Road to Glory 2020

[lethargicass]

On 8/18/2023 at 4:30 AM, lethargicass said:

YEAR 2 over

up to tiny but having some issues with area battles and rebalancing finances
got two rolls as i booked my first 50 rated event and got exactly the one i needed haha then got another solid roll at end of year 

Forgot to add my match totals for year 1

blue is wins, red is losses, gold is draws, white is total matchs.

Edited August 21, 2023 by lethargicass

[lr10540]

After the news over the past week, I felt like booting up another RTG, this time with inspiration from the late Bray Wyatt. I believe this will be my first game since the new rolls were added. Should make it easier, although I haven't played anything other than bigger companies in some time, so I'm unsure if any changes have been made to upstarts. Anyways, here's a synopsis of the start up through the first 6 months!
Our initial Roster: Richard Blood, Clark Alexander, Phil Templeton and myself. Hired Ryan Aitchison as road agent but even with maxed negotiating, he was costing 750 a month (250/show) which was just too much starting out, so I renegotiated his contract to change it from ongoing to 1 last appearance in the middle of Feb (so I didn't chance a negative relationship as I'd like to bring him back when I'm in the green) and my UC has been agenting since. Ran 3 shows a month from the start. My regular monthly PPVs (New Year's Revolution, Royal Rumble etc) have been in Mid South then I've ran Rebellion and Insurrextion as monthly events in the Tri-State and Mid-West to give me the maximum amount of spillover. The first month I ran Insurrextion as a 2nd show in Mid-South but it didn't increase pop, so I'm assuming 1 show hits pop cap now since the last time I did the challenge. We hired K.P. Avatar and Pecs in February to increase the roster to 6 workers. We had Mania in May and I hired 4 local workers specifically for that show with biggest of them being former SWF midcarder, Rich Horn (40-50 pop across US) to main event the show. Prior to the start of June, seeing how I was finally starting to get close to the green, I decided to expand the roster once more, hiring Chris Morrisette, Coyote Dynamite, Eddie Peak and Big Cat Brandon while again doing the renegotiating "firing" for Pecs.
I rapidly upgraded Merch levels until I hit small time (Level 3) and then I began a conservative upgrade as the monthly cost once upgraded (750) would cause my merch to run a net negative. I figure by the time I complete the upgrade, I'll be popular enough to draw a profit. It's also only costing me 35 bucks a week while upgrading, which is helpful given that I'm so close to being in the green. Speaking of finances, we lost 4k in Jan, 3.5k in Feb, 2.5k in Mar, 445 in Apr and only 81 in May and that's with a 1.9k wage bill with the additional talents we brought in for Mania. At the end of June, we broke our first profit of 1.2k! We have 4 pop in Mid South, Mid West and Tri State with 1 pop in every other region of the USA aside from PR and Hawaii. Assuming no additions to the roster, I expect to be out of debt by the end of the year, maybe October or November depending on how Sponsorship and Merch sales go with a few more pop points. The only thing I can think that may prevent this is hiring an agent, but my match grades are between 17 and 22, so gaining pop isn't an issue to the point where I need one.

[lr10540]

I've attached my rolls for the first 2 years as well as my stats prior to the start of 99. Mostly just been slogging along, rapidly upgrading merchandise (80% of the way to level 6) and trying to stack money. Went through a period of loss where I was trying to get my first 50 event and match and relied on 3 higher priced workers, specifically Duane Stone at over 2k a show to get it done. Once I got it, he, Eric Tyler and Steve Flash all weren't long for the WWF world. My current "pillars" are The Hype, Shawn Gonzalez, Alex Braun and The Crippler. I'd like to include myself, but at this point we're all promo and psychology with trash ring skills. Was really hoping to get some stamina and more fundamentals rolled, but lady luck was not on my side. Stamina and the other basics are coming along well, but not as quickly as I'd like. I'm 3 months and 1 week away from being able to increase my size again. Hoping by the time I get to muscular/ripped I'll have the Star Quality to be a figurehead. Just hit tiny in December, 21 days before my critical owner goal would've been a failure. Unfortunately PGHW still sees me as too small to be able to do anything with me. Eventually I'd like to accept their workers on excursions and potentially do talent trades, althought that's far less relevant since their workers will be unknown to American audiences. I guess that's about it. At this point we should hit small by the middle of 2000 and I'll consider doing television at that point for my 3 regions (Mid South, Tri-State, Mid-West) with local TV deals and then trim to 2 monthly shows with 1 being my main (future) PPVs and the other being a show I'll run in South-West to prepare for the eventual climb to medium. Next update will probably another 2 game years from now. But with Starfield coming out Thursday night for me, that could be a week or two until then 😂 in any event, I'll see yall with a start of 2001 update!

 

EOY97: 17. "Chance to Train" You have been offered the chance to train with a Wrestling Legend. Gain +20 points to spend on any Fundamental skill. (Basics, Selling, Consistency, Safety & Psychology)

Psychology: 77—>92

Selling: 76—>81

 

First Step - Earn a Match Grade of 50 or More With Your Wrestler

*WWF Rebellion 15: 4-Way Cage Match (57) | Sunday, Week 2, March 98

Eric Tyler vs. Steve Flash vs. Duane Stone vs. Chris Wyatt 

36. “Master of wit and repartee”. Your improve training went really well. Add ‘Shoots from the Lip’ to your character. +15 points to spend across Charisma and Microphone.

