Matt_Black

<p>So, we're at Week 4, March 2018 in my AAA game. When Jessica Bunny's contract is up in 124 days, I'm going to let it expire and hire someone new to replace her. First, of the team of Good-Lookin' Bunny, there's one member who's the Shawn Michaels, and it ain't her. Second, she's been... problematic this playthrough, at one point turning into a negative influence. Third, her body type changed to Flabby. And finally, I'm getting the Time Decline note. If it was just any one of those, I'd probably keep her (I'm a soft touch), but ALL of that? No.</p><p> </p><p> So, I get a message saying she needs rest from her grueling schedule. I decide to give her a month off. Now, what I can do is hire one of the people I'm looking at as a replacement to a one-month deal and if they work out, great, I've already got her replacement, and if not, I let the contract expire and try again.</p><p> </p><p> So, here are a list of a few of the people I'm considering, though other suggestions are welcome (though bear in mind I'm currently under "No Luchadors" and "No Spot Monkeys" Owner Goals).</p><p> </p><p> Gemmei Oonishi (sp?)- Recently released from 5SSW, she looks like she's solid in-ring competitor. The downside is she has practically zero popularity in the U.S., BUT it looks like she's got good angle skills and Star Quality, so that combined with matches should shoot her up from Enhancement Talent pretty quickly provided I book her properly.</p><p> </p><p> Deborah Young- I love Deborah, but she might be a bit green. I'm not at cult yet, though if things keep on track, that shouldn't be TOO far off, and then I'd make a developmental territory, sign her, and send her there to iron out the rough spots.</p><p> </p><p> Alina America- While I've briefly played a few QAW runs, not enough to get a good feel for her, and I've never hired her before in any of my AAA playthroughs, though she seems like a solid talent.</p><p> </p><p> Christina Charlston- Established talent, and good acting skills. Poor star quality though. However, she's good enough that if I were to feed her my jobbers (four rookies I hired, and most seem like good long-term prospects so far should I keep them), they'd increase skills a bit quicker.</p><p> </p><p> Elsa Calvo- I love this little Gothic spitfire. Again, not quite as skilled as I would like, but previous experience tells me that once she's got some momentum, she takes off quickly.</p><p> </p><p> Danielle Sweetheart- Everything I said about Elsa goes double for Danielle.</p><p> </p><p> Millie the Minx- Only an Opener in QAW, which means she would probably debut even lower for me. On the other hand, QAW has her in a tag team with Goodlooks, so if her Main Event push fizzles, I've got a new, younger partner with some tag experience for her.</p><p> </p><p> Rei Chikanatsu- Decent skills, and an extremely positive influence.</p><p> </p><p> Charity Sweet- Somewhat green, but a positive influence, and equally important some good marks in Sex Appeal and Star Quality, which will help her shoot up via angles.</p><p> </p><p> Foxxy LaRue- I've hired her in other playthroughs, and while she never performed poorly, I've also never had near as much success with her as I've had with other QAW talent.</p><p> </p><p> So, those are the main candidates I'm currently looking at, though as mentioned, I am open to other suggestions. (And no, I'm not hiring Fuyiko Higa, even if my backstage morale is high enough that I could weather her shenanigans without too much trouble <img alt="" data-src="//content.invisioncic.com/g322608/emoticons/wink.png.686f06e511ee1fbf6bdc7d82f6831e53.png" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" />).</p>

When doing a Brand Split, can you use non-wrestling personnel (announcers, referees, etc.) on both brands, or do you have to have separate workers for each show?

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="K-Nection" data-cite="K-Nection" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="41193" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>There is no point of venturing out of your area. It is literately throwing money out of the window. In my current road to glory game I have a brand split with an A brand and a B brand. I mass run shows in the same area with 2 weekly shows and have a cross brand blow off every month. Personally I would save up for the personal broadcaster and only after that would it be worth it to step out of the region occasionally.</div></blockquote><p> </p><p> Okay, thank you!</p>

