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  1. On 4/25/2024 at 11:54 PM, DavidCWriter said:

    Hi all,

    I made a crude effort to mesh the worlds. I also cancelled all worker contracts to start a massive free for all of buying workers.

    The problem is, importing the CV stuff into the other DB, I lost tag team experience, and relationships, and other things. Has anyone had more success at this. Can I get any tips?

    Here's my Wrestlemania card :)

    <img>https://ibb.co/X8TpW9L</img>

     

    Taken from India Expansion mod

    1) MOVES

    2) MOVE SETS

    3) WORKERS

    4) WORKER RELATIONSHIPS

    5) CHEMISTRY

    6) TAG TEAMS

    7) GRADUATES

    😎 EXCURSIONS

    9) ALTER EGOS

    10) NARRATIVES

    This is for workers. I don't know about companies, honestly. I think company and titles should come after this, same with broadcasters and broadcasting deals.

  2. Just having some sort of context for the match and a story is different things. If AEW was a Japanese style touring promotion, it would have been awesome, but it's first and foremost a weekly TV show oriented promotion. Yes, PPV's are mostly nice, AEW probably has the best 'in-ring' men's matches in America but storyline wise this is not it.

    I am happy I got to see Ospreay and Danielson put on a 'banger' and I am thankful that it happened, but would have been even more great if there was more to it than just stable Vs Stable thing before it. I could say the same for Claudio Vs Ospreay as well, since it was a semi-dream match for a lot of people, including me for example. 

    Joe/Swerve/Hangman is a great example of the storyline where it's an 8-month feud (as you have stated) and it had a lot of individual moments, but it just didn't feel like an 8-month epic mega feud. Julia/Willow/Statlander thing has been going for so long, it doesn't need to be. I am sure people will label Willow/Mone feud as 2-3 long month feud because that's when they first interacted before their match at the next PPV when they have barely interacted 2–3 times since Mone debut for the past month. (Ignoring NJPW connection for a minute). Ass Boys/Bang Bang club has been going on so long, 'Hottest free agent' Jay white has transformed into a lower card goober just by the association.

    These months and years long feuds don't do much for me when it feels like some should have been resolved in a couple of months at best - some of these feels like artificially lengthy feuds - if they were in TEW, they would not be hot enough to pass the product requirements. It's not like AEW can't do storylines, they have shown they can do these long storylines really well when it needs to be - MJF/Cole felt silly, but it was entertaining - Hangman/Kenny/Bucks saga was great! MJF/Punk was what 4–5 months long? It was great!

    Then there are great shorter stories as well - Mox Vs Kenny, Mox Vs Inner Circle or Pac Vs OC - these lasted what couple of months? They were neat! Need more stuff like this over these elongated feuds which don't even feel like stories.

    Early AEW was brilliant at using storylines and knew where to stop and start feuds, how to handle them, exceptions was Codyverse.

    I don't get it why some fans jump to extreme that everyone is saying AEW is dying. Until AEW has a TV deal, it will not die, until those 150k faithfuls keep buying PPV's it will not die, until TK has his inheritance and interest, it will not die, doesn't matter what anyone says or whatever happens on the screen.

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  3. 1 hour ago, Shmoe II said:

    I already have an American Elemental and AmEl II that are in the drive link my friend - if you're looking for something else maybe DM me?

    Yeah, I have them. I just thought these new elemental masks are so nice, since AmEl is basically just an elemental mask but American colours, I thought you could generate him a mask similar to these Elementals.

  4. 12 minutes ago, Self said:

    But maybe I'm wrong in this thinking. MMA is structured differently. Fight camps are the real way to get people ready for a fight. Those damn Paul brothers keep succeeding in things thanks to (I assume) proper training and expensive trainers. Maybe if companies showed this (kayfabe) preparation side it might help. Rock didn't just wander in. He's been at the Bloodline's Fight Pit, running drills with Solo and Jimmy Uso, rediscovering his spark.

    It's such a cool idea - Rock training with bloodline members or a Samoan style training montage of some sorts, it would have been really fun.

    Though if you think about it - Rock in and out of his character was talking about his in-ring preparation for a long time now, he even proved his abilities against Jinder, a former world champion, by taking him out.  You add his character to the mix - being a Hollywood action star, CEO of WWE, his past record at WM and his credentials as a wrestler - at least kayfabe wise, he had tonnes of resources and time for preparation. It's certainly plausible that he was good enough to hang with the top guys, at least alongside someone like Reigns.

