EDIT: A freeware version of the game can be found at this official site. (http://www.greydogsoftware.com/tew/) It is the 2005 Edition of the game, and was released as freeware to promote the 2008 edition. Keep in mind that many things have changed in the last 8 years, so my advice in this AAR may not apply if you use this version.
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Welcome to the Smackdown brother! Are you ready to get in the ring and show your true strength! Piledrives, Pins, Chokeholds, do you have what it takes to be the very best wrestler in the buisness! Come on, show me your Pythons brother!
Well what's that, you don't have any Pythons? And your idea of true strength is carrying that box down from the attic without stopping to set it down once? Well no matter, after all wrestling isn't about the muscles, or the rules, or even the wrestlers themselves. Who is the most important man in wrestling? The one who everything hinges upon?
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So yes guys, for those of you who thought "There may be games about simulating a farm, and games about beign a train conductor that costs $1000s with all the DLC, but there can't be a game for everything" Well yes. There is infact a game for everything, and this is one of them. TEW allows you to take control of a wrestling federation and guide it to success, and its workers to stardom. Or you migth wind up bankrupting the company, and making all your wrestlers unwantable by even the Indy Feds, or worse, dead (Steroids and coke are not a good mix people). You control the storylines, and decide who becomes the champion, and who is relegated to life as merely a Jobber, the type of wrestler who exists only to lose to the up and comers.
Of course there is always competition. The default database has 40 companies currently active, and the Default XL mod we will be using contains 75 active ones (The new ones mostly fill out the very bottom of the barrel, in order to allow wrestlers to develop SOME skills early in their career. The easiest comparison would be mods for Football Manager that add more league levels). With many more able to open up as the game progresses. However, the big ones to look out for are:
Supreme Wrestling Federation
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Founded: 1972
Owner: Richard Eisen
Booker Peter Michaels
Ranking: 1st
Location: New England, USA
Style: Sports Entertainment
Prestige: A
Momentum: B+
Alliance: None
PPV: USA, Canada
TV Shows: SWF Supreme TV
Total Championship Wrestling
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Founded: 1996
Owner: Tomy Cornell
Booker: Joel Bryant
Ranking: 2nd
Location: Southwest, USA
Style: Traditional Updated
Prestige: B-
Momentum: B-
Alliance: None
PPV: USA
TV Shows: TCW Presents Total Wrestling
United States Pro Wrestling
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Founded: 2001
Owner: Sam Strong
Booker: Shane Sneer
Ranking: 3rd
Location: Southeast, USA
Style: Family Friendly Nostalgia
Prestige: B-
Momentum: B+
Alliance: None
PPV: USA, Canada, Mexico
TV Shows: USPW American Wrestling
However, we won't have to deal with them for quite awhile. As we will be starting at the bottom of the barrel. To this I give you all our first choice. Should be be the Booker to a small, local federation, with our starting rosters pre-selected, but with an owner to appease, and follow the career of a Booker as he moves up the ladder of Federations? Or should we start with a small sum of money, open our own Wrestling Federation, and try to take the world by storm?
Reserved Space for Current Status
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Just went with something very powerful sounding. Peaches, despite being a woman, IS our largest wrestler after all, except for Buzz
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Eh, what can I say, couldn't think of much and he isn't exactly star material anyway.
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Could it be anything else, really? That said going with a cover because this is Wrestling, so we need it to be more Rock n Roll.
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Not gonna lie, this is one of my favorite tracks from any game, and I feel it fits with a weird cult guy.
(http://i.imgur.com/Rj6zKHx.png) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbU4fPYRvcY
Yes I went with that. Remember Kayfabe wise, he's also a football player.
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Dunno, I feel like Aerosmith fits him. I think it's the hair.
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Was trying to find something that kinda fits a Yakuza style criminal theme, this was the best I could find. I'll admit I've very unfammiliar with any sort of music from the East, so I went with what I know, which is games. Not gonna lie I was really grasping for straws here, if anyone knows any music that sorta has a Japanese Criminal feel to it, please tell me.
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Jack's sorta an egotistical star who everyone loves regardless, so I feel this fits. Think this fits better than the last song I chose for him in the previous update. Dunno.
(http://i.imgur.com/sj8ny6j.png) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmO4DPfGsWg
OK I know this is seriously streatching it since it's the Undertaker's theme IRL, but that's purely coincidence. Since Irwin's schtick is that he's tired of seeing everyone waste away from drugs, alcohol, ego, and so on in this business, I felt this song actually fit. Far more than it does for the Undertaker anyway.
(http://i.imgur.com/KDFj2bo.png) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=497ZmAsGAT4
Ok she's a surfer. We REALLY don't have much of a choice but to use this.
(http://i.imgur.com/10V85ua.png) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2s4pCxQK3M
I know, I know, Doubling down on the Metallica, but again, I feel it fits. Lyrics don't fit as much though, just the feel so in this case they've been dropped. Remember, he's basically the big bad boogeyman.
(http://i.imgur.com/QzOfLLE.png) http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=ONizhfivfLA#t=22
And yes I'm aware that's not actually Bob Marley. I don't know why this cover keeps being misattributed to him.
In order to do this, we are going to look at none other than Tommy Cornell, one of the Greatest Wrestlers of the Modern Era. While he and his company do stike me as a bit of fan wank, the truth is without them SWF would probably snowball out of control without the competition. Anyway, these are the stats for him.
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Now first off, as you can see the man is....a bit... overpowered. He's literally the #1 wrestler in the entire world, and is singlehandedly responsible for making TCW as much of a thorn in SWF's side as possible.
First off, Skills are rated either on a Letter Scale, or in Raw Numbers. The Letters go from A++ to F-, and do not skip E like a traditional grading system. The Numbers go from 0-100. I myself have downloaded a mod that replaces the images that the numbers use with a combined system instead. But for all intents and purposes, we are using numbers. I personally like the letters only because there are a few things that hinge on the threashold of letters, but those aren't something we have to worry about for quite awhile.
Now most of the stats speak for themselves as far as what they mean, but I will attempt to explain the ones that are not immediatly apparent to someone.
Puroresu: Perhaps the only In Ring skill that's meaning is not immediatly evident, Puroresu, or Puro for short, refers to a style of wrestling that is predominant in Japan. This style is more about having a belivable fight than the more "Western" style of theatrics.
Selling: Selling simply refers to a wrestler's ability to "sell" a hit, meaning how well they react to being hit with a move. A wrestler who can't time his flinches right, or who doesn't spend a "reasonable" time in "pain" after an especially hard hitting movie is one who is lacking in "Selling".
Safety: Basically, a wrestler with poor Safety is more likely to hurt himself and his opponent, either through lack of skill, poor self control, or just simply being an ass.
Microphone: Or as I like to call it, "Not Scott Steiner" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFoC3TR5rzI). This is how well a worker can do their speeches in the ring. Unlike the later "Acting", this also represents how well they do as working off the cuff, so to speak. In the ring, unlike promos, there's no do over, so this stat also comes into play if you allow them more freedom in an angle.
Sex Appeal: Self explainitory, but this really is only an important stat for "Ring Girls". Or if you're running a promotion that features female wrestling as a T&A style as opposed to "legitimate" wrestling.
Menace: This is mostly only important for Heels (explained below), although a few Faces rely on this too. This is simply how much dread the character brings onto the stage when he shows up.
BabyFace and Heel: Put simply, Hero and Villian. Faces and Heels are what drive the "story" aspect of wrestling. These are how well someone does on each side of this.
Another thing to mention is his stats for Referring and Announcing. As you notice, they have an X and "weak" instead of an actual number. This is because we have never tried to put him in this role, so the best we have is a rough estimate of his skills. This also happens to wrestlers not of our promotion if we are scouting them, if we have the "Fog of War" setting on. We will have that enabled.
With this, I leave us with the new Poll. Where shall we put our wrestling federation? I presonally want to use the Tri State area, as I am familliar with the competition there at the low level,s but I will allow you all to decide. Also if you want a wrestler, please tell me, you can use EucreJacks' point buy system, and I will adjust it from that if I determine it to be too much for our level.
We can certainly create a point system, such as the following for example:
1000 points total (there are a lot of stats)
Most stats are one point each, except Psychology at 2 points each and Popularity at 10 points each.
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Name: EuchreJack
Assume all unmentioned stats are zero.
Popularity home region 20 (200 pts)
Brawling 10
Hardcore 10
Mat Work 10
Chain Wrestling 25
Submissions 25
Aerial 70
Flashiness 70
Microphone 70
Charisma 50
Acting 45
Athleticism 20
Toughness 30
Stamina 25
Basics 10
Psychology 40 (80 pts)
Safety 40
Consistency 40
Reputation 50
Selling 25
Star Quality 45
Resilience 50
Size: Lightweight (can increase weight up to medium if asked in-game)
Age 32
Essentially a glass cannon, because his high aerial, flash, and mic skills plus decent popularity will make him a fan favorite, but deficiencies in stamina will keep his matches short. Furthermore, his purely average resilience coupled with low toughness and safety mean he's bound to spend a bit of time recovering from injuries. Average star quality means that as the promotion rises in status he is unlikely to keep up, and will see himself fall in the card.
