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Stables are key. I try to get them to 4 or 5 members, usually involving tag chemistry and/or proteges. For instance, in my PGHW 97 game, I have Danger Kumasaka's group currently set as Kumasaka, Yoshimi Mushashibo (his protege), Mamoru Nagahama (also a protege), and Kimitada Yanagita (chemistry with Nagahama). Yodo Nakane's stable has Nakane, Fukusaburo Inao (Nakane's protege), Koichi Kajawara (Nakane's protege), and Onishi Takuma (tag chemistry with Inao). If I was building to a match between Nakane and Kumasaka, I would run tags and 6-mans between the two groups throughout the tour leading up to the big show. Nakane's group is overall not comparable to Kumasaka's, but, say Nakane/Takuma/Kajawara might be able to beat Kumasaka/Nagahama/Yanagita, with Kumasaka kept strong and maybe Nagahama eating the pin. This is not the best example, because the two groups are fairly disparate in power. but you get the idea.

<p>I'm going to go off-book a bit here, but what about Lethal Ring?</p><p> </p><p> The canon fits, with old versions of the game starting them with, I think, $5 mil in the bank, and I believe the style is close enough. It would make sense for Pee Wee to hop in when he hears about a subsidy being paid to a wrestling start-up, and kicking in his own cash too.</p><p> </p><p> As a play option, it would be flexible enough even if you don't kick up the popularity or momentum at all, letting you invest in the GDL Sports Network (the network name I used in an old MAW game when he took over after Sam Keith died), or if you just want to rest on a nest egg and weather some losses.</p><p> </p><p> As far as why Hawaii would be interested in investing in a potentially touring company, just add a monthly minor event (L-Ring House Party, perhaps) with a fixed location in Hawaii. "You can go out and do what you want, but you need to run at least once a month in the islands".</p><p> </p><p> He doesn't really fit as the Cody analogue, but what about Clark Alexander as a hybrid Cody/Jericho/Mox? He's at the upper end of what L-Ring can hire when they form in the game, and it would fit that he wants to come back home to bring a local company to national status. Edit his sister back into the business, and you even have a store-brand Brandi, though obviously with a different relationship to him.</p><p> </p><p> Just a couple of shower thoughts on it.</p>

About that... is there a game balance reason for the number of nagging injuries that have recovery time of over a year? I noticed that in the mod in '16, and wound up either changing them or just replacing the injury database with the default, but I always wondered if there was a reason that they were different in this mod.

A quick and dirty way to have different tour shows have varying prestige would just be for the importance of the final show reflect on the individual tour shows. PGHW Night of PRIDE has legendary importance, therefore the shows on that tour would be viewed as a bigger deal than the shows leading up to Night of KINGS (highly regarded). And so on down the line. [edited] to clarify, I'm not suggesting every PRIDE Tour show should have legendary importance. Just imagine that whatever the baseline attendance, prestige, pop gain, etc. you would get for a newly created event would be the ideal. Multiply that by the importance of the tour ending event, and that's where you land for the tour shows. So Night of PRIDE, which has 100% importance, has a tour consisting of a bunch of, essentially, lower-cost events. The Night of KINGS tour would be 80% of that. It rewards the building of landmark shows, and seems to me at first blush anyway to be kind of the way it works in real life.

Since becoming a fan in late 1987, I've got a bunch of moments I'll never forget, both in-person (KOTR '96 and the Austin 3:16 promo, The Main Event II with the Mega-Powers splitting up) and on TV (Austin clunking Vince with the bedpan, Foley's first title win). It would be hard to pick just one of them, but the memory that will probably always make me happiest is from just over a month ago, when I took my youngest son to his first live event, at AEW Revolution.