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TLDR: Again, another long update, although this will likely be the last of the long updates. Long story short, we bought TCW and I detail the takeover, what we changed, current talent, future talent and plans going forward. I'll likely be doing a more EoY summary for myself and the company. Workers coming and going primarily with any major news sprinkled in more as a bullet point type format. As for this year, it was great. Fortunately, we got a ton of rolls! Unfortunately, almost all of them are pretty damn useless. I listed pop in the screenshot, but we're basically a megastar. We'll be figurehead towards the end of this coming year and we're bringing in the most merch of anyone on our roster not named Sam Strong. Update 3 First half of the year was just accumulating money. We signed a couple core guys, a few young guys to build up as we approach television and Flare. Flare was signed because he’s a star, and I have a soft spot for both him and The Hype. I was able to send him to rehab and he kicked the heavy drugs and somehow I was able to talk him out of his other addictions upon his return. Now we have a 23 year old Flare on another 8 months written deal (didn’t want to sign him long term as I wasn’t sure I’d be able to get him to kick his habits and his skills have greatly deteriorated) and hopefully we can get him back fairly close to where he was. His star quality and athleticism will like stay in the mid to high 60s, but we should be able to get his stamina up. The other guys we signed are as follows, Shawn Gonzalez, Alex Braun, Enygma, The Hype (core 4), Angry Gilmore, T-Rex, Rich Money, Mick Muscles, Valiant, Doc Hammond (future main eventers; Mick and Valiant are already there) & Alex, Jack and Steve DeColt for eventual Canadian expansion. June saw the booking position of HGC, now medium, come open as Sam Strong stepped down a few months after retiring due to a knee injury. I separated my save and applied because I wasn’t sure if I really wanted to attempt the challenge with another company, but it ultimately didn’t matter as I didn’t get the job. Sometimes things don’t go as planned, however. Jason Jackson accepted the job on the first Thursday of July. He quit on the last Tuesday of the same month and yours truly became the new booker of HGC on the last day of July. I released all the aforementioned written deals I had signed above and resigned them all to HGC on 10 year deals with the exception of Alex Braun and Flare who now had a strong dislike relationship with me. So this next bit might be rather long, as I’m going to cover all the changes I made to HGC as I became THE GUY! First off, the company will forever be known as Total Championship Wrestling, starting Monday, August 1st of 2001. The Cruiserweight strap has been renamed All-Action. Long-term, the Hardcore title will likely be phased out and I’m debating bringing in a Woman’s title since the world has slowly started to populate with solid women workers, at least enough to build a respectable division out of. Comprehensive tested everyone on the roster to see where we stood with that. Wanted to get workers clean as well as filter out guys who were easy cuts. 11 out of 49 people on the roster popped. 3 for painkillers: Big Trouble, an SWF graduate regen that looks solid and TCW All-Action champ, Electro. All were sent to rehab and Electro’s title was vacated. This will give me a good storyline excuse to debut the new strap for that division. Everyone else was steroids: Sam Strong, Wolverine, Bryan Vessey, Romeo Heartthrob, Paul Steadyfast, Peter Valentine and Demon Spite. I took no action on everyone (but was able to get them to quit via talking to worker) with the exceptions of Wolverine (time decline) and Peter Valentine (piece of human trash) who were fired. Firing Valentine cost me 500k in bonuses to Sam Strong to remove his angry morale hit, but it’s well worth it long term. Heartthrob and Demon Spite will also be fired eventually. Heartthrob because he’s 47 (although looking at his stats, this is his 1st month in time decline with stamina dropping 1 point) and is a negative backstage influence but his 70ish pop is too valuable to not use him to put over other workers and Spite for similar reasons. Roster reconstruction. Along with the aforementioned firings due to drugs, the following talents have been future endeavored: Grunt, Stink and Ramon Paez. Soon to be fired, as soon as we use them to get our incoming crop of talent over are: Negative locker room influences Demon Spite, Eden Layman, Rico Santana, Romeo Heartthrob and unfortunately Steve Flash. I’d love to keep Flash around, but having that agitator personality ain’t gonna work for me, brother. Soon to be fired age/decline related: Big Trouble once he returns from rehab and The Danger Kid. 110 contract in total were sent out between a few new main roster talents, a ton of developmental talents, 20+ women for my inaugural division (they’ll be sent to NOTBPW and LAW, my created dev company until I’m ready for them), and around 10 non-wrestling talent. Tag team division needed to be massively overhauled as well, as every team aside from the fired Nation of Filth are just random guys that were thrown together. Business related. We had roughly 26 million at my disposal. I opened the highest tier of development company I could for 5 million and hired my old loyal friend turned strong dislike former coworker, Alex Braun to run the company and old vet coworker Pistol Pete Hall to book it. I bought out NOTBPW and kept them around as an additional developmental company. Upgraded the House of Stone dojo to max in terms of training level and rep for roughly 4 million. Created a subscription network with coverage everywhere; Very Big in US, Medium in Canada & Mexico, Very Small in Oceana and Tiny everywhere else. Tooltip said this will currently cost me roughly 20k in losses a month. TV deals and events for myself and all 3 child companies were given via my network. The roster mostly sucks. Strong is retired, Rip Chord is the only active guy over 80 pop in USA and he’s deep in time decline with barely over 30 stamina. And he’s the current champ. The rest of the 70+ pop guys consist of Bryan Vessey (30), James Justice (30), Mr. Lucha (40, low 60s physical and on hiatus), Nemesis (42, low 60s physical and deep in time decline), and Philip “Enforcer” Roberts (33). I have Johnny Martin, Masked Patriot, Outbacker Rolf (wtf), Silver Shark, Tyson Baine and Vengeance all between the ages of 29 and 31 with 60+ pop and they’re all 78+ physical everywhere