I took 50 points out of the total for reputation, but if you want it to default 50 (essentially no points needed for average reputation), then add those points popularity.
He's a lot like Spider-Man: In the ring, he's flying around, hitting his foes both physically and with puns. Outside the ring, his average entertainment skills other than mic means he should be limited to interviews and challenges and avoid showing his personal life. At least until he gets a manager and practice with the other entertainment skills.
His ideal opponent would be someone with decent performance skills, to balance out his weakness in that area (and primarily to avoid penalties in those areas). Opponent wrestling skills shouldn't be a problem as long they favor aerial and flash, of which he has plenty to spare. His overness should allow decent indy matches against unknowns, while his mic skills will let him "call out" more well know opponents.
Neonivek
Brawling: 52
Hardcore: 5
Puroresu: 88
Chain Wrestling: 98
Mat Wrestling: 79
Submissions: 84
Aerial: 28
Flashiness: 28
Basics: 28
Psychology: 7
Consistency: 31
Selling: 59
Safety: 100
Athleticism: 80
Toughness: 82
Stamina: 12
Power: 65
Resilience: 31
Microphone: 73
Charisma: 16
Acting: 81
Star Quality: 38
Sex Appeal: 33
Menace: 52
Announcing: 81 *If applicable*
Refereeing: 12 *If applicable*
Respect: 4
Reputation: 11
Babyface: 89
Heel: 45
Cool: 74
Cocky: 23
Crazy: 69
Legitimate: 21
Comedy: 35
Weasel: 49
Brute: 35
Weird: 42
Wholesome: 46
I am guessing he stinks but ohh well. namely because of the terrible rep scores and a few of the "Doesn't matter if it is high, but CURSES if it is low!" stats.
Alright, count me in for WRASTLING!TM
Since I know jack squad about the game or just WRASTLING!TM in general I am gonna go with what I call code-word "fake it till you make it".
That is, I want the character to be designed as a guy that don't know wrestling, but know how to fake it (and is totally great at that, nobody suspects he know jack squat), so adjust stats as need be.
In ring abilities:
-Flashiness: 90
Performance skills and physical abilities:
-Selling: 90
-Safety: 80
Entertainment abilities and on-camera qualities
- Microphone: 90
- Charisma: 90
- Acting: 90
- Star Quality: 90
Other skills and Reputation:
- I don't know what Announcing and Refereeing does, if they are important to faking it add some points here.
Gimmick and Performance Skills
- Legitimate: 90 (because guy selling himself as legitimate who knows nothing about wrestling is hilarious, tough it may not be such a great idea)
- Cocky: 90
Since I do not know the game mechanics feel free to adjust and distribute remaining points as you see fit. Hell, even ignore some of the suggestions, as long as it helps support the code word. Can characters improve their skills during the game? If so it might be worth considering shaving of 10 points from the min/maxed skills to allow room to grow. If not the opposite might be true, that is, ad 10 points to max the skills if they won't grow.
And with that, we have started.
In late 2012, down on his luck buisnessman Kenneth Eastman was on the verge of Bankruptcy. His department store in Manhattan had been hemoraging money for years, and he was so far in debt that even if he found an investor to take it off his hands, he would only be left with a paltry sum after paying the banks off. However, by this point it was far too late, and he took a frankly insulting sum, in addition to his debts and back taxes being payed by the investor. Left with only $100,000 in cash to his name, he looked to a promising industry. Wrestling. The death of the Territory system caused by the unstoppable growth of companies like the SWF meant that most midsized Promotions either died, or had to quickly adapt. However, the death of these companies also opened up a vaccume that many tiny promotions were able to fill. Too small to be noticed by the big competitors, these promotions were marked by fast investements, fast profits, and often, even faster ruin. But screw it, Kenneth had lost everything by playing it safe, perhaps taking a big risk was his last chance.
And so the Bay 12 Wrestling Company was founded. Named such after the loading bay that his goods had come in at the warehouse he used for his old buisness, he would assemble the best amature wrestlers, entertain folks, and most importantly, regain his fortune.
And that's enough "real" storyline for this LP entry folks, let's get right to the meat of it. We start in January 2013 with a new promotion, $50,000 in cash (Kenneth spent the other half in just setting this up), and zero reputation. The good news is, despite you guys having decent stats, the fact that none of you have ever been in a show before as far as the game is concerned, means I got you for the same price I can get complete idiots from. The negotiations themselves were actually wrapped up fairly quickly, with everyone having signed the contract by Thursday. The Negotiations and stats for each of you is as follows.
That said, I haven't written a bio for any of you yet, so if there's anything you want in it, please tell me. And remember this is your wrestler's bio, not his fictional character's bio. In addition, we don't know your stats completely, as first off, scouting is enabled, meaning we don't have a clear picture of you yet. I'm not going to cheat and look in the editor either, because the game scrambles your stats a little bit from the created character, so that each time you play you can't always know exactly how it will play out.
Please note that these are the bare minimums your character's would accept. We're too small to try to use perks to sweeten the deal, so negotiation boils down to just how much money they want. Because of that there's really no point in discussing negotiations yet. Its simply "You want $X Dollars?" "No I want $Y Dollars."
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By the way, your character's stats sorta came out more suited for Puro wrestling than American style wrestling, so I had your character come from Japan to justify that.
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There were no sacks, so I just went for the meanest looking unused masked wrestler I could find.
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Unfortunatly, the image uploader I was using ate your negotiation screenshot, You got $210. Since all I had to go on was the name "Stoner" and a shitty safety skill, I decided to make him sort of a hippie character. Plus I really couldn't resist finding a use for that wrestler image. That said, your character does have a slight drug problem because of this. Nothing hardcore or serious enough to effect your work, but it's there.
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Now many of you may be wondering what "Young Lion" means. To be honest I wasn't sure either, so here's a quote from the game's official forums. Most other posters agreed with this poster, so I'm fairly certain it's accurate. Would love some actual documentation but, the game is a one man project, and we all know how those are with documentation. Best we have are the FAQs.
The young lion system can be activated in any region you like in the game setting in the editor but it is based off the system used in Real Life Japan for young wrestlers. It is currently set only to be active in the Japan region with the C-Verse data and I'm pretty sure most real world mods only have it set there as well.
As for what it is in Japan the fans expect the veterans to be able to win over any of the younger wrestlers as the "Young Lions" have not payed their dues in the business. The fans refuse to believe that some fresh from training or development youngster can actually beat an established star.
How this works in game I believe (some one will of course correct me if I'm wrong) is that workers under a certain age (it's either 25 or 30) who also have a low reputation (under D+) are considered young lions.
As to what settings allow for young lions I can't remember with 100% accuracy off hand but I'd assume high levels of Traditional, Pure and Realism. Take a look at the products for any of the C-Verse Japanese feds to get an idea of what the setting should be.
Last, but certainly not least, these two companies will be what we have to compete with in the Tri State Area.
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Tomorrow I will fill out the rest of the roster with random losers rejected from better Promotions, get our announcing and referre teams ready, and hopefully hold our first show. That said, our new poll is who should hold the title belt after our Premiere show? This is the first time I won't be putting my input in as a vote, so for balance sake, don't vote for yourselves.
First off, a bit of pre-explaining. Without mods that add more promotions to the bottom rungs (Be it the XL mod, the Real World Mod, etc), the indie circuit is abstracted as a monthly "Indy Show" that each region holds. That is how many of these people manage to be in the circuit for such a long time without actually ever being part of a "real" company. With the mod the "Indy Show" becomes less of a place for the not-quite-good-enough wrestlers, and more of a place for the dregs of the dregs to compete, due to the fact that there is an actual Indy circuit hiring these people. We now resume our irregularly scheduled LP.
Alright then, we're back! Now first off, someone earlier mentioned BTW would be a better name for us than B12. I do agree, however BTW is already taken up by another company, with that in mind, I have renamed us to Bay Twelve Wrestling Federation, or BTWF. I do need to find a logo to use, but if someone wants to whip one up, it needs to be 150x150. That in mind, it is time to get ourselves setup isn't it. I checked the roster and asked for the "Ideal Roster" and for our size it was this:
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I'm not going to lie, I hired this guy entirely based on two things. One, he was dirt cheap. Second, I liked his gimmick. I'm not entirely sure how well he will do, but let's face it, you always need a Jobber or two. Who knows, maybe he has potential.
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Not much of an actor, but a talented wrestler. Probably not star material, but definatly could be used in a "Gate Keeper" type role.
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What can I say. His gimmick is that he's a cop. Perfect for a heel. People will love to hate him, or if he winds up sucking, love to see him get his ass kicked every show.
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I... honestly am not entirely sure what I was thinking when I hired him. That's really all I have to say.
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Her stats actually aren't as bad as the text makes it out to be, the simple fact is that women's wrestling just isn't in as great a state as men's so she had trouble finding a job.
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Nikki is definatly up there in age, but I more intend to use her as sort of a training aid and hopefully a Road Agent. The first is simply wrestling with more experienced wrestlers can help improve a wrestlers skills, while the second is a role I will get into when we hold our inagural show.
Next we needed a referee and an Announcer. I went for the cheapest washups I could find, because at our level its not quite that big a deal.
