Jon The GOAT Posted February 16, 2020 Share Posted February 16, 2020 too bad he wont get chem with anyone on my roster so he can stick around as a tag team ;( -- Arran Lennox is the new People's Representative. Also retained Top Militia against Golden Lovers (Eddy & Wakizashi). I'm thinking Mickie Violent & Bobby Lonely get a shot next, then the Wolverines, then Golden Lovers will seal the deal and take the belts away. Arran Lennox will hold onto People's Rep till Lejosne is available consistently. Tony Ramos remains Red Phoenix & I have zero reason to take it off him. Darren Corbett is being let go & Barry Baugh was brought in. Cheaper & better. We also made our first profit on a show since we went regional and upgraded all our production value. Next landmark is making at least 14K profit in a month so we can upgrade production values to professional. Then see how much profit we need to make in a month to upgrade it to high quality so we aren't dealing with grade penalties anymore. Once that's up, we start racking up the tv deals while taking advantage of the regional size financial comfort. WrestleX are being stupid and it makes me mad. Possibly because they're on a touring schedule, they refuse to put neither touring events nor big events on TV. They have 4 syndication deals. It's dumb. They should be taking advantage of those otherwise the AI should not bother signing deals it wont even use. On a random note, my Be a Star entry is up for Young Wrestler of the Year thanks to his contract with UPJ. Cant wait to have him headline GWS in a few years. If I make it that far. Mini update to this. With DISCO Fox gone (well he will be gone, 30 days left), I've brought in Jason DaSilva, Ashmedai & Sebastien Lejosne. Wanted Yves Lapoint & Magnificent Mountie but the former cannot work in the U.S. and the latter is too expensive. They're all in for under 400$ and DISCO wouldve wanted at least 500+ so its worth it. Noticed WrestleX firing a few workers so decided to check their finances and they've got about 8K left. They're going to get bought out I think, which means Pierre Lejosne return to prominence is coming. Granted, I'm at -666$ at the time of typing so I'm not exactly making bank either. A tiny part of me is again tempted to move on from GWS. My attention has now moved to the attraction of doing either a Joshi company or AWW for the sake of making womens wrestling the main attraction of the TVerse professional wrestling world. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ahdede Posted February 21, 2020 Share Posted February 21, 2020 I've had a lot of fun booking GBWF. My user character is a multi-millionaire, and an ex MMA promoter, who is extremely in bringing British wrestling back to its glory days. He decided to inject some extra money into the company in order to realize his vision. The most fun storyline started a year into the save, after GBWF turned cult sized. That was when I brought in James Gilmour, who started his heel stable, Legacy. The stable was made up of Gilmour, Ash Evans, Vincent Jackson and a repackaged Kosmo Supreme, now Kyle Hart. This stable of second generation stars won all the gold on their first major event as a unit, in May 2017, with the use of dirty heel tactics. James Gilmour was the World Heavyweight champ, Kyle Hart was the European champ, Evans and Jackson were tag champs. I had them beat up and injure Daniel Hart at the next weekly event when Daniel Hart pleaded for Gilmour to man up and stop cheating. In August, at the biggest event of the year, Wrestle Britannia, I had Daniel Hart return with Nick and Scott Hart, as well as Clayton Bennett. The Hart brothers won the tag gold from Evans and Jackson and looked to be stopping the dominant run of Legacy. At the October monthly event, they lost the tag titles titles back to Evans and Jackson. On the same card, James Gilmour dropped his World Heavyweight title back to the previous champion, Darren Williams. Clayton Bennett was unable to take Kyle Hart's European title, despite two attempts. James Gilmour started to look weak after this event as he was unable to regain his World Heavyweight title in 2 attempts. The rest of Legacy defended their titles. At the December monthly event, I had Gilmour lose to Williams for the third time. Meanwhile, the Vincent Jackson won a ladder match to win the Destiny Contract, essentially a MITB copy. James Gilmour came out to celebrate with Jackson. As Gilmour was taunting his rival who was on special guest commentary, Darren Williams, Jackson hit him with the briefcase and assaulted him. The rest of Legacy joined Jackson to beat down their former leader. I plan on having Jackson, now the new leader of Legacy, to introduce a new member at the first weekly event of the 2018. The new member of Legacy will be Jarid Hart, which will be interesting because of the family feud dynamic between Jarid and the Hart brothers. I will also write Gilmour off the show with an injury and have him join the Hart brothers on his return. I really enjoyed booking this whole storyline and I feel that this mod goes really in depth into relationships between workers and the lore of the game world. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TLLK Posted February 23, 2020 Share Posted February 23, 2020 Summer 2017 is in the books... Junior Mountain Cup BLOCK A Fergus Storm: 13Goto: 12Kozue: 8Furosoto: 8Ebi Kadivar: 6Tiger Singh: 4Jin Fujiwara: 3Haruko Yamada: 2 BLOCK B D'Anton Joubert: 14Junichi Matsuo: 12Ryotaro Naruto: 8Shingo Hashi: 6Aydan Farrell: 6Hidestugu Genji: 4Nathan Jordan: 4Akito Nakada: 2 In Block A, Fergus Storm upsets Goto and draws with Kozue. In Block B, the debuting D'Anton Joubert sweeps the board with his technical masterclass style —*while Junichi Matsuo beats everybody but Joubert for a strong showing in the Mountain. But Storm knocks off Joubert in the final, setting up a showdown with Goto for the title at Ascension... Ascension 6.14 in Osaka-jo Hall - Pain & Torture become eight-time World Tag Team champions by knocking off Waotaka Eda & Ram Diablo - Goto retains the Junior Heavyweight title over Fergus Storm - Kintaro Kinjo retains the World Heavyweight title over Oda Yamawaki - After the match, a hooded figure yet again storms the ring to interrupt Kinjo's celebration... but it's revealed to be Eikichi Minamoto, playing a joke on one of his old buddies. Minamoto congratulates Kinjo on his current run and says he's back in UPJ — now that the idiot Matsumoto brothers are no longer in charge — to help the old guard in The United Throne. (This gives The United Throne another big name, since Kinjo was kinda isolated in the heavyweight main event scene.) Ozeki Summit 28 BLOCK A Erik van Rijn: 16Kintaro Kinjo: 15Kato: 15Christian Prophet: 12Sean Girven: 8James Gilmour: 6Pain: 6Bruiser Cassidy: 4Kahoku Meka: 4Ram Diablo: 4 BLOCK B Juro Deguchi: 18Oda Yamawaki: 16Eikichi Minamoto: 14TEMPEST Masato: 10Waotaka Eda: 8TOKI INK: 8Graham Mackenzie: 4Koji Yamada: 4Torture: 4Des Miller: 2 In Block A, Christian Prophet upsets Kintaro Kinjo on Night 1, and Kato takes him to a time limit draw a couple of weeks later. Erik van Rijn runs the table until the final night, where he loses to Kinjo after already clinching the block. Prophet earns a title match against Kinjo prior to Hall of Immortals. In Block B, Juro Deguchi and Oda Yamawaki sweep their entire block until the final night — when Deguchi knocks off Yamawaki in a winner-take-all main event. Elsewhere, Minamoto shines in his return to UPJ and TEMPEST Masato positions himself to challenge for major hardware in the future. Ozeki Summit 28 Final in Kawasaki Stadium - HashiWara retain junior tag titles against Flight Club - Junichi Matsuo and REVILED retain NEVER Openweight Six-Man titles over Tokyo Underground and James Gilmour - Pain & Torture retain world tag titles in a rematch against Eda & Diablo - Christian Prophet and the debuting JUNG Dragon defeat TEMPEST Masato and Furosoto in a strong cross-divisional tag match - Oda Yamawaki and Ignite Zero defeat Kintaro Kinjo, Eikichi Minamoto and Kozue in a thrilling co-main event - Juro Deguchi beats Erik van Rijn in a marathon match to win the Ozeki Summit for the third time in his illustrious career, tying only Sonoda for most all-time. I let a few older folks go for various reasons and am starting to replenish my undercard and young lions with new talent. Pretty pleased that two of them have been taken as proteges by main eventers — Yusuke Amura by Kintaro Kinjo and ICHIBEI by Kato. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