except Johnny Martin’s and Vengeance’s legs. Martin, Baine and Vengeance I’ll be making a push to get into the main event scene ASAP. I need to decide who I’m going to make with a victory over Chord and then I’m probably going to start using him to get the younger main event guys over if he’ll allow it. Since Chord is a babyface atm, it will likely be James Justice or Tyson Baine depending if I want a worker or a monster for my first booked title run. I love Chord, but I just can’t do much with him when his stamina is in the 30s and soon to be 20s. Future main eventers on this roster that haven’t been named yet are the former WWF talents who my new company stole from me in Brandon James and Chris Morrisette, Jack Bruce and of course myself. SWF has 5 talents with over 90 star quality. Tommy Cornell is one; his deal is up in 8 months and I’m going to do everything I can to poach him. Faith has 3 years, 4 months so he’s out of question, but I’ll also try to poach him despite him being 38 or 39 when his deal expires. Dread has 10 months, is 39 and in the low 60s physically but still isn’t in decline so I have moderate interest in him. The Big Easy is 40, in time decline and still has 14 months left. I don’t see myself going after him for those reasons, although I’ll definitely drive up the price. If SWF lets him walk and he still has pop, I’ll sign him to a short term deal to put over my up and comers. I saved Jim Force for last because I can start negotiations with him on September 1st. He’s a marketing dream, isn’t a negative influence and while he’s not great in the ring, he’s only 27 and good enough for me to really want him off SWF’s roster. As for the rest of their roster, I plan to pursue when available: Danny Bruce, Duane Fry, Darren Smith, El Bandido, Eric Eisen, Louis Williams, Mr. Supreme, Outbacker Harris, Pablo Rodriguez, Peter Michaels, Ric Young, Sam Keith if he's not in decline 2 years from now and Sean McFly. Eventually I'll have Richard Eisen on my roster leading a group of SWF faithful as they invade TCW after having their company bought out! By September we had taken Danny Bruce because I’ve always loved his render, and The Force! Force will certainly be a future main eventer given his star quality and the fact that he’s developed into a really respectable worker means a world title run isn’t out of the picture. He’s still mid to high 40s pop and I’ve got other talent to elevate for the rest of the year. That coupled with the need to fill out the tag division at the moment, he’s going to team with other ripped bodybuilder turned wrestler Tom Angelus as a power and paint Road Warriors (or rather Lords of War/Demons of Rage given we’re playing CV) esque baby face team. Rounding out the year, we signed Duane Fry away from SWF in November. We lost out on Mike Watson debuting as he chose to work in Japan. We resigned Bryan Vessey also in November. We couldn’t resign Mr Lucha because he wasn’t active in America and refused to become active and due to him being on hiatus, I couldn’t make him work in America in order to become active. I have no idea how he signed with HGC in the first place if this was the case. Tana The Mighty suffered a C7 Cervical Spinal Cord Rupture, we were able to get a successful surgery and he’ll be back in 7 months, but I’m not sure if that will prevent him from retiring or not. At the very least, I’m expecting his physical ratings to be completely destroyed to the point where retirement will be imminent. Lastly in December, we lost out on a bid for Eric Eisen, but successfully took Brent Hill (low 70s pop) and SWF fell to medium, but they’re still the #1 company in the world. We Are The Moment - Work for a Medium company Sunday, Week 4, July 01 (Became Booker of HGC) 25. “It’s a skirt!” You have devoted your holiday season to learning Colour Commentary from the masters +60 to Colour Colour: 0→60 A True Alternative - Produce an Event Card of 75 TCW Summer Showdown: 88 | Sunday, Week 4, July 01 47. "It's not the size of the dog, it's the size of the fight" You now like fighting from underneath, add "Plays Weasely/Underdog Well" and “Giving Performer” to your attributes Taking the Next Step - Earn a Match Grade of 75 or More With Your Wrestler HGC Hollyweird TV Tuesday, Week 1, August 01 Chris Wyatt & Bryan Vessey vs Rip Chord and Phillip Roberts 41. "This here's what you call Domination" You've discovered a new found ability to Dominate, add "Plays Dominant Well" and “Squash Master” to your attributes The Road To Glory - Work for a Big company Monday, Week 1, Sept 01 16. “Hit The Bricks” You live in the gym. +20 to spend on physical skills. (Athleticism, Toughness, Stamina, Power) Athleticism: 79--->99 Hottest Thing In The Industry - Produce an Event Card of 90 TCW Hotter Than Hell: 92 | Sunday, Week 4, August 01 38. “User Character 3:16”. You can’t print t-shirts quickly enough! Add ‘A Marketing Dream’ to you character. Add +10 to your Star Quality Star Quality: 86--->96 Becoming Elite - Earn a Match Grade of 90 or More With Your Wrestler HGC Hollyweird TV Tuesday, Week 4, September 01 Chris Wyatt & Phillip Roberts vs Bryan Vessey & Vengeance 32. "As Real As It Gets" The World of Professional Fighting called you out and you delivered. Add +10 between Toughness and Menace. Add either MMA Fighter, Boxer or Pro Martial Artist to your character Toughness: 2—>12 Legendary Angle - Be involved in a 100 Rated Angle HGC Hollyweird TV Tuesday, Week 1, October 01 Promo featuring Sam Strong and myself 40. “The trouble with retirement is that you never get a day off.” You feel like you could do this forever. Add ‘Age is just a Number’ to your character. Add +10 across Resilience and Stamina Stamina: 96—>100 Other 6 points are wasted as resilience is already at 100 EoY01 11. “Nose To The Grindstone” You have devoted yourself to training in the ring +10 any Primary skill of your choice Technical: 72—>82 Going Places - Break into the Top 250 Places 11th 48. "Grounded in Reality" You've discovered a new found ability to play Realistic gimmicks and prefer to have back up, add "Plays Realistic Well" and “Tag Team Specialist” to your attributes Turn of A Centenary - Break into the Top 100 Places 11th 45. "Fight Anyone" You never back down, add "Plays Badass Well" and “Dynamo” to your attributes A Select Few - Break into the Top 50 Places 11th 33. "Runaway Runway" Can't always be easy being a wrestler, at least you've got your modelling career to fall back on. +10 points to spend between Sex Appeal and Star Quality. Add Modelling Experience to your character Star Quality: 96—>100 Sex Appeal: 1—>7

