The Road to Glory Challenge

Scorpio3060 · October 30, 2016

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="Ram_Diablo" data-cite="Ram_Diablo" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="41290" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>I'm in the year 2031 and everything went surprisingly well. So my question here is what to do after you've completed the challenge. My fed is at Global and my UC has been the champion twice at this level. So now what? I'm thinking about leaving and having my UC start a local fed and then repeating the process with some young protege but that seems like an odd move for a 32 year old who is on top of the world so to speak. I'm out of competition. I have all the big stars. Too many even. This is easily the most successful run at the Road to Glory challenge I've ever had but because of that I'm now unsure of where to go or what to do so early in my career.</div></blockquote> You could keep the same save and create a new character to start the challenge to unseat your original character as the new top company. Just add a new player and leave the old one for the computer.

Mootinie · November 1, 2016

End Of Year 3

http://i1354.photobucket.com/albums/q685/RynWlsn/joyceheel.jpg

http://i1354.photobucket.com/albums/q685/RynWlsn/endofthirdyear.jpg

Modest improvements with performance stats seeing the biggest rise. But it's a year where my user character and my promotion haven't exactly made great strides. Wrestling dropped to F- in the United States and the economy suffered before rising to E+ by the end of the year. This is starting to become a slog, I expected to be at least Small by now but even that feels like another year away.

Company Stats - Project X Wrestling

Project X Prodigy Champion: Raphael (21 Defences)

Project X Tag Classic Winners: Jason Thunder & Lightning Lomas

Project X Interim Champion: Frankie Dee (unified with Project X Prodigy title after Raphael returned from injury)

Size: Local

Popularity: F in Tri State

Finances: $30,413

Best Match: Raphael defeated Frankie Dee at Project X: Return Of The King (B)

Project X Wrestlers In Power 500

Raphael (#193)

From #316 in the previous year! He's great, far and away carrying the match quality of my company. Now 21 defences into a two year reign and showing no signs of slowing down despite a two month lay off with a broken arm, Raphael has unfortunately let success get into his head...

Marc Speed (#268)

With Brendan Idol's departure, Marc Speed is now the firm number two in my company. After a three year heel run, he's starting to see the light and he has Raphael's title in his sights heading into 2008.

Frankie Dee (#282)

In a show of faith, we crowned Dee the Interim Champion when Raphael broke his arm. Unfortunately, Dee couldn't dethrone the King and slipped back down the card. That said, he didn't rank in the Power 500 last year so to go from Unranked to #282 is a superb achievement and is only testament to his improvements throughout the year.

Lightning Lomas (#328)

Lomas joined us at the start of the year and had a good one, losing only three of his fourteen matches. Despite winning our inaugural tag classic with Jason Thunder, he fell short contesting the big one against Raphael at Mistletoe Mayhem. Ranking #328 in your rookie year is honestly nothing to be scoffed at and I've been impressed with Lomas' consistent D+ match performances.

Jordan Joyce (#351)

My user character spent the year doing little of note, especially since top heels Raphael and Marc Speed eclipse him completely. I like his tag team with Geoff Borne though and I think Vicious & Delicious might be the favourites heading into this year's Tag Classic.

Geoff Borne (#357)

Despite strong performance stats, Geoff just can't quite figure out how to put that together with his in-ring skills. He gives me consistent D rated match performances but I have my doubts that he will ever rise up the card.

End of year roll: 40. “I SMASH!!” or “I’m In My 20s, On The Internet And I Enjoy The WWE” You can choose to add 20 points to your Brute Performance rating OR Weird Performance rating OR use a random number generator to score between 0 and 50, adding the number to either rating.

So I rolled 36 and I am adding that to my Brute Performance rating.

