Small Questions Thread & "Living FAQ"

[Gungner]

I'm 90% certain he benefits from everyone else in the angle.

[LlamaSquad]

Is it possible (or feasible) to hit Cult+ in Australia with such low regional importance?

[John Lions]

I just finished year 9 in Australia with my 0/0/0/0 company, and (admittedly I've been taking it slow for realism's sake/really bad industry turns) I should be gearing up towards a run at cult with no issues. RAW is has been sitting at National for a while, they just slightly dipped under but I can't blame them because the industry has been E or below for almost 2 years before just now pulling up. From an AI perspective, I don't see RAW making the moves to go beyond National (due to them being owned by their network) but a user could probably get to that high cult/low national and begin to expand internationally from there. Beyond National I could see being very tough, but it's definitely possible if the right conditions are there.

[LlamaSquad]

Thanks! I'm running it in CV77, trying to keep a long-term save for once.

[James Casey]

<p>Obviously a 100 rated match is deliberately difficult to get. However, is it necessary to have <em>no</em> negative scores on the dirt sheet in order to get it?</p><p> </p><p>

I just ran a main event that got a 98 and the dirt sheet had something like 20 positive notes, and a single negative about low storyline heat.</p><p> </p><p>

Everyone involved in the storyline is a main eventer. I turn out A/A* segments and A-rated matches regularly to advance it, the heat is always A/A*... but does it need to be at 100 to get a 100 match?</p>

[Teh_Showtime]

<p>Not at all, I’m positive I even gotten it on tv with multiple people holding back (iirc it was a tag)</p><p> </p><p>

Four great gimmicks/momentum would likely overpower any potential negatives</p>

[Jaysin]

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="CharlieRock" data-cite="CharlieRock" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="41194" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>So as a worker does angles with those who have higher x skills (x = microphone, acting, etc.) their own x skill goes up at a higher rate. <p> </p><p> Does this include their managers? Like, if I pair a worker with minimal mic skills with a manager who has great mic skills will the first one's go up the more I use him or do I need to still add both the active wrestler and their manager to get that benefit?</p></div></blockquote><p> </p><p> Manager has to be in the Angle with the worker rated on mic skills for his client to get any skill gains for mic skills.</p>

[Derek B]

<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>Obviously a 100 rated match is deliberately difficult to get. However, is it necessary to have <em>no</em> negative scores on the dirt sheet in order to get it?<p> </p><p> I just ran a main event that got a 98 and the dirt sheet had something like 20 positive notes, and a single negative about low storyline heat.</p><p> </p><p> Everyone involved in the storyline is a main eventer. I turn out A/A* segments and A-rated matches regularly to advance it, the heat is always A/A*... but does it need to be at 100 to get a 100 match?</p></div></blockquote><p> </p><p> You can definitely achieve a 100 rated match with negatives in the dirt sheet. It's a bit random on how likely you are to get it.... even with everything seemingly lining up to make things perfect you can still get a crowd that isn't quite into what the workers are doing, no matter how good they are... sometimes the minors are so minor that they can be overlooked, sometimes they are just enough to take away from the perfect 100... </p><p> </p><p> But as long as you are doing all the right things, you will get one eventually... my BHOTWG save has gone crazy with 100 rated matfches... between having great in ring workers (top row and perforance), star qulaity, charisma, an amazing announce team with experience, amazing momentum, great refs, perfect road agents and insanely popular guys I'm up to almost 40 of them in two and a half years... most of them are in the last year too, which was when I got Sosa Mori from PGHW to round out the announce team.</p><p> </p><p> When you have everything going your way it gets easier to get those elite level grades. You just gotta do what you can to minimise the negatives and maximise the positives. <img alt=":)" data-src="//content.invisioncic.com/g322608/emoticons/smile.png.142cfa0a1cd2925c0463c1d00f499df2.png" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /></p>

[d12345]

