What's going on in your game?

[OctoberRaven]

In 2016 in my 0/0/0/0 game, my Sixth Anniversary Show:

 

Mutant, Matt Hocking, and Hellion d. Bullseye, Kinuye Mushashibo, and Richie Riggins

 

Basically a random 6-Man Tag. Hellion was a replacement who is on his way out, Mutant is his replacement who I plan on giving a slow push to the upper midcard. Kinuye is also new to the promotions, going to team with Claire Winters when she comes back from her 5SSW tour.

 

Cowboy Buck Winchester and Nick Booth d Nomad and Bradley Blaze

 

Trying to find new partners that work for Bradley Blaze and possibly Buck. Buck is already in a team (Law and Disorder with Marshall Dillon) but Dillon is having a singles run for now. And Buck and Blaze already don't work well together which is why I didn't try that.

 

Jack Griffith d Irwin Guttman

 

My promotion (Warriors of the New Age) is youth-oriented, but Jack is an exception to the rule because he's damn good and has great psychology. So he's basically a teaching worker. I was hoping for Irwin to improve in his psychology with this but doesn't look like it took.

 

WOTNA Southern Tag Titles: Nation of Strangulation (Cobra and Seth Whitehead) © d Love From The Islands (Island Boy Apollo and Valentine) (w/Buttercup) Cobra and Seth are a team I put together to round out my division, and Love From The Islands is my original team, put together in a random tag and had great chemistry.

 

WOTNA Next Gen Crown: Marshall Dillon © d Giant Brody (w/ Larry Wood)

 

Yep. Marshall Dillon is my current champion. He's got psychology and has really developed into a solid worker. Plus, crowds seem to love him. Larry Wood is the owner of the promotion and on-screen mentor of Giant Brody. Since retiring Larry went from tag partner to manager (while also being a road agent because he's really good at that)

 

Zero d. Jack Miracle (w/ Janie Denby)

 

Jack Miracle is my user character (Jack Avatar) with a rock star gimmick. Zero (aka Flemmy Lemming) debuts on this show, and with his performance skills I plan to make him an immediate threat to Marshall Dillon. What better way then to beat the former 4-time Next Gen Crown holder?

 

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So that's about it. Claire Winters will be coming back from her tour soon. I also plan on running an extended series of secondary events held in Mid-Atlantic (and other regions) to help me develop until I can land either a TV or PPV deal. No real backstage problems as people tend to get along with each other well (Except Riggins and Apollo, who oddly enough are both friends with Buttercup).

[juggaloninjalee]

USPW March 2010

 

I did it. I started my USPW game. It's so much fun so far but difficult. Started out with decent shows rating around 69-70 but now am lucky to get shows up to 64. Lowest show is a 61 I think.

 

Backstage morale is 90%

 

Nicky Champion is on a losing streak at the moment but will soon turn things around. The storyline is that he can't figure out why he keeps losing. Sam Strong has even went over footage of his matches with him and they can't pick it apart. After my 3rd ppv Jim Force is going to take Champion under his wing and guide him to the top.

 

Bruce the Giant and Enygma have just started a program together.

 

James Justice and Tyson Baine are in a program together.

 

Carl Batch is managing Peter Valentine, and The Big Problem.

 

I am really struggling getting Peter Valentines momentum up. It is around 54 and I need it above 71 by the end of the goal.

 

Nicky Champion has to have momentum over 83 by the end of the goal.

 

Just hired Samoan Machine and Carl Batch recently. Other notable workers I signed have been Stan the Man Manna, Big Problem, Ant-Man(only lightweight), Man Mountain Cahill, Randall Hopkirk, Sara Silver, Crippler Ray Kingman, and some others.

[SWF Fan]

I'm feeling like I've lost all interest with the game itself now.

 

There's just something bugging me about it at the moment, I'm trying to do a mod which is pretty wearing on my brain as it is, but then the amount of guys in the C-Verse when I go back to it that would appear to be over 300lbs nearly outweight the lightweight guys in quantity and I think comes close to those at middleweight and it all just seems so 80's-ish?

 

I think my final straw came while playing SWF and finding out that Joe Sexy and Robbie Retro were above Light Heavyweight, they play two of the most well agile character roles I guess, I really have trouble believing that Emma Chase could even be woo'ed by something just as likely to crush her under his weight (in storyline terms of course) and that Robbie Retro is an agile 70's dancer when he's the same weight as using a British measuring scale, the same size as a prop on a rugby field and I've never seen one of them move gracefully.