olde_gregge Posted February 23, 2020 Share Posted February 23, 2020 Motivated by a newfound interest in NJPW and the updates by several people in this thread, I've sat down in the last few days and started up a UPJ save of my own. I'm unabashedly modeling myself after New Japan with the scheduling, and I've pushed the Ozeki Summit back to the summer like someone mentioned they did already in their own save. I like the idea of my tournament winners getting their title shots at Hall of Immortals, so I needed to get the tournaments as close to November as I could. I've also booked two weeks, but its already been a blast. The biggest news out of New Years Sprint (like I said, unabashed) was the return of Dagger Ito after being unceremoniously fired a few years prior and the formation of Ito-gun, a stable headed by Dagger and veterans Harada and Eda, along with Tiger Singh and Dustin LeFever (who sort of just fell into the group because he uses Tiger as his translator backstage). They attacked members of both United Throne and RENEGADES following Sprint's Main Event, so its hard to say whether they're good guys as of yet or not. Ito swears they have positive motives, though its hard to say whether the veteran still holds a grudge or not. A few more members of this faction debut over the next couple shows. I poached Morita and Gono from HONOUR, with the latter providing much needed microphone skills to the stable, as well as the Ambassador's Club from DRAGON. Junior heavy at the moment, but that might change down the road. After Sprint, I held a four-show mini-tour titled LuchaMania to put a spotlight on a few members of our new partners, GILL (ILL and CLLM weren't interested in partnerships). I brought over El Segador, Black Panther, El Rebelde Rojo and Jaguar del Oro for the first year. Panther quickly aligned with RENEGADE for the tour, wrestling against combinations of Thunder Iesada, Rojo, and other openers. Oro teamed with Captain UPJ and Kinjo for the whole tour as they fought in a series of six-man tags against the four factions in the company, while Segador competed in the eight-man elimination tournament to crown the first COBRA Openweight championship (Tiger Singh would ultimately win the title against Ram Diablo in the finals). Hope to bring over even more competitors next year, and I got a feeling Panther and Oro will come back even sooner on a touring contract. Building towards my two big shows at the end of January and start of February with the following marquee match-ups. Juro Deguchi vs Erik van Rijn Kozue vs Furosato Goto & Kato vs Pain & Torture Tiger Singh vs TBD As for the rest of my hires, I've tried to limit myself. Gao Xi and the Harris guy were brought in as extra Young Lions to eat pinfalls, while the trio of friends were signed as well. Working relationships were established with PWI and GBWF as well, so their talent will likely be seen on shows before too long too. Booked up through to the start of my UPJ Cup in the fourth week of February, starting with my version of the New Beginning Tour. The first set of road to shows built towards Ascension in Hokkaido, which was to be headlined by Kozue/Furosato with the International Tag team match in the semi-main. Takanori Sakurai had been battling Openweight Champion Tiger Singh all tour in multi-mans, calling out in post-show interviews that he wanted first crack at the Ito-gun lieutenant, and he was finally able to pin him in Hokkaido to earn that title shot. Brusier Cassidy and Koji Yamada faced in in a hoss fight, stemming for Cassidy's frustration that he could not pin the big man during their clashes on the LuchaMania tour. In another special match, Kinjo and Deguchi teamed up to face the team of Rijn and Farrell representing RENEGADES; Deguchi would tap Farrell out with the Triangle Choke, the same finishing move that Rijn had been using all tour to choke out members of the United Throne. It was obvious that if he wanted to be Juro next week in Kanto, he'd have to find something else. Ignite Zero retains against the big gaijin, who just aren't as good as they used to be, and Kozue beats Furosuto in the first canonical junior main event since Furosuto retired Silver Beetle in November 2015, and this is was the second best match of the save thus far, just behind the Main Event of New Year Sprint. Rijn versus Deguchi would top that score a week later at Ascension in Kanto, despite Juro getting injured on the last road to show before the match. Tiger Singh would retain against Sakurai earlier in the show and the team of Harada/Eda would also best former tag team champions Oda Yamawaki & TOKI INK, raising the question in those men might challenge Goto and Kato for their tag team championships. Of course, Ebi Kadivar and Paul Crowley also hinted at wanting an opportunity against Ignite Zero, especially after winning in a multi-man against them on the show. Overall, Ascension in Kanto was a success for RENEGADES and Ito-gun, while less so for the United Throne, FEARLESS, and HACHIMAN, which is what the trio of Iglesias, Girven, and Jordan began calling themselves in ode to the three-headed god of war. They suffered their first pinfall loss on the entire tour in a multi-man tag in the midcard. UPJ got a slightly lighter schedule over the next two weeks as they hosted only three shows. The second week of February was dedicated to honoring Takehide Harada's 30th anniversary in the business. On this show, Mr. Yamashita pinned the newly debuted Jesus Rio, former Openweight Champion in COBRA and the assumed next challenger for Singh, thus shifting the focus onto him. A second swerve happened later in the night after Ayden Farrell pinned Kozue, slotting him ahead of Furosuto in challenging the Junior Heavyweight champion. At the time, Furosuto endorsed his RENEGADE stable mate, but it was obvious there was some tension in the air. Then, in the main event, forty-six year old Harada submitted the Heavyweight Champion with his signature Cloverleaf before challenging for the championship on the final night of the UPJ Cup. Since all the champions were not permitted in competing in the tournament, which would guarantee a title shot at Procession of Champion on the next tour, Rijn could not make any excuses and the match was set. Finally, UPJ hosted a two-day event the next weekend titled The Clove, which is in reference to the first English ship that docked in Japan in the 17th century. These were cross-promotional events with GBWF that showcased the UK talent to the Japanese audience for the first time, in most of their cases. Similar to Black Panther at LuchaMania, Anders Vanderburg immediately aligned himself with RENEGADES for the shows, while the rest of the talent remained unaligned. Highlights from the two shows included a rather entertaining singles match between Kintaro Kinjo and Graham McKenzie, the official challenge of Mr. Yamashita for Tiger Singh's Openweight championship, and the shock debut of former HONOUR heavyweights Nobuhisa Yasutake and Ukon Kajahara, who would shun the invitation from Dagger Ito to join Ito-gun and instead align with Yamawaki's FEARLESS. This is certain to incite new hostilities between the two factions, especially since its predicted that Yamawaki and Waotaka Eda will clash on their side of the UPJ Cup Brackets. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dalton Posted February 24, 2020 Share Posted February 24, 2020 <blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="olde_gregge" data-cite="olde_gregge" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="41411" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>Booked up through to the start of my UPJ Cup in the fourth week of February, starting with my version of the New Beginning Tour. The first set of road to shows built towards Ascension in Hokkaido, which was to be headlined by Kozue/Furosato with the International Tag team match in the semi-main. Takanori Sakurai had been battling Openweight Champion Tiger Singh all tour in multi-mans, calling out in post-show interviews that he wanted first crack at the Ito-gun lieutenant, and he was finally able to pin him in Hokkaido to earn that title shot. Brusier Cassidy and Koji Yamada faced in in a hoss fight, stemming for Cassidy's frustration that he could not pin the big man during their clashes on the LuchaMania tour. In another special match, Kinjo and Deguchi teamed up to face the team of Rijn and Farrell representing RENEGADES; Deguchi would tap Farrell out with the Triangle Choke, the same finishing move that Rijn had been using all tour to choke out members of the United Throne. It was obvious that if he wanted to be Juro next week in Kanto, he'd have to find something else. Ignite Zero retains against the big gaijin, who just aren't as good as they used to be, and Kozue beats Furosuto in the first canonical junior main event since Furosuto retired Silver Beetle in November 2015, and this is was the second best match of the save thus far, just behind the Main Event of New Year Sprint.<p> </p><p> Rijn versus Deguchi would top that score a week later at Ascension in Kanto, despite Juro getting injured on the last road to show before the match. Tiger Singh would retain against Sakurai earlier in the show and the team of Harada/Eda would also best former tag team champions Oda Yamawaki & TOKI INK, raising the question in those men might challenge Goto and Kato for their tag team championships. Of course, Ebi Kadivar and Paul Crowley also hinted at wanting an opportunity against Ignite Zero, especially after winning in a multi-man against them on the show. Overall, Ascension in Kanto was a success for RENEGADES and Ito-gun, while less so for the United Throne, FEARLESS, and HACHIMAN, which is what the trio of Iglesias, Girven, and Jordan began calling themselves in ode to the three-headed god of war. They suffered their first pinfall loss on the entire tour in a multi-man tag in the midcard.</p><p> </p><p> UPJ got a slightly lighter schedule over the next two weeks as they hosted only three shows. The second week of February was dedicated to honoring Takehide Harada's 30th anniversary in the business. On this show, Mr. Yamashita pinned the newly debuted Jesus Rio, former Openweight Champion in COBRA and the assumed next challenger for Singh, thus shifting the focus onto him. A second swerve happened later in the night after Ayden Farrell pinned Kozue, slotting him ahead of Furosuto in challenging the Junior Heavyweight champion. At the time, Furosuto endorsed his RENEGADE stable mate, but it was obvious there was some tension in the air. Then, in the main event, forty-six year old Harada submitted the Heavyweight Champion with his signature Cloverleaf before challenging for the championship on the final night of the UPJ Cup. Since all the champions were not permitted in competing in the tournament, which would guarantee a title shot at Procession of Champion on the next tour, Rijn could not make any excuses and the match was set.</p><p> </p><p> Finally, UPJ hosted a two-day event the next weekend titled The Clove, which is in reference to the first English ship that docked in Japan in the 17th century. These were cross-promotional events with GBWF that showcased the UK talent to the Japanese audience for the first time, in most of their cases. Similar to Black Panther at LuchaMania, Anders Vanderburg immediately aligned himself with RENEGADES for the shows, while the rest of the talent remained unaligned. Highlights from the two shows included a rather entertaining singles match between Kintaro Kinjo and Graham McKenzie, the official challenge of Mr. Yamashita for Tiger Singh's Openweight championship, and the shock debut of former HONOUR heavyweights Nobuhisa Yasutake and Ukon Kajahara, who would shun the invitation from Dagger Ito to join Ito-gun and instead align with Yamawaki's FEARLESS. This is certain to incite new hostilities between the two factions, especially since its predicted that Yamawaki and Waotaka Eda will clash on their side of the UPJ Cup Brackets.</p></div></blockquote><p> </p><p> This is one of the best interpretations I've seen so far, and is most definitely the closest parallel to what would happen in "real-life." By that I mean the small tours such as LuchaMania and The Clove that probably result in your match ratings taking a hit due to most of the new dudes aren't over in Japan. And having title feuds involving less over talent like Yamashita.</p><p> </p><p> Keep it up and let us know what happens next!</p> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
olde_gregge Posted February 25, 2020 Share Posted February 25, 2020 <blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="dalton0911" data-cite="dalton0911" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="41411" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>This is one of the best interpretations I've seen so far, and is most definitely the closest parallel to what would happen in "real-life." By that I mean the small tours such as LuchaMania and The Clove that probably result in your match ratings taking a hit due to most of the new dudes aren't over in Japan. And having title feuds involving less over talent like Yamashita.<p> </p><p> Keep it up and let us know what happens next!</p></div></blockquote><p> </p><p> The match ratings definitely aren't as high as they could be, but I've tried my best to keep them all in the first half of the card as best as I can. Up to this point, I actually haven't lost any popularity from my shows because my Main Events have been hitting the mark I need to them to scratch by with a B- rating show to show. That was heavily reliant, of course, on Kinjo and Deguchi in the United Throne/RENEGADES clashes. The Cup Tour will be Ito-gun's turn to prove they can carry Road To Shows. Thankfully, Harada and Eda are not in time decline and so they're not getting dinged yet.</p><p> </p><p> Glad you've enjoyed it thus far; it definitely been one of favorite Puro runs on TEW thus far</p> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TLLK Posted February 25, 2020 Share Posted February 25, 2020 <blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="dalton0911" data-cite="dalton0911" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="41411" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>This is one of the best interpretations I've seen so far, and is most definitely the closest parallel to what would happen in "real-life." By that I mean the small tours such as LuchaMania and The Clove that probably result in your match ratings taking a hit due to most of the new dudes aren't over in Japan. And having title feuds involving less over talent like Yamashita.<p> </p><p> Keep it up and let us know what happens next!</p></div></blockquote><p> Yeah, no kidding. I’m impressed at the detail of this save. Once I roll over to 2018, I’m probably gonna start looking at doing some of that cross-promotional stuff. </p><p> </p><p> Also like how you’re using different guys. I can fall into a trap of just cycling through the same main event scene for feuds because I know how to roll off A and even some A* shows in my sleep now. Gotta try to avoid getting in a lull.</p><p> </p><p> I’ve mapped out what all is gonna go down at Hall of the Immortals in my save, including a different kind of big match that I’m interested in pulling off.</p> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon The GOAT Posted February 27, 2020 Share Posted February 27, 2020 <p>One of my favorite parts of running a pseudo-NJPW company or even like a pseudo-WWE company was being able to do those world traveled stuff. In the case of NJPW - the LuchaMania tour, the Southern Showdown stuff, the deal with ROH, etc. </p><p> </p><p> Again, Im tempted to switch things up from GWS. That regional grind to cult always gets me in a bad funk tbh. It's not like we're in a rough spot. We've got 38 pop in South West, we've got our first TV deal, we're close to running a profit. We're only 8 pop away in the mid south from getting our second TV deal too. My issue is I don't really have a vision for GWS's future. Do I just stick to my current model, maybe add a brand split or three down the line? I'm not sure yet. That's sort of kept me from booking more shows lately. It's also where I gave up on my RTG & my MAW game. </p><p> </p><p> I am looking forward to cult where I can more confidently plan out PPV cards without sweating if guys will be available or not. But that is very far away.