<p>Maybe not so much a booking issue as scheduling finance, but playing AAA, just started 2018. Still at Regional, but things are looking way up. C popularity in the Northwest, E- in the closest spillover regions, and over $4.5 million in the bank. The new owner goal, aside from not dropping below Regional status, is to increase to $5.5 million which, going with my current formula of 5 shows a month in the Northwest, should be easy.</p><p> </p><p> Now, what I'm thinking is what about adding a second weekly show in one of said spillover regions (possibly utilizing a Brand Split)? Keep it an hour long, leave off the main eventers to keep costs down, and see about grinding up the pop and generating more income quicker. If not getting enough pop for a TV deal, maybe generating enough money to create my own broadcaster before 2019. Go with it? Or stick with the current schedule?</p>

<p>AAA: November Week 3 2017 (yes, I started over)</p><p> </p><p> Femme Fatal Champion- Cherry Bomb</p><p> </p><p> Top Contender's Champion- Steffi Chee. Wait, Steffi Chee?!? I mentioned this in the Underrated C-Verse Wrestlers thread, but she'll easily rocket up the card if you let her and she's not in Time Decline.</p><p> </p><p> Tag Team Champions- Rose & Lilly. To be fair, there's been a fair bit of turnover, as the belts have been passed around most of the tag team division recently, with The Uprising, Electric Blue, Tex-Mex, and Good-Lookin' Bunny all having turns. The only current team who hasn't had the straps yet is Team SUB, and that's probably just a matter of time.</p><p> </p><p> Social Media Champion- This is a new belt I created to give the Openers and Lower Midcard something to fight for, especially important as I have several NOTBPW and 5SSW wrestlers who are very skilled but not very over in the U.S. yet. Anyway, the current champ here is Claire Winters. I figure I'll keep it on her for a bit until she graduates to Midcard status, and then she'll drop it and join the Top Contender's race.</p>

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="Apupunchau@optonline" data-cite="Apupunchau@optonline" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="41194" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>The pysch and selling you need is dependent on the match rating you get. There's a formula to determine match rating. If before you take into account psychology or selling the rating is higher then the psychology or selling then you'll get those notes. The thing is we don't know when psychology and selling are added to the formula. And we don't know how much they take off. But it has been said the closer the rating is before these things are taken into account the less they take off. Normally however its pretty minuscule so don't worry about it.</div></blockquote><p> </p><p> Good to know, thank you. Not a huge concern, like I said, as they're still delivering amazing performances, and my pop is still growing despite a falling economy and wrestling industry.</p>

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="thesaiyangod123" data-cite="thesaiyangod123" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="41191" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div><img alt="nl2YpjV.png" data-src="https://i.imgur.com/nl2YpjV.png" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /><p> </p><p> This is one of the most weirdest Mentor/Protege Pairings that i ever seen from playing TEW. And i can only imagine this in real life <img alt=":D" data-src="//content.invisioncic.com/g322608/emoticons/biggrin.png.929299b4c121f473b0026f3d6e74d189.png" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" />:D (But this will help Hussan Microphone Skills Big Time.)</p></div></blockquote><p> </p><p> "I COME FROM A HIGHLY EDUCATED UNIVERSITY, AND AS SUCH I DON'T SEE RACE OR RELIGION UNLIKE YOU DUMB HICKS!"</p><p> </p><p> *Scott Steiner speaks in caps*</p>

Okay, so here's a question- currently, some of my main eventers are turning out matches where the post show notes say there was a "lack of selling" or a "lack of psychology". Now, these are established vets with good scores in both. I thought it might be a morale issue, but the wrestlers involved are at least "pleased" or better, and backstage atmosphere is 100%. Is it that they're TOO popular? Or is there something else I'm missing? I mean, it's not a HUGE deal at the moment, as they're still churning out great performances and high rated segments (I don't know about you, but an A* performance for a regional company is LIT in my opinion).

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="BrokenCycle" data-cite="BrokenCycle" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="41194" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div> the rating of a show at all. Midcards are supposed to suck.</div></blockquote><p> </p><p> The TLC matches between the Hardyz, the Dudleys, and Edge & Christian were midcard matches. Just sayin'.</p>

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="Johnny_Boombatz" data-cite="Johnny_Boombatz" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="41194" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>Man, I'm just lost as to how to deal with the regional/national battles. I guess I can turn it off but I would like to play the game with everything on. Just confused on how to balance increasing my production and losing a ton of money.<p> </p></div></blockquote><p> </p><p> Don't increase production values until you are consistently bringing in a lot of profit. You can win Regional Battles without them.</p>

I have seen tips on selling, but very, very rarely. In my various AAA playthroughs, some wrestlers always pick the same proteges; J-Ro always picks Simony Sentinel, Steffi Chee always picks Selina Svelte, etc. Other characters have a bit more randomness- sometimes, Suzanne Brazzle takes Talia Quinzel under her wing, other times, it's Sarah Taylor or somebody else. Also, on those rare occasions when you have a wrestler with two proteges at the same time, when they teach one something, they'll also teach the other the same thing, resulting in two locker room incident alerts.

