Diary Preview And Questions Thread

[Historian]

A new lease of life, a new lease of wrestling. This is:

 

https://imgur.com/a/9WK6rMS

 

Mid Atlantic Wrestling: Where the past meets the future

 

 

Coming soon too a forum near you

 

 

...

 

Oh boy. Love me some MAW

 

Mumbai, India....................

 

Should also be fun! The Indian wrestling scene is such a blank canvas.

[Rainmaker]

January 5th, 2020

 

I opened the door for the office and a faint yet familiar musk greeted me, although the location of this office had changed many a time in recent years, the artifacts of better years passed remained, trophies, newspaper articles, photos of better times. What also remained was the man sitting behind the desk in front of me, though his chair had gotten bigger as of 2018 when he became the owner of this cursed place. Head down and solemn, an expression of his that actually wasn't familiar. Despite the man being my Father.

 

"This is not good, not good at all."

Phoenix I, Father said.

 

His gaze fixed onto the sheets of paper on his desk, he did not even acknowledge my presence and I knew at a moment what the dreaded papers were. They were our finnancial quarterly, obviously for the three closing months of the previous year and it was clear that we still marched down the same path of failure that we have for the last decade and seemed to be marching for the next.

 

"I cannot lose, not after Soler promised this all to me. My son, please..."

 

He looked up finally, his eyes brimmed with tears. One of the most legendary men in Lucha Libre history, feared and loved by many in his day, my Father, was crying with desperation like none other in his eyes.

 

"We cannot fail."

 

"We won't."

Santiago de Querétaro, Mexico

ORIGINAL LUCHA LIBRE IS ETERNAL

THE PHOENIX REBORN

Thank you Willr0ck for the great renders from the CVerse re-render project <3

[Historian]

ORIGINAL LUCHA LIBRE IS ETERNAL

THE PHOENIX REBORN

Thank you Willr0ck for the great renders from the CVerse re-render project <3

 

an OLLIE diary?!?! Count me in!

[DarK_RaideR]

That final banner is a thing of beauty

[Eisen-verse]

ORIGINAL LUCHA LIBRE IS ETERNAL

THE PHOENIX REBORN

Thank you Willr0ck for the great renders from the CVerse re-render project <3

 

YES!

[Voeltzwagon]

Ahh hell. Done messed up now.

 

 

[DAVEFAN95]

Ahh hell. Done messed up now.

 

 

 

YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

[DarK_RaideR]

Ahh hell. Done messed up now.

 

 

[DarK_RaideR]

“My friend, I think you’ve had one cocktail too many. NGW is dead and buried, it’s been what, over six years now!”

 

Nelson dismissed my idea with a wave of his hand and took another sip of his own cocktail. We may have had quite a few of those, true, but they felt absolutely necessary as our bodies were getting their tan on under the relentless Greek summer sun just a few months before we both turned 40. He was still a large man, no doubt, but rocking the dad bod, and he was flabby during the end of his NGW run to begin with. Still, he had 3 runs with the top NGW title to show for it, plus two tag title runs with me by his side. He had left England to join the promotion during his rookie year and helped put it on the map. He had been in the ring with a young Tommy Cornell and his cousin Eddie, with Marat Khoklov, some of the biggest names in the business. Me, I’d left the States to train in Japan, then moved to Europe for a career mostly spent playing his sidekick. I didn’t have the greatest of legacies to look back upon, but thinking about his and where he was at now gave me the big comeback line.

 

“And what has either of us done in these six years since?”

 

Nelson put his cocktail down and lowered his sunglasses to look at me eye to eye. I knew I had his attention now. We’d been friends in what felt like forever. He knew I wasn’t bitter or jealous. This was coming from a good place.

 

“Tommy and Eddie, they moved on, had good runs with larger promotions. Adam (Matravers) too. Joey (Beauchamp). “Captain Hero” Stig Svensson. Hell, Marat (Khoklov) broke the damn game! Champagne Lover’s making movies in Hollywood! And look at where we are. What we’ve done.”

 

Nelson sat up on his recliner, hastily rearranging his beach towel. Sitting made his gut pop out even worse than before, a painful exclamation point to my words. He didn’t say anything for a while, but I knew he was thinking, hard. I’ll admit I threw Stig on purpose in that mix; he was the only man Nelson ever played second fiddle to, when we were all under his leadership in the League of Heroes. Hopefully that would make him a little more empathetic, emotionally at least.

