The BCG Thread

[Larrikn]

first thing i did was open up a dojo costing roughly $250,000 (if i remember correctly)

and started running 9 shows a month and im doing fine on money so....

[Sudo_Nym]

So I just ran the Maeda Grand Prix. I ran it as a round robin in two pods of eight during the tour shows, with the top 4 from each pod going on to a one-night single elimination tournament at the event itself. Not sure if that's a common way to go about it, but it seemed to work alright.

 

I decided to have Big Bruiser Findlay win it; he's been awesome, and it established him as a firm main eventer. My idea is that I'll push him as a huge foreign monster, beating Torii for the belt, and then it'll be up for some hero wrestler to get the title back off him. Right now, I want Razan to be the one who eventually beats him, in the hopes that this will get him over enough to be the figurehead; failing that, probably Funakoshi will be the one.

[Shinsuke]

Just fired up my first real game with TEW16 and it's a BCG game. Not surprising since the Black Canvas was my go-to company in '13 already and I took them to a good Cult level multiple times.

 

Now Tanyu, Okamoto and Sojuro Sen are lost already but making money does not seem to bother me too much. (I re-negotiate all contracts at the beginning of the game, cutting costs a little and giving the expensive veterans "Special Attraction" clauses to prevent morale ditches for not using them on tour shows)

Regional Battle seems a bit tough, might have to spam shows to effectively gain pop.

 

I agree with Hawk1665 on some annoyances with BCG like the TagMania and some other event names, the Challergers Series title, too. As far as event go, I build some personal BCG lore from '13 which I will re-implement.

 

Might turn this game into a dynasty and try to stick with it...

 

Has anybody figured out how to create loyalty in '16 yet? I always like to build up a strong body of loyal workers in the long term.

[Tag01]

I played a ton of BCG in 2013 so I'm not very happy with BCG in 2016 and its development. Losing Okamoto & Tanyu doesn't make much sense to me in canon but I can forgive it. Leads to an "exodus" which is interesting. I knew it was coming this game so I pre-emptively hired Hitomaro Suzuki, Omezo Shikitei, Outlaw Wes Revell and others to fill the void.

 

What I can't forgive is Blast Ikoma being a former world champion having had a reign equal to Funakoshi. That one really, really bugs me. In every game I've played, including this one, Ikoma is a solid hand but not world champion or main eventer level. Even in 2016 where you'd think he'd have gotten a stat boost he's still worse then Funakoshi, Torii, Okamoto, Tanyu, Y. Taku, etc, etc.

 

The other thing that bugs me is the game won't accept Funakoshi as figurehead. I guess you can do it anyway and hope the penalties aren't that bad, but Funakoshi IS BCG. He's the best guy, he defines the style, he's the top guy of that generation, and he'll often carry the company on his back. Okamoto & Torii are close but neither are on Funakoshi's level at game start.

 

Also absolutely hate the name "TagMania". I don't know who came up with that but they should feel bad. I advocate renaming it to the Kazu Yoshizawa Honorary Tag Team Grand Prix since he formed BCG with Maeda. I also like throwing "Honorary" into the Maeda Grand Prix.

 

Don't like the Challengers title name either (I know it existed in 2013). In my last 2013 game I created the Pacific Openweight Championship, so I'll probably do that again.

 

So it kind of puts me in a weird position. BCG is by far my favorite promotion but I really dislike a lot of the things that happened in the jump and the roster itself hasn't developed or changed much.

 

Kind of in the same place as you. It had such a promising roster in 2013 and the 2014 expansion, and now here we are two years later and it's not really improved and you've not built any loyalty with the guys that were fun to build around. It's not the end of the world as it's an interesting challenge, but you have a lot less to build around this time with Pistol Pete retiring and a good chunk of your bright prospects peacing out in a month or two. It's not as interesting as some of the big changes many of the other promotions saw.

[Hawk1665]

<p>If I had to guess, and assuming there's a <em>plan</em> for BCG, that we're supposed to see BCG as having been very badly booked. Okamoto won the Maeda GP in 2015 but lost to Ikoma, who inexplicably had a major run despite not being in the top ten of the promotion. And there's been very little elevation of talent in two years which suggests Maeda's just been doing the same thing over and over.</p><p> </p><p>

Which then explains why Okamoto bails. I don't like it happening EVERY GAME (why not just make it part of the data then?) but if you look at it that way it makes some sense.</p><p> </p><p>

I write down all my results and some thoughts just in case I ever decide to turn this into diary.</p><p> </p><p>

I'm up to April and the Maeda GP but just when it seemed I had things going well I got raided by BHOWTG. I lost Satomura, Okimasa & Findlay to them which hurts considering Findlay & Smith won my tag GP (Not TagMania cause that name sucks) and Findlay was the Challengers champion.</p><p> </p><p>

I took March off to overhaul the roster. Naozane Goto thought the GP final in Feb was a <em>great</em> time to start a fist fight with the injured Hirotsugu Sato. Ozawa had kept complaining about losing, Murkami plain sucks, as does Yorii Ippitsusai. My announcer quit after having had a backstage incident, fired the default color commentator (My User is a Color guy). Lost Animal Harker & Giant Brody due to not renewing their tour deals.</p><p> </p><p>

Brought in Morimasa Kato (game said to hire him for some reason), Haranobu Kobayashi, Chess Maniac, Marv Statler, Dean Waldorf, Aztec Prince & Roderick Remus, and a new announcer.</p><p> </p><p>

So it's pretty much a reboot of sorts. Tag GP has no winners (since Findlay left), Challengers title is retired, and a fourth of my roster has been replaced.</p>

[thecoolestjedi12]

This Thread is awesome! Gonna start a BCG game now.