</p> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dalton Posted March 2, 2020 Share Posted March 2, 2020 Pretty trivial question here, but does anyone know if the family that owns the Italian Wrestling Federation is spelled Battaglia or Battalgia? The bios, names and teams are very inconsistent, literally half one way and half the other. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hailthebulldog Posted March 2, 2020 Share Posted March 2, 2020 Pretty trivial question here, but does anyone know if the family that owns the Italian Wrestling Federation is spelled Battaglia or Battalgia? The bios, names and teams are very inconsistent, literally half one way and half the other. I would go with Battaglia personally. Additionally if you google Battalgia it auto corrects to Battaglia. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TLLK Posted March 2, 2020 Share Posted March 2, 2020 And here's how we ended 2017 in UPJ... September: Wrestling Ryogoku - Pain and Torture made another world tag title defense, this time against impressive newcomers YasuHara - Waotaka Eda won the COBRA Openweight title from Kato, who had been a target of RENEGADES throughout the tour —*notably, an attack from TEMPEST Masato made Kato less than 100 percent for this matchup - Kintaro Kinjo retains the World Heavyweight title against Christian Prophet, who had beaten him in the Ozeki Summit to set up this main event - Elsewhere on the card: Juro Deguchi and Fergus Storm knocked off Oda Yamawaki and Goto, Erik van Rijn led a RENEGADES team to a win over some United Throne members, recent signings The Disciples (of Pain) teamed with Jung DRAGON to get a six-man tag for The Brotherhood and James Gilmour did the same for a FEARLESS crew against Deguchi-gun. October: Golden Age at the Saitama Super Arena - HashiWara defend the junior tag titles against The Fallen (Derek Grace and Cameron Cody) - Jung DRAGON and The Disciples upset Junichi Matsuo and REVILED for the COBRA Openweight Six-Man tag titles, with Des Miller taking the pin - D'Anton Joubert beats Goto, who also had been a target of RENEGADES during the tour like his partner Kato, for the junior heavyweight title - Elsewhere on the card: EVR leads another RENEGADES team to victory, then attacks Yamawaki after FEARLESS' win over The Brotherhood — prompting a chaotic brawl that had been building for months. Deguchi teams with Pain & Torture to beat Kinjo, Eikichi Minamoto and Ryotaro Naruto to throw more on their Hall of Immortals fire. November: Hall of Immortals in Tokyo Dome - Jung DRAGON and The Disciples defend their COBRA six-man titles against Kozue and YasuHara - Flight Club snag the junior tag titles from longtime champs HashiWara in an electric four-way dance (an A* match!) that included Nakada & Yamada and ROYALTY - After months of disrespecting The Supreme Warrior in promos, Junichi Matsuo beats Ryotaro Naruto in a heated grudge match... afterwards, a tearful Naruto announces he is leaving UPJ because he feels he can't put together the performances his fans deserve anymore - Pain & Torture defend their world tag titles against World Tag Grand Prix champions Sean Girven and Alejandro Iglesias (who has unmasked and joined Deguchi-gun with his buddies after Crimson Matsuka is released) - Christian Prophet beats Eikichi Minamoto in a rambunctious falls count anywhere match - Oda Yamawaki/Goto/Kato/James Gilmour/Toki Ink beat Erik van Rijn/TEMPEST Masato/Furosoto/Des Miller/Bruiser Cassidy in a 10-man elimination showdown... after the match, Miller and Cassidy, who were the first two eliminations, are turned on by EVR/TEMPEST/Furosoto and kicked out of RENEGADES (Miller and Cassidy were on their way out to HONOUR, where they will get main event status and I will get to freshen up the stable some) - Waotaka Eda defends his COBRA Openweight title against his former FlatLine partner, Eli Morton, who I picked up on a quick loan from PWI just for fun - Fergus Storm gets a junior heavyweight title match against D'Anton Joubert, who he beat for the Junior Mountain Cup in the summer... and pulls off a surprise victory — there will most likely be an unorthodox-by-UPJ-standards triple threat match between Storm/Joubert/Goto for the belt in 2018, since they are all 1-1 against each other in title matches now - Kintaro Kinjo goes wire-to-wire in 2017 with the World Heavyweight championship by outlasting Juro Deguchi in a main event that nearly goes for an entire hour... after the match, Kinjo sticks his hand out to Deguchi —*after a long pause, the old friends who had been locked into a back-and-forth feud of almost two whole years share an embrace as the confetti falls in the Tokyo Dome (Kinjo maintains his spot as the undisputed ace, while Deguchi gets to be more of a face again with his popular "army" behind him) ------------ Once again, UPJ wins Company of the Year, Match of the Year (Kinjo > EVR all the way back at Procession of Champions in March) and Show of the Year (Hall of Immortals). Ignite Zero is the Tag Team of the Year again thanks to all of their stable warfare excellence. In the Power 500, Kinjo is No. 2 behind Hiroto Nori (again). EVR is 7, Deguchi is 8, Kato is 9, Prophet is 11, Goto is 14, Minamoto is 16, Joubert is 18, Yamawaki is 19, Eda is 22 and Storm is 28. Several more UPJers are in the top 50. ------------ So at one point in this save, I tried to bring in Seven Brandt and Super TIGER for touring deals. Both of them were snatched by The Club, which signed them to written contracts. (They also did that to Richie Santana Jr., who I had on my shortlist.) In late December, I noticed that The Club were bleeding money. I decided to take them over for their cult pop in America and just those three specific workers. (Pettiness rules.) I also took The Club's Championship and rebranded it as the UPJ Intercontinental title to set the tone for our 2018 goal of worldwide expansion. I let my two TV show contracts run out because a) I didn't really need the extra money and b) I wanted to be more flexible with my schedules in 2018 and truer to the NJPW-ish format. I upgraded my production to get deals with Star PPV in Japan (which is Huge in size) and The Entertainment Network in North America (Big in America, medium in Canada and Mexico). Star has us on in evenings, while I figured that an On Demand slot would make the most sense for UPJ overseas. ------------ Heading into 2018, here's what the roster looks like... The United Throne Leader: Kintaro Kinjo © (World Heavyweight) Top Junior: Kozue Heavyweights: Eikichi Minamoto, YasuHara (Nobuhisa Yasutake and Ukon Kajahara) Juniors: HashiWara (Jin Fujiwara and Shingo Hashi), Evan Kuja (teams with Kozue in K-Splosion), Thunder Iesada FEARLESS Leader: Oda Yamawaki Top Junior: Goto Heavyweights: Kato (teams with Goto in Ignite Zero), Tokyo Underground (Toki Ink and James Gilmour) Juniors: Akito Nakada & Haruko Yamada, Tokyo 2K (Nakano Yuki and Ryuko Mishamoto) Manager: Yuko Enoki RENEGADES Leader: Erik van Rijn Top Junior: Junichi Matsuo Heavyweights: RECKLESS (TEMPEST Masato and Koji Yamada), REVOLUTION (Seven Brandt and Richie Santana Jr.) Juniors: Furosoto (teams with Matsuo in REBELLION), ROYALTY (Aydan Farrell and Tiger Singh) Manager: Sakura Enoki Deguchi-gun Leader: Juro Deguchi Top Junior: Fergus Storm © (Junior Heavyweight) Heavyweights: Pain & Torture, Alejandro Iglesias & Sean Girven Juniors: Flight Club (Ebi Kadivar and Nathan Jordan) © (Junior Tag) and Graham Mackenzie The Brotherhood Leader: Christian Prophet Top Junior: Jung Dragon © (COBRA Six-Man Openweight with The Disciples) Heavyweights: Waotaka Eda © (COBRA Openweight) & Ram Diablo, The Disciples (Butcher Hachirobei and Yura Malakayan) © Juniors: Blood Tiger, Kris Phoenix and The Fallen (Derek Grace and Cameron Cody) Unattached The European Connection (D'Anton Joubert and Arttu Jensen) Taka Yamashita Yusuke Amura Ichibei Sen Masuda Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
