Small Questions Thread & "Living FAQ"

[Teh_Showtime]

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="Remianen" data-cite="Remianen" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="41194" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>As far as broadcasters go, the 'workers penalized for holding back' dirt sheet note always appears for Free-to-air matches and never appears for Pay-Per-View matches but how about for Subscription and Commercial? I would guess that one of them would be yes and the other no, but can anyone who uses those confirm which is which?</div></blockquote><p> </p><p> Have you tried TV vs Event?</p><p> </p><p> I've gotten it with USPW for the TV but not on events which are both on the same (subscription) broadcaster</p>

[BrokenCycle]

<p>I have a question. There are those times where you book a match between one guy and another that is significantly more popular. You use "Keep Strong" to eliminate most of the losses in popularity, but what about the other way?</p><p> </p><p>

What is the best way to have to lessen the gains from this, because a lot of the times the gains in popularity are way more than intended. </p><p> </p><p>

If you put "Protect" on the winner with less popularity, does this decrease the gains in a more predictable way?</p>

[dalenichol]

<p>Here's another noobish question from me. </p><p> </p><p>

I have Logan Wolfsbaine as my champion and he's doing well. I've also noticed that he's got decent overness in Japan thanks to his apparent family ties and his recent tour with PGHW.</p><p> </p><p>

Both him and Gidaya are over in Japan, would it benefit me at all, as a 0 pop company, to put on a show in Kinki, where both of those workers are hitting 40 pop?</p>

[LloydCross]

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="BrokenCycle" data-cite="BrokenCycle" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="41194" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>I have a question. There are those times where you book a match between one guy and another that is significantly more popular. You use "Keep Strong" to eliminate most of the losses in popularity, but what about the other way?<p> </p><p> What is the best way to have to lessen the gains from this, because a lot of the times the gains in popularity are way more than intended. </p><p> </p><p> If you put "Protect" on the winner with less popularity, does this decrease the gains in a more predictable way?</p></div></blockquote><p> </p><p> If you don't want a big jump in popularity, why are you having the lower card guy go over someone so much more popular?</p><p> </p><p> If you're sure you want that, you could always make the win not clean. A cheap win (which I believe is usually something like a count out) would do the trick. Tainted doesn't suppress it as much, but is less likely to upset the fans.</p><p> </p><p> Protect would probably only help in as much as it would lower the match rating.</p>

[Teh_Showtime]

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="dalenichol" data-cite="dalenichol" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="41194" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>Here's another noobish question from me. <p> </p><p> I have Logan Wolfsbaine as my champion and he's doing well. I've also noticed that he's got decent overness in Japan thanks to his apparent family ties and his recent tour with PGHW.</p><p> </p><p> Both him and Gidaya are over in Japan, would it benefit me at all, as a 0 pop company, to put on a show in Kinki, where both of those workers are hitting 40 pop?</p></div></blockquote><p> </p><p> Assuming you're in the US, it is of absolutely no benefit to run a show in Japan (presumably at a small size)</p><p> </p><p> Your workers will still expect to be paid the same but you won't draw as many fans so that's an automatic loss right there. On top of that, any popularity you do gain will slowly erode if you don't have coverage there or if you don't visit it once in a while. You would be better off running shows in a region that gets spillover from your home area where your workers will be more popular and you will have decent attendance.</p>

[mvargus]

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="dalenichol" data-cite="dalenichol" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="41194" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>Here's another noobish question from me. <p> </p><p> I have Logan Wolfsbaine as my champion and he's doing well. I've also noticed that he's got decent overness in Japan thanks to his apparent family ties and his recent tour with PGHW.</p><p> </p><p> Both him and Gidaya are over in Japan, would it benefit me at all, as a 0 pop company, to put on a show in Kinki, where both of those workers are hitting 40 pop?</p></div></blockquote><p> </p><p> It might give you a good show rating, as matches with those 2 would probably score well, but any angles would be penalized for language and the audience is determined by your own pop in the region, so as a 0 pop company your audience would be terrible.</p><p> </p><p> This is something to try when you are cult level and looking to get a new TV contract in an area, I wouldn't try it as a 0 pop company that's still trying to claim an audience. </p><p> </p><p> Unless of course you plan on moving your head quarters to Japan, in which case, go ahead and put on the show in Kinki.</p>

[dalenichol]

<p>Thanks guys! Appreciate the help. </p><p> </p><p>

Should finally make a profit with this show, it's only taken 13 months! So I just wanted to make sure I wasn't missing a trick by not capitalising on their popularity overseas</p>

