Small Questions Thread & "Living FAQ"

[Danny_H22]

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="thadian" data-cite="thadian" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="41194" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>Usually you can change a few traits in the Owner to fix this. Usually it's a lack of being open to pacts. You might also want to ensure your alliance can still hold more members. And, you can use stars from these companies even without an alliance - what an alliance does for you is it lets these companies form pacts with ECW/DAVE, and lend your top row of workers to them to get injured for a year at a time. It isn't like this happens all the time, but it's something to be wary of. I've never seen a child company borrow another child company's stars except for alliance title matches.</div></blockquote><p> </p><p> The alliance has no limit for members. I know they can book my wrestlers but I assume only my lower stars who will be willing to show up on such shows</p>

[Danny_H22]

Usually you can change a few traits in the Owner to fix this. Usually it's a lack of being open to pacts. You might also want to ensure your alliance can still hold more members. And, you can use stars from these companies even without an alliance - what an alliance does for you is it lets these companies form pacts with ECW/DAVE, and lend your top row of workers to them to get injured for a year at a time. It isn't like this happens all the time, but it's something to be wary of. I've never seen a child company borrow another child company's stars except for alliance title matches.

 

And it’s the stars that they’ve singed to fill out the roster that I want to use. I can only use the stars I’ve signed and sent there.

 

The backstory is that my 1999 WWF roster lacks good females and I want to relaunch the women’s division. Small the good workers are in Japan

[sdaubs]

So I was playing last night and I was trying to Meddle in a positive way 2 wrestlers in my locker room. In doing so, I realized that I've never intentionally tried to make a negative relationship. So my question is does anyone here try to make negative relationships between people on your roster and if so, what is the benefit or is it just for role playing? I can't see the benefit of intentionally making Wrestler A and B dislike each other when I pay them to entertain the audience.

[CQI13]

The alliance has no limit for members. I know they can book my wrestlers but I assume only my lower stars who will be willing to show up on such shows

 

Who's the owner? The owner of the child company may be against the alliance.

[Alucidus]

So I was playing last night and I was trying to Meddle in a positive way 2 wrestlers in my locker room. In doing so, I realized that I've never intentionally tried to make a negative relationship. So my question is does anyone here try to make negative relationships between people on your roster and if so, what is the benefit or is it just for role playing? I can't see the benefit of intentionally making Wrestler A and B dislike each other when I pay them to entertain the audience.

 

Reasons I can think of to do this.

1) Potentially split up a clique (I don't know if this actually works)

2) Goad two workers you don't like into fighting each other so you have an excuse to fire one of them.

3) Given how infrequently that command works, do it in hopes you mess up and they become friends (i also don't know if this actually works)

[Guest]

What do those politic news headlines actually do? Playing as TCW and had a headline saying Jay Chord is using his backstage politics to get ahead.

[Blake Trask]

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="rocco100rounds" data-cite="rocco100rounds" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="41194" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>What do those politic news headlines actually do? Playing as TCW and had a headline saying Jay Chord is using his backstage politics to get ahead.</div></blockquote><p> </p><p> It's something that pops up now and then as a flavour thing with certain kinds of negative personalities (usually very manipulative ones).</p><p> </p><p> Doesn't have an effect that I'm aware of.</p>

[Jon The GOAT]

How do you guys deal with wrestlers that want to work without scripts? Do you book them alone to avoid hurting segments? Take the risk? Let everyone else work without scripts? Piss them off?

[shawn michaels]

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="Jon The GOAT" data-cite="Jon The GOAT" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="41194" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>How do you guys deal with wrestlers that want to work without scripts? Do you book them alone to avoid hurting segments? Take the risk? Let everyone else work without scripts? Piss them off?</div></blockquote><p> </p><p> Case by case basis, actually. Depends of the worker and the situation. You can't always disagree with them, but you can't always say yes to everything. When I see that a wrestler (ME level) will drag down my segments by improvising and still wants to do it every time, I tend to isolate them until I can remove their creative control and overrun them. If they don't have CC I will do what's best for the segments. Even though sometimes I will agree with their requests to manage their satisfaction levels. Like I said, case by case basis.</p>

[justtxyank]

Anyone know what goes into a worker being willing to do a weight change?