 

“So what do you suggest?” he finally spoke up. I knew he’d heard me the first time, so this was him asking for specifics. He’d taken the bait.

 

I savoured every second of my dramatic pause as I put my sunglasses back on

 

“We’re putting the band back together”

 

[Rainmaker]

“My friend, I think you’ve had one cocktail too many. NGW is dead and buried, it’s been what, over six years now!”

 

Nelson dismissed my idea with a wave of his hand and took another sip of his own cocktail. We may have had quite a few of those, true, but they felt absolutely necessary as our bodies were getting their tan on under the relentless Greek summer sun just a few months before we both turned 40. He was still a large man, no doubt, but rocking the dad bod, and he was flabby during the end of his NGW run to begin with. Still, he had 3 runs with the top NGW title to show for it, plus two tag title runs with me by his side. He had left England to join the promotion during his rookie year and helped put it on the map. He had been in the ring with a young Tommy Cornell and his cousin Eddie, with Marat Khoklov, some of the biggest names in the business. Me, I’d left the States to train in Japan, then moved to Europe for a career mostly spent playing his sidekick. I didn’t have the greatest of legacies to look back upon, but thinking about his and where he was at now gave me the big comeback line.

 

“And what has either of us done in these six years since?”

 

Nelson put his cocktail down and lowered his sunglasses to look at me eye to eye. I knew I had his attention now. We’d been friends in what felt like forever. He knew I wasn’t bitter or jealous. This was coming from a good place.

 

“Tommy and Eddie, they moved on, had good runs with larger promotions. Adam (Matravers) too. Joey (Beauchamp). “Captain Hero” Stig Svensson. Hell, Marat (Khoklov) broke the damn game! Champagne Lover’s making movies in Hollywood! And look at where we are. What we’ve done.”

 

Nelson sat up on his recliner, hastily rearranging his beach towel. Sitting made his gut pop out even worse than before, a painful exclamation point to my words. He didn’t say anything for a while, but I knew he was thinking, hard. I’ll admit I threw Stig on purpose in that mix; he was the only man Nelson ever played second fiddle to, when we were all under his leadership in the League of Heroes. Hopefully that would make him a little more empathetic, emotionally at least.

 

“So what do you suggest?” he finally spoke up. I knew he’d heard me the first time, so this was him asking for specifics. He’d taken the bait.

 

I savoured every second of my dramatic pause as I put my sunglasses back on

 

“We’re putting the band back together”

 

 

YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH

[DarK_RaideR]

“Alright, I’ll see you after the holidays. Merry Christmas.”

 

I ended the call and struck his name out of my list. Dovydas Vidmar was an easy pitch. When NGW stuck the Ivanoffs with Marat Khoklov to form the Czars, he’d been brought in to fill in the gaps. He was the Moscow Mauler’s lieutenant and the mouthpiece for the group. He was a big, tough Russian in the vein of Brute Alexei and Fadzaev the Crippler. He could talk, he could wrestle, he had the whole package, but in the wrestling business, those alone are not enough. Timing was the issue. By the time he was hired, the weight split was happening. Midcard titles were being retired while the rest were split into Lightweight and Heavyweight versions; as long as he was in Marat’s shadow, he wasn’t winning the big one, just like I hadn’t while Nelson or Stig were around. This re-launch was was as much as an opportunity for him as it was for me.

 

“Yes?”

 

Fusae Etsuko’s voice snapped me out of my daydreaming, dry and professional as always. I’d completely forgotten I had dialed her number in the meantime and if Dovydas was my easiest call, she was probably the hardest. “Fusae, hi…” I began, only to realize I had no idea what to say next. She had been a part of Burning Hammer’s short-lived but globally broadcasted all-female promotion. She had done two nude photo shoots, both made into best-selling magazine issues around the globe. She dominated everyone when NGW still did intergender matches, so bad they had to make a separate division for her to lead in order to avoid having her face off against Khoklov. Now I was calling her to ask her to do it all over again, from the ground up and she wasn’t getting any younger. “I know it’s been a few years, but me and Nelson are planning to promote some shows under a new banner. We’ve called some of the old NGW crew and…”

 

“Stop right there” she cut me off, her tone every bit as sharp as the kicks she used to deliver inside the ropes. “Nothing personal, Robert. I don’t have enough time left to start over from scratch, and my fee reflects that. You would be better off spending that money on a bunch of promising rookies instead while I wait for a chance to go out with a bang on the big leagues.”

