The Road to Glory Challenge

[Narcizo]

End of Year 2019

 

I got tired of bashing my head against the brick wall of a wrestling industry in the toilet so I dialed back to one show a month. That meant that pretty much everyone did worse, particularly when I started using auto-booking. Still feels like a trek to reach Cult. Although now we're entering the +.5 pop a show range it should be doable this year.

 

Having become the figurehead I went ahead and put the title on myself in the middle of the year. I'm trying to figure a way to get it off myself again as it feels wrong to be winning all the time. I need to rehaul all my storylines as well as they have pretty much drifted while we were at one show a month.

 

End of 2019

End of 2018

End of 2017

End of 2016

 

2016 Roll: 35 Making Movies - +5 Star Quality, miss a month

2017 Roll: 30 You can dance if you wanna. +5 Safety

2018 Roll: 47 A New Beginning: Change to any style. I've absolutely no idea what style I'm looking for. I guess Entertainer although that might hold me back in my current promotion.

2019 Roll: 5 Gain strong friendship with Logan Wolfsbaine. Maybe I'll get to be part of the clique now.

 

King of New York (ME): David Narcizo

Pennsylvania Title (Midcard): Cobra

Tag Titles: American Elemental II/Dragón Americano (American Dragons)

Duke of the Bronx (Tournament): Felipe Caballero

 

http://i.imgur.com/L5uFAub.gif

 

Top wrestlers have actually gone down because of the lack of matches and lack of quality control on the shows. Hopefully that will pick up now that I'm going to be taking full control again.

 

2019

Wrestler of the year Rich Money. Again. Despite only having won one title at SOTBPW

Company of the year SOTBPW

Match of the yearThe Almighty Dollar beat Champion and Axxis on SOTBPW Television in April - 100)

Show of the year SOTBPW Feliz Navidad, December 2019 headline Axxiss and Valiant def Giedroyc and Alborotador & Antonio Maxi Marquez def Rich Money

Young Wrestler of the year Bakin Sakamato (WLW)

Veteran of the year Rogue

Female Wrestler of the year DEVIL Karube #44 in Power Listing

Team of the year The Almighty Dollar

 

Challenge status

 

David Narcizo - American Pro Wrestling Federation (Regional)

Game Date: January 2020

Best UC Match so far: 86 (with Yoshimi Mushashibo def XaviFerrara/Ernest Youngman Dec 2019)

Best Singles Match: 83 (def Xavi Ferrara, May 2019)

[mrwhippy]

#PushLoganWolfsbaine

[MaxxHexx]

#PushLoganWolfsbaine

 

Has anyone ran into issues with him developing an attitude? He isn't a negative influence, but he won't lose to anyone (in late 2016) without a keep strong note.

[Frank77]

Had to start over, mishandling of finances . Made some changes for the 2nd attempt to both starting promotion and worker.

 

 

Promotion- P.W.E

Based out of Tri-State

 

 

 

 

User

 

http://i1126.photobucket.com/albums/l607/mwoods8/Start%20Stats_zpstraxzb0y.jpg

 

 

Gimmick

 

Face - 35

Heel - 65

 

Cool - 60

Cocky - 75

Crazy - 55

Weasel - 60

Weird - 50

[Narcizo]

Has anyone ran into issues with him developing an attitude? He isn't a negative influence, but he won't lose to anyone (in late 2016) without a keep strong note.

 

Very negative influence for me. I think I pushed him too hard and praised him too much - but it's easy to get carried away when he pulls great matches off against anyone. He also picked up a painkiller habit from The Architect. He doesn't mind jobbing though and my locker room can take the v negative influence without too much concern now. I have a bigger problem with workers who are over in the whole of the US as they get in a strop if they job to someone who's more popular in our home region (you know the area that actually matters to a regional or less promotion). - Yes I'm looking at you Star Master.