[Remianen]

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="Teh_Showtime" data-cite="Teh_Showtime" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="41194" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>Have you tried TV vs Event?<p> </p><p> I've gotten it with USPW for the TV but not on events which are both on the same (subscription) broadcaster</p></div></blockquote><p> </p><p> WHOA! That is a huge oversight on my part. What's worse is, now that you mention it, I remember thinking (during the demo period) that weekly events might turn out better than a flat TV show when using a custom broadcaster. Time to test it out.</p><p> </p><p> Thanks for the reminder. <img alt=":)" data-src="//content.invisioncic.com/g322608/emoticons/smile.png.142cfa0a1cd2925c0463c1d00f499df2.png" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /></p>

[BrokenCycle]

<p>Okay, since I didn't get an answer I decided to do some testing myself. I used SWF, on an event, booked only one match: Angry Gilmore vs Starr, with every User Preference unchecked. I did all of these twice and got the same results. </p><p> </p><p>

Starr is 51 popularity. Gilmore is 77.</p><p> </p><p>

Starr beats Gilmore with Decisive Finish: Starr gains 7 points of popularity. Gilmore loses 7.</p><p> </p><p>

Starr beats Gilmore with Decisive Finish. Gilmore has Keep Strong: Starr gains 7. Gilmore loses 1. </p><p> </p><p>

Starr beats Gilmore with Tainted Finish. Gilmore has Keep Strong: Starr gains 7. Gilmore loses 1.</p><p> </p><p>

Starr beats Gilmore with DF. Gilmore has Keep Strong. Starr has Protect: Starr gains 3 points. Gilmore loses 1. </p><p> </p><p>

So, if you want someone to gain popularity, but not<em> too much</em> popularity, put Protect on them. Also, if you're worried that the negative effects of stacking these notes, Keep Strong+Protect actually had a better match rating than just having Keep Strong.</p>

[Ash Styles]

does anyone know hot to make a saved game into an editable database

[Bigpapa42]

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="Ash Styles" data-cite="Ash Styles" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="41194" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>does anyone know hot to make a saved game into an editable database</div></blockquote><p> </p><p> Manually. There is no conversion process for that.</p><p> </p><p> You can export in-game data but I don't think you can export that much.</p>

[Save_Us.Necro]

<p>Hey guys, bit of a newbish question here.</p><p> </p><p>

I converted an old TEW file with my fed having quite a few PPV/TV contracts. I'm at a point now where all of my contracts are up. When I go to negotiate, it says they are open to negotiate however it seems to be unavailable as it's only a dropdown saying to negotiate for events/tv and no action apparently at all. I believe I'm accomplishing all the goals as my shows do higher than the minimum quality and most of the broadcasters are set to neutral in terms of product stuff. clearly it's my first time getting to this part of the game so I'm kinda stumped</p><p> </p><p>

Is there anything I can do in the editor or anything? </p><p> </p><p>

Thanks again!</p>

[TeemuFoundation]

<p>What do Media Groups do? In the editor, it says that only companies thata re owned by the ssame Media Group can get deals with a Broadcaster owned by a Media Group, but that's not the case.</p><p> </p><p>

Or is a single company being owned by the Media Group the condition for this to happen?</p>

[Rawisericho]

Just started a new game in DOTT. I'm still getting a feel for the new game. WWF is starting to expand nationally. As MACW, I'd like to match Vince. How can I add local stations to World Wide Wrestling? I'm clicking on the stations that are Willing To Negotiate but I don't see any options.

[nebradska]

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="BrokenCycle" data-cite="BrokenCycle" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="41194" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>Okay, since I didn't get an answer I decided to do some testing myself. I used SWF, on an event, booked only one match: Angry Gilmore vs Starr, with every User Preference unchecked. I did all of these twice and got the same results. <p> </p><p> Starr is 51 popularity. Gilmore is 77.</p><p> </p><p> Starr beats Gilmore with Decisive Finish: Starr gains 7 points of popularity. Gilmore loses 7.</p><p> </p><p> Starr beats Gilmore with Decisive Finish. Gilmore has Keep Strong: Starr gains 7. Gilmore loses 1. </p><p> </p><p> Starr beats Gilmore with Tainted Finish. Gilmore has Keep Strong: Starr gains 7. Gilmore loses 1.</p><p> </p><p> Starr beats Gilmore with DF. Gilmore has Keep Strong. Starr has Protect: Starr gains 3 points. Gilmore loses 1. </p><p> </p><p> So, if you want someone to gain popularity, but not<em> too much</em> popularity, put Protect on them. Also, if you're worried that the negative effects of stacking these notes, Keep Strong+Protect actually had a better match rating than just having Keep Strong.</p></div></blockquote><p> </p><p> You're going to need to run more than one match for each scenario to get anything statistically significant. Also to minimize variables, it would have to be the only segment on the show.</p>

