How do you get a wrestler to become loyal to you?

[Kobe1724]

And also how do you get them to sign a really long contract? It seems I can never lock anyone up for like 4 years.

[Tempest Kane]

I have noticed people become loyal to me who have drug problems who i'am patient with and give fatherly advice too. This takes a long time (deppending on the level of drug addiction) to fix... and i think it also requires them to be a "friendly" personality aswell... anti-social/manipulative folks it dosnt seem to work with. As for long contracts, i have never tried to get anyone longer than 18 months and ushally that is down to them refusing to sign for anything shorter (old timers who demand job security) , so i assume since the younger guys ushally refuse to sign more than 12 months its a factor of age rather than anything else. But i could be wrong.

[Comradebot]

As for the long contracts... I figure it has something to do with the size of your company, popularity of the worker, and probably the worker's personality. Though I honestly can't say for sure. As for getting loyalty... yeah, if they have drug problems you might be able to nab it that way as mentioned above. ALSO, if a worker is the victim of another's backstage incident and you crackdown really hard on the offending party, then sometimes the worker being victimized will gain loyalty to you. It should be noted, however, that in doing so you can easily cause the worker being punished to dislike the other worker or yourself. But by doing this, I did manage to get Tommy Cornell loyal to me with my Small UK company in the 1997 mod.

[shamelessposer]

A young guy signing a long contract is a very, VERY bad career move. When Mainstream Hernandez joins your promotion with E- overness across the board he's more or less guaranteed to be more skilled and more popular in twelve months. If he's signed a contract for four years, that's four times as long he has to wait before he can negotiate a deal that's worth what he is.

[pantaloons]

In an SWF game I was fed up with Big Smack Scott, and had jobbed out all the usefulness out of him. He had an incident with Valient, and I fired him. He hated me for it, but Valient was loyal to me. I've never gotten anyone to sign a contract for 4 years though.

[sabataged]

I have never had the contract thing, but a few different times I gave people 25+ title defenses and they became loyal. Don't remember exact numbers.

[Phantom Stranger]

Three years is the best I've done. But the guy had been with the promotion for some time at that point and had received a very strong push, with every indication it wasn't going to end any time soon. He was happy to sign therefore.