Journal discussion thread

[Dolfanar]

[QUOTE]This should allow most real world situations to be correctly simulated. For example, you're unlikely to ever be able to sign Shane McMahon from the WWE unless they have a disastrous fall, but in a historical mod you may well be able to sign Bret Hart from Stampede to the WWF due to the size difference between the promotions.[/QUOTE] YES! This is good stuff. As long as things work out as indicated, and we don't see Bret leaving Stampede just to go work in Puerto Rico or something (Or Shane O' Mac leaving WWE to go work as a mid-carder in TNA), this should be a great addition!

[Michael Wayne]

[QUOTE=Ping von Erich;425155]I have so many great ideas already swimming around my head for an SWF diary.. Edd Stone is MINE![/QUOTE] you can have that unreliable piece of junk. Good luck with his refusal to job, and late arrivals. We'll take Steve DeColt. ;)

[Midnightnick]

[quote=Michael Wayne;425218]you can have that unreliable piece of junk. Good luck with his refusal to job, and late arrivals. We'll take Steve DeColt. ;)[/quote] Ricky's the highlight of the DeColts. Most potential out of all of them.

[Michael Wayne]

I think Steve would be better suited for NOTBPW than Ricky. Edd never really fit in. Who else could you pair him with other than Dark Angel in terms of style? Unless you went out on a signing spree, NOTPBW has like nobody else. Why bother replacing him with another non heavyweight when I can expand my ME scene with Steve? Turn him heel, stick him with the Natural and Owen Love and throw them at the remaining Stone bothers. Bring McFly into the situation and you've got yourself a hefty stable war.

[Midnightnick]

[quote=Michael Wayne;425242]I think Steve would be better suited for NOTBPW than Ricky. Edd never really fit in. Who else could you pair him with other than Dark Angel in terms of style? Unless you went out on a signing spree, NOTPBW has like nobody else. Why bother replacing him with another non heavyweight when I can expand my ME scene with Steve? Turn him heel, stick him with the Natural and Owen Love and throw them at the remaining Stone bothers. Bring McFly into the situation and you've got yourself a hefty stable war.[/quote] Well, Steve is more suited to NOTBPW, but Ricky is far more suited to SWF I feel. He comes in, can feud immediately with Eric Eisen, a good amount of the midcard and plays a mighty dynamic against someone like Steve Frehley or Remo.

[Michael Wayne]

it's too bad Cornell owns TCW. Imagine him with NOTBPW. They would RULE THE WORLD!! muwahahaha

[Craig Edwards]

Another good addtion today.

[Cold Cobra]

Love todays update. I've always been calling for the AI to actually use developmental talent. This is going to make playing a long real world mod great, as you'd be able to see the WWE developmental guys coming and going. Just awesome.

[Blackman]

Ok but will they also fire their development workers without calling them up at all? :D

[Vladamire Dracos]

I just realized that we only have 10 more journal entries to go. I find it's both sad (because checking it has become daily routine for me) and exciting (because it means that the finished product will soon be in our hands). Either way, nice update today. Nice to see development get a little, well, development! :D

[James Casey]

Agreed. Hopefully, combined with the, well, development of development talent, will mean that I won't be taunted by Mainstream Hernandez' six year stint in RIPW again...

[Eddy Snow]

Which will happen first, Colt Cabana's call up in the game or his actual RL call up? :D

[Blackman]

[QUOTE=Eddy Snow;425395]Which will happen first, Colt Cabana's call up in the game or his actual RL call up? :D[/QUOTE] Hoping for the last one actually. :D

[Corey_Vandal]

Awesome! This was one of my least favourite features of TEW07, now 10 years into a game people like Burchill & Cabana wont still be tied down, curtain jerking monthly developmental shows (I think in reality that even if you had a developmental contract you'd quit if it seemed like WWE had no intention of calling you up after that long). One thing, does this mean they always get called up, or can they just get released? Or do they only get released after being called up and floundering?

[praguepride]

Now that Adam's started touching on development territories, I'm hoping and praying that next monday will reveal that development territories can now be user run without them breaking horribly :D

[thedraem41]

I actually hope he brings back the Dojo's to run independently in the world and for them to also be ran by promotions(crosses fingers) The game is looking awesome.

