EWR has been released this morning!

[Guest RetroRob215]

As for freezing during sponsor selection, the latest update fixes that.

[Guest RetroRob215]

My backyard fed is at a standstill (75%). The only way to up the Approval Rating would be to increase my production value, but then I would be losing money every month and quickly die off. Decisions...Decisions....

[Guest Edwin MacPhisto]

Some talent recommendations:

 

JR Ryder - If you can snag him, do. Comes for around 40,000 a year, has great technical, speed, and charisma.

 

Matt Stryker - see JR Ryder. Was my top heel in TCW for quite some time.

 

Erin Bray - as previously mentioned, 100 charisma is golden. I got him up to 80 over from 15 in a month just by having him promo and wrestle good matches againt people one step higher on the card than him.

 

Scoot Andrews - a bit pricier, usually can get him for around 50,000, but he's a total package guy. Can do it all. Same goes for:

 

Nick Dinsmore - I picked him up the same time I did Scoot, and I've made them into superstars. He can brawl and technical wrestle, which is really nice.

 

American Dragon - starts with NWA, but rocks if you can get him somehow. Technical and speed abilities that rival Jerry Lynn and TAKA Michinoku at half the price.

 

Steve Corino - my most over heel, always. He can do no wrong. Pricey, though--somewhere around 60-70,000.

 

Cheap guys who have good stats and are fine wrestlers: JC Ice, Chad Collyer, Derrick King, Austin Lee. None of them start very over--we're talking mid-20's and low 30's at best--but if you take time to build them, which isn't too hard if you have a high-priced jobber or two, they can do great, great things. All these guys are instrumental to my fed, and I've got my NWA game with very few high-priced guys. The only people over 80,000 are Shamrock, TAKA, Jarrett, and Rey, and I'm putting on great cards. Took a while to get there, but the payoff from building up your own inexpensive stars is hiyuge.

[Guest swan]

I'd agree with Austin Lee. I had him in Upper mid-Card/main Event within 6 months and was in a 80+ fued with American Dragon before I folded.

[Guest Human Fly]

Bischoff bought my MLW a few months ago and nothing has happened.

[Guest goodhelmet]

an another way to extend feuds and give you more match options are to group two guys together and feud against two other guys.

 

for example: i have booker t and shelton benjamin feuding against bret hart and christopher daniels. this gives you different matchup and finish possibilities instead of tying you down to the same two guys. Then have the big tag blowoff in a cage or something.

[Guest RetroRob215]

It took me 10 months, but I have finally made the MWO a SMALL promotion! Not to mention, I scored over $100,000 in sponsorship money per month (1 show).

[Guest pinnacleofallthingsmanly]

Was that before or after you became a small promotion? I can't get a sponsor to give me over $10,000 per show.

[Guest RetroRob215]

I'm think it was once I became small. Now though, I score $234,000 each show because of the PTC ($100,000). NJPW is also small and they signed a $300,000 deal, which is what made me dump my old sponsors and go for new ones.

[Guest Spaceman Spiff]

Well, I re-formed WCW. I'm pretty sure I got all the guys who were there at the end. I needed to hire a few refs, as well as writers, medical staff, & road agents. I also picked up a few young guys to stock a developmental territory. I may have a problem since Booker is the champ, but is only an upper-midcarder instead of main-eventer, and my secretary warns me to not bump him up into the main. Hurricane is back to Shane Helms, and Goldust is back to Dustin Runnels.

 

I'm hoping to put WWE out of business w/ *my* "ruthless agression"

[Guest Spaceman Spiff]

Oh, a couple questions:

1) Who was the Hardcore champ at the end for WCW?

2) What were all the names of the PPV's & corresponding month name? If possible, I'd like the names before they were changed to "Greed", "Sin", etc.

 

Thanks!

[Guest Insanityman]

I can't remember the months but I know most the names...

 

 

Bash at the Beach, Souled Out, Super Brawl, Uncensored, Spring Stampede, Halloween Havoc, and Star®crade I think.

[Guest hardyz1]

January: Souled Out

February: SuperBrawl

March: Uncensored

April: Spring Stampede

May: Slamboree

June: Great American Bash

July: Bash at the Beach

August: Road Wild

September: Fall Brawl

October: Halloween Havoc

November: World War 3 or Mayhem

December: Starrcade

[Guest Spaceman Spiff]

hardyz1 - Thank you very much!

[Guest Human Fly]

Has anyone figured out how to end a feud without one guy losing 15-20 off of his heat? Everytime I end a feud one guys heat always gets killed. My feuds last 2 - 3 months so are they too short?

[Guest the 1inch punch]

1) Who was the Hardcore champ at the end for WCW?

Meng/Haku, Vince stole him while he was still champ and Uncle Eric dumped the belt

[Guest Will Scarlet]

Has anyone figured out how to end a feud without one guy losing 15-20 off of his heat? Everytime I end a feud one guys heat always gets killed. My feuds last 2 - 3 months so are they too short?

