LigerLiger

Guess he didn't enjoy your booking, lol

<p><img alt="Arf3KJf.png" data-src="https://i.imgur.com/Arf3KJf.png" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /></p><p> </p><p> Well...ok then</p>

I noticed a typo in the BOSJ lineage. It lists Norio Honaga as winning in 1999 instead of 1989(in the title screen, not sure if this is also reflected on his profile)

<p>Hmmmm.</p><p> </p><p> I don't know if this would work or be ignored by the AI, but maybe set it's focus to high flyers could help a bit. Surely, the Jr. title is not exclusively a high flyer title but that way middleweights who don't use a Jr. style like Minoru Suzuki or Daisuke Sekimoto himself might not be booked to wrestle for it. If the AI actually uses focus, that is.</p>

<p><strong>Giant Redwood© </strong>vs. Pete The Hillbilly</p><p> </p><p> <strong>Al The Hillbilly </strong>vs. Edwin D. Bashford</p><p> </p><p> <strong>Rolling Johnny Stones </strong>vs. Mad Dog Mortimer</p><p> </p><p> Moose Mulder vs. <strong>Big Cat Brandon</strong></p>

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="raspymorten" data-cite="raspymorten" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="46586" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>"WWE wasted Jinder Mahal, just look at how good ROH has been booking him! He deserves another run in the company!"</div></blockquote><p> </p><p> Quick question, WHAT</p>

The Blood Generation split-off stable/successor now has a name. Don Fujii, Magnitude Kishiwada, Shingo Takagi and the Teams Speed Muscle(Masato Yoshino & Naruki Doi) and The Brahman Brothers(Brahman Kei & Brahman Shu) are calling themselves the Strong Chariots. The Chariot is the seventh major arcana in tarot and closely associated with strenght, drive, and decision making. But the chariot is also, on the other hand, a rejection of aggresivity. Thus comes the "Strong" part of Strong Chariots. Major arcana number 8(sometimes 11, but I'll go with 8 as it fits my narrative better), The Strenght. They will stop at nothing to take the reins of the wrestling world, no matter what it takes. The ends justify the means, and the means are ruthless, unstoppable strenght that leads them to victory. Strenght is also associated with Temperance, and Justice. Their vision of Justice is a simple and perhaps twisted view on natural selection. The strong reach the top, the weak are left to die. CIMA is weak, thus they left him behind, and now they will fulfill their destiny. Temperance is an idea that they reject. Self-restraint and moderation are signs of weakness. They have already made several enemies. CIMA, of course, the man accused of being the one who held them down, but also Yasushi Kanda, to whom they were less than gentle in their promos and actions, and now Final M2K, as after a singles match won with interference, Magnitude Kishiwada ordered a beatdown on their member Chris Jericho. Additionally, they have not endeared themselves with much of the lower card, saying that all of them lack the "virtues" needed to be even worth their time. Altought, on the other hand, there is one man who seems to have drawn their attention... The plan right now is for CIMA to form a new unit with Kanda and YAMATO. YAMATO has been sent to America on excursion(read:developmental deal) and the idea is to play the real life fact that he's the protégé of Shingo Takagi, who will, eventually, rise to the leader position in the Chariots as Fujii & Kishiwada tag up full time. YAMATO will arrive, Shingo will try to bring him on but he'll refuse claiming he can't follow a mentor with such a ruthless and cruel world view. Shingo will deem him weak and attack, before CIMA, and, surprisingly, Kanda, make the save, thus teaming them up. I'll also bring up a younger outside guy. Right now I'm torn between Shiori Asahi, Taiji Ishimori, Kazuchika Okada and Hayato Fujita. The original plan was Gamma(in real life, it was actually Kishiwada who introduced him to Dragon Gate) but New Japan scooped him up. In fact, two of them might aswell get a contract since U.S. Express still hasn't brought on Chris Sabin's mysterious parnter. The plan is actually to bring someone over for the SATL, and of course the obvious choice is Alex Shelley, but in the game the A.I. hasn't used them as a tag yet. In fact, they had two singles matches in March and October 2006, tied one victory each, and haven't crossed paths since. Meanwhile, New Japan, NOAH, WWE and CMLL have hit National. CMLL specifically is entertraining to see as right in the first game month AAA, who still hasn't made it past regional, declared war on them. Whoops.