QFresh Posted March 2, 2020 Share Posted March 2, 2020 After so much back and forth on what company I'm going to use, what user character I'm going to have and what their back story is going to be. After starting, restarting, and restarting again to get exactly what I want without getting lost after a couple of weeks of gameplay only to want to restart again because my original intentions all fall apart, I've finally found a groove so much so that one I'm posting about it here, and two I'm thinking about putting out the "one last TEW16" dynasty to showcase my vision. And that game... Is AWF. My user character... The living legend himself Terry Thunder. Instead of Apache Chief being the one to buy AWF for a $1 to stop Allman from killing his competition, it's sold to Terry instead. Everything else about the "Dark Days" takeover is relatively the same. Drake and Chaperone still leave, everyone is still angry about the way things went down with Zeke, the only difference being Terry and the backstory I've come up with for Terry. Terry has made more money in the wrestling industry than anyone who had come before him, and (almost) everyone who has come after with his continuous roles and attempts to stay in the spotlight. But with all of Terry's television ventures starting to fizzle out, Terry needed a place for all of his shows to broadcast from. So what does that surprisingly sly business man do you ask? Well... Terry invests in himself, and his family by starting up his own television channel. And THUNDER Network Television is born. Now you can watch all of the Thunder Family and their vast array of programming whenever you want. Terry of course has ThunderHips. Lauri, a budding home chef has her own cooking show on the network. Jessica has been showcased in a number of Terry funded made for TV movies that are all exclusive to T-N-T. And now, Terry can add AWF Shockwave, Aftershock, and FAW The FUTURE Is Now to the line-up as well. Not too mention some of the classic straight to home-video releases that Terry put out there at the height of his popularity including Command Performance, where Terry plays a plays a drummer who battles terrorists who take over the stadium his band are playing in. (P.S, this is real, and stars Dolph Lundgren. Look it up, you won't be disappointed.) I've played around with the starting storylines in the hopes of making it fresh with great success considering how many times I played to original starting storylines to death. Timothy Hawk isn't going for the title anymore but instead is combatting Cross and his new faction The Following. After months of torture, Cross finally managed to break Core with Core turning on Hawk during a triple threat match on Terry's first episode of Shockwave where Garrett South becomes number one contender by pinning Jean-Claude Geroux. Cross has felt the management of AWF hasn't taken him seriously, and with Timothy Hawk being inducted into the Hall of Fame (something that the fans of AWF seem to be against as well) Cross has decided to take out his frustrations on the golden boy Hawk, and is using Core to destroy the face of Awesome. The following is rounded out with HavoK and the debuting Kris Pheonix re-dubbed (you guessed it) FeniX. With The Following having the numbers advantage week after week, Patriot has joined forces with Hawk in an attempt to even the odds somewhat. I've always had trouble booking Patriot because I couldn't help but go the Hacksaw Jim Duggan route with his character so I personally couldn't take him seriously as a top guy. Now, I'm forcing myself to go the American Bad Ass Undertaker route for him, and its made it better. Garrett South is contesting the entire Dolla Club by himself in his mission to become AWF World Champion. He won the aforementioned triple threat match against Hawk and JCG to earn his shot, and has since been battling each member of The Dolla Club to get to Silva Dolla, and a shot at the title. JCG has a new intensity to him after eating the pin in the triple threat match. Sharif Awar was in the wrong place at the wrong time, and now he's looking for revenge against the Ravishing One. Coincidentally, Awar has been battling Merengue on Aftershock for the TV Title. On the most recent episode, Awar got his shot only to be taken away by a debuting Caleb Adonis. Adonis and Merengue are now a team, and will align themselves with JCG down the road in a pretty boy faction with Adrienne doing valet duties for all of them once Amy is able to break away from a verbally abusive Merengue. Derrick Rollins defends his US title against Ricky Fyre. Rollins has enlisted the help of Mountain Albert to be his muscle, and with Albert being a constant thorn in the side of Fyre, Theo Barkley decided to join up with Fyre to combat his foes, and even the odds somewhat there. Some notable signings I've made that haven't already been mentioned. I of course brought back V.I.P as I do in just about every game. But instead of thrusting him into the title picture right away this time, I plan on having him debut during a Hall of Fame induction ceremony for Immortal Warrior setting up a program for those two before eventually giving V.I.P the title run that he's deserved since Chaperone had the book. In an attempt to bolster the tag team ranks, I brought in Jack America and Seven Brandt calling them American Evolution. In three previous games in a row, they have excellent chemistry which is why they're together. I brought back Deuces Wild as well who on their re-debut challenged and beat The Specialists to become tag champs. I want to split The Specialists up because Daryll Lance is a better heel anyway, and Nick Hart is too popular to be rolling around the tag ranks hence the Deuces winning the titles. Love Freedom was brought in because I love his character. A pacifist preacher in a wrestling company sounds just lovely to me. I usually pair him up with Jesse Mills, but I don't know if I'm going to do that this time around. i might just keep him single and see where it goes. And then there's Larry! Terry Thunder super fan Larry Lighting is in the AWF and Terry rather than being annoyed by the dedication has a soft spot for Larry. Eventually Larry is going to team up with Terry's good friend Iron Fist as (again, you guessed it) IRON LIGHTING!!!! Gonna try to bolster the Starlets division as well as I just can't ever get behind booking Womens Wrestling, but I want to give it to old college try. I brought in Hell Cat, repackaged her as Gabriela, and removed the mask. Also brought in both Jess Hart, and Tegan Merritt who will be keeping their full names in protest of the "terrible Starlets Division where everyone is a one word stripper." They are legitimate athletes, and want to be treated as such. If you're still reading, thanks. This was kind of a long post. But all in all, I think this game is my best one yet for the TVerse. I thought I had something going with a Casey Skym ran CLUB game that nearly made it out of the first season before it all became blah for me, and I scrapped it. Terry also had a run at The CLUB as well with the story being Cesar Kaslow would put Terry's other shows on his network if Terry agreed to be the on-screen network representative of The CLUB. That game also fell apart. 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Sigilistic Posted March 2, 2020 Share Posted March 2, 2020 <blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="QFresh" data-cite="QFresh" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="41411" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>After so much back and forth on what company I'm going to use, what user character I'm going to have and what their back story is going to be. After starting, restarting, and restarting again to get exactly what I want without getting lost after a couple of weeks of gameplay only to want to restart again because my original intentions all fall apart, I've finally found a groove so much so that one I'm posting about it here, and two I'm thinking about putting out the "one last TEW16" dynasty to showcase my vision. And that game... Is AWF.