Oh no, probably best to restart at that point, especially since you're so early in. That's going to speed that window up tremendously. Permanent damage of 55 to your head is going to ding your performance every match going forward and assuming you're playing some sort of physically tough product being a puro company, that's going to drop a bit faster than it otherwise would in a western company. That sucks.

So FYI, this will be a large wall of text as there was A LOT that happened over the last 2 years, so I'll kind of give a TLDR here for those that want the cliff notes. Hit Small in March and immediately made the mistake I haven't made since was back in my early days of TEW13. Immediately got television, upgraded production and was losing a lot of money. Then I bought out a few companies not realizing pop would decrease back down to basically nothing if I didn't run a show there, mostly for merch sales, so this was all ultimately for nothing. The big company I bought was EILL, primarily for the talent I could get, but definitely because of the pop I could absorb from Mexico. That put me in a 1m debt. I then realized running TV wasn't helping the debt, so I cancelled my TV deals which cost me 100k, then lowered production and immediately got hit with a 100k lawsuit for playing copyrighted music. 1.2m in the hole. Fired pretty much everyone making over 200 a show, pumped up my monthly show to 12 and then 16. A ton of injuries and 157 shows later, I'm 1 month away from being back in the green with 1 month to spare until the banks came for me. And NOTBPW has been losing about 100k a month, and they're 90k away from being in the red, so we may be doing this whole song and dance all over again in 2000. Fun 2 years. My UC is starting to look really good. Turned off the Fog of War so you could see the stats in the End of Year 2000 screenshot. As for 2001, we might be able to produce a 75 event and match once my injury wears off in April. We can get another muscle increase around the same time. Star Quality has already jumped to 84 from the previous size increases, so we may have a legit figurehead. Currently at +4% attendance and 10% merch with myself as figurehead. Merch is 9 weeks from hitting level 8. I think that's about it, for those so inclined, my more detailed description is below, written as the events happened in my google drive. My Goal is to kill HGC at this point. They stole Steve Flash and Chris Morrisette from me in January of 19, as well Big Cat Brandon in April of 99. Didn’t hurt me show rating wise, just pissed me off because The Crippler and Brandon James are 2 of my favorite SWF guys in the current data and I wanted to keep them. I’ve purposely avoided signing Rich Money and Angry Gilmore for this exact reason. I want them to be nobodies so that when I can offer written deals, they’ll be mine! OLLIE’s Carlos Mencia retired in October of 99 and thus the booking position came open. Unfortunately, they’re a medium sized company and I was not yet small at the time of the opening. I’ve always been torn on whether I should jump when it becomes available. I had an opportunity to do so on a prior save years ago and took it to jump to EX2010. They had a big financial backing, but I was never as invested as I was with my own company. In February of 2000, I bought BDW for a measly 33k and got myself 26 pop total across Oceana. If I did the math right, that would make it to where merch sales would pay me back on that transaction in 5 years. But considering I’m still rapidly upgrading merch (just hit level 7 prior to buying them) it’ll probably be closer to 4 years. I also brought over 8 workers just to use them and make them active in USA. Afterwards, planning to resign them all to 1 month/1 appearance deals and shortlist them for whenever I need to go on a hiring spree. Unfortunately Cousin Tiny had an attribute that makes him never become active outside of Oceana, so that was unfortunate. I was looking forward to him eventually being a monster heel when I start properly booking for fun after the grind to medium. March of 2000 saw us rise to Small. We immediately upgraded production so as not to take the large hits from DaVE as well as procured TV Deals for the 3 regions we’ve been running (Mid-South, Tri-State and Mid-West) so we have some growth flexibility. We bought out RWA who was only 6,770 in debt and came with 39 total pop across British Isles, so it’ll pay itself off in roughly 9 months and then add 800 a month to the bottom line. This would late be a monumental mistake. While perusing all the companies finances, I saw EILL is also in debt but at a whopping 1.06 MILLION. Now, they’ve allowed me to offer a buyout, and owning the future SOTBPW is immensely intriguing to me. Thanks to the US TV deals, I could also move my shows to Sureste to try and recoup some of this money back quicker as they’re a 44 pop in that region, which is my highest. The other major reason I’m seriously considering it is the talent. I’ve always loved Axxis Jr and Soul Taker, but besides them there’s Atlantis Jr, El Critico, El Demonio, Mayan Idol, Mephisto, Mexican Beast, Mexican Ghoul, Pablo Rodriguez, and even The Gatekeeper doesn’t yet appear to be in time decline. I feel like with running shows and merch sales I could probably make the money back before bankruptcy, but it’s gonna be a tough slog. Couple other bonus reasons, my UC picked up spanish at some point (but still not japanese despite hiring BHOTWG and PGHW excursioned workers) and it would accelerate my growth from Big to Large if and when I reach that point. With some work, I could also potentially get on the Los Deporte Hoy network within a year which gives me very small coverage throughout Mexico and tiny coverage in my home region, the 2 other regions I need for medium as well as Tri-State which I was already running and Puerto Rico. There’s also 2 PPV options for me in Mexico, which I feel could be a huge windfall