The Road to Glory Challenge

polK · September 23, 2019

Frank Hammerschmidt - 2001 (Year 1)

I haven't posted here in years, but I recently discovered this challenge and after losing interest in my last game, I decided to give this a try. Or three, honestly. My first two went badly as my initial company went bankrupt because I started to spend more before I got out of the initial hole. In my third try, I was back in the black after one and a half years. This is the one I'll post about since it looks like it's gonna work out.

Sorry if I'm a little wordy or going overboard with the pictures, but I'm a) genuinely excited about this game and b) trying to make my reasoning behind what I do clear and since a lot of it comes from this thread, also serves as a sort of summary.

I'm using the The Mod Squad's New Blood (Jan 2001) mod, simply because that's the one I found that's closest to my IRL 18th birthday, so I live vicariously through this character as if I had chosen to become a pro wrestler before even finishing school:

I've been ready through this thread and picked up some pointers. I geared myself to be pretty much ready to become a figurehead right out of the gate. I pushed Psychology to the allowed max so I could road agent matches I'm not in. I'm a pennypincher, average at motivating and leadership because those always matter, but not exactly creative or diplomatic because those only come into play once in a while.

The company is a revival of the defunct Catch Wrestling Association. Since the logo was already in the picture pack that came with the mod and CWA was based here in Central Europe, it was an easy decision to use it instead of agonizing over a company name and logo.

The product has been geared to be favorable towards sponsors while being performance > popularity (which will work better at this small level with cheap, but unknown workers). No Face/Heel divide allows for more flexibility with small rosters. It's also a personal preference, just like integrated women's wrestling because I don't like the undifferentiated "women's division" push.

Our owner is the cheapest referee available in Europe. Many thanks to this thread for pointing out using the owner position for the "expansive" personnel. Since we're going into debt early one, he'll work for free for quite a while.

His initial goals are reasonable. No monetary goals (phew!), just be more popular in Europe and do not fall below #51 in the company rankings after two years. Some blocks, but nothing crippling (psychopaths, older than 42, law problems).

I pretty much immediately make myself permanent main eventer and the company figurehead, figuring I would grow the "slightly lacking" stats and the popularity over the one year I'll need to get established in that role.

My initial roster of my owner/referee, my character and five wrestlers. Since I already sunk two failed attempts into this, I used my knowledge to sign Jack Evans and Matt Cross again who have deliver excellent performances right out of the gate and to avoid Amazing Red who was a complete asshole, constantly picking fights with colleagues and fans. Matt Sydal fits in nicely, although he's occasionally annoying everyone by preaching his religion. Ace Steel is a 9 year vet who works for cheap and Archadia - who I had never heard of before - came recommended by the "Hidden Gems" screen. The common thread between them was that their initial demands were under $200 even before negotiations.

I start by running a round robin tournament over the first two and a half weeks of January, mainly to find any chemistry (Archadia and Ace Steel, Jack Evans and me each have great chemistry together). I get the most wins, ahead of Ace Steel, who I would then face to determine the new CWA World Heavyweight Champion. Ace Steel would win, in order to set up a title chase.

Starting in February, I started running one event per month, early in the month as of this thread's advice.

At the May event, our first D- rated show, I capture the title. Also in May, Otto Wanz, the owner of the "old" CWA becomes the head booker of the newly formed Italian Championship Wrestling. I smell a rivalry coming.

In July, we run a summer tournament as a complement to the winter tournament I ran January. This one is a single event, though. Three 1vs1 matches, winners advance to a triple thread for the trophy. Ace Steel pins Sydal for the win while I watch. (At this point, I had the idea of running with me being unable to win a tournament as an unofficial storyline.)

Matt Sydal and Matt Cross would end up working for wXw as well which created two problems: 1) they would also gain popularity in Central Europe through their shows (and they are a touring company on top of that), making it harder for my character to be the most popular and an effective figurehead 2) their exposure means they will have pay rise requests. For now, I bite the bullet and accept 1 and deal with 2 by outright rejecting any requests which is alleviated by showering with (well-deserved) praise after every show. (Economy E- and falling, Wrestling Industry D and rising after this event)

One of the neat things about this mod are the many narratives. Some are just flavor (Oscar winners, "Wrestling fans disappear" as TEW is released), but some have impact on the game as well. The Rock's movie career will boost his popularity, Panda Energy buys TNA for a big cash influx, or 9/11 causing a global economic downturn right here. Considering that Europe is starting at "low and rising", this is a setback on our path to profitability! Fortunately, the wrestling industry is not really affected, but the economic downturn will sting. (2008 will be even worse.)

