Fleisch Posted January 10, 2009 Posted January 10, 2009 I had been WWF (1991 scenario) for 3 years and was doing extremely well, or so I thought. I decided I'd taken them as far as I could and resigned, figuring the good job I'd done with WWF would be taken into account when applying for other jobs. Well it DOESN'T. I have now spent the last year of this game applying for jobs and geting nowhere, it got to a point where I figured they wouldn't hire me because my overness in some areas had improved so I tried lowering it, still no one employed me. I upped my overness, still no one would employ me. I applied for every job that came up from WCW down to ASWUK. Then I done a test and edited every bookers contract to 1 day, then applied for every single job with every single company and guess what, I got none of them! What the hell do I have to do to get a job on this game? I'm probably not going to bother playing TEW08 again if I find out once you quit you can't get another job, especially when I had done so well in my "previous" job. It's ridiculous. I feel like I've wasted 4 weeks of my life playing this now.
Hyde Hill Posted January 10, 2009 Posted January 10, 2009 Whats your booking reputation and booking stat? These take a very long time to go up if you start from a low point even if you do well for 3 years.
Bigpapa42 Posted January 10, 2009 Posted January 10, 2009 Doesn't the WWE start out pretty big in the 1991 mod already? If so, it would make sense that moving from National to International or maybe Global isn't going to make you a massive reputation. Take a company from Local to International, and then you're talking well-regarded. Or maybe keep a Global company global for a decade... Three years really isn't that long in the bigger picture.
Fleisch Posted January 10, 2009 Author Posted January 10, 2009 Well looks like I'm going to have to start again. Ugh... shouldn't let a computer game annoy me like that but I'm sure others know of the frustrations some games can bring about. I was on Good reputation when I resigned, don't know what I was after the year I spent out looking for another company to play as. I don't like starting my own promotion in real world mods as I have no fun doing that and usually play 2 or 3 months before giving up. One thing's for sure, I am NOT going to be doing a game with an International company who have 3 TV shows again!
eayragt Posted January 10, 2009 Posted January 10, 2009 Well looks like I'm going to have to start again. Ugh... shouldn't let a computer game annoy me like that but I'm sure others know of the frustrations some games can bring about. I was on Good reputation when I resigned, don't know what I was after the year I spent out looking for another company to play as. I don't like starting my own promotion in real world mods as I have no fun doing that and usually play 2 or 3 months before giving up. One thing's for sure, I am NOT going to be doing a game with an International company who have 3 TV shows again! In my experience real world mods are set up with a lot of wrestlers / workers set with reasonable booking skills, which means that competition for jobs is huge, making it less likely that you'll be given the book somewhere. If you compare this to the database that comes with the game, there are significantly fewer "bookers", which makes it easier to get a new job.
Adam Ryland Posted January 10, 2009 Posted January 10, 2009 figuring the good job I'd done with WWF would be taken into account when applying for other jobs. Well it DOESN'T. Yes, it DOES. The better you do, the higher your booking rating gets, the easier it is to get jobs. it got to a point where I figured they wouldn't hire me because my overness in some areas had improved so I tried lowering it, still no one employed me. I upped my overness, still no one would employ me. Your overness is irrelevant. I'm probably not going to bother playing TEW08 again if I find out once you quit you can't get another job There wouldn't be a feature to apply for jobs if you couldn't. As eayragt pointed out, a lot of real world mods have massive amounts of potential candidates for every job, making it very difficult - but not impossible - to get a new job.
Fleisch Posted January 10, 2009 Author Posted January 10, 2009 I know there wouldn't be the feature there if it was impossible to do. I posted this last night, very tired and maybe didn't word the post in the way I would have normally through lack of sleep and frustration. This quote "Well it DOESN'T" was meant to read "it seems to me that it doesn't" so that's my fault on wording. I know your booking stat goes up and down but last night it seemed that didn't matter to any of the companies even when I edited it up and down to find a suitable job when testing why I couldn't get anything. If it's just a problem with real life mods, then I'll maybe just give them a miss from now on. Either that or maybe I'll go through and edit the data to reflect the time period as there are too many people becoming bookers (Taz for 1) early on in their career who in 1991 wouldn't have been considered.
Blackman Posted January 10, 2009 Posted January 10, 2009 A hint for the future TEW games is to make your booking skill something you can edit. Right now, if you wanna start out a game as Russo or something, you can't because you always start with F- booking skill. I should make it editable so there will be no problems like this one in the future, cuz I for one also know it's frustrating as hell to search for a job if you're tired of your current one and you haven't worked 3+ years already.
Phantom Stranger Posted January 10, 2009 Posted January 10, 2009 A hint for the future TEW games is to make your booking skill something you can edit. Right now, if you wanna start out a game as Russo or something, you can't because you always start with F- booking skill. I should make it editable so there will be no problems like this one in the future, cuz I for one also know it's frustrating as hell to search for a job if you're tired of your current one and you haven't worked 3+ years already. A user character's current Reputation effectively works as their booking stat for purposes of hiring. Note that it can't be edited in game.
D-Lyrium Posted January 10, 2009 Posted January 10, 2009 The worker stat called 'Booking' is for AI characters only, it has no effect, as far as I know, on a human player. The stat a human player needs to get a job at a promotion is Reputation, which can't be edited once a game is started. It goes up and down based on your performance, and as far as I've seen you need to be at least Average to be considered for any job at all.
Hyde Hill Posted January 10, 2009 Posted January 10, 2009 Yep dont intermingle booking skill (editable no influence on human but on AI altough gets higher on human for show purposes) and booking rep (non editable and important for human players visable on the character screen)
Blackman Posted January 12, 2009 Posted January 12, 2009 Still, I mechanically upped my reputation stat to 100%, and the other business stat at 100%. My booking was D-, but after 3 reloads, I wasn't considered to be a booker of SWF in a game where I was out of a job. Larry Wood got picked, while his reputation and the other business stat were consequently lower then mine. So I think it does have an effect. note that Larry Wood was NOT employed by SWF at all at that moment.
Phantom Stranger Posted January 12, 2009 Posted January 12, 2009 Still, I mechanically upped my reputation stat to 100%, and the other business stat at 100%. The Reputation on your skills page is not your booking reputation - you find that on the User Stats page, and as noted before, it can't be edited in game.
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