The Road to Glory Challenge

[Lex Star]

Just brought in Cornell Jr. and I have his daddy as his manager and occasional tag partner.

[marsupial311]

End of Year 3 and I roll +20 drinking... And I was responsible for two botches leading to injuries to Barry Bowen and Barry Kingman. And I got denied when I tried to become the head booker of three more companies.

 

Not giving up but man is this save rough.

[Lex Star]

Finished up 2025 and rolled a 7. So I guess Gordon Rush is dating Lucy Stone-McFly now.

[lr10540]

Halfway through 2017, and I just offered a contract to a still toxic Kikkawa who was realeased from Burning Hammer over a year ago at this point in the game. Since I'm lucky if I draw 900, I doubt my crowds are affected all that much. I need the ratings! I've managed to come second almost every month to GCG, but between their top stars, they manage to put on 80+ rated shows damn near every month. Hopefully Kikkawa can help to put a stop to that.

[Jon Claw]

LIWC has gone bankrupt after 9 months

 

I was running a loss, but it was slowly getting closer to breaking even. Unfortunately, it wasn't fast enough. I'm going to play out the rest of the year and roll. Hopefully, a company drops down to Local. Otherwise, I'll have to restart.

 

Rolled a 5 and no companies are at Local. Unfortunately I'll have to start over.

[Lex Star]

I am currently in 2026 here are the top 20 company's in rankings, with their size in brackets.

 

1. WLW (International)

2. USPW (International)

3. SWF (Cult)

4. SOTBPW (Cult)

5. TCW (Cult)

6. 21CW (Cult)

7. BHOTWG (Cult)

8. OLLIE (Cult)

9. RAW (Cult)

10. EMLL (Regional)

11. WWA (Regional; My company)

12. QAW (Regional)

13. CILL (Regional)

14. APW (Regional)

15. EX2010

16. 4C (Regional)

17. PSW (Regional)

18. AAA (Regional)

19. ZEN (Regional)

20. CZCW (Regional)

 

The modern Japan movement is no more, as the only company's left in Japan are WLW, BHOTWG, EX2010 and "Notorious Pro Wrestling" which was a random generated company I think, as it has no logo. NPW is a Women's only company, filling the void that 5SSW left after they bankrupt in 2024.

 

I am currently making $1,000,000 per month at Regional, because I have "B" Popularity in the Mid West and usually draw 20,000-30,000 people for my events. I have $13,430,074 in the bank, I think by 2028 I will be able to make my own Broadcaster will some okay coverage, so I can hit Cult the lazy way and then lock down all my workers on Written deals.

 

I will take a job with any of the current Cult companies though if it becomes an option, because I kind of want to see what the AI does with the company I've built.

[Narcizo]

LIWC has gone bankrupt after 9 months

 

I was running a loss, but it was slowly getting closer to breaking even. Unfortunately, it wasn't fast enough. I'm going to play out the rest of the year and roll. Hopefully, a company drops down to Local. Otherwise, I'll have to restart.

 

Rolled a 5 and no companies are at Local. Unfortunately I'll have to start over.

 

You can look for a small company although the chances are they won't accept you. A local company seems to open quite often in Britain - HIW.

[Crychon]

I forgot to take a screenshot before I started, but here's where my user character is after 2 months:

 

http://i64.photobucket.com/albums/h172/Crychon/RTG1_zpshjxy4hrz.jpg

 

I decided to try this with a women's promotion. 25k in the hole so far! I'm bad at running small companies. I've pretty much only played as large companies before. I'll update as I progress further.

[Lex Star]

Just managed to create my own Broadcaster. The WWA Network. I am still Regional, but it allows me to get Small Exposure in all of the USA. I am still making approximately $1,500,000 per month with my 'A' Show, 'B' Show and Monthly Event, I'm gonna be saving up as much as I can for when I hit Cult. The only thing I gotta worry about now is my workers will be gaining pop in all of the US now, so they're more prone to being stolen.

 

I will make the cost of creating the initial network back in a year.

[SeanMcG]

http://i.imgur.com/Add24Ik.png?1

 

 

End of Year Two

 

- Rough Year, money issues limited my growth, still Local :/

 

- TCW's been completely devastated. No Hawkins, Golden, AA, Chord and Bach out for the year with a shattered elbow.