financially, but it would require further upgrading of my production. One I could get immediately after gaining 1 pop in Sur and upgrading my music to minor licensed. The other is a bit longer term play and would take around a year to meet the pop reqs. So ended up buying it. Tried holding out, but they were losing an additional 20k a week as best I could tell and I didn’t want to end up taking on a debt I couldn’t overcome. First month was absolutely horrible as I brought in everyone I mentioned and then some. Roster was up to 36 active. While I never intended on keeping everyone, I had to book them at least once in US for when I eventually did want to sign them. Unfortunately, they were on my roster long enough to tank my backstage rating from the mid 80s down to the low 50s. I got rid of most of the negative influences (except Enygma because he’s awesome and his tag team with Alex Braun named Arctic Shadows is great) and now it’s a matter of time for the 10 negative effects to fall off. I also renegotiated everyone’s contracts and got better rates (level 10 negotiating) to help the bottom line. Had to cut Soul Taker because 3400 a show was too much, as well as everyone else on a 1k/show rate except for Axxis Jr. While all that was happening, I realized the mistake that I never make anymore in rushing for TV was a massive mistake. More worker fees, more production, more show costs turned a monthly 15k surplus into a monthly near 30k detriment. Tried taping multiple shows to save money, but it would appear that it hurt the ratings enough to get me kicked off my Mid South network. Which then led me to pay 50k each to the other networks to get rid of TV altogether and lower my production back to minimums. So now we’re heading into May, 1.1 million in debt and the solution I have is running 9 shows a month. The plan is to hit Mid South, South West (for the climb to Medium), Sur and Centro (Sur and Centro so I can get a PPV deal in Mexico) 1 time each, and run the other 5 in Sureste which is my most popular region at 43 pop. 1st show we run after setting all the production values to minimum hit us with a 100k music fine. Dig the ditch a little deeper, please. May showed signs of life, but it was obvious drastic measures were going to have be taken if I was to have a chance to come back from the major deficit. Taking out the additional money I spent for Mania, I was on pace to make 20k for the month. So I rid my roster of everyone making over 200 a show and replaced them all with workers making no more than 30 a show. Brought in guys combined making 110 a show, and got rid of guys (including Axxis Jr sadly) combining to make 7410 a show, a savings of 7300 a show or 65.7k a month. We made over 30k the last 2 months of May after we overhauled the roster. Unfortunately this overhaul left me without any stars in Mexico so I was getting the lack of big names email. Those 4 shows are now likely to be done in the Americas. We added an additional 4 shows and made 85k after taxes in June. Getting out of debt by the 18 month mark (assuming it’s still a year and a half) is definitely doable, but this stretch of non stop shows for the next calender year might just burn me out lol. I definitely regret buying EILL out, as it’s led to this and I had to drop all the talent that I wanted to bring over which is making my growth in Mexico near impossible. Just a complete clustermuck.One good piece of news, my UC is finally in place as figurehead and it’s giving me 4% more attendance and 10% more merch sales. Should help this comeback tremendously considering in June I made 51.9k on tix and 56.7k on merch. Overall, roughly an extra 10k/month. Midway through July we purchased RWA, a tiny British Isles company. 43 pop across the isles, with merch sales, it’ll pay itself back in less than 18 months. In August we started booking 4 shows a week to try and get out of debt quicker. Partially because I don’t want to lose my company, but largely because NOTBPW appears to be losing roughly 100k a month. Friday, Week 1 of December I saw the new on the main page… “Banks Close In On WWF” was the title of the article detailing how I had 3 months left to get out of the red, or lose my company. Luckily for me I’m on pace to be in the green in about half that time. Finished out 2000 winning the most improved company for the 2nd consecutive year. Still 152k in debt, having been in debt since April of 2000. We made 184k last month, so this will be our last month in debt. Unfortunately (or fortunately?) this is like NOTBPW’s final month not being negative, so we’ll be checking in on them at the start of Feb to see if they wanna sell us their company for pennies. We placed 376 in the Power 500, our same exact position as last year, but we did that while dealing with Achilles Tendonitis since the beginning of April. As for the upcoming year, we probably won’t hit medium unless we can buy NOTBPW early and move our home base to Canada. If we don’t, medium will probably come middle of next year. Signed The Hype to a written deal and did the post show drug test for the whole roster since the randoms weren’t catching him. His stamina had fallen to a point he could barely manage a 15 minute match, so the great Hype that was once one of my 4 pillars had started to show cracks and began crumbling under the weight of his addictions. Hopefully he can beat them and return so I can build him back up over a year or two before he hits 30. EoY99: 19. “So, Tell Me About Your Mother…” You have devoted your holiday season to training in the ring +10 to your Psychology skill Psychology: 92—>100 Not So Small After All - Work for a Small company 11. “Nose To The Grindstone” You have devoted yourself to training in the ring +10 any Primary skill of your choice Technical 56—>66 EoY00: 12. "Fists and Feet of Fury" Heavy bag, speed bag, heavy bag, speed bag…you’ve been working hard, +10 to your Brawling, Puroresu or Hardcore skill Brawling: 59—>69