2001: PRO WRESTLING AWARDS AND YEAR-IN-REVIEW

Wrestler of the Year: Steve Austin

Company of the Year: Pro Wrestling NOAH

Tag Team of the Year: Edge & Christian

Match of the Year: The Rock d. Triple, WWF, RAW is WAR, January

Show of the Year: King of the Ring 2001, WWF, June (A* show, headlined by an A match between Jericho and Angle)

Young Wrestler of the Year: Jeff Hardy

Veteran Wrestler of the Year: Tatsumi Fujinami

Female Wrestler of the Year: Aja Kong

Most Improved Company: Michinoku Pro-Wrestling

Independet Wrestler of the Year: Rey Misterio Jr. (who fell victim to a ruthless round of WCW cost-cutting)

Manager of the Year: Dutch Mantell

Announcer of the Year: Jim Ross

Colour Commentator of the Year: Bobby Heenan

Referee of the Year: Hiroyuki "Red Shoes" Unno

CWA in the Power 500: #269 Matt Sydal , #360 Matt Cross

April: ECW is disbanded after being taken over by WWF

June: NJPW take over All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling

July: NJPW takes over OZ Academy, WWF buy ECCW, probably paying more for it than for ECW due to the extra C

September: NJPW buy BattlARTS

December: Kevin Nash (and Vampiro) jump ship to WWF, Sting bidding war (ends up with WWF), free agent Rey Mysterio Jr. to WWF

WCW survives the year

In memoriam: Mighty Inoue, Nick Bockwinkel, Haruka Eigen, Del Wilkes, Lou Thesz

Turns out the impact of 9/11 on our company has been minimal. I can't even make a TSA joke about my mostly American roster because most of them has relocated to Europe by now. In year 2, I plan to keep budget discipline and not expand my roster before the account is in the black again.

My random roll for the year:

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)

So this is how Frank is looking after the adjustments. Popularity in Central Europe is at a solid E. The roll was pretty much perfect to get past the "(-) Slightly lacking in Star Quality" figurehead penalty I still hadn't overcome. I also got an event sometime in March that turned my body type average and gave me a slight boost to sex appeal. I had no idea that could just randomly happen to a user character.

And since I've already played through 2002, I'll start my write-up for that right now.

polK · September 23, 2019

Frank Hammerschmidt - 2002 (Year 2)

Early in January Frank Hammerschmidt becomes established as CWA's figurehead and netting us a small, but not insignificant bonus. He's still struggling against the other, slightly more popular main eventers Matt Sydal and Matt Cross.

My financial disciple holds and I run monthly shows, always following the same pattern:

- A promo on B

- B promo on A

- Match A vs. B

- C promo on D

- D promo on C

- Match C vs. D

- E promo on me

- my promo on E

- E vs. me for the title

- generic promo by me

The winners of the first two matches move up the card for the next show, the losers move down. It's a quick and easy scheme, allowing me to progress through the months quickly. The mod loading fast also helps, of course.

(I call this formula the "Zoofights Food Chain". It comes from a game where I started unemployed and ended up in New Zealand, hiring a bunch of animal-themed wrestlers (Bee Boy, Fly Girl, Koala Mask, among others) and renamed the rest (Boa Johnstrictor!) and invented this scheme to hold our monthly show "Zoofights!" to determine who could "move up the food chain" and claim the "Apex Predator" title. Fun times, but then Gedo stepped down as New Japan's booker and I got accepted for that job.)

By the end of March, my miserliness finally pays off. Our bank account is in the black. Only for a couple of days as the next show is coming, but threat of bankruptcy has been fought off sooner than I anticipated. Even though Europe's economy is about to hit rock bottom (F- and falling), but the wrestling industry remains strong despite that (C and rising).

After our event in May, we stay in the black even after the show's costs and I start looking at expanding my roster to prepare for an eventual move to small size. (For now I locked myself at local to avoid production penalties, but we're not actually close to that yet anyway.) In June, two new, unknown youngsters make their debuts in CWA: Jay Lethal and Kenny Omega. For these two, I break my rule of "only hire people with demands under $200 before negotiations", but 200 and 210 is not that far off anyway. On the same card, I drop the title to Matt Sydal.

Our summer tournament in July is our first show better than D+. A straight C show, main evented by the tournament final of Matt Sydal beating Ace Steel (who cheated to win against me in the semi-finals ).

In September I regain the title by accident. I forgot to set a winner in the title match and despite having simmering tension with me over a backstage incident, Matt decides to do the job. Well, he does sort of make me look bad since I did set the finish to be by cheating, but it ends up me holding the opponent's tights to win. Oh well.

Over the next couple of months, I continue to expand the CWA with cheap talent as our income keeps growing. Emil Sitoci, Lance Hoyt, Arik Cannon and Puck (another one I never heard of before, but was recommended by Hidden Gems) make their debuts. I also start breaking from the formula outlined above and start booking more free-form and starting to explore tag teams, checking for chemistry.

I keep denying any and all requests at pay raises. Matt Sydal, Matt Cross and Jack Evans morale is kept tanking because they're still turning in praiseworthy performances every month and praise them I do. Archadia not so much and after his second denied pay raise, he hands in his notice in early October. Although he was projected to become an exceptional worker and a major player, I never really got behind him in the same way I got behind the other talent. I suspect the "never heard of him before" played a role in that as the rest of the roster is pretty much well-known these days IRL.

Also in October, I start getting notices about regional battles. We come in 2nd out of 4, somehow, and 1st out of 5 in November and December. We're putting on well-received cards, but everyone else is much bigger and more prestigious than us and our production is still at minimal levels. Is the wrestling that good?

At the November show, we hit our first segment in the B range as I deliver a B- promo, hyping a title defense against Jack Evans.