 

There's over 300 guys in the data at LHW and above which to me just seems insane for a data of 2000 people. It just makes the C-Verse seem like a nuclear facility that has created a load of monsters.

 

SWF alone has 19 guys which the help file would state are above 260lbs and only 4 of those wouldn't be 290lbs. Maybe it's because I'm British but going to British wrestling shows and such I have I believe only ever seen one person over 260lbs in Morishima at a NOAH event in the UK.

 

Figured I'd put my tired near midnight moan here as it's in my game and I just signed Robbie Retro to CZCW thinking he was a middleweight at best. Ugh.

 

Not meaning to whinge on. I'll probably fall in love with the game tomorrow, working with AAA may help that or trying to do more bios on my mod but yeah tired and confused haha.

[Derek B]

I'm feeling like I've lost all interest with the game itself now.

 

There's just something bugging me about it at the moment, I'm trying to do a mod which is pretty wearing on my brain as it is, but then the amount of guys in the C-Verse when I go back to it that would appear to be over 300lbs nearly outweight the lightweight guys in quantity and I think comes close to those at middleweight and it all just seems so 80's-ish?

 

I think my final straw came while playing SWF and finding out that Joe Sexy and Robbie Retro were above Light Heavyweight, they play two of the most well agile character roles I guess, I really have trouble believing that Emma Chase could even be woo'ed by something just as likely to crush her under his weight (in storyline terms of course) and that Robbie Retro is an agile 70's dancer when he's the same weight as using a British measuring scale, the same size as a prop on a rugby field and I've never seen one of them move gracefully.

 

There's over 300 guys in the data at LHW and above which to me just seems insane for a data of 2000 people. It just makes the C-Verse seem like a nuclear facility that has created a load of monsters.

 

SWF alone has 19 guys which the help file would state are above 260lbs and only 4 of those wouldn't be 290lbs. Maybe it's because I'm British but going to British wrestling shows and such I have I believe only ever seen one person over 260lbs in Morishima at a NOAH event in the UK.

 

Figured I'd put my tired near midnight moan here as it's in my game and I just signed Robbie Retro to CZCW thinking he was a middleweight at best. Ugh.

 

Not meaning to whinge on. I'll probably fall in love with the game tomorrow, working with AAA may help that or trying to do more bios on my mod but yeah tired and confused haha.

 

It's interesting that you say that because one of the problems I have with the Cornellverse is mirrored in that... there are so many smaller workers with high star quality that it makes me laugh. In the real world there are a million lightweight wrestlers who have about as much to make them stand out (a rough statement of my perception of star quality) as a mop... yet in the default Cornellverse you can quite easily make a company of small flyers/technicians and popular with it, which seems to run completely counter to real life. The internet may hate on big men, but entertainment driven companies (popular pretty much everywhere except Japan) thrive on charismatic big men bashing lumps out of each other, while smaller wrestlers have traditionally never amounted to much. And no matter how much you tell the average wrestling fan that AJ Styles is the second coming of , the average fan will be more likely to buy into Batista than Styles.

 

If anything, I think the power of menace (and big men in general) is something that needs to be better reflected in TV ratings, and TV ratings themselves need to be more important (or actually important, since networks only care about your size). The Cornellverse does have a lot of big men but they tend to be shortchanged in value, which I think stems from the internet's view of big men in general. A great middleweight will rise to the top, but an average heavyweight will always be given the chance to rise... and that's never reflected in TEW.

 

I've considered making a mod just to tweak the camera stats to see how much of an effect on the gameworld it would make, but I doubt it'd get much play. We're all internet fans here and we all want to believe our promotion of indy darling type workers can succeed, just as I always want to believe I can take non-league teams to the top in Football Manager games.

[SWF Fan]

You bring up many interesting points and its always nice to see people on the other side of the spectrum, I guess I'm fine with having guys with high menace but I mean, Tyler Reks for example is one of the scariest dudes I've ever seen and I don't think he's above light heavyweight, I guess it's just different ways of interpreting things.

 

Hmmm may need to add all this into my mod...

 

As for FM, it took me 11 seasons and 2 spells there (fairly OK season at Everton but my boys needed me back), but I got Hereford into the Premiership, then promptly took the England job and watched them drop 2 divisions in 3 seasons. Was amazing what you could do with a shoestring budget haha.

[Blake Trask]

@October Raven:

 

Seems like an interesting roster you've got there. It's always cool to compare to your own games. I'm doing a 0/0/0/0 of my own and our rosters seem to be almost completely different.