[James Casey]

If a worker is loyal to a company (not in Japan), will they always put that company first when considering their bookings? I want to bring in a worker emplyed by a larger company but who has a pre-set loyalty to my company. Will they work my shows over those of their other employer because they're loyal to my company?

[Adam Ryland]

If a worker is loyal to a company (not in Japan), will they always put that company first when considering their bookings? I want to bring in a worker emplyed by a larger company but who has a pre-set loyalty to my company. Will they work my shows over those of their other employer because they're loyal to my company?

 

No, I don't think so. I think it's just people in a position of power who can override the natural order of the biggest promotions picking first.

[justtxyank]

If a worker is loyal to a company (not in Japan), will they always put that company first when considering their bookings? I want to bring in a worker emplyed by a larger company but who has a pre-set loyalty to my company. Will they work my shows over those of their other employer because they're loyal to my company?

 

From experience: Loyalty has nothing to do with show availability.

 

I'm pretty sure the bigger company has priority.

[Cyclops]

I'm playing as a booker and want to change the day my tv show is taped, however the owner doesn't want to change it.

 

Is there anyway to override the owner, or adjust the days? Is my only option to clone the show then get a new deal?

[dude-1981]

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="Cyclops" data-cite="Cyclops" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="41194" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>I'm playing as a booker and want to change the day my tv show is taped, however the owner doesn't want to change it.<p> </p><p> Is there anyway to override the owner, or adjust the days? Is my only option to clone the show then get a new deal?</p></div></blockquote><p> </p><p> It doesn't seem realistic for a booker to be able to override the owner on something like this.</p><p> </p><p> OK, guys, maybe I am slow on the uptake but my question is this. </p><p> </p><p> So storylines are pretty important right? (in pop over perf)</p><p> </p><p> I hadn't had an A* match all year, I walk into my biggest show and my headline has an A* rated story and boom, it gets an A* match rating. I must admit I hadn't been paying much attention to what the heat rating was before now, I hadn't twigged it was that big a deal.</p><p> </p><p> Is that right?</p>

[sdaubs]

<p>Has anyone gotten a good match rating in SWF (pop over perf) using the ref bump booker note? </p><p> </p><p>

I want to use it to extend a feud with 2 ME of a title but every time I've used it before the match rating was a lower quality than if I just used a tainted victory or something similar. On the other hand, I've never used it for the ME, only mid and lower mid-carders. </p><p> </p><p>

Has anyone tried and gotten good ratings with it? And if so, did you do anything to set that up like other booking notes or calming of the crowd, etc.</p>

[Ben_Ditch05]

Are there any personality traits that make someone more likely to reject a weight change request, or is it just random?

[Guest]

It doesn't seem realistic for a booker to be able to override the owner on something like this.

 

OK, guys, maybe I am slow on the uptake but my question is this.

 

So storylines are pretty important right? (in pop over perf)

 

I hadn't had an A* match all year, I walk into my biggest show and my headline has an A* rated story and boom, it gets an A* match rating. I must admit I hadn't been paying much attention to what the heat rating was before now, I hadn't twigged it was that big a deal.

 

Is that right?

 

Yes, storylines are pretty important in pop > perf. Even in perf = pop or perf > pop. So long as you have momentum on and such.

 

Has anyone gotten a good match rating in SWF (pop over perf) using the ref bump booker note?

 

I want to use it to extend a feud with 2 ME of a title but every time I've used it before the match rating was a lower quality than if I just used a tainted victory or something similar. On the other hand, I've never used it for the ME, only mid and lower mid-carders.

 

Has anyone tried and gotten good ratings with it? And if so, did you do anything to set that up like other booking notes or calming of the crowd, etc.

 

Are you using any other road agent notes for the match? You could test this yourself by booking the event with the match, running the show, then exiting to the main menu after you've seen the grade for the match.

[thadian]

It's something that pops up now and then as a flavour thing with certain kinds of negative personalities (usually very manipulative ones).

 

Doesn't have an effect that I'm aware of.

 

I have seen some cases where the members of said clique will begin giving emails along the lines of "this guy is worth time!", and I've seen situations where if I make one job and he didn't want to and becomes annoyed, his buddies will also become annoyed. If you fire one, the others quit. I've never seen anything positive... like, if you give one a belt, the others don't become happy for it.

 

If you hire one, then you begin to slowly hire others, each one you've already hired will become more happy.