    Agree about the match, night 1 match felt janky to say the least but screw it, night 2 main event more than made up for it.

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  5. 15 hours ago, ColdBloodedSausageMaker said:

    Man, Anthony Bowens can really work a crowd like few others in wrestling right now. When he's on, his promos are a joy to watch. 

    I love The Acclaimed, but I think the money for AEW will be with Bowens as a singles star. He's just on another level than Max. 

    Another aspect of the dude that is underrated is that he actually sells, let it be promos or the in-ring moves. That's a rare commodity on that roster. He stands out a lot because of that.

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  6. 7 minutes ago, Sisma said:

    Punk and Drew were fantastic, I absolutely loved their exchange. The ending with Rocky destroying Cody was insanely well done. Really makes me wonder how they are going to top that.

    I loved how it had that anything can happen/can be said of energy. Punk is honestly best at blurring lines, and Drew probably held his own here. 

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  7. On 3/24/2024 at 3:07 PM, Wrestling Machine said:

    But why should you have two babyface midcard women fighting in the main event of your flagship weekly tv show? Was it their best option? 🤔

    It would have been fine if Mone didn't debut earlier. I don't know whose idea it was to have 2 debut angles for Mone on the same show. Either do the post-match angle or the big debut angle, not both. People saw that Mone had her debut earlier and dipped, didn't expect her to have that post-match angle as well.

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  8. I have created few WWE Regional PPV logos for my save (2013 mod), they are AI generated, didn't know where to post this, since other thread is for CV content. They are for India, Germany and Mexico respectively.

    Blockbuster is for yearly India event using bollywood lingo for a hit film.

    OktoberFight as the name suggests, is a Germany exclusive event, held in October. - (Ignore the year under the picture😅)

    LuchaMania was created because Of a Once In a lifetime match between Sin Cara (Original Mistico) and Rey, hence the logo featuring Rey.

    blockbuster.jpg

    Oktoberfight.jpg

    WWE luchaMania.jpg

     

    Since Super Show-Down, Beast In The East and Clash at the Castle already exist, I am using them for other regional PPV's.

     

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  9. I will rate wrestlers at 50 pop in the USA, WEW, your company, at similar pop and at Small and on the brink of Medium.

    That will place them pretty neatly at recognizable at the big 3 and 'name talent or major Star' at indies, so in a decent position to kick-start a new promotion.

    That pop is enough to get 70 rated main events and a quicker growth like your theory implies with the slightly work rate inclined product like no style style.

    Regional promotions should get a small boost, but not game changing +5 or +10 points is decent enough.

     

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  10. 6 hours ago, lavelleuk said:

    I'm not sure if you have seen already but I wrote some stuff out on the first page of this thread in posts, but it was a lot of work and no one really commented or even liked the posts so I assumed there wasn't much interest. But I think there is more detail on SWF, TCW, USPW, INSPIRES, 21CW, RAW.

    Those posts are essential IMO before starting a new save. Probably people thought of them as something like promotion notes/mod info, hence lack of engagement.

  11. You obviously have the Streets in 77/97. Other than that, I don't see any big families which don't involve DeColts and Stones.

    Speaking of the bloodine, DeColts and Stones are a single family (excluding Alex) now since Steve married into Stone Family.

    While they don't have many active members individually, You already have Lucy and David (Push their debuts forward), Sean McFly is still wrestling, Eddie comes back to Canada - meanwhile DeColts have Jack and Ricky. With addons you can have 2 more members for DeColts. That's 6–8 members. With some imagination, you can have a DeColt-Stone (Steve DeColt married Sarah Stone) debut as well. 

    DeColts/Stones joining hands to continue their domination of Canada is a great storyline imo, and it blurs the line of keyfabe/shoot as well.

    T-verse has Nicolls-Bell-Gilmour family you can book around.

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  12. I don't like that Kingston is in the finals. What was the point of the tournament, then? Could have just consolidated the titles, create a new belt and be done with it. They have telegraphed it from the start -  Look, I like Kingston as a lower-mid/mid-carder who sometimes punches above his weight, same way I think about OC, him in main event is big ouch.

    Why not Swerve or White? 

    While continental classic itself was good, it still feels like a watered down version of G1. It feels like a solution created by Tony, to keep Danielson for himself - "See, we have our own G1, don't leave me" and have a triple crown belt because AJPW reference.