Charisma: 77—>92

 

Fresh New Indie - Produce an Event Card of 50

*WWF Rebellion 15: 55 | Sunday, Week 2, March 98

1. "Friends with Benefits" You gain one Working Agreement (you may try a different company if you are rejected) OR you can join an existing Alliance (assuming they let you in) OR you may invite another company to join your alliance (you may try a different company if you are rejected).

PGHW —> Adopt a friendly attitude

 

Hello World - Work for a Tiny company

Monday, Week 2, December 98

21. “Solid? Liquid? Gas?” You have devoted your holiday season to training in the ring +10 to your Consistency skill

Consistency: 32—>42

 

EOY98: 4. "Chance Encounter" While on holiday abroad you have befriended a wrestler and offered them a job (choose a wrestler in another regional area who is unemployed, make them active in your area and create a Strong Friendship between you and them)

Golden Scorpion

Can’t hire at the moment because it breaks one of my owner’s goals (no technician flyers)

 

Into The Bubble - Debut in the Power 500

Monday, Week 1, January 98: Debuted at 455

36. “Master of wit and repartee”. Your improve training went really well. Add ‘Shoots from the Lip’ to your character. +15 points to spend across Charisma and Microphone.

Charisma: 92—>100

Microphone: 78—>85

Already had shoots from lip via a prior roll

[lr10540]

So FYI, this will be a large wall of text as there was A LOT that happened over the last 2 years, so I'll kind of give a TLDR here for those that want the cliff notes. Hit Small in March and immediately made the mistake I haven't made since was back in my early days of TEW13. Immediately got television, upgraded production and was losing a lot of money. Then I bought out a few companies not realizing pop would decrease back down to basically nothing if I didn't run a show there, mostly for merch sales, so this was all ultimately for nothing. The big company I bought was EILL, primarily for the talent I could get, but definitely because of the pop I could absorb from Mexico. That put me in a 1m debt. I then realized running TV wasn't helping the debt, so I cancelled my TV deals which cost me 100k, then lowered production and immediately got hit with a 100k lawsuit for playing copyrighted music. 1.2m in the hole. Fired pretty much everyone making over 200 a show, pumped up my monthly show to 12 and then 16. A ton of injuries and 157 shows later, I'm 1 month away from being back in the green with 1 month to spare until the banks came for me. And NOTBPW has been losing about 100k a month, and they're 90k away from being in the red, so we may be doing this whole song and dance all over again in 2000. Fun 2 years. My UC is starting to look really good. Turned off the Fog of War so you could see the stats in the End of Year 2000 screenshot. As for 2001, we might be able to produce a 75 event and match once my injury wears off in April. We can get another muscle increase around the same time. Star Quality has already jumped to 84 from the previous size increases, so we may have a legit figurehead. Currently at +4% attendance and 10% merch with myself as figurehead. Merch is 9 weeks from hitting level 8. I think that's about it, for those so inclined, my more detailed description is below, written as the events happened in my google drive.

 

My Goal is to kill HGC at this point. They stole Steve Flash and Chris Morrisette from me in January of 19, as well Big Cat Brandon in April of 99. Didn’t hurt me show rating wise, just pissed me off because The Crippler and Brandon James are 2 of my favorite SWF guys in the current data and I wanted to keep them. I’ve purposely avoided signing Rich Money and Angry Gilmore for this exact reason. I want them to be nobodies so that when I can offer written deals, they’ll be mine!

 

OLLIE’s Carlos Mencia retired in October of 99 and thus the booking position came open. Unfortunately, they’re a medium sized company and I was not yet small at the time of the opening. I’ve always been torn on whether I should jump when it becomes available. I had an opportunity to do so on a prior save years ago and took it to jump to EX2010. They had a big financial backing, but I was never as invested as I was with my own company.

In February of 2000, I bought BDW for a measly 33k and got myself 26 pop total across Oceana. If I did the math right, that would make it to where merch sales would pay me back on that transaction in 5 years. But considering I’m still rapidly upgrading merch (just hit level 7 prior to buying them) it’ll probably be closer to 4 years. I also brought over 8 workers just to use them and make them active in USA. Afterwards, planning to resign them all to 1 month/1 appearance deals and shortlist them for whenever I need to go on a hiring spree. Unfortunately Cousin Tiny had an attribute that makes him never become active outside of Oceana, so that was unfortunate. I was looking forward to him eventually being a monster heel when I start properly booking for fun after the grind to medium.

 

March of 2000 saw us rise to Small. We immediately upgraded production so as not to take the large hits from DaVE as well as procured TV Deals for the 3 regions we’ve been running (Mid-South, Tri-State and Mid-West) so we have some growth flexibility. We bought out RWA who was only 6,770 in debt and came with 39 total pop across British Isles, so it’ll pay itself off in roughly 9 months and then add 800 a month to the bottom line. This would late be a monumental mistake.