 

I take it you're Regional size. How much money do you have?

 

(Also good luck with Richie. He really never amount to much when I used him).

[TheOmniWarrior]

I just ran "GCW When Nightmares Come True"

The results:

Hugh De Aske Def. UK Dragon (end of loan period for Dragon)

 

Nigel Svennson and Sam Franklin(Gen) def. Harry Wilson & Axl Grease

 

The Elimination Agents def. The Expertise (Geordie Morris & that really high statted Gen, Lance Mir.) to retain the tag titles

 

Turtle Time(Arthur T, and Bali Daljit) def. The Minor League Villains (Minor Annoyance/Mr Evilness), Sharp & Heath, and the showstoppers (Phil Cox & Curtis Jenkins) to become the number one contender for the tag belts.

 

Davey Celtic and Beast Bantom Def. Elijah Fox (Import.) and Ricky Storm

 

Wade Orson def. British Samurai (end of loan period)

 

War Machine def. Leo Tyson, Keith Adams, and Ripper LeStat to RETAIN the GCW Heavyweight Championship

 

Match of the night? UK Dragon and Hugh De Aske. They have the highest rated match in the history of my company. Meaning I now have to try to sign UK Dragon. The score? A 68. 6 points above the #2 match on my top 10.

 

fun fact: one of only two matches on my top 10 not involving my avatar (the other being Svenson/War Machine)

[goldendragon]

War Machine becomes awesome so quickly.

 

About 3 years into my 21CW game hes my franchise player, world champion and my main storyline which kind of ties most of my storylines from the last 3 years together revolves around him.

 

21CW had a good class that year with Ricky Storm and Leigh Burton also main eventing for me and Dwayne Dark in an Upper Mid role.

[OctoberRaven]

@October Raven:

 

Seems like an interesting roster you've got there. It's always cool to compare to your own games. I'm doing a 0/0/0/0 of my own and our rosters seem to be almost completely different.

 

I take it you're Regional size. How much money do you have?

 

(Also good luck with Richie. He really never amount to much when I used him).

 

Sitting pretty with 420k and rising. Not as quickly as it has been due to my 24-match-a-year schedule, but still steadily making profits (with one month where I made a 200 dollar loss).

 

Minor update, Zero is gone for GCG, and as Dillon and Winchester won the tag belts again to freshen things up I had to give the belt to Jack Miracle. It's going to be a short reign as Nick Booth has gotten pretty over already, but Zero/Miracle has been a good match in the past so that was the natural sendoff for Zero.

[Boltinho]

War Machine becomes awesome so quickly.

 

About 3 years into my 21CW game hes my franchise player, world champion and my main storyline which kind of ties most of my storylines from the last 3 years together revolves around him.

 

21CW had a good class that year with Ricky Storm and Leigh Burton also main eventing for me and Dwayne Dark in an Upper Mid role.

 

Where the hell is Joe Simpson!

 

Criminally underused worker. Stick a mask on him and hes ok

[juggaloninjalee]

USPW March 2010

 

My roster is a little bloated but I pretty much use everyone except for Anger. Finally using my roster to the best of its abilities too.

 

-Bruce the Giant will be going over Enygma at the PPV for the World Title I think.

 

-Tyson Baine is losing morale and he is on a winning streak. If this doesn't get better I may job him out of USPW unfortunately.

 

-T-Rex has bombed in most matches so I am hesitant to put him in big matches unless they are tag matches.

 

-Peter Valentine I am on the fence with. Should I make him the longest reigning National Champ of all time or have him drop the belt immediately? If he drops it the man to win will either be The Force or Nicky Champion.

 

-I've given Nicky Champion a 3 match win streak over Matt Keith, Samoan Machine, and James Prudence. I'm hoping putting him in matches with some talented and semi talented workers will benefit him a lot as I plan to make him the top babyface here.

 

-Andre Jones is a guy I somewhat enjoy. No plans to give the belt to anyone else.

 

-The Peoples Team as tag champions is working for now. The only 2 teams I'd be willing to put the belts on would be Samoan Destruction Inc., and the Towers of Power. SDI isn't ready amd ToP have held the belts far too many times for me to put the belts on them right now though.

 

-Giant Redwood is one of my favorites and I don't use him on every show. Hopefully I can grow so I can get a 2nd tv show and give him more air time. Only so many faces can job every show. My personal goal is to push him into the main event and in a world title feud before he retires.