[Jon The GOAT]

Well this thread's been buried. So I continued along in my second file. I think a lot of us had differing experiences financially probably because of the different points we were at vs. rapidly coming patches. My first start was horrific, another patch had me doing significantly better and the recent one has struggling but not to the point where I know I'm not going to survive.

 

I'm in September which means I've long past the Tsunami which sent the economy/industry to 5 and lower yet to 1 before beginning its rise again. It's at 4/4 right now.

 

The roster turnover has been insane: Animal Harker (end of touring contract), Dynamite Naharashi (BHOTWG), Big Bruiser Findlay (BHOTWG), Inejiro Yoshizawa (GCG), Kadonomaro Kamisaka (GCG), Kiyotaka (GCG), Masayuki Shiga (early cut & retired), Naonobu Murkami (early cut), Naozane Goto (GCG + walked out), Noritoshi Miura (year long injury so cut, may resign), Razan Okamoto (GCG then BHOTWG), Roku Sotomura (GCG), Sharaku Okimasa (GCG), Sofu Ozawa (early cut), Sojuro Sen (GCG then BHOTWG), Tanyu Toshusai (GCG & SAISHO), Yoriie Ipputsusai (early cut), Yoshinaka Taku (GCG), Yoshisada Matsuzawa (cut then GCG).

 

Big heartbreaker was Yoshinaka Taku who was entering my main event and pulling out great performances with potential to win my Maeda Grand Prix. Instead, he had a wonderful farewell tour, first round elimination by Bunrakuken Torii (80), a farewell match with Funakoshi (82) both where he had an appreciation segment post match, and then he defeated his father in his last match (76) and got a farewell segment with him.

 

Toshinobu would've been cut if not for making Motoyuki and Shuzo his protegees who I subsequently renamed Taku too.

 

Blast Ikoma is the absolute worst.

 

I let Giant Brody and Bulldozer Brandon Smith go after the first tour but when the huge exodus happened, I brought them back, Bulldozer is amazing, keep him if you can.

 

I've brought in tons of guys to replace them, always ensuring my roster had 20 guys. So the roster is now..

 

Austin Smooth: Cheap opener. When he gets a shot on the card, he's losing or winning by proxy of teaming with Bunrakuken Torii. Though at 3-0-6, that doesn't happen much. May have a future when I get poached again.

 

Blast Ikoma: How is this guy a main eventer? He's consistently one of my worst performers and has never had anything worth noting. If not for his loyalty, I'd have sent him packing. Shite member of the company. Just managed to bring him down to upper midcard though he's somehow refused to go down from main event till september. 17-0-18.

 

Bulldozer Brandon Smith: Amazing, simply amazing. Glad Findlay left so he could come back. He's had an 80+ match with so many random guys on the roster. Most notable being an 86 rated one with Pavel that pushed Pavel to the upper card and him to the main event. He missed out his title shot because he also now works for PGHW and I forgot they had their tour shows the day of my big event. He's a current tag team champion with Giant Brody. 26-0-13.

 

Bunrakuken Torii: Company figurehead. Loyal. A bit underappreciated by me but he's extremely good. He's still champion though hasn't had many defenses with TagMania and Grand Prix in the way. Not as many great matches as Bulldozer but he was in my two greatest matches, a tag with Guerrero Muerta against Orange Tsuchie/Funakoshi that hit 89 and another tag with Tsuneyo against Orange Tsuchie/Funakoshi that hit 94. 44-0-7. Protect your figurehead.

 

Funakoshi: My favorite guy in all of CVerse. Machine in the ring. Only guy who gets booked better than Torii. 47-0-4. Losses involved the aforementioned tag match against Tsuneyo/Bunrakuken, two throwaway 3 v. 3, and a tagmania match because he was injured. He won the Grand Prix by eating Torii in the finals for the third time.

 

Giant Brody: A solid hand. He's not the best or worst guy in my company but he's a good Gaijin who teams up often with Bulldozer. He's a current world tag champ with Bulldozer as well. 17-0-14. Average rating is 64.

 

Guerrero Muerto: I have raised my product to Modern overtime to accomodate differing types of characters from a realistic standpoint. A lower mid card, he's still making his name in BCG and has even moved here despite still main eventing at EMLL. 5-0-12 here but he was in our second best match with Torii against Funakoshi/Orange. He had two great 80 rated matches against Funakoshi and Orange as well. If he stays, he's got a future here.

 

Kaii Hanari: Stolen from EX2010 (remember I'm at war so anyone I grab has to leave them). Solid midcarder with a future if the upper mid ever clears out. 3-0-10.