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You'll notice he has no image. This is because the for whatever reason the game couldn't find a picture that matched his parameters when he generated. I'll go find one myself that fits. I'm suspecting that it was the Super Heavyweight that did him in. The important part is that he's hilariously cheap.
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He was the cheapest announcer I could find. And he still cost me $390 an appearance, which is the most I'm paying any employee IIRC. Well technically there was a guy asking $90 per show, but he had an amazing Announcing skill of 5. So that wasn't going to happen.
With everyone getting contract offers, again we have to take a few days off to let them decide to sign the paperwork. By the time we have everyone secured, it is Sunday of Week 1, January 2013 (For some reason this game goes on a Monday-Sunday week schedule.)
Now with everyone hired, I asked the Creative Team what their reccomended push for everyone is.
Main Eventers:
- Brendan Hoster
- Jack Euchre
- Nelson Roberts
- Sam O'Mally
Upper Midcarders:
- Peaches Martin
- Haniko Kawamura
- Matt Sterling
- Olivia Diamond
Midcarders:
- Irwin Gutmann
- Leopard King
- Melvin Otto
- Nikki Power
Lower Midcarder:
The good news is all of you are either Main Event, or Upper Midcard, and there's really a fine line between the two. Also Buzz Reid is going to spend a long time Jobbing I'm afraid. All that leaves is asigning Gimmicks, which is your character. However, I think we should reveal that when the show happens, if only because it's easier to describe how your wrestler portrays their character AFTER we find out if they pulled it off.
The inagural show itself will be shown tomorrow. That's when we find out if we made the right decisions leading up to this moment. The poll at the top will stay for now, as awarding the title belt on the first show is apparently an AWFUL idea. However there will be a event belt given out to the winner at the end of the show, which will be a yearly tournament award. That all said and done TUNE IN TOMORROW FOR ACTION!
The Q&A Section:
I have decided to seperate Q&A from the LP itself into it's own Section.
I would like to hear in an update your general opinion of our wrestlers.
First off, your wrestler is sorta frustrating me, because I can't give him the Gimmick I wanted. Because his wrestling style is from the Japanese school of Wrestling, I wanted to portray him as fearsome simply because of his athleticism. However, for whatever reason, when I chose that gimmick the game warned me he'd probably screw it up. I can't tell you what I settled on, but suffice to say my only real choices were boring, stupid, or pandering, and I went with pandering.
Stoner on the other hand was REALLY easy to assign a gimmick to, and I'm not even gonna try hold it off untill the show. He's a stoner. That's his gimmick. That said he greatly worries me. That 0 Safety rating means he's VERY liable to hurt another wrestler, which not only is bad because we lose a man, but can start a morale spiral as people get in fights over who's fault it was.
Those are the only two I really have strong feelings about at this point, as the others were mostly balanced as far as stats, so I'll have to know how they do in the Ring before I really form my opinion of them.
Are you ready? It is time for the Main Event! Or rather scheduling the Main Event. First things first, we are going to run a biweekly schedule, which means that we will need two seperate shows, as the game only does not have an option between Weekly and Monthly. That said, I went with the "Suggest a Name" feature, so if anyone has any better ideas for names, please speak up.
Anyway, this is the basic setup of our first show.
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Now, an hour and a half may actually be cutting it a bit long, seeing how with 13 wrestlers, we can only realistically have 6 matches a show. However, this is our first gig, so might as well go overboard, then scale it back, after all, we can always modify it later if need be.
Finally the night is here, and we do our final preperations for the big show.
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As you notice, our backstage rating is rather low. This means you guys basically are all assholes who don't get along. I'll have to look into bribing you guys with things backstage, however if we can't turn morale around, I might have to replace Irwin and Leopard, as they seem to be the source of the problem.
(http://i.imgur.com/lzPJr7G.png)
Anyway, the game automatically chooses a venue for us based on what the AI thinks is best, however the player is free to override it if they don't trust the AI's judgement. However, because of our size, the AI just gives us the cheapest, smallest place possible, which is exactly what we want.
Finally it's time to book the actual matches. I'll walk you through the first one, but after that we'll observe them as they play out. Otherwise this LP would get rather dull fast. Now, I personally like to plan the Main Event first, and work my way backwards.
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After that, we chose the other matches, and the angles that happen between them. Here's the overview of it if you want a sneak peek, but I'll be telling the story, as it were, during the actual show.
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One thing I want to mention is the time. With everyone save Nikki wrestling tonight, and angles to go along with it, we still barely made it to 90 minutes. We have 22 minutes of leeway in either direction before people complain (This varies dependign on show size) but still its not a very comfortable thing. We will be dropping to an hour show from now on. Another thing to mention is, IIRC, if we had a TV deal, we would have to fit exactly to the time limit.
Anyway, RP mode activated.
Note, the themes for each wrestler won't be updated at the same time as the LP, I will go back and add them when I find appropriate songs. If you'd like to reccomend one, please PM me.
The Big Opening Show
(http://i.imgur.com/dFHUJJ3.png) Welcome Ladies and Gentlemen to the Bay Twelve Wrestling Federation. Tonight we have lots of excitement for you and we hope you all enjoy it. So, without further ado, let's get this started. And first up, we have, hailing from London, England.. Peaches Martin!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7OdI-b61qg
Just went with something very powerful sounding. Peaches, despite being a woman, IS our biggest wrestler afterall, except for Buzz
(http://i.imgur.com/CE5181Z.png) [Takes the Microphone in the ring] Leopard King is weak. I will destroy him. Every day I see him, and he cowers. But he cannot hide any longer. I shall crush him like the insect he is. Come down and face me, unless you are too afraid.
(http://i.imgur.com/dFHUJJ3.png) Well, I'd sure hate to be in his shoes. Speaking of which, where is.. wait, I'm being told Leopard King has entered the Arena. So, hailing from Parts Unknown, LEEEOOOPPPAAAARRRDDD KIIIIIIIINNNNNGGGGG.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MBljztEeg0
Eh, what can I say, couldn't think of much and he isn't exactly star material anyway.
(http://i.imgur.com/lrRzUnX.png) You think you can defeat me? I've been at this far longer than you have lady. Every day I train, and everyday I look forward to destroying upstarts like you.
(http://i.imgur.com/P480Dpo.png)
So, this went fairly well. Her gimmick as an Amazonian, a stong, brute force type of woman, went over extrodinarily well. the fact that this segment got an E+ is also amazing, as that is far beyond what is to be expected at our level.
(http://i.imgur.com/0SAmDOC.png)
The match went less well however. First off, I completely misjudged Nikki's ability to be a road agent. I'm probably going to replace her. Also Alan was... less than spectacular as a ref. You get what you pay for. However, the crowd still seemed to enjoy it, so that's what matters.
(http://i.imgur.com/lrRzUnX.png) I give in! I give in! Stop stop!
(http://i.imgur.com/dFHUJJ3.png) Oh god! She's Brutalizing him! Oh the humanity! Won't Somebody help him!
(http://i.imgur.com/CE5181Z.png) I'm not done with you yet little man!
(http://i.imgur.com/TP435Pa.png)
This segment got a really low rating, but it was under 4 min, so it doesn't really effect much. In fact that might be WHY it had a low rating. Either way it doesn't matter much
(http://i.imgur.com/dFHUJJ3.png) Well, that was something wasn't it folks. Anyway, next up, we have Buzz Reid!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=0CMzE-e2prY#t=26
Could it be anything else, really? That said going with a cover because this is Wrestling, so we need it to be more Rock n Roll
(http://i.imgur.com/LbBUH34.png) Order! Order in the Ring! I've been made, aware, that there is a fugitive here. He may be from another land, or another time. I don't care. He's mine now, and I will bring him to justice.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23cxD0zKiFk
Not gonna lie, this is one of my favorite tracks from any game, and I feel it fits with a weird cult guy.
(http://i.imgur.com/FUBoarW.png) [Trips on his way down from the entrance] I... uhh... *mutters* Line?, right, right. *Speaks back up* Uhh, I will not yield to you. You have no authority over me! I am blessed with the.. the.. power of...fuck fuck fuck. uhh... I WILL DESTROY YOU.
(http://i.imgur.com/dFHUJJ3.png) Uhh.. with that in mind, let's start this match!
(http://i.imgur.com/ZWMBv6H.png)
Not only did this get a 6, but Otto got a flat 0 in his gimmick rating. I should point out THAT WAS HIS GIMMICK, the one he alwayd knew how to play. This is.. just awful. I'm legitimately mad.
[Buzz Reid carts Otto out of the Gym in handcuffs, muttering to him under his breath]
(http://i.imgur.com/LbBUH34.png) Just stay quiet, I swear if you fuck this up anymore I'll actually hurt you
(http://i.imgur.com/dFHUJJ3.png) Right, so, next up we have the fabulous, the incredible, the athletic, BRENDAN HOSTER!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbU4fPYRvcY
Yes I went with that.
(http://i.imgur.com/Rj6zKHx.png) Aha. yes. You know, wrestling, its not different from other sports. You got to have spirit. And you have to have drive. I train each day on and off the field, not only for wrestling, but for football. And just like the gridiron, in the ring, there are rules. Rules I intend to follow.
