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No clue if it's the easiest (or safest) way to do it, but alternatively, you could just change for how long his contract will go on, allowing you to renegociate it with the possibility to be "whatever is needed" (or "exclusively in-ring work" if you want that one).

Do you have any idea on what you'll have them do, what their common gimmick will be, etc ? I find it helps finding names for stables. On another topic, I once again come to you all in my time of need, for yes, I need a WWE name for someone once again. The creative meeting thingy said I should hire Mr. Brickster because he'd turn into a great asset, and since his stats were nice enough, I figured I might give him a try. However, I have no idea what to name him. Or well, I have a few, but none that I feel would be "that" great (even more in the future I could see him getting a "politician" gimmick where he tells us he will want to "build the future" or something). So far, these are the ideas I had: for the first name, I thought I'd go with either Christian, Chris, Travis or Dan. As for the family name, I can't go with Bricks since I already have a Briggs, but I thought about Brickset, Brickhouse, or Billund since his indy gimmick seems to have a lot of reference to Legos. Obviously, I can't just use "Lego" because I really doubt they'd be able to afford the trademark IRL, but any subtle hints to it is great

I have two questions: 1) Is there a way to rename/delete an alter ego directly in the game ? I created an alter ego for a new recruit, but made a typo and only realised it once I saved the alter ego... I know I could simply recreate one, and pretend I didn't see that one whenever I need to change, but I'd like to make it "clean" if at all possible. 2) If I create a database based on the save, like there's the option to do, does the new database start Day 1, Week 1 of that month, or does it start from the day I created the database ?

1-2-3 Kid all over again: A jobber gets a win over someone who's at least a midcarder with a good momentum. Mixed match: Much like that one time Edge had to count on Kelly Kelly to defend his title, have one of your champions defend his title in a mixed tag match. The shortest storyline: Have a show be about a very short storyline (even if you don't count it as one). Something like "Face A accidentally do something to Heel B", and you put some angles about the two during the show until they finally face in the Main Event. Stable wars: Your whole show is nothing but matches where someone from one stable fights against someone from the other stable. Whether it has a purpose for a storyline or not doesn't matter. I am Iron Man: This show only has one match, an iron man match. Women's Day: This show only has women matches. Coop Day: Only tag team matches. Raw Roulette: Have every stipulation drawn by a randomizer online. Feel free to tell me if those weren't what you had in mind !

Do you have any "theme"/direction for the Colons stable ? Sometimes, it helps knowing what you'll want them to be portrayed at: if you're going to have them be a stable of masked puerto ricans, you can't call them "The Colons" for instance, but if you're never going to add anyone who isn't a member of that family, it would be simple enough and work perfectly fine. As for MCMG, you could just use the initials, or maybe another nickname of Detroid ? Like "D-Town Boyz", "The Arsenal", "Straits to Hell", etc. I'd go with what the other said and use "Forbidden Door", but if you really want them to be a stable on their own with another direction than "So yeah, they're NJPW guys on loan", maybe translate it in Japanese so the fans know they're not automatically ally with other workers coming from said Forbidden Door ? Also, I need a suggestion on my own. Yes, again. I swear, at some point I'll just post a list of all the guys I've hired so you won't think I'm asking for everyone But anyway, any suggestions for a WWE name for Jurn Simmons ? I've hired him to densify a bit the roster of NXT UK, although I might have him join the main roster at some point if a plan I have works out well. So far, the best I have is "Jurn Rutten" or "Jurn Rouka" but I'd rather avoid any clear references to past Dutch wrestlers (and to give myself a depression by imagining how Michael Cole would pronounce it, just like I do everytime he says "Coup de Gras" rather than "Coup de Grâce" for Finn Balor's move).

I really like Kazza Martina, thanks ! The best I had was "Martina G", but it was pretty meh.

Sal <3

While I'm still searching for the people mentioned above (although I've settled on "Will Piltdown" for Caveman Ugg, at least for now), does anyone have a suggestion for a "WWE-name" I could give to Session Moth Martina ? Essentially, she'll keep the same gimmick, but if at all possible I'd rather avoid her name to be too related to the gimmick. Basically, more of a "Baron Corbin" that can be turned into a "Happy Corbin", rather than go directly for a gimmicky-name that I can't reuse if I ever decide to change her gimmick. Thanks !