[liontamer]

I'm 3 yrs in an my ref has constantly bobbled back and forth between 60 and 62 for his ref skill level. My shows have gone from being extremely poor to varying between 50s and upper 70s. What is the best way to boost my ref? should I hire another one to do the undercard matches and only put him on the good ones?

[BrokenCycle]

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="nebradska" data-cite="nebradska" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="41194" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>You're going to need to run more than one match for each scenario to get anything statistically significant. Also to minimize variables, it would have to be the only segment on the show.</div></blockquote><p> </p><p> I did both of these things.</p>

[mvargus]

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="liontamer" data-cite="liontamer" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="41194" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>I'm 3 yrs in an my ref has constantly bobbled back and forth between 60 and 62 for his ref skill level. My shows have gone from being extremely poor to varying between 50s and upper 70s. What is the best way to boost my ref? should I hire another one to do the undercard matches and only put him on the good ones?</div></blockquote><p> </p><p> If after 3 years he continues to fluctuate like that he's hit his skill cap and won't ever maintain a skill above 60. At this point if you want a more skilled ref you need to find a new one.</p><p> </p><p> However, a ref with 60 skill is good enough that you can put on A level matches if the wrestlers are good enough.</p>

[wwfmark]

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="wwfmark" data-cite="wwfmark" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="41194" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>As 4C I bought out ACPW and made them my child company but I'm not really sure if there an advantage/disadvantage to making them the child company vs. a dev territory.</div></blockquote><p> </p><p> Any opinions here? Couldn't find any sort of breakdown that explains the difference beside the small blurb in the game.</p>

[Adam Ryland]

Hey guys, bit of a newbish question here.

 

I converted an old TEW file with my fed having quite a few PPV/TV contracts. I'm at a point now where all of my contracts are up. When I go to negotiate, it says they are open to negotiate however it seems to be unavailable as it's only a dropdown saying to negotiate for events/tv and no action apparently at all. I believe I'm accomplishing all the goals as my shows do higher than the minimum quality and most of the broadcasters are set to neutral in terms of product stuff. clearly it's my first time getting to this part of the game so I'm kinda stumped

 

Is there anything I can do in the editor or anything?

 

Thanks again!

 

You're misreading the screen. The drop down menus select what you are referencing. The four buttons are directly above each of the menus. You are mistaking them for headings.

[gazwefc83]

How do i set events to be ppv's? I cant find the option anywhere and although i have a ppv deal im sure events are only being seen in the region they are held.

 

There ysed to be an option for size of event.

[TeemuFoundation]

How do i set events to be ppv's? I cant find the option anywhere and although i have a ppv deal im sure events are only being seen in the region they are held.

 

There ysed to be an option for size of event.

When you run the show, you set the Broadcasters for that event. Choose a PPV Broadcaster.

 

Events aren't "PPV only", per se, you can now run it on PPV in America, on TV in the UK, Free-to-Air in Japan, for example.

[gazwefc83]

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="TeemuFoundation" data-cite="TeemuFoundation" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="41194" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>When you run the show, you set the Broadcasters for that event. Choose a PPV Broadcaster.<p> </p><p> Events aren't "PPV only", per se, you can now run it on PPV in America, on TV in the UK, Free-to-Air in Japan, for example.</p></div></blockquote><p> </p><p> Ooh thanks, ill have to check it out next month.</p>

[TeemuFoundation]

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="gazwefc83" data-cite="gazwefc83" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="41194" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>Ooh thanks, ill have to check it out next month.</div></blockquote><p> I was confused by it at first, as well. <img alt=":)" data-src="//content.invisioncic.com/g322608/emoticons/smile.png.142cfa0a1cd2925c0463c1d00f499df2.png" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /></p>

[Kingster]

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="liontamer" data-cite="liontamer" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="41194" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>I there any way to reduce a worker's toxicity? I want to hire Jack Bruce. but he's been toxic for about a year.</div></blockquote><p> </p><p> I believe his toxicity will go away with time. I think I read that it's around two years, but I'm not sure.</p>