As the end of the year draws near, I start getting nervous about my owner goal not falling below our initial #51 in the company rankings. The mod has a lot of companies open up and I start getting nervous I might blow this critical goal. Fortunately, the chickens come home to roost for a lot of companies in November and December. One of them is wXw which is great news not just because they were a local competitor. They also employed Sydal and Cross and caused me some headache by making them gain more popularity through their shows as I try to keep up with my character.

Also in December, we mark our first even with over 100 in attendance. 104 paid to see the best match of my career so far, a C- rated title defense against Jack Evans.

This is where our roster stands at the end of the year. We added Arik Cannon, Afa Jr., Johnny Curtis (the future Fandango), Dru Onyx, Naofumi Yamamoto (a.k.a. Yoshitatsu) and the Swedish Erik Isaksen for some extra local color. Still very cheap, but I expect this to change in 2003.

Finances are doing well. Extremely well, in fact. Europe's wrestling boom continues and the industry is now at A and still rising. The economy is also recovering nicely, currently at E and still rising.

2002 - YEAR IN REVIEW

JANUARY

WCW lose Sting and Kevin Nash to WWE, also they choose not to extend contracts with Ric Flair and Lex Luger

Paul Heyman joins WCW (as an Authority Figure)

MOTYC: Kurt Angle d. Steve Austin by count out, WWF RAW is WAR, Mon Wk4 Jan 2002

FEBRUARY

IWA-MS close doors

MOTYC: The Undertaker & The Rock d. Big Show & Chris Benoit by DQ, WWF RAW is WAR, Mon Wk4 Feb 2002

MOTYC: The Rock d. Kane, WWF Smackdown!, Tue Wk4 Feb 2002

MARCH

New Japan fall to Cult size

XPW close

Scott Hall joins WCW after his contract with New Japan had expired

MOTYC: The Rock d. Big Show, WWF RAW is WAR, Mon Wk2 Mar 2002

WrestleMania XIX is held in a sold out Yankee Stadium, Chris Jericho retains the WWF Championship against Eddie Guerrero in the main event

APRIL

APW close

UPW close

MAY

NWA:TNA open

Freddie Blassie and JJ Dillon pass away

"WWF Has To Get The "F" Out" and becomes World Wrestling Entertainment (another little event added by the mod makers)

MOTYC: Kurt Angle & Kane d. Triple H & Chris Jericho, WWE RAW is WAR, Mon Wk4 May 2002

JUNE

ROH and MLW open

WWE sign Booker T away from WCW

MOTYC: Eddie Guerrero vs. The Rock no contest, WWE RAW is WAR, Mon Wk4 Jun 2002

UK promotion Extreme World Wrestling receive $10 million left to them by an unkown fan in his will

JULY

The Undertaker wins WWE King of the Ring (I imagine the crown keeps falling off when he drives on his bike. )

Dusty Rhodes' Turnbuckle Championship Wrestling is bought out by WWE

AUGUST

MOTYC: Kenta Kobashi d. Mitsuharu Misawa, NOAH Flames Clean Souls, Wed Wk3 Aug 2002

Chris Candido and Tammy Sytch get engaged

SEPTEMBER

Triple H and Stephanie McMahon get engaged

OCTOBER

European Wrestling Association open their doors in Central Europe

Panda Energy buy TNA, injecting a lot of cash into the company

WWE starts a The Rock vs. Sting storyline

NOVEMBER

WWE buy JAPW

DECEMBER

wXw go out of business

WWE buy CZW. Yep. They're buying every struggling promotion in America at this point.

After having been hit by a big scandal about possible Yakuza ties earlier this year, FMW finally has to declare bankruptcy

AWARDS

Wrestler of the Year: Chris Jericho (WWE)

Company of the Year: Pro Wrestling NOAH

Tag Team of the Year: Mistuharu Misawa & Yoshinari Ogawa (NOAH)

Match of the Year: Kenta Kobashi d. Mitsuharu Misawa, NOAH Flames Clean Souls, Wed Wk3 Aug 2002

Show of the Year: WWE Backlash, Sun Wk3 Apr 2002

Young Wrestler of the Year: Samoa Joe (Zero-One, Pro Wrestling IRON)

Veteran Wrestler of the Year: Sting (WWE)

Female Wrestler of the Year: Takako Inoue (GAEA)

Most Improved Company of the Year: Xtreme Latin American Wrestling (X-LAW)

Independent Wrestler of the Year: Road Warrior Hawk

Manager of the Year: Paul Ellering

Announcer of the Year: Jim Ross

Colour Commentator of the Year: Bobby Heenan

Referee of the Year: Red Shoes Unno

CWA in the Power 500: #270 Matt Sydal (v269), #292 Matt Cross (^360), #500 Jack Evans (-)

IN MEMORIAM

"Classy" Freddie Blassie, JJ Dillon

END OF YEAR ROLL:

42. "Step Into The Light" You get your 15 minutes of fame. +5 Pop across entire base country.

I feel bad because so far it's been 2/2 rolls that give exactly what I need. It feels like cheating, even though it's legit. random.org is feeling extremely (suspiciously?) generous. The pop boost solves the issue with Cross and Sydal being slightly more popular than Frank and he's now undisputed figurehead of the company. With wXw out of business, I should be able to keep them from eclipsing me again.

Here are Frank's skills at the end of 2002. With the boost from the yearly roll, he's now at a straight D popularity in Central Europe and F+ in the rest of Europe, except Iberia (due to the spillover setup of the region) where he's slightly behind with an F.