<p> </p><p> My user character... The living legend himself Terry Thunder.</p><p> </p><p> Instead of Apache Chief being the one to buy AWF for a $1 to stop Allman from killing his competition, it's sold to Terry instead. Everything else about the "Dark Days" takeover is relatively the same. Drake and Chaperone still leave, everyone is still angry about the way things went down with Zeke, the only difference being Terry and the backstory I've come up with for Terry.</p><p> </p><p> Terry has made more money in the wrestling industry than anyone who had come before him, and (almost) everyone who has come after with his continuous roles and attempts to stay in the spotlight. But with all of Terry's television ventures starting to fizzle out, Terry needed a place for all of his shows to broadcast from. So what does that surprisingly sly business man do you ask? Well... Terry invests in himself, and his family by starting up his own television channel. And THUNDER Network Television is born.</p><p> </p><p> Now you can watch all of the Thunder Family and their vast array of programming whenever you want. Terry of course has ThunderHips. Lauri, a budding home chef has her own cooking show on the network. Jessica has been showcased in a number of Terry funded made for TV movies that are all exclusive to T-N-T. And now, Terry can add AWF Shockwave, Aftershock, and FAW The FUTURE Is Now to the line-up as well. Not too mention some of the classic straight to home-video releases that Terry put out there at the height of his popularity including Command Performance, where Terry plays a plays a drummer who battles terrorists who take over the stadium his band are playing in. (P.S, this is real, and stars Dolph Lundgren. Look it up, you won't be disappointed.)</p><p> </p><p> I've played around with the starting storylines in the hopes of making it fresh with great success considering how many times I played to original starting storylines to death.</p><p> </p><p> Timothy Hawk isn't going for the title anymore but instead is combatting Cross and his new faction The Following. After months of torture, Cross finally managed to break Core with Core turning on Hawk during a triple threat match on Terry's first episode of Shockwave where Garrett South becomes number one contender by pinning Jean-Claude Geroux. Cross has felt the management of AWF hasn't taken him seriously, and with Timothy Hawk being inducted into the Hall of Fame (something that the fans of AWF seem to be against as well) Cross has decided to take out his frustrations on the golden boy Hawk, and is using Core to destroy the face of Awesome. The following is rounded out with HavoK and the debuting Kris Pheonix re-dubbed (you guessed it) FeniX. With The Following having the numbers advantage week after week, Patriot has joined forces with Hawk in an attempt to even the odds somewhat. I've always had trouble booking Patriot because I couldn't help but go the Hacksaw Jim Duggan route with his character so I personally couldn't take him seriously as a top guy. Now, I'm forcing myself to go the American Bad Ass Undertaker route for him, and its made it better.</p><p> </p><p> Garrett South is contesting the entire Dolla Club by himself in his mission to become AWF World Champion. He won the aforementioned triple threat match against Hawk and JCG to earn his shot, and has since been battling each member of The Dolla Club to get to Silva Dolla, and a shot at the title. </p><p> </p><p> JCG has a new intensity to him after eating the pin in the triple threat match. Sharif Awar was in the wrong place at the wrong time, and now he's looking for revenge against the Ravishing One. Coincidentally, Awar has been battling Merengue on Aftershock for the TV Title. On the most recent episode, Awar got his shot only to be taken away by a debuting Caleb Adonis. Adonis and Merengue are now a team, and will align themselves with JCG down the road in a pretty boy faction with Adrienne doing valet duties for all of them once Amy is able to break away from a verbally abusive Merengue.</p><p> </p><p> Derrick Rollins defends his US title against Ricky Fyre. Rollins has enlisted the help of Mountain Albert to be his muscle, and with Albert being a constant thorn in the side of Fyre, Theo Barkley decided to join up with Fyre to combat his foes, and even the odds somewhat there.</p><p> </p><p> Some notable signings I've made that haven't already been mentioned. </p><p> </p><p> I of course brought back V.I.P as I do in just about every game. But instead of thrusting him into the title picture right away this time, I plan on having him debut during a Hall of Fame induction ceremony for Immortal Warrior setting up a program for those two before eventually giving V.I.P the title run that he's deserved since Chaperone had the book.</p><p> </p><p> In an attempt to bolster the tag team ranks, I brought in Jack America and Seven Brandt calling them American Evolution. In three previous games in a row, they have excellent chemistry which is why they're together.</p><p> </p><p> I brought back Deuces Wild as well who on their re-debut challenged and beat The Specialists to become tag champs. I want to split The Specialists up because Daryll Lance is a better heel anyway, and Nick Hart is too popular to be rolling around the tag ranks hence the Deuces winning the titles.</p><p> </p><p> Love Freedom was brought in because I love his character. A pacifist preacher in a wrestling company sounds just lovely to me. I usually pair him up with Jesse Mills, but I don't know if I'm going to do that this time around. i might just keep him single and see where it goes. </p><p> </p><p> And then there's Larry! Terry Thunder super fan Larry Lighting is in the AWF and Terry rather than being annoyed by the dedication has a soft spot for Larry. Eventually Larry is going to team up with Terry's good friend Iron Fist as (again, you guessed it) IRON LIGHTING!!!!</p><p> </p><p> Gonna try to bolster the Starlets division as well as I just can't ever get behind booking Womens Wrestling, but I want to give it to old college try. I brought in Hell Cat, repackaged her as Gabriela, and removed the mask. Also brought in both Jess Hart, and Tegan Merritt who will be keeping their full names in protest of the "terrible Starlets Division where everyone is a one word stripper." They are legitimate athletes, and want to be treated as such.</p><p> </p><p> If you're still reading, thanks. This was kind of a long post. But all in all, I think this game is my best one yet for the TVerse. I thought I had something going with a Casey Skym ran CLUB game that nearly made it out of the first season before it all became blah for me, and I scrapped it. Terry also had a run at The CLUB as well with the story being Cesar Kaslow would put Terry's other shows on his network if Terry agreed to be the on-screen network representative of The CLUB. That game also fell apart.</p></div></blockquote><p> </p><p> Thanks for sharing! AWF is a favorite promotion of mine, so I always enjoy seeing what other people do with it. I'm actually running an AWF game myself, which has some similarities. Rather than Apache Chief, I have Allen Packer of the Reverie Network (imported from the Cornellverse) buy up AWF to run on his on-demand network, along with FAW content. </p><p> </p><p> I like your idea of feuding Hawk and Cross. In my game, I built Cross up to win the world championship at WrestleFest after he cashed in his Battle for Los Angeles title shot at the last second of an epic Hawk/Dolla bout. Cross strikes me as being sort of the anti-Hawk, somebody the smarks can cheer but the True Believers can loathe. </p><p> </p><p> Keep us posted on how your game goes!