    Devil storyline and everything surrounding it is just awful. I hope Tony Khan is the devil because at least that would be something fun to say the least. Before people say that they don't have main eventers, and it's hard to pivot from Adam Cole - Christian and Edge are on their own island doing nothing! It takes one match to integrate that feud into the world title scene and that's a killer main event for any PPV.

    Speaking about Joe, Miro could have been a monster of the month week type main eventer in the place of Joe. No need to kill Joe's aura for that stupid storyline and destroy Keith Lee's credibility with that TV title relinquishment. Miro was back doing his stupid cuck angle anyway, devil stupidity wouldn't have affected him - he is on paid holiday until WWE comes calling back.

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  13. On 12/23/2023 at 6:31 AM, GreatreDRagon said:

    Saturday, Week 2, March 2017

    MJPW Fight For The Throne

     

    Not sure how I missed this show. Senmatsu is an excellent choice for the first champ. Man, WEXVV had so many great guys on the roster, always felt like a lot of them were destined for big things but hamstrung by the promotion. its weird but fun seeing SE-style interference in a Japanese promotion.

    I am looking at your shows and roster is stacked as hell. Definitely more than good enough to be the 3rd national promotion in Japan.

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  14. 12 hours ago, Wrenegade said:

    I’ve recently re-converted all my saves back to Daz art. Don’t know what it is but didn’t feel the same with the AI stuff. 

    Nothing against AI art but DaZ renders have personality imo which is lacking in AI renders. A lot of them have similar features + everyone looks like supermodel or bodybuilder - unless significant effort has been put in.

    Most of US and Canada still feels best under the OG renders.

     

     

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  15. As other have stated don't hire everyone, another is let people go!

    One of your Star or Major Star who hasn't been part of any big storylines or doesn't get featured on PPV or TV? Let him go! A talented jobber who hasn't progressed from unimportant to recognizable in 15–18 months? Let them go. Try to do this with guys not on decline and watch them renew themselves and come back to your company in the future.

    If you are playing a real life save, it adds so much to your internalized cannons in the game.

    Another thing I like doing is shortening contracts of top guys to 2–3 years at maximum if there are multiple national level companies in a country. Game incentivizes those monster 5-8 years contracts to get them to sign the contracts, but I don't think anyone would sign that if they have multiple options.

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  16. 2 hours ago, same-old-davey said:

    WWE Network?

    (Yes Mod 2013) In just 3-4 in-game months, TNA was in complete financial ruin, they lost their primary TV deal too. I wanted Sting (who had 1.5 years of contract still to go I think) and they wanted money, So I bought them but kept them in their own little corner (Imagine Vince and ECW), just took Sting for a WM XXX match with UT (both were heavy in decline and had 38 Stamina).

    Now AI was stupid, and their new event deals were with TV networks and wasn't helping them financially or pop wise, so I finally caved in and their PPV's are on my network while Impact is back on Spike.

    I could have had them die on their own, but then it leaves a vacuum where the 2nd biggest promotion in the USA is NXT. I wanted a place for indy misfits and NXT rejects.

    It's aligned continuity type save where canon moments happen but not in the right sequence or context. Squint your eyes a bit and everything looks the same as cannon. (Sting had his SS moment where he saves Dolph from Authority (Lesnar and Shield in this case), as WWE COO, HHH calls out Taker to fend off Sting at WM.)

     

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  17. 19 minutes ago, GreatreDRagon said:

    The company is going to use a western inspired schedule. So after the next two events we'll switch to weekly TV with a big event/PPV every 8 weeks.

    Emerald Angel leaving was a creative decision. I didn't want to stack the main event too much so that I have room to move up people lower down the card. Same with not hiring Furusawa. He's not as big a name as Emerald Angel but he's so good in the ring and popular enough that I feel I'd have to push him.

    The only thing surrounding the starting roster that wasn't a choice was Hiroyasu Gakusha tearing his ACL. I forgot that without a touring schedule the company would run house shows and he got injured on the very first one of the save.

    Understandable. Pretty cool to see how these different guys mash-up here with different divisions and what not. I am pretty familiar with WLW, EXODUS and GCG, not so much Wrestle Engine guys other than their main eventers.

    Angel and Kobe both are very clutch in 16, completely fine idea of leaving one out. Excited to see who becomes the first MJPW champ!

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