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="Derek B" data-cite="Derek B" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="41194" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>You can definitely achieve a 100 rated match with negatives in the dirt sheet. It's a bit random on how likely you are to get it.... even with everything seemingly lining up to make things perfect you can still get a crowd that isn't quite into what the workers are doing, no matter how good they are... sometimes the minors are so minor that they can be overlooked, sometimes they are just enough to take away from the perfect 100... <p> </p><p> But as long as you are doing all the right things, you will get one eventually... my BHOTWG save has gone crazy with 100 rated matfches... between having great in ring workers (top row and perforance), star qulaity, charisma, an amazing announce team with experience, amazing momentum, great refs, perfect road agents and insanely popular guys I'm up to almost 40 of them in two and a half years... most of them are in the last year too, which was when I got Sosa Mori from PGHW to round out the announce team.</p><p> </p><p> When you have everything going your way it gets easier to get those elite level grades. You just gotta do what you can to minimise the negatives and maximise the positives. <img alt=":)" data-src="//content.invisioncic.com/g322608/emoticons/smile.png.142cfa0a1cd2925c0463c1d00f499df2.png" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /></p></div></blockquote><p> </p><p> I feel like all of my 95-99 rated matches get dinged because of my completely average announce team. </p><p> </p><p> Are your 100 rated matches regular match aims? What's your key products?</p>

[Derek B]

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="d12345" data-cite="d12345" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="41194" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>I feel like all of my 95-99 rated matches get dinged because of my completely average announce team. <p> </p><p> Are your 100 rated matches regular match aims? What's your key products?</p></div></blockquote><p> </p><p> I can't remember if I edited the product or not, but it's currently....</p><p> </p><p> KEY FEATURE: Realism</p><p> MEDIUM: Traditional, Mainstream, Modern, Pure</p><p> </p><p> Everything else is low or lower... and the match ratio is 90% to allow me to do some story telling with angles and the like. It's rated much more on performance as a result too, so my legendary in-ring performers are always going to do well. KC Glenn has 7 100 rated matches in the first half of 2018 alone. <img alt=":eek:" data-src="//content.invisioncic.com/g322608/emoticons/eek.png.0e09df00fa222c85760b9bc1700b5405.png" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /> And yeah pretty much all regular matches... since I know he can deliver the goods they are pretty much all at least 20 minutes and called in ring too with a slow build.</p><p> </p><p> The announce team is the hard part... before I got Sosa Mori from PGHW I was regularly just short of the 100 mark, I think I only had 1 of them before him... but my big matches were very close to perfect. Upgrade the announce team if you can, the staff play a big part in making those last few points towards perfection. <img alt=":)" data-src="//content.invisioncic.com/g322608/emoticons/smile.png.142cfa0a1cd2925c0463c1d00f499df2.png" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /></p>

[Remianen]

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="Jaysin" data-cite="Jaysin" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="41194" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>Manager has to be in the Angle with the worker rated on mic skills for his client to get any skill gains for mic skills.</div></blockquote><p> </p><p> Not exactly. The primary (whether manager or not) can be rated on Entertainment and the worker will have a chance to improve in any of the three Entertainment skills. My go-to angles are rated primarily on Entertainment for that very reason.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> Here's my question. How do you stop your alliance partners from taking titles off of more over/popular and capable workers? As a human booker, I couldn't have someone with 95 popularity take a loss to someone with 58 popularity, no matter what notes I added to the match (loan worker creative control would block it) so I'm baffled as how the AI can do it. Part of the problem is that I'm much larger than my alliance partners so I can see how it might be difficult to get the alliance titles away from my workers but still!</p><p> </p><p> Also, do announcers gain experience from angles? I've had several angles get dinged because of the announcers so I've started removing the announce team from the angle prior to booking it. I'm wondering if by doing so, I'm missing out on possible gains in announce team experience.</p>

[Jaysin]

