[BETA RELEASE] 2001 - Here Comes The Money [Real World Mod]

[MrCanada]

2001 - Here Comes The Money

TL;DR This is a mod based in the real world of 2001. It takes the purchase of WCW from WWF and spins it a bit, with Shane McMahon instead being tasked with running WCW without the typical family feud type fantasy scenarios.

I have forever been obsessed with the demise of WCW and the subsequent "What If" scenarios people try speculate about on the internet. However, nearly all speculation is useless as most people ignore or don't know the facts. What are the facts? (I could write an essay here, but wont) WCW was worthless as a company for anyone but WWF. No network with appropriate money was willing to air it. Its biggest names had large clause-ridden contracts that were unsustainable for any company to pick up. So the WWF and what happened was more or less the only option. Further, WWF keeping WCW alive was also basically a non-starter as WWF had a exclusivity agreement with Viacom for its US-based TV shows, and Viacom was unwilling to air a WCW program in any time slot except Saturday night from 11pm-1am. WWF could not just re-brand another show, it would breach its contracts.

So that being said, there were really only a handful of ways the WWF purchase of WCW could have gone different then what we saw. This is one of those scenarios!

In 2001, Vince McMahon was showing no signs of ever stepping aside as the brain of the WWF. His daughter Stephanie quickly becoming his right hand, his son Shane wanted to begin to formulate his own legacy. When WCW went up for sale, Shane saw his opportunity. Shane approached his father with an idea. What if he were to purchase WCW and start his own legacy? Vince, finally seeing examples of his own hungry, younger self in his son, gave Shane his blessing. And with that, Shane McMahon now owns WCW.

So what does that mean? The world played out exactly as we saw it up until WrestleMania x7. Where after defeating his father in a match, Shane McMahon grabbed a microphone and told the audience to stay tuned for the Big Bang of WCW, and left WWF as an employee.

Information

Companies (32)

USA (19): All Pro Wrestling, Combat Zone Wrestling, Heartland Wrestling Association, International Wrestling Association, IPW Hardcore, IWA Mid-South, Jersey All Pro Wrestling, Memphis Championship Wrestling, NWA Florida, NWA Wildside, Ohio Valley Wrestling, Steel Domain Wrestling, Turnbuckle Championship Wrestling, Ultimate Pro Wrestling, USA Pro Wrestling, World Championship Wrestling, World Wrestling Council, World Wrestling Federation, Xtreme Pro Wrestling

Canada (2): Border City Wrestling, Extreme Canadian Championship Wrestling

British Isles (1): Frontier Wrestling Alliance

Japan (10): All Japan Pro Wrestling, All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling, Big Japan Pro Wrestling, Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling, Michinoku Pro Wrestling, New Japan Pro-Wrestling, Osaka Pro Wrestling, Pro Wrestling NOAH, Pro Wrestling ZERO-ONE, Toryumon