 

Logan Wolfsbaine: My only legit OP signing of the game I feel. Logan is way too good for his experience and age but I keep him as an opener and am in no rush to push him. He takes all the pinfalls. 0-0-18. Will push in 10 years when he's earned his place... Still, lots of brilliant matches out of him, Funakoshi (80), Bunrakuken (80), Orange (75), among others.

 

Motoyuki Taku (Miyake): protegee of Toshinuba Taku. So glad he got made that because it gave him life. He was handed Yoshinaka's tag belt but they lost on teh first defense. 21. Young Lion. Lots of room to grow. He's already pretty good though and often teams with Shuzo as well as Blast/Tetsunayo as part of the stable. 2-0-16. Often takes pinfalls too. He's got a huge future ahead of him if he stays though.

 

Nobuharu Yokokawa: A surprise great performer. And he hasn't left yet. Upper mid card but really main event quality. He's my Challenge Series champion after beating other surprise Roku Sotomura when it was apparent he was leaving. I don't use him as much as I should but he's really great. 18-0-13. Standout matches against Tetsunayo (84), Bulldozer (83), Pavel (83), w/ Orange against Bunrakuken/Guerrero (83).

 

Orange Tsuchie: One of my biggest coups and stolen from EX2010. What's stopping him from being one of the legitimate dominate forces of my company? No loyalty. Afraid to push him. Otherwise, he might be a grand prix winner already. Instead he frequently teams with Funakoshi and has his great matches in the upper midcard. 26-0-13. Part of my 94 & 89 rated matches mentioned earlier. Too many great matches to count.

 

Pavel Vanzycha: My polish boytoy. I love him so much and hopes he stays with me forever. But with a recent touring contract with PGHW with Bulldozer, I'm worried. Unemployed till I gave him life, and risen from 0 pop to 30-50s right now. 7-0-18. Highlight is an insane match against Bulldozer (86) but he can steal the show with anyone you want him to. Afraid to push. Need cult so I can sign him forever.

 

Ray Snow: Alright guy. Solid lower midcarder outshone by guys like Logan and Pavel. 2-0-17. No real stand out performances. Only a standout singles against Funakoshi (78). If he stays for 6 years could end up like Yokokawa, kissing the main event.

 

Rokuemon Matsushita: A real long term project. He's just not ready and not up to the same level as anyone else on the roster (Blast aside). At least he hasn't been confused into believing he's main event quality like Blast. 14-0-16. It'll be a long time before he's ready. For no he's in midcard hell. A great tag chemistry could really give him some life. No standout matches. His singles mostly bomb even against Torii or Funakoshi.

 

Shuzo Taku: Another Toshinobu Taku protegee. And one of my number one jobbers. 1-0-13. He's got a long road ahead. If he stays, he could have a huge future though. No standout match since he's really a young boy and is only there for tag team matches to take the pin.

 

Tobei Sugimura: Stolen from SAISHO and EX2010 to hurt them. He was a midcard champion at the time. He's just a solid midcard for me right now. Like some other guys, maybe in 6 years or if he's got a sudden surge in performance quality he could crack the main event. The best he can hope for is for GCG to come calling or me to give him a Challenge Series title run. 6-0-6. One standout match vs. Funakoshi (76).

 

Toshinobu Taku: I am so glad he loves protegees because it's given him a new lease on life. If he had not, I would've cut him the day after Yoshinaka left. Future hall of fame inductee when he retires. 12-0-18. Aside from tags with Motoyuki and before that Yoshinaka, highlight was his farewell match against Yoshinaka (76). Really loved that match because I was afraid it might bomb but Toshinobu brought it to his son.

 

Tsuneyo Yanagimoto: Give him loyalty and watch me drop Torii as figurehead. Alas, not yet. Formerly with EX2010 and their world champ at the time. Poached and is now one of my best main eventers. Like Orange, cant push him past Torii or Funakoshi until he gets a written or loyalty. 21-0-9. Was in my best match with you know who, also had an 85 vs. Bulldozer, 84 with Funakoshi, 84 with Yokokawa among others. Sadly hasn't turned it up against Bunrakuken with two 79s for some reason. Still, desperate to keep him long term.

 

Yuki Horigoshi: Mediocre ending to this list. Yuki isn't a bad midcarder. But he doesn't stand out in the sea of amazing main eventers or up and commers like Pavel or Logan. 12-0-6. Boring render doesn't help. Often forget to even book him.

 

Really loving the game so hopefully I stay stable and the economy/industry recover in time. I just won my first regional war over GCG in August thanks to that 94 rated tag match. PGHW/WLW/BHOTWG are all cult and 5SSW/GCG nearly that so I don't really want to hit cult yet.

[Hawk1665]

I've been doing my GP and it's like the AI knew. They've raided me hard right before the tournament taking Matsuzawa, Miura, Okimasa, Narahashi & Findlay. And then during the GP GCG came for Yoshinaka Taku who I'm trying my best to keep.

 

I'm in a position where I'm becoming terrified to push anyone since the only four people who are loyal are Ikoma, Funakoshi, Torii & Matsushita. But Ikoma & Matsushita aren't very good so that leaves you with Funakoshi & Torii to literally carry the entire company.