(http://i.imgur.com/dFHUJJ3.png) And that's great to hear. Speaking of hear, do you hear that?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lX8GG3dnsp8
Dunno, he feels like Aerosmith fits him. I think it's the hair.
(http://i.imgur.com/fbyiqL9.png) [does a running flip into the ring] Woohoo! Yeah! YeahYeahYeah [bounces around as he talks, clearly excited] Alright man, let's do this! you ready? I'm ready!
(http://i.imgur.com/UuONLpJ.png)
Not spectacular, but vaeguly passable, Nikki However yells at me
(http://i.imgur.com/ITyOjjy.png)
(http://i.imgur.com/K0FAmuP.png)
Really I was just stalling for extra time at this point. Both of them are Faces, so it would make sense for them to be respectful of each other
(http://i.imgur.com/fbyiqL9.png) Good match man, good match.
(http://i.imgur.com/dFHUJJ3.png) Well, isn't it great to see athletes who have real respect for the sport, and each other. A fair change of pace I must say.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_aMb-r4A3M
Was trying to find something that kinda fits a Yakuza style criminal theme, this was the best I could find. I'll admit I've very unfammiliar with any sort of music from the East, so I went with what I know, which is games. Not gonna lie I was really grasping for straws here, if anyone knows any music that sorta has a Japanese Criminal feel to it, please tell me.
(http://i.imgur.com/dFHUJJ3.png) Well, what's this. I haven't been informed of any matches yet. Wh-Who are you?
(http://i.imgur.com/StMom5L.png)
Another very well received angle.
(http://i.imgur.com/ToZ1nw4.png) That is none of your concern. My.. associates have informed me that you all ahve set up an athletic competition of sorts. I want in.
(http://i.imgur.com/dFHUJJ3.png) But, we don't have you on the schedule, there's nobody to-
(http://i.imgur.com/ToZ1nw4.png) Denying me would be... most unwise.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzG-pQgTy6Q
Jack's sorta an egotistical star who everyone loves regardless, so I feel this fits. Also it's seriously their only good song.
(http://i.imgur.com/dFHUJJ3.png) Jack, what are you... you aren't scheduled...
(http://i.imgur.com/IBJes49.png) Don't worry, I have this handled. Nobody threatens my promotion. My fans. My coworkers, and gets away with it.
(http://i.imgur.com/yuRbWHi.png)
So again, our acting has entertained the crown, but our wrestling less so. The stamina simply wasn't enough, and the road agent and ref were awful. Nikki gave me the same message from before.
(http://i.imgur.com/ToZ1nw4.png) I expect... better next time. Do not dissapoint me. [Exits silently out the back]
(http://i.imgur.com/dFHUJJ3.png) Well that was, terrifying. But, not to worry, we have much safer entertainment for you folks. Because Irwin, the Straight Edge, will be taking on Olivia Diamond next!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmO4DPfGsWg
OK I know this is seriously streatching it since it's the Undertaker's theme IRL, but that's purely coincidence. since Irwin's schtick is that he's tired of seeing everyone waste away from drugs, alcohol, ego, and so on in this business, I felt this song actually fit. Far more than it does for the Undertaker anyway.
(http://i.imgur.com/sj8ny6j.png) You know, living my life is hard. I keep myself clean you know. No drinking, no drugs, no partying. And-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=497ZmAsGAT4
Ok she's a surfer. We REALLY don't have much of a choice but to use this.
(http://i.imgur.com/KDFj2bo.png) Oh shut up you old hasbeen. People need to loosen up man. Just go with the flow. Life is like an ocean ya know.
(Again, more gimmicks that they came with. I honestly have no clue what to say, so fuck it, skipping right to the match.
(http://i.imgur.com/oKwhTrd.png)
So the Straight Edge thing went over poorly, In this case I suspect the fans disliked the gimmick itself, unlike Otto's dismal failure. On the other hand, the fans LOVED Olivia's surfer Chick persona. Apart from that, the wrestling was more of the same from what we've seen.
(http://i.imgur.com/dFHUJJ3.png) And wow, what an exciting match that was. But folks. Are you ready for the Main Event. Make sure you are all sitting down, because this is edge of your seat action right here folks. In this corner, we have...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2s4pCxQK3M
I know, I know, Doubling down on the Metallica, but again, I feel it fits. Lyrics don't fit as much though, just the feel so in this case they've been dropped. Remember, he's basically the big bad boogeyman.
(http://i.imgur.com/dFHUJJ3.png) The Sackmaaaaan.
(http://i.imgur.com/10V85ua.png) ...
(http://i.imgur.com/dFHUJJ3.png) And in this corner, we have, Sam O'Mally
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=ONizhfivfLA#t=22
And yes I'm aware that's not actually Bob Marley. I don't know why this cover keeps being misattributed to him.
(http://i.imgur.com/QzOfLLE.png) Woah man. Woah. Whats with him. He looks intense man. Like he seriously needs to take a hit or something.
(http://i.imgur.com/dFHUJJ3.png) Sam, you seriously cannot be promoting the use of illegal narcotics?
(http://i.imgur.com/QzOfLLE.png) Hey man, it grows natural. It's natures gift to..
(http://i.imgur.com/10V85ua.png) [Shoves the announcer out of the way and starts the match early, cutting Sam off]
(http://i.imgur.com/h2XMpj5.png)
So, this match went pretty well all things considered. It also advanced a storyline I setup where these two get into a fued.
(http://i.imgur.com/dFHUJJ3.png) Wow, now this is what you call a match. Sam seems to have the advantage, no wait, now Sackman does. What's he, he's thrown Sam out of the ring. Can Sam get up in time?
(http://i.imgur.com/zbwLQPQ.png)
(http://i.imgur.com/dFHUJJ3.png) Son of a bitch! I mean, shit, I mean, oh my god!
(http://i.imgur.com/10V85ua.png) [Climbs back into the ring] That is the fate of all who dare to challenge me. You are weak. Pitiful. The drugs ruin your body and your mind. Yet you dare to think you can defeat me. I spit on you O'Mally
I unfortunatly didn't remember to get a screenshot of this, but it got a 23 as it's rating. It was Nelson mocking Sam as he was carried away by the paramedics.
(http://i.imgur.com/dFHUJJ3.png) Well, my table is ruined, and so is one of our competitors. However, that final bell means it's time to back it in folks. I hope you all enjoyed this night, and we'll see you again next week!
(http://i.imgur.com/baBGiPd.png)
So, we actually managed to get an E-, which is pretty damn good for a promotion made up of misfits that's never wrestled before. As long as our shows do better than our popularity, we're good. That said there were several mistteps that I will be correcting, including getting a proper Road Agent, and firing our Referee.
Alright folks, this is just a mini-update to breifly gloss over our financials from the match, and a few things I neglected to mention.
(http://i.imgur.com/0UZkkdV.png)Glad you could meet with me Harry. Ticket Sales were abysmal, so I'm hoping you got something for me.
(http://i.imgur.com/BGbuOpL.png)Well yes, I know you said you wanted to get more exposure for this venture by hosting the shows online. I've managed to secure deals with a number of web advertisers, and I have the estimates right here.
(http://i.imgur.com/LC7e7VE.png)
So yes, earlier when I claimed that we would be in a money pit for awhile before making a profit, I completely forgot to include sponsorship money. With this, and the fact that our shows will be slightly shorter from now on, means we should just barely eke out a profit. At least for now. When we make the jump to the next size, we might start having issues, especially as workers start having their contracts renewed.
Anyway, after Nikki didn't do so well as a Road Agent, I've decided to find a competent replacement. The Ref will ahve to stick around awhile longer, as we realy don't have the money to get a decent replacement, and I think, but am not entirely sure, that his weak skills aren't too big an issue for our size. But we were able to find an affordable Road Agent.
(http://i.imgur.com/w1fVkcP.png)
If calling a Roady a "Brawler" doesn't make too much sense, the reason is his name in the database was the Boston Bomber, and well, recent events have made that name less than palatable. So I went and changed it. Remember that this game was made late 2012, and the character himself was in the series long before then, so it's not like the name was intentional.
(http://i.imgur.com/zPhidmK.png)
Next we are going to take a look backstage, which revels a rather troubling issue.
(http://i.imgur.com/Bbxuv1O.png)
As you can see, our backstage rating isn't too great. And one thing is very, very clear. Not only do the fans hate Leopard King, so does literally everyone else. So I have decided to do the only sensible thing. I'm going to Job him out to some of the other wrestlers who need a few wins under their belt to look good, then dump him off of the roster and void his contract.
Hey, wrestling is a rough business.
And the last thing for this mini-update, we are going to look at our current storylines we are running.
(http://i.imgur.com/yFY5Rw0.png)
Now for our style of wrestling, we need to run two storylines with a minimum heat of 35 to avoid penalties. Now again, because of our size, these penalties still aren't enough to actually cause us issues, they instead just slow our growth a little bit. That said, It still serves as a good point to explain how storylines work.
When you create a storyline, you need to choose at least 2 wrestlers to play a "Major" part in it. They could be feuding, they could be allies, really anything, as long as its more than two people. After that, you can add as many people as you want to "Minor" roles, which could be as simple as being a one of the wrestlers who the Face has to fight on his way to challenging the Heel, or someone on a team with them etc. However, something like a single person making their way up the ladder isn't a storyline in and of itself, but would instead just be reflected in their individual momentum.