<p>Dragon Gate finished off 2006 in a great way with the King of Gate tournament and a late-year rise to Cult which saw the buyout of WLW and the estabilishment of Dragon Gate UK. </p><p> </p><p> The Summer Adventure Tag League and Open the Twin Gate Championship was won by Anthony W. Mori and BxB Hulk of Pos.HEARTS. Unfortunately for Hulk, he would end up losing the Triangle Gate tiles to Akira Tozawa, Katsuo and K-Ness of Final M2K. Now there's a struggle around both belts, the symbols of unity in Dragon Gate, as Tozawa and Katsuo want to go after the Twin Gate while also facing off challenges for the Triangle Gate from Pos.HEARTS themselves and Blood Generation. Even the US express has...expressed an interest, claming Chris Sabin is gonna bring in a tag partner soon.</p><p> </p><p> Well, but, King of Gate! At the finals of the big 32-man single elimination tournament, CIMA of Blood Generation went up against Masaaki Mochizuki of Final M2K. CIMA had, one month prior, unsucessfully challenged Open The Dream Gate champion Ryo Saito as well. The winner of this gets to main event Kobe World next July for the belt.</p><p> </p><p> Mochizuki defeated CIMA to get one step closer on his quest to return himself and M2K to the top of Dragon Gate. However, his celebrations didn't last long, as soon Blood Generation's Magnitude Kishiwada, Masato Yoshino, Naruki Doi and Shingo Takagi hit the ring and...attacked their leader! Kishiwada said that, despite of CIMA's promises at the start of the year, all Blood Gen did was decline and decline and decline some more. At the SATL, Doi and Yoshino fell in the finals to Anthony W. Mori and BxB Hulk. Before that, at Kobe World, Kishiwada had to look while that dancing idiot Ryo Saito reached the top.</p><p> </p><p> But CIMA was the worse of all. Thanks to CIMA's cockiness in saying he didn't need much help beyond a tag partner, he cost Blood Gen a second spot in the Summer Adventure Tag League semi-finals to some rookies. ROOKIES! That's who the supposed Ace of Dragon Gate lost to. Then, CIMA boldly went ahead and challenged Ryo Saito. He was the first Dream Gate champion, but oh how the mighty have fallen. He lost to Saito! He gave him his second key(Dream Gate challengers get a Key which, in case of victory, is used to literally open the belt to put their name plate in. In case of defeat, the champion hangs the key in the belt as a sign of victory)</p><p> </p><p> Then, came King of Gate. Tensions were high and CIMA was the only one who didn't see it. He kept trying to be friends with Yasushi Kanda, and for what? For nothing! Blood Generation got nothing from Kanda! Then, he once again insisted in his mistake. He forbade his stable mates from interfering in matches at KoG. Because in his fool's mind, he made this unit so great, so unstoppable! Well, he did nothing!</p><p> </p><p> At the King of Gate semi-finals, CIMA wrestled Naruki Doi. And it was clear he lost his touch at that very moment, when he hesitated while doing a Meteora(Flying Knee Stomp) to the outside. He hesitated! Did he fear for himself, did he think it was a foolish thing to do to his own knees? No. He feared for Doi. Because Doi is in his unit and he can't hurt him that badly. Because he has become weak!</p><p> </p><p> Kishiwada & Don Fujii are gonna be co-leaders from now on. Somewhere down the line, the time to fight for the de facto leader spot will arrive. But for now, they will focus on making CIMA pay for making a joke out of them, and turn Blood Generation - actually, no, not turn - but from the ashes of this group, create a strong unit, one that will run rampant and unstoppable over all of the world.</p><p> </p><p> <span style="font-family:Garamond;"><span style="font-size:12px;"> Now, yeah, the idea here is that they're right. Blood Generation started 2006 with several victories by cheating and interfering, which led to CIMA growing so cocky that he stopped them from doing that some more as, hey, they've beaten everyone, right? Thus leading to losses. His redemption story starts here and will end with him proving that he, at least, can win big matches fairly and hasn't "lost his touch" at all. I'm thinking of having him create a new unit soon.</span></span></p><p> </p><p> There were some more debuts around the latter part of the year. CM Punk arrived beating Takashi Okamura with ease. The idea around him is that he's a dominant wrestler, not because of size or strenght, but because of skill. Punk dominates by simply knowing how to counter whatever is thrown at him. But, so far, this hasn't been tested against people high up the card...he also has great chemistry tagging with Johnny Saint, so maybe the veteran will be able to at least correct his personality, as he has shown to be a top tier a-hole. Then again, we got so many of those it might actually help him make friends.</p><p> </p><p> El Generico from PWG & El Ligero from literally all the promotions in the UK came in for the KoG and faced off in the first round. Generico won before being eliminated by Shingo Takagi and it seems managment wants to bring him back somewhere down the line...</p><p> </p><p> Also, a very charismatic but below average in ring rookie by the name of MC K.Z showed up near the end of the year, rapping his way to multi-man tags, much to the amusement or dismay of his partners, depending on who you ask. He's being touted to be sent to WLW or DGUK to gain some more ring skills after Crown Gate. It seems like Takashi Yoshida will go with him, and Yujiro Kushida and YAMATO, on the other hand, should return. Both men were sent to WLW so Randy Savage can teach them how to be more charismatic and better on the mic.</p><p> </p><p> Ryo Saito's first challenger of 2007 is Chris Jericho. Jericho did get some fairly big wins over 2006, and now he wants to help Mochizuki on his quest by having Kobe World be main evented by two Final M2K members. Spoilers:<span style="color:#FFFFFF;">he fails</span>.</p><p> </p><p> Meanwhile, Anthony W. Mori and BxB Hulk will take on K-ness and Susumu Yokosuka, also of Final M2K. It's their second defence, after they defeated Atsushi Kotoge & Daisuke Harada of Do FIXER. K-Ness is also a co-holder of the Open the Triangle Gate championships, and if Mori & Hulk beat him & Yokosuka, then fellow Pos.HEARTS members Magnum TOKYO, Milano Collection A.T., King Shisa, Super Shisa, Shachihoko Machine and Yuki Sato will all have a claim on challenging.</p><p> </p><p> At the first show of the year, all members of Pos.HEARTS faced off in an 8-men tag team match, and now Sato, Machine and Milano are scheduled to face off against the two Shisas and TOKYO to see who gets to challenge. It seems like, despite this looking like an internal fight, it's more like a big showing of just how much they trust Mori and Hulk.</p><p> </p><p> Open the Brave Gate champion Dragon Kid lost some time due to injuries and also because no-one stepped up to challenge him, most people being too big for the belt or not interested. There, in fact, hasn't been a challenger since Kobe World, and he has reached over one year as champion with only three defences. However, Naruki Doi eliminated him from King of Gate, and since he and Yoshino could not get a strong enough claim to challenge Mori & Hulk for the Twin Gate, he's going after Kid so he can prove that CIMA was, in fact, holding the whole group down and already give the new, currently unnamed unit, a belt.</p>