• THIS IS A BETA and therefore very incomplete. I'm not really looking for any feedback at this point besides glaring issues. I just felt like releasing what I have to the public as it is playable for at least a few years. I've actually made 3-4 mods for this time period but always end up abandoning them or losing them through PC issues, so I just wanted it out there.
• This mod is as realistic as possible for May 1, 2001. Except WCW is alive! Its roster is largely based on the contracts WWF had acquired with the purchase of WCW, as these were the affordable deals and the stars willing to accept buyouts of their massive AOL Time Warner contracts. Agents/announcers/referees associated with the Invasion were actually signed separate to the WWF/WCW deal. Sharmell & Torrie Wilson were actually signed by WWF as free agents too (off the top of my head), but the roster WCW has here is the roster I felt made sense. The WCW roster sucks, which is realistic. Hint: Sign Rob Van Dam.
• User Characters? There are currently no user characters in the game. You are to play as Shane McMahon himself. Feel free to add your own or play as anyone else, but that's on you.
• Mexico will at some point be addressed. When? I don't know. Its a large undertaking to do it justice and at this point I'd rather flesh out the USA & Japan.
• Its suggested you use the first month in-game, if playing as WCW, to build a roster up until the Big Bang special and then bring Nitro back in the second month, but do as you wish.
• "I think so-and-so is very underrated" This is very much the idea. I find 90% of historical mods greatly overrate wrestlers based on who they become and not who they were. I very much subscribe to the butterfly effect. With the simple premise of this mod, everything is really up in the air, let alone the things that will happen during gameplay. Does AJ Styles have a better chance at being great then Adam Jacobs? Yes, but its very possible the inverse could become true. If you do have an opinion, feel free to share, but expect to be ignored 99% of the time.
• Stats are very "round" meaning most are multiple of 5s. 20, 25, 30, ect. I really don't care if so-and-so is a 25 and someone else is a 30 and someone thinks that's wrong. The idea is more so to get a "feel" for the worker with their stats. I didn't meticulously balance this with excel spreadsheets, and I wont. I'm an adult with a job and family and do this for fun.
• I'm taking a few liberties with reality. This mod is meant to be as realistic as possible. The big difference is the future. Who knows how stuff would have played out had anything changed. That said, a few things, namely wrestlers and where they may have learned to wrestle, I'm taking some liberties with. A big one right now is the WCW Power Plant is open and a handful of realistic (to me at least) wrestlers are set to graduate from there. As the data grows you'll likely see a few examples of liberties with graduates being made.
• "I'd like to help, how can I?" Graphics. Logos, banners, events, wrestlers pictures. Feel free to share anything you may want. I wouldn't mind other people doing legwork on Agers so feel free to add some. Only rules are any and all graphics need simple black backgrounds. All worker pictures need to not be cuts at all and instead on natural or neutral backgrounds. No KyKy!
• Credits: I stole and borrowed a lot of worker graphics. So if you are offended, I apologize, but I honestly cant credit everyone as who knows where stuff comes from. nGo was a big source. The data itself was based on Johnal881's work which I believe is based on Fleisch's 2002 mod, but I've more or less redone everything.

What's Next

• Rounding out the data is always on the menu. I subscribe to the idea the data will never be done, as it won't. There's always going to be something to add. My focus lately has been just adding odds and and ends and going over what I have and rounding it out.
• Prepare for the future: Agers and to-debut workers are also mixed with my current focus. I dont intend to go TOO crazy with this. 99% of TEW games only last a couple years at best, so adding 500 workers to-debut in 2005 onwards is a bit of waste of time, but I will add some. I do intend to add a goo deal of workers up to about 2005 right now as the cutoff.
• Mexico: needs to get done. I dislike Mexico when modding. Its very much been a fairly isolated area compared to Japan. A few notable workers come out of Mexico obviously, but if you actually look at history, not many for how big Mexico is. The same can arguably be said about Japan, but Japan at least leans on gaijin while Mexico never really does. Recent years this has changed, but again, from 2001-2015 Alberto Del Rio and thats about it is all Mexico really gave the rest of the world (outside NJPW excursions).
• Multiple Versions: Weirdly, without thinking about it. I've basically been just making a May 2001 real world data without thinking I was, besides WCW existing as its own company. That said, my intention is to at some point release a few other versions of this data. Likely when I feel its more complete. Two versions for sure I'll likely put out at some point is a simple May 2001 Real World Data that best simulates the wrestling world at that time (basically all the WCW guys in WWF in a big stable). And I may also release a version of the data where Shane / Vince have the often done fantasy family feud. The only big difference besides a few relationship changes is maybe a few more wrestlers being in WCW like Jeff Jarrett.
• When is the next update? No idea! I may just drop data in randomly as I feel like it. Like a lot of us, I'm an adult with a life now and sometimes I end up with lots of time to do TEW, sometimes I don't. Sometimes I have time but don't want to touch it. So I'll update it as I see fit, which is completely random.

Lastly...

I made the MCD real world data like... 3 TEWs ago? That was fairly successful and like to think I started a trend back then about Data-use and sharing. Modify and use this data however you want. I don't even care if you give me credit. The only thing I require is if you modify this data, use it as a base for something else, and release it, I ask you apply this same rules and let anyone modify and release mods of your mod as well. More mods are better for everyone, so share and be merry.