Ravo · November 11, 2016

Using a November RW mod, just started. Cheapest ref I can get wants £350 PPA, how the hell am I going to survive when my ref is on more than the workers I plan on getting? <img alt="" data-src="//content.invisioncic.com/g322608/emoticons/eek.png.0e09df00fa222c85760b9bc1700b5405.png" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" />

Edit: My owner left after a week and Jeff Jarrett has taken over... -.-

DarK_RaideR · November 11, 2016

This looks supremely interesting. Is there some deadline or participant cap that I missed or can I jump into it straight away?

nebradska · November 11, 2016

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="Ravo" data-cite="Ravo" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="41290" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>Using a November RW mod, just started. Cheapest ref I can get wants £350 PPA, how the hell am I going to survive when my ref is on more than the workers I plan on getting? <img alt=":eek:" data-src="//content.invisioncic.com/g322608/emoticons/eek.png.0e09df00fa222c85760b9bc1700b5405.png" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /> Edit: My owner left after a week and Jeff Jarrett has taken over... -.-</div></blockquote> If you're an extremely low pop local company, just have your workers fill in as refs and road agents.

lr10540 · November 13, 2016

This looks supremely interesting. Is there some deadline or participant cap that I missed or can I jump into it straight away?

Not at all. It's just another way to enjoy the game!

I think I'm going to do another of these with the Thunderverse this time around. Starting from the bottom should help ke to learn more about that world. I've imported all the SWF logos. Just gotta get everything set up and I'll be good to go!

havok · November 13, 2016

does anyone know what you have to be at to get 0.5 increase in popularity per show? i consistantly get only 0.3 of an increase per show and the industry is a b-. i just started my second go around with rtg and my last game i could also only get an increase of 0.3 per show. My shows are well above high enough. My first 4 shows are a D.

Does the industry have to be at an A to get the 0.5 increase per show because I can not get that increase no matter what.

WynterWarm12 · November 18, 2016

I thought this looked plenty fun and decided to join the challenge. Never thought I would love working from scratch . It's really fun building from the ground up and attempting to make my own stars from nobodies.

I do have a question though. Would it be more beneficial to do two shows a month or the first year, do once a month? I'm losing money regardless, but don't want to be fired because two shows a month was simply too much.

EDIT: Well damn, Vince McMahon died due to drugs in my save...

Holy crap.

Mootinie · November 19, 2016

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="WynterWarm12" data-cite="WynterWarm12" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="41290" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>I do have a question though. Would it be more beneficial to do two shows a month or the first year, do once a month? I'm losing money regardless, but don't want to be fired because two shows a month was simply too much.</div></blockquote> I'm in my fourth year and I still don't make enough money to run two shows a month. I would stick to one, it's the only way you'll stay in the black.

nebradska · November 19, 2016

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="Mootinie" data-cite="Mootinie" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="41290" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>I'm in my fourth year and I still don't make enough money to run two shows a month. I would stick to one, it's the only way you'll stay in the black.</div></blockquote> Strongly disagree. If the wrestling industry is strong enough to gain pop with each show, I run two shows a month as soon as I can do so without losing money. The faster growth to Small is extremely valuable and once you make it you're unlikely to be in danger of bankruptcy for the remainder of your game unless you are a terrible financial manager.

Ram_Diablo · November 19, 2016

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="Scorpio3060" data-cite="Scorpio3060" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="41290" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>You could keep the same save and create a new character to start the challenge to unseat your original character as the new top company. Just add a new player and leave the old one for the computer.</div></blockquote> This was actually a great idea so I went with it. Now I have a new guy using the same initial rules with my ultimate goal now being to get back to my original company and make it to the mainevent. No idea how long that will take but it's sure to be a fun journey.

moafnsteel · November 22, 2016

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="nebradska" data-cite="nebradska" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="41290" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>If you're an extremely low pop local company, just have your workers fill in as refs and road agents.</div></blockquote> Do you not get a penalty for having too many guest refs at local? Or is the penalty not likely to impact gaining pop at a local company, pending that you are putting on at least decent shows?