[bonos mullet]

I've found just by offering a touring contract to those on ppa, wrestlers have been choosing to stay with me rather than jump to GCG. (still on patch 8 of trial until pay day though)

[Sons of Kohral]

I just had half my roster poached in month 1. Horrible, horrible.

 

First month I lost $75K. I'm lowering the touring show time to 1.5 hours and seeing about using less workers per show. This is really difficult, I actually like it.

[Jon The GOAT]

I'm in love with this roster. Last event of the year.

 

 

Pavel & Nobuhara brought in 90 & 95 rated performances for that measly 82 rated match. All in all, what a show. Eisaku came in for a one night appearance. Bulldozer/Brody gave up the tag titles to Tetsu & Blast. Tetsu really should be doing something more but being that he's not loyal and I need someone to face Bulldozer/Brody, he did it. Bulldozer is ready to crash into the main event for a feud with Funakoshi.

 

Nobuhara is soooooooo good. And Pavel is soooooooo good. But I had to let Nobu keep it, and no regrets after his in ring performance. Underrated match for sure.

 

Ray Snow & Guerrero Muerto with a shocker good match. Guerrero actually main evented last PPV in a triple threat with Greg Gauge (one night only) and Torii between three 'world' champions. He faced Torii twice but failed twice afterwards to win his world title. Ray Snow wasn't doing much but as the best of my 'rest' he got the showcase match with Guerrero. Rokuemon/Yuki/Logan was another best of my rest showcase. The three v. three was Takus vs. worst of the rest.

 

Main event was looooooong in the making. Funakoshi beat Torii in the grand prix and it was only a matter of time before they faced off again. I was hoping for a 95+ but I'm still happy with the 92. Funakoshi wins it and is now our world champion. I want to end the year on a high note so I might cancel the december tour show and give us two months of vacation.

 

Top 10 shows of the 'wrestling year':

 

 

I got desperate in October to top GCG's 81 rated event for the regional war, kept getting close till my actual big event.

 

 

The thing I love the most about my top 10 is that there is a lot of diversity there, up to 9 different guys.

 

Funakoshi, Nobuharu, Orange (all three often teaming as BUSHIDO), Pavel, Bulldozer, Giant Brody (all three often teaming as Club Gaijin), Blast Ikoma, Tsuneyo (as Blast), and Bunrakuken Torii (his partners aren't as up there). We've got 64 other 80+ rated matches, with guys Logan, Guerrero, Tobei, Ray Snow, Motoyuki, Austin Smooth, Rokuemon, Yuki, Kaii all being part of those. I think the only two guys who haven't part of a 80+ match for me are Shuzo Taku (my worst competitor) and Toshinobu (old and doesn't really get involved with the main eventers).

 

But really, take any of Bulldozer, Funakoshi, Nobu, Bunrakuken, Tsuneyo, Orange, Pavel, and they can probably get you an 80 rated match no matter who they're facing.

 

We've got National company quality but we're still a regional sized company. We're not profitable either. But we're making progress. The economy/industry is getting better, I think a year from now we'll be able to start making some substantial growth. I'm in no rush to start growing, I'm happy putting on great shows and great matches for now. Odd that the bigger companies haven't raided me since early summer. Tsuneyo, Orange, Bulldozer, Pavel, Nobu are all upper midcard quality even for PGHW/BHOTWG. And I can't compete financially. Oh well.

[Jon The GOAT]

Tsuneyo and Orange Tsuchie have left me for the BHOTWG promise land but I stole Tanyu Toshusai and Yoshinaka Taku bad. Don't win the trade but not a huge loss.

 

End of the year awards are in, we haven't won anything though we did well in Power 500...

 

Funakoshi #29 (#183 last year)

Tsuneyo #36 (#163) baiii

Orange #42 (#165) baiiii

Bulldozer Brandon Smith #44 (#373)

Bunrakuken Torii #48 (#449)

Nobuharu Yokokawa #56 (unlisted)

Blast Ikoma #66 (unlisted) - has improved but also beneficiary of facing great guys

Giant Brody #128 (unlisted)

Guerrero Muerto #157 (#401)

Yoshinaka Taku #160 (unlisted)

Ray Snow #179 (unlisted)

Logan Wolfsbaine #187 (unlisted)

Rokuemon Matsushita #191 (unlisted)

Toshinobu Taku #200 (unlisted)

Tanyu Toshusai #214 (#441)

Motoyuki Miyaku #227 (unlisted)

Austin Smooth #237 (unlisted)

 

Roku, Tobei, Yuki, Kaii make it from 250-300, Shuzo 300-350, ton of more ex guys there.

[Hawk1665]

Holy crap those shows. I can barely do C+'s with BCG up to May.