I think that's it. Enjoy the BETA. Its a BETA.

DATA 0.1

DATA 0.2 (Fast Forward DATA)

DATA 0.3

GRAPHICS

Bonus May 2001 Real World Data: The below mod is just the above mod but with the WCW invasion set up as it was in real world, so its a real world, non-fantasy based data. Really designed for a player to play as WWF and book the Invasion or keep WCW alive within WWF. (not updated with the data 0.3)

May 2001 Real World Data

 

 

 

 

 

Edited May 28, 2023 by MrCanada

[MrCanada]

Some Ramblings / FAQ if its needed

I didn't what to bog down the main post, but here's some random thoughts and history that may help educate a few people, but at least give context and understanding to the time period.

Why No Goldberg, Hogan, Ect?

They had MASSIVE unsustainable contracts that had wage matching and creative control and limited dates. WCW could only afford this because WCW never really made a dime of profit and only existed because Ted Turner was willing to let it run at a loss. Had a "new" WCW under any ownership purchased the contracts out right from WCW, the new company would bankrupt within a year as no TV deal or any sort of financing could afford these contracts. This is further why WWF didnt purchase these contracts from AOL Time Warner. To take this logic further. Imagine you are Stone Cold making $500,000 a year. Then you see Hulk Hogan show up making $2,500,000 with creative control. What are the chances Austin just walks out? This is ultimately why the invasion failed. Hogan, Nash, Goldberg, among others, sat at home getting paid by AOL. These deals then either expired, or the buyouts of the deals became financially smart which is when wrestlers began showing up with WWF a year or two later. The only way WWF could have really done a successful Invasion with the "big stars" would have been to somehow wait a year while still keeping WCW relevant.

Why didn't WWF just make SmackDown! into Nitro or get a WCW TV show to continue it?

They tried! They wanted to put on a WCW show and even had names and ideas. However, in the USA, WWF had an exclusivity agreement with Viacom for all new programming. Viacom did not want any new wrestling programming, and actually didnt want WCW programming at all according to research and wouldn't allow WWF to completley rebrand one of its exsisting shows. They threw WWE a bone and offered them a Saturday Night Timeslot of 11pm for 2 hours. Meaning a WCW show would have been Saturday night from 11pm-1am on SpikeTV. WWF didnt think that would be viable and especially after the Booker T/Bagwell match didn't think it would work. This time slot did still become wrestling eventually, with Velocity & Confidential.

Names WWF considered for a Saturday Night WCW show:

• WCW Saturday Night Nitro
• WCW Hot Box
• WCW Uprising
• WCW Late Night Appetite
• WCW Hard-On Saturday Night
• WCW Primal Urge

Where are all the wrestlers? What happened to wrestling in the 2000's?

One thing I find absolutely amazing about this time period is all the wrestlers disappeared. Well, not literally, but it seems regardless of what would have or could have happened with WCW and ECW and the wrestling world at this time, so many wrestlers had naturally aged out of the business at this time or because of what happened, left. 2001 I think by coincidence was going to be a big massive paradigm shift in wresting regardless of what happened just because the amount of wrestler turn over that was seemingly happening and going to happen. If you look at WCW & ECW results from the 2000's to 2001s, its a small group of wrestlers of which many never really took off. Say what you will about none of the WCW stars invading WWF, there just wasnt that many. So many guys were on their last legs already and WCW had basically been Jarrett/Steiner/Booker/New Blood holding it down for a year. Luger, Savage, Nash, Steiner & so many more never really had big long runs anywhere after 2001 and really only had a year or two of usefulness left at best. ECW, known for all its originals, had this weird roster of Bilvis Weasley and CW Anderson types. A lot of wrestlers from the 90's and 80's had begun to really show their age, and it just to me leads to this weird scenario where there actually isn't THAT much talent availible. If you look at the wrestling world for the next handful of years after this, WWF/WWE is mainly the guys already in the company/developmental and a few from the WCW purchase, and the next wave of wrestlers who came in were guys like Heidenreich, Snitsky, Orlando Jordan, Luther Reigns & Diva Search models. Its actually kind of mind numbing too see the wrestling landscape from 2001-2010. ROH & TNA obviously start changing the wrestling world in that time, but the amount of Mordecai, Brent Albright, Eugene, Spirit Squad that WAS mainstream wrestling for the better part of that decade is just... Wow. To add to the rant, early TNA is something to look back on. For all the X-Division greatness there's Rainbow Express, The Harris Brothers, Brian Lawler, Glenn Gilbertti, The Hot Shots, The Flying Elvises, The Dupss, and really just a lot of not great stuff.