[Dr. Hook]

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="MaxxHexx" data-cite="MaxxHexx" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="41290" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>Has anyone ran into issues with him developing an attitude? He isn't a negative influence, but he won't lose to anyone (in late 2016) without a keep strong note.</div></blockquote><p> </p><p> I've had him for about a year, and he is still a positive influence. I have him pushed at midcard and he hasn't complained and he jobs without complaint. He does put on great matches. I suppose because I didn't hire straight him straight out of the gate a few other workers, including my UC, got more over and so he hasn't caught up yet.</p>

[K-Nection]

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="MaxxHexx" data-cite="MaxxHexx" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="41290" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>Has anyone ran into issues with him developing an attitude? He isn't a negative influence, but he won't lose to anyone (in late 2016) without a keep strong note.</div></blockquote><p> </p><p> Here is the thing...the younger the guy the more easy to make them egotistical when pushed to the upper mid and main event. I've learned the hard way to not even put them in the upper mid unless they are atleast 23-24 but sometimes you can't help it when starting out.</p><p> </p><p> BTW has anyone tried pushing Cobra in the current C-Verse? This guy is amazing...I raised him up the card on a slow burn and he is now my go to heel. He always delivers matches that are great for me!</p>

[Doogshere]

<p></p><div style="text-align:center;"><p><strong><span style="font-size:14px;">End of Year Six</span></strong></p><p> </p><p> </p><p>

<strong>Notes in Chronological Order</strong></p></div><p></p><p></p><p> </p><p>

January</p><p>

Viktor Beskov poached by TCW, lost Heroe to SOTB the next week</p><p> </p><p>

February</p><p>

The poaching continues and is starting to really hurt. Goodbye Fro Sure to SWF! Time to bring in the expensive Ross Henry.</p><p> </p><p>

June</p><p>

Austin Smooth is in a little clique. He was injured in the past by Regular Joe and hates Regular Joe. He's ganging people up against Joe.</p><p> </p><p>

October</p><p>

Austin is continuing to gang people up against Joe. I just flat out cut Joe and signed Dusty Ducont.</p><p> </p><p>

Smooth sailing the rest of the way. Four shows a month, two in Tri-State, two in New England. I improved from 70k profit per month in February to 209k at the end of the year. That is with an economy that continued to fall and is now just recovering at "E". The wrestling industry is at an "E" as well. My UC dropped the title after the last show of the month.. 61 defenses! I didn't even plan the drop. <strong>Unless something drastic happens, I'll hit cult by the end of the year.</strong></p><p> </p><p> </p><p>

</p><div style="text-align:center;"><p><strong>Awards</strong></p></div><p></p><p></p><p> </p><p>

<strong>Young Wrestler of The Year UC (Year 6)</strong></p><p>

<strong>Referee of the Year Chad Brent (my ref) (Year 6)</strong></p><p>

Most Improved Company (Year 1, Year 4)</p><p>

13th Most Important Company in World, 5th in USA (up from 17th and 6th, respectively)</p><p>

9th Most Influential Company in World, 4th in USA (up from 11th and still 4th)</p><p>

Dusty Ducont and Harry Wilson on Most Popular List (but not in USA), Ross Henry on most popular in USA</p><p>

<strong>21 Workers on Power 500 (UC at #22!, up from #101)</strong></p><p><strong>

</strong></p><p>

</p><div style="text-align:center;"><p><strong>Top 5 Current Workers In Company (According to Creative)</strong></p></div><p></p><p></p><p> </p><p>

#1. Ross Henry</p><p>

#2. Walter Elemond (UC)</p><p>

#3. Duberry Excess</p><p>

#4. Dusty Ducont</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>

</p><div style="text-align:center;"><p><strong>Rolls</strong></p></div><p></p><p></p><p> </p><p>

Year 1: 53. "Casting Call" Hollywood is calling you with a "Major Role", add +10 between your Acting and Star Quality. Add Movie Star to your character (Other Genre) - I'm putting it all in SQ</p><p>

Year 2: 48. "Charity Event" Your owner has decided to host a charity event. Your next wrestling show gains you no money, but the company gets twice the amount of popularity from it. (Remove how much profit you gain from the next event, after having paid Workers and Show Costs</p><p>

Year 3: 52. "The Real Rock n' Rolla" You've filled in for a band member one night, who now wants to you tour with them as a result. Add +10 between your Microphone and Charisma. Add "Musician" to your character. (Other Genre)</p><p>

Year 4: 34. “Healing Hands” Over the holiday season you book yourself in for several massages and physio appointments. +7.5 to all Physical Condition.</p><p>

