting how to play the game lead to a very fun piece of booking. I forgot that to keep titles from changing hands, you have to use the Cheap Win note. Twice. Due to this, I accidentally let Brandon James win the SWF Northern American title in a 4 way match between Des Davids, Mikey Lau, Brandon James and Lenny Brown. Then, Fame & Money won the tag match over Hawaiian Crush in what was supposed to be a DQ due to interference, but led to them getting the belt And that is what hatched my idea: Hollywood Brett Starr, rules lawyer. At the show after Hawaiian Crush won, Brett came down to the ring with Eric Eisen, who noted that the match should have been a DQ and gave the tag belts back to Fame & Money. Cue SWF Awesome Impact: Hawaiian Crush finally win clean in an "Aloha Match" (a cage match where the winner must get their opponent to say "Aloha"), finally getting the belts legit. Hawaiian, who had wanted a piece a Brett Starr had been told by him that Starr would refuse his challenge until he could win at least one belt. This now leaves him an opportunity to challenge. ZWB, who won the North American belt off Brandon James, beat Lenny Brown and Sammy Smoke, before being jumped by Randy Unleashed and Huey Cannonball. ZWB was saved by Ranger, who is slowly forming an alliance of people to fight back against Unleashed Awesomeness. Angry Gilmore lost to Trent Shaffer (who I'm playing as) before jumping him and beating him down to turn heel. Gilmore swore he wouldn't accept someone from USPW coming back to SWF and the clean loss appears to have broken him. He and Brandon James are both on time decline, so they're going to give a bit of a rub to Lau and Hernandez before dropping midcard. And finally, in the main event Rocky Golden and Valiant beat Remo & Rogue in a tag-team match after Valiant saved Golden from being ambushed by the duo. However, what the 2 didn't see, as the show closed, was Hollywood Brett Starr paying off Remo and Rogue. Sure enough, next Supreme TV, Brett and Eric Eisen come down to the ring, where Eisen says that - due to Golden's having gone more than a month without defending the title - he is vacating the belt and that Golden is not allowed to be in contention for at least 1 full month. My goal is to keep the belt off Golden for at least 6 months, and I'm actually hoping to have High Flying Hawaiian eventually be the one to take the belt off him. Hawaiian basically seems like a Rock equivalent, so it makes a lot of sense. Though part of me also wants to let Golden get the belt back and then have Starr make his own title belt ala The Million Dollar Belt.
  18. Looking for a name for 2 tag teams: 1) Mikey Lau and Mainstream Hernandez (face) 2) Angry Gilmore and Brandon James (heel) Since Hernandez and Lau were 2 of my favs back when I booked for MAW, anything that would be a good MAW shoutout would be esp. appreciated.
  19. Ok, that’s my mistake then. I thought that was more like the “watching the match” angle rather than a bodyguard.
  20. I don’t have anything clever, but Sarah Taylor/Jessica Conroy basically has Sarah Connor in the name, and therefore anything relating to either RVD or The Terminator seems fair game. I’ve done Jameson and Hernandez before as Blond and Blonder, but that was in MAW with Jameson as a stoner gimmick.
  21. Basically, the idea is that similar to the manager, you could also assign a wrestler as a “bodyguard” to another wrestler. I’d assume that rather than their success being based upon entertainment/overness, it would be based on some combination of Fighting/Menace/Overness. This would model people like Rick Rude, Chyna, the Shield, etc. While I don’t deny that this could be done with a manager, there are times where a wrestler has both a manager and security, and having the ability for both to appear seems cool.
  22. If they go with Hocking and DeMarcus, you could also go with Shock & Jaw.
  23. So, in my TCW save, I brought in Casey Valentine as the player character. My plan was to have Greg Gauge finish his feud against Benny Benson by injuring him and then have CV step in as a sort of "defender of justice" type of thing. However, during the angle in which Gauge 'injured' Benson, he himself managed to injure his spine, and is now out on medical leave for 2 months, while also leaving Benson announced as injured for several shows. Which leaves CV spinning his wheels and leaves me without anyone holding the TV belt. Any suggestions for what to do with Valentine? I'd considered having him play spoiler to Chris Flynn, but I don't want him involved with The Syndicate yet. My only other thought is having him fight with Freddy Huggins over his sister, but I'd kind of like to turn her into an Authority Figure, and I'm not sure I can do that with Freddy clinging to her.
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