Its easy to forget how long ago 2001 was & workrate/small wrestlers were not marketable

We take for granted just how great wrestling has been and is the last 5-10 years. The sad truth is people like Rey Mysterio, Eddie Guerrero & Chris Benoit did a lot in this decade to help make smaller workers appealing. CM Punk & Bryan Danielson among others helped in the start of this decade and now we have great wrestling where you don't have to be Heidenreich. I know a lot of people will do this anyway, and ultimately it will work, but just signing up a lot of these small wrestlers and pushing them to the moon in 2001 WCW shouldn't work and wouldn't have worked, regardless of how skilled they are. This is why someone like Billy Gunn is this massive monster in AEW today but was average around this time (well still on the bigger side but I digress). It's also just amazing that 2001 was over 20-years ago. The amount of wrestling and storylines that have happened since the Invasion is actually amazing. The entire Reign of Terror of Triple H, Lesnar coming in and leaving, and coming back. Cena almost failing, then rapping, then Jesus & B2, then Super Cena, a rap album... Its crazy to me. To look at WWE PPV's from 2010 and see The Hart Dynasty vs. Chris Jericho & The Miz and just being confused some of these things even happened. I mention this to remind people just how much has happened and changed in this time. And why 2001 AJ Styles is really such a different creature then 2015 AJ for example. And too see someone like AJ's mic skills in early TNA vs what they are now, let alone how he's changed as a performer. What would have Paul London been had he not gone to WWE and had a similar arc to AJ? Or had AJ gone to WWE on a developmental deal in 2001 like he was offered, would he have just been a Mexicool type after thought?

Edited October 23, 2022 by MrCanada

[Johnny Fenoli]

Checking this out now, I've enjoyed your previous mods, and this is an era I've been waiting to dive back into!

 

Thanks for working on it!

[Von Dozier]

Fantastic, been waiting for this for so long.

[s7eve_s]

This does look great having had a quick glance round, can't wait for the full release!!

[Paxlux]

Big Japan Pro Wrestling, a Japanese deathmatch company, signed a TV deal with Nickelodeon

11/10, Dan Schneider knows his audience

[MrCanada]

1 hour ago, Paxlux said:

Big Japan Pro Wrestling, a Japanese deathmatch company, signed a TV deal with Nickelodeon

11/10, Dan Schneider knows his audience

You're.... Right? And Nickelodeon is set to be highly against wrestling and very low risk levels and fairly high production values BJW does not come close to meeting by default.

I'll have to dig into that.

Edited October 27, 2022 by MrCanada

[Paxlux]

43 minutes ago, MrCanada said:

You're.... Right? And Nickelodeon is set to be highly against wrestling and very low risk levels and fairly high production values BJW does not come close to meeting by default.

I'll have to dig into that.

Think I figured out why: Big Japan's core and current product is Classic Balanced as opposed to one of the more hardcore products, so Nickelodeon's willing to accept it as long as they increase their production values. But tbh it's still weird to me, you'd think that a company that has Kids as a core audience and is highly against wrestling wouldn't want to broadcast wrestling at all unless it was PG or comic book wrestling. But I guess Dan Schneider's looking to take Nick into a new direction 😂

[MrCanada]

1 hour ago, Paxlux said:

Think I figured out why: Big Japan's core and current product is Classic Balanced as opposed to one of the more hardcore products, so Nickelodeon's willing to accept it as long as they increase their production values. But tbh it's still weird to me, you'd think that a company that has Kids as a core audience and is highly against wrestling wouldn't want to broadcast wrestling at all unless it was PG or comic book wrestling. But I guess Dan Schneider's looking to take Nick into a new direction 😂

Yes I see this now! I think I need to go over each companies product as I may have skipped/missed a few. Thanks for the catch.

