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I had him in a tag team with Fro Sure in SWF, and the two turned into amazing brawlers. I turned Garry heel and he absolutely shot up the card as a singles guy.

Personally, with The Syndicate I want to have it mirror the old version somewhere down the line. That means replacing everyone but Wolf for me. That's not to say I don't like who's in it now, they just don't fit my vision of the group. I like Doc, but he's a tag guy trying to fill the veteran role that Sam freaking Keith had. I want to steal an aging former champ from USPW or SWF for that spot. I also like the Elite, but they're too broken down for me. I team in their early 30s that could mirror Anderson and Hill pretty well would be ideal. As far as Flynn, I do think he has a future, just not that he's THE future. He's barely younger than Wolf, and I don't think he'll ever reach his level. I want to replace him with a guy like Yuta that I think can really carry a company as the lead heel someday.

I'm not really seeing how turning on the picture requirement for random gens isn't the same as turning off random gens in 2016. Presumably, a historical mod wouldn't have any free pictures to assign random workers anyway, so if you click the option to make it so they only generate if there's a free pic they aren't going to generate. Meanwhile, you don't have to delete dojos and the grads that are already in the database still give the first refusal option. So, unless you have random free C-Verse pics in a historical real world, this is a non-issue. Or am I totally missing something here?

21CW grads are already programmed into the database. TCW's are random gens from the beginning, and this year random gens aren't restricted to the first of the month. The TCW grads will come in March, just on a random date in the month.

He has a sugar skull mask, so Sugar Skull.

I'm not sure if you can do it in the editor, but you can absolutely filter for attributes on the in-game character screen.

<p>Bully and gloomy aren't the only negative personalities likely. Well, not "negative." </p><p> </p><p> Class clowns can create negative events. Prickly personalities aren't inherently negative, but they are in a negative environment. Insecure workers have a negative plus there's a ton of traits added this time around that can impact this, and just like in 2016 when morale gets lower the chances of negative events happening increases. Your morale is at 0% so that's all you're getting.</p><p> </p><p> Like others are saying, the problem isn't the game, it's the converted mod that isn't designed for this version. Play something designed for the version like the c-verse and you'll see that.</p>

I like the idea of midcarders in big feds returning to glory in the indies where they made their names. Like James Prudence returning to CZCW.

I always view Jay as just an overt a-hole. If there's something he can say to get under someone's skin, even if they're not feuding, he's going to say it. He's the heel that you absolutely love to hate and get what's coming to him. With Greg, I treat him as a tough bastard heel (think Pack in AEW) that is actively trying to forge his own legacy outside his family. That's why he goes by Gauge instead of Keith like his Dad and twin brother. He wants to be his own man, and it's less him down a pretty ruthless path.

I've gotten a couple, but the rate definitely feels lower than 2016.

Are you hiring negative personalities? The backstage has been a lot easier for me to handle, especially with guys that were big time problem children in 2016. I haven't run an SWF game yet, though, so no idea how hard Joey Morgan still is to handle! The only negative backstage events I've been getting are ones that results in wrestler court and a positive effect on the offending personality. Try hiring positive personalities? You can sort by positive and negative when searching workers. I can't imagine how many negative personalities you would have to have to get a 0% backstage rating, though.

<p>I went with Chord having a sort of "legend killer" gimmick, with the twist being that he's just beating up older TCW faces that aren't really legends. </p><p> </p><p> It started with him being disrespectful backstage to Sammy, then after he squashed a local talent I had him talk more trash. Sammy responded with a win the next week and called Jay out, and the feud was a pretty basic disrespect thing. </p><p> </p><p> Then, Jay won at the PPV and I kept it going. He beat Bart Biggz on the next tv epsiode and proclaimed that he beat another legend just like he beat Sammy. Sammy eventually responded and then lost again at the next PPV, but it was a fun feud. I even brought in Grunt or Stink as TCW "legends" for Jay to squash.</p>

I managed an 89 with AA vs Wolf in a dog collar match at the first PPV. That was in an early save with a very early patch, though, and I haven't been able to reach that number since. Most of my highly rated matches trend toward the lower 80s, which is plenty good enough to get a show high enough to raise my popularity.

I almost always do The Grand Avatar unless I'm doing a road to glory game or a 0 pop fed. In the 0 pop fed one I like to use the referee because they're usually the most expensive dudes to hire at that level.

