Small Questions Thread & "Living FAQ"

[Blake Trask]

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="James Casey" data-cite="James Casey" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="41194" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>I<p> Teh_Showtime is right that the Performance skills are critical to any decent match, though. You have to know <em>how</em> to work a match before you worry about how <em>good</em> it is.</p><p> </p><p> Think of the top row stats as different story genres - action, romance, comedy and so on. Whether you're writing horror (Hardcore), space battle (Aerial) action (Brawling) or whatever, it always needs to be written clearly (Basics), flow smoothly (Consistency), have a clear beginning, middle and end (Psychology) and convince you to buy in to the narrative (Selling).</p><p> </p><p> (I don't have a place for Safety in this analogy, but I hope it's self-explanatory!)</p></div></blockquote><p> </p><p> The quality of the book-binding so as to avoid getting papercuts!</p>

[soxfan93]

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="James Casey" data-cite="James Casey" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="41194" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>I've not bought out a company before, but don't you have the option of taking on all/some of the worker contracts when it happens, so you sign them direct without having to release them from the failing company first?<p> </p><p> Just looking in my game, the Pillage option would let you take workers, titles, TV shows and events.</p></div></blockquote><p> </p><p> Hey James, thanks for the reply.</p><p> </p><p> The objective was to keep them running to bolster the lineup of my network.</p><p> </p><p> I'm wondering, if I click a couple of names, then make them a child company, would I accomplish what I'm looking for? I'll have to try it unless someone else can chime in.</p>

[James Casey]

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="Blake Trask" data-cite="Blake Trask" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="41194" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>The quality of the book-binding so as to avoid getting papercuts!</div></blockquote><p> </p><p> Or an e-reader that doesn't electrocute you?</p><p> </p><p> </p><blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="soxfan93" data-cite="soxfan93" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="41194" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>Hey James, thanks for the reply.<p> </p><p> The objective was to keep them running to bolster the lineup of my network.</p><p> </p><p> I'm wondering, if I click a couple of names, then make them a child company, would I accomplish what I'm looking for? I'll have to try it unless someone else can chime in.</p></div></blockquote><p> </p><p> If you make them a child company, they retain their existing contracts with their workers; You're responsible for paying their bills, but the contracts remain with the child company. You can, of course, sign whoever you want from them, so bringing Cactus on board and sending him straight back should be fine, so long as he's happy with a developmental deal.</p><p> </p><p> (Now, what exactly am I meant to do with the extra developmental company I just bought?)</p>

[hassnain123]

have any of you tried importing the default data into real world mods if so what year should i do it in

[mitsukaikira]

<< Just do the math. Add up the regions, divide by number of regions. >>

 

<< This usually happens with the more popular workers, so on the news page you could go to the "Most Popular" tab, pick a region and look for your worker there. Once you click on them, their overall pop in the region shows on the side >>

 

I think I'm asking my question incorrectly.

If I am playing a National, like WWE, and Vince's Owner's Goal is that John Cena much achieve a 75 popularity.... where do I see that figure? Is it "no less than 75" in ALL US regions? Is it an "average" of 75 in all US Regions?

 

I see what you mean. I'd shoot for at least 75 in all regions in that country, then.

[scottk1983]

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="hassnain123" data-cite="hassnain123" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="41194" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>If i put Tully Blanchard and Haku in an angle with Ric Flair do they have to be rated on Entertainment to increase their entertainment skills</div></blockquote><p> </p><p> Anyone know the answer to this?</p>

[James Casey]

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="scottk1983" data-cite="scottk1983" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="41194" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>Anyone know the answer to this?</div></blockquote><p> </p><p> As far as I know, if Flair's rated on Entertainment and it's long enough to allow improvement (3 minutes) then the other workers will improve by association.</p><p> </p><p> However, in my promo training angles I have the trainees rated on Entertainment. I don't remember if that was based on something or not...</p><p> </p><p> Simple answer is to run the angle a few times without them being rated and check if their stats improve (use the editor if required). Just checking my own training with Flair, Dustin Rhodes and Brian Pillman have both improved 2-3 points per month, both starting from around C/B-/B- for their Entertainment stats. That's running the angle 10 minutes a show, 9 shows a month, so plenty of time to learn...</p>

