Easiest to Hardest

[lovestruck420]

I've never been real big on the default data, but I decided to give it a chance. I was wondering if anyone could give a rundown on easiest promotion to play, to the hardest promotion to play as.

[sabataged]

Its all a matter of opinion. I assume SWF and NOTBPW are the easiest two. SWF has all the talent and is the biggest promotion so duh, NOTBPW is one of the few feds that rise to the moon like nearly every game I have.

[Derek B]

I can't provide a complete list since it all comes down to your booking style and preferences but I've found the following to be easiest/hardest with the default settings. [u][b]Easiest[/b][/u] NOTBPW: incredible roster, main event scene is awesome and they don't need angles/storylines. By far the easiest promotion to pull high ratings with from the start but the Stones are a bit dull. :) SWF: Can use over workers to pull high rated matches from a lot of people, awesome undercard. PGHW: As long as you know how to tour then you can pull great matches out easily. BHOTWG: Similar to PGHW, has a junior division capable of supporting their weak heavyweight division... if you use the HW as your main guys you might struggle... WLW: Capable of greatness but take time to grow. SOTBPW: If you know about lucha then you should be able to succeed here. USPW: They need some talent brought in and you WILL Lose your TV deal... but they're solid as long as you can use Bruce the Giant and Sam Strong well. TCW: Have some good and over workers but not enough strength in depth should something bad happen to a top star. THE REST MOSC: They ain't easy. OLLIE/MPWF: Nowhere near SOTBPW but can be good although hard to understand if you don't know lucha libre. UCR: 21CW: Decent talent but they aren't over to takes time to move forward. WEXXV (little cash and not many over stars + hard to get people over) [b][u]Hardest[/u][/b]

[Irish Wolf]

See I can't play some of the ones Derek can easiest for me. In order. [B]Easiest feds[/B] NOTBPW CZCW 4C TCW PGHW/BHOTWG/GCG/5SSW [B]Hardest feds[/B] WEXXV USPW 21CW MOSC CGC The closer to SE the harder it is for me to play. Except SWF because they actually do have some in ring talent ,ostly in the undercard but easily groomed for greatness.

[Mtm2k6]

If you can haul out some of the crappy lower-card tag teams, SWF is quite easy. But big. You may prefer CZCW; smaller, good roster, good style and fanbase.

[theaddicane]

MAW can be hard financially, but it's the one that introduced me to the Cverse. It's small enough to not feel intimidated by the amount of booking, but also has a nice roster, and is really satisfying to make succeed.

[mistaken]

I like playing with the ladies feds. why? because no one poaches my top talent. (or could it be there is no real talent to poach?)

[sheepy]

[QUOTE=mistaken;394435]I like playing with the ladies feds. why? because no one poaches my top talent. (or could it be there is no real talent to poach?)[/QUOTE] Well there's plenty of talent in BSC that I'd like to poach (not for any wrestling promotion mind). 21CW is probably one of the hardest. A 2 hour show with only one or two stars is quite depressing. Aside from Joss Thompson and Jeff Nova not many others can get decent ratings.

[CubsFan915]

[QUOTE=Mtm2k6;394408]If you can haul out some of the crappy lower-card tag teams, SWF is quite easy. But big. You may prefer CZCW; smaller, good roster, good style and fanbase.[/QUOTE] It certainly could be my "skill" at the game, but I'm having a bitch of a time with CZCW. I can't keep anyone's momentum up, and it's taking me forever to grow to the size to get a TV contract.

[Rob4590]

[QUOTE=CubsFan915;394611]It certainly could be my "skill" at the game, but I'm having a bitch of a time with CZCW. I can't keep anyone's momentum up, and it's taking me forever to grow to the size to get a TV contract.[/QUOTE] After a while, max momentum TENDS to get stuck at around the individual worker's overness - so until you get much bigger as a company (and hence the workers getting more popular) you aren't going to have many (if any) workers with high momentum. And re the TV contract - your best bet is probably Los Deporte Hoy - so maybe try and run some shows in Mexico, and well as SW USA.

[CubsFan915]

Hadn't thought about Mexico - I was trying to get popular enough in the Northwest to get a contract woith a small network out there. I'll give that a shot - thanks!

[Michael Wayne]

[QUOTE=CubsFan915;394611]It certainly could be my "skill" at the game, but I'm having a bitch of a time with CZCW. I can't keep anyone's momentum up, and it's taking me forever to grow to the size to get a TV contract.[/QUOTE] you just have to be patient. Unless you're running multiple cards a week, it takes a while to reach a level where you can get a tv deal. Much less a decent one.

[takertitan]

i am running a "simple" version of USPW right now, and i think its quite easy. i did mod the data a bit, but i felt it would be far more entertaining and it has been. I think if you don't want to start at the top, USPW is a good mix. Keep in mind that half there talent is fairly useless in terms of growth, but its possible. If you want to use USPW, change the data in the following: 1. give them +5 overness in tri-state. They wont lose there TV deal then. 2. not really needed, but bring back Sam Strong as a semi active worker. Use his overness/charisma to bring in some star power. you can really take off with a worker like Strong/Bruce working on a roster. Even having them never loss to anyone will get the undercard over.