I've attached my rolls for the first 2 years as well as my stats prior to the start of 99. Mostly just been slogging along, rapidly upgrading merchandise (80% of the way to level 6) and trying to stack money. Went through a period of loss where I was trying to get my first 50 event and match and relied on 3 higher priced workers, specifically Duane Stone at over 2k a show to get it done. Once I got it, he, Eric Tyler and Steve Flash all weren't long for the WWF world. My current "pillars" are The Hype, Shawn Gonzalez, Alex Braun and The Crippler. I'd like to include myself, but at this point we're all promo and psychology with trash ring skills. Was really hoping to get some stamina and more fundamentals rolled, but lady luck was not on my side. Stamina and the other basics are coming along well, but not as quickly as I'd like. I'm 3 months and 1 week away from being able to increase my size again. Hoping by the time I get to muscular/ripped I'll have the Star Quality to be a figurehead. Just hit tiny in December, 21 days before my critical owner goal would've been a failure. Unfortunately PGHW still sees me as too small to be able to do anything with me. Eventually I'd like to accept their workers on excursions and potentially do talent trades, althought that's far less relevant since their workers will be unknown to American audiences. I guess that's about it. At this point we should hit small by the middle of 2000 and I'll consider doing television at that point for my 3 regions (Mid South, Tri-State, Mid-West) with local TV deals and then trim to 2 monthly shows with 1 being my main (future) PPVs and the other being a show I'll run in South-West to prepare for the eventual climb to medium. Next update will probably another 2 game years from now. But with Starfield coming out Thursday night for me, that could be a week or two until then 😂 in any event, I'll see yall with a start of 2001 update! EOY97: 17. "Chance to Train" You have been offered the chance to train with a Wrestling Legend. Gain +20 points to spend on any Fundamental skill. (Basics, Selling, Consistency, Safety & Psychology) Psychology: 77—>92 Selling: 76—>81 First Step - Earn a Match Grade of 50 or More With Your Wrestler *WWF Rebellion 15: 4-Way Cage Match (57) | Sunday, Week 2, March 98 Eric Tyler vs. Steve Flash vs. Duane Stone vs. Chris Wyatt 36. “Master of wit and repartee”. Your improve training went really well. Add ‘Shoots from the Lip’ to your character. +15 points to spend across Charisma and Microphone. Charisma: 77—>92 Fresh New Indie - Produce an Event Card of 50 *WWF Rebellion 15: 55 | Sunday, Week 2, March 98 1. "Friends with Benefits" You gain one Working Agreement (you may try a different company if you are rejected) OR you can join an existing Alliance (assuming they let you in) OR you may invite another company to join your alliance (you may try a different company if you are rejected). PGHW —> Adopt a friendly attitude Hello World - Work for a Tiny company Monday, Week 2, December 98 21. “Solid? Liquid? Gas?” You have devoted your holiday season to training in the ring +10 to your Consistency skill Consistency: 32—>42 EOY98: 4. "Chance Encounter" While on holiday abroad you have befriended a wrestler and offered them a job (choose a wrestler in another regional area who is unemployed, make them active in your area and create a Strong Friendship between you and them) Golden Scorpion Can’t hire at the moment because it breaks one of my owner’s goals (no technician flyers) Into The Bubble - Debut in the Power 500 Monday, Week 1, January 98: Debuted at 455 36. “Master of wit and repartee”. Your improve training went really well. Add ‘Shoots from the Lip’ to your character. +15 points to spend across Charisma and Microphone. Charisma: 92—>100 Microphone: 78—>85 Already had shoots from lip via a prior roll