[BrokenCycle]

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="scottk1983" data-cite="scottk1983" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="41194" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>Anyone know the answer to this?</div></blockquote><p> </p><p> The players handbook says no.</p>

[moafnsteel]

<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>The players handbook says no.</div></blockquote><p> </p><p> Actually the player's handbook 'Angles and Workers Skill Changes' says that they have to be on screen and the angle has to be longer than 3 minutes. </p><p> </p><p> It goes on to say that Microphone, Charisma, and Acting are eligible to improve even if the worker is not rated on them.</p>

[dpoolez]

<p>Does anybody know how random the chemistry stat is?</p><p> </p><p>

Is it 100% random or do some combos of styles produce a greater chance of good chemistry than others?</p>

[James Casey]

<p>Totally random, although I'm curious how often Greg and Matt Gauge/Keith get positive tag chemistry in people's games.</p><p> </p><p>

There are 4 preset chemistries in the default database, so those aren't random, of course!</p>

[BrokenCycle]

If you're on a bigger network, do your workers gain more popularity?

[K-Nection]

What causes importance of a region to rise or fall? I can't seem to grasp it. (FYI I'm not talking about company performance.)

[BKL1976]

<p>Potential vs. Ratings</p><p> </p><p>

If I am editing / creating a worker, can someone explain how Potential influences the workers actual ratings? When creating a worker you have to set both. So, if you wanted to create an All-Star, would you set the skill ratings high and potential high as well? Or would you set ratings as average, but potential Excellent, so he could exceed the set ratings? </p><p> </p><p>

Guess I'm trying to figure out if the ratings you enter are current ratings, future ratings, and what does potential do to those ratings? What should you do if you want to create a high quality worker?</p>

[Derek B]

<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>If you're on a bigger network, do your workers gain more popularity?</div></blockquote><p> </p><p> Yes. Having a higher level of coverage in an area will speed up popularity changes. Your default level of coverage for an event in whatever area you are in also depends on your size... I forget the exact levels now but I think it starts with Local being the smallest and scales up by one level for each size up to National, so your effective local coverage can be higher than the actual level of your TV deal for example. For this reason, even though it can be less profitable to run a show in an area that you have less company popularity in, it can make more sense to run the show there in order to get faster growth for both your company and your workers. <img alt=":)" data-src="//content.invisioncic.com/g322608/emoticons/smile.png.142cfa0a1cd2925c0463c1d00f499df2.png" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png"></p><p> </p><p> </p><blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="K-Nection" data-cite="K-Nection" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="41194" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>What causes importance of a region to rise or fall? I can't seem to grasp it. (FYI I'm not talking about company performance.)</div></blockquote><p> </p><p> It's entirely random.</p><p> </p><p> </p><blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="BKL1976" data-cite="BKL1976" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="41194" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>If I am editing / creating a worker, can someone explain how Potential influences the workers actual ratings? When creating a worker you have to set both. So, if you wanted to create an All-Star, would you set the skill ratings high and potential high as well? Or would you set ratings as average, but potential Excellent, so he could exceed the set ratings? <p> </p><p> Guess I'm trying to figure out if the ratings you enter are current ratings, future ratings, and what does potential do to those ratings? What should you do if you want to create a high quality worker?</p></div></blockquote><p> </p><p> Potential tends to give a worker higher stat caps, so the higher you set this the better they could become at their peak levels. Their actual stats don't have much of an effect on this, though a worker's cap can never be below their starting level so setting stats to be high to begin with will effectively guarantee an even higher cap.</p><p> </p><p> Ultimately, setting someone to have great potential will ensure that they have the ability to become great. You won't be able to guarantee what stats they will be great in though, that's down to chance. <img alt=":)" data-src="//content.invisioncic.com/g322608/emoticons/smile.png.142cfa0a1cd2925c0463c1d00f499df2.png" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png"></p>

[Rawisericho]

Hi all, I mostly like to play real world historical mods in TEW. My question is this: What would be the best way to run an 80s WWF style promotion? Hardly any ppvs, tv shows without top stars and most of the money made from house shows. How would I do that?