European dream: You must hire an European worker (as in "TEW European", so no British/Irish/Scottish guy) and turn them into one of your biggest stars. This is a stable roster: At the end of the year, your best stable must be one you've created yourself, and it has to have wrestlers of both genders. Homegrown talent... kinda: You can't hire established women stars, as in "No one from the current WWE division" (but NXT/NXT UK is fine outside of Io, Dakota Kai, Kay Lee Ray, Meiko Satomura, Bea Priestley and Mandy Rose), AEW division (save for those who mostly/only work b shows like Megan Bayne or Skye Blue) and/or whose US popularity is over your women midcard. Fiiiine, I'll hire you: Anyone fired from a company must wait at least three months unemployed (outside of small companies) before you can hire them. However, you can try to outbid others for their workers as usual.

I might be completly wrong, as I don't actually know the answer, but could it be that the backstage one makes it so you actually pay for everyone, and the contract one is that you pay for that specific worker, regardless of the backstage option ?

Perfect, thanks !

Does anyone have an idea for individual WWE names for Caveman Ugg and Odinson, as well as a team name ? So far, I'm more or less planning to use modernized version of their gimmicks, so they won't pretend to be an actual caveman and an actual viking, but just re-use the imagery for those cultures. Basically, the lovechild of the Bludgeon Brothers and War Raiders. Alternatively, one of the two can adopt the gimmick of the other, but yeah, pretty much they're going to be big badass dudes with a shared love of ancient cultures symbolism. So far, for team names I've thought of "Ancient Warriors", "Warriors of Old" or "War Path", but I'm not convinced at all, so...

Can anyone make RWC gif style pictures for Gurv and Harv Sihra with a mask similar to those worn by Dalton Castle's "Boys", and a regular RWC gif style cut for Niles Plonk, preferably using this picture ?

Well, being injured and forced to vacate the title wouldn't leave him free to have a Wrestlemania match and a "Bloodline vs Lesnar and allies" storyline right after, but yes, I do agree that if I had to simply vacate the title, that's probably what I'd do. As for Great-o-Khan, I'm not so much asking who I should hire (I may have gone a tiny bit overboard with that already ), so much as how people think WWE would use people like the ones I listed: straight to the main roster, one year in NXT as it used to be, etc ? But thanks for the suggestion nonetheless, I might sign him in another save one day !