[Purple Cowboy]

USPW March 2010

 

My roster is a little bloated but I pretty much use everyone except for Anger. Finally using my roster to the best of its abilities too.

 

-Bruce the Giant will be going over Enygma at the PPV for the World Title I think.

 

-Tyson Baine is losing morale and he is on a winning streak. If this doesn't get better I may job him out of USPW unfortunately.

 

-T-Rex has bombed in most matches so I am hesitant to put him in big matches unless they are tag matches.

 

-Peter Valentine I am on the fence with. Should I make him the longest reigning National Champ of all time or have him drop the belt immediately? If he drops it the man to win will either be The Force or Nicky Champion.

 

-I've given Nicky Champion a 3 match win streak over Matt Keith, Samoan Machine, and James Prudence. I'm hoping putting him in matches with some talented and semi talented workers will benefit him a lot as I plan to make him the top babyface here.

 

-Andre Jones is a guy I somewhat enjoy. No plans to give the belt to anyone else.

 

-The Peoples Team as tag champions is working for now. The only 2 teams I'd be willing to put the belts on would be Samoan Destruction Inc., and the Towers of Power. SDI isn't ready amd ToP have held the belts far too many times for me to put the belts on them right now though.

 

-Giant Redwood is one of my favorites and I don't use him on every show. Hopefully I can grow so I can get a 2nd tv show and give him more air time. Only so many faces can job every show. My personal goal is to push him into the main event and in a world title feud before he retires.

 

Good stuff. Be careful with Bruce... he's got that pesky creative control so if you give him the strap getting the belt off him sometimes isn't that easy.

[goldendragon]

Where the hell is Joe Simpson!

 

Criminally underused worker. Stick a mask on him and hes ok

 

Little J got fired after a few months of jobbing but was brough back almost 2 years later as part of the Generations (Graduates from the last 3 years) v Centurians (21CW Originals) I'm running. Think Daniel Bryan when he was brought back as the mystery partner, except he's done f all since. He's just a born jobber.

[serotonin187]

in my L-RING game, over at USPW Enygma just died after being run over by a steamroller effectively vacating the world title after a few weeks they have Tyson Baine win the title a week passes and Tyson's contract is up for renewal and he refuses to negotiate with them as he see them as a small company...now thats gratitude for you

[OldStingberg]

I just started up a new TCW game and on my list of Next Big Things are Champagne Lover, Greg Gauge, Matthew Keith, Kirk Jameson, and Swoop McCarthy. This is going to be a fun game.

[juggaloninjalee]

I just started up a new TCW game and on my list of Next Big Things are Champagne Lover, Greg Gauge, Matthew Keith, Kirk Jameson, and Swoop McCarthy. This is going to be a fun game.

 

How do you plan to use all of them? Instant pushes to the top or what?

[smartman]

I just started up a new TCW game and on my list of Next Big Things are Champagne Lover, Greg Gauge, Matthew Keith, Kirk Jameson, and Swoop McCarthy. This is going to be a fun game.

 

Wow, someone got a major destiny roll for their game. Kirk is always a long-term project for me. I always sign him, but generally just for the tag scene. Of course, the obvious question is where the heck is DWN? Can't see him stuck behind Kirk so you must have passed on him.

 

And you don't have to uber-push them to get them to the top. 6 months and I had all of the 4 not named Kirk in the UMC/ME scene without them winning a ton. TV exposure is a wonderful thing, and unleashing that bunch on your B show is just tons of fun.

[OldStingberg]

How do you plan to use all of them? Instant pushes to the top or what?

 

Champagne Lover is getting the big push. In the first year he's going to win pretty much everything I've got for him to win except the tag titles. Each week I'm going to make sure he's in a match with someone that can improve his psychology so that he'll be in a good spot to carry the world championship by the end of the year.

 

The other four are all biding their time in development. I'll get as much development out of them as I can before calling them up. When they do join the main roster, I'm not sure what I'll do.

 

Kirk Jameson probably has the best chance of being pushed because he won't turn into a douche if I do so. I'll probably have him and Mainstream Hernandez continue their team for a while, learning from the experienced midcard teams.

 

Swoop will toil in the midcard for a while. I'll probably team him up with a vet like Joel Bryant for a year or two before setting Swoop free as a main event singles guy.

 

I'm torn between just pushing the Keith twins in the tag division under the watch of their pa and likely turning them into douches or putting masks on them and letting them job for a few years. That'll be a decision for another day.