PLANS FOR 2003:

- I'm going to remove my size limit. I expect the massive winter tournament event in January giving us a nice boost, both in finances and popularity, so we can make the jump. I will have to up some production values, but I think I can get away without matching everything to our rivals.

- Pay rises will be coming. It looks like the two Matts are starting to see through my "praise, not pay" scheme. Also the contracts of Sydal, Cross, Steel and Evans expire at the end of the year.

- Roster size will stay stable. I plan no expansion unless absolutely necessary.

James The Animator · September 24, 2019

pol|k, your save looks highly interesting and very fun. In fact, it’s got me motivated to boot up my 2001 mod and start an RTG! The only mistakes I think you made are giving yourself low athleticism and stamina. Athleticism governs all of your in-ring stat caps, and stamina makes sure you don’t get winded quickly. If it were me, I would’ve decimated my acting skills and decreased my mic skills to add to those two categories. If your charisma is at 75, it should carry you in entertainment-based angles.

polK · October 2, 2019

Frank Hammerschmidt - 2003 (Year 3) <blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="James The Animator" data-cite="James The Animator" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="41290" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>The only mistakes I think you made are giving yourself low athleticism and stamina. Athleticism governs all of your in-ring stat caps, and stamina makes sure you don’t get winded quickly.</div></blockquote> Thanks and I hope you'll have fun with your own game! As for your suggestions: I agree on athleticism. Stamina rises at a nice pace as long as you keep having matches that make you "visibly tiring towards the end". I thought other physical attributes would rise maybe not quite as fast as stamina, but at least faster than they do. If had to do it again, I would definitely invest into more athleticism. Anyway, 2003 is in the books in my game. Not a highly remarkable year. CWA rose to small size and the economy is humming - thanks to a global boom starting in July - so I'm making a solid profit every month (despite extending four contracts and the raises that went with that) and the bank account is at 38,277 on January 1st. Both economy and wrestling business have peaked, though, and are on the way back down, so I won't get too fanciful in terms of finances. I have upped my production values to match my regional rivals, however, and we've been ranked #1 in the regional battle for a year despite being the smallest of the four competitors. Only in December EWA managed to eclipse us. The other two competitors, GWF and ACW have declared hostility. <img alt="Q1kzbU2.jpg" data-src="https://i.imgur.com/Q1kzbU2.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /> Nothing bad can come off something so good! <img alt="itPlXAv.jpg?1" data-src="https://i.imgur.com/itPlXAv.jpg?1" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /> CWA's roster has seen a little turnover. Naofumi Yamamoto got signed to written deal by New Japan in September. I brought in Jayson Paul (JTG) to bring the roster back to 16 wrestlers. In November, Matt Cross quit. I mismanaged his morale for too long and had started to give praise to Jay Lethal instead of him. Partly because Jay is turning in excellent performance, partly because Matt's performances have slipped a bit. His replacement is a recently debuted Eddie Kingston. I also signed Bobby Lashley who is yet to debut; I wanted an extra wrestler because I think I'm getting tired of Dru Onyx picking fights backstage and showing no progress in the ring despite being an "exceptional" prospect. <img alt="ixk45gH.jpg?1" data-src="https://i.imgur.com/ixk45gH.jpg?1" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /> Creatively, I spent the year mostly on autopilot and testing for tag team chemistry since. The only real story I had was pushing Lance Hoyt up the card in the first half of the year, winning the summer tournament and dethroning my character as the champion. I wanted to cultivate him as the big monster heel who will eventually be beaten by me. Before I lost the title I brought in Luc Poirier for a one-shot. Poirier worked for the original CWA as "Rambo" and was their last champion. I won a title match against him to fully establish the title's lineage - at least in my head. <img alt=":)" data-src="//content.invisioncic.com/g322608/emoticons/smile.png.142cfa0a1cd2925c0463c1d00f499df2.png" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /> Speaking of my character. The yearly roll came up 17: “Nose To The Grindstone” You have devoted your holiday season to training in the ring +5 any top row skill of your choice. I chose Mat Work. Apparently CWA's international locker room uses English as its lingua franca since Frank has already up fluency. He also makes his first appearance in the Power 500, at #440. <img alt="ixk45gH.jpg?1" data-src="https://i.imgur.com/ixk45gH.jpg?1" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /> And for those curious about the game world: <a href="https://pastebin.com/xRPhR4u1" rel="external nofollow">2003 - YEAR IN REVIEW</a> (Pastebin)

BigINMoldova · October 22, 2019

First Year done in my Road To Glory TVerse Save. I choose the Thunderverse because it's the one I've had the most success in Road To Glory and I'm not sure anyone else has done the challenge there.

Skills At The Start:

Skills After A Year:

Finances After A Year:

In terms of growth, the company went from 58th in the world to 28th which is pretty good. We're not far away from TV which is making me nervous because we can't get a TV deal until we go regional which I'm scared will put us back into debt.

I also really need to retool the roster because Izumi is putting up 70 in-ring performances but his highest-rated match is a 64 because the people he's wrestling are terrible for the most part.

The biggest shock to me so far is that my safety rating didn't effect anything up until my last match of the year. I went 46 matches without hurting anyone with a starting safety rating of 0.