[Tag01]

<p>I got the usual exodus on day two, with GCG coming after the usual suspects. I signed up several good prospects including Pavel, who worked one match for me then jumped ship to PGHW. Oh well. </p><p> </p><p>

Merle O'Curle continues to be a nice signing like he was in 2013. He was always able to job his way into the upper midcard in a few months for me and I'm still having luck with that. he also relocated to Japan after working for BCG for a month. </p><p> </p><p>

My best surprise signing this go around has been Munemitsu Senmatsu though. When Toshusai opted to leave I brought in Senmatsu and had him take the Challenger Series title in his debut on a whim, following with a menace angle. Since his debut he won the rematch in Toshusai's farewell match and has been winning solo matches against young lions following menace angles every week. He's put on at least C+ matches in every contest even against some of my really green guys and his popularity is climbing faster than anyone else in the promotion. </p><p> </p><p>

My first month was just getting the roster settled and trying to build a foundation. The Road to Heritage was built with a ton of tag matches and no real interesting singles matches other than Sen, Okamoto and Toshusai all losing high profile matches on their way out. Heritage was also standard fare with all of the champions retaining. I also used the month to churn through tag team possibilities looking for chemistry which turned out well. I especially wanted to find seasoned vets with chemistry to tag with Giant Brody and Rokuemon, which I did. </p><p> </p><p>

Going forward I'm going to make the build to TagMania about developing the tag teams, and will use that to launch the rest of the title feuds for the year. Ultimately I'll have Torii and Dynamite eliminate Funakoshi and whomever I partner him with in the finals, setting up a long running "Funakoshi can't get past Torii" story. I'm aligning Smith and Findlay with Shiga as a crime syndicate type thing. Dynamite and Torii will likely eliminate the gaijin, which I'll use to build a short fued between the Syndicate and Torii / Dynamite culminating with Torii defending against Shiga at the Grand Prix in a title defense. I'm also using that defense as an excuse to keep Torii out of the grand prix so he doesn't have to take a loss. </p><p> </p><p>

I've got Funakoshi to win the Grand Prix but lose the title match. During that short program I'm going to use what's left of Shiga's pop to put over Blast and hope he slowly improves. Then I'm using The Survivor Battle Royal to earn a shot at the end of the year show. Funakoshi will win that and then I'll do a slow burn Funakoshi - Torii feud to cap off the year where Funakoshi finally gets over the hump and takes the title back. </p><p> </p><p>

I don't have big plans for the tag division but I expect if I can keep them in the company Findlay and Smith will take the belts during the Syndicate run. I will have Senmatsu probably lose the Challengers Series title soon in a multi-man match to avoid him being pinned; if things play out how I'd like and he both continues to improve and I am able to get him on a written deal I'd like him to enter 2017 undefeated with a monster winning streak to be Funakoshi's first challenger. </p><p> </p><p>

As for the Challengers Series I don't have big plans for the title, but I will probably keep with guys that are loyal or are not blue chip types and let my really hot prospects just chase. I have some really bright prospects like Logan Wolfsbaine, Orange Tsuchie, Tsuneyo, and the younger Taku, but I'm hoping to build them very slowly until I get some loyalty or hit cult.</p>

[Jon The GOAT]

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="Tag01" data-cite="Tag01" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="41393" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>I got the usual exodus on day two, with GCG coming after the usual suspects. I signed up several good prospects including Pavel, who worked one match for me then jumped ship to PGHW. Oh well. <p> </p><p> Merle O'Curle continues to be a nice signing like he was in 2013. He was always able to job his way into the upper midcard in a few months for me and I'm still having luck with that. he also relocated to Japan after working for BCG for a month. </p><p> </p><p> My best surprise signing this go around has been Munemitsu Senmatsu though. When Toshusai opted to leave I brought in Senmatsu and had him take the Challenger Series title in his debut on a whim, following with a menace angle. Since his debut he won the rematch in Toshusai's farewell match and has been winning solo matches against young lions following menace angles every week. He's put on at least C+ matches in every contest even against some of my really green guys and his popularity is climbing faster than anyone else in the promotion. </p><p> </p><p> My first month was just getting the roster settled and trying to build a foundation. The Road to Heritage was built with a ton of tag matches and no real interesting singles matches other than Sen, Okamoto and Toshusai all losing high profile matches on their way out. Heritage was also standard fare with all of the champions retaining. I also used the month to churn through tag team possibilities looking for chemistry which turned out well. I especially wanted to find seasoned vets with chemistry to tag with Giant Brody and Rokuemon, which I did. </p><p> </p><p> Going forward I'm going to make the build to TagMania about developing the tag teams, and will use that to launch the rest of the title feuds for the year. Ultimately I'll have Torii and Dynamite eliminate Funakoshi and whomever I partner him with in the finals, setting up a long running <strong>"Funakoshi can't get past Torii"</strong> story. I'm aligning Smith and Findlay with Shiga as a crime syndicate type thing. Dynamite and Torii will likely eliminate the gaijin, which I'll use to build a short fued between the Syndicate and Torii / Dynamite culminating with Torii defending against Shiga at the Grand Prix in a title defense. I'm also using that defense as an excuse to keep Torii out of the grand prix so he doesn't have to take a loss. </p><p> </p><p> I've got Funakoshi to win the Grand Prix but lose the title match. During that short program I'm going to use what's left of Shiga's pop to put over Blast and hope he slowly improves. Then I'm using The Survivor Battle Royal to earn a shot at the end of the year show. Funakoshi will win that and then I'll do a slow burn Funakoshi - Torii feud to cap off the year where Funakoshi finally gets over the hump and takes the title back. </p><p> </p><p> I don't have big plans for the tag division but I expect if I can keep them in the company Findlay and Smith will take the belts during the Syndicate run. I will have Senmatsu probably lose the Challengers Series title soon in a multi-man match to avoid him being pinned; if things play out how I'd like and he both continues to improve and I am able to get him on a written deal I'd like him to enter 2017 undefeated with a monster winning streak to be Funakoshi's first challenger. </p><p> </p><p> As for the Challengers Series I don't have big plans for the title, but I will probably keep with guys that are loyal or are not blue chip types and let my really hot prospects just chase. I have some really bright prospects like Logan Wolfsbaine, Orange Tsuchie, Tsuneyo, and the younger Taku, but I'm hoping to build them very slowly until I get some loyalty or hit cult.</p></div></blockquote><p> </p><p> That's different than what I'm used to seeing - that being the other way around of Torii can't get past Funakoshi which for me built up to Lion's Roar - Torii has the title, he can defend it against anyone, but he knows Funakoshi is coming, and he doesn't think he can beat him - unfortunately he doesn't. Maybe one day he will. </p><p> </p><p> Definitely going to check out Senmatsu. </p><p> </p><p> Tsuneyo, Orange and Yoshinaka Taku are great - though they might grow no matter what you try, they really are that good. You'd have to outright bury them to keep them from growing pop wise and from BHOTWG to come poaching eventually. Logan I think you're secure with but I've got him on an endless losing streak so that could also be why the big guns haven't come for him. </p><p> </p><p> I'm getting ready to start my 2017. I'm thinking Funakoshi vs. Bunrakuken Torii to main event Lion's Roar again, this time I might actually let Torii beat Funakoshi. Torii is officially are figurehead so its really time I plunge headstrong into building him as such. If I can keep Bulldozer though, I may be tempted to give him the title as well which might postpone my Funakoshi/Torii rematch at Lion's Roar plans. I had Torii hold the belt for a year and 2 months so not sure I want Funakoshi to hold onto it for a year. </p><p> </p><p> I also think I'm gonna up production to professional if I have another sub-25K financial loss. </p><p> </p><p> Bunrakuken Torii is officially a figurehead (though he's injured and missed his first appearance as a full figurehead). He increases my attendance by 4% and merch by 10%. It's not much but I assume as I build him for his huge title win at Lion's Roar, it'll grow. </p><p> </p><p> Checked out Senmatsu. He looks great. But I'm at war with WEXXV (among all the MJM guys), so I can't sign him since he's loyal there :/</p>