[Blake Trask]

I'm torn between just pushing the Keith twins in the tag division under the watch of their pa and likely turning them into douches or putting masks on them and letting them job for a few years. That'll be a decision for another day.

 

They'll only become douches if you push them to the top really really quickly. A slow and steady tag team push should be fine and is something I did in one of my own games. There's no need to push them all the way to the main event, especially if they're in a tag team and only facing off against other tag teams (which will largely be midcardish) - just keep 'em away from main event guys.

 

 

Swoop will toil in the midcard for a while. I'll probably team him up with a vet like Joel Bryant for a year or two before setting Swoop free as a main event singles guy.

 

Use The Tag Team Specialists while you have them. They have experience and unparalleled performance skills. Shunting Robert Oxford is doing him a disservice. Maybe team Swoop with Clark Alexander? Then that gives an under-utilised guy something to do and will help Swoop develop a little too.

 

 

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Meanwhile, in my ASCW 0/0/0/0, Joshua Taylor and Art Reed just both turned me down within a day of each other. Taylor's too popular in America, Art's too popular outside of America. Shame, though it does stop me overloading my roster even more. I managed to pick up Matt Keith and Swoop McCarthy recently, after all.

[OldStingberg]

They'll only become douches if you push them to the top really really quickly. A slow and steady tag team push should be fine and is something I did in one of my own games. There's no need to push them all the way to the main event, especially if they're in a tag team and only facing off against other tag teams (which will largely be midcardish) - just keep 'em away from main event guys.

Here's my concern with the Keith twins. My user character is Steven Keith, the eldest son of Sam Keith. Steven is a slightly older and beefier version of Davis Wayne Newton (who no longer exists). Right now Steven and Sam are teaming up, and in fact just won the tag titles thanks to being willing cogs in Tommy Cornell's new grand plans.

 

I figure at some point the Keiths will turn face and feud with Cornell's stable. That's when I'll give Sam one final world title run. I'm thinking of bringing in the twins around this point and forming a Keith Dynasty stable. I'm kind of worried that the twins will get too over leeching off Sam and Steven's overness in promos.

 

I suppose, though, that I could just counter that overness by having them lose to those midcard tag teams more than usual. Maybe that'll suffice. If not, I wouldn't be too heartbroken. The twins becoming selfish little pricks would provide some good material for when they eventually turn on Steven after Sam retires.

 

Use The Tag Team Specialists while you have them. They have experience and unparalleled performance skills. Shunting Robert Oxford is doing him a disservice. Maybe team Swoop with Clark Alexander? Then that gives an under-utilised guy something to do and will help Swoop develop a little too.

 

I figure I can probably get a good year out of Swoop working on his technical skills in development. When he's ready to be called up, Old Man Oxford will probably be done, or at least close enough to it. That's why I'm thinking of using Joel Bryant to train up Swoop.

 

But yeah, in the meantime, I'm getting a lot of use out of the TTS. Champagne Lover is going to be seeing a lot of them over the next year.

[Blake Trask]

That first part sounds like a pretty cool storyline - you can always regulate their overness a little by having them be the stable's job-boys.

 

I figure I can probably get a good year out of Swoop working on his technical skills in development. When he's ready to be called up, Old Man Oxford will probably be done, or at least close enough to it. That's why I'm thinking of using Joel Bryant to train up Swoop.

 

But yeah, in the meantime, I'm getting a lot of use out of the TTS. Champagne Lover is going to be seeing a lot of them over the next year.

 

You'd... be surprised. In my most recent game, Oxford didn't retire until 2016.

[OldStingberg]

You'd... be surprised. In my most recent game, Oxford didn't retire until 2016.

 

Fair enough. Looking at my time decline list, Oxford is only 'three or four years past his best'. So I'll probably have Steve Flash help train up Swoop when he finds his way to the bigs.

[Phantom Stranger]

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="OldStingberg" data-cite="OldStingberg" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="25963" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>Fair enough. Looking at my time decline list, Oxford is only 'three or four years past his best'. So I'll probably have Steve Flash help train up Swoop when he finds his way to the bigs.</div></blockquote><p> </p><p> One of the new features with TEW10 is that if you're working for a big name, you're likely to hold off retirement a little later. Sam Keith lasted to 2017 in one of my games.</p>

[UkWrestleFan]

Vengeance took Hell's Bouncer under his wing. This can only bode well for their planned feud <img alt="" data-src="//content.invisioncic.com/g322608/emoticons/cool.png.f00d2562b2c1d873a09323753efdb041.png" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" />

[Purple Cowboy]

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