My roll was

38. “I’ve Got A Coat That Makes Me Hug Myself…” or “Train, Fight, Hurt People, Repeat” You can choose to add 20 points to your Crazy Performance rating OR Legit Performance rating OR use a random number generator to score between 0 and 50, adding the number to either rating.

Which is incredibly unuseful to me. I already have a 100 in legit performances and my company doesn't use gimmicks anyways. So a 20 to Crazy Performance doesn't help much. Maybe if I end up leaving this company, it'll prove invaluable eventually.

Charasmatic Enigma · October 26, 2019

I've decided to have a go at this alongside my diary game. I thought the UK looked like it was ripe for another promotion to pop up, with the only options being the monopoly of 21CW or working for scumbag Mark Carnie at SNP. I chose Jackie Goldstein as my owner, as his versatility should come in useful.

My new company is called United Kingdom Championship Wrestling, and I'm hoping that the lack of competition in the UK will allow me to have free reign over signings and will allow me to avoid Regional battles when we get to that point.

Starting stats as below:

Product is Very similar to the Old School 'Rassling pre-set, with Mainstream turned up to Medium. Looking forward to getting into this!

Jaded · October 26, 2019

Interesting! Good luck with this CE

sportsfanmas · October 26, 2019

So I just came across this challenge. It's.. interesting to say the least. I'm contemplating trying it, but I have a feeling I'd cheat as soon as the money got too low lol. Plus I'd book myself to win every single match.

brianc2008 · October 26, 2019

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="sportsfanmas" data-cite="sportsfanmas" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="41290" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>So I just came across this challenge. It's.. interesting to say the least. I'm contemplating trying it, but I have a feeling I'd cheat as soon as the money got too low lol. Plus I'd book myself to win every single match.</div></blockquote> I've always wanted to give this challenge a try as well, but I'd probably be out of money after only a few months. It really tests you to be creative.

Jaded · October 26, 2019

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="brianc2008" data-cite="brianc2008" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="41290" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>I've always wanted to give this challenge a try as well, but I'd probably be out of money after only a few months. It really tests you to be creative.</div></blockquote> I think one of the key things is remembering that at first pretty much ANY show will gain you popularity so you can keep things super-cheap to start off with.

sportsfanmas · October 26, 2019

Welcome to the RTG world 18 year old rookie Mike Schaplowsky. My guy is starting out as a very small and will have a combo aerial and technical style.

Also, I'm starting in the Montreal Aftermath mod, I hope that's within the rules.

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sportsfanmas · October 29, 2019

So I've autobooked the first few weeks of my RTG, and will continue to autobook. Definitely going to have to sign some new workers because I've had the same matches 3 or 4 times now. Despite that, I have 2 questions regarding my user character:

1. Does autobook ever book the user character into the show? I've had to manually insert my character into a match or angle on every single show. Not a big deal, and probably better that I actually book my own character, but was just curious.

2. With my characters scouting levels all at 10, will my character start seeing an increase in skills on his own, or will I have to manually increase the skills myself? I would have thought that by now, at least one skill would have increased some. Thanks.

neslo024 · October 30, 2019

Can't speak for the auto booker but as far as increasing a worker's skills it's all about having them wrestle people with better skills. The more they wrestle the faster they will increase. They will go up naturally between 18-29 depending on when the worker's maturity age is. Then from 30 and on the only way to increase them is by facing better skilled workers.

Dalimyr · October 30, 2019

1. Does autobook ever book the user character into the show? I've had to manually insert my character into a match or angle on every single show. Not a big deal, and probably better that I actually book my own character, but was just curious.

Yup, it's possible. I just tested with a quick SWF save, editing The Masked Avatar to have 90 pop and be a main eventer (making an educated guess that being a really popular main eventer would increase odds of him being on the card). Auto-booked, checked if TMA was there, then cleared all and auto-booked again, repeating a total of 5 times:

Not booked at all
Pre-match interview and a match against Steven Parker in the midcard
Pre-match interview and a match against Robbie Retro in the midcard
Not booked at all
Confrontation angle with Angry Gilmore, and a match against Angry Gilmore in the main event

Charasmatic Enigma · November 2, 2019

Year one is in the bag for UKCW! A pretty dire game world - E+ economy and falling, and F+ wrestling industry and falling, meant that I had to keep things incredibly tight financially. Things didn't really improve over the year, ending with an E+ and rising Economy and the wrestling industry has actually hit 0 (but at least it will rise now)!

Due to this I have had to do some incredibly repetitive booking with a rotating circus of extras losing to my UC. My record for the year was 46-2 and UKCW put on 24 shows. Annihulus won the UKCW British Championship in January, but lost it to my UC in February and I have held it ever since. Not a lot of storylines to report on due to the constant roster turnover to stop repetitive booking penalties. On the positive - working two matches and two promo's a night has seen some good stat growth:

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Financially, we made it out of debt with our final show of the year! We finished 2016 with a massive $86 in the bank, but it does give me confidence that I can hit Jackie's goal of $10k by the end of 2017.

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And now onto the good stuff! My roll for 2016 was...

17. “Nose To The Grindstone” You have devoted your holiday season to training in the ring +5 any top row skill of your choice

Not good, not bad. I decided to go for brawling to move it up to 47.