After the news over the past week, I felt like booting up another RTG, this time with inspiration from the late Bray Wyatt. I believe this will be my first game since the new rolls were added. Should make it easier, although I haven't played anything other than bigger companies in some time, so I'm unsure if any changes have been made to upstarts. Anyways, here's a synopsis of the start up through the first 6 months! Our initial Roster: Richard Blood, Clark Alexander, Phil Templeton and myself. Hired Ryan Aitchison as road agent but even with maxed negotiating, he was costing 750 a month (250/show) which was just too much starting out, so I renegotiated his contract to change it from ongoing to 1 last appearance in the middle of Feb (so I didn't chance a negative relationship as I'd like to bring him back when I'm in the green) and my UC has been agenting since. Ran 3 shows a month from the start. My regular monthly PPVs (New Year's Revolution, Royal Rumble etc) have been in Mid South then I've ran Rebellion and Insurrextion as monthly events in the Tri-State and Mid-West to give me the maximum amount of spillover. The first month I ran Insurrextion as a 2nd show in Mid-South but it didn't increase pop, so I'm assuming 1 show hits pop cap now since the last time I did the challenge. We hired K.P. Avatar and Pecs in February to increase the roster to 6 workers. We had Mania in May and I hired 4 local workers specifically for that show with biggest of them being former SWF midcarder, Rich Horn (40-50 pop across US) to main event the show. Prior to the start of June, seeing how I was finally starting to get close to the green, I decided to expand the roster once more, hiring Chris Morrisette, Coyote Dynamite, Eddie Peak and Big Cat Brandon while again doing the renegotiating "firing" for Pecs. I rapidly upgraded Merch levels until I hit small time (Level 3) and then I began a conservative upgrade as the monthly cost once upgraded (750) would cause my merch to run a net negative. I figure by the time I complete the upgrade, I'll be popular enough to draw a profit. It's also only costing me 35 bucks a week while upgrading, which is helpful given that I'm so close to being in the green. Speaking of finances, we lost 4k in Jan, 3.5k in Feb, 2.5k in Mar, 445 in Apr and only 81 in May and that's with a 1.9k wage bill with the additional talents we brought in for Mania. At the end of June, we broke our first profit of 1.2k! We have 4 pop in Mid South, Mid West and Tri State with 1 pop in every other region of the USA aside from PR and Hawaii. Assuming no additions to the roster, I expect to be out of debt by the end of the year, maybe October or November depending on how Sponsorship and Merch sales go with a few more pop points. The only thing I can think that may prevent this is hiring an agent, but my match grades are between 17 and 22, so gaining pop isn't an issue to the point where I need one.

