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[ritwik]

You don't lose air time if you switch networks with a month left on the deal. You'll continue to air on Sports America until the month is up, then switch to whatever network picks you up.

 

Is this so even if the new network has the same broadcast regions as the old one?

[PyroFalkon]

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="Gigas" data-cite="Gigas" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="26137" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>you could always use the Sophie code to max out all your stats, including negotiating.<p> </p><p> With USPW, you always want to start with an 8 in negotiating, imo. Allows you to sign written deals and for less money.</p></div></blockquote><p> Ah, I miss Sophie...</p><p> </p><p> I thought about that, but it just seems too... cheap to me. I can't really learn the game well if I'm already taking the easy way out, you know? Maybe if I start a second campaign I'll do it, but right now, I'll just roll with the punches. Like I said, I'm VERY curious how losing Bruce is going to play out for me, and that might turn my fortunes around.</p>

[Bigpapa42]

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="PyroFalkon" data-cite="PyroFalkon" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="26137" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>Ah, I miss Sophie...<p> </p><p> I thought about that, but it just seems too... <strong>cheap</strong> to me. I can't really learn the game well if I'm already taking the easy way out, you know? Maybe if I start a second campaign I'll do it, but right now, I'll just roll with the punches. Like I said, I'm VERY curious how losing Bruce is going to play out for me, and that might turn my fortunes around.</p></div></blockquote><p> </p><p> Understandable... but its an option that is provided as part of the game for a reason. Its not like its cheating - its a decision, and one that comes with consequences, as putting more points in Negotiating means less points for other areas.</p>

[Gigas]

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="Bigpapa42" data-cite="Bigpapa42" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="26137" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>Understandable... but its an option that is provided as part of the game for a reason. Its not like its cheating - its a decision, and one that comes with consequences, as putting more points in Negotiating means less points for other areas.</div></blockquote><p> </p><p> Hes talking about the Sophie code, which is cheating.</p>

[Bigpapa42]

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="Gigas" data-cite="Gigas" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="26137" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>Hes talking about the Sophie code, which is cheating.</div></blockquote><p> </p><p> Ah, well that's even more understable. That is cheap. I thought he meant the 8 in Negotiating... My bad...</p>

[PyroFalkon]

<p>What Gigas said. My mistake is that I put 7 points into Leadership because I was paranoid about the backstage environment, but USPW is pretty stable already. If I could do it over -- I mean, I know I <em>can</em>, I'm just talking about lessons learned -- I would reverse it, and put 7 in Negotiating and 4 in Leadership.</p><p> </p><p>

Still, I'm halfway to getting my first earned point, so I'm not too worried about it. I just have to exercise some fiscal responsibility in the meantime.</p>

[Gigas]

<p>I think leadership is actually the most useless skill there is because you can easily sign a Davis Wayne Newton, Sara Marie York, Amber Allen etc to improve the locker room and your roster.</p><p> </p><p>

Motivation you can just give guys raises, but its still useful.</p><p> </p><p>

Creativity and Negotiating you cant get anywhere else. Of course if you are running a fed where gimmicks dont matter, creativity is useless but in USPW its good to have.</p>

[PyroFalkon]

Agreed. I'm going to definitely go with major points into Negotiation if I do a second campaign. I've actually considered starting over, making my own fed from nothing and trying to raise it up the ranks, making a fed in my own image. (My "dream fed" is basically old-school ECW with slightly less of a hardcore focus and significantly more of a technical focus.)

 

I know this is a stupid excuse, but... the main reason I haven't started over is because I want to make some graphics for my logo and title belts and such, and I'm not so good with image editors! But I'm sorta loving my little USPW campaign despite the problems, and I figure that I'm not going to attempt making my own fed from the bottom until I can actually run "a cash cow" and "an easy fed" like USPW at a solid profit. I figure if I can't get USPW off the ground, I'm going to have no chance working on my own fed.

[Gigas]

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="PyroFalkon" data-cite="PyroFalkon" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="26137" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>Agreed. I'm going to definitely go with major points into Negotiation if I do a second campaign. I've actually considered starting over, making my own fed from nothing and trying to raise it up the ranks, making a fed in my own image. (My "dream fed" is basically old-school ECW with slightly less of a hardcore focus and significantly more of a technical focus.)<p> </p><p> I know this is a stupid excuse, but... the main reason I haven't started over is because I want to make some graphics for my logo and title belts and such, and I'm not so good with image editors! <img alt=":)" data-src="//content.invisioncic.com/g322608/emoticons/smile.png.142cfa0a1cd2925c0463c1d00f499df2.png" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /> But I'm sorta loving my little USPW campaign despite the problems, and I figure that I'm not going to attempt making my own fed from the bottom until I can actually run "a cash cow" and "an easy fed" like USPW at a solid profit. I figure if I can't get USPW off the ground, I'm going to have no chance working on my own fed.</p></div></blockquote><p> </p><p> </p><p> I just create my own fed and call it XWA since it has all the images minus PPV show images, which a lot of companies lack anyway.</p><p> </p><p> Either that or just download a 77 or 97 mod and use one of the old feds not in the current database.</p>

[PyroFalkon]

Just wanted to give a quick update on how my fed is shaking out...