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="cappyboy" data-cite="cappyboy" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="41193" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>I'd say roll with the chemistries you've got and just bust up the team of Hallowarped and Toady. Maybe Warped and Guru Vishni have a falling out based on theology and Warped goes rogue. He come become an equal opportunity destroyer seeking to enforce the law of the jungle. While Vishni finds Toady a new partner more attuned to his wavelength.</div></blockquote><p> </p><p> Actually, I had a similar issue with the A-List, Nadia Snow and Demelza Wade, and their manager Cat Jemson. Cat and Nadia had poor chemistry. The solution was quite simple- Nadia and Demelza remain a team, Cat only officially manages Demelza, and the chemistry note disappeared when I used the A-List as a tag team.</p>

<p>So, for my AAA game, Raven Nightfall has announced her retirement, which is not a huge loss. Talia Quinzel recently made the jump from Upper Midcarder to Main Eventer, so she'll fill out the current vacancy in our main event heel scene.</p><p> </p><p> I'm not sure what to do with Tracy Brendon, another of our main eventers. Of our 3 top babyfaces, she has poor chemistry with two of them.</p><p> </p><p> Finally got to D+ pop in the North West, so now the majority of my shows will be in the South West, which is now at E-. After that, I think the next area of attack will be Alberta or British Columbia, as I have several former NOTBPW stars, so that should make it easier to get those up from an F+ to something hire. Provided they don't decide that they really did want to keep them and rehire them out from under me.</p><p> </p><p> Currently, I only have one negative influence in the back, and that's Lily Snyder, which took me by surprise; nothing in her behavior tab suggested I'd have problems with her, or at least she doesn't have "usually a negative influence". After causing a fight with Sally Anne Christianson, she's on probation.</p><p> </p><p> I had been trying to groom Deborah Young for the main event, but she's slipped down at bit, which is actually pretty good. Despite being more over in the North West than any of my main eventers, she was still lacking in some areas, particularly in-ring psychology. (She also gave an interview, apparently; first time I saw that on the news feed for one of my stars, but then I use the partial advance so I miss a lot of it). Currently, she's in a feud with Claire Winters for the Top Contender's Title, since they have great chemistry together.</p><p> </p><p> For the tag team division, Good-Lookin' Bunny is only semi-active, as Katherine Goodlooks has been Main Event ready for awhile. The Uprising is about to join them, as Talia Quinzel has cracked that glass ceiling as well, and Selina Svelte might not be far behind (both are former Femme Fatale champs, both of who's brief reigns took me by surprise because I hadn't paid attention to what the auto booker set up on the weekly show).</p><p> </p><p> So, that leaves our current line-up of The Anti-Establishment (Pamela Rojo & Hellcat Hernadez; heels), Electric Blue (Electric Dreamer and Aquila... uh... however the rest of it goes; faces), Queens of the Damned (La Hija Del Diablo & Queen Amazon; heels), Ava Anderson & Lily Snyder (faces, despite the latter's backstage shenanigans), and the reunited team of Debbie Rose & Kate Lilly (babyfaces). The only main issue here, aside from the aforementioned backstage drama, is that there's a bit of a disparity in card status, with La Hija being the most noticeable, as she's an opener. If pressed, I have another heel team ready- Sally Anne Christianson and Kinuye Mushashibo are "The Northern Conquest", a stable of former NOTBPW wrestlers running an invasion angle. I MIGHT have Amber Allen join them; I would have done it as soon as they showed up, but Amber had been with me for a while as a babyface, and I got the "too soon to turn" note.</p><p> </p><p> The other main roster issue is that there's a bit of lop-sidedness as far as face/ heel dynamics go all over the card. The Main Event and Upper Midcard favor the heels, whereas the Midcard and Lower Midcard are heavily babyface skewed, and most of my Midcarders stink at playing heels, so I can't turn them.</p><p> </p><p> I'm keeping my eye out for talented releases from the "Big Two" companies that have women wrestlers. Emphasis on "talented"; previous playthroughs have taught me that if I'm not careful, I'm only paying for moderately more overness. For instance, Killer Kass was released from USPW, but I'm in no hurry to sign her; QAW or one of the Japanese feds can pick her up for now, and she can gain experience their (and maybe cause QAW to cut some of their talent, who I will then give work too).</p><p> </p><p> Finally, I hired the four cheapest rookies who weren't negative influences and signed them so I had a quick stable of jobbers to get everyone else over. And in the meantime, they can slowly get better. One of them already has become the protege of Raven Nightfall. Who, again, has 87 days left on her contract and will retire in less than 3 months, so there's not a lot our rookie will be taught in that time. Raven's good, but I'm NOT paying her prices to be a manager. There's a lot she's good at, but there are better entertainers and mic workers on the roster.</p>