[thadian]

Why isn't there a hard cap on how often wrestlers can ask for raises or beg to be brought up from development?

It feels like the desire to "stop cheaters" is prioritized to a point where irritating the player is acceptable.

 

I dislike "annoy the player because someone might cheat" model. So what if someone cheats! There, I said it! I don't give a flippity flop if someone decides to edit all their contracts to 0, and signs a few overqualified guys as Dev Trainers. It just seems like the Anti-Cheating thing is infringing on normal players. Ugh.

[Guest]

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="thadian" data-cite="thadian" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="41194" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>Why isn't there a hard cap on how often wrestlers can ask for raises or beg to be brought up from development?<p> It feels like the desire to "stop cheaters" is prioritized to a point where irritating the player is acceptable.</p><p> </p><p> I dislike "annoy the player because someone might cheat" model. So what if someone cheats! There, I said it! I don't give a flippity flop if someone decides to edit all their contracts to 0, and signs a few overqualified guys as Dev Trainers. It just seems like the Anti-Cheating thing is infringing on normal players. Ugh.</p></div></blockquote><p> </p><p> Kinda off topic but there isn't really cheating in TEW! You play the game however you want to play it. I don't really see where the frustration is coming from <img alt=":p" data-src="//content.invisioncic.com/g322608/emoticons/tongue.png.ceb643b2956793497cef30b0e944be28.png" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /></p><p> </p><p> What are the pros and cons of running PPV calibre main event matches on free TV?</p>

[thadian]

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="rocco100rounds" data-cite="rocco100rounds" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="41194" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>Kinda off topic but there isn't really cheating in TEW! You play the game however you want to play it. I don't really see where the frustration is coming from <img alt=":p" data-src="//content.invisioncic.com/g322608/emoticons/tongue.png.ceb643b2956793497cef30b0e944be28.png" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /><p> </p><p> What are the pros and cons of running PPV calibre main event matches on free TV?</p></div></blockquote><p> </p><p> Then we should be able to turn off workers wanting to come up to main roster notifications and morale penalties, and turn off workers demanding raises every 2 weeks.</p><p> </p><p><strong> Pros:</strong></p><p> - Almost guarantee of 80-90 rated main event. This can win regional battles and contribute to the popularity of all involved. Even when losing, just participating in such a high caliber match tends to net popularity given the workers both have momentum. This is my biggest yes reason.</p><p> - You can discover chemistry and build feuds ahead of PPVs.</p><p> - If the workers can advance a few storylines and get momentum AND popularity, that's what I call a win-win. </p><p> - If you can incorporate multiple storylines into one big match with 80-90 rating, that's really good.</p><p> - If you decide to pop in a few talented midcarders as tag partners, you can get them over. Be careful not to let them get too much popularity ahead of their skill level or they will demand more money than they're worth.</p><p> </p><p> <strong>Cons:</strong></p><p> - You push the line on "that match" having happened too many times in the last 6 months, and if you do it too much, you might set up a situation where you don't have very many matches left to make between your top tier.</p><p> - You risk injury, which is never fun.</p><p> - The workers are less motivated so it's harder to get top performances.</p><p> </p><p> Overall, I prefer to book TV main events as triple threats, four ways, handicap 2 v 4... anything to avoid 1v1 or even 2v2 matches. I like to run as few of them as possible. I guess I've become a bit paranoid about the penalty. I also usually throw in some random off-hand upper midcarder either to take the fall or join the winning team to get some heat up.</p>

[d12345]

Anybody try taking a national company off of Monthly PPV events and instead going the subscription service route or even running the events only on commercial television?

 

Is there a significant financial penalty? Is it sustainable at that level (or even at mid-Cult level)?

[Blake Trask]

Funnily enough, the workers mentioning they want a callup mechanic was added because people didn't like it when you called up a worker who had been stewing silently about being in development and had enormous morale penalties.

 

Can't please everyone with this one, I guess.

[smw88]

Funnily enough, the workers mentioning they want a callup mechanic was added because people didn't like it when you called up a worker who had been stewing silently about being in development and had enormous morale penalties.

 

Can't please everyone with this one, I guess.

 

Personally I like the mechanic - however I do feel anyone with less than say 2 years pro career should never complain too much especially if under 20 years old. (unless successful in MMA/movies etc)