<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>Not exactly. The primary (whether manager or not) can be rated on Entertainment and the worker will have a chance to improve in any of the three Entertainment skills. My go-to angles are rated primarily on Entertainment for that very reason.<p> </p></div></blockquote><p> </p><p> Entertainment works too for mic skills, yes, but I was just saying that the manager has to be in the angle itself and rated on whatever the skill the user is trying to improve. Mic skills were mentioned specifically, so I used it in my example. </p><p> </p><p> I use a lot of interview segments, so the interviewer is generally rated on mic skills alone. </p><p> </p><p> The only managers I have currently with decent enough Entertainment skills are Eric Tyler and Floyd Goldworthy, so I use a lot of mic skills rated angles for my other managers.</p>

[JamHead]

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="Jaysin" data-cite="Jaysin" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="41194" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>Entertainment works too for mic skills, yes, but I was just saying that the manager has to be in the angle itself and rated on whatever the skill the user is trying to improve. Mic skills were mentioned specifically, so I used it in my example. <p> </p><p> I use a lot of interview segments, so the interviewer is generally rated on mic skills alone. </p><p> </p><p> The only managers I have currently with decent enough Entertainment skills are Eric Tyler and Floyd Goldworthy, so I use a lot of mic skills rated angles for my other managers.</p></div></blockquote><p> </p><p> Does this work for all skills? Ok, I doubt menace, but if I put Lesnar in "squash matches" that are just angles with someone who has a high selling rating will that raise Lesnar's selling when I'm rating him in the angle on menace?</p>

[Jaysin]

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="JamHead" data-cite="JamHead" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="41194" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>Does this work for all skills? Ok, I doubt menace, but if I put Lesnar in "squash matches" that are just angles with someone who has a high selling rating will that raise Lesnar's selling when I'm rating him in the angle on menace?</div></blockquote><p> </p><p> Selling is a physical stat, so it needs to be a match to improve it.</p><p> </p><p> Instead of angles for squashes, make sure his push is lower midcard or above and have 5-6 minute matches where he is the decisive winner against an enhancement talent. This gets you the well executed squash note and can score pretty dang high compared to their actual stats/overness.</p>

[d12345]

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="Derek B" data-cite="Derek B" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="41194" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>I can't remember if I edited the product or not, but it's currently....<p> </p><p> KEY FEATURE: Realism</p><p> MEDIUM: Traditional, Mainstream, Modern, Pure</p><p> </p><p> Everything else is low or lower... and the match ratio is 90% to allow me to do some story telling with angles and the like. It's rated much more on performance as a result too, so my legendary in-ring performers are always going to do well. KC Glenn has 7 100 rated matches in the first half of 2018 alone. <img alt=":eek:" data-src="//content.invisioncic.com/g322608/emoticons/eek.png.0e09df00fa222c85760b9bc1700b5405.png" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /> And yeah pretty much all regular matches... since I know he can deliver the goods they are pretty much all at least 20 minutes and called in ring too with a slow build.</p><p> </p><p> The announce team is the hard part... before I got Sosa Mori from PGHW I was regularly just short of the 100 mark, I think I only had 1 of them before him... but my big matches were very close to perfect. Upgrade the announce team if you can, the staff play a big part in making those last few points towards perfection. <img alt=":)" data-src="//content.invisioncic.com/g322608/emoticons/smile.png.142cfa0a1cd2925c0463c1d00f499df2.png" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /></p></div></blockquote><p> </p><p> Got it. When you say Morri is excellent what are you basing that on? Chemistry with the other Announcer, his charisma, or simply on his Colour skill rating?</p><p> </p><p> I've got Adrian Garcia at an 83 Colour skill paired with Davis Ditterich 74 Announcing skill, and Ana Garcia (72 Colour) in the booth. Do those numbers seem too low to call 5* matches to you?</p>

[Derek B]