Hello, One of the things that have been frustrating me lately is that, essentially, I have no influence on the type of workers I'll get from my training facilities, only their quality and numbers as well as the gender ratio: I can't set a certain style so I get more workers in that style, at least as far as I know, nor restrict it to some physical build, a nationality, etc. Bringing back the dojo emphasis we had in TEW 2016 would be a start, obviously, but like I said, it'd be nice to be able to restrict the dojo with some nationality: if I create a Belgian wrestling school, it'd be nice to ensure the vast majority of my trainees will end up being Belgian obviously. Along with that, apart from roleplaying as if it was the case, I have no way to reproduce what is happening in real life in terms of why some people were hired for in some companies: to put it simply, in TEW 2020, there's no reason to hire Mark Henry or the Big Show rather than someone with similar road agent skills like, say, Jerry Lynn, since it won't help workers with a similar build/style nor will it produce more trainees that size. What I'd like to do is to have more use for such profiles: regular dojos would only have a maximum of 3 or 4 general trainers (and only if they are of top quality, most would only have one or two), that would influence only a bit the style/skills of the trainees. For instance, if a small dojo has a trainer who specialises in a Luchador style, it'd be more likely I'd have luchadors in the generated workers if the dojo doesn't have a style preference. If it does have such a preference, then it'd lower the prefered skills a bit in favor of those needed for a lucha style: a dojo with an emphasis on Hardcore wrestling but a Luchador trainer would have workers with a Hardcore style, but instead of their Hardcore skill being 50 and Aerial/Flashiness being 10, it'd be Hardcore at 40 and Aerial/Flashiness at 20/25. So you'd have to actually think on who you want as a trainer. Performance Center would have more trainers possible (but not mandatory: you're free to decide you want to leave some slots free if you don't want graduates good in a specific branch), and more importantly, would be able to work on one specific skill or with one specific type of workers (meaning you'll also get more of that style/physical build). The slots would be: Entertainment (Mic/Acting), Physical (Stamina/Athleticism/Toughness/Power), Fundamental (Basics/Selling/Safety), Referee, Broadcasters, Mental (which would influence the odds of positive/negative attributes) and then up to 5 (for the best of the best PC) trainers that would influence the style of the future graduates. So for those 5, if I put Mark Henry, Big Show, Kevin Nash, The Great Khali and Kane, most of the graduates would be bigger sized brawlers and any who isn't in that style would be worse than they could have been. On the other hand, if I was to have William Regal, Jushin Thunder Liger, Kurt Angle, Mick Foley and Santino Marella, the graduates variety would be better, and they'd have more chances to be well-rounded or end up gifted in the skills necessary for those styles prefered by the trainers. Of course, just like for dojos, I'd be able to say "I want a focus on Comedy wrestling", and then the choices of trainers would only balance it to have Comedy wrestlers not as funny, but with better technical/puro/aerial/etc skills. Finally, I'd also get the opportunity to tell someone already in my roster that I want them to work with one of the trainers (that I'd then choose) to improve a skill: the better the trainer, the more likely for it to work. Wrestling Schools, since they aren't linked to any company, would only have one trainer/owner, which would determine the style emphasis (if any), based on the owner preference, and the likelihood of the trainees being better in that style (or straight up adopting it as their own) Sorry if it has been suggested already, or if it was explained why training facilities don't have emphasis anymore !

Hello, One of the things that have been frustrating me lately is that, essentially, I have no influence on the type of workers I'll get from my training facilities, only their quality and numbers as well as the gender ratio: I can't set a certain style so I get more workers in that style, at least as far as I know, nor restrict it to some physical build, a nationality, etc. Bringing back the dojo emphasis we had in TEW 2016 would be a start, obviously, but like I said, it'd be nice to be able to restrict the dojo with some nationality: if I create a Belgian wrestling school, it'd be nice to ensure the vast majority of my trainees will end up being Belgian obviously. Along with that, apart from roleplaying as if it was the case, I have no way to reproduce what is happening in real life in terms of why some people were hired for in some companies: to put it simply, in TEW 2020, there's no reason to hire Mark Henry or the Big Show rather than someone with similar road agent skills like, say, Jerry Lynn, since it won't help workers with a similar build/style nor will it produce more trainees that size. What I'd like to do is to have more use for such profiles: regular dojos would only have a maximum of 3 or 4 general trainers (and only if they are of top quality, most would only have one or two), that would influence only a bit the style/skills of the trainees. For instance, if a small dojo has a trainer who specialises in a Luchador style, it'd be more likely I'd have luchadors in the generated workers if the dojo doesn't have a style preference. If it does have such a preference, then it'd lower the prefered skills a bit in favor of those needed for a lucha style: a dojo with an emphasis on Hardcore wrestling but a Luchador trainer would have workers with a Hardcore style, but instead of their Hardcore skill being 50 and Aerial/Flashiness being 10, it'd be Hardcore at 40 and Aerial/Flashiness at 20/25. So you'd have to actually think on who you want as a trainer. Performance Center would have more trainers possible (but not mandatory: you're free to decide you want to leave some slots free if you don't want graduates good in a specific branch), and more importantly, would be able to work on one specific skill or with one specific type of workers (meaning you'll also get more of that style/physical build). The slots would be: Entertainment (Mic/Acting), Physical (Stamina/Athleticism/Toughness/Power), Fundamental (Basics/Selling/Safety), Referee, Broadcasters, Mental (which would influence the odds of positive/negative attributes) and then up to 5 (for the best of the best PC) trainers that would influence the style of the future graduates. So for those 5, if I put Mark Henry, Big Show, Kevin Nash, The Great Khali and Kane, most of the graduates would be bigger sized brawlers and any who isn't in that style would be worse than they could have been. On the other hand, if I was to have William Regal, Jushin Thunder Liger, Kurt Angle, Mick Foley and Santino Marella, the graduates variety would be better, and they'd have more chances to be well-rounded or end up gifted in the skills necessary for those styles prefered by the trainers. Of course, just like for dojos, I'd be able to say "I want a focus on Comedy wrestling", and then the choices of trainers would only balance it to have Comedy wrestlers not as funny, but with better technical/puro/aerial/etc skills. Finally, I'd also get the opportunity to tell someone already in my roster that I want them to work with one of the trainers (that I'd then choose) to improve a skill: the better the trainer, the more likely for it to work. Wrestling Schools, since they aren't linked to any company, would only have one trainer/owner, which would determine the style emphasis (if any), based on the owner preference, and the likelihood of the trainees being better in that style (or straight up adopting it as their own) Sorry if it has been suggested already, or if it was explained why training facilities don't have emphasis anymore !