 

While perusing all the companies finances, I saw EILL is also in debt but at a whopping 1.06 MILLION. Now, they’ve allowed me to offer a buyout, and owning the future SOTBPW is immensely intriguing to me. Thanks to the US TV deals, I could also move my shows to Sureste to try and recoup some of this money back quicker as they’re a 44 pop in that region, which is my highest. The other major reason I’m seriously considering it is the talent. I’ve always loved Axxis Jr and Soul Taker, but besides them there’s Atlantis Jr, El Critico, El Demonio, Mayan Idol, Mephisto, Mexican Beast, Mexican Ghoul, Pablo Rodriguez, and even The Gatekeeper doesn’t yet appear to be in time decline. I feel like with running shows and merch sales I could probably make the money back before bankruptcy, but it’s gonna be a tough slog. Couple other bonus reasons, my UC picked up spanish at some point (but still not japanese despite hiring BHOTWG and PGHW excursioned workers) and it would accelerate my growth from Big to Large if and when I reach that point. With some work, I could also potentially get on the Los Deporte Hoy network within a year which gives me very small coverage throughout Mexico and tiny coverage in my home region, the 2 other regions I need for medium as well as Tri-State which I was already running and Puerto Rico. There’s also 2 PPV options for me in Mexico, which I feel could be a huge windfall financially, but it would require further upgrading of my production. One I could get immediately after gaining 1 pop in Sur and upgrading my music to minor licensed. The other is a bit longer term play and would take around a year to meet the pop reqs.

 

So ended up buying it. Tried holding out, but they were losing an additional 20k a week as best I could tell and I didn’t want to end up taking on a debt I couldn’t overcome. First month was absolutely horrible as I brought in everyone I mentioned and then some. Roster was up to 36 active. While I never intended on keeping everyone, I had to book them at least once in US for when I eventually did want to sign them. Unfortunately, they were on my roster long enough to tank my backstage rating from the mid 80s down to the low 50s. I got rid of most of the negative influences (except Enygma because he’s awesome and his tag team with Alex Braun named Arctic Shadows is great) and now it’s a matter of time for the 10 negative effects to fall off. I also renegotiated everyone’s contracts and got better rates (level 10 negotiating) to help the bottom line. Had to cut Soul Taker because 3400 a show was too much, as well as everyone else on a 1k/show rate except for Axxis Jr.

While all that was happening, I realized the mistake that I never make anymore in rushing for TV was a massive mistake. More worker fees, more production, more show costs turned a monthly 15k surplus into a monthly near 30k detriment. Tried taping multiple shows to save money, but it would appear that it hurt the ratings enough to get me kicked off my Mid South network. Which then led me to pay 50k each to the other networks to get rid of TV altogether and lower my production back to minimums. So now we’re heading into May, 1.1 million in debt and the solution I have is running 9 shows a month. The plan is to hit Mid South, South West (for the climb to Medium), Sur and Centro (Sur and Centro so I can get a PPV deal in Mexico) 1 time each, and run the other 5 in Sureste which is my most popular region at 43 pop. 1st show we run after setting all the production values to minimum hit us with a 100k music fine. Dig the ditch a little deeper, please.

 

May showed signs of life, but it was obvious drastic measures were going to have be taken if I was to have a chance to come back from the major deficit. Taking out the additional money I spent for Mania, I was on pace to make 20k for the month. So I rid my roster of everyone making over 200 a show and replaced them all with workers making no more than 30 a show. Brought in guys combined making 110 a show, and got rid of guys (including Axxis Jr sadly) combining to make 7410 a show, a savings of 7300 a show or 65.7k a month. We made over 30k the last 2 months of May after we overhauled the roster. Unfortunately this overhaul left me without any stars in Mexico so I was getting the lack of big names email. Those 4 shows are now likely to be done in the Americas. We added an additional 4 shows and made 85k after taxes in June. Getting out of debt by the 18 month mark (assuming it’s still a year and a half) is definitely doable, but this stretch of non stop shows for the next calender year might just burn me out lol. I definitely regret buying EILL out, as it’s led to this and I had to drop all the talent that I wanted to bring over which is making my growth in Mexico near impossible. Just a complete clustermuck.One good piece of news, my UC is finally in place as figurehead and it’s giving me 4% more attendance and 10% more merch sales. Should help this comeback tremendously considering in June I made 51.9k on tix and 56.7k on merch. Overall, roughly an extra 10k/month.

 

Midway through July we purchased RWA, a tiny British Isles company. 43 pop across the isles, with merch sales, it’ll pay itself back in less than 18 months. In August we started booking 4 shows a week to try and get out of debt quicker. Partially because I don’t want to lose my company, but largely because NOTBPW appears to be losing roughly 100k a month.

 

Friday, Week 1 of December I saw the new on the main page… “Banks Close In On WWF” was the title of the article detailing how I had 3 months left to get out of the red, or lose my company. Luckily for me I’m on pace to be in the green in about half that time. 