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="d12345" data-cite="d12345" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="41194" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>Got it. When you say Morri is excellent what are you basing that on? Chemistry with the other Announcer, his charisma, or simply on his Colour skill rating?<p> </p><p> I've got Adrian Garcia at an 83 Colour skill paired with Davis Ditterich 74 Announcing skill, and Ana Garcia (72 Colour) in the booth. Do those numbers seem too low to call 5* matches to you?</p></div></blockquote><p> </p><p> After a couple of years in-game, my announce team looks as follows...</p><p> </p><p> Mitsuhide Muro: 91 announcing, 54 colour</p><p> Toru Minamoto: 83 announcing, 80 colour</p><p> Sosa Morri: 0 announing, 95 colour</p><p> </p><p> They all have excellent experience announcing together too, so that boosts them up a bit above their already excellent skills. <img alt=":)" data-src="//content.invisioncic.com/g322608/emoticons/smile.png.142cfa0a1cd2925c0463c1d00f499df2.png" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /> I only had one match rated at 100 before Morri replaced whoever I had there before... the other guy was about 78 for colour I think... so I'd say you team is definitely letting you down a little and probably knocking a point or two off your elite level matches. Garcia is probably good enough in his role, but if possible I'd try to replace Ana with another announcer and hope that they can develop to be better than Davis. No guarantees on that working, but as long as you can keep your experience level up between the team then you still have a very good team, just not an elite one yet. <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> For the record, my referees are at 98 and 100 too... if you can find someone as good as that then you will get that little bit closer. <img alt=":)" data-src="//content.invisioncic.com/g322608/emoticons/smile.png.142cfa0a1cd2925c0463c1d00f499df2.png" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /></p>

[James Casey]

<p>Too low, I think. Announcing skills need to be within 10 (8? 6?) of the match rating (if that's higher) to avoid a penalty.</p><p> </p><p>

I have Jim Ross (A* Announcing) and Paul E. Dangerously (A Colour) and I've still occasionally noticed the penalty coming up.</p><p> </p><p>

The bigger the disparity, the greater the penalty you'll suffer. With Announcing <em>and</em> Colour being low, those penalties will stack.</p>

[d12345]

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="Derek B" data-cite="Derek B" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="41194" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>After a couple of years in-game, my announce team looks as follows...<p> </p><p> Mitsuhide Muro: 91 announcing, 54 colour</p><p> Toru Minamoto: 83 announcing, 80 colour</p><p> Sosa Morri: 0 announing, 95 colour</p><p> </p><p> They all have excellent experience announcing together too, so that boosts them up a bit above their already excellent skills. <img alt=":)" data-src="//content.invisioncic.com/g322608/emoticons/smile.png.142cfa0a1cd2925c0463c1d00f499df2.png" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /> I only had one match rated at 100 before Morri replaced whoever I had there before... the other guy was about 78 for colour I think... so I'd say you team is definitely letting you down a little and probably knocking a point or two off your elite level matches. Garcia is probably good enough in his role, but if possible I'd try to replace Ana with another announcer and hope that they can develop to be better than Davis. No guarantees on that working, but as long as you can keep your experience level up between the team then you still have a very good team, just not an elite one yet. <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> For the record, my referees are at 98 and 100 too... if you can find someone as good as that then you will get that little bit closer. <img alt=":)" data-src="//content.invisioncic.com/g322608/emoticons/smile.png.142cfa0a1cd2925c0463c1d00f499df2.png" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /></p></div></blockquote><p> </p><p> </p><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>Too low, I think. Announcing skills need to be within 10 (8? 6?) of the match rating (if that's higher) to avoid a penalty.<p> </p><p> I have Jim Ross (A* Announcing) and Paul E. Dangerously (A Colour) and I've still occasionally noticed the penalty coming up.</p><p> </p><p> The bigger the disparity, the greater the penalty you'll suffer. With Announcing <em>and</em> Colour being low, those penalties will stack.</p></div></blockquote><p> </p><p> That's a big help. The C-Verse USA is a little bit void of elite level announcers if you're not playing USPW or SWF. I had Peter Michaels in Year 1 and 2 but USPW stole him from me. </p><p> </p><p> I've got to search for the NBT of the announcer/colour world.</p>