 

She was right, of course, but that last part hurt a little. Sure, NGW had just made it out of Europe and was establishing a foothold in the UK by the time it went down, it was nowhere near the size of the big American or Japanese companies, but it was better than anyone else had ever done before on the wasteland that’s been the European pro wrestling scene. I could understand not having the time to repeat the journey, but not having the faith in us being able to repeat NGW’s feat or maybe even do better? Ouch.

 

“Right. Well, good luck with that” I responded, still in a bit of a shock. “Hope we can rank among the big leagues before you work your retirement match. Merry Christmas.”

 

I ended the call before she could answer, then got angry at myself. What sort of a petty reaction was that? Did I just effectively call her old? And how the hell could I ever expect her to work for me in the future after such a remark?

 

“Did you slip into promo cutting there for a bit, Rob?” Nelson piped up from the sofa where he was laying. He was unusually cheerful for what was essentially a disaster. “We just got shut down by our biggest potential star. Am I missing something or are you just having a blast out of this?” I snapped at him, before instantly regretting redirecting my anger at my best friend. Unphased, Nelson stood up and strutted his way up to me.

 

“Hold on to this feeling, chap” he said, tapping my chest. “This is the kind of drive, the kind of fire you’ll need to take this whole thing off the ground.”

 

What this is: Few years ago, I started a Road to Glory save using DerekB’s exceptional CVerse97 mod. I turned it into a save on some other forums, grew attached to my starting promotion and ended up booking it for 16 in-game years. This was summarized (and slightly expanded) here. That save basically evolved into an alternate CVerse timeline but can’t be converted to the new game, so instead I manually “imported” all the non-canon characters in the editor, aged their skills appropriately and decided to start a new promotion in the canon 2020 CVerse.

[Munit]

Is there a template out there someone can point me to please? I remember someone posted a template for making your dynasty that we see In a lot of dynasties here. It's like a huge box that's blank with spaces I think to fill out things for your dynasty

[Historian]

Is there a template out there someone can point me to please? I remember someone posted a template for making your dynasty that we see In a lot of dynasties here. It's like a huge box that's blank with spaces I think to fill out things for your dynasty

 

I've never seen such a template, but what are you looking for in the template? Stuff to fill out what exactly?

[Munit]

I've never seen such a template, but what are you looking for in the template? Stuff to fill out what exactly?

 

Graphic wise for a dynasty. I think it was years ago maybe tew10 someone had posted a template. Like it was a template to create my own show for dynasties.

 

 

Unless I'm mistaken? I thought there was something like that. I just wanted to create my own dynasty and thought there was a template to help me put shows together more convenient.

[20LEgend]

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="Munit" data-cite="Munit" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="47534" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>Graphic wise for a dynasty. I think it was years ago maybe tew10 someone had posted a template. Like it was a template to create my own show for dynasties.<p> </p><p> </p><p> Unless I'm mistaken? I thought there was something like that. I just wanted to create my own dynasty and thought there was a template to help me put shows together more convenient.</p></div></blockquote><p> I think it might be this, unless there was something else: <a href="http://www.greydogsoftware.com/forum/showthread.php?t=510229" rel="external nofollow">http://www.greydogsoftware.com/forum/showthread.php?t=510229</a></p><p> </p><p> But as far as I can tell, the link for it doesn't work anymore</p>

[Munit]

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="20LEgend" data-cite="20LEgend" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="47534" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>I think it might be this, unless there was something else: <a href="http://www.greydogsoftware.com/forum/showthread.php?t=510229" rel="external nofollow">http://www.greydogsoftware.com/forum/showthread.php?t=510229</a><p> </p><p> But as far as I can tell, the link for it doesn't work anymore</p></div></blockquote><p> </p><p> You're right! Such a shame it doesn't work with the forum anymore <img alt=":(" data-src="//content.invisioncic.com/g322608/emoticons/frown.png.e6b571745a30fe6a6f2e918994141a47.png" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /></p>

[w4lru5]