In this case, we've started a feud between Stoner and Sackman following Sack slamming Stoner through that table and causing him an injury. The Heat of the story is based on the angles and matches that tell the story. Now I'm going to be perfectly honest. I don't actually know the equation that gives out the final result. But really all you need to know is good angles and matches help it, and bad ones don't.
Anyway, that's all for this mini-update. But I shall pose a question to you all. What should our second storyline be. And no, everyone beating the piss out of Leopard King for 4 straight months before he gets fired is not a storyline.
Alright, first thing I've done before doing an update proper is throwing together a logo for us so that blank space isn't staring me in the face every time I visit the home screen.
(http://i.imgur.com/jkHyG6N.png)
It's not great but hey, it was made with one of those free online tools and 45 seconds in GIMP, so, for the amount of effort it took it'll suffice. You can actually see the Gimp Window with half of the logo in the bottom that was accidentally left in frame. The tool I used didn't do multi line gradients so I had to generate each half on it's own.
So with not much to do untill our next show, I simm away while keeping an eye out for any interesting stories from the news feed. That said, one of the features I like is how, when you are processing the AI's turn, it shows you a profile from a random worker currently active in the database. As an example
(http://i.imgur.com/NfUsvmu.png)
Sometimes this can help tell you about workers who you may not have heard of yet.
Sadly, on Wednesday, Week 3, January 2013, the wrestling world lost another of it's own.
(http://i.imgur.com/IfbHhmY.png)
Freddy was a decent worker who at one point worked for the SWF, and after his contract was up he was snapped up by USPW, where he won their title belt in 2006 before falling to the midcard over the next seven years. However, he is now just another grim reminder of how rough this business can be, passing away at only the age of 43.
Finally another loose end tied up on Friday, Week 3 of January. Boston Brawler finalized his contract as our Road Agent. At the age of 60, with 42 years in the business, he should know quite a few tricks to teach our workers to improve themselves in the ring. Or he might drop dead of old age in a year.
Next we have what I like to call the Tuesday Night Wars. SWF and TCW both hold their TV show in the same timeslot. Now ratings wise SWF has about double the viewers of TCW, their last show having a TV rating of 12.55 against TCW's 7.07. However if we look at the actual shows.
(http://i.imgur.com/UKXUYNJ.png)
(http://i.imgur.com/Rxo0aRf.png)
We can see they're both neck and neck. Really it was the main events that hurt SWF, earning a 74 and 78 while TCW's finisher hit a 90. It will be interesting to see how this continues. Perhaps in a few years TCW may finally be able to slay the beast.
However the rest of the week and a half goes by without anything noteworthy happening, so we proceed to our show. Now first off, the length hasn't been shortened yet. This will change next month, because well.... I only set it for the first show, now the second. And the game autosaves every day, so we can't fix it now. However, I feel we can make it work again.
Anyway, we're cutting it a lot shorter than before though, only reaching around 75 minutes.
(http://i.imgur.com/RgWTHik.png)
Now first off, you'll notice the first leg of the show is centered around Leopard King being a cocky son'a'bitch and then getting the ever loving piss beaten out of him by our second least favorite wrestler, Otto. My hope with this is we can squeeze a bit of popularity out of this, to make Otto slightly less worthless. Leopard King was EXTREMELY unhappy with the booking, but since we plan to get rid of him after the show, he can shove it.
Next is the further development of the Stoner/Sackhead feud. With Stoner still "Injured", he discusses with Hoster about watching his back while he recovers. Later in ring Hoster makes the mistake of announcing this alliance to everyone in the ring, leading to Sackhead calling Hoster out.
Next we have Peaches and Martin going against each other. There is a little bit of back and forth between them, but not enough to warrant an angle. This is covered in the 2 min of "non wrestling time" that gets put into every match automatically.
And finally, we have Hoster and Sackhead going at it for 17 min in a very slowly building match. It's very likely this will tire them out, but this early I'm more exploring everyone's endurance while the dings we get for a bad match aren't as punishing.
Two very important incidents happened during the match.
(http://i.imgur.com/8TPzVpB.png)
Second
(http://i.imgur.com/g599Sll.png)
Anyway our final show rating came out at
(http://i.imgur.com/XIadHRo.png)
So a 1 point drop from last time, which is basically margin of error material. Do note the Hoster and Stoner angles. ALthough Hoster isn't that great in the ring it seems, he is AMAZING on the microphone. In general our angles are going over better than our wrestling itself. This may or may not be a good thing in the future.
Anyway, after the show I go to release Leopard King. It asks me one question.
(http://i.imgur.com/iZDH9ew.png)
So we burned that bridge to the ground, and have only one last thing to do now. Advance to the next month.
And the damage is....
(http://i.imgur.com/UWPUgcQ.png)
So a 1 point drop from last time, which is basically margin of error material. Do note the Hoster and Stoner angles. ALthough Hoster isn't that great in the ring it seems, he is AMAZING on the microphone. In general our angles are going over better than our wrestling itself. This may or may not be a good thing in the future.
(http://cache.ohinternet.com/images/thumb/6/68/JUST_AS_PLANNED.jpg/618px-JUST_AS_PLANNED.jpg)
Juss! My plan worked! Better hold of on the long matches, in fact, just keep me out of the matches in general. Just have me act and make alliance, feuds and angles all the time. Nah, just kidding, I guess I have to do some fighting. But there is an idea there; perhaps I could be the "angle guy"? If we set me up with the right alliances and feuds, I could be the shell in which others could fight each other. I create (in-game that is) and present them while the others fight. Essentially I do the talking while they do the fighting.
So for example if monkeyhead wants to set up a feud with someone, because of our alliance I could make that feud, but monkeyhead being the feuder. That is, if its possible in terms of game mechanics.
That would play to my strength, which is acting, while allowing the real wrestlers to fight without having to worry about their act too much.
Is this at all possible? Either way, I should probably be the story bitch.
Oh, and keep the updates coming fast-like. Its a lot of fun! :D
Alright, so after our first month netted us a small amount of profit, I've decided to increase our roster by 4. I also have let Nikki go, as she was hired as a Road Agent, but it never panned out. However unlike Leopard, I didn't burn the bridge, so we may see her again someday. Anyway, these are the four people I have added to our roster.
(http://i.imgur.com/TN1mrco.png)
(http://i.imgur.com/07WpNmz.png)
(http://i.imgur.com/wl5PejO.png)
(http://i.imgur.com/3GQ5IH9.png)
Ah yes. You'll notice I have hired some people who have contracts with other companies. You may be asking how that is allowed? Well it should be quite obvious that a wrestler can't survive on $600 a month, less if he doesn't do both shows. PPA contracts are essentially Independent Contractor agreements. The is no built in exclusivity like how Written Deals work. So workers will often be in the roster of three, four, sometimes even 5 companies. Now of course this creates scheduling conflicts. How is that resolved? Simply the bigger company gets first refusal if the worker's employers have shows on the same day. If the biggest company doesn't need them that show, then they're available for the next biggest one, and so on until you reach the bottom. So hopefully we'll get some good use out of these guys.
Their pushes are as follows:
Powerful Man: Lower Midcard Face
Zak Attack: Lower Midcard Face
Brooke Taylor: Lower Midcard Heel
The Silencer: Midcard Heel
So with that we are moving to our next show, and the start of a second storyline. Any ideas on who the new feud should be between? And what tag teams should we see if we can nurture? And lastly, should we create our own title belt, or attempt to purchase the rights to a defunct company's title belt in order to drum up interest in our company?
So, here we go, another fortnight, another show. Absolutly nothing out of the...
(http://i.imgur.com/zekgDsm.png)
Shit.
Well, a backstage incident could be either good or bad. It could be anything from a fight between workers, to some guys bonding over video games, to even someone just getting fucking blackout drunk before the show. Anyway, there's nothing to do but hope for the best.
(http://i.imgur.com/apvTCfV.png)
Yes, on his very first day on the job, Powerful Man gets into an altercation with Irwin. I'm going to give Irwin the benefit of the doubt and assume it's the new kid's fault, so when given the choice of disciplin, I give a stern talk to Powerful. His response?
(http://i.imgur.com/zLiz2KB.png)
Well, that actually didn't go so bad. He admitted his mistake and apologized. Now an apology doesn't mean anything if he keeps doing it, but I'm willing to write this off as first show nerves. It's not easy being the new guy. Looking again at the backstage screen I see that one of the plusses is now the argument between them, meaning I successfully diffused the situation. Go me!
Anyway, for this show I want to try something different. Namely a tag team match. If either of these teams are discovered to ahve good chemistry with each other, their teams may become a more permanent fixture. I'm hoping I can at least get Buzz and The Silencer together, if only because Law & Order is an amazing tagteam name.
(http://i.imgur.com/Vq08Kt6.png)
Now for a tag team match, it's important to note both the victor AND the loser, as a tag team match ends with one pin, not two. For this I've decided newcomer Silencer will have to take the fall, but that he should still be made to look strong. As this is our opening act, I've instructed the workers to get the crowd warmed up for the rest of the show. Also Zak and Starling probably have the stupidest tag name ever, but I can fix that later, and that's assuming they are even a good team.