[Tag01]

Yea I forgot he was loyal to WEXXV, I guess I better take that into account when pushing him. Have you had any luck developing loyalty? I haven't figured out how it works in 16.

[Jon The GOAT]

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="Tag01" data-cite="Tag01" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="41393" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>Yea I forgot he was loyal to WEXXV, I guess I better take that into account when pushing him. Have you had any luck developing loyalty? I haven't figured out how it works in 16.</div></blockquote><p> </p><p> Nope. Still don't know how. And my post in the small questions got buried and ignored so I'm still no closer to finding out how its done. All I can hope for is to hit cult and sign them to writtens at this point :/</p>

[Larrikn]

well this random tour show did quite well...

http://imgur.com/6KXGouP

[Larrikn]

<p>First time i ever got one of the year end rewards woo!</p><p> </p><p>

<span>http://imgur.com/CPmTVqn</span></p>

[Hawk1665]

<p>Everytime I play my BCG game I get raided. Out of the entire BCG starting roster I only have seven left and the only reason I still have Funakoshi, Torii, Matsushita & Ikoma is because they start loyal. Aside from that all I have left is Shiga, Toshinobu Taku & Bulldozer.</p><p> </p><p>

This last round took Hitomaro Suzuki and Nobuharu Yokokawa (who'd just had a break-out match with Funakoshi). Round before that took Yoshinaka Taku, Kadonomaro Kamisaka and some others.</p><p> </p><p>

My roster doesn't even <em>feel</em> like BCG anymore and I've become gunshy about pushing anyone since that seems to be when PGHW & GCG come calling.</p><p> </p><p>

I think Loyalty needs to be either better explained or tweaked. My roster has a lot of rookies/young guys on it now, but they're not loyal. So it's kind of just a waiting game until GCG or PGHW or BHOWTG decides Gidayu Katou is a fine pick up which isn't realistic to real-like Japanese pro-wrestling.</p>

[Shinsuke]

<p>I'm into my current game as far as August 2017 now.</p><p> </p><p>

Just had Funakoshi beat Torii for the World championship after winning the Maeda Grand Prix earlier. My main story for the years to come will be that Torii while being the unofficial (non figurehead) ace of BCG never yet managed to beat Funakoshi in a World championship match.</p><p> </p><p>

GCG just rose to Cult level but I managed to avoid mass exodus so far by offering touring contracts to workers who would otherwise have left. Tanyu, Sojuro Sen, Yoshinaka Taku are still with BCG thus - only Razan Okamoto inevitably left for Burning Hammer where he gets his paycheck for appearing at about 2 TV shows a year. (The Weightsplit feature leading to a 80 worker roster really "broke" BHOTWG in TEW16 in my opinion...)</p><p> </p><p>