<p></p><div style="text-align:center;"><img alt="TLD3.png" data-src="https://i.postimg.cc/KjtcH6bS/TLD3.png" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /></div><p></p><p></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="47534" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div><div style="text-align:center;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wz2wVLyTar4" rel="external nofollow"><span style="font-family:Impact;"><span style="font-size:12px;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wz2wVLyTar4</span></span></a></div><p></p><p></p><p> </p><p> </p><div style="text-align:center;"><p><span style="font-family:Impact;"><span style="font-size:18px;"><span style="color:#8B0000;">COMING RELEASE DAY...</span></span></span></p></div><p></p><p></p></div></blockquote>

[crownsy]

<p>Preview for one I want to start, want to see if people think it's to out there for the Cverse. </p><p> </p><p>

So This would be a CWA dynasty where the user character is the child of a Decolt Brother (tbd) and Victoria Stone. This Kid would be raw, but obviously the link between the two families </p><p> </p><p>

Before I really get rolling on it tonight, would people be interested in that or is it to "come on, Adam would have mentioned a random 19-21 year old Scion of these two families at some point...." to get behind? </p><p> </p><p>

Idea would be that we follow the career of this young kid as he unifies both his Grandfather's legacies.</p>

[Blake Trask]

It would be pretty dramatic, since it would entail Victoria cheating on Sean McFly with a DeColt! <img alt="" data-src="//content.invisioncic.com/g322608/emoticons/eek.png.0e09df00fa222c85760b9bc1700b5405.png" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" />

[Historian]

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="crownsy" data-cite="crownsy" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="47534" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>Preview for one I want to start, want to see if people think it's to out there for the Cverse. <p> </p><p> So This would be a CWA dynasty where the user character is the child of a Decolt Brother (tbd) and Victoria Stone. This Kid would be raw, but obviously the link between the two families </p><p> </p><p> Before I really get rolling on it tonight, would people be interested in that or is it to "come on, Adam would have mentioned a random 19-21 year old Scion of these two families at some point...." to get behind? </p><p> </p><p> Idea would be that we follow the career of this young kid as he unifies both his Grandfather's legacies.</p></div></blockquote><p> </p><p> I mean, we thought we knew all the Stone children and then one went and married Steve. </p><p> </p><p> Though I do have to echo that it would mean that Victoria either stepped out on Sean to have the child OR she had a torrid affair/love child before she and Sean ever got together!</p>

[Big Roguey]

<p>Not as wild as Dan Stone one upping George DeColt's funeral by dying himself and that leading Steve DeColt to EWR his way into the Stone family by marrying a previously never heard of daughter of Dan Stone.</p><p> </p><p>

Are....are the DeColts and Stones just one big soap opera now? ¬_¬</p>

[Pteroid]

Not as wild as Dan Stone one upping George DeColt's funeral by dying himself and that leading Steve DeColt to EWR his way into the Stone family by marrying a previously never heard of daughter of Dan Stone.

 

Are....are the DeColts and Stones just one big soap opera now? ¬_¬

 

Yes

[crownsy]

Yes

 

hahaha that's why I was gauging interest, the scenario requires either suspension of disbelief that no one in either family would know about some love child until now and/or some cheating by the only eligible women in the scenario

 

Just seeing if it's to far out there, might revise my diary plans if so

[christmas_ape]

hahaha that's why I was gauging interest, the scenario requires either suspension of disbelief that no one in either family would know about some love child until now and/or some cheating by the only eligible women in the scenario

 

Just seeing if it's to far out there, might revise my diary plans if so

 

I'd definitely say you're fine. Like you say it requires a certain level of suspension of disbelief but I wouldn't say it's quite so bad. Especially as the DeColt/Stone storyline is already pretty crazy.

 

The CWA has done the job of unifying both grandfather's legacy but it would be fun to have someone be the direct embodiment of that.

[awesomenessofme1]

I'm not planning on starting a long-term save in this game until the full release, but I've thought about trying out a diary for a little while, and I thought I'd gauge interest.

 

This would be a custom company, ZOOM! Wrestling, with several custom characters and the gimmick that it only hires wrestlers born in 1999 or later (I was originally going to do 2000, but that just makes things close to impossible). I'm starting with enough money to make two broadcasters so I can do a full-time schedule (weekly TV and a monthly PPV) from the beginning.

 

I think it's going to be interesting to have to work with so many wrestlers who are new to the C-Verse. I'm definitely going to play it regardless, but I'd be interested to know if anyone would want to read about it.