(http://i.imgur.com/jari9zd.png)
So, this show is about the return of Stoner from his injury. Neonivek still can't find a good challenge, and looking back I probably could have winged a short storyline with that, but it's too late at this point. Stoner making his return is finally able to beat him, setting up the threat of his return. I'm trying to build some momentum on both him and Sackhead in order to hype up the title battle between them. In addition I have Brooke defeating Olivia in order to scope out how good she is this time, and Powerful Man facing Peaches. Although he loses that match in the end, the idea is that, like Rocky Balboa, he "Went the distance". Also again it's a bit short, but I tend not to pay attention to the length. SOmetimes it'll be too long, sometimes too short. The fans don't mind, as this sin't a TV show where there is a promised show length. As long as the show itself is good, they leave happy.
With that said, let's get this underway.
(http://i.imgur.com/QDGbBIY.png)
So we start the show off with a tribute video to Stoner. Showing his devastating injury where Sackhead slammed him through a table, to his grueling recovery, to finally him stepping out of a car infront of the arena. The fans seemed to like it.
(http://i.imgur.com/EUZuKum.png)
Next was the tag team match, which went REALLY well. Not only did the match itself go great (The devoid of heat message again just being because we suck by default), but our two new worker's gimmicks went over extremely well. Zak with his blue collar working stiff gimmick, managed to pander to the crowd. After all, he's one of them. While everyone ate up The Silencer's mercenary gimmick. This reminds me, I'm going to put the theme music for our current workers in the OP in a spoiler box. Haven't decided what these guys get yet, but when I do, it'll be there for easy reference. In retrospect I should have made a second reserved post.
Next is Noenivek making an open challenge to anyone who can take him on. It again scored fairly well. Followed by the Peaches/Power man match, which did decent. After that was the Olivia/Brooke match which again was out of the ordinary enough to warrant a screenshot
(http://i.imgur.com/rY9Np09.png)
26. An E 26. I'll need to check, but I THINK that may actually be our best match. My memory is shakey on it. In addition, her gimmick as a klepto went over decently. If so, I'm VERY pleased with Brooke right now. Hell even if it isn't I'm pleased.
Next was another ok segment where Stoner accepted Neonivek's challenge, and then they wrestle.
(http://i.imgur.com/qhObn9s.png)
Sadly, this was a slight letdown from the previous match, but still a solid bout between two of our better workers. Stoner has established himself as being back, and Neon learned some humility for now. However, with that how did we score?
(http://i.imgur.com/ujRDjCa.png)
Not too bad, not too bad. A three point increase from our last show, and if we can keep this up, we'll be out of the basement of wrestling in no time. (No time being a year or two, but hey, that IS no time in the entertainment business!)
One final thing. I did want to check if that Brooke match was infact our best one, so I went to our "Top 100 Matches" screen and...
(http://i.imgur.com/xDoR3Qb.png)
It absolutely was, followed closely by the Stoner/Neonivek and the Tag Team match from the same night. I think everyone working at BTWF can be proud of that show. Especially our 4 rookies who all proved themselves valuable additions to the BTWF family. Anyway, we still need a second storyline, and soon will be the time to unveil our title belt.
So, here we go on the way to Super Nova, our second show of the month. It's two weeks of not much doing on our end, so I keep an eye out for any interesting news stories.
Next it's time to create our belts. You can have several belts for different levels, but for now I'm going to limit it to Singles and Tag Team champion belts. This will be what our two storylines focus on right now, the race to claim both of these. We're going to see Kenneth's Acting chops as well as he introduces these to the fans during Super Nova.
(http://i.imgur.com/ro5HVRO.png)
Now since we only have the one belt for each type of champion, they're Main Event by default, meaning they are the top level award you can get. As such, their prestige starts fairly high. But can be damaged by things like allowing people who don't "deserve" it to win it. Having shitty matches for it, etc. As you can see, since they are main event titles they start fairly high. Hopefully we don't ruin that.
As we proceed through the two weeks the news is rather silent. Mostly just show reports and news stories about people renewing their contracts. Finally it's time for Super Nova.
(http://i.imgur.com/Fjb5Ydx.png)
Well, here we go again...
(http://i.imgur.com/bbeFqkR.png)
So, Irwin decided to blow off a practice session with our Roady. I'm going to be stern with him, as that seemed to work pretty well with Powerful Man. He responds in the same way as Powerful Man, but again, that could very well be an empty promise.
Now, our main event is going to be a Tag Match to help get the ball rolling on that new storyline. I've put Jack and Hoster in a Tag Team together, and let the auto-generator make a name as I couldn't think of one.
(http://i.imgur.com/BrSfqTC.png)
(http://i.imgur.com/mXqe6MA.png)
With that let's start the show.
http://i.imgur.com/Tgyw586.png
The opening match between Olivia and Otto scored an 8. No surprises there
Next, Jack and Hoster just ooze star quality, as them announcing they set a tag team up scored well...
(http://i.imgur.com/AkoDcid.png)
The rest of the show after was nothing spectacular, with everything scoring around 20 within the usual margin of error. The Tag Team match included.
(http://i.imgur.com/ac58uVL.png)
Speaking of which
(http://i.imgur.com/5dBcvrX.png)
So what's our final score when all is said and done?
(http://i.imgur.com/2fJOOgg.png)
(http://i.imgur.com/efWlwV9.png)
First off, you'll notice a new Tag Team. I just let the game generate a name, as I'm not too sure if they will be a permanent fixture. Now, note that although Peaches "won", it was a disqualified finish and marked down as a cheap win. This means if the belt was on the line for this one, it would not be awarded to her team.
(http://i.imgur.com/hdC7YEC.png)
And with that, here's tonight's card.
(http://i.imgur.com/RaNBPUi.png)
First off, we have a backstage argument between Neonivek and Zak Attack leading to a relatively short match. It's probably risky cutting it that short, but Neon's stamina isn't great, and it's only an opening act. Next we have Mr. Eastman telling Monkeyhead that unless he can win in a handicap match against Buzz and Melvin, that he isn't cut out for the BTWF, and is fired. Really its just an excuse for Sterling to give a beatdown to a couple of jobbers and gain some momentum.
After that we have the fated return of Stoner. Which is of course, ruined by Nelson bribing The Silencer into helping him cheat in the match. After all, we can't have a story end so easily, can we?
Next is milking Peaches and Brooke for all the talent they're worth, giving them an elaborate entrance and in ring promo to the final match of the night. And lastly is the aforementioned Stoner/Nelson match we hyped up before the tag team event.
And how did it go?
Well from the first minute things are somewhat promising.
(http://i.imgur.com/LfOIQkr.png)
(http://i.imgur.com/oldWdTf.png)
The Monkeyhead angles do slightly less well, scoring a 16 each. Buzz and Monkey were each off their game tonight.
However, on the upshot, we had this.
(http://i.imgur.com/SWghs9d.png)
The entrance for the Peaches/Tyler Tag Team is sorta a complete crapshoot, scoring a 6, but their in ring taunting makes up for it
(http://i.imgur.com/hhuIlSo.png)
The last two matches really were nothing past "average". not even any interesting notes for them.
So, after all of that, the final score for the night is...
(http://i.imgur.com/t32LVfS.png)
Now lastly, I'm thinking of changing our product. Our fans are currently expecting a show comprised of 70% matches and 30% angles, but I think we can bump our show length back to an hour and a half if we bring that down to only 60% matches. We get a 15% leeway past what's expected, so this would allow us to reach around half matches / angles at the most extreme case. This will allow us to flesh the story between matches out a bit more too. On the other hand, I don't want to stray too far into Sports Entertainment territory. We want to eventually be the SWF killer, not be the SWF after all.
Alright, so after a long hiatus, I'm back, gonna try to remember what exactly my plans were, but it could be a bit shaky right now. So for our next show, I'm gonna take a slight breather. Anyway, as we advance to it, a few interesting events occur.
The first is that TCW has recently been kicking the piss out of SWF, their shows usually being around 5 grade points better. As a result, TCW's TV slot has seen its ratings grow quite a bit, from averaging a tv rating of 6.8 to moving towards 7.1. SWF is still holding steady, but they're going on momentum if anything. However, it's still too early to tell if this is just a flash in the pan, or something bigger.
Second, the promotion Freedom Caribbean Wrestling, has entered into a state of hostilities between them, and rival companies Original Legends Deathmatch, and Devil Women. This means any sort of deal between them, such as worker sharing agreements, are much less likely to go through. Although this doesn't seem like much, it risks causing relationships to further deteriorate, and could lead to an all out war between the promotions. War means any worker who signs with one promotion MUST void his contract with the warring promotion. It also allows each promotion to use "Dirty Tricks" on one another to screw with each other's shows. This of course, would be good for us.
Third and lastly, by chance I checked the yearly awards and noticed this.
(http://i.imgur.com/JwNthAK.png)
But anyway, onto our first show in ages, well ages for us, the poor wrestlers have been in some sort of horrifying suspended animation as their world's time never moved, but who cares about that. Now first thign I notice is our Morale is still rather shit.