 

Finished out 2000 winning the most improved company for the 2nd consecutive year. Still 152k in debt, having been in debt since April of 2000. We made 184k last month, so this will be our last month in debt. Unfortunately (or fortunately?) this is like NOTBPW’s final month not being negative, so we’ll be checking in on them at the start of Feb to see if they wanna sell us their company for pennies. We placed 376 in the Power 500, our same exact position as last year, but we did that while dealing with Achilles Tendonitis since the beginning of April. As for the upcoming year, we probably won’t hit medium unless we can buy NOTBPW early and move our home base to Canada. If we don’t, medium will probably come middle of next year. Signed The Hype to a written deal and did the post show drug test for the whole roster since the randoms weren’t catching him. His stamina had fallen to a point he could barely manage a 15 minute match, so the great Hype that was once one of my 4 pillars had started to show cracks and began crumbling under the weight of his addictions. Hopefully he can beat them and return so I can build him back up over a year or two before he hits 30.

 

EoY99: 19. “So, Tell Me About Your Mother…” You have devoted your holiday season to training in the ring +10 to your Psychology skill

Psychology: 92—>100

 

Not So Small After All - Work for a Small company

11. “Nose To The Grindstone” You have devoted yourself to training in the ring +10 any Primary skill of your choice

Technical 56—>66

 

EoY00: 12. "Fists and Feet of Fury" Heavy bag, speed bag, heavy bag, speed bag…you’ve been working hard, +10 to your Brawling, Puroresu or Hardcore skill

Brawling: 59—>69

[Ramen Time]

Decided to try my hand at the Road to Glory challenge with the RWC August 23 mod. I’m not sure Real World mods are friendly to RTG challenges, but let’s give it a shot and see what happens.

Romeo King and Sheldon Goldberg have opened All Pro Wrestling in the South West. It’s Insignificant to be sure, and I didn’t really grow pop my first month despite two shows, but we’re slowly growing. Currently about to hit January 2024 and we’ve got a smallish fan base, somewhere in the 90s if I’m not mistaken. I’m running two shows a month, though I could run more if it would help.

I’m slowly getting used to things, such as operating in the red and trying to build pop for my UC. Despite two feuds he seems capped at 18, so maybe a tag team rather than singles is best for him right now. I did put us a little further in debt to grab Ace Austin and Mike Bailey after Impact released them, which helped us get to our first upgrade.

First Step - Earn a Match Grade of 50 or More With Your Wrestler

“Nose To The Grindstone” added 10 to Brawling, bringing me to a decent 58.

God bless tag matches. Ace and Bailey are special occasions as I’m not trying to jump to bankruptcy too soon. Everyone else on my roster are at $30 a pop, but I’m wondering if more popular members would get me to Tiny sooner or if slow and steady is the right way to go.

[Orca]

Figured I would give the road to glory challenge a go using a joshi character. Say hello to Eiko Okazaki, a youngwomen who for most of her life grew up in rural Japan and only ever foxused on her studies and karate. This was until she moved to Tokyo and fell in awe with wrestling. She put her all into the business and trained with as many veterans as she could. Going to play as World Of Joshi Pro Wrestling (WJPW) which focuses more on in-ring skill rather than gimmickiness or characters

 

EDIT: Suffered a badly herniated spinal disc in December 2020, gg

Edited September 17, 2023 by Orca

[lr10540]

On 9/16/2023 at 1:03 AM, Orca said:

Figured I would give the road to glory challenge a go using a joshi character. Say hello to Eiko Okazaki, a youngwomen who for most of her life grew up in rural Japan and only ever foxused on her studies and karate. This was until she moved to Tokyo and fell in awe with wrestling. She put her all into the business and trained with as many veterans as she could. Going to play as World Of Joshi Pro Wrestling (WJPW) which focuses more on in-ring skill rather than gimmickiness or characters

 

EDIT: Suffered a badly herniated spinal disc in December 2020, gg

Oh no, probably best to restart at that point, especially since you're so early in. That's going to speed that window up tremendously. Permanent damage of 55 to your head is going to ding your performance every match going forward and assuming you're playing some sort of physically tough product being a puro company, that's going to drop a bit faster than it otherwise would in a western company. That sucks.

[lr10540]

TLDR: Again, another long update, although this will likely be the last of the long updates. Long story short, we bought TCW and I detail the takeover, what we changed, current talent, future talent and plans going forward. I'll likely be doing a more EoY summary for myself and the company. Workers coming and going primarily with any major news sprinkled in more as a bullet point type format. As for this year, it was great. Fortunately, we got a ton of rolls! Unfortunately, almost all of them are pretty damn useless. I listed pop in the screenshot, but we're basically a megastar. We'll be figurehead towards the end of this coming year and we're bringing in the most merch of anyone on our roster not named Sam Strong.

Update 3

 

First half of the year was just accumulating money. We signed a couple core guys, a few young guys to build up as we approach television and Flare. Flare was signed because he’s a star, and I have a soft spot for both him and The Hype. I was able to send him to rehab and he kicked the heavy drugs and somehow I was able to talk him out of his other addictions upon his return. Now we have a 23 year old Flare on another 8 months written deal (didn’t want to sign him long term as I wasn’t sure I’d be able to get him to kick his habits and his skills have greatly deteriorated) and hopefully we can get him back fairly close to where he was. His star quality and athleticism will like stay in the mid to high 60s, but we should be able to get his stamina up. The other guys we signed are as follows, Shawn Gonzalez, Alex Braun, Enygma, The Hype (core 4), Angry Gilmore, T-Rex, Rich Money, Mick Muscles, Valiant, Doc Hammond (future main eventers; Mick and Valiant are already there) & Alex, Jack and Steve DeColt for eventual Canadian expansion. 