<p>AAA Thursday Week 3 March 2018</p><p> </p><p> Femme Fatale Champion- Melody</p><p> </p><p> Tag Team Champions- Lily Snyder and Ava Anderson (they might not be holding the belts long; Snyder has become a negative backstage influence, starting a fight with Sally Anne Christianson. She keeps it up, she's getting released or fired. I've got 100% backstage, currently, I don't need anyone messing it up!)</p><p> </p><p> Top Contender's Champion- Claire Winters (I'm so proud of her! Admittedly, a lot of that comes from being Melody's protege, who is also training Sarah Taylor. Man, was she a great investment!)</p>

<p>In my current AAA game, USPW just snatched... <em>Senior Referee Dwight Kumas?!?</em> Of all the talent I expected to have poached, he wasn't one of them. Very talented referee (and AAA Hall of Famer), but... Huh.</p><p> </p><p> Anyway, made an offer to the currently unemployed Pee-Wee Germaine to replace him.</p>

I'm gonna give a nod to Steffi Chee. Not someone you'd want to book your company around, and there's a very good chance she'll go into time decline, but if you want a solid "carpenter" or "mechanic" for your green women's talent, Steffi is great at that.

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="Winter8905" data-cite="Winter8905" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="41174" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div><p> Another bit of womens news and what I found the most odd was that Alicia Strong is on the way out of USPW... well that is unexpected and something I'm most certainly looking forward to taking advantage of.. </p></div></blockquote><p> </p><p> I've played several AAA games, and I've noticed that USPW lets her go quite a bit. I mean, she'll usually get signed back or nabbed by NOTPBW, but it's not too unusual to grab her for a hot minute, whether you're AAA or QAW (in fact, she might get signed to both), and milk her overness for your company while it lasts.</p><p> </p><p> Now, I have never seen Missy Masterson get cut.</p>

<p>AAA December Week 1 2016</p><p> </p><p> Femme Fatale Champion- Cherry Bomb</p><p> Top Contender's Champion- Kate Lilly</p><p> Tag Team Champion- Sara Marie York and Wendy Anderson (transitional champs while I try to straighten out the tag division)</p>

I can usually turn a profit on one show a month thanks to the custom merchandise controls. Anyway, I'll try weekly shows in 2017, unless I get talent raided and have to pull in new workers.

Playing an AAA game and Suzanne Brazzle has announced her retirement, so now is the time to pick a midcard heel to go over her on her last match. The top 3 choices are Emma B****, Ellie May Walton, and Deborah Young, with the last one probably being the choice I'll go with. She's still a bit green, but I'll stick her in matches with Wendy Anderson and Steffi Chee to prep her.

