Regular Schedule or Touring?

[bestbitter]

Have started playing a game as BHOTWG but am thinking of switching to a regular schedule. What are the positives and negatives of doing this and/or should I do this?

[FINisher]

I say stick to the Touring schedule, just because you are in Japan. The only difference I see in the change is that the TV-show thing changes a little (From highlight show to a "real" show) and also the change may result in dropping of attendance numbers, the fans being burned out of your product, stuff like that, if you are going to hold 2-3 weekly shows on the regular setting. Not to mention the losses you get from written contracts when you only use them 1-9 times a month (Whereas with touring you would hold 9 shows (Two weekly shows, one PPV) or 13 (Three weekly shows, one PPV)

 

No one (?) has ever experiented with a regular promotion in Japan have they? All in all: The biggest change could be in the financial side as you would lose money if you change it to regular schedule.

[shamelessposer]

One big advantage you'd have in switching to a regular schedule is that your workers would be less exhausted, meaning less of a chance for injuries.

[Irish Wolf]

I've done both and I find that touring schedules with higher level feds usually let you make more money and help your workers increase in skill faster and even though for me I seem to grow less quickly the AI can grow faster. I tried it with the draft a roster fed I made. I ad them as a regular schedule and tey never made it out of cult in the first year. I switched them to a touring fed two months on one month off and simmeda year again adn they were the number one fed int he world.

 

Two major draw backs are the chance of injury increases as you run more shows and your workers tend to fatigue more quickly (although this can be off set by a bigger roster and spreading the use of your workers out more) and the fact that TV shows don't actually spread your popularity around because they are highlight shows not real shows. Even your PPV deals will only make your annual events show all over because your weekly events won't be able to be shown on PPV.

 

Still personally I like a touring schedule both because of how quickly I've seen workers improve and for just the fact that you'll be working in Japan and it just seems right.