I think it's 6 months

Who are these jobbers and where is Grapple Goblin?

<p>I started a for fun only Dragon Gate save(for fun only meaning I use the editor constantly), and, 7 months in, we're nearing the first ever Summer Adventure Tag League. It hasn't been announced yet, but the winners will also be crowned Open the Twin Gate champions. In real life, Masato Yoshino & Naruki Doi won the first tournament(in 2007) and then created the belts, but that's not the kind of stuff I enjoy. It started in 2006 with the Shifting Sands mod as well as a ton of guys imported from RWC and also Johnny Saint.</p><p> </p><p> Well, the units all vowed to make a change of sorts in the new year. CIMA's Blood Generation said they would no longer play nice. They weren't playing nice before either, but I am not studied well enough in this period of DG to know if they were already estabilished as the top heel unit.</p><p> </p><p> Final M2K also vowed to return to their sucessful origins, and to grow stronger as an unit. This came particularly with K-Ness being injured at game start and Ken'ichiro Arai missing two months not long after. M2K got themselves a very strong reinforcement in Chris Jericho, but have still failed to find the sucess they wanted.</p><p> </p><p> Do FIXER came in hot following Ryo Saito's King of Gate win, with Dragon Kid also being the Brave Gate champion. Saito, however, failed to win the Dream Gate in his first challenge at Primal Gate in January. This led to all of them, but particularly Saito, vowing to work harder than anyone else to achieve their dreams.</p><p> </p><p> Pos.HEARTS meanwhile is in a transition of sorts, trying to find a footing. They did capture the Triangle Gate titles and have held tightly to it, which is more than anyone but BloodGen can say, but still haven't yet achieved the heights they can. Thus, a rebuilding period has started. More on that later.</p><p> </p><p> The americaboos Daniel Mishima, Michael Iwasa, Jackson Florida and Johnson Florida decided to bury the (assumed) hatchet and formally become an unit after going 3 months without getting booked whatsoever, simply calling themselves the U.S. Express. President Takashi Okamura and pretty much the whole roster doesn't seem to be taking them seriously, so now they're busy trying to find a way of gaining recognition.</p><p> </p><p> The company toured from January to May, then took a break in June and came back in July for Kobe World. Before the break, however, Dragon Gate President Takashi Okamura, seeing as the company started to sign quite the number of non trueborn stars, announced a free agent unit draft with the deadline being the Crown Gate show in May. The units spent 3 months scouting possible additions, and each of them(except the U.S. Express) could announce their two picks at Crown Gate. The SATL was also announced, with 4 blocks of 4, then a semi-final and final round. It's kinda dumb but that's something I never did before.</p><p> </p><p> Blood Generation initally played the draft off as being useless, as they are already the srongest unit in DG. However, someone over there seemingly had a change of heart, so the Brahman Brothers(Brahman Kei & Brahman Shu) joined, and look to prove their worth in the Summer Adventure Tag League. Their toughest challenge will no doubt be Final M2K's duo of Chris Jericho and Ken'ichiro Arai, who, despite a lack of tag experience, are no doubt skilled and smart enough to pull off the win. Well, Jericho is.</p><p> </p><p> Speaking of Final M2K, their paths crossed with that of Akira Tozawa. Tozawa, alongside his partner Katsuo, came in with extreme young guy cockiness(I kinda decided to forget what their actual gimmicks were at that time). At one point, it seven seemed Tozawa was ready to ditch Katsuo and move on to bigger and better things. The arrival and quick ascent of Chad Collyer, however, put his plans to halt. Collyer tapped Tozawa out with the deadly Cloverleaf and then went on to rack 18 straight wins in Dragon Gate, with his victims including Milano, Doi and Yokosuka. Tozawa ate a huge humble pie and even rejected Masaaki Mochizuki's initial advance saying he couldn't join M2K and leave Katsuo behind as he wasn't ready yet. At Crown Gate, Tozawa pinned Collyer, ending his streak and sending him back to ROH for the time being, and both him and Katsuo got a spot in M2K and the SATL, where, on the very first day, they will face Brave Gate champion Dragon Kid and Dream Gate Champion Ryo Saito, Do FIXER's representatives.