Frequency Of Events

[toddwchandler]

This is probably a dumb question, but I just downloaded the trial and picked MAW as my first org to run in single player mode. How often am I supposed to run events?

 

I created a weekly scheduled event with hopes of building story lines to the big monthly events. Problem is, I am losing money like nobody's business.

 

What am I missing here? Am I supposed to just use the pre-defined monthly even schedule?

[Dr. Hook]

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="toddwchandler" data-cite="toddwchandler" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="42312" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>This is probably a dumb question, but I just downloaded the trial and picked MAW as my first org to run in single player mode. How often am I supposed to run events?<p> </p><p> I created a weekly scheduled event with hopes of building story lines to the big monthly events. Problem is, I am losing money like nobody's business.</p><p> </p><p> What am I missing here? Am I supposed to just use the pre-defined monthly even schedule?</p></div></blockquote><p> </p><p> I would do just the one to start, until you build your pop enough to get your attendances increasing to where you can add in a show. If you run one and can make a decent profit, you can add a second show, but make it a small show. I am doing this currently in my save, and I make it an hour and a half or even an hour, and use only part of your roster- in my product I ran 4 matches and 3 angles in a short show, so ended up using about 8-12 workers instead of the full roster. Saves a decent amount of money.</p>

[MachoManOrton]

Cut down to a single event for one month then compare ticket sales to worker salaries after you run it. Weekly events are a good way to rush to Cult and/or win a broadcast deal but financially risky if your attendance in home region isn't massive. Feels a bit like cheating to me since the AI can't do it though.

[LigerLiger]

Running weekly events without having written deals is finnancial suicide,as you pay every wrestler per appearence,not per month.

[sabataged]

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="Liger!Liger!" data-cite="Liger!Liger!" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="42312" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>Running weekly events without having written deals is finnancial suicide,as you pay every wrestler per appearence,not per month.</div></blockquote><p> </p><p> Unless its like an hour long show and you book three matches, 1v1, 1v1, and 2v2 with the same 4 workers. Rotate the roster every week so people are getting used. There are easy ways to save on money if running shows and gaining pop is all you are after</p>

[Dr. Hook]

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="Liger!Liger!" data-cite="Liger!Liger!" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="42312" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>Running weekly events without having written deals is finnancial suicide,as you pay every wrestler per appearence,not per month.</div></blockquote><p> </p><p> No it isn't. I am currently doing just that. The key, as Sabataged mentioned, is to run smaller shows in regions where you don't have good enough attendances to break even. I used my main monthly show which draws about 6000 right now to finance 2 smaller shows in nearby regions where I draw about 1000. I run a fourth smaller show in my home region which also helps finance the money losing shows.</p><p> </p><p> My highest paid worker is 1100 PA and most are well under that. On the small shows where I am trying to build pop, I don't use all my expensive guys- I book a couple of matches with my young, low-paid workers, and then use 3-4 of my best (and highest paid)workers to get a good enough show rating to increase pop. Since the vast majority of the match grade portion of a show comes from the Main and Co-Main events, you can get away with a couple poorer matches with cheap workers to keep the finances in check.</p>