WynterWarm12 · November 25, 2016

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="Mootinie" data-cite="Mootinie" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="41290" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>I'm in my fourth year and I still don't make enough money to run two shows a month. I would stick to one, it's the only way you'll stay in the black.</div></blockquote> <blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="nebradska" data-cite="nebradska" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="41290" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>Strongly disagree. If the wrestling industry is strong enough to gain pop with each show, I run two shows a month as soon as I can do so without losing money. The faster growth to Small is extremely valuable and once you make it you're unlikely to be in danger of bankruptcy for the remainder of your game unless you are a terrible financial manager.</div></blockquote> I greatly appreciate the help. Sorry im so late <img alt=":)" data-src="//content.invisioncic.com/g322608/emoticons/smile.png.142cfa0a1cd2925c0463c1d00f499df2.png" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /> BTW, are the penalties for not having production quality up to par bad enough to worry?

kanegan · November 25, 2016

In between my diary game, let me take a crack at this one in CV 2005 mod:

http://i65.tinypic.com/2u6h2ya.jpg

http://i64.tinypic.com/drbml3.jpg

That's my UC named after me and my starting skills.

I have taken the default CWF as a promotion and i get Larry Wood as an owner who has decided to work for free for the time being but he also wants to change the product.

My starting roster:

1. Anirban Ganguly (UC)

2. Ben Williams

3. Brady Prince

4. Buck Graham

5. Crash Lewis

6. Little Bill Lebowski

7. Larry Wood (Owner & Road Agent & Main Eventer)

8. Desert Storm

I also get two readymade tag teams in Maryland Alliance (Prince & Graham) and Lewis Brothers (Crash & Lebowski).

Canadian Wrestling Federation is based in Ontario, Canada.

Wish me luck.

ABrokenFreakinNeck · November 27, 2016

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="WynterWarm12" data-cite="WynterWarm12" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="41290" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div> BTW, are the penalties for not having production quality up to par bad enough to worry?</div></blockquote> In my experience, no. The penalties are decently stiff but considering how low your popularity will be at that point, if you put on a "good" show, the show rating will drop several points and even then, not nearly enough to really worry about, at least in my experience.

racoonie · November 27, 2016

Really enjoying this challenge. I am using real world data, running a company based out of New England. Only about five months in, still trying to gain popularity at the expense of losing money. My next plan is to bring in a popular star, Eddie Edwards who is over in my area (and still TNA World Champion in the game) and have him work a special attraction match against my user character. His asking price will equal about what I pay my entire roster currently, but hopefully his popularity and performane will give my show rating a big boost enough to finally move me to that next level. Plus my user character should benefit from working with him.

kanegan · November 27, 2016

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="kanegan" data-cite="kanegan" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="41290" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>In between my diary game, let me take a crack at this one in CV 2005 mod: http://i65.tinypic.com/2u6h2ya.jpg http://i64.tinypic.com/drbml3.jpg That's my UC named after me and my starting skills. I have taken the default CWF as a promotion and i get Larry Wood as an owner who has decided to work for free for the time being but he also wants to change the product. My starting roster: 1. Anirban Ganguly (UC) 2. Ben Williams 3. Brady Prince 4. Buck Graham 5. Crash Lewis 6. Little Bill Lebowski 7. Larry Wood (Owner & Road Agent & Main Eventer) 8. Desert Storm I also get two readymade tag teams in Maryland Alliance (Prince & Graham) and Lewis Brothers (Crash & Lebowski). Canadian Wrestling Federation is based in Ontario, Canada. Wish me luck.</div></blockquote> Ok, Year 1 is in the books. http://i68.tinypic.com/21416s4.jpg This is the skill of my UC after 1st year. As far as CWF is concerned, they are chugging along with 4400 in the red. Industry at D- and Economy at D+ and falling. Dont know how i will manage to achieve the goal of 10,000 within 11 months Our Canadian champion and the owner, Larry Wood is having good matches and the three way feud between me, Larry Wood and Frankie Dee has generated interest so far. Also, UC had a great tag chemistry with Ben Williams and so we are now Team Amazing and we are chasing the tag titles in addition to me chasing the Canadian title. <div style="text-align:center;">Company Stats - Canadian Wrestling Federation CWF Canadian Champion: Larry Wood (11 Defences) CWF Canadian Tag Team Champion: Maryland Alliance (Brady Prince/Buck Graham) Size: Local Popularity: F in Ontario Finances: - $4478 Best Match: Larry Wood defeated Desert Storm to retain CWF Canadian Title (E+/33)</div> End of year 1 roll: 40. “I SMASH!!” or “I’m In My 20s, On The Internet And I Enjoy The WWE” You can choose to add 20 points to your Brute Performance rating OR Weird Performance rating OR use a random number generator to score between 0 and 50, adding the number to either rating. So I rolled 14 and added that to my Brute Performance rating.