</p><p> </p><p> Do FIXER seemed in a perfect position at the start of the year. Despite only having 4 members, one of them was the first King of Gate winner, one was a Brave Gate champion, one had shown lots of prowess in trios matches thus giving DF the hope of holding every title in Dragon Gate simultaneously, and one was Naoki Tanizaki. However, Ryo Saito lost to Magnitude Kishiwada in the title match, and his tag performances with both Kid and Genki Horiguchi started to decline. His reaction came after, seeing how Kishiwada handed the challenge of Masaaki Mochizuki with apparent ease then went on to convincingly beat Dragon Kid in a special Champion vs Champion bout, realizing it was his fate, after all, to be the one to become Dragon Gate's symbol for the future. He won the Dream Gate in Kobe World, but not before adding the exciting new duo of Atsushi Kotoge and Daisuke Harada to Do FIXER's ranks. This choice was perhaps the most surpising of all of them though, as despite showing great chemistry, both these guys barely have a month of tag experience. They will fight the Pos.HEARTS duo of King Shisa and Super Shisa in the first round of the SATL.</p><p> </p><p> Pos.HEARTS, on the other hand, was in bad shape. Milano Collection A.T. came in as a face but his return was overshadowed by Jericho's debut. Magnum TOKYO has definitely lost his spot among the top three, which he once shared with Masaaki Mochizuki and CIMA. Anthony W. Mori has been failing to really do anything. BxB Hulk was supposed to be their own super rookie but hasn't hung around the main event for a while. So they went into the draft thinking about the future. King Shisa and Super Shisa realized that what Pos.HEARTS needed wasn't the pure talent of Hulk, their experience, Mori's great fashion and gourmet sense, or even the techincal prowess of Milano. Rather, they needed new blood to build into future stars of the wrestling industry. Thus, Shachihoko Machine was drafted into his mentor's unit. He has no intentions of staying in his shadow, however! The other draft pick was newcomer Yuki Sato. Sato has been in a rivalry of sorts with fellow rookie Yujiro Kushida, who does seem very upset at not being drafted. Sato & Machine are tagging up for the SATL, and their first round opponents are the much more experienced Brahman Brothers. </p><p> </p><p> The U.S. Express, unlike Pos.HEARTS, are soon gonna reach the conclusion that what they lack the most is talent, and thus will bring the best talent that the best country has to offer - Chris Sabin! The idea is to use them as an excuse to bring in more ROH & TNA & PWG guys, and have everyone and their mothers say "Hey, this guy is Canadian!" when Tyson Dux shows up.</p><p> </p><p> Two other wrestlers have made themselves talking points too. The mysterious loner Mondai "Problem Dragon" Ryu(who didn't adopt this gimmick until 2011 irl but let's ignore it) didn't take part in the draft and flat out refused to wrestle tag matches. In one such occasion, Okamura decided to teach him a lesson, but wound up defeated. In the one tag match he actually showed up for, Ryu abandoned his teammates(Shachihoko Machine and Yujiro Kushida), thus handing then a Count-Out loss to comedy jobber Stalker Ichikawa. To top it off, one of Ichikawa's partners for this match was Yuki Sato himself!</p><p> </p><p> The other one is Yasushi Kanda. He had, presumably, been forced to retire and had been working as a crooked ref, until it just...stopped. He didn't show up at all for the entirety of May, but returned at Kobe World to demand a welcome back from newly crowned champion Ryo Saito. He is currently a free agent and doesn't seem interested at all in buddying up with no one since the whole roster took the chance to abuse him in his brief ref days, but perhaps he is just playing mind games with the fans and future enemies.</p>