Goals for 2017:

Hit Small - might be a push, but I am currently on 6 pop after one year so if I can do that again I should make it!

Get a D rated match - I'm gonna blame the quality of my opponents here, as I didn't hire anyone who wanted more than $250. Hopefully as I grow and hire better and more popular workers (my products pop>perf) my grades will naturally increase.

Jaded · November 2, 2019

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="sportsfanmas" data-cite="sportsfanmas" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="41290" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>So I've autobooked the first few weeks of my RTG, and will continue to autobook. Definitely going to have to sign some new workers because I've had the same matches 3 or 4 times now. Despite that, I have 2 questions regarding my user character: 1. Does autobook ever book the user character into the show? I've had to manually insert my character into a match or angle on every single show. Not a big deal, and probably better that I actually book my own character, but was just curious. 2. With my characters scouting levels all at 10, will my character start seeing an increase in skills on his own, or will I have to manually increase the skills myself? I would have thought that by now, at least one skill would have increased some. Thanks.</div></blockquote> Check the editor - I’m guessing you’ll have improved at least one skill but not by a noticeable amount to show up in game.

Moxley · November 27, 2019

<img alt="C6nnW6L.jpg" data-src="https://i.imgur.com/C6nnW6L.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /> - Name: Shota Asahi - Age: 19 - Nationality: Japanese - Status: Active Wrestler - Style: Puroresu - Size: Muscular Light Heavyweight - Best Match: Gidayu Katou & Shota Asahi def. Motoyuki Miyake & Kyuichi Matsumoto ©, RJPW Warrior Spirit, December Week 2 2016 - Power 500: #487 (2016) - Awards: N/A <blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="41290" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>"There are many who have tipped Shota Asahi for future greatness, and it is with good reason; the 18 year old seems like he was born to be the face of a company, there is definitely the glimmer of something special there, it's just a question of drawing it out and developing it correctly" "The 18 year old Shota Asahi is definitely one to watch, the sky seems to be the limit in terms of where his career can go, he is showing signs of turning into a fantastic in-ring performer." </div></blockquote> Skills at the start: (January 2016) <img alt="fa5f7d137207057d31d3a21f6ca13198.png" data-src="https://i.gyazo.com/fa5f7d137207057d31d3a21f6ca13198.png" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /> Skills now: (January 2017) <img alt="442003e636e5ceeec2017d377fbda254.png" data-src="https://i.gyazo.com/442003e636e5ceeec2017d377fbda254.png" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /> Company: Real Japan Pro Wrestling (RJPW) <img alt="wvEtV6p.jpg" data-src="https://i.imgur.com/wvEtV6p.jpg" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /> - Founded: January 2016 - Based In: Kanto, Japan - Owned By: Kazuko Hiroyuki - Style: Traditional Puro Resu - Importance: F+, 41/41 in the World, 10/10 in Japan - Influence: Local, F, 41/41 in the World, 10/10 in Japan - Money: -$4,379, 41/41 in the World - Awards: N/A Owner Goals: Critical: RJPW's financial balance must have improved to at least $10,000 (Expires: January 2018) Critical: RJPW must have at least as much popularity in Japan as it did when the goal was set (Expires: January 2018) Average: Cannot hire any wrestlers over the age of 45 (Expires: May 2017) Average: Cannot hire any Luchadores (Expires: September 2017) Average: Cannot hire or extend the contract for anyone who has had trouble with the law (Expires: September 2017) Finances: <img alt="fe80d762871a0ca4a975cecf691e9f61.png" data-src="https://i.gyazo.com/fe80d762871a0ca4a975cecf691e9f61.png" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /> Notes: - Started this a few days ago and am currently in January 2017. - Not only did I get lucky with my UC's roll, the Industry and Economy started at B- and D, respectively which was a massive help I felt like. - Decided to run a schedule of 4 weekly shows every other month and 2 weekly shows every other month, which so far has turned out fine, though I did dig myself into a hole financially which I'm slowly but surely crawling myself out of. - Roster so far consists entirely of 4 japanese Young Lions since they're cheap; Gidayu Katou, Kyuichi Matsumoto, Motoyuki Miyake and MUSCLE Serizawa. Only having 5 wrestlers means that almost everyone ends up pulling double duty on most nights. Katou and Serizawa also tend to be late to the shows or no-show meetings quite often so they've been fined several times already, but neither one seems to ever learn. As a result, both of their reputations have taken quite a hit. - UC has already suffered his first injury in Cracked Ribs, but fortunately didn't have to take any time off as it healed up in 6 days right before the next event. Have also caused a Strained Wrist on Matsumoto, and botched a move on Katou, who now has Simmering Tension with my UC. - Attendances grew steadily from 11 people in Week 1 of January to 99 people in Week 3 of May.. - ..but then a Tsunami hit Japan on Week 4 and both the economy © and industry (A) crashed to F-, where they stayed for the next 3 months or so. Thankfully my attendances didn't take too much of a drop (99 to 76), though I didn't reach 99 people or more until November. - Late May is also around the same time I appointed my UC the figure head of the company - June marked the first month in company history where we actually made a profit as the sponsorship money finally got big enough. - Reached High reputation in August, but decided to stay with RJPW for now. - Could have grown to Small in late September, but decided to stay at Local until the financial situation and economy sorts itself out, which should be soon as the shows are starting to be profitable enough to run 4 shows per month. - Ever since September, I've been part of Regional battles in Kanto with 5SSW and WEXXV where I've placed 2nd every time so far. - Katou and Miyake both asked for slight raises in December as they felt they were being underpaid (and to be fair, they were), and I agreed to a 75% raise. Workers on Power 500: - #483 - Motoyuki Miyake - #487 - Shota Asahi - #493 - Gidayu Katou Rolls: - Year 1: 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) * Added 6 to Charisma and 4 to Microphone