 

Well, I think that, as some have said, it helps to have the loser dominates the feud. Ideally, I THINK it may have something to do with the blowoff. I have had ONE feud where both guys ended up both becoming hugely over because of it. It was JR Ryder/Austin Lee. The feud seemed to run equally thoughout, and I ended it with an awesome ****1/4 Hell in the Cell match, which, to that point was the best match my WWA fed had had. I even receiving an E-Mail from Ryder thanking me because the feud really helped his heat and made his career or something like that. The feud went for 3 months. So, my best advice is to see what you can do with the blowoff match. Have it be something special like a Hell in the Cell or something, and try to hype it huge with interviews before it. I am not sure if that will work, but that is the closest I have had to a completely successful feud.

[Guest RetroRob215]

Has anyone figured out how to end a feud without one guy losing 15-20 off of his heat? Everytime I end a feud one guys heat always gets killed. My feuds last 2 - 3 months so are they too short?

One other thing you could try is to give the loser some of his heat back after the match. For example, if you have Curt Henning (11 wins) vs. Nova (3 wins). Put Nova over in the blow off and then have Henning get a revenge attack or beat the referee.

[Guest BookerTman]

Sounds like this game is the shit!

 

I'm downloading it right now. As I type. Already 20 % completed. Load baby load!

[Guest What?!]

Where else can you get Hulk Hogan saying "I think you're pushing me too much" and Kevin Nash accepting that he's not main event talent.

 

I love this game!

[Guest pinnacleofallthingsmanly]

You're damn right it's delicious!

[Guest What?!]

*Groan* I killed RVDs heat. I pushed him too hard that the fans didn't care, so I jobbed him at Vengence to 'Taker.

 

Of course, 'Taker wasn't being great as Champ so I jobbed him to Austin at SummerSlam that got a 1.81 rating.

 

Next up, Austin vs Benoit! 3 month feud baby, where Benoit wins the belt!

 

Off course, Triple H just has to have an over rating of 96 while everyone else important is in the 80-85 range. Even on computer he's holding others down

[Guest BookerTman]

I played a little bit last night, and choose the MLW(because I always dream about bringing up a small promotion). The starting roster included Shane Douglas, Bam Bam Bigelow and only one staff member, Joey Styles. It seems like the two wrestlers wouldn't work with anyone "not on my level". Geez, it's a little harder than I thought...

 

I can now confirm that the game does rule the free world.

[Guest The Superstar]

Argh, I haven't gotten a TV deal yet with my MLW...I send out Promo tapes at the beginning of each month (I'm in August now) and I haven't gotten anything. I just had MLW Beach Brawl in july, which I had as a "Large" event. It included Super Crazy beating Kid Romeo in a Ladder match for the CW title, TAKA beating Rey Jr. in an Ironman match for the TV title, and Mike Awesome pinning Masato Tanaka for the World title. It was attended by 1214 people (heh). The card quality was 60.

 

So for the people that do small promotions, how long does it usually take to get a TV deal?

[Guest Edwin MacPhisto]

So for the people that do small promotions, how long does it usually take to get a TV deal?

 

Well, if you're only in August, don't worry so much. My main EWR game is with NWA, and even on the National level it took me two months to get my first TV deal.

 

Also, I'd be careful. If you've got Rey, TAKA, Awesome, Tanaka, and Super Crazy on your roster...well, all of them run at least 70,000 a month, and in my games most of them are closer to 90,000 a month. With something like MLW, you're going to go bankrupt really fast. Those guys are good, but you simply can't run a small fed 1,000,000 on that much star power if you plan on doing any advertising or merchandising. You're better off getting some cheaper guys with good abilities and bringing them up rather than just buying in talent.

 

And here's a question for people: has anyone ever had ANY success using angles? I've basically stopped using them, because even in my top feud (Steve Corino vs. Ken Shamrock, heat 95), they do horrible, horrible damage. Each of those guys lost 6 over points after I got a 74% rated "Challenge" angle on my show, and the feud went down to 90. So far, angles have only hurt my guys, whereas interviews do wonders. It's not the writers, either...I have 6 writers, 4 of whom have ability 90 or higher, and the other two landed in the 80's. Thoughts?

[Guest bob_barron]

I'm doing great with NWATNA. I have three tv shows, one just for cruisers and am pretty close to catching up with WWE.

[Guest Dr. Wrestlingphysics]

My backyard fed has risen to regional, and has a tv deal on MTV, "Wednesday Night Slobberknocker" my highest rating was 0.59, which is week 4 of the show, and where I am up to in the game. To start, I gave myself $10,000,000. Call that cheating if you want, but it's still not easy!

 

My biggest heat drawing feud is a midcard feud between Erin Bray, and Mitch Paradise, with a rating of 84.

[Guest RetroRob215]

My bacjyard fed is now the 2nd best small fed. I think I have a 29% rating and the ICW has 40 something%.

[Guest Spaceman Spiff]

Boy, the WWE sure fires a lot of people right off the bat. They let Prototype & Shelton Benjamin go 2 weeks into my game using WCW. But the best part was, they fired Heyman also. I snatched him up, put him managing Palumbo & O'Haire. I had him do an interview on Mike Awesome/Lance Storm, and the heat for the feud jumped 10 points!

[Guest Angle-plex]

I'm done with feuds. I'm just going to have rivals now. I had a feud with 100 heat for 2 months and one of the guys complained, but both wrestlers overness went down.