IIRC if the guy losing the mask is mercenary he'll offer to take cash to lose it. It's not something you control directly.

<p><strong>Suzuki, Katou & Miyaki </strong>vs Sekozawa, Arakaki & Serizawa</p><p> The Night Terrors vs <strong>The DeColt Pedigree</strong></p><p> <strong>Jayson Van Pelt </strong>vs Edd Stone</p><p> <strong>The Hurt </strong>vs Akamatsu & Nakazawa</p><p> Musashi & Shikitei vs <strong>Nagai & Evil Spirit</strong></p><p> Torii, Taku & Okamoto vs <strong>Kawagishi, Tsubouchi & Yanagimoto</strong></p><p> The Diamond Dogs vs <strong>Mizoguchi & KAZ</strong></p><p> <strong>Tobei Sugimura </strong>vs Ogai Miki</p><p> <strong>Azumamaro Kita</strong> vs Fujio Narahashi</p>

This is literally the first time I see MAW turn on a profit, so I assume he was running it very well.

<p>First things first, you will bleed money like Jun Kasai bleeds...blood no matter what. You have the 5M advantage, then go ahead and do two or three touring shows instead of just one. However, to minimize losses, you can get a good mic guy and do two matches and a promo per show (I assume you have a 100% match product which actually means you can go down to 85)</p><p> </p><p> Keep this up until you get some BCG level numbers because I know for a fact they can be profitable with the AI when industry and economy are good - and you are smarter than the AI.</p><p> </p><p> Broadcasting will be damn near impossible without spillover so don't think about that for a few years. When you start being profitable then maybe think about buying off someone and running two regions instead of one(use the 1 hour thing if need be).</p><p> </p><p> Then there's the no-brainer stuff:Pete Hall as UC gives you a good free road agent, get only one ref, the cheapest you can find, no announcers, ignore RIPW's big production and keep it simple, don't spam expensive workers for ratings, a small company can afford to get low Ds or even mid Es for most shows. Also for the love of all that's holy don't run tournaments, even a single elimination can kill poor MAW(R.I.P Chord amirite) and a round-robin will make the XFL's "profits" look like Amazon's(then again, if your non-touring shows are profitable then running 15 of them in one month once per year might not be all that bad, but stick to the singles matches[no undercard], and wait a while before the next big show so your attendance isn't hit).</p><p> </p><p> I think that's about it.</p>