[Oregano Jensen]

New lifetime contract rules make a lot of sense -- the large promotions being able to hire formerly lifetime-contracted workers from small promotions, the "automatic" re-signing being based on owner-worker relationships... I mean, a lot of the time you have an ownership change, and then all the old owner's relatives and so forth are still on lifetime deals. That doesn't make sense... ...question is, how do you keep larger federations from hiring away promotion owners? Or do you? I mean, fortunately, most owners aren't much at wrestling... but let's say for the sake of argument that TCW wants to hire the Stomper. Are they automatically blocked from doing that because Stomper owns NYCW? Is it technically possible but really unlikely? Or what's the deal?

[dPro]

[QUOTE=Corey_Vandal;425417] One thing, does this mean they always get called up, or can they just get released? Or do they only get released after being called up and floundering?[/QUOTE] Yeah, I'd like to know this one as well.

[Sigilistic]

[QUOTE=Oregano Jensen;425618]New lifetime contract rules make a lot of sense -- the large promotions being able to hire formerly lifetime-contracted workers from small promotions, the "automatic" re-signing being based on owner-worker relationships... I mean, a lot of the time you have an ownership change, and then all the old owner's relatives and so forth are still on lifetime deals. That doesn't make sense... ...question is, how do you keep larger federations from hiring away promotion owners? Or do you? I mean, fortunately, most owners aren't much at wrestling... but let's say for the sake of argument that TCW wants to hire the Stomper. Are they automatically blocked from doing that because Stomper owns NYCW? Is it technically possible but really unlikely? Or what's the deal?[/QUOTE] Great question. I too am curious about this.

[thedraem41]

In a real life example Booker T owns his own promotion, but still works for other companies. So, it'd be pretty cool to see this implemented

[praguepride]

My guess is that the system in place will continue, and that is that an owner will be willing to work for large, prestigious companies as long as it won't violate his contract with his own promotion. My guess is that most owners, like the Stomper will have exclusive written deals so he won't be able to be hired out, but many times newly created promotions would have workers working for other promotions take over the owner slot and become a PPA deal for their promotion. It was annoying because owners would follow the same priority system that other workers do, so they would no-show their own events to work at a larger promotion. I hope that is changed with the new personality matrix, whether loyalty will affect their decisions on who they should no-show for. I would like that area to be expanded instead of automatically no-showing smaller promotions maybe divide it up into percentages, like say maybe only showing up for 1 show out of every 4 conflicts or something.

[Chriswok]

[QUOTE=Oregano Jensen;425618]New lifetime contract rules make a lot of sense -- the large promotions being able to hire formerly lifetime-contracted workers from small promotions, the "automatic" re-signing being based on owner-worker relationships... I mean, a lot of the time you have an ownership change, and then all the old owner's relatives and so forth are still on lifetime deals. That doesn't make sense... ...question is, how do you keep larger federations from hiring away promotion owners? Or do you? I mean, fortunately, most owners aren't much at wrestling... but let's say for the sake of argument that TCW wants to hire the Stomper. Are they automatically blocked from doing that because Stomper owns NYCW? Is it technically possible but really unlikely? Or what's the deal?[/QUOTE] Well in real world terms, I guess; Paul Heyman - ECW He'd never leave for WCW as he hated Eric Bischoff, and he'd never go to WWE as he had a loyalty to ECW. Ted Turner - WCW Again, I think he'd have a loyalty to WCW, or maybe a dislike strong enough to not work for Vince McMahon. So I guess most owners have a loyalty to their promotions, after all its their money and their livelyhood they'd be throwing away to go join someone elses company. The only owners I could see leaving would be the owners of smaller promotions, that maybe are a bit greedy or maybe just always wanted to the chance to compete in the big leagues. But then, how many owners are active wrestlers these days?

[shamelessposer]

The new match options seem exceptionally old school. I love it.

[KColl]

I love the new additions, now Rhodes and Murdoch can have a PROPER Texas Bullrope match and Valentine and Piper a PROPER dog collar match! Yippee!

[Moe Hunter]

As it stands in TEW07, you can't hire the owner of another promotion on a Written contract anyway. Besides, IRL Paul Heyman did leave for WWF - most of the talent didn't know until they saw him on Raw.