[20LEgend]

Really liked the sound of this when it was announced. Downloading now and look forward to playing it

[MrCanada]

Been doing some fiddling lately.

I decided to start adding some "to-debut" stuff and keep running into a problem where CHIKARA never debuts. I'm a CHIKARA mark and really want to integrate them. I THINK the problem is Tri-State ends up with too many companies for the region? Sometimes CHIKARA opens appropriately, sometimes it doesn't. 3PW, ROH & MLW  are set to debut and they debut before CHIKARA and they all show up fine, so I'm not really sure why Chikara seems to be a coin flip. I'm doing some testing now where I removed 3PW. I also have toyed with maybe having MLW based in the South East.

Does anyone maybe know why this happens? CHIKARA has Quackenbush, Reckless Youth & Don Montoya set as mandatory founders, and they are all set up to be able to do that. When CHIKARA does open, its always Quackenbush (top box) who ends up owner. When CHIKARA doesn't open, all three are otherwise available to be owners still (aka not signed somewhere exclusively or signed to more then 1 or 2 companies).

Further, I decided to add Turnbuckle Championship Wrestling. It was Dusty Rhodes small promotion that had a show on Sunshine Network. Information is fleeting about it, but lots of free agents worked there so I figured its a decent add as it gets some guys working and is a non-Tri State company of some note (a rarity).

Edited November 2, 2022 by MrCanada

[MrCanada]

Some more notes:

Spoke to Adam about the companies not opening issue, and it seems to be mandatory owners are very unlikely to open companies even if they just have handshake deals elsewhere. A future patch is going to change this to make it less strict. When that happens I may release an updated BETA.

What I've been doing:

Some small updates that I honestly cant really remember to the main data. I have a list of people I am intending to add (both some to-debuts and active wrestlers).

I've also been adding a good deal of "to debut":

Blood Sweat & Ears (Ontario), CHIKARA Pro (Tri-State), Deep South Wrestling (South East), IMPACT Wrestling (Ontario), IWA East Coast (Mid-Atlantic), Major League Wrestling (Tri-State), Ring Of Honor (Tri-State), SHIMMER Women Athletes (Great Lakes), Total Nonstop Action (South East), World Wrestling All-Stars (Queensland)

But, Mr. Canada, TNA & Impact are the same company! I know. I am taking a good deal of creative liberty with to-debut companies. Most notably Impact & TNA being seperate. TNA is set up to be basically what it is/was. Mandatory Founders are Jerry Jarrett, Jeff Jarrett or Vince Russo. They debut with their 2nd logo and avoid their "NWA" phase since its harder to sim that. Impact is set to debut as a company in Ontario by Anthem Media. My head cannon being Anthem decides to open their own wrestling company around the time they acquired TNA/Impact in real life. So there's a chance TNA/Impact exist at the same time. I also hate renaming companies with narratives since you cant update events/tv shows/titles without making people use the editor. So this is a fun middle ground. Impact wont have an X-Division belt as I like that it is a TNA exclusive. IMPACT has "preferred" CEO founders set, Scott D'Amore, Cyrus & Lance Storm.

I originally didnt care about to-debut stuff but find it fun at the moment so may add a good deal more. Adding workers is a big thing now and a few non-North American companies. I want to avoid adding "*Specifically Named* Championship Wrestling" type companies since TEW doesnt deal with specific locations. I hate the idea of Florida Championship Wrestling debuting and running most of their shows in Georgia for example.

WWA being added is really just for fun. It stays in Australia and does nothing of note besides giving people a place to work which is fine by me. Especially since its a place I can simulate with working areas to only have certain guys work and WWA hires them because they dont really have other choices. It gives a lot of the Lodi & Lenny Lane type workers a place to actually wrestle.