[DarK_RaideR]

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="dpoolez" data-cite="dpoolez" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="41194" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>Does anybody know how random the chemistry stat is?<p> </p><p> Is it 100% random or do some combos of styles produce a greater chance of good chemistry than others?</p></div></blockquote><p> Might be just me, but I've found out that workers who randomly form a friendship between them on their own, more often than not turn out to have good chemistry either as opponents or tag team partners.</p>

[James Casey]

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="Rawisericho" data-cite="Rawisericho" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="41194" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>Hi all, I mostly like to play real world historical mods in TEW. My question is this: What would be the best way to run an 80s WWF style promotion? Hardly any ppvs, tv shows without top stars and most of the money made from house shows. How would I do that?</div></blockquote><p> </p><p> WrestleMania began in '85</p><p> Survivor Series in '87</p><p> SummerSlam in '88</p><p> Royal Rumble (as a PPV) began in '89, although it was a TV special the year before</p><p> </p><p> So, depending on where you begin you have 0-4 PPVs to work around. The company used Saturday Night's Main Event as a setup for WrestleMania (Hogan/Andre in 1988, Megapowers in 1989) most famously, but also as a blow-off for feuds.</p><p> </p><p> Mid-80s WWF was a largely National company, at best - it wasn't until 1989 or so that they got any sort of exposure in the UK/Europe. You can get by with booking A shows of short squash matches capped with a decent main event and never have to worry about losing popularity.</p><p> </p><p> You'd be fine to book around the Big Four PPVs with maybe an SNME midway between each show to help build towards those shows. Use video angles, interviews, tag matches and beatdowns to promote feuds, but bear in mind you have 3 months between the <span style="text-decoration:underline;">big</span> shows, so you don't need to have a feud for every worker running from day 1 - feed them in slowly, but try and keep momentum up for workers you want to be feuding. Lots of squashing the local talent in dominant performances.</p><p> </p><p> Oh, and spam Hogan. I may not ever have been a fan, but Hogan in WWF in mid 80s was ridiculous; Everything he touched turned to gold, as far as fans were concerned.</p>

[Rawisericho]

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="James Casey" data-cite="James Casey" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="41194" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>WrestleMania began in '85<p> Survivor Series in '87</p><p> SummerSlam in '88</p><p> Royal Rumble (as a PPV) began in '89, although it was a TV special the year before</p><p> </p><p> So, depending on where you begin you have 0-4 PPVs to work around. The company used Saturday Night's Main Event as a setup for WrestleMania (Hogan/Andre in 1988, Megapowers in 1989) most famously, but also as a blow-off for feuds.</p><p> </p><p> Mid-80s WWF was a largely National company, at best - it wasn't until 1989 or so that they got any sort of exposure in the UK/Europe. You can get by with booking A shows of short squash matches capped with a decent main event and never have to worry about losing popularity.</p><p> </p><p> You'd be fine to book around the Big Four PPVs with maybe an SNME midway between each show to help build towards those shows. Use video angles, interviews, tag matches and beatdowns to promote feuds, but bear in mind you have 3 months between the <span style="text-decoration:underline;">big</span> shows, so you don't need to have a feud for every worker running from day 1 - feed them in slowly, but try and keep momentum up for workers you want to be feuding. Lots of squashing the local talent in dominant performances.</p><p> </p><p> Oh, and spam Hogan. I may not ever have been a fan, but Hogan in WWF in mid 80s was ridiculous; Everything he touched turned to gold, as far as fans were concerned.</p></div></blockquote><p> </p><p> Thank you, that does help.</p><p> </p><p> But with the spamming Hogan stuff. As far as I remember, Hogan almost never wrestled on Prime Time Wrestling. Would using video packages/interviews be the best use? Or would it even be better to use a Japanese style touring setup to simulate the whole "syndicated shows showing our house shows" style that they had back then?</p><p> </p><p> One of the things I would LOVE for the next TEW would be a way to truly do different eras of wrestling, more in depth than what we have now. As TEW is mostly set up as a prime time cable like simulator.</p>

[atomzero]

What is the benefit of having a TV Show over just televising your events? I'm running Golden Canvas right now, and I have a PPV contract with a PPV broadcaster, then a televised event contract and a TV show contract with the same Commercial broadcaster. The TV Show draws half the gate, hardly breaks even on money, and has limits on time. The events make me as much ticket money as a PPV, and are still televised, so why would I want to have TV Show instead of or in addition to weekly televised events?