 

One of Sam Strong's owner goals for me is to not sign or re-sign anyone under C- charisma. Between that goal, my crappy Negotiation skill, and SWF being jerks, I've now lost: Giant Redwood (fired), Bruce the Giant (refused to re-sign due to his overness), James Justice (poached by SWF), T-Rex (below C- Charisma), and Peter Valentine (retired). Well, and Captain USA retired too, but he was low on the card anyway, and he's now a manager by choice.

 

My point is, I basically lost half my upper midcarders and main eventers, so my roster is pretty strange. I've made a bunch of signings so I'm holding easily to the ideal wrestler counts, but I've had to promote some guys and sign others, making my USPW a bit unrecognizable from the default start. But: I'm thinking with all these releases, I should be able to maintain profitability, so hopefully my fortunes will finally turn.

[Gigas]

Your in ring work should improve a lot too because outside of James Justice most of those guys just suck.

[PyroFalkon]

Indeed. Sam Strong is blocking me from changing the product to the way I want it -- where popularity and performance are at least equal -- but I am loving the "Call in ring" agent note. I've got nine women for my Women's Division; seven have at least a B- Psychology, and the other two have a C+. Ergo, in ANY women's match I do, I have them call it in-ring. I'm to the point where every single women's match gives me a C- at worst, even with bad heat or low momentum or whatever.

 

Taking my lesson from that, I've started trying to get the guys geared that way too. For some reason, Tyson Baine and Enygma are really clicking, and now that Bruce is gone and the World Title is "mine" again (Bruce was bogarting it and using his creative control to stop me from taking it off him), I think we can start seeing some good-quality matches that fans appreciate. Enygma/Baine got me a B- the last time I had them fight, and it was an accidental ordinary match. I can just imagine the ratings if I build up the feud and make a title up for grabs too.

[Gigas]

Call in ring note is for B- and greater. Using it in any match with someone below b- will get you a penalty.. meaning everyone in the match needs the b- or greater, not just one.

 

just an fyi.

[BrokenCycle]

Just wanted to give a quick update on how my fed is shaking out...

 

One of Sam Strong's owner goals for me is to not sign or re-sign anyone under C- charisma. Between that goal, my crappy Negotiation skill, and SWF being jerks, I've now lost: Giant Redwood (fired), Bruce the Giant (refused to re-sign due to his overness), James Justice (poached by SWF), T-Rex (below C- Charisma), and Peter Valentine (retired).

 

I lost all those guys too, but you could easily push guys like Danny Rushmore, Jumbo Jackson, and Mick Muscles because of their menace. Andre Jones and Nicky Champion can also be great.

 

How about this for an owner's goal, though. Sam Strong once gave me this ridiculous selling goal, that would have literally wiped out most of my roster. I promptly turned them off.

[Gigas]

I hate Andre Jones. I dont know why but hes one of my most hated workers in the CV world.

 

I think its because he never improved in my USPW game and became a huge cancer backstage. I usually take the title off him promptly to reunite the titles and can his ass.

[PyroFalkon]

I'm pushing all the guys BC named, indeed, and they're mostly working out. Danny was supposed to be let go (less than C- charisma), but I like him, so I went ahead and ignored that particular goal when I re-signed him. Andre Jones meanwhile... I don't know, I didn't used to like him, and I still don't really know what to do with him, but I went ahead and pushed him. The creative team thinks he should be an Upper Midcarder, but that's absolutely not going to happen; I like him, but not that much.

 

This is why I'm keeping on with my USPW campaign even though I've made the tons of mistakes I've talked about in the thread: with the massive shake-up on the roster, it will be a challenge to figure out what to do to get things back on track.

 

Oh, and thanks for the FYI, Gigas. I haven't seen the penalty for running a "Call In Ring" note with a C+ psychology yet, so perhaps I'm just lucky. Either way, I'm trying to sign guys who have a strong psychology so I can use the note more.

[MorenoKing24]

I couldn't get NYCW or FCW to be my developmental company so I'm thinking I'll just start my own since you start out with plenty of cash. Any recommendation on which size to start it off as, not sure if bigger matters but I'm not really wanting to spend $5M on the largest option you can get.