(http://i.imgur.com/yy7qotc.png)
However, there aren't any real problems arising from it yet, so instead you all are just in a ordinary sucky workplace as far as I'm concerned. I'm sure it's nothing to worry about. Onto the show.
Now last show was about the Sackman yet again defeating Sam by cheating, this time through bribing the notorious mercenary the SIlencer to do his bidding, so tonight Sam is going to get Silencer out of the way so he can have his final fight with Sackman. Thats said, here's tonight's lineup.
(http://i.imgur.com/lbz6KAS.png)
Now first off, you may notice how the final fight is labeled "Post" instead of "Segment". What this means is that it is considered to be "free" wrestling, and not part of the main show. Weather it does great or poorly, nobody will particularly care, however, it is a good way to train up some rookies in a real world situation. Now, we have your standard mix of individual matches started by arguments, as well as the leadup to the Main Event tonight. What I want to point out is that Sam has two more hurdles to declare himself free of Roberts. After Silencer is defeated, Roberts puts out an all takers bounty of Sam, in order to prevent, at any cost, a fair rematch from occurring. I'm not quite sure how I want to do that match, but I'll cross that bridge next update. If I can't think of anything interesting, I'll just shove him in a handicap match. Or channel Vince Russo and put something stupid on a pole.
But with this extraordinarily rusty plan put together (It's been a month and I've kinda forgotten some things about what I should be doing) Let's see how the match actually plays out!
(http://i.imgur.com/sKv03fO.png)
So our first segment goes over about as well as you think. That is to say pretty damn well considering.
(http://i.imgur.com/JYMGA96.png)
(http://i.imgur.com/g1qrprW.png)
(http://i.imgur.com/5P0Hdc1.png)
(http://i.imgur.com/s6lH3Mz.png)
(http://i.imgur.com/P5hMs2F.png)
Ouch. Ok that match is why the first match's success put me off. THIS was supposed to be our first match, but I fucked the order of it up. Goddamnit.... Maybe I should start savescumming :P
(http://i.imgur.com/OdRSGfz.png)
(http://i.imgur.com/0aSRvxz.png)
(http://i.imgur.com/OOWbdCX.png)
So yeah, both were merely competent in all things tonight, really I blame myself for getting the order of the first match wrong, but that's in the past now, so, let's pull that final score up!
(http://i.imgur.com/q0J6HCA.png)
So yeah, my first time back and I'm clearly a bit rusty, but we didn't do any worse than usual, so that's a plus. However I did check, and the Brook Tyler vs powerful Man match was infact our best match ever, beating out the old record holder of Peaches v Brooke by 4 points. SO I'm going to add that to my list of "Good Combinations". Course we can't wrestle them together again for awhile, or it would risk getting stale, but it is something to keep in mind.
Anyway, Hopefully I can keep from allowing this type of break to happen again, expect updates each Saturday at the least, and likely bonus updates throughout the week if I get a TEW itch, but definatly each Saturday at least.
I didn't even read all of this, but I want to create a wrestler too! Here's my entry for the last wrestling LP that took place here. It died before it got off the ground though.
WRESTLER NAME: Gloria Jimenez Fleming
NICKNAME/BYLINE: Gloria
Fighting Style:
Dirty
Power
FINISHER: Revolutionary Struggle (as long as it's a type of submission, that's fine by me)
Style: Bodysuit
Color: Green all over. Green is the color of National Liberation
Size: Medium
Build: Normal
Sex: Female
EDIT: Oh dear, I have to make stats. Um...you can decide what they are. Just know Gloria is a militant leftist professor in Hidden Agenda, and generally can launch coups against your government.
Alright, another week, another update. Let's just dive right in shall we?
Nothing of interest happens in the two weeks until our show unfortunately, although Jack Euchre (WHo despite being edited, still insists on being called Euchre Jack) did give an interview. Unfortunately my image capture software wasn't working properly, and didn't save the picture. However, he just said that he enjoys the job, so nothing of interest anyway.
However, other than that it was an uneventful two weeks. So, instead let's simply get to the show.
(http://i.imgur.com/zKmXNuv.png)
So, first off we have our two "dark" matches during the preshow. These exist solely to warm up the crowd a bit, as well as give our lesser talent some experience.
The first real event is a squash match between Peaches and Melvin, Because I really don't like Melvin, and his momentum is so poor getting ruined won't even affect him too much.
Next up is Neonivek and Tyler teaming up to take that bounty offered at the end of next match. Their justification is Tyler is looking to get in with some of the better wrestlers, and Neonivek wants revenge for his defeat last week. For both, the bounty is just a nice bonus.
Segment 4 is Eastman, our Mr McMahon analogue, and owner of BTWF, doing what any good promoter who stars in his own show does; being a complete jackass. He summons Hoster and Jack to the ring, claiming he wants to see who is truely the best fighter. As he says this, the steel cage is lowered over them, and they're told it will be a "Steel Cage Quitters" match. It doesn't end until one of them gives into pain. For curiosity's sake I didn't assign a winner, which IIRC allows the Road Agent to choose.
Then we have the handicap match, where Stoner just barely manages to overcome Neonivek and Tyler. After that he goes to Eastman and demands a match against Stoner, with the unclaimed Title belt on the line. Eastman has no choice but to accept after Stoner has worked his way through half the roster.
So with that in mind, let's see how it actually plays out.
(http://i.imgur.com/h8RtMGr.png)
(http://i.imgur.com/mh3HcSh.png)
So, could be better, could be worse. As these are training matches more than anything, I really can't complain about the result, and they did get the crowd a bit warmed up. Next up is Peaches using Otto as a human rag-doll.
(http://i.imgur.com/BkeqJmX.png)
So, not a particularly great rating, but that's why it was set at the beginning. Perhaps that alliance angle will do better?
(http://i.imgur.com/iMYFpsX.png)
So, not much to complain about there. As usual Tyler and Neonivek are solid with the microphone, and Nelson gets by on his menace alone. However, the next match isn't that great.
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And with that, the stage is set for The Big One. Make sure to vote on who you think deserves to win The Big One.
And here it is, the moment we've all been waiting for. The title fight! If we weren't a completely pitiful company that has a crowd in the double digits, this would be our PPV event. But we're not, so it's just another show. Before we get to that of course, we have two weeks of news to sift through.
The only bit of news interesting to me is that perennial favorite of NYCW, The Whistler, was unable to have his contract renewed. S ahame really, because despite his age he was a good fit for the company, and NYCW is my favorite promotion in the game tbh.
(http://i.imgur.com/gGv78gP.png)
Other than that, TCW and SWF's TV shows are holding steady in the ratings department, so SWF still has little to worry about from it's largest rival.
But past that, it's time for the main even- OH GOD DAMNIT
(http://i.imgur.com/G0kWbr7.png)
(http://i.imgur.com/QKV5bLy.png)
Well, how bad could it be really?
(http://i.imgur.com/BhC1h0l.png)
Well Irwin, I'm afraid neither the fans nor anyone else here likes you. I decided to give him a Last Chance warning. His response?
(http://i.imgur.com/WOE45lr.png)
Something tells me by month's end his paycheck will not be on my expense report. But that leaves us with the plan for tonight's show.
(http://i.imgur.com/3sGpSnX.png)
After the "dark matches", the first thing is our opening act, where Brooke challenges Irwin to a singles match. This is of course punishment for his behavior this week. So he's going to get buried. Next, Neonivek, always looking to push it to the limit, has decided to give himself a challenge. He has asked young up and comer Zak Attack to face him in a 5 minute challenge. If Zak can simply last for the amount of time, Neon will admit defeat. Zak manages to just barley stay conscious during the fight, but manages to eek out for the time to reach zero. Neon of course decides fair is fair, and even shakes the hand of the victor. Finally, both Sackhead and Stoner get elaborate entrances to pump up the crowd before the big title fight, and during a long and grueling match, Stoner finally manages to defeat Sackhead, and thus wins the title belt. He rushes into the crowd of cheering fans to celebrate.
And thus we begin. First off, the two dark matches.
(http://i.imgur.com/bCENOk5.png)
(http://i.imgur.com/TMk1BGT.png)
So, as far as a dark match goes, these went okish. Certainly could have been better, but I'll take it regardless. Besides, we have REAL matches to worry about! Speaking of which, I think Brooke just issued her challenge to Irwin.
(http://i.imgur.com/SR85EsW.png)
So after that competant challenge, all that's left is for Irwin to get his ass handed to him for my amusement. Is it wrong if I secretly hope he gets injured so I can fire him?
(http://i.imgur.com/BCsJAD2.png)
So, a decent match for our level, and Irwin leaves even less liked by the fans. After the match I checked, and his momentum is a solid Zero. People would see him vs David Arquette and expect Arquette to win. And wouldn't complain either. If you don't get the joke, allow Wrestlecrap to explain. (http://www.wrestlecrap.com/inductions/david-arquette-2000-gooker-award-winner/)
Next was Neonivek's challenge, and I've opened the Dirt Sheet to show how we're scoring what we score.