I decided to try a slow growth approach, running mainly in Kinki with the odd show in Kanto and Chubu to maintain popularity there. I'm now at 60 popularity in Kinki which means a good revenue for bigger events while still bleeding money for touring shows. Really challenging to get a touring company in the green in TEW16. Attendances for tour shows seem to low in my opinion, maybe only for smaller companies.</p><p> </p><p>

Funakoshi, Torii, Bulldozer Brandon and Nobuharu Yokokawa (UC) all have tourned into workrate monsters, usually scoring 90+ individual match performances. Since upping the production values of my shows, the odd A-rated tag main event means BCG is able to win regional wars comfortably now.</p><p> </p><p>

Still have not figured out how to get a worker loyal to the company which means that until reaching Cult (maybe another year!?) I will continue to live in fear of losing bright talents like Tanyu Toshusai and Yoshinaka Taku.</p><p> </p><p>

PS. Just seen your post about the worker loyalty, Hawk1665, an absolute agree on that. You can defy the talents raids with touring contracts but it should be possibly to build a core roster of loyal workers. Especially considering every young lion signed to an AI company gets loyalty with them immediately.</p>

[Hawk1665]

<p>I "cheated" and started a new game making myself owner using Derek B's revised data. So I could actually fight against the talent raids. Because of that I was able to keep mostly everyone in this current game. I let some people go but that was because I didn't feel like dishing out to keep them.</p><p> </p><p>

I also gave up on trying to roleplay as BCG with it's isolationist policy and have brought in guys working elsewhere and started up a working agreement with Japanese Championship Wrestling (I think I accidentally left them to start up from a past failed game). </p><p> </p><p>

So the game is kind of cheating but I'm having much more fun and actually feel like this is the real BCG. Being able to keep Okamoto, Tanyu & Yoshinaka Taku completely changes how the promotion feels. I probably will go in and edit in loyalty for Tanyu, Okamoto & Y. Taku for any future games I play. There's no reason why they aren't loyal from what I've seen.</p><p> </p><p>

Anyway, in this current game, Funakoshi just beat Torii for the world title and American Demolition won the TagMania/Kazu Yoshizawa Grand Prix (as I rename it) then the tag titles. That led to Yoshinaka Taku turning on his father and joining Noritoshi Miura (Yoshizawa bailed) with various "outsiders" to form Black Dawn which consists of in full, Tsuneyo Yanagimoto, Azumamaro Kita, Hitomaro Suzuki, Omezo Shikitei, Yoshinaka Taku, Noritoshi Miura, Kiyotaka & Tatsukichi Shichirobei who formed a team in JCW with Yoshinaka Taku called "New Blood". </p><p> </p><p>

I tried weekly shows for a month but lost nearly a hundred grand, so I'm back down to two shows per month. Hovering around a million but I'm building momentum so it should pay off soon if the Tsunami when it hits doesn't eat my lunch.</p>

[Narcizo]

<p>I thought I'd give this a go as the discussion piqued my interest and I like the idea of a dinosaur steadfastly fighting modernisation. My first (naive) thoughts were that if I toured every region once a month I should be able to get a TV deal just before the tsunamai. Didn't reckon with regional battles booting me back 6 spaces to the 5 I moved forward with successful shows. </p><p> </p><p>

I've just experienced the tsunamai (start of June) and have lost about 80,000 so far. Not great but not the end of the world. The problem is that I've been following a strict touring rotation with 8 tour shows in 8 regions and the big show in Kinki. This probably isn't optimal though - the benefits of targeting one region are obvious financially and in terms of match ratings (if you let your popularity wither to less than 11 in other regions then worker popularity will only count for the home region where the constant barrage of shows will see the roster soar in popularity). Buuuuut if your popularity disappears in the rest of the country it will take FOREVER to get it back to the level where you can get a TV deal. Exodus have already lost all the popularity they had around the country, which is handy for me as it means that I have one less company to worry about in the regional battles. GCG and 5 Star have managed to grab TV shows so they don't have to worry about that, and GCG will hit Cult soon. </p><p> </p><p>

Workers have been leaving but I have managed to hold onto some with clenched fists. I managed to keep hold of Razan by giving him Icon status and hiring veto. I managed to beat off GCG for Sojuro Sen as well - once we lose Razan (I presume GCG will get him when they hit Cult) Sen will probably take his main event spot. Lost Toshusai (of course) and Roku Sotomora in January, fired a bunch of deadweights and have just lost Big Bruiser. So I've gone with three factions with Torii, Funakoshi and Razan as the leaders. Razan won the GP final over Funakoshi in our highest rated match to date (84) but neither have been able to topple Torii and take the World title. Funakoshi beat him in the semis of the GP, giving Funakoshi the legitimacy to challenge Torii for the title at Survivor. It's nice to have Razan so I don't have to try and push Blast Ikoma into the main event scene just yet. </p><p> </p><p>