<p>Started anew, because that last AAA game was cursed. People getting hurt left and right, losing money despite only running one show a month with no production increases, etc.</p><p> </p><p> Starts off well, no time decline, economy and wrestling industry on the up. In addition to the monthly shows, I've added quarterly shows for neighboring regions, the second of which will be the next show.</p><p> </p><p> Sara Marie York is the Femme Fatale champ, which has seen a fair amount of turnover. Previous champs include Cherry Bomb and Jaime Quine. </p><p> </p><p> The downside is that Suzanne Brazzle announced her retirement. Why you gotta break my heart, Suzanne?</p><p> </p><p> At the start, immediately cut Cat Jemson, Black Widow, Steph Blake, Paige Croft, and Lady Liberty, replacing them with Deborah Young, Joanna Silver, Elsa Calvo, Claire Winters, "Payback" Emma, and Vixxen as road agent. Also picked up Sandra Shine a few months later, as the roster is a bit heel heavy. Might turn Zoe Ammis face, but I'm always reluctant to commit to long term plans with her, because she almost always gets poached by USPW or NOTBPW. Other candidates for a turn include Ellie May Walton and one or both members of Rose & Lilly.</p>

Way ahead of you on the Dreamer love train. Unfortunately, I'm working under a 2+ year owner goal of "no luchadors". Foxxy I've tried before on other playthroughs, and she never made it past midcard. Good to know about the others, though my next hire will probably be Elsa Calvo. That little Goth spitfire rockets up the card.

<p>Nadia Snow won the Femme Fatale title from Sara Marie York, but got injured in the rematch, so vacated the title & held a battle royal to crown a new champ, which Cherry Bomb won.</p><p> </p><p> In tag teams, Good Looking Bunny defeated Ros & Lilly to become champs; the former are feuding with Blake and Ammis, so that raises the stakes a bit.</p><p> </p><p> Christy Higgins is feuding with​ the Uprising; Selina Svelte keeps interfering in title matches to protect her partner Talia.</p>

<p>Started a new AAA game, using Kate Avatar as head booker, because she's an excellent enhancement talent who never complains. First things first- check the roster overview and see who's contract expires when. Lady Liberty has 563 days?!? Nope, nope, nope. Immediate release. On other playthroughs, she is nothing but trouble. Paige Croft and Steph Blake can be pains in the you-know-where too, but they deliver in matches. Sign Claire Winters, because she's cheap, and a solid (if green) performer.</p><p> </p><p> Check the time decline notes in the creative meeting and- Suzanne Brazzle?!? No! I love her; she has always, always delivered for me in other playthroughs. Oh, well. At least it's just the one. Sometimes I've been smacked with J-Ro and Cherry at the outset.</p><p> </p><p> Owner goals- $350k in 2 years (should be doable), can't dip below #25 in the rankings (easy, at least it has been previously), no luchadors (and for over 2 years; so much for hiring Electric Dreamer), no one with law problems, and, if I recall correctly, no MMA crossovers.</p><p> </p><p> Shortlist several USPW Women's talent, just in case they get let go.</p><p> </p><p> So, the plan for the first show? Everyone works in some fashion or another. Matches, angles, or ideally both. Want to throw Sarah Taylor & Simony Sentinel together in a tag team to make sure they don't have bad chemistry; I usually pair those two up to off-set the heel heavy tag division. "Sugar & Spikes" is what I call the pairing.</p><p> </p><p> So, plan for the first year is to build money with just the monthly events in the home region. I might do a special event in the South West just to make sure pop doesn't dip, as I've had trouble with that in previous playthroughs. Also, try to build up the upper midcard and midcar, to prepare for the inevitable talent raids from USPW and NOTBPW.</p><p> </p><p> Also, will probably send a non-aggression offer to QAW. I always soft sell them at the start, because hey, more women's wrestling is good, and if my workers can work more, they get better, right? The problem is they usually only sign my big stars, quickly jump to regional status, and then I get my tail kicked in the regional battles. We're nipping that in the bud this time. It will limit some of my choices, to be sure, but any big names that I don't sign, they probably will, and they'll cut someone to make room. That'll work great if they pick up Miss American Pie Lora Washington and cut Danielle Sweetheart; my experience with the former is you're paying for an average worker with poor star quality who's only saving grace is that she's moderately more over than the rest of your roster.</p><p> </p><p> I'll also look at Cat Jemson's contract to see when that expires. I don't dare fire her, because she's in tight with Demelza Wade, and Wade is phenomenal and I don't want to anger her. But Cat is pretty much useless. In my experience, anything she can do, someone else on the roster can do better, and they can actually wrestle in matches.</p>