Moxley · December 3, 2019

- Name: Shota Asahi

- Age: 20

- Nationality: Japanese

- Status: Active Wrestler

- Style: Puroresu

- Size: Muscular Light Heavyweight

- Best Match: Gidayu Katou & Shota Asahi def. Motoyuki Miyake & Kyuichi Matsumoto ©, RJPW Warrior Spirit, December Week 2 2016

- Power 500: #487 (2016), Unranked (2017)

- Awards: N/A

Skills at the start of the year:

Skills now:

- Puroresu skill hasn't moved one way or the other in a year. I'm afraid it's already capped which is not good.

- Athleticism and Stamina seem capped as well. Athleticism was at 64 and Stamina at 83 in August.

- No idea where the random points for Color are coming from since I'm not doing any.

Company: Real Japan Pro Wrestling (RJPW)

- Importance: 39/43 in the World, 10/11 in Japan

- Influence: Small, E+, 34/43 in the World, 9/11 in Japan

- Money: $27,132, 34/43 in the World

- Awards: Most Improved Company Of The Year (2017)

Owner Goals:

Average: Cannot hire any Japanese Juniors (Expires: September 2018)

Average: Cannot hire any Psychopaths (Expires: November 2018)

Average: Cannot hire any Spot Monkeys (Expires: July 2019)

Notes:

- Changed the schedule to two shows per month every other week starting January. Won't be getting as much in-ring time, but need to make money to stay in business.

- Finally got into black and stayed there in April with roughly $900 in the bank, so decided to take the leap to Small. Couldn't afford to raise my production enough to be competitive with EX2010's Semi-Pro production values and In House music department so kept on going and took the penalties on the chin.

- It's now June and UC is now firmly established as the figure head. Attendances are up by 6% and merch up by 20% with him as a figure head.

- Had to hire a cheaper referee in August after looking at July's finances. It turned out that my owner/referee was indeed getting paid despite the message saying otherwise. My locker room leader Silver Shibanuma also suddenly stopped being one so I brought in one Sean McFly, who divorced from Victoria and left NOTBPW in December of last year and had been unemployed since. He ended up taking Austin Smooth under his wing as his protege on his first night.

-

Workers on Power 500:

- #483 - Motoyuki Miyake

Rolls:

- Year 1: 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)

- Year 2: 31. “Solid? Liquid? Gas?” You have devoted your holiday season to training in the ring +5 to your Consistency skill

* Not what I was looking for but I'll take it

gazwefc83 · December 9, 2019

Started a road to glory game, and after about 4 months a random $1,000,000 was added to by finances and showed under misc. Anybody know why this happened?

DarK_RaideR · December 9, 2019

If it's expenses, it might be due to a fine if Music in your Production Values is at minimum, or a financial scandal. If it's a 1 million bonus to your income, I have no idea why that might happen.

gazwefc83 · December 10, 2019

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="DarK_RaideR" data-cite="DarK_RaideR" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="41290" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>If it's expenses, it might be due to a fine if Music in your Production Values is at minimum, or a financial scandal. If it's a 1 million bonus to your income, I have no idea why that might happen.</div></blockquote> Yeah, it's a bonus amount. Strange, not complaining though <img alt=":)" data-src="//content.invisioncic.com/g322608/emoticons/smile.png.142cfa0a1cd2925c0463c1d00f499df2.png" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" />

DarK_RaideR · December 10, 2019

Did a new owner take over your promotion? Because when that happens, they do dump a lump sum upon taking command.

gazwefc83 · December 11, 2019

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="DarK_RaideR" data-cite="DarK_RaideR" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="41290" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>Did a new owner take over your promotion? Because when that happens, they do dump a lump sum upon taking command.</div></blockquote> No nothing like that, maybe it is something in the database. I'm using Thunderverse for the first time ever.

SeanMcG · December 25, 2019

Geting the itch to try this again, so let's roll;

Start - Jan 2016

Current - Jan 2017

CLASH Championship Wrestling

- Based In: Great Lakes, USA

- Owned By: Michael Bull

- Style: Old School Wrestling (Pop = Performance)

- Ranking: 41/41

- Money: $56,363 - 35/41 in the World

- Awards: N/A

Owner Goals

Critical: When the time expires, CLASH must not have fallen below #40 in the company rankings. (Expires: January 2018 - Currently #41 )

Critical: CLASH must not be in debt when the time expires. (Expires: January 2018)

Average: Can't hire any Janpanese Juniors (Expires: September 2017)

Average: Can't hire or extend anyone with less than 35 Charisma (Expires: November 2017)

Average: Can't hire or extend anyone with less than 35 Safety (Expires: May 2018)

Couple rough Owner Goals to start with, nothing unmanagable though. The 2nd one was a touch scary, meant I couldn't just hammer out weekly shows in Year 1. That said with the backing of a strong US economy (90 and falling as of Jan 2017) saw CLASH profitable by July.