 

June saw the booking position of HGC, now medium, come open as Sam Strong stepped down a few months after retiring due to a knee injury. I separated my save and applied because I wasn’t sure if I really wanted to attempt the challenge with another company, but it ultimately didn’t matter as I didn’t get the job. Sometimes things don’t go as planned, however. Jason Jackson accepted the job on the first Thursday of July. He quit on the last Tuesday of the same month and yours truly became the new booker of HGC on the last day of July. I released all the aforementioned written deals I had signed above and resigned them all to HGC on 10 year deals with the exception of Alex Braun and Flare who now had a strong dislike relationship with me. 

 

So this next bit might be rather long, as I’m going to cover all the changes I made to HGC as I became THE GUY!

First off, the company will forever be known as Total Championship Wrestling, starting Monday, August 1st of 2001. The Cruiserweight strap has been renamed All-Action. Long-term, the Hardcore title will likely be phased out and I’m debating bringing in a Woman’s title since the world has slowly started to populate with solid women workers, at least enough to build a respectable division out of.

Comprehensive tested everyone on the roster to see where we stood with that. Wanted to get workers clean as well as filter out guys who were easy cuts. 11 out of 49 people on the roster popped. 3 for painkillers: Big Trouble, an SWF graduate regen that looks solid and TCW All-Action champ, Electro. All were sent to rehab and Electro’s title was vacated. This will give me a good storyline excuse to debut the new strap for that division. Everyone else was steroids: Sam Strong, Wolverine, Bryan Vessey, Romeo Heartthrob, Paul Steadyfast, Peter Valentine and Demon Spite. I took no action on everyone (but was able to get them to quit via talking to worker) with the exceptions of Wolverine (time decline) and Peter Valentine (piece of human trash) who were fired. Firing Valentine cost me 500k in bonuses to Sam Strong to remove his angry morale hit, but it’s well worth it long term. Heartthrob and Demon Spite will also be fired eventually. Heartthrob because he’s 47 (although looking at his stats, this is his 1st month in time decline with stamina dropping 1 point) and is a negative backstage influence but his 70ish pop is too valuable to not use him to put over other workers and Spite for similar reasons. 

 

Roster reconstruction. Along with the aforementioned firings due to drugs, the following talents have been future endeavored: Grunt, Stink and Ramon Paez. Soon to be fired, as soon as we use them to get our incoming crop of talent over are: Negative locker room influences Demon Spite, Eden Layman, Rico Santana, Romeo Heartthrob and unfortunately Steve Flash. I’d love to keep Flash around, but having that agitator personality ain’t gonna work for me, brother. Soon to be fired age/decline related: Big Trouble once he returns from rehab and The Danger Kid. 110 contract in total were sent out between a few new main roster talents, a ton of developmental talents, 20+ women for my inaugural division (they’ll be sent to NOTBPW and LAW, my created dev company until I’m ready for them), and around 10 non-wrestling talent. Tag team division needed to be massively overhauled as well, as every team aside from the fired Nation of Filth are just random guys that were thrown together. 

 

Business related. We had roughly 26 million at my disposal. I opened the highest tier of development company I could for 5 million and hired my old loyal friend turned strong dislike former coworker, Alex Braun to run the company and old vet coworker Pistol Pete Hall to book it. I bought out NOTBPW and kept them around as an additional developmental company. Upgraded the House of Stone dojo to max in terms of training level and rep for roughly 4 million. Created a subscription network with coverage everywhere; Very Big in US, Medium in Canada & Mexico, Very Small in Oceana and Tiny everywhere else. Tooltip said this will currently cost me roughly 20k in losses a month. TV deals and events for myself and all 3 child companies were given via my network.

 

The roster mostly sucks. Strong is retired, Rip Chord is the only active guy over 80 pop in USA and he’s deep in time decline with barely over 30 stamina. And he’s the current champ. The rest of the 70+ pop guys consist of Bryan Vessey (30), James Justice (30), Mr. Lucha (40, low 60s physical and on hiatus), Nemesis (42, low 60s physical and deep in time decline), and Philip “Enforcer” Roberts (33). I have Johnny Martin, Masked Patriot, Outbacker Rolf (wtf), Silver Shark, Tyson Baine and Vengeance all between the ages of 29 and 31 with 60+ pop and they’re all 78+ physical everywhere except Johnny Martin’s and Vengeance’s legs. Martin, Baine and Vengeance I’ll be making a push to get into the main event scene ASAP. I need to decide who I’m going to make with a victory over Chord and then I’m probably going to start using him to get the younger main event guys over if he’ll allow it. Since Chord is a babyface atm, it will likely be James Justice or Tyson Baine depending if I want a worker or a monster for my first booked title run. I love Chord, but I just can’t do much with him when his stamina is in the 30s and soon to be 20s.  Future main eventers on this roster that haven’t been named yet are the former WWF talents who my new company stole from me in Brandon James and Chris Morrisette, Jack Bruce and of course myself. 