 

- SWF's back on top - lead by Bruce, Golden, Hawkins and a heel Angry Gilmore champion. Then Richard Eisen died, leaving Eric to inherit but is also out with a shattered elbow (common injury )

 

- UC's up to 61 pop in his home area and is starting a main event Heel run.

 

- Rolled 44 for the yearly roll, so he bulks up to Middleweight. Good for his entertainment, awful for his average skills.

 

 

 

Year 3 Goals

 

- Get to Small!

- Don't get caught for steroids, always.

- Try get a top row skill to 55-60.

 

 

End of Year Rolls

 

1. (15) "+20 to your steroid use checkbox"

2. (44) "Go up one level of weight class or body type."

[Bad Collin]

I managed to survive a year finally but things are still on a knife edge. I'm about $10,000 in the hole and only earning just over $1000 on my off months. The economy is getting better though so hopefully i'll be ok.

[Lukok]

LIWC has gone bankrupt after 9 months

 

I was running a loss, but it was slowly getting closer to breaking even. Unfortunately, it wasn't fast enough. I'm going to play out the rest of the year and roll. Hopefully, a company drops down to Local. Otherwise, I'll have to restart.

 

Rolled a 5 and no companies are at Local. Unfortunately I'll have to start over.

 

You're supposed to set the company to get founded at the start of the game, so January 2016. This way the bank won't care the first year, and then you have at least sixth months in year two before you go bankrupt.

[Jon Claw]

You're supposed to set the company to get founded at the start of the game, so January 2016. This way the bank won't care the first year, and then you have at least sixth months in year two before you go bankrupt.

 

Double checked what I put. The default must be January 2006, so I may have glossed over it. Whoops!

 

This gives me a chance to tweak a few things for a second attempt anyway.

[Tom Bombadil]

Is it worth even trying if my industry is E- and falling? And/or can I edit that to a more reasonable level and not be a cheater

 

EDIT: Oh, I screwed up the opening date thing anyway! I'll try again, I guess.

[Lukok]

Well my company seems to be doing good, we could get to regional, but I capped us at small so we can work on getting pop in another region, however my character seems to have capped charisma. I signed Grandmaster Phunk, put my guy and him in some angles and my Charisma rose by two to 65, but then at the end of the month went back down to 64.

 

I really hope this isn't some kind of a hard cap that will always be there, because I'm screwed. Star Quality improved by 4 in 4ish year to 79.

[Narcizo]

Finally got to the end of the first year. Running 47 shows in the year will make it take it's time. I've been far more interested in my company than my user character who, to be blunt, isn't really cut out for the product I've created. Still it's only the first year and the 47 shows have seen him really improve.

 

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

 

I started off as a heel and was a legendary Punk. Unfortunately I forgot that that was a heel gimmick and changed to face and had to change my gimmick. My chain and mat skills are too low to get very good scores. Dunno why my selling hasn't improved - seems to be a trend with the wrestler we have though. I was planning on winning the newly created midcard title in November but couldn't bring myself to do it and let Cobra go over instead. Rolled 35 for the end of the year so I guess I'll be making a movie during January and miss 4 shows. I won't be missed in all honesty. I'm hanging around the midcard like a bad smell and can't put on the performances that would justify moving up.

 

The company is at regional and is ranked 23rd in the World and 8th in the US. Not surprisingly we got the Year End award for most improved promotion.

 

Wrestler of year - Sean McFly

Company of the year - NOTBPW (their ability to put on A/A* matches seems to be outweighing the fact that USPW has a lot more star power than them. They did lose Steve McColt to enhancement hell in USPW though)

Match of the Year - Steve DeColt defeats Duane Stone

Show of the Year - SOTBPW Aniversario XIX headlined by Champagne Lover, Multimillionario and Pirata. Just before Champagne Lover got sacked for consorting with prostitutes. He is now the biggest free agent and no-one will touch him.

Young Wrestler of the Year Jormungard, thanks in part to a 93 rated match with Champagne Lover.

Veteran Wrestler of the Year Steve DeColt. Enjoy it while it lasts Steve as you're now condemned to dark matches putting over Mick Muscles.

Female Wresler Shiori Jippensha.

Team of the Year Kozue Kawashima and Pride Koisopridepriodppppride

 

We got 5 performers in the Power 500

 

394 Logan Wolfsbaine, 2 time face champ - unofficial face of the company.

411 Xavi Ferrera, current heel champ

448 Avalanche Takano, heel champ

478 The Silencer, first ever champ, heel

482 The Architect (feuded with Logan)

 

The prestige of the title was up to 100 briefly but that's when Logan has it. Xavi has seen it down to 85. Anyway I'm starting to get to the stage that I can boot the guys I hired solely because of their wage demands and start getting in som more quality workers.