(http://i.imgur.com/XtYoGMM.png)
As you can see we got dinged for two things. First off is pacing. The crowd was really pumped from the last match, and this wasn't a good enough follow up in their eyes. Careful planning can help avoid this, but sometimes things just fall out of place. Something falling flat where it shouldn't have, or a warmup match turning out spectacular. However the big thing to notice is both got dinged for morale. I am finding more and more reasons to kick Irwin to the curb.
Speaking of random chance
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And that went over kinda flat, but it was a handshake. Not like anyone was gonna go home going all "Oh man, did you see that HANDSHAKE! Was off the top man! Pure excitement!" But this does lead us into the final stretch of our show. The Title Belt! And with that, out comes our competitors!
(http://i.imgur.com/iMZz3rX.png)
(http://i.imgur.com/kWGk8n7.png)
SO yeah... the crowd got more pumped for Sackhead than Stoner. Maybe it's just his menace or whatever, although it does seem that Stoner got dinged for his "Soft Drugs" habit. Weather this means the crowd doesn't like druggies, or he actually showed up high isn't made clear. I like to think the second, because it is more amusing.
(http://i.imgur.com/EGjkBLs.png)
So a competent match, but it had problems with length. Anyone else starting to notice a pattern here? Very few of you seem to have the stamina required for long matches which could prove problematic in the future. However, as we are bottom of the barrel, even the worst performances drives our reputation up. That said, what was our final score?
(http://i.imgur.com/fmhehSi.png)
So... not one of our best efforts. Not the worst we've ever done, but definatly not a spectacular show. This ranks near the midpoint of our quality. However there are three things we need to do in order to improve.
1. Get a better ref, he's literally damaging every single match
2. Fire Irwin
3. Either get some high stamina wrestlers to carry the later portions of the shows, or hire a bunch more wrestlers in order to keep the short matches varied.
With that, I am opening up submissions for new workers. This company needs an adrenaline shot to the heart, and maybe YOU can provide that.
(http://www.nick101.f9.co.uk/Log/July09/DwarfRef.jpg)
I'm not a fan of wrestling, but every match I've ever seen has a ref who is smaller than the wrestlers. This way even normal sized wrestlers can toss him about.
How many stat points to spread around? 1000?
Wrestler: Lil'un
Gender: Female
Age: Young
Size: Very Small
Style: Technician
Brawl:10
Puro:0
Hardcore:10
Mat Work:40
Chain Wrestling:50
Submissions:40
Aerial:10
Flashiness:10
Microphone:0
Charm:80
Acting:0
Announcing:0
Athleticism:50
Toughness:50
Stamina:50
Power:20
Basics:50
Psychology:50 (x2 cost)
Safety:10
Consistency:50
Selling:50
Respect:0
Reputation:0 (Needed? I know 50 is the default neutral reputation...)
Sex Appeal:70
Star Quality:80
Menace:80
Resilience:90
Refereeing:0
Imagine some very small and weak girl, somehow putting some giant into submission or pinning the bastard for a count out. This will be her... if our illustrious booker treats her right.
EDIT:
Ruthless
Optimistic
Naive
Dependable
Mercenary
Bold
Driven
Liberal
EDIT 2: More Menace! Less Charm/Sex Appeal/Stuff! (Sorry if you already started entering stuff.)
EDIT 3: More changes...
If not a little girl, I can always put forward Bostov the bear...
EDIT:
Brawl:40
Puro:0
Hardcore:0
Mat Work:10
Chain Wrestling:50
Submissions:10
Aerial:0
Flashiness:0
Microphone:80
Charm:80
Acting:0
Announcing:0
Athleticism:80
Toughness:80
Stamina:80
Power:80
Basics:30
Psychology:0 (x2 cost)
Safety:0
Consistency:70
Selling:50
Respect:0
Reputation:0 (Needed? I know 50 is the default neutral reputation...)
Sex Appeal:0
Star Quality:80
Menace:80
Resilience:100
Refereeing:0
I think that counts to 1000... Bostov the Bear can work the microphone, and knows how to sell it when it comes to taking hits, watch out though, Bostov has no clue how to hold back.
(Also, Bostov could probably do 4-5 matches/segments a show without a hitch...)
EDIT: Some slight changes. Bostov requires lots of training, which means using Bostov a lot.
So when we last left off, Irwin had basically ruined our entire show by being a massive prick, so the absolute first order of buisness is of course...
(http://i.imgur.com/TqEmePt.png)
First off, we were paying him on a non binding per appearance contract. This means we could cut him at any time for no compensation. I took advantage of this. Now, this didn't bump our overall morale up much, a few points really, but the main problem was all the backstage incidents he was causing. The only other backstage cancer we have at the moment is Powerful Man, but as long as he doesn't directly antagonize anyone, we can try to make him work. After all, the kid's only 20 years old, so he could easily grow into the whole "Not being an asshole" thing.
Next is on to the buisness of creating the new workers, Now first off, before we even get started, while searching in the unused images for a masked worker for the first worker... I came across this.
(http://i.imgur.com/W6kRQco.png)
I do not have words for how unsettling he is.
MOVING ON
Now unlike the first update where we made characters, I'm just going to show the finished contract for everyone right off the bat, because we all know how that works and none of you are going to be particularly interesting negotiations. Also, everyone's personality is randomizes, so some of you may be awesome company men, some may be giant assholes. Even I don't know!
Lastly, we aren't creating a referee. That would be far too easy of a way out, as creating a referee is basically just the person inputting the sliders going "DO I want a good one, or a shit one". It's more fun trying to find the diamond in the rough.
Anyway, the three wrestlers I selected (Sory, but Lil'un wouldn't work right for this because of age, plus three wrestlers are enough for now) are:
(http://i.imgur.com/hxicgAH.png)
(http://i.imgur.com/YogYdPQ.png)
http://i.imgur.com/eMoKPox.png
So these are our three new wrestlers, which brings us to a net gain of two workers after parting ways with Irwin. I'm feeling pretty good about them, although I'm not quite pleased with how much damn money Albatross wanted. But with Irwin no longer on the payroll we should still be making a profit.
Finally, the news that happened during contract negotiations. The only thing of note was a retirement:
It's not much of a surprise, as in the default DB he already was retired, but in the expanded database he was brought back to own one of the new promotions. It will be interesting to see how PAIN winds up doing without it's legendary owner.
Anyway, that's all for now. The show will be sometimes this week, and then the regularly scheduled Monday update. With that, I leave you with another WWF/WWE clip devoid of context. Scot Steiner trying to attempt math. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFoC3TR5rzI) It's a typography with just the audio, but I couldn't find the real clip.
I'd like to see a wrestler with this mask:
(http://i.imgur.com/W6kRQco.png)
For in-ring skills, just max out whichever represents choking people, because he is a foodstuff.
For performance skills, whatever you see fit for what you need.
For Entertainment abilities I would say decent mic, charisma, acting and star quality but low sex appeal and menace.
In other skills, whatever you see fit sounds good to me.
For gimmicks, he should probably have comedy as his best, and perhaps also wholesome (due to his bun) if that works for what you would use him for.
If you need a brawlin' munchkin (I guess I'd be a light-heavyweight. 220,) count me in.
Max Greene
Specced to 1000 points.
Max Greene is an MMA holdover. He knows how to fight, being a legitimate martial artist. However, he was badly injured in a competition, and forced to retire from MMA. He turned to pro wrestling to make his name, because fighting is basically all he knows how to do. He has tons of skill in the ring, but don't put him anywhere near a microphone, or ask him to sell too much. Works in a very stiff, technical manner, although he's doing his best to conform to pro wrestling's entirely different skillset. He plans on using a stylized Muay Thai Knee Strike as a finisher.
Brawl:100
Hardcore:0
Puro:100
Chain Wrestling:60
Mat Wrestling:50
Submissions:50
Aerial:25
Flashiness:25
Basics:100
Psychology:0 (x2 cost)
Consistency:75
Selling:0
Safety:50
Athleticism:50
Toughness:75
Stamina:30
Power:30
Resilience:70
Microphone:0
Charisma:0
Acting:0
Star Quality:0
Sex Appeal:0
Menace:10
Announcing:0
Refereeing:0
Respect:50
Reputation:0
Legitimate: 50
All other gimmicks: 0
Brawl:20
Puro:40
Hardcore:30
Mat Work:60
Chain Wrestling:60
Submissions:60
Aerial:0
Flashiness:25
Microphone:25
Charm:25
Acting:25
Announcing:0
Athleticism:50
Toughness:60
Stamina:70
Power:50
Basics:30
Psychology:25 (x2 cost)
Safety:60
Consistency:45
Selling:50
Respect:0
Reputation:0
Sex Appeal:0
Star Quality:25
Menace:10
Resilience:50
Refereeing:0
Legit:50
Comedy:50
(http://i.imgur.com/5YjYUIT.png)
So, Bostov just joined us, and as such doesn't have much going for him yet. Not sure what we can do with him at them moment, but his skills of course lean twords being the sort of guy who beats the piss out of the lower workers to build up his credibility, and then losing the occasional match to the top dogs to make THEM seem unstoppable.
(http://i.imgur.com/CiwV2oQ.png)
Hoster has been with us from the start of course, and as you can see his gimmick goes over really, really well. To the point where he might ACTUALLY be