Personally, I'm not too stressed about the lack of women that are yet to debut in the database. There's not a ton of men, either, which means that you can expect a lot of random workers to start filling the void for you. Two of the games I've gotten to march already have two new women each, which is a higher rate than 2016 already. I understand that not everyone likes the randomness of it, though. Personally I'm into it because it makes every game feel totally unique.

I don't think it's a problem that rosters are imbalanced. They're supposed to be, so when you start a new game you have to look at your roster and figure out you can do to fix it or optimize it. It's no different than starting a TCW save and realizing that most of the guys the crowd actually recognizes are broken down and in decline. The computer is fixing their roster just like you would, albeit in a way less creative and original way. The only problem I see with it is breaking up the stables and tag teams. Maybe set it so the AI is less likely to have stable members turn and leave. But that opens up more problems in that you would likely have to add a new stat to bookers or promotions that would control how "stable" their stables are. NJPW has had the same stables for about a decade, while WWE stables generally burn bright and then crash to earth within months.

Oh wow that was even longer ago than I thought! Either way, I thought it was a really cool thing for him to do. One of my favorite parts of the new games is seeing how the C-Verse has changed, and he gave us a cool snapshot of that between actual releases.

Yep! It looks like workers that are already in the database will debut on the first of the month because there's no option to specify a debut day in the editor. So guys like Murugan (and his awesome mask) will debut just like they used to at the start of a new month. Random workers don't have that limitation, though, and get debut whenever they feel like entering the business.

Oh, one I've done a lot is renaming Ant-Man "Johnny the Ant" and giving him a loudmouth New Yorkerer gimmick.

Something I've been thinking about is what could India look like in 2021? I'm keeping my fingers crossed that Adam does what he did with 2016 and releases a "one year later" update that has an Indian promotion already running. Maybe even two, with one having a Bollywood-inspired product reminiscent of RAW and another with a more performance based product. I'm away from my PC now so I can't check what the to-be-debuted companies products are but it would be cool to get two polar opposite companies running in a new territory to help establish it.

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="Jaded" data-cite="Jaded" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="47616" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>That's interesting - I've done a bunch of watcher games and 21CW grads come through in March as they're meant to, but like you, I've never seen TCW sign anyone. I notice the database has 21CW (well, national school of wrestling) grads as yet to debut workers but no-one from the TCW facility, so it looks like generated workers aren't being generated yet. Wonder if that's intentional?</div></blockquote><p> </p><p> Ok!</p><p> </p><p> So I ran a test game to make sure what I suspected was true and set the graduation date to February in the editor. February 1st rolled around, and graduates came along, but I simulated to March, and TCW had 6 graduates on Thursday of week 4 in February. For what it's worth, they signed five of them. The one they didn't sign was a lady with pretty low star quality. The most interesting guy of the bunch was this guy:</p><p> </p><p> <img alt="zmAZv4K.jpg" data-src="https://i.imgur.com/zmAZv4K.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /></p>

I keep mine pretty basic unless someone has just a terrible name. Typically I do things like remove the "Newton" from Davis Wayne Newton or the "Ernest" from Ernest Youngman so they're just Davis Wayne and Youngman. Previous versions I've done things like give wrestlers masks and rename them, like Garry the Entertainer becoming Black Cat and Marcel LeFleur becoming Black Cobra II. I used to rename the Bumfholes Randy and Zimmy Quarry as their "real" name in order to lose the Bumfhole and push them as main event talents, but that doesn't seem totally necessary this time around. I'm not in love with Randy Unleashed or ZWB as names, though, so I might have Randy become "The Unleashed" Randy Quarry and just call Zimmy, well, Zimmy if I ever choose to run and SWF game.

Crippler has always struck me as someone that's a total and complete loner. Maybe on the first show following the PPV, have Golden call Crippler out. After they talk for a moment, you can have Scythe emerge, and he says something that causes Crippler to attack him. Golden tries to break it up, but they both lash out at him and keep on brawling. That way, you have two badass heels that just want to tear each other apart without one being the coward/weasel type and leave Golden as the ultimate face that conquers them both.

Who is the manager? I could definitely see Eddie Peak being overshadowed by an over enough manager. Keep in mind his physical condition is absolutely in the toilet in 2020 and that's really going to affect his in-ring ability.

Older editions actually had default storylines you could run that had specific story beats you had to hit, but now the past few versions have all been freeform. You can end a storyline at any point, no matter how everyone's doing in it. Your workers can all end with positive momentum, one positive and one negative, or, god forbid, everyone negative. It's all totally up to how you want to book the storyline!