Notes:

Wrestling Industry started in the trash and has been steadily rising throughout the RTG, sitting at 54 and still rising.
We've have 2 solid prospects signed by RIPW already - usual suspect in Logan Wolfsbane (who unfortunately in his "goodbye" match vs UC, discovered their Good Chemistry vs each other and delivered UC's best match. Seth Whitehead was the other, bit of a head scratcher since he tends to stay under the radar but really frustrating since he had gotten himself quite over quickly. Shame on that one there.
Other Alumni feature Lucas Danger, whom lasted three shows after showing up high on the first and jobbed out for the next two. Was impaired and fired after his third match.
Main Event scene for the year featured one for the ages, green bodybuilder James "Justice" Joison, repackaged as the uber-patriot American Justice chasing the narcissist simply known as Steel. What a thrill for the fans to watch. To their credit both are slowly developing into somewhat tolerable workers, that and their On-Screen skills is quite valuable.
Thankfully for the fans, Steel's reign of terror ended at the hands of Dragon Takano - Avalanche Takano packaged as the no nonsense wrestling machine. By far and away the best worker on the roster, Takano holding the title solves the problem of a quality Main Event, though his excursion ends later this year....
Elsewhere in the Uppercard, "Shooter" Jim McGraw looms as Takano's heir apparant post-excursion. Jim McGraw himself was a quality regen with great Entertainment Skills (all started low to mid 60's), decent Performance (40s + 50s, though 65 in Consistency) and a 99 in Legitimate Gimmicks - the result? "Shooter" Jim McGraw was born and immediately made an impact, the MMA Badass staring down UC and sent Lucas Danger packing after a 6 minute squash.
Fearless Blue being actually useful. Given a mask, a new picture and whilst he'll likely never be the champ he's turning into quite the reliable hand - mid 50's in Psych and 76 Selling? Yes please. Also going from Average to Toned after 6 months of gameplay always helps his chances of sticking around. Currently in a team with fellow bumper Kid Fantastic.

End of Year Roll

#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.

Taking the cash 100%, helps deal with the goal and gives me a couple of options. I'm closing in on Small and the Wrestling Industry is rising also, so the plan is to start smashing weekly shows and brute force it to Small (or until I can't afford to anymore). That said SWF, after locking away two quality pieces has given me potential Christmas gift...

Expensive? Oh yeah at $1,300 PPA but that's a hell of an upgrade in the top Heel department.

We'll see where 2017 takes us

SeanMcG · December 28, 2019

End of Year 2

Year two in the books and the biggest improvement is from the Top Row, with the weaker skills jumping by 5. Fair shout to Safety catching up with the rest of the Performance Skills. Couple more years and Aussie should be a fairly decent hand. SQ's slow improvement is a massive worry though, hopefully hasn't capped at 80ish...

CLASH Championship Wrestling

- Based In: Great Lakes, USA

- Size: Small

- Owned By: Michael Bull

- Style: Old School Wrestling (Pop = Performance)

- Ranking: 35/40

- Money: $31,433 - 34/40 in the World

- Awards: N/A

Owner Goals

Critical: CLASH must not fall below Small (Expires: Jan 2020)

Average: Can't hire or extend anyone with less than 35 Safety (Expires: May 2018)

Average: Can't hire any Cruiserweights (Expires: May 2019)

Average: Can't hire any Luchadors (Expires: July 2020)

Passed the last couple goals easily, now just waiting for the next lot to come through. A little dissappointed to see the "No Cruiserweights or Luchadors" goal, considering they're a great source of cheap workers usually with great Selling for our big boys.

Notes:

Both Wrestling Industry and Economy is on the decline, both sitting mid 50's and still dropping
More poaching, but that's the life of a Small company. Austin Smooth to BHOTWG, Primus joining and gone to TCW within 3.5 months and Dragon Takano's excursion ending;

Shame but he's off to better things, was a steal for $380 PPA.
Intrepid Ian Identity's been a gem as Ian DeColt. NBT right behind UC and even has bulked up to Light Heavyweight, easily the most reliable Heel I've got right now.
I've hit the jackpot with a pair of regens;

Laurent Frye, an Obese Heavyweight with 99 Menace and fantastic Entertainment Skills, but god awful in the ring and Destin David, a Toned Super Heavyweight with AMAZING Performance Skills and not much else. Agreed to bulk up into a Giant and repackaged into David Liberty. Threw them together to cover their weakness and they're just caught fire, every angle rated on Menace is 80+ from Fyre and they're rocketing up the card. The hope is that Fyre will eventually get behind becoming a Super Heavyweight himself and get himself into shape - could be a future Mega Star with that Menace and Star Qaulity.

End of Year Roll

2017: #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.

2018: #33 “Makeover Time” You get yourself an image makeover. Your sex appeal, star quality and menace EACH randomly change by anything between -5 and +15. (roll once for each stat)

Wonderful, rolls went 10 for Sex Appeal, 4 for SQ and 14 for Menace. Menace is fantastic, rest eh. 2018 awaits I guess

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