[Irish Wolf]

[QUOTE=CubsFan915;394611]It certainly could be my "skill" at the game, but I'm having a bitch of a time with CZCW. I can't keep anyone's momentum up, and it's taking me forever to grow to the size to get a TV contract.[/QUOTE] Bring in Steve Flash and ditch Donnie J and James Prudence. Flash will be a main eventer and he'll put on C+ main events from the start with guys like Plague and Ultimate Phoenix and as they grow in popularity and skill they'll be putting on B Main Events soon enough (less than a year) Run shows in the South West only and you'll hit regional is like 2 or 3 months if you run a weekly show and a big monthly show from the start. Once you get to like C- or C overness in South West you can get a show on Los Deportes Hoy. It'll only be an hour show at most so keep your roster kind of small so they don't get upset. ALternate running the TV show where you already have spill over (North West and Mid South) and your workers overness as well as your own will go up in those regions as well as where you get televised (South West and all of Mexico). Done correctly you can be cult by the middle of 09 or even earlier if you stick all to one region instead of spreading between North West and Mid South but I like getting my guys overness up in one region instead of two because then when you hit cult if you hire any big stars they'll automatically dwarf you're current main eventers If say you've got some one with B's in the North West and South West but only D across the rest of the US and you hire some one with C- or C across the board they'll main event and your current main event stars will drop to Upper or Midcarders which sucks.

[CubsFan915]

[QUOTE=Apupunchau@optonline;394794]Bring in Steve Flash and ditch Donnie J and James Prudence. Flash will be a main eventer and he'll put on C+ main events from the start with guys like Plague and Ultimate Phoenix and as they grow in popularity and skill they'll be putting on B Main Events soon enough (less than a year)[/QUOTE] I'm about 6 months in now. About two weeks in, I started running a second weekly show to up the overness in a second region. I'm running the show we start with in the Southwest, and the second show - with generally the cheaper wrestlers - in the Northwest for now. I hired Flash a couple of months ago, though he's expensive as crap, so I'm losing money every time he wrestles. Alicia Strong, too. Fortunately, one of my owner goals is just "don't fall beneath X amount of money in the bank" rather than "turn a profit", so we'll be fine there. [QUOTE=Apupunchau@optonline;394794]Run shows in the South West only and you'll hit regional is like 2 or 3 months if you run a weekly show and a big monthly show from the start. Once you get to like C- or C overness in South West you can get a show on Los Deportes Hoy. [/QUOTE] We made it to regional, but I didn't even think about Deportes Hoy. I'll have to remember them for the next time TV comes up. Thanks for the tips, guys - I guess I need top stick around here more when 2008 comes out and catch all the good strategies!

[Michael Wayne]

easiest - NOTBPW hardest - MAW

[basketball45231]

Where is ROF on the scale?

[Marcel Fromage]

[QUOTE=basketball45231;395171]Where is ROF on the scale?[/QUOTE] I find it quite easy to run but then I have been running it for months on end now so I should be used to it! It's tough at first simply because of the finances and the fact you barely get any crowds. Plus some talent is unavailable (and there's precious little of it in the UK anyway). I think once you get over the initial hurdle it is okay - you don't have to worry about angles/face & heel divides etc and you can get decent match ratings right off the bat if you know which people to use. Nearly 7 years into my ROF game, I have to say that I found the first 6 months quite tough and the latest year or so more difficult. All the in between was fairly straightforward. Now if I could just figure out why some wrestlers can get good ratings where better wrestlers don't...

[Phantom Stranger]

[QUOTE=Marcel Fromage;395213]I find it quite easy to run but then I have been running it for months on end now so I should be used to it! It's tough at first simply because of the finances and the fact you barely get any crowds. Plus some talent is unavailable (and there's precious little of it in the UK anyway). I think once you get over the initial hurdle it is okay - you don't have to worry about angles/face & heel divides etc and you can get decent match ratings right off the bat if you know which people to use. Nearly 7 years into my ROF game, I have to say that I found the first 6 months quite tough and the latest year or so more difficult. All the in between was fairly straightforward. Now if I could just figure out why some wrestlers can get good ratings where better wrestlers don't...[/QUOTE] What him say.

[Basmat01]

[QUOTE=CubsFan915;394896]I'm about 6 months in now. About two weeks in, I started running a second weekly show to up the overness in a second region. I'm running the show we start with in the Southwest, and the second show - with generally the cheaper wrestlers - in the Northwest for now. I hired Flash a couple of months ago, though he's expensive as crap, so I'm losing money every time he wrestles. Alicia Strong, too. Fortunately, one of my owner goals is just "don't fall beneath X amount of money in the bank" rather than "turn a profit", so we'll be fine there. We made it to regional, but I didn't even think about Deportes Hoy. I'll have to remember them for the next time TV comes up. Thanks for the tips, guys - I guess I need top stick around here more when 2008 comes out and catch all the good strategies![/QUOTE] Regional is usally when I start making a profit with CZCW running 1 1/2 hour shows I surgest bring in some guys like Dragón Del Arco Iris Jr and Velocidad they useally get over pretty quickly and put on some good ratings with guys like Remmy Skye and Masked Couger. I also find Snap Dragon to be a pretty relible midcarder.

[Remianen]

[QUOTE=mistaken;394435]I like playing with the ladies feds. why? because no one poaches my top talent. (or could it be there is no real talent to poach?)[/QUOTE] If there's no talent to poach, that's on you. ;) I have one or two workers stolen by NOTBPW within the first year of every game. But I'm diversified enough to have folks waiting to take that now open spot (unless it's Cherry Bomb that gets stolen, oy). For me, easiest is NOTBPW. Hardest is AAA and SWF (mainly for the same reason Apu noted. I despise SE).