havok · November 27, 2016

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="racoonie" data-cite="racoonie" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="41290" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>Really enjoying this challenge. I am using real world data, running a company based out of New England. Only about five months in, still trying to gain popularity at the expense of losing money. My next plan is to bring in a popular star, Eddie Edwards who is over in my area (and still TNA World Champion in the game) and have him work a special attraction match against my user character. His asking price will equal about what I pay my entire roster currently, but hopefully his popularity and performane will give my show rating a big boost enough to finally move me to that next level. Plus my user character should benefit from working with him.</div></blockquote> I would avoid getting eddie edwards if your going to go this route. If your wanting to go down this road of hiring a guy for one show I would definatly hire someone who is over with great entertainment skills instead of in ring skills. This will benefit your more than 1 match against edwards. Someone with high entrertainment skills can help in numerous segments by interacting with more than just you and then also have a match with you. In all honest I would avoid the one off special apparence by someone because it wont do much and with how much it costs, it definatly wont be worth it for 1 show. Now if your going to sign eddie long term and use him sparringly,then that's different. Although a one off apperence will not do much for any stat increase or popularity increase for your promotion and with the drastic increase in cost,it wont be worth it.

racoonie · November 27, 2016

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="havok" data-cite="havok" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="41290" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>I would avoid getting eddie edwards if your going to go this route. If your wanting to go down this road of hiring a guy for one show I would definatly hire someone who is over with great entertainment skills instead of in ring skills. This will benefit your more than 1 match against edwards. Someone with high entrertainment skills can help in numerous segments by interacting with more than just you and then also have a match with you. In all honest I would avoid the one off special apparence by someone because it wont do much and with how much it costs, it definatly wont be worth it for 1 show. Now if your going to sign eddie long term and use him sparringly,then that's different. Although a one off apperence will not do much for any stat increase or popularity increase for your promotion and with the drastic increase in cost,it wont be worth it.</div></blockquote> It was indeed a failed experiment. Albeit a fun one. Man, this challenge is super hard. I just changed the grades over from letters to numbers and realized I am nowhere near as close to becoming Small as I thought. There is just about zero chance that I can turn things around before I get canned.

havok · November 27, 2016

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="racoonie" data-cite="racoonie" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="41290" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>It was indeed a failed experiment. Albeit a fun one. Man, this challenge is super hard. I just changed the grades over from letters to numbers and realized I am nowhere near as close to becoming Small as I thought. There is just about zero chance that I can turn things around before I get canned.</div></blockquote> well if you started a brand new company you get 18 months to be in the black. my advice is run a bunch of shows to get to small which is a popularity of 11.1. once you get to small you will be making enough money to survive. i managed to do it and survive(right now making a tiny profit at small) even with one major star (Jamie Athernon) costying me 730.00 a show. if the rest of your roster is bare bones you can do it. just remember when you negotiate contracts give them an exclusive ring role, upper midcard or main event status and a role of future main eventer or blur chip prospect and for your stars give them creative control and this greatly reduces contract costs. its tough but if you can make it to small with in your first year you then have 6 months to make a profit. At that point you could also take a month off just to make a profit to help yourself out.

Bad Collin · November 27, 2016

I started a new game using Derek B's 1997 C-verse mod. Here is Arutha Hawke:

<a href="http://s90.photobucket.com/user/Badcollin/media/Hawke%20Start_zpsswcvimrb.jpg.html" rel="external nofollow">http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k253/Badcollin/Hawke%20Start_zpsswcvimrb.jpg</a>

I opened the National Wrestling Federation based in South UK. The start game is so different to TEW13 and it was really odd to be running nine shows a month in the first year. I managed to get into profit in May 1998 and at the end of 1998 I have 287k in the bank.