 

SWF has 5 talents with over 90 star quality. Tommy Cornell is one; his deal is up in 8 months and I’m going to do everything I can to poach him. Faith has 3 years, 4 months so he’s out of question, but I’ll also try to poach him despite him being 38 or 39 when his deal expires. Dread has 10 months, is 39 and in the low 60s physically but still isn’t in decline so I have moderate interest in him. The Big Easy is 40, in time decline and still has 14 months left. I don’t see myself going after him for those reasons, although I’ll definitely drive up the price. If SWF lets him walk and he still has pop, I’ll sign him to a short term deal to put over my up and comers. I saved Jim Force for last because I can start negotiations with him on September 1st. He’s a marketing dream, isn’t a negative influence and while he’s not great in the ring, he’s only 27 and good enough for me to really want him off SWF’s roster. As for the rest of their roster, I plan to pursue when available: Danny Bruce, Duane Fry, Darren Smith, El Bandido, Eric Eisen, Louis Williams, Mr. Supreme, Outbacker Harris, Pablo Rodriguez, Peter Michaels, Ric Young, Sam Keith if he's not in decline 2 years from now and Sean McFly. Eventually I'll have Richard Eisen on my roster leading a group of SWF faithful as they invade TCW after having their company bought out!

 

By September we had taken Danny Bruce because I’ve always loved his render, and The Force! Force will certainly be a future main eventer given his star quality and the fact that he’s developed into a really respectable worker means a world title run isn’t out of the picture. He’s still mid to high 40s pop and I’ve got other talent to elevate for the rest of the year. That coupled with the need to fill out the tag division at the moment, he’s going to team with other ripped bodybuilder turned wrestler Tom Angelus as a power and paint Road Warriors (or rather Lords of War/Demons of Rage given we’re playing CV) esque baby face team.

 

Rounding out the year, we signed Duane Fry away from SWF in November. We lost out on Mike Watson debuting as he chose to work in Japan. We resigned Bryan Vessey also in November. We couldn’t resign Mr Lucha because he wasn’t active in America and refused to become active and due to him being on hiatus, I couldn’t make him work in America in order to become active. I have no idea how he signed with HGC in the first place if this was the case. Tana The Mighty suffered a C7 Cervical Spinal Cord Rupture, we were able to get a successful surgery and he’ll be back in 7 months, but I’m not sure if that will prevent him from retiring or not. At the very least, I’m expecting his physical ratings to be completely destroyed to the point where retirement will be imminent. Lastly in December, we lost out on a bid for Eric Eisen, but successfully took Brent Hill (low 70s pop) and SWF fell to medium, but they’re still the #1 company in the world.

 

We Are The Moment - Work for a Medium company

Sunday, Week 4, July 01 (Became Booker of HGC)

25. “It’s a skirt!” You have devoted your holiday season to learning Colour Commentary from the masters +60 to Colour

Colour: 0→60

 

A True Alternative - Produce an Event Card of 75

TCW Summer Showdown: 88 | Sunday, Week 4, July 01

47. "It's not the size of the dog, it's the size of the fight" You now like fighting from underneath, add "Plays Weasely/Underdog Well" and “Giving Performer” to your attributes

 

Taking the Next Step - Earn a Match Grade of 75 or More With Your Wrestler

HGC Hollyweird TV Tuesday, Week 1, August 01

Chris Wyatt & Bryan Vessey vs Rip Chord and Phillip Roberts

41. "This here's what you call Domination" You've discovered a new found ability to Dominate, add "Plays Dominant Well" and “Squash Master” to your attributes

 

The Road To Glory - Work for a Big company

Monday, Week 1, Sept 01

16. “Hit The Bricks” You live in the gym. +20 to spend on physical skills. (Athleticism, Toughness, Stamina, Power)

Athleticism: 79--->99

 

Hottest Thing In The Industry - Produce an Event Card of 90

TCW Hotter Than Hell: 92 | Sunday, Week 4, August 01

38. “User Character 3:16”. You can’t print t-shirts quickly enough! Add ‘A Marketing Dream’ to you character. Add +10 to your Star Quality

Star Quality: 86--->96

 

Becoming Elite - Earn a Match Grade of 90 or More With Your Wrestler

HGC Hollyweird TV Tuesday, Week 4, September 01

Chris Wyatt & Phillip Roberts vs Bryan Vessey & Vengeance

32. "As Real As It Gets" The World of Professional Fighting called you out and you delivered. Add +10 between Toughness and Menace. Add either MMA Fighter, Boxer or Pro Martial Artist to your character

Toughness: 2—>12

 

Legendary Angle - Be involved in a 100 Rated Angle

HGC Hollyweird TV Tuesday, Week 1, October 01
Promo featuring Sam Strong and myself

40. “The trouble with retirement is that you never get a day off.” You feel like you could do this forever. Add ‘Age is just a Number’ to your character. Add +10 across Resilience and Stamina

Stamina: 96—>100

Other 6 points are wasted as resilience is already at 100

 

EoY01

11. “Nose To The Grindstone” You have devoted yourself to training in the ring +10 any Primary skill of your choice

Technical: 72—>82

 

Going Places - Break into the Top 250

Places 11th

48. "Grounded in Reality" You've discovered a new found ability to play Realistic gimmicks and prefer to have back up, add "Plays Realistic Well" and “Tag Team Specialist” to your attributes

 