Year 5: 43. "Internet Sensation" One of your wrestlers (random roll from the list) has become an internet video hit due to a pirate recording of his last match. +2 pop for your company in every area that you already have popularity in and +10 pop for the wrestler in all areas.</p><p>

I rolled 13 = Harry Wilson. </p><p>

<strong>Year 6: 39. “Super Awesome Wrestling-A-Go-Go: Eletric Boogaloo” or “Pop Goes The Weasel” You can choose to add 20 points to your Comedy Performance rating OR Weasel Performance rating OR use a random number generator to score between 0 and 50, adding the number to either rating.</strong></p><p>

Kind of a wasted roll. I'm 0 in both. So I decided to roll 0-50, and rolled a 9. I'll add it to Comedy.</p>

[Narcizo]

<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="41290" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div><p> BTW has anyone tried pushing Cobra in the current C-Verse? This guy is amazing...I raised him up the card on a slow burn and he is now my go to heel. He always delivers matches that are great for me!</p></div></blockquote><p> </p><p> He's main event in my game. I have a thing for snaky/culty things. He started a cult faction with Annihulus (who's turned into a decent worker- he can even call in the ring). I think the snake thing probably means he'll never be the main heel for us though. They provide the monster distraction to whatever main event face isn't in a title feud. </p><p> </p><p> Austin Smooth is one who doesn't like losing unless he's kept strong.</p>

[K-Nection]

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="Narcizo" data-cite="Narcizo" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="41290" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>He's main event in my game. I have a thing for snaky/culty things. He started a cult faction with Annihulus (who's turned into a decent worker- he can even call in the ring). I think the snake thing probably means he'll never be the main heel for us though. They provide the monster distraction to whatever main event face isn't in a title feud. <p> </p><p> Austin Smooth is one who doesn't like losing unless he's kept strong.</p></div></blockquote><p> </p><p> It's funny I never had that problem with Austin! I turned Joffy Laine into my John Cena and I end up feeding everyone to Joffy. The only problem I have with Austin is that every time I had Joffy wrestle him Austin would botch and put Joffy on the shelf. I had to meddle a good relationship for them so Joffy would stop getting mad at him for injuring him. Austin is now my Dolph Ziggler and seems content with the role.</p>

[marsupial311]

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="mrwhippy" data-cite="mrwhippy" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="41290" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>It's not that difficult. Go into the editor in the AM of show day and make a note of your bank balance and popularity. Then the next day after the show go back in and double the gains.</div></blockquote><p> </p><p> Yeah, it could be worse. I think I was a little burnt out on the save so putting extra effort in seemed worse than it was <img alt=":p" data-src="//content.invisioncic.com/g322608/emoticons/tongue.png.ceb643b2956793497cef30b0e944be28.png" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" />. Took a few days to mess around with other saves/databases and now ready to get back to this one. </p><p> </p><p> "Official Update"</p><p> </p><p> End of Year 9 (January 2006 in the CV97)</p><p> </p><p> Perfect Pepper Vain was named the Wrestler of the Year and Rocky Mountain Wrestling took a ton of end of year awards.</p><p> </p><p> Wrestler of The Year</p><p> Most Improved Company</p><p> Company of the Year</p><p> Team of the Year - Chris Caulfield and Raymond Diaz (The Dogs of War)</p><p> Match of The Year - Pepper Vain vs. Rodger Dodger (Rated a 100 overall even though Roger was a midcarder)</p><p> Young Wrestler of the Year - Joss Thompson</p><p> Referee of the Year - Dwight Kumas (Owner)</p><p> </p><p> Power 500 - 4 of the top 5 </p><p> 1 - Pepper Vain</p><p> 2 - Raymond Diaz</p><p> 3 - Chris Caulfield</p><p> 5 - Kashmir Singh</p><p> </p><p> We are the 3rd biggest company now, behind SWF and HGC. UCR is Cult but ranked 11th in Importance. </p><p> </p><p> <a href="http://i.imgur.com/aJ66fBG.png" rel="external nofollow">http://i.imgur.com/aJ66fBG.png</a></p><p> </p><p> I went from toned to muscular (I'm guessing my steroid usage roll from earlier might be coming into play here) and saw my star quality, sex appeal and menace take a big random jump. Other than that, only my top row skills are growing at this point. Maybe my charisma can see a boost with my movie star status <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> <a href="http://i.imgur.com/IRovRXp.png" rel="external nofollow">http://i.imgur.com/IRovRXp.png</a></p><p> </p><p> Time for some charity work!</p>

