Dorian Posted June 21, 2007 Share Posted June 21, 2007 Hi all. I'm curious about something. Currently I'm running a federation called Championship Fire Pro Wrestling out of the Northwest, with solid popularity in the Southwest and Midwest. My question is I'd like to have some types of promos on my federation as my wrestlers aren't getting that over with just regular matches. But my problem is the federation's key feature is realisim, with pure as heavy, and modern + daredevil as medium. The match rating is 100%. Could I get away with adding sports entertainment or even traditional (that would allow promos right) on either low or medium and lower the match rating from say 100% to either 80% or 90% without making a huge hurt to my current product's appeal? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob4590 Posted June 21, 2007 Share Posted June 21, 2007 You can still run angles with your current product - up to 10% of the total time in the show. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RKO_HBK Posted June 21, 2007 Share Posted June 21, 2007 Yeah Rob's right, you can go 10% either way. So, say your product was set to 10% matches (not actually sure if it can be set this low, not tried, but for the purpose of this, you can...), you could have anything from a whole show of angles to 20% of the time being filled with matches, the rest made up of angles. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dorian Posted June 21, 2007 Author Share Posted June 21, 2007 Well, because it is based on realisim and pure, without sports-entertainment or traditional that the fans will hate me putting that in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RKO_HBK Posted June 21, 2007 Share Posted June 21, 2007 True, didn't properly think about that. I think you could get away with maybe just changing it to say low? I'm not really sure because I've not got my copy on here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dorian Posted June 21, 2007 Author Share Posted June 21, 2007 Would I add sports entertainment, or traditional? I'm more just needing to add some life to the shows, so I'm thinking just interviews, so I think traditional would work, but I think that just means traditional in terms of face/heel, whereas sports entertainment looks for interviews. But could I add either without a face/heel divide? Whoops, I forgot to mention that I don't have that. Would that make any difference? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Remianen Posted June 21, 2007 Share Posted June 21, 2007 [QUOTE=Dorian;247808]Well, because it is based on realisim and pure, without sports-entertainment or traditional that the fans will hate me putting that in.[/QUOTE] I believe you mean 'Mainstream' which isn't the same thing as "Sports Entertainment". But the fans won't hate angles. They'll just hate if you use people they've never heard of to do them (angles require overness to rate decently, after all). Your match ratio will determine how much your fans will gripe about angles. You don't have to have lots of mainstream or traditional to run angles without negative crowd feedback. It helps, don't get me wrong, but just adding those product features willy nilly will affect the rest of your product more than just lowering the match ratio to 80%. 80% will allow you to run only a minimum of 10% (and up to 30% at max) of your show's running time to angles and it won't require you to run storylines at all. Start adding Mainstream and/or Traditional and you'll find your workers beginning to be judged by more on how "known" they are rather than how they perform in the ring. Go easy on the Mainstream ("Overness is GOD!") and Traditional ("Overness is my wife!") if you want your workers primarily judged by how they perform between the ropes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dorian Posted June 21, 2007 Author Share Posted June 21, 2007 I would prefer them being judged on their in-ring talents, yes. So mainstream and traditional make them be judged by overness and not strickly by in-ring work. Won't help my roster considering its just a bunch of unknowns either. Hmph. So just lower the match ratio to get the desired effect of being able to boost my workers overness and get a few "storylines" running? Or do I need to have mainstream or traditional to make it so that I can do that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RKO_HBK Posted June 21, 2007 Share Posted June 21, 2007 Reducing the match percentage won't increase your workers' overness. This is done through good matches, and highly rated angles (I think). Basically, if you lower the match ratio, you will be able to have angles, but they won't rate very highly if your workers are unknown. You just need to build them up over time. For instance, in my game Bill Apter is average on the mic, but has Fs across the board (for overness/popularity), aside from one E+. So, the fans hated his interviews/promos. As a side-note, my product has 80% match ratio, low traditional, low cult, medium modern, low hardcore, low lucha, heavy pure (rest set to none) and a medium face-heel divide. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dorian Posted June 21, 2007 Author Share Posted June 21, 2007 Oh I know it won't reduce it. But I'm trying to find a way to increase the workers overness, and I figured giving the audience a reason to care about these workers via storylines would be a good idea. You know to invest in these guys. Using matches is great and I'm doing fairly well, but when my best match is only C at regional and the overness for my World Champion isn't above F- in any place yet, I thought that if I imputed storylines that would help make it a little faster. I should clarify that my federation is actually gaining popularity in other regions. I hit E just recently with Midwest and I'm just holding my very first show there at the end of April. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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