[mrwhippy]

Now the weekend is here I can sit down with this game and give RTG a good shot. I'm assuming perf>pop product is the way to go early on?

[Bad Collin]

<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>Finally got to the end of the first year. Running 47 shows in the year will make it take it's time. I've been far more interested in my company than my user character who, to be blunt, isn't really cut out for the product I've created. Still it's only the first year and the 47 shows have seen him really improve. <p> </p></div></blockquote><p> </p><p> How did you afford to run 47 shows in the first year?</p>

[Doogshere]

<p>I've got mine set up and am ready to roll! I created a guy that is all about the entertainment and star power, but is pretty poor when it comes to core wrestling skills. I made sure that he is decent in selling and hopefully won't hurt anyone. He has a long way to go.</p><p> </p><p>

Name: Walter Elemond</p><p>

Disposition: Heel</p><p>

Gimmick: Arrogant Heel</p><p> </p><p>

I created a company called New England Wrestling. I went in without an owner, and Marvin Earnest snatch that up within the first couple of days. Luckily, he'll work for free for a little while, so I have a free announcer. We'll see how this goes! I've done two shows and have lost money on each. I'm trying to keep costs minimum by having only 2 matches and a 1 hour show. Any recommendations for not crashing your company quickly?</p>

[Bad Collin]

Make sure the wrestling industry and economy are in decent shape. I just went bust again, fifth time lucky I guess.

[Doogshere]

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="Bad Collin" data-cite="Bad Collin" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="41290" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>Make sure the wrestling industry and economy are in decent shape. I just went bust again, fifth time lucky I guess.</div></blockquote><p> </p><p> I just went with standard Cornellverse. Economy is at about an E+ right now with industry in the B range.</p>

[SeanMcG]

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="Bad Collin" data-cite="Bad Collin" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="41290" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>Make sure the wrestling industry and economy are in decent shape. I just went bust again, fifth time lucky I guess.</div></blockquote><p> </p><p> That's rough man. How many shows are you running in your first year? I lucked out and started with a decent-ish economy and industry and was able to pull in enough sponsors when to maintain the company when it started to dry up.</p>

[Bad Collin]

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="SeanMcG" data-cite="SeanMcG" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="41290" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>That's rough man. How many shows are you running in your first year? I lucked out and started with a decent-ish economy and industry and was able to pull in enough sponsors when to maintain the company when it started to dry up.</div></blockquote><p> </p><p> Seven I think. Got $18000 in debt and couldn't pull it back. I'm going the route of lots of shows now, weekly shows for the first few months.</p>

[Tom Bombadil]

I edited the industry to Average and Rising and started over with a proper opening date. I also realized you can see estimated salary before you negotiate, and set women to integrated. This should go much better for me, although it still requires a lot of TEW skills I don't have <img alt="" data-src="//content.invisioncic.com/g322608/emoticons/tongue.png.ceb643b2956793497cef30b0e944be28.png" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" />

[MaxxHexx]

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="Pogo92" data-cite="Pogo92" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="41290" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>Holy crap your guy is a murderer in the ring. How do you expect to wrestle when you injure everyone you get in the ring with?</div></blockquote><p> </p><p> Honestly in past games I feel like low safety has not hindered my worker. We will find out though. Ideally it will rocket up by working with some solid safe folks. That or I will make some enemies botching.</p><p> </p><p> </p><blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="Lex Star" data-cite="Lex Star" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="41290" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>Just managed to create my own Broadcaster. The WWA Network. I am still Regional, but it allows me to get Small Exposure in all of the USA. I am still making approximately $1,500,000 per month with my 'A' Show, 'B' Show and Monthly Event, I'm gonna be saving up as much as I can for when I hit Cult. The only thing I gotta worry about now is my workers will be gaining pop in all of the US now, so they're more prone to being stolen.<p> </p><p> I will make the cost of creating the initial network back in a year. <img alt=":)" data-src="//content.invisioncic.com/g322608/emoticons/smile.png.142cfa0a1cd2925c0463c1d00f499df2.png" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /></p></div></blockquote><p> </p><p> Why not just go to cult at that point so you can lock down your stars?</p>