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I was working on an Indian Mod which I have paused for a long time now, and it doesn't feel like I will start working on it anytime soon. Posting the logos of the companies so that anyone can use them as a free picture or for starting a new company. I have written a short description about every promotion, so people can get a general idea behind it. Mumbai STUNTMEN A tiny promotion made up of Bollywood stuntmen. Known for their spectacular bumps and stunts, promotion is known for its viral videos on social media. Pro-Wrestling GOA For the chill beach lifestyle of Goa. It's funded by Goa tourism board and is known to hold shows in a variety of tourist attractions in Goa. The general idea behind the promotion is to offer tourists a live show to accompany the beaches and the beach parties the state is known for. PUNJAB DA AKHADA Big, Meaty, strong men fight it out in the rugged soil of Punjab. Bollywood Championship Entertainment Bollywood Championship Entertainment - Crash TV product. Started by The Bollywood superstar and King of Reality Shows - 'The Big Boss' Salim Khan, after being inspired by SWF. He used his reality TV connections to get a prime-time slot and is promoting the company as the first pro-wrestling company in India. It's a small company with National TV exposure and money to burn. MAHASANGRAM A tiny promotion with a weekly TV show in South India. More like an episodic comic book-esque TV show with deep connections to Hindu mythology. The general idea of the show is based around the Hindu mythological weapon of mass destruction - 'Brahmastra'. BHARTIYA NATIONAL WRESTLING BNW is the oldest pro-wrestling promotion in the India. Due to its old school nature, it was never considered as an actual pro-wrestling company. BNW has a very rich history and was actively involved during the most of the notable events in the history of the India. The descendants of the first true Indian pro-wrestler and the founder of the promotion - 'Giant Dara Singh Rana' still act as CEO of the promotion and even wrestle, while the promotion is now under the ownership of Indian National TV with free-to-air national coverage. BNW blurs the line between shoot-fighting and pro-wrestling, hence nobody really knows the truth about the nature of the promotion.

This is such a great way to see it. Definitely agree with you. I was excited about the Prey since the first trailer was dropped, was skeptical after the marketing direction, now I am excited again.

Great job, Lav and congrats on finishing the mod. For the last hour or so, I was just going through rosters and company changes. USPW's current situation, CV's staple stars moving around the globe, new promotions, it's going to take a while to get accustomed to the new Universe. A lot of the companies seem very interesting, for sure. Also, really happy my BoH logos made it in.

Tried a quick one for you, hope it helps.

Very excited for this. I loved the 18 version, had fun a lot of fun with WLW, AAA, CGC saves. Would love to know where TCW stands in 22.

Hall of immortals. I remember few months back on discord, we were looking for future inductees and the amount is surprisingly low, most of the 'big names/legends' won't get in.

"El Día Del Cambio" - Mexican draft - The Whole situation is wild, promotions actually followed the rules, had a pretty civil draft which was followed on national TV. Surprisingly, post draft, non-aggression pact between 3 promotions lasted for a few years, rather than everyone backstabbing each other the moment draft ends.

Checkout Jingo's RAW, everyone had a catchphrase as far as I remember. Molokai milk had something about fat, someone had ' I am 21st century spitfire'. "Buy My Merchandise" The Force from JSilver's USPW.

Protege storyline may work with a twist after his retirement. An underdog babyface is bullied by group of heels. Somehow that group of heels was caught in front of Goldberg. Now Goldberg won't fight the heels due to his retirement but he won't let heels bully the babyface either - he wants the young underdog babyface to show his true skills without the fear of Heels. His presence is enough to deter the group of heels. Goldberg already stated he came back to wrestling so that his kids could see him do his things. So him being a supporting mentor-esque babyface manager fits with real life too. Menace angles, few on-screen angles, training montages- it also gives you a chance to put over people due to association with a ME level guy in angles.

I just want to say I love it when I open threads and see your posts. I don't think anyone here has long-term games like you do, and it's fascinating to see how player controlled companies can evolve when a game goes longer than 10 or even 20 years.

Lav, I understand your concept about regional mods, I don't mind them, it's just that it seems like too much work for you with little incentive. Is there a significant difference in loading times? Otherwise, most play with all the regions on anyway. As for your objective : Europe/ Britain/Australia, they just need better marketing so that people dwell into them. C-verse has a lot of characterization for US and Japan, courtesy of great dynasties - and characters have evolved sy through them. Britain/Europe never had anything like that. It also doesn't help that 21CW's most of the roster is either bald guys or muscle guys and RAW has no one to steal from, considering no other C-verse stars have popularity there. (this thing was improved upon in your 2018-verse) How about putting out an introductory dynasty for Europe or Britain region - explaining and exploring the region, or a series of posts which talk about changes in details.

Very interesting idea. I think I remember a project here, it treated Thunder-verse as a TEW Universe while letting Vibert (Heyman-esque C-verse character) book shows and explain his thought process behind it while having references to C-verse itself. A complete C-verse Vs RW would be interesting but difficult to book imo, who loses - Harts or Stones? Von Erichs or DeColts? Jack Bruce or Shawn Michaels? Remo or Rock? Nicky Or Cena? Alicia Or Charlotte? Vengeance Or Taker? Interesting idea indeed.

This is a first for me. Dixie feeling vindictive. Would love more owner goals like these.

In my WWE saves, John Cone has buried multiple people and has demanded countless title shots due to this. It's annoying. My other bad habit is I don't like ME's and UC's losing on TV. It's not tough to juggle around that and still have an interesting card. Issue is, it completely screws up the momentum of Midcard and Tag Teams.