I intend to start focusing on some workers to add, Mostly to-debuts, but also some existing that should just be in. I want to get some women wrestlers in. The sad truth is there just isnt that many women wrestler at this time, let alone good ones, and there arnt many good ones for years to come. Lexie Fyfe eat your heart out.

For "to debuts" right now I'm kind of just going training camp by training camp and seeing who I want to add. I already went through Can-Am in Ontario so there's a good handful there. I also went through the first bit of CHIKARA and added notable people. Sadly many or all early CHIKARA guys will make it since they never went anywhere and information on them is fleeting. Also, some guys/gals who maybe get their start training somewhere else but really get their training at a camp after being active for a bit, will just be added to the more notable camp instead of having no-graduate status.

For transparency and because I feel like sharing, here's a list of "To Debuts" already added:

A1, Alex Shelley, Andrew McManus, Andrew Thomas, Aubrey Edwards, Brock Anderson, Bryce Remsburg, Candice Michelle, Chas Betts, Chirs Kay, Chris Mordetzky, Christopher Nowinski, Christy Hemme, Cody Hall, Cody Rhodes, Dan Tanaka, Daniel Puder, Drew Gulak, Eddie Kingston, Goose Mahoney, Gran Akuma, Hallowicked, Heath Miller, Ichabod Slayne, Jackie Gayda, Jaime D, JC Ryder, Jesse Neal, Jesse White, Joe Dombrowski, John Walters, Johnny Onyx, Jon Moxley, Josh Mathews, Kenny King, Lenny Leonard, Linda Miles, Maria Kanellis, Matt Cappotelli, Matt Morgan, Maven, Michelle McCool, Mike Mizanin, Moose, Nidia, Petey Williams, Rex Steiner, Ryback, Shawn Bennett, Stevie McFly, The Boogeyman, Uhaa Nation, Ultramantis

I have Sami Zayn/El Generico added as Stevie McFly for now. Might be controversial for some, but having him stay unmasked his whole career seems interesting to me. He has El Generico as a 50% alter ego, so its still there. Considering he did start his career 50/50 or so between the Generico & McFly gimmick it is actually a fairly realistic way to do it.

If you want to help:

Non-Wrestlers needed. Finding referees/commentators and information on them is always hard. If you happen to know any referee/commentators and their actual birthdays/debuts/general informaion, please feel free to share. Even if they never really did much. I'd rather have real nobodies then have to create fake nobodies to help fill the game world. Just be warned never-made-its may have pretty bad stats. Note I'm currently most interested in people who were active in 2001 or by 2005 at the latest. 2005 is my general cut off for what I'm interested in adding (for now) besides random exceptions.

Graphics: I could use some help with some banners and stuff if anyone is willing. I like simple/clean stuff but if anyone wants to go through and try and do some events/tv shows/company logos/company banners be my guest! Also if you have worker pictures (WITH PROPER YEARS) for agers, feel free to drop them in.

 

Edited November 5, 2022 by MrCanada

[kinqconnor]

I just started this and having a blast. I have recently dislocated my shoulder so TEW is the only game I can realistically play one handed and I am having a blast.

Knowing it was a BETA save I decided to have a little bit of fun and book WCW how Shane would if he had control of his own company with no one to tell him no. I did toy with giving him the world title but I just couldn't do it. He is feuding with Booker T for it though and retired Dusty Rhodes.

Getting good quality shows isn't insanely difficult as DDP, Booker and Shane are all pretty amazing and building RVD up to a decent level doesn't take long. After that RVD feud though you're pretty screwed I am excited to see more.

[JohnnyRaider37]

This sounds so great. I haven't downloaded it yet but probably will after the next big update. WCW is my cup of tea though. I feel they have the best selection of titles for sure. I love there TV title! I'm big on going multiple years though so I'm waiting until more characters are put in. Thanks forndoing this. In the meantime though, I'll work on WCW ' 98! I can't wait to see your work.

[MrCanada]

Small update:

I'm taking a tiny little break while I wait for the next TEW Patch which will fix to-open companies. I'm mainly focusing on that and future workers and cant really test it well so I'm slowing down a bit.