</p> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShiningWizzro Posted March 2, 2020 Share Posted March 2, 2020 I'm new to the Thunderverse and feel a bit lost. Can anybody give me a heads up on workers or tag team that would fit well with a fed rated equally on popularity and performance? Like who is the Thunderverse versions of Jericho, Omega, Young Bucks etc? thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sigilistic Posted March 2, 2020 Share Posted March 2, 2020 I'm new to the Thunderverse and feel a bit lost. Can anybody give me a heads up on workers or tag team that would fit well with a fed rated equally on popularity and performance? Like who is the Thunderverse versions of Jericho, Omega, Young Bucks etc? thanks I'm terribly partial to the Ambassador's Club tag team, Ebi Kadivar and Paul Crowley. They can work, they're entertaining and they're decently over in both the U.S. and Japan. When you say the Jericho or Omega, do you mean "talented worker who isn't signed with a major company?" In that case, you've got some options. Kris Phoenix is phenomenally skilled and extremely easy to get, though he suffers for lack of overness in the U.S. You've got Shay Kinsella and Wilson Hancock, two decently over, highly talented wrestlers, one who's a born face and the other who works well as either a face or a heel (but really is a natural heel). Depending on the roll of the dice, Buff Norton could be a good pickup as well, if overness is what you're after. He's probably one of the biggest unsigned names at the start of the game. And if you have deep pockets, there's Vincent I. Parker, who's on hiatus but can be lured back for a sizable check and who is the most over, most talented free agent on the market at the start of the game. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dalton Posted March 2, 2020 Share Posted March 2, 2020 I'm new to the Thunderverse and feel a bit lost. Can anybody give me a heads up on workers or tag team that would fit well with a fed rated equally on popularity and performance? Like who is the Thunderverse versions of Jericho, Omega, Young Bucks etc? thanks This question has been answered a few times throughout the thread but I'll help you out. It really depends on the size of your company, as most of the well-rounded guys are already on Written deals with the big guns. If you're looking for guys to sign that aren't signed up, then here's a few: Seven Brandt (CM Punk equivalent, starts off with low pop but can turn into a superstar very quickly) Fergus Storm (Finn Balor/Prince Devitt inspired) Luke Graves (good wrestler, great talker, render is close to Corey Graves) Pierre Lejosne (great young wrestler, not sure about entertainment skills) Lenny Rhodes (excellent talker, inring skills can develop) Mattias Taylor (18 years old with unlimited potential) Kris Phoenix (amazing all-rounded cruiserweight, puts up A rated matches like nothing) Graham Mackenzie (one of the best technicians ingame but is 39 years old) Nathan Jordan (fantastic young worker, will be superstar) Derek Grace Shay Kinsella The Staffordshire Saints (one of my favorite tag teams in the game, young British guys who can be molded into a top team) Ambassador's Club (signed to DRAGON, not sure if exclusive or not) If you're looking more for equivalents to real-world guys, I can list a few. I'm not in front of the game right now so this is all from memory Kenny Omega - Erik van Rijn (Dutch guy, holder of UPJ Heavyweight title. Doesn't look like him but fills the same role as leader of the gaijin faction) Triple H - Timothy Hawk (this is more my opinion, nothing distinct to connect the two I believe) Kane - Core Austin Aries - Tyler Mercury PAC - Cameron Cody (more of an Adrian Neville than current PAC, pick him up if available) Hiroshi Tanahashi - Kintaro Kinjo Kazuchika Okada - Oda Yamawaki James Storm - Cloud James Big Boss Man - Big Bubba Cult-leader Bray Wyatt - Jesse Mills These are just off the top of my head. I play mainly in Japan so I know of a million connections in UPJ, HONOUR, DIASPORA, etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShiningWizzro Posted March 2, 2020 Share Posted March 2, 2020 This question has been answered a few times throughout the thread but I'll help you out. It really depends on the size of your company, as most of the well-rounded guys are already on Written deals with the big guns. If you're looking for guys to sign that aren't signed up, then here's a few: Seven Brandt (CM Punk equivalent, starts off with low pop but can turn into a superstar very quickly) Fergus Storm (Finn Balor/Prince Devitt inspired) Luke Graves (good wrestler, great talker, render is close to Corey Graves) Pierre Lejosne (great young wrestler, not sure about entertainment skills) Lenny Rhodes (excellent talker, inring skills can develop) Mattias Taylor (18 years old with unlimited potential) Kris Phoenix (amazing all-rounded cruiserweight, puts up A rated matches like nothing) Graham Mackenzie (one of the best technicians ingame but is 39 years old) Nathan Jordan (fantastic young worker, will be superstar) Derek Grace Shay Kinsella The Staffordshire Saints (one of my favorite tag teams in the game, young British guys who can be molded into a top team) Ambassador's Club (signed to DRAGON, not sure if exclusive or not) If you're looking more for equivalents to real-world guys, I can list a few. I'm not in front of the game right now so this is all from memory Kenny Omega - Erik van Rijn (Dutch guy, holder of UPJ Heavyweight title. Doesn't look like him but fills the same role as leader of the gaijin faction) Triple H - Timothy Hawk (this is more my opinion, nothing distinct to connect the two I believe) Kane - Core Austin Aries - Tyler Mercury PAC - Cameron Cody (more of an Adrian Neville than current PAC, pick him up if available) Hiroshi Tanahashi - Kintaro Kinjo Kazuchika Okada - Oda Yamawaki James Storm - Cloud James Big Boss Man - Big Bubba Cult-leader Bray Wyatt - Jesse Mills These are just off the top of my head. I play mainly in Japan so I know of a million connections in UPJ, HONOUR, DIASPORA, etc. Thanks for the reply it has given me a lot to go on. I signed The Staffordshire Saints just before I read your post! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sigilistic Posted March 3, 2020 Share Posted March 3, 2020 Just an update on my AWF game. I'm heading into the September 2016 PPV. Cross is the champion, having one the title by cashing in his Battle for Los Angeles title shot at WrestleFest and crashing the title match between Timothy Hawk and Silva Dolla. Cross feuded with both men the following month, but now he has resumed his feud with Core, with the two men set to wrestle a brutal chain match for the title. Timothy Hawk and VIP have resumed their rivalry once more, with the backstory being that VIP is determined to knock Hawk off and be the man who tore out the Heart of AWF. Silva Dolla is now feuding with Patriot, while Nick Hart is feuding with Jean-Claude Giroux and Garrett South is feuding with Omri Stone. For the United States title, champion Sharif Awar is feuding with challenger Daryl Lance, who recently turned heel and branded himself the Alpha Male of AWF. The Heavenly Dragons, El Angel and Ultima Dragon (Jung DRAGON), are the tag team champions, and are feuding the The Jersey Shore (Mike Santorelli and Carmine Perotti). Meanwhile, Starlets Champion Jamilia Rosa is feuding with Alexis Funk. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
QFresh Posted March 3, 2020 Share Posted March 3, 2020 Just an update on my AWF game. I'm heading into the September 2016 PPV. Cross is the champion, having one the title by cashing in his Battle for Los Angeles title shot at WrestleFest and crashing the title match between Timothy Hawk and Silva Dolla. Cross feuded with both men the following month, but now he has resumed his feud with Core, with the two men set to wrestle a brutal chain match for the title. Timothy Hawk and VIP have resumed their rivalry once more, with the backstory being that VIP is determined to knock Hawk off and be the man who tore out the Heart of AWF. Silva Dolla is now feuding with Patriot, while Nick Hart is feuding with Jean-Claude Giroux and Garrett South is feuding with Omri Stone. For the United States title, champion Sharif Awar is feuding with challenger Daryl Lance, who recently turned heel and branded himself the Alpha Male of AWF. The Heavenly Dragons, El Angel and Ultima Dragon (Jung DRAGON), are the tag team champions, and are feuding the The Jersey Shore (Mike Santorelli and Carmine Perotti). Meanwhile, Starlets Champion Jamilia Rosa is feuding with Alexis Funk. This sounds awesome (no pun intended). What does your tag scene look like? I'm interested in how people rebuild it after Casey decided to kill it for no reason whatsoever! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sigilistic Posted March 3, 2020 Share Posted March 3, 2020 This sounds awesome (no pun intended). What does your tag scene look like? I'm interested in how people rebuild it after Casey decided to kill it for no reason whatsoever! For a while, it was pretty dead. Like you, I split up The Specialists early on, and I had ALPHA run with the belts for a while, but they basically had nothing to do for a couple of months while I brought in new tag teams and built them up via hype videos and Aftershock matches. Teams I've brought in include Ambassador's Club, which I rebranded Wrestling Royalty, and the Street Survivors, which I rebranded the Lee Brothers. I've also made a couple of teams. As I mentioned before, there's the Heavenly Dragons and Jersey Shore. I also paired up Donny Chic and Super Croak as the Super Freaks. The tag division is doing OK, but I admit I always struggle to book more than one tag team storyline, which always revolves around the title. So the other teams not involved in the title scene just kind of languish on Aftershock while they wait their turn for another shot at the gold. EDIT: I've got the Staffordshire Saints stashed in development, and I plan on bringing them in once they have some decent overness. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spud1305 Posted March 8, 2020 Share Posted March 8, 2020 I just made a quick mock-up of my basic year-to-year schedule. There might be something off here or there. The Fumetsu HOF Induction was just for 2019, so next year it'll be something else. I like the theme of an annual HOF Induction, so I might do the same for someone else. I want to induct Pain & Torture as a team since they're 8-time UPJ Tag Team champions and won my inaugural Super Tag League, so it'll work out great. For tournaments, they are all round-robin except for the Junior Tag Classic and United Cup. I simply don't have enough good talent in the junior tag division for a round-robin. Half the teams are thrown together workers and not real teams too. For the Super Tag League, I have a semi-final show because I like the idea of one of my tournaments having the top 4 enter a bracket. The only tourney with multiple blocks is the Ozeki Summit. Obviously you have to add the tournament titles manually because the Summit and Junior Cup are the only ones by default. I use the generic trophy and tag trophies as the images for them. I go light in November due to Hall of Immortals being my Wrestle Kingdom. Similar to how NJPW goes very light in the month leading up to WK (although part of this is the holidays). I "kayfabe" my November month in-game by telling myself that the talent is resting and UPJ is promoting the show heavily. My profits are about the same for November as any other month, because Hall of Immortals draws a bigger crowd, and PPV buys are higher. I'm not sure if it's set by default, but you should change HOI to be a season finale. I've recently started playing more in Japan in T-Verse and the games people are playing through sound fantastic. I came across this post a few pages back, I'm interested to find out how you fit so many shows in. In this example for June you have the Jnr Cup Tour and the Destiny Tour, how many shows do you run per week and does this kill your roster? I'm playing as DIASPORA and want to run something similar, but I think the roster will be drained quickly with a high amount of shows. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dalton Posted March 8, 2020 Share Posted March 8, 2020 I've recently started playing more in Japan in T-Verse and the games people are playing through sound fantastic. I came across this post a few pages back, I'm interested to find out how you fit so many shows in. In this example for June you have the Jnr Cup Tour and the Destiny Tour, how many shows do you run per week and does this kill your roster? I'm playing as DIASPORA and want to run something similar, but I think the roster will be drained quickly with a high amount of shows. It's actually not as bad as it seems. I think June is the month with the most shows for me, so it is grueling. But these tournaments are SUPPOSED to be grueling. The Junior Mtn Cup is the Junior's version of the Summit, which is supposed to be the hardest month in wrestling, a la G1 Climax. I haven't had too many problems with fatigue though, unless the worker has started declining. After the Junior Mtn Cup is over, I give the Juniors the rest of the month off until the Destiny shows anyway. The heavyweights have the first half of the month off as well, save for an occasional six man tag to open a Cup show. I'm also pretty sure I dropped the number of Destiny tour shows from 6 to 4 anyway just so I'm not getting so burned out. As a general tip, most of my tour show matches are six to eight man tags, so it's a lot less strenuous for the workers. I literally never ever have a singles match between two people above lower midcard on those shows. Honestly I think having this many shows is more grueling on the player than the workers lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
a0161613 Posted March 8, 2020 Share Posted March 8, 2020 <p>You may have some leeway in the intensity and danger percentages. I think I tweaked those without amending the product for UPJ. I like Japan a bit too much at the moment. UPJ is great. Haven't gone to HONOUR or DIASPORA yet.</p><p> </p><p> I have had to force myself to start a non Japan game in both Tverse and CVerse. I like the increased presence in Europe, GB and Australia that this database offers.</p><p> </p><p> I've got a nice HCG save going now. I had a nice AWF one too but think this save may stick. It's so tempting to start a B show. I've already signed a bunch to writtens and tried to stifle the usual overrecruitment that so many of us find so tempting.</p><p> </p><p> Has anyone tried that? HCG seem primed to make a push for National, B show would help immensely but could you suffer too much financially?</p> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spud1305 Posted March 8, 2020 Share Posted March 8, 2020 Thanks, I can see that makes sense giving the juniors the second half off and the heavys the first month off to stop them being fatigued. I'm in the early planning stages setting up the tours so I'm going to 'borrow' your schedule as DIASPORA actually runs in 3 month tours <img alt="" data-src="//content.invisioncic.com/g322608/emoticons/biggrin.png.929299b4c121f473b0026f3d6e74d189.png" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dalton Posted March 8, 2020 Share Posted March 8, 2020 <blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="a0161613" data-cite="a0161613" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="41411" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>You may have some leeway in the intensity and danger percentages. I think I tweaked those without amending the product for UPJ. I like Japan a bit too much at the moment. UPJ is great. Haven't gone to HONOUR or DIASPORA yet.<p> </p><p> I have had to force myself to start a non Japan game in both Tverse and CVerse. I like the increased presence in Europe, GB and Australia that this database offers.</p><p> </p><p> I've got a nice HCG save going now. I had a nice AWF one too but think this save may stick. It's so tempting to start a B show. I've already signed a bunch to writtens and tried to stifle the usual overrecruitment that so many of us find so tempting.</p><p> </p><p> Has anyone tried that? HCG seem primed to make a push for National, B show would help immensely but could you suffer too much financially?</p></div></blockquote><p> </p><p> To be honest I wasn't exactly satisfied with the UPJ product as is and I thought it needed a little tweaking, if only to satisfy my neverending desire for high ratings. Still haven't gotten a 100, but have hit 99 a total of 15 times so far.</p><p> </p><p> <img alt="Dy5I93e.png?2" data-src="https://i.imgur.com/Dy5I93e.png?2" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /></p> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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