[jhd1]

I couldn't get NYCW or FCW to be my developmental company so I'm thinking I'll just start my own since you start out with plenty of cash. Any recommendation on which size to start it off as, not sure if bigger matters but I'm not really wanting to spend $5M on the largest option you can get.

 

The thing with USPW is they start off with a lot of cash to make use of the cult written deals. Assuming you haven't jumped to national, if you spend too much on your dev territory you won't have enough money to sign people to written deals and, consequently, you won't be able to send anyone down to work there.

[PoisonedSuperman]

Okay so I brought someone in who has ZERO overness. Geena The Warrior Princess. She's a heel right now and I feel that she can be huge to my woman division, how do you deal with someone who has literally no overness?

 

PS I just made out big time, I signed Lead Belly who just started a fued with Darryl Devine simply by beating Devine and Darryl not letting go. Devine has brought in Gareth Wayne (as John Doe Devine) to be his bodyguard... guess whose contract comes up and signs with USPW? Grease Hogg!!! Too bad I split up the Tower of Powers.

[Gigas]

Okay so I brought someone in who has ZERO overness. Geena The Warrior Princess. She's a heel right now and I feel that she can be huge to my woman division, how do you deal with someone who has literally no overness?

 

PS I just made out big time, I signed Lead Belly who just started a fued with Darryl Devine simply by beating Devine and Darryl not letting go. Devine has brought in Gareth Wayne (as John Doe Devine) to be his bodyguard... guess whose contract comes up and signs with USPW? Grease Hogg!!! Too bad I split up the Tower of Powers.

 

Dark Matches. Maybe even put her on colour for awhile.

[PoisonedSuperman]

Bruce The Giant won the USPW title in February in a 3 way dance with Chris Caulfield and Enygma, @ Declaration of Indepedance I had Caulfield win the title.

 

Afterwards I had Bruce extend his hand to Caulfield but Chris didn't shake, executing the double turn. I've switched Caulfield to a man on a mission gimmick which he will debut next time he's on screen as the champion. His mission to get Bruce The Giant out of USPW forever. Bruce has 50 days on his contract and no way he will resign with me although I'm not sure if his relationship with Strong will mean Sam brings him back but I was thinking that Caulfield could use an under the radar manager but no one is coming to me. What do you guys think?

 

After he fueds with Bruce he's going against Justice or Enygma where he will lose the title. He only has 4 months on his contact remaining.

[Gigas]

Bruce The Giant won the USPW title in February in a 3 way dance with Chris Caulfield and Enygma, @ Declaration of Indepedance I had Caulfield win the title.

 

Afterwards I had Bruce extend his hand to Caulfield but Chris didn't shake, executing the double turn. I've switched Caulfield to a man on a mission gimmick which he will debut next time he's on screen as the champion. His mission to get Bruce The Giant out of USPW forever. Bruce has 50 days on his contract and no way he will resign with me although I'm not sure if his relationship with Strong will mean Sam brings him back but I was thinking that Caulfield could use an under the radar manager but no one is coming to me. What do you guys think?

 

After he fueds with Bruce he's going against Justice or Enygma where he will lose the title. He only has 4 months on his contact remaining.

 

Just make sure Chris is close enough to Bruce in pop or Bruce wont do the job.

[Teh_Showtime]

Bring in Brett Starr as his manager if you dont have him already. He is GOLD on the Mic and young, and related to Micky.

 

I have him as color in my TCW game for my B show until he will eventually debut in ring

[PoisonedSuperman]

Well things just kind of played out good for me as Billy Bear Bekowski's contract with SWF went up so I paired him as Caulfields bodyguard. Obviously he's not going to beat Bruce but he'll be able to use his Menace and Bruce's popularity to pull off some decent monster unleashed angles! It will get him over at least a little bit before Bruce leaves.

[BrokenCycle]

I found that I revolve my booking around workers' contracts. If a worker has a while until their deal is up, I'll push them, but will wait if they're just going to leave if they get too popular. Tyson Baine and T-Rex are going to be leaving soon, so I'm going to put Des Davids and Freddie Datsun over them a couple times by DQ and a clean victory to get them over.

 

Unfortunately Grandmaster Phunk and Darryl Devine's contracts are coming up, and I expect them to leave eventually. I made them a makeshift tag team just for a short feud with Towers, and they have been killing it. Phunk and Andre Jones have great chemistry and got me a very surprising B- match, and Towers vs Phunk and Devine got an outstanding B rating.

 

If I don't get my promotion momentum back to 71.1, I can't sign written deals. I've sort of hit a skid and need high C+ and B- shows to even gain popularity and raise it.