Anyone can make a database, so yes it's possible. The things you'll need to take account of are purely dependent on what you want your universe to look like. Again, depends on what you're wanting. I would think chemistry is one of the lesser important things when making or thinking about a database. You can add most things at any time. Obviously you'd need workers to be able to assign contracts, and a company to assign them to. Similar with starting storylines. But most things can be done in any order you choose. If you're creating them in the database you're using, you won't need to import anything. You'd only need to import if you're creating the workers from a separate database. My experience with creating a database from scratch is incredibly limited. I've only (very briefly) helped with creating workers for a database. The person that was heading that project laid out what they were looking for in each region and then made companies for those regions. Workers were then created to fill rosters for these promotions, followed by creating the unemployed wrestlers for the region. If I recall correctly, 1 region was focused on at a time. I assume after that, you'd want to do playtest/longterm sim to see how the world plays out to ensure the companies run as you'd expect them to. Making sure they're not hemorrhaging cash, going out of business, not producing show ratings around their popularity etc etc It's a very complicated process and very time consuming. It is however, an absolutely wonderfully creative outlet!

Finally back to playing for the first time in probably over a year. Usuaully play Road to Glory, but decided to start up a new SWF game. Also using Derek B's 97 CVerse as that's been my favorite mod since I first played it. Get to use all the wonderful characters I've grown to love over the past decade of playing this game, but from the start of their careers! Anyways, I've made my first round of signings to get a backbone of the roster to slowly build. I took a look at the title histories and noticed that between May of 1996 and January of 2004, the only 2 men to hold the SWF Championship were Christian Faith and Sam Keith, save for an 8 month reign by Sean McFly. As much as I love these 2 characters, I can tell you that history won't be repeating itself in this scenario! The major change I've made going into this save, is while I will be replicating the Nemesis vs Tommy Cornell 15 minute bloody brawl, I will not be replicating the consequences of that. Nemesis will be fired, but in kayfabe, while Cornell will be relatively free of consequence as he was just following the veteran's lead. This will lead to an Austin-McMahon type relationship between Nemesis and Eisen. World Title plans are to have Keith defend against Streens at When Hell Freezes over. Faith wins the battle royal on that same infamous card that sees Nemesis "fired" and will take the title off Keith at Nothing To Lose in February. Faith will hold the belt until Nemesis usurps him at The Supreme Challenge. How do we get there? Well, The Pain Alliance are going to terrorize SWF in Nemesis' short lived absence, eventually incapacitating Richard Eisen himself! Jerry Eisen, acting as interim owner while his father is out dealing with the repercussions of a beatdown at the hands of Big Smack Scott and Kurt Laramee, reinstates Nemesis as a member of the active roster, only if he promises to end the violence against his father. As for the other member of that infamous bloody brawl, Tommy Cornell will see his career take a slight turn. While Nemesis' firing will lead the vacating of the North American Championship, Cornell won't be allowed to compete for that title. As a result, he gets a little more aggressive, eventually taking out his frustrations on Eric Eisen. Jerry, ever the protector of his family, punishes Cornell's bad behavior by making his Supreme Challenge opponent, none other than Bruce The Giant. If I'm able to build Tommy up, then he'll be getting the win and my main feud coming out of Supreme Challenge will be Cornell and Nemesis. The Lords of War are going to dominate the tag team division, likely until I can sign The Demons of Rage. Unless I find another tag team I'm insterested in building up to that level, I don't see a reason to take the belts off of them. They'll be going over The Perfect Storm at When Hell Freezes Over. North American title plans are a bit more up in the wind. I'd like to use that as a title that can help elevate my up and comers. Don't have a very large midcard, but I do have plenty of names that I plan on elevating to that. The most immediate name is going to be Runaway Train. He's someone I want to elevate to feed to whichever babyface I have take the SWF Championship off of Nemesis. Other names that I'm going to have invest time in building up are Axxis Jr, Danny Bruce, Jim Force, R.K. Hayes, Rich Money, Shawn Gonzalez and Vengeance. I'll eventually sign the other long time SWF guys like Angry Gilmore, Brandon James, Lobster Warrior, Enygma, Rogue and Squeeky McClean to round out that midcard title picture, but I'd like for them to get a little more seasoning on the indies first. Alternatively, The Big Easy and Mr. Supreme may be the primary guys for this midcard title, as I've always love both (especially Mr. Supreme) but I'm not sure either have a SWF Championship reign in their future.

Just coming back to this after a few months. Interest in wrestling is going up again with all the recent going ons! Just not sure if I wanna continue from my old save of 2+ years or start a new game. Saw the rolls were made much more friendly, so losing the soft drug user would be lovely. Pretty shocking to see nobody has completed the challenge yet.

Year 2 finished! First Step - Earn a Match Grade of 50 or More With Your Wrestler WWF Royal Rumble: Tuesday, Week 1, Feb 98 Axxis Jr. vs Shawn Gonzalez vs Brent Hill vs Chris Carnage - 51 50. "Grounded in Reality" You've discovered a new found ability to play Realistic gimmicks and prefer to have back up, add "Plays Realistic Well" and “Tag Team Specialist” to your attributes Fresh New Indie - Produce an Event Card of 50 WWF Rebellion: Monday, Week 1, May 98 64 rated show headlined by Pistol Pete Hall vs Shawn Gonzalez 13. “P-A-R-T-why? Cos I Gotta!” Add "Soft Drug User" to your character’s addictions. If you have this already then upgrade to "Heavy Soft Drug User" or "Former Soft Drug User" if previously a Heavy Soft Drug User. Hello World - Work for a Tiny company Tuesday, Week 1, October 98 31. “Hit The Bricks” You live in the gym. +10 to spend on physical skills. (Athleticism, Toughness, Stamina, Power) Athleticism 80-->90 End of Year (98) Roll 40. "As Real As It Gets" The World of Professional Fighting called you out and you delivered. Add +5 between Toughness and Menace. Add either MMA Fighter, Boxer or Pro Martial Artist to your character Toughness 1-->6 MMA Fighter added Just grinding forward, nothing really of note. Rolls haven't been the kindest to me. That soft drug user was highly unfortunate, as was the plays realistic well since I already had that from character creation. The end of year roll I think is rather useless as well. I don't think user characters can take MMA fights to get the popularity bonus from them.

Ideas for Grandmaster Phunk and Ernie Turner? Both are pimps. Currently working with the team name, The Escort Service. I don't know if I really like that name or not, however.

Lol I'm not saying its the wrong way to run a business. Simply saying I already viewed SWF in the manner that Woodsmeister described.

Thats how I've always felt Richard Eisen was. He fired Peter Michaels despite him being the best announcer and leading them to immense success all because USPW was bought out by the Cverse equivalent of Jeff Bezos and bought a ton of talent.

1997 has come to a close. We lost JD Morgan and The Hype to HCG. Gained loyalty of Grandmaster Phunk and Ernie Turner, I'm guessing through constant post-event praise? No achievements met, although we came close to a 50 match a couple times. 3. "Trusted Companion" You gain the Loyalty of one of your roster (random roll from the list of your current roster). -Rolled a 1, so Axxis Jr. is another of the roster that is now loyal to me. I guess my UC has a bit of Paul Heyman in him! As a side note, I started the challenge over and removed all points in microphone and put it more towards in ring skills as well as changed my product to Fast and Furious. So we're 100% going for full on performance. Started with 75 in Technical, Aerial, Flashiness, Psychology, Charisma, Star Quality, Athleticism and Power, Stamina at 50 and Brawling at 25. I've already increased muscle mass as well as increased size so Star Quality is up to 83 as we're now a toned middleweight. If we can get Charisma up, we'll be able to make ourselves a figurehead. In terms of the company, we've finally gotten out of the red as the year ticked over to 1998. I'm making roughly 2k a month, so I'm likely going to up music production and try to get a couple better workers to replace Phunk and Turner. Would like to get a 50 match and 50 show pretty quick for more rolls. We're at 9 in Mid-South, so hopefully we'll be tiny by the end of the year.