[James Casey]

<p>I just checked the Player's Handbook and it says that: </p><p> </p><p> </p><blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="41194" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>An announcer whose Announcing and Colour Commentary skills are more than 20% below the segment's rating will cause a small penalty.</div></blockquote><p> </p><p> So, assuming that 'and' should be an 'or', there's actually more leeway than I thought. Given that, I'm wondering why I've been penalised on high scoring main events - possibly a personality issue? Or possibly I'm misremembering.</p>

[MightyDavidson]

So when a wrestler is looking extremely stale, is that time for a new gimmick or time for a turn?

[Gungner]

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="MightyDavidson" data-cite="MightyDavidson" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="41194" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>So when a wrestler is looking extremely stale, is that time for a new gimmick or time for a turn?</div></blockquote><p> </p><p> Either one can do. Or you can try tweaking the gimmick.</p>

[MightyDavidson]

Either one can do. Or you can try tweaking the gimmick.

 

Thanks for the info.

[Hazemore]

Without the game in front of me, it's probably to do with the "Must Cover Home" section. That means that they have to cover the region in which your company is based (like Tri-State, USA for example) otherwise they won't negotiate with you. I'm not sure what you mean by Product Quality though... do you mean the rating your show has to get once you already have a deal with them? Or do you mean the Production Values required to get on a network? Either way, those should be fairly clear... just put on shows above the target given for the first one, and keep your production values at or above the level the broadcaster requires.

 

 

 

Those individual worker chemistry notes are the things you get those radio interview stories about. Things like a worker enjoying working against bigger opponents? That's what those notes are. Each worker only has one of those things apply, whether it be a bonus or a malus and it's randomly generated at the start of game every time. If you're lucky you can find a little guy who loves fighting people bigger than him... if you're unlucky you get a Giant who hates fighting anyone smaller than him. Finding out little bits of info like this can help you squeeze a couple of extra points from some workers so it's handy, but pretty minor.

 

i meant product quality in the merchandise section, and what is the best production system? also in cverse if you want coverage everywhere you have to go with reverie, which is subscription, so for ppv's should i use that or get more money by using ppv deals just only in america, canada?

[sdaubs]

<p>So two questions for everyone here</p><p> </p><p>

1) I bought out TCW as SWF and thought that I raided the entire company, but their dojo is out there independent of anyone. Now it is entirely possible that I missed a checkbox or something and didn't buy it when I had the chance. Is there a way to modify the DB of a running game to have SWF own that dojo?</p><p> </p><p>

2) I have a pair of tag teams with excellent chemistry as partners. The individuals within the teams have chemistry against each as opponents. That is Team 1 Person A & B have chemistry as a team and have positive chemistries against Team B Person A & B. I haven't seen it in the dirt sheet but are both bonuses applied in a tag match with those two teams?</p>

[Jaysin]

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="sdaubs" data-cite="sdaubs" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="41194" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>So two questions for everyone here<p> </p><p> 1) I bought out TCW as SWF and thought that I raided the entire company, but their dojo is out there independent of anyone. Now it is entirely possible that I missed a checkbox or something and didn't buy it when I had the chance. Is there a way to modify the DB of a running game to have SWF own that dojo?</p><p> </p><p> 2) I have a pair of tag teams with excellent chemistry as partners. The individuals within the teams have chemistry against each as opponents. That is Team 1 Person A & B have chemistry as a team and have positive chemistries against Team B Person A & B. I haven't seen it in the dirt sheet but are both bonuses applied in a tag match with those two teams?</p></div></blockquote><p> </p><p> 1. No</p><p> </p><p> 2. Only tag chemistry is used in tag matches.</p>