I'm struggling with a terrible locker room. Despite there hardly being any negative influences every man and his dog seems to be intent on kicking off a fight. This has (finally) start using hardline approaches and gained me Points on the iron fist/fear axis. If Yokokawa starts one more fight I'm kicking him to the curb - despite he being one half of the #1 contenders to the tag titles. (I was ready to give it to them when he chose that show to start a fight with Maeda. Clearly not the smartest move in the world). Blast Ikoma started as upper midcard for me (I'm using 16x dunno if that made a difference) and while he didn't really have the ability to warrant that spot he's actually developing into one of the better workers we have. </p><p> </p><p>

Now that the industry is in the toilet it feels like it might be time to turn down the number of tour shows we have. They cost money and I'm not sure they're worth the +.2 pop gain they give. Regional wars will sap off lots of popularity though, leaving me worse off than at the start. It's a challenge but I feel like the whole point of playing BCG is to follow the traditional route, otherwise you can play as GCG. Might be interesting to see what happens in a promotion where you don't actually grow. From previous games I'm guessing that GCG and 5 Stars will remove themselves from the regional battles through getting to Cult or going bust which will leave us as the top dog everywhere but Tohuku where Exodus will rule with their production values. </p><p> </p><p>

I haven't really had any world-shattering signings. As the departures piled up I have a bunch of Young lions at the foot of the card. Kado Kamisaki has got next big thing and hot prospect status so I'm trying to get him improved a bit (but not too much at the moment), particularly as I feel bad about ignoring him in my RTG game.</p>

[Narcizo]

<p>So I'm now through the Lion tour which ended with this. </p><p> </p><p>

<span>http://i.imgur.com/PDyzRxm.gif</span></p><p> </p><p>

Which was nice. Especially as Torii was off his game. Pyscho Sermons are a bit op really. This is about 6 better than my next best match. GCG went to Cult and didn't take Razan which encouraged me to pull the trigger on him winning. I was quite pleased with the Lion tour overall as I turned it into a sort of formalised battle between the three factions. Razan's faction finally came out on top to earn him the chance to face Torii at Lion's Roar. I live in fear of losing Razan - maybe I should stop playing until the patch with loyalty comes out. <img alt="" data-src="//content.invisioncic.com/g322608/emoticons/smile.png.142cfa0a1cd2925c0463c1d00f499df2.png" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /></p><p> </p><p>

Unfortunately GCG fell to Regional again (because of changing area importance I think) so they'll be going back up to Cult pretty soon again. It also meant that we got walloped in the regional battles as we can't compete with them and 5 Stars production values (I'm already bleeding money as it is - tour shows just don't work when you have to pay the same production costs for them as for events - case in point PGHW who lose something like a cool million every other month). </p><p> </p><p>

The original roster is getting whittled away though, Sen is the latest to go, he hit main event on the back of winning the tag titles and having tag chemistry with faction member Dynamite Narahashi, so BHOTWG nabbed him. I've fired Yoshizawa after he started about 5 fights in the space of one tour, leaving me with Miura without a team. He's our NBT but who's performance really isn't all that good so I've given him the Challenger Title for the time being. Yokakawa is living on borrowed time now as well as Sen has left and he's another who likes pissing off the locker room on a regular basis. With all these losses to the roster it's becoming harder and harder not to just flood the company with the usual suspect foreigners - I'm trying to keep off having a gaijen faction until we, at least, hit Cult (if we do - we're pretty much back to square one in popularity, apart from in Kinki). </p><p> </p><p>

I guess Yoshinaka Taku is the next worker destined to go, as he's clearly main event level talent currently. Unfortunately pretty soon it looks like it will be the loyal workers & whoever I sign at the company, which is a pity.</p>

[Narcizo]

OK - so something very weird happens with the game when BHOTWG bump down to Cult. Most promotions cut workers, BHOTWG went on a massive hiring spree. Fair enough they cut a lot of their older, time-decline workers but they still hired around 25-30 new workers. That included literally every worker on my roster who was midcard or over and not in time decline or loyal. So not just Okamato och Y Taku, which I was expecting, but such luminaries as Hotta who I only recently had picked up. It wasn't just us either. There were a bunch of PGHW releases as they went to Cult as well but BHOTWG snatched them up as well. And a lot of non-loyal GCG and Exodus dudes as well. They now must have a roster of 83 wrestlers. At Cult. I removed the weight split but too late it would seem.

 

So I've gone through and given loyalty to the young lions who haven't worked for another promotion and aren't mercenary. Then I had little option but to hire some foreigners. I could have hired some of the old cast-offs from BH but they were surprisingly rubbish when I hired two on short-term contracts for the Grand Prix, plus they cost too much and they would only put over Torii or Funakoshi over (who don't need it), even though they were on "Pass the torch" contracts.

 

In the end I gave the Grand Prix win to Blast Ikoma, out of desperation. I didn't see much point in Torii or Funakoshi winning again, I had Merle O'Curle and Bulldozer but I didn't think they deserved it yet and they could easily disappear again. Ikoma is improving but he isn't anywhere near the level of Torii or Funakoshi. Funakoshi got the title from Okamato before he left.

 

On the plus side I worked out that holding monthly rather than weekly shows meant you get the normal attendance rather than the drastically reduced tour attendance, so I'm now making a, very small, profit every month. So I have a monthly show for each region of Japan. We still get whipped by GCG and 5Stars in regional battles though so we continue to net lose popularity. At least the wrestling industry is almost over 25 at last.