Maybe add a few rolls where you can either add or remove specific types of attributes up to your choice?

You would think. But since nobody has completed the challenge as of yet, it may not be enough.

I vaguely remember a while back it being discussed if prodigy should be added as an attribute. What was the consensus opinion on that?

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="Dalton" data-cite="Dalton" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="54167" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>Can you give any examples of this? I don't think I've ever had this problem..</div></blockquote><p> </p><p> I don't know of specific examples that they're mentioning and I rarely play the default data, but you can just look at all the guys over 40 at the top of the card for SWF specifically and USPW to a lesser extent. It wouldn't be hard to imagine that in a couple years, the top of the cards look pretty different. SWF alone has lost Bruce, Faith and Vengeance/DeBones to retirement already. USPW has Baine as an occasional wrestler already, Enygma is 46 I believe, Bruce The Giant is gone, T-Rex has slid down to midcard, Justice is nearly 50, I don't remember what Caulfields status is, but he's over 40 I believe, Force is 40+ as well as Money. The top of the companies is just old at this point and the undercard hasn't really been developed to replace them aside from Scythe for SWF. TCW is less of an issue in this respect with AA and Wolf, but aside from that, they don't have much at the top to begin with. Scout and Guide (whatever their new gimmicks are) are past 40. Minnesota and Rocky left to SWF. Cornell to 21CW. </p><p> </p><p> I think for those of us who have enjoyed the CV for a while are more disappointed with how the world has been shaped around the big 3 and how little the top of the card has changed while the midcard has largely remained stagnant. As I recall, the same top guys in 2013 and largely the same top guys in 2020, just with different companies. On the bright side, 2020 has a lot of new talent but they're all around 20 to 25 so it feels like a gap in the game world. That combined with some indy darlings like Youngman not being touched has left some with sour grapes. On the brightside, at least it shows we're attached to the characters.</p><p> </p><p> All that said, that's why I love the 97 CV. Im too attached to these guys after almost a decade of playing with them to give them up just yet. That and you can shape the world how you think it "should" be if you enjoy long term saves.</p>

For the first time in roughly a year, I'm going to casually attempt this in my free time. Pee-Wee Germaine is the owner. CV97 is the datebase.

Im more fearful of the update. All the top guys are getting old. I feel like the game is going to look significantly different and I'm not sure I'm ready for that!

I'm not near as familiar with the 80's as I am the 90's. I grew up watching the Attitude Era. I'd imagine it would be just as sweet. Getting the legends that may have been well past their expiration date and having them mold that next generation of talent and change the course of history. That to me is just as fun as the booking aspect of it.

CV97 for me. I started playing in 2013 and became super attached to a lot of CV guys and being able to build them up as they're just entering the world and make my own history with them is really fun for me. The only active game I had prior to taking a break was a Road to Glory to game. In prior version, I loved the post Montreal RW97 mod. I would take Bret and have him take over ECW and grow it to compete with WWF/WCW. My longest save on that file (TEW16) was 8 years in game. Sabu was more or less my figurehead for a fair bit. Not entirely realistic as I don't think Bret would ever get behind Sabu, or half the ECW talent, but it was a blast to play. I remember my favorite storyline happening organically where Brock Lesnar broke Bret's neck a couple months before December to Dismember. Bret came back 14 months later to take on a Brock Lesnar that had been undefeated since debuting at the following December to Dismember, and despite coming up short, essentially passed the torch and gave Brock his blessing and thus begun Brock's very Hogan-esque baby face run. I don't remember if I ever beat Brock or not. He was a megastar in the save tho.

Are pop caps still a thing? I haven't played in months. I always come back to the RtG challenge when I do though.

The negative rolls add to the fun/challenge though, doesn't it? Has anyone actually completed this challenge yet? Seems significantly harder here than on 2016.

Gonna start up my first game planned long-term game since practically the launch of TEW 2020. What if the Nemesis/Cornell bloodbath match in February of 97 was the event that sparked SWF attitude? What if the red hot heel, Nemesis never was fired and continued his upward trajectory towards being an opponent for Christian Faith? How would DaVE fare? How would SWF fare with their newfound cult icon? How would SWF television change heading into the 21st century? What if Tommy Cornell wasn't put in a throwaway tag team until his contract expired 6 months later? What if Tommy Cornell was continuing his ascent to stardom? What if HGC never signed the young phenom that would eventually go on to purchase the company and guide them to being the #2 promotion until Allen Packer came to be known to the wrestling world? Hoping to answer these questions over the next few months!

I'm so happy I came back to check the forums. Haven't been here in what feels like a year. Stopped playing TEW20 because of how easy it was compared to prior versions. This was always my favorite mod, due to all the guys (and gals) I loved being on the back end or gone in 20. Happy to see you've upped the difficulty for the human player and prevent the CPU from hoarding mountains of cash. Can't wait to get another save going!