I still poke at the data every now and then though, and for some reason decided to add IPW Hardcore Wrestling. It will ship fairly incomplete but its another company of some note. I'm going to have them start as an NWA  affiliate even though they technically wernt, but through their partnership with NWA Florida they often hosted NWA title matches.

[kinqconnor]

With you saying you can't test would you be interested to see how people's save worlds end up when they get a few years in the future?

[Jaysin]

On 11/12/2022 at 11:26 PM, MrCanada said:

Small update:

I'm taking a tiny little break while I wait for the next TEW Patch which will fix to-open companies. I'm mainly focusing on that and future workers and cant really test it well so I'm slowing down a bit.

I still poke at the data every now and then though, and for some reason decided to add IPW Hardcore Wrestling. It will ship fairly incomplete but its another company of some note. I'm going to have them start as an NWA  affiliate even though they technically wernt, but through their partnership with NWA Florida they often hosted NWA title matches.

What do you mean "fix" to-open companies? What's wrong with them?

[MrCanada]

15 hours ago, Jaysin said:

What do you mean "fix" to-open companies? What's wrong with them?

Workers with any deal are more unlikely to open companies. But its a bit to strict right now.

So for example, Mike Quackenbush with a handshake deal with JAPW will not open CHIKARA. I spoke with Adam about it and its being patched to make workers more likely to open companies. Now if Quack is somehow on a written deal with WWF or WCW for example, yea, he shouldnt want to open CHIKARA. But right now, between Quackenbush, Reckless Youth, and Don Montoya set as Mandatory founders, all wont open CHIKARA do to having 1-handshake deal somewhere small, namely JAPW typically in this specific example.

But the same is true of Super Dragon & Excalibur for PWG for another example.

Edited November 16, 2022 by MrCanada

[MrCanada]

On 11/15/2022 at 7:54 AM, kinqconnor said:

With you saying you can't test would you be interested to see how people's save worlds end up when they get a few years in the future?

feel free to share.

I am simming and testing, but not actively working on "to debut" things until the company issue is adjusted.

But I've run a lot of sims, and I mean a lot, so I doubt it will be useful.

Fun other side note: I've added NWA Florida now too. After adding IPW Hardcore I realized NWA Florida was really just a few more workers short of being feasible, so added them. Normally, I dont like adding companies so tied to a single location (since TEW doesnt allow you to have a company just run in one state or city or what have you) but made and exception for NWA Florida because, well, I felt like it? They alongside NWA Wildside are set as permanent members of the NWA. They are not 100% in yet. I need to do the NWA Florida Heavyweight title lineage (pray for me, its massive) and add Lex Lovett to feel they are properly playable, but that likely is done tonight.

Edited November 16, 2022 by MrCanada

[Jaysin]

Just read a post in the tech support thread saying Adam had no intention of doing any more patches, but there is a third version of the last patch if you didn't notice

[YanNep]

On 10/27/2022 at 4:34 PM, Paxlux said:

Big Japan Pro Wrestling, a Japanese deathmatch company, signed a TV deal with Nickelodeon

11/10, Dan Schneider knows his audience

Would love to see the kids reactions to this, or the parents in this universe! lol

Anyway, love the mod.

[JohnnyRaider37]

Such. Great idea. I can roll with Saturday Night 11 till 2. I would actually be okay with that last wCw Saturday Night logo as well. Money makes network and everything else change their minds. Time to build around Booker T and RVD! High hopes to go get Jeff Jarrett again eventually as well. Highly underrated icon of the wrestling industry 

[MrCanada]

Another small update:

Began slowly poking at the data bit more. Right now, as stated, my big focus is fleshing out the future workers and companies, part of that however is fleshing out current companies and workers. I find in playtests the same workers get snagged up by debuting companies. Roadkill, Balls Mahoney, guys like that. They end up dominating ROH, MLW, CHIKARA, whoever... And I dont really like it as it doesnt allow the younger workers a chance to really take over. Since most workers will only sign 2-3 contracts, I figured adding some more companies I dont care as much about was the best idea. This is where NWA Florida and IPW Hardcore come in, as I dont mind them having Balls Mahoney main eventing. (this is also why I wanted WWA in the mod, even though Australia is a really a black hole of wrestling until just recently)

With that, I've also now added USA Pro Wrestling. For those who remember, they were a staple of early EWR/TEW datas as they were one of the few "big" indies, despite running sporadically. But I've added them anyway!