Turn of A Centenary - Break into the Top 100

Places 11th

45. "Fight Anyone" You never back down, add "Plays Badass Well" and “Dynamo” to your attributes

 

A Select Few - Break into the Top 50

Places 11th

33. "Runaway Runway" Can't always be easy being a wrestler, at least you've got your modelling career to fall back on. +10 points to spend between Sex Appeal and Star Quality. Add Modelling Experience to your character

Star Quality: 96—>100

Sex Appeal: 1—>7

 

[lethargicass]

Alright finally done year two.  progress has been slow due to life but im starting to get the time to get back into tew

Here is the company pop and finances

and here are T.A. Gunns stats and popularity

i got 3 rolls this year of which i completely forgot to roll any till the end of the year haha

RISE TO TINY (added 20 to psychology 10 before taking and 10 after taking screenshots because im dumb and misread it as +10 until i made this post)

50 RATED EVENT


YEAR 2 ROLL



Had my go to guy and singles champion break his neck unfortunately but the masked mauler VII is carried the torch through the year and Jack avatar is starting his run now with a feud against James Diaz

[Charasmatic Enigma]

Got pulled back into the game recently, and decided to give this another go. Started again with my previous User Character - The Enigma. (stats below)

I set up the British Wrestling Federation in Southern England, and was assigned UK Dragon as my owner. Unfortunately the Economy and Wrestling Industry were in the toilet, so had to play very conservatively. My only two consistent wrestlers in year one were my UC and Dangermouth. My ongoing storyline was the budding "Bromance" between the two, as their win streaks continued against a rotating cast of jobbers.

We ran a very tight roster, running two 1 hour shows a month and ended the year 2.5k in debt. I'm hoping we should be back in the black by the middle of next year.

 

My UC ended the year with 48 wins and 0 losses, with an average rating of 28 and a best score of 40 (in a tag match with Dangermouth vs Gavin Owen and Cain Carlisle). We saw steady, if unspectacular, improvements throughout the year. Now that money is slightly less tight I'll be looking to upgrade the quality of the jobbers I bring in - which should hopefully see bigger improvements in year two.

End of year one stats below:

 

[Charasmatic Enigma]

Year 2 is in the bag. BWF has grown to 12 in size, but the Wrestling Industry is now finally turning around after hitting 0 in April so the pop gains are now coming faster.

On the show Dangermouth & The Enigma's Bromance continued, with both men remaining unbeaten until the final show of the year - when Enigma lost for the first time in the Main Event against Leighton Buzzard. 

A few key events in terms of stat development. I got a message in May that my UC had improved from Toned to Muscular, which resulted in an improved Star Quality stat. My UC also had their first 50 rated match in July in a tag match against The Bridges Of London, giving me an additional stat roll.

For my 50 rated match stat roll, I rolled:

22. “Snow To An Eskimo” You have devoted your holiday season to training in the ring +10 to your Selling skill

Then for my end of year stat roll, I rolled:

17. "Chance to Train" You have been offered the chance to train with a Wrestling Legend. Gain +20 points to spend on any Fundamental skill. (Basics, Selling, Consistency, Safety & Psychology)

I chose to put 12 points into Psychology, 6 points into Selling and 2 points into Consistency

Thanks to my stat rolls a big improvement this year, and I'm hoping for a big year 3 with BWF finally hitting Tiny.

[Charasmatic Enigma]

Year 3 is done for BWF, and it was a fairly successful year. The promotion held it's first 50 rated show in July, which earned my UC a destiny roll:

52. "Internet Sensation" One of your wrestlers (random roll from the list) has become an internet video hit due to a pirate recording of his last match. +2 pop for your company in every area that you already have popularity in and +10 pop for the wrestler in all areas

 

The +2 pop increase saw us finally tick past 17 pop in Southern England, and saw BWF finally hit Tiny size. The company ended 2022 with 19 pop in Southern England and 52k in the bank.

I spent the second half of the year testing manager combinations for my UC, but didn't hit chemistry with any of them. The aim for Year 4 will be to improve my Primary and Entertainment skills further. Unfortunately my End Of Year roll didn't help with that, but it did see me shoot up to 91 Star Quality!

33. "Runaway Runway" Can't always be easy being a wrestler, at least you've got your modelling career to fall back on. +10 points to spend between Sex Appeal and Star Quality. Add Modelling Experience to your character

[Eidenhoek]

In my definitely-not-cheating-and-rolling-and-rerolling-a-lot-I-swear-I'm-legit Road to Gloryish diary, I have a choice to make (due to the aforementioned cheating):

1. Make a second sibling who will either be an excellent, young, rookie worker or a fantastic announcer prospect.
2. Have 100 charisma and 100 microphone (I'm at 100/90 right now)
3. Become an Amazing Babyface, cementing me as the lord of all figureheads.

Advice?

[Lifeline]

First RTG I've stuck with kind of picked this back up after not playing this save since november last year. I screwed up the legitimacy of this RtG attempt by increasing my guys size which I wasn't aware that it changed some skills so this isn't a legit playthrough any longer but I'm having some fun with it and thereby not interested in restarting.

 

"No Frills Wrestling" has reached tiny finally as of week 4 August 2022 with our first 75 rated show.