[Narcizo]

<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="41290" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>It's funny I never had that problem with Austin! I turned Joffy Laine into my John Cena and I end up feeding everyone to Joffy. The only problem I have with Austin is that every time I had Joffy wrestle him Austin would botch and put Joffy on the shelf. I had to meddle a good relationship for them so Joffy would stop getting mad at him for injuring him. Austin is now my Dolph Ziggler and seems content with the role.</div></blockquote><p> </p><p> Yeah, Smooth has really managed to piss people off with injuries. He was the guy who injured The Architect, getting him on pain-killers. oh and Danger Kuwasara, who turned half the locker against him. Luckily I smoothed (ahem) things over there. To be honest I'm not sure why I kept him after all the grief he caused. He always seems to miss out on feuds for some reason as well - the nearest thing he's had is a long-running, on-off-on feud with Seth Whitehead. Who's in the same boat. I guess I should use his as a gatekeeper.</p>

[Tussinewa]

How many shows should I be running at the start? I tried running a show once every two months using a hardcore product (obviously that didn't work). So I'm going to be doing another attempt tomorrow with a product more favourable towards sponsorship. Anyway my question is should I be running weekly shows for the first few months, then cool it off?

[lr10540]

I just started running 3 shows a month as I'm 1 point of popularity from regional. 1st month of 3 shows I did the bare minimum workers per show and made over 20k. I've upped my production values to pro so no more penalties there. This is beginning to get good!

[Narcizo]

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="Tussinewa" data-cite="Tussinewa" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="41290" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>How many shows should I be running at the start? I tried running a show once every two months using a hardcore product (obviously that didn't work). So I'm going to be doing another attempt tomorrow with a product more favourable towards sponsorship. Anyway my question is should I be running weekly shows for the first few months, then cool it off?</div></blockquote><p> </p><p> I think that was the idea in earlier patches but I don't know how recent changes have impacted that. Aren't show costs lower now? In which case I would imagine that that's the way to go. And get guys who want very low wages.</p>

[Narcizo]

Urgh!

 

Did the way broadcasters work get changed in 2013? When I played if you got to Cult there's was always a broadcaster you could get. Now you have to be popular in 8 regions or so. Now I understand about sticking in just one region and getting big enough to buy your own broadcaster. Oterwise it's a case of going on the road a lot and probably losing a lot of money on the way. Well that sucks. Either way is going to take a long time.

[Tussinewa]

I think that was the idea in earlier patches but I don't know how recent changes have impacted that. Aren't show costs lower now? In which case I would imagine that that's the way to go. And get guys who want very low wages.

 

Ya I got the guys with the lowest wages possible, had one referee and just had the wrestles swap road agent duty. I think with products that don't yield much sponsorship this still might be necessary.

[Dr. Hook]

BTW has anyone tried pushing Cobra in the current C-Verse? This guy is amazing...I raised him up the card on a slow burn and he is now my go to heel. He always delivers matches that are great for me!

 

Yes! He's been a favorite of mine since 2013, and he is my #1 heel at the moment. Good matches, good skills. He didn't come up as a NBT, but was a top prospect before he got out of the midcard. I'm planning to hang on to him as long as possible.

[Lukok]

Urgh!

 

Did the way broadcasters work get changed in 2013? When I played if you got to Cult there's was always a broadcaster you could get. Now you have to be popular in 8 regions or so. Now I understand about sticking in just one region and getting big enough to buy your own broadcaster. Oterwise it's a case of going on the road a lot and probably losing a lot of money on the way. Well that sucks. Either way is going to take a long time.

 

It depends a lot on your location. To get TV in Puerto Rico you just need to have pop there, there's also a TV for the whole Eastern Coast where you only need to be regional. Canal Dos in Mexico has some coverage in the US and works with cult companies no matter the pop.

 

But yeah, getting a deal if you're in Northwest or South East sounds very hard, Great Lakes too.

[moafnsteel]

Just finished my first year, and we are almost small, but are now in regional battles, which we finished last in the Great Lakes. I am currently the Champ, and I won it without making myself scripted to win. Slowly improving in all areas. I rolled a 26 which helped me very low toughness stat.