I wasn't a big fan of having the Rumble winner in the Elimination Chamber, since essentially he has no reason to go there: in kayfabe, if he wins he doesn't really have a challenger and if he loses, it makes him look bad. Now, obviously, in a booking sense, he could indeed just lose by someone cheating or everyone teaming up against him, but I had plans for the non-Reigns Elimination Chamber. So, what I'm heading for once I've solved another issue is something in between: at Elimination Chamber, Reigns has a triple threat match because two challengers have the same time in a Beat the Clock challenge.He ends up losing because he's over-confident, however there are shenanigans because both McIntyre and Rollins have pinned him. Hence nobody knows who's the winner but they both get the rub of "beating" Reigns, yet don't get the title. Therefore there's a rematch at Smackdown where this time Lesnar intervenes and at Mania there's a match to finally decide who is the legitimate champion between McIntyre, Rollins, the Rumble Winner, and potentially a second heel if people do not stop injuring themselves, while Reigns can't participate because he lost twice, cheaply or not. And I swear to whatever divinity wants to hear it that I won't have another Reigns-Lesnar feud in years once I'm done with the "Bloodline vs Lesnar & allies" one. Anyway, as for my other "issue", it's a small question but I'm stuck between two options with some signings I was "forced" to do in the booking challenge between my friend and I: I try to follow what NXT 2.0 is, and so avoid hiring indy darlings as much as I can. Basically, I'm hiring workers with high SQ and under 25 or 30 if they are really really great (so, people like Juicy Finau, Queen Aminata, etc), relatives of WWE legends (Bianca Carelli, etc) or people from niche markets, kinda like Dante Chen for Singapour (Taonga, Georges Khoukaz, etc). However, like I said there are people I'm forced to hire, and I don't know what I should do: the former way would have been to send them straight to NXT (like Nakamura, Zayn, Owens, Ciampa, Gargano, Cole, etc did) for a year or so, but how would WWE treat people that do not fit the new era of NXT 2.0, yet aren't popular enough to start straight in the main roster ? People like Robbie Eagles, Dralistico, VENY, Maya Yukihi, or even Dalton Castle, who are already well know by people who live and breathe wrestling in the indies and abroad, but who are complete unknowns to the regular WWE fan ? Basically, do I still send them to NXT, because that's how it used to be, or do I have them straight into the main roster, even if their pop mean they'll tank for a bit ?

Hello, Small suggestion that, as far as I know, isn't already in the game and would not force me (or us, really) to work around an issue, but I'd like the ability to tell people I'm hiring them for a specific developmental company, and therefore be able to negotiate with them even though they're unavailable in my region. Right now, if I want to hire someone with WWE for NXT UK, I have to convince them to work in the US (or, failing that, to edit their profile), and then send them down to said developmental company. Instead, I'd like to be able to say that worker "Would you be willing to work for my developmental company NXT UK ?" and if they're available for that region, then I can negotiate a contract with them and they go straight into NXT UK roster. Now, of course, if I want to call them up, I'll still have to convince them like I would for any worker who's not set as willing to work in my region in the first place. Or, alternatively, I could have to renegotiate a whole new contract because theirs is set as "Works only in X" much like you can decide how they'll be used ("Be whatever is needed", etc).