In Jan 1999 Hawke has improved very quickly due to the 90 matches he has wrestled already:

<a href="http://s90.photobucket.com/user/Badcollin/media/Hawke%20Jan%2099_zpsqgog6tbc.png.html" rel="external nofollow">http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k253/Badcollin/Hawke%20Jan%2099_zpsqgog6tbc.png</a>

The British scene is fairly strong at the moment, NWF and MOSC are both regional and ROF just opened so there are plenty of places for British talent to gain experience.

Top Five Matches:

<a href="http://s90.photobucket.com/user/Badcollin/media/1999%20Top%20Five%20Matches_zps9sztegsy.png.html" rel="external nofollow">http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k253/Badcollin/1999%20Top%20Five%20Matches_zps9sztegsy.png</a>

End of Year Rolls:

1997 - 37. “Eeeehhhhhhhhhhh” or “It’s Not Arrogance If You Can Back It Up”

1998 - 49. "Where There’s A Will" One of your die hard fans has passed on bequeathing their worldly possessions to your promotion. Do you accept it or donate it to charity? Gain EITHER $56,609 or +5 Prestige.

I've got loads of money so I took the prestige

ABrokenFreakinNeck · November 28, 2016

I am loving the RTG in TEW 2016 so far! This year, unlike TEW2013 in my opinion, there is a lot more "strategy" going into the entire scheme of things such as decisions like making Figureheads for the extra merchandise and ticket sales. It's also so fun and satisfying when something finally goes your way, like when I had to make the decision on whether or not to buy NOTBPW out (they managed to get themselves nearly $3,000,000 in debt!) which would leave me in 5 figures but allowed me to finally get TV and PPV, through Net Stream. The move ended up being successful and now I finally have an out to get of Cult and also have much more popularity in Canada than I do in the US:p. The only problem with the Figurehead that I chose, who was Bulldozer, is that even though when I was Regional and he was absolutely killing it and was basically the only main eventer I had, when I hit Cult and was able to get Sean McFly from NOTBPW and also signed Spencer Spade and Primus Allen through SWF's stupidity, he was very overshadowed and I had to remove him as he had actually started being bad for business. Overall, I had so much fun doing this in TEW2013, but I am having so much more fun doing it this time around and it is just the best building to go from being Small and creeping towards debt to becoming one of the top companies with cutthroat business tactics and the money to back those tactics up, all within several years!

Poputt · November 29, 2016

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="41290" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>I had to make the decision on whether or not to buy NOTBPW out (they managed to get themselves nearly $3' date='000,000 in debt!)[/quote'] Wow. Did they change their booker?</div></blockquote>

ABrokenFreakinNeck · December 2, 2016

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="Poputt" data-cite="Poputt" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="41290" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>Wow. Did they change their booker?</div></blockquote> No, from the looks of it (I kept a few of their contracted guys like Erik Strong and Sean McFly), they extended a lot of written deals while they were National and in between falling into Cult and the contracts were very bloated considering that for the majority of the save they had been Cult and they had a huge roster anyway, all of which were contracted to written deals, that and with their style I doubt that they get huge sponsorship deals, they began to bleed money.

smartman · December 2, 2016

This was always one of my favorite ways to play TEW in the past, but I just don't get anything close to enjoyment out of it in 16. Probably because even though I'm running 5 whole wrestlers along with my UC and my owner ref working for free, I'm losing $1k/month (nobody is making more than $270 with most around $200 and none of them are all that great, just young wrestlers), but the biggest reason is that even with a medium positive trending product, I am gaining a whopping 0.1 after each show (which are in the high 30's/low 40's). That's with a high 60's (so C+) and improving wrestling industry too.

I get that it is now a grindfest in 16, but running a local fed for a whopping 10 years because I can't get anything but a 0.1 gain. A 0.3 gain, which is what I thought was the min. for a positive trending product without the industry being in the toilet, is just over 3 years running the full 12 shows/year, which you might not be able to afford to do, is just about as much fun to me as watching paint dry. (I went ahead and jumped the gains to 0.3 and didn't improve my outlook on the challenge or my bank balance)

Am I doing something horribly wrong? I really do miss being able to do this challenge.

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