We have rolled for:

50 rated show (Viral Video +10 pop)

50 rated match (Chance to train put into pysch and basics)

75 rated show (Musician put into charisma)

2x annual (Dynamo+ plays badass well, Groundswell of support)

Yet to roll for reaching tiny

 

 yeah my logo sucks but better than no logo I guess

Brett Graveson was edited as original owner and has been a reasonable owner thus far. Backstory for the fed is Graveson's family owns a grocery store in Kansas City and runs shows out of it at night haha. Not sure if its the combo of using a perf product and "building up" guys like Elliers, Pain, Breaux, Newton, Matsumoto, Youngblood, Honeyman etc. but pop increase has been super slow compared to what other experiences I've been reading through this thread. I haven't bothered bringing in any over the hill high pop guys to leach off of oldest on roster is 35 and 36 (Newton and Furasawa respectively) Graveson set an owner goal of age limit as well. Turning a profit of around 3-4K a month now came back from 20ish in debt by some things I had to learn about the game early on. Running 2 shows a month and have averaged 60 minimum rated shows for roughly a year straight now.

Brought in a few workers that have been unsurprisingly poached like Aldous Blackfriar and Nelson Callum but not too bad there yet. 100% backstage is nice and XWA opened in Midwest where I'm located also as a perf fed. We have never had a show rating less than theirs though so not worried now that we are both tiny and have to do battle (I think?). Signed a PPA with Mabuchi Furasawa at $600 per show plus travel (vastly more than the rest of roster) and put him in a tag with my UC a couple months ago when I started the tag division but now he will likely dethrone Honeyman as the champ once his pop reaches 40+ and the tag will end with him assuming the position of singles champ. Since I botched this playthrough with the size change I created a 200 seat venue called "Graveson's No Frills" to continue the backstory a bit description being a grocery store. I'm assuming you can't create your own venues since it's "inorganic." My immediate goals moving forward are to trounce my direct rival XWA into bankruptcy but will see how that goes.

Noteable Happenings:

Honeyman and The Architect have good tag chemistry

Jak Pain and Jesse Elliers have good tag chemistry

Jesse Elliers is loyal to my UC

Mobstar and Youngblood have good tag chemistry

Guillaume Breaux is out for 1yr 2 months with a major concussion thanks to Jules Night who just returned from the same injury with the same time frame of absence. This happened maybe a month or two after WPL opened in mid south and signed him to a PPA so screw them.   

CWW and FCW went bankrupt. GSW and MAW started their timers but are back in the black now. RIPW is in the red atm.

 

Should I be hiring announcers/colour at tiny?

 

Edited October 6, 2023 by Lifeline

[Dogking]

This is going to be my THunderverse run of RTG. This will be quite an interesting run of things.

So this is my character, Dogking. Sorry, I do not have a picture yet. I'll add one later. 

This is my starting company KPW. It is a backyard technical-based company with an old-school rasslin' feel. 

[Dogking]

Things have not gone well at all. My company went bankrupt and I've been unemployed for two years, and no one will hire me.

[Dogking]

Yeah, no "m going to have to restart my run. Three years and no one will hire me. I even applied for the all-female promotion.

[Eidenhoek]

Is the goal to have a 100-rated main event on PPV, or to main event a PPV where the event itself is rated 100?

[Dogking]

15 hours ago, Dogking said:

Yeah, no "m going to have to restart my run. Three years and no one will hire me. I even applied for the all-female promotion.

In my second run, I was losing money again but ran more shows to build up my reputation. When the company folded I had to wait 6 months, but caught the biggest break. The CEO of my starting company got put in charge of a tiny company and hired me on as a booker. So now I hold the books for Bluegrass Championship Wrestling.

[Charasmatic Enigma]

6 hours ago, Eidenhoek said:

Is the goal to have a 100-rated main event on PPV, or to main event a PPV where the event itself is rated 100?

I've always read it as a 100-rated main event involving your UC. I don't think the event rating is relevant.

[Dogking]

Where would I go to show proof of my achievements, and of when I complete the run?

[Aidenw723]

Alright, I'm doing it

And also, is it better to do shows once a month or weekly early on for free?

[Aidenw723]

3 hours ago, Aidenw723 said:

Alright, I'm doing it

And also, is it better to do shows once a month or weekly early on for free?

I made some tweaks

[Aidenw723]

First Step - Earn a Match Grade of 50 or More With Your Wrestler

Fresh New Indie - Produce an Event Card of 50

10. “LEGEN… wait for it… DARY!” Gain a Best Friend relationship with someone on your roster whose picture is of them wearing a suit. If no-one on your roster is wearing a suit, you must hire someone who wears a suit and become their Best Friend anyway then add the Drinker attribute.

47. "It's not the size of the dog, it's the size of the fight" You now like fighting from underneath, add "Plays Weasely/Underdog Well" and “Giving Performer” to your attributes

[Aidenw723]

EOY1 Roll - 32. "As Real As It Gets" The World of Professional Fighting called you out and you delivered. Add +10 between Toughness and Menace. Add either MMA Fighter, Boxer or Pro Martial Artist to your character

Into The Bubble - Debut in the Power 500 - 23. “Quick Learner” You suddenly have an eureka moment in the ring +10 to Experience Skill