I'm planning on using Lesnar (and Reigns) as means to massively push newcomers/returning lowcarders, hence why I need the two to face one last time at Mania: Lesnar is tired to have the Usos intervene and realises that as better as he is than the three, it'd help to have someone take care of the Usos. So he gets someone to find him back-up (I'm strongly considering to use Robert Stone as his new lawyer who's terrified Brock will kill him), namely AOP. Reigns then realises that his tactic won't work if Lesnar has help, brings Jacob Fatu, Lesnar have Stone (or whoever else) hire yet another man (probably Killian Dain, if I can't think of anyone else) and the storyline occupy both far from the titles until Summerslam (or earlier). Then Reigns can go back in the title scene (and maybe lose again so Fatu tries to become the new head of the table), Lesnar can be done with the endless rivalry with Reigns and terrorise other people, and I'll use those months without the two of them in said title scene to build new stars to be on their level (or just under). As for Lashley, he's injured but the randomizer I used to imagine what my Rumble would look like had the New Day and the Hurt Business (with MVP instead of Lashley) be next to each other for all entrants, so I figured I could have the two stables fight, with Alexander/Benjamin and MVP doing the heating up and Lashley making his return the week before Mania for a safe match that doesn't need too much to write. Lashley however will probably the one to retire Lesnar, if I can't get the Beast to sign a contract that doesn't cost me a kidney to use him to build the new stars of tomorrow.

Well, the thing is, I'm not much more satisfied than you are to have Reigns's... well reign end up like that. However, I need to have Reigns lose the title by Lesnar's intervention (so Reigns also has a legitimate reason to want to destroy Lesnar rather than just pretend it was a fluke and continue as if nothing happened). Now, since Reigns is a heel, I need a face to win because I don't want to have the two Elimination Chambers end up with someone disrupting it (not to mention ideally, I want to use the Raw one for the US title, and turn Damian Priest, but that could wait). So it's either have Reigns go against a face in the Main Event, or a triple threat, or a random open challenge in the following Smackdown if I don't want to vacate the title, right ? But at the same time, since the winner I picked for the Rumble and a long reign is also a face, it means I have to find a heel in any case (and turning the face isn't a solution because down the line, once Reigns is done with Lesnar, I want Reigns to come back at said winner). Therefore, I need at least a heel that is credible as a World Champion, and possibly a face. The solutions I've (more or less) excluded are: the Rumble Winner challenges Roman without waiting for Mania, and wins because of Lesnar: the man is too badass for that, so it'd be supremely disappointing. the only faces I could make win that "cheaply" (and that aren't already in a storyline for Mania) are Titus, R-Truth, Ricochet, Mansoor, Gulak or Drake Maverick. I like most of them but not to the point of giving them a run at the title (well, I'd love to for R-Truth but that ship has sailed) I could make returning Keith Lee be the face to beat Reigns but he deserves much better than a cheap win caused by Lesnar I could also make Kalisto win (since the whole challenge for this save is to make Lucha House Party a legendary stable), but it'd be way too soon (especially since he'd lost him after a month) have a heel win in a triple threat where Lesnar intervenes, but again I don't have many choices with only Jinder Mahal, Ridge Holland, and Veer Mahan free, none of which I want anywhere near a world title a return I could build in a month, which leaves me with Gargano or KENTA, who both deserve better than to be cannon fodder vacate the title, have the Rumble winner in a 4-Way for the title (by combining him, Zayn who I have set to win the IC title after Mania, and an existing McIntyre-Rollins feud), but I agree with you a title vacated for kayfabe reasons is a title wasted have two people beat Reigns at the same time (so, probably Rollins and McIntyre) but I can't find a way that doesn't make them (or at least McIntyre) look like they didn't deserve the win nor make Reigns looks like he lost clean have Rollins win "by Lesnar" in a heel vs heel match (which I dislike a lot) and have a month-long reign, which again would be supremely disappointing, and would leave McIntyre completly unoccupied at Mania If you can find another solution (or good arguments for any of the above solutions) that doesn't make Reigns look "weak", preferably gives me a good reason to have Steph decide new GMs are needed, and does not require me to change my pick for the Rumble winner, I'm completly down. There is a reason I'm asking here for better ideas than my own, you know