I'm still plugging away at it, but I have slowed down. Real life has busied up with the holidays coming up. So dont expect big massive changes. But I may have a new beta release out before Christmas.

Updated List of Active Companies: (31!)

• All Pro Wrestling (South West, United States)
• Combat Zone Wrestling (Tri-State)
• Heartland Wrestling Association (Great Lakes)
• International Wrestling Association (Puerto Rico)
• IPW Hardcore Wrestling (South East)
• IWA Mid-South (Great Lakes)
• Jersey All Pro Wrestling (Tri-State)
• Memphis Championship Wrestling (South East)
• NWA Florida (South East)
• NWA Wildside (South East)
• Ohio Valley Wrestling (Mid Atlantic)
• Turnbuckle Championship Wrestling (South East)
• Ultimate Pro Wrestling (South West)
• USA Pro Wrestling (Tri State)
• World Championship Wrestling (Mid Atlantic)
• World Wrestling Council (Puerto Rico)
• World Wrestling Federation (New England)
• Xtreme Pro Wrestling (South West)
• Border City Wrestling (Ontario, Canada)
• Extreme Canadian Championship Wrestling (British Columbia)
• All Japan Pro-Wrestling (Kanto, Japan)
• All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling (Kanto)
• Big Japan Pro Wrestling (Kanto)
• Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling (Kanto)
• Michinoku Pro Wrestling (Tohoku)
• New Japan Pro-Wrestling (Kanto)
• Osaka Pro Wrestling (Kansai)
• Pro Wrestling NOAH (Kanto)
• Pro Wrestling ZERO-ONE (Kanto)
• Toryumon (Kansai)
• Frontier Wrestling Alliance (Southern England, British Isles)

Yet To Open Companies: (16)

• CHIKARA Pro (Tri-State, United States)
• Deep South Wrestling (South East)
• IWA East Coast (Mid Atlantic)
• Major League Wrestling (Tri-State)
• Pro Wrestling Alliance (Mid South)
• Pro Wrestling Fusion (South East)
• Pro Wrestling Guerrilla (South West)
• Pro Wrestling IRON (South West)
• Pro-Pain Pro Wrestling (Tri-State)
• Ring Of Honor (Tri-State)
• SHIMMER Women Athletes (Great Lakes)
• Total Nonstop Action (South East)
• Blood, Sweat & Ears (Ontario, Canada)
• IMPACT Wrestling (Ontario)
• Fighting Of World Japan Pro-Wrestling (Kanto, Japan)
• World Wrestling All-Stars (Queensland, Oceania)

Edited November 26, 2022 by MrCanada

[Xtreme_Animalz2314]

just curious if there is a new link with all the new updates and changes you have done to the beta? 

[lawrencelorenz]

On 11/25/2022 at 6:48 PM, MrCanada said:

Another small update:

Began slowly poking at the data bit more. Right now, as stated, my big focus is fleshing out the future workers and companies, part of that however is fleshing out current companies and workers. I find in playtests the same workers get snagged up by debuting companies. Roadkill, Balls Mahoney, guys like that. They end up dominating ROH, MLW, CHIKARA, whoever... And I dont really like it as it doesnt allow the younger workers a chance to really take over. Since most workers will only sign 2-3 contracts, I figured adding some more companies I dont care as much about was the best idea. This is where NWA Florida and IPW Hardcore come in, as I dont mind them having Balls Mahoney main eventing. (this is also why I wanted WWA in the mod, even though Australia is a really a black hole of wrestling until just recently)

May be a bit of a cheat, but wonder if setting the hiring preference for some of those bookers as "young raw talent," and/or setting a company hiring rule of nobody over 35 yrs old could help that some.