[hassnain123]

how to get wrestlers morale up from angry or annoyed

[atomzero]

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="hassnain123" data-cite="hassnain123" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="41194" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>how to get wrestlers morale up from angry or annoyed</div></blockquote><p> </p><p> It will happen with time, but you can also book them to win big matches, or praise them in post-show speeches. The simplest solution though, is to just give them a bonus, if you can spare the cash.</p>

[James Casey]

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="Rawisericho" data-cite="Rawisericho" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="41194" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>But with the spamming Hogan stuff. As far as I remember, Hogan almost never wrestled on Prime Time Wrestling. Would using video packages/interviews be the best use? Or would it even be better to use a Japanese style touring setup to simulate the whole "syndicated shows showing our house shows" style that they had back then?</div></blockquote><p> </p><p> Hogan is love, Hogan is life, Hogan is ratings <img alt=":D" data-src="//content.invisioncic.com/g322608/emoticons/biggrin.png.929299b4c121f473b0026f3d6e74d189.png" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /></p><p> </p><p> He'll expect to be used, and used often. You don't have to have him main eventing every show, or even wrestling on them, but posing and rescues and Body Shops and "You know something, Mean Gene" will keep him busy.</p><p> </p><p> As you say, it's not a perfect simulation; The WWF back then would tape two or three shows in a row, so Hogan might appear once in the evening to pop the crowd, and the rest of his appearances <em>on TV</em> would be highlight videos, backstage interviews and the like. You can't really simulate that nowadays - and never mind that the WWF/WCW at that time had half a dozen shows a piece, all recapping different matches taking places at different times, so the actual level of original content was pretty slim...</p><p> </p><p> </p><blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="atomzero" data-cite="atomzero" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="41194" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>It will happen with time, but you can also book them to win big matches, or praise them in post-show speeches. The simplest solution though, is to just give them a bonus, if you can spare the cash.</div></blockquote><p> </p><p> You can also hire workers who your upset worker likes/is related to, but a note on that - Giving a one night deal to a worker's friend doesn't seem to affect their morale.</p>

[Terra Ryzin]

question, would a touring contract stop someone from opening a promotion? I could see a written, but I'm not sure a touring would be the same, but maybe, maybe even open contracts stop people.. do they? I ask because TAKA Michonoku is on a..

 

Actually, he's not on a contract at all, and still hasn't opened the Kaientai Dojo promotion, is it possibly because Japan has 11 Promotions? I think I seen on here earlier at some point that promotions sometimes won't open because their are others who already fit their niche' or .. something of that nature.. Anyway, the ones in my game are.. 2 Cult, 7 Regional, and 2 National

 

No one knows anything of this? I haven't played any further since I became super interested in modding my game with a ton of promotions, wrestlers and titles and so on..

 

Or maybe this is an unusual circumstance? As Michinoku is also a freelancer, if that effects anything..

[James Casey]

To the best of my knowledge, only a written contract (or possibly ExPPA) will prevent a pre-set owner setting up their fed (http://greydogsoftware.com/forum/showpost.php?p=789920&postcount=51). A touring or PPA contract shouldn't affect things, nor Michinoku being a freelancer - if he's a mandatory owner, the game will plug him in.

 

However, it has to be the right time. Japan needs to have the economy and business environment to accommodate another company of that size, and also you should check if there's a hard limit on when the company can be open - if you're in 1997 and the company is preset to open in 1998, then that's it.

 

Otherwise, it's just a matter of patience. Even if all the requirements are there, there's no guarantee TAKA will open the fed as soon as possible.