[Narcizo]

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="Lukok" data-cite="Lukok" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="41290" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>It depends a lot on your location. To get TV in Puerto Rico you just need to have pop there, there's also a TV for the whole Eastern Coast where you only need to be regional. Canal Dos in Mexico has some coverage in the US and works with cult companies no matter the pop. <p> </p><p> But yeah, getting a deal if you're in Northwest or South East sounds very hard, Great Lakes too.</p></div></blockquote><p> </p><p> The problem there is that it only covers 4 areas which is pretty much useless - more so Puerto Rico which (pointlessly) covers one area that you'll pop anyway.</p><p> </p><p> I'm going for a brand split -one in the MA to get the East Coast gig - and another in Texas to get spillover in 3 other areas to aim for the 8 areas. Auto- book comes into its own in this situation.</p>

[Pogo92]

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="Tussinewa" data-cite="Tussinewa" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="41290" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>How many shows should I be running at the start? I tried running a show once every two months using a hardcore product (obviously that didn't work). So I'm going to be doing another attempt tomorrow with a product more favourable towards sponsorship. Anyway my question is should I be running weekly shows for the first few months, then cool it off?</div></blockquote><p> </p><p> It can vary. One route that will almost always work is to run as many shows as possible early on. The only time this may not work is with a garbage Industry, however, since your Pop gains will be wretched. If you want to go this route fairly realistically, 4 shows a month for 4-5 month will make you pretty high on income the second half of your first year without too much of a debt. After your monthly sponsorship incomes are very solid you can switch to monthly shows and make your debt back over the next half of the year. This also gives your UC a lot of ring-experience to develop faster.</p><p> </p><p> If you have a really good Industry, you could go the even more realistic route of monthly shows--Your Pop will still climb moderately fast and you'll become profitable in a more "natural" progression curve. </p><p> </p><p> The thing to remember is that you need to minimize costs as much as possible. 6 in-ring workers and a ref at sub-300 PPA deals will keep you from hemorrhaging money. It may be worth investing in one decent worker who can train up your UC in dark matches during this time, even if he costs 400 a show. Remember that at this level your sponsorship is the critical income component to become profitable. Track its progress in your finances every month so you can understand when you'll be safe to switch strategy. You'll also have about 18 months to get your finances into the black AS LONG AS your Org debuts January 2016. It's okay if it takes you all 18 months in a bad industry to get out of debt. </p><p> </p><p> Mathematically speaking, the more shows you run in the beginning the more efficient you can complete the challenge. Worst case scenario (F- Econ and Industry) means running 30 shows the first month and coasting after that, for instance.</p>

[Lukok]

The problem there is that it only covers 4 areas which is pretty much useless - more so Puerto Rico which (pointlessly) covers one area that you'll pop anyway.

 

I'm going for a brand split -one in the MA to get the East Coast gig - and another in Texas to get spillover in 3 other areas to aim for the 8 areas. Auto- book comes into its own in this situation.

 

If you get a deal with Canal Dos, you can get a deal with OnDem, they demand at least 45 pop in 5 regions, you have two already if you're cult, and you get pop in Mexico. It does take about a year, at least for me.

 

But now I'm with OnDem or whatever they're called and have coverage everywhere except Japan.

[Jon Claw]

Giving this another go under Jonathan Claw and Power Pro Wrestling with the weekly show strategy to boost pop and then cut back to save money and get out of debt.

[Narcizo]

If you get a deal with Canal Dos, you can get a deal with OnDem, they demand at least 45 pop in 5 regions, you have two already if you're cult, and you get pop in Mexico. It does take about a year, at least for me.

 

But now I'm with OnDem or whatever they're called and have coverage everywhere except Japan.

 

Yeah - my strategy has been completely wrong from the start because I was playing based on what you did in 2007 or 2010. I should have started my second region as MidSouth rather than New England, and gone full brand split from that point onwards.

 

But OnDem does look doable if I can get the East Coast TV Show and just move my Texas branch up to the Great Lakes where I have spillover from the TriStates. That should actually work. I think it should take about a year from now to get on On Dem.

 

Thanks for the advice. I was close to throwing in the towel on this or restarting.