I technically could, but my planned winner isn't getting any younger and it's probably his last chance to win it before I start giving this kind of victory to younger stars. On the other hand, I've decided on a set of action: my Rumble winner (that I'm keeping secret in case my friend decides to read this post ) will keep his win, Reigns and Lesnar will keep their losses (Lesnar because of the Bloodline, Reigns because of an irrate Steph McMahon who'll then fire Pearce for his lack of control on the Bloodline) and the title will be won at Mania by the Rumble winner. However, I'll not have the potential GMs have a storyline, and will instead just have people vote for whoever they feel would be the two best GMs amongst the 10 candidates, and then randomly choose which one goes to RAW/SD based on the draft.

I don't want either of them to stay champion, as I'll have them in a long storyline that will continue after Wrestlemania (and will help build other people) and I don't want the belt to be "stuck" between the two for months, basically. The best hypothesis I have for now is to have the current General Manager vacate Reigns title due to his behaviour during the Elimination Chamber matches, and after that Reigns would be even more furious at Lesnar. The only problem I have with that is that it'll make a precedent and I don't want every heel to lose their title for attacking their opponent in another match. Of course, I could just have Steph (the new owner) fire Pearce for that, because she'd see that as a proof he can't manage his locker room properly, and it'd lead nicely into the other "big" non-title Mania storyline I'm planning (a "GM-War" of multiple people vying for the post). But so far I haven't found a proper way to do it with more than 2, max 3 people (while I have 10 potential GMs ) so I'm not sure I'll actually have said storyline yet.

I've been stuck trying to find a solution for a problem I have, but have yet to find something that pleases me, so I thought I'd ask you guys. First of all, for a bit of context: I'm in January 2022, and Brock Lesnar is WWE champion while Roman Reigns is Universal Champion, as in real life. However, I plan to have them both lose the title before Wrestlemania, and have an all-out war between the Bloodline (with an unexpected ally) and Lesnar (who'll get allies of his own). Basically, at the Royal Rumble, I'll have champions face each other (so, Universal vs WWE, US vs IC, Raw Tag vs SD tag, Raw Women vs SD Women, and probably WWE Women Tag vs NXT tag in preshow or something). Lesnar will win the Universal vs WWE, because the Usos will be too tired/hurt by their own match. However, Reigns will not let it rest, and at Elimination Chamber, the Usos (and possibly Reigns himself) will intervene in the Raw Elimination Chamber so Lesnar will lose his title to Kevin Owens (who will then defend it at Mania against Edge, the man who'll eliminate him in the Rumble despite a great showing of Owens). Because I don't want Reigns to keep his title, Lesnar will also cost him the title the next Smackdown. The problem is this: my Royal Rumble winner is a face, and the only "good" challenger for the title at Mania is also a face that I can't (nor want to) turn. And I need Reigns to lose the title before Mania so the Royal Rumble winner can win it there without Reigns needing to fight him. However, that means I either have to : give a one month title reign to a random SD heel (so, Zayn, Sheamus or Corbin) or a Raw heel I'll transfer have the title go vacant somehow have the Royal rumble win the title in a non-clean way, making his win at the Rumble essentially useless If anyone has a good suggestion that does not include Reigns having a match in both days of Mania, I'd be grateful because I really have no idea. Oh, and also I don't have a PPV between Elimination Chamber and Mania anymore, so it means the Reigns title loss must occur either at the Elimination Chamber (but then it'd mean a Face vs Face at Mania) or in a weekly show.,Whether he loses it to someone or the title goes vacant (which to be honest would be better for long term booking purposes) isn't important.

So I have to set them as "on loan" before the creation of the game ? Or does it also work when I borrow them for a specific show ? I have no issue with borrowing them each time I need them (which, to be fair, won't be as often: probably just at the Rumble and perhaps at Mania if I can't fill the card enough). Thanks for the suggestion in any case !

An excellent suggestion indeed ! And if what I've been told about him is true, he'll also be objective enough that he could help with other companies he (or the company he usually worked with) didn't necessarily have a good relationship with.