T-verse style works so well with it!

Add Boo Smithson and Frey Valiente Jr to the list and I, too, tend to hire these guys - let it be indies or National Juggernauts. Regular Joe was another one in this list, but now he is with USPW. There is something in hiring these dudes. It's great when they actually get over and become someone you can truly get behind. In one of my older LU in CV save, Frey Valiente Jr tagged with J-RO and Alicia Strong and became something in his own right, and it was very satisfying.

Here you go. It's few years old but it was really interesting. http://www.greydogsoftware.com/forum/showthread.php?t=538684

I am excluding obvious Masked wrestlers and obvious promotions(ZEN/WLW/EMLL), so few more options : Captain Wrestling II (if you can) Damian Dastardly Nighthawk Abominable snowman Sky King Outlaw Wes Revell Mimic (with a mimic gimmick it could work)

Just a quick one because promotion felt interesting. Hope this helps.

<p>Most of the matches are squash style - Wrestler above unimportant Vs Unimportant. Few angles for training lower carders with authority figures/interviewers. Main event with mid-card guy vs lower card guy (to test the waters in terms of grades). </p><p> </p><p> Sometimes, tv title get a throwaway defense.</p>

The main problem with these companies is that it feels like they exist on their own islands. America has 3 companies vying for power and multiple indy promotions to back the scene. CWA's merger imo killed the viability of Canadian playthrough, i.e. there is no competition. GCG should have been replaced by an upstart promotion which was either entertainment or Hardcore stuff but on extreme. Canadians can still steal talent from USA's best, though. RAW is alone, 21CW is alone, EILL at least has OLLIE, but AI makes them their developmental company, so it's not that different. Due to pop levels, they can't even steal talent from anyone else other than USPW, which is limiting and can take fun out of the play through. Also, there is no competition as well. With RAW, their roster is based upon entertainment skills and looks for the most part. Their product tells you to focus on angles as well. Build Storylines like you would in American 3 and go from there for the most part. It's a wrestling Soap Opera - SE fed with more emphasis on Angles. Book it like riverdale or something, have rugby games, long lost brothers, vampires and so on.Jingo and Christian_ape are the two guys who have had a great dynasty on this promotion. 21CW has Cornell family. Utilize them well and it's enough. Like USPW, you need to abuse your Major stars' pop at the beginning. I personally don't like booking them, it's tough booking 100 different bald guys when there is no character flavor for most of them either. Lloyd had a long dynasty for 21CW. CWA's problem is lack of popularity at the beginning for the most part, and it's universe wide problem, all the top guys except maybe USPW's, need a 4-5 point bump to be viable. Example - Nakasawa-san is the most popular wrestler in Japan, and he is at just 77. CWA is a struggle, though. Managing their roster at the start is something you need to do in the beginning. You need to spam top guys vs top guys at tghe start for obvious reasons. Grab few guys who are good at wrestling and put them on pre-shows and B shows to train your rest of the roster. NOTBPW was notorious for its 'soulless wrestling machines' vibe, so I don't think there are any dynasties which go on for a long time. For DeColts, Self has a nice one you can refer. EILL in 2016 was interesting as they were expanding in the USA and a year or two later, they would always be fighting SWF and USPW for America. 2020 version have them back on their own island. I had written a guide about them a few years back, gives them a bit of flavor using canon lore. http://www.greydogsoftware.com/forum/showthread.php?t=537620. EILL is the easiest out of all these - you have a lot of great talent, Your top guys are great, even if there is no lover to carry you. OLLIE is a fantastic talent pipeline. It's hard to fail, even with auto-booking shows and minimum management. Another thing to know about playing these promotions is that there is no reason to grow them, you can just keep playing them at your own pace. Staying at your current level is not punished until USPW grows in your region ofc. Until then, there is no one coming for you. Make a broadcaster, have a B show, create developmental and in 6-8 months, you will have a few wrestlers good enough to be on your main roster both pop and skill-wise. Replace top guys if you want to, have expensive imports from foreign lands (for role playing) and build them up. Use broadcasters to expand outside your region and so on. Only thing with these promotions is, due to lack of connection to mainstream CV lore (USA/Japan) there is nothing to dig into. Another issue is, there is no way to replicate Hulk Hogan or John Cena in the game organically. SWF (WWE/F) may have distribution worldwide and Remo might be as big as Lesnar or Rocky might be as popular as Cena but simulating it in game breaks the balance on multiple levels. So as RAW you may grab Rocky and Audience will ask 'who?' and it's not fun at all. Another suggestion is try cv2018 mod. It solves few of these issues.

I have been following you and SMW88 since you guys began rendering, and it's been fascinating watching both of you evolve your rendering style slowly as time goes by. The left one is fantastic and has a lot of personality.

Thank you both for answering these questions, really appreciate it.

Thank you for responding. So, to use the said wrestler now, my options are to either a turn or keep giving him wins until his momentum is in green. Does the level of opponents affect momentum? Ex beating a Recognizable/well known wrestler Vs beating jobbers?

Are jobbers useless? I am still not able to completely grasp how momentum works, a recognizable guy won't get positive momentum if he beats an unidentified guy? For reference, the recognizable guy is on 5 match winning streak and still has very chilly momentum. It's a new save, so no past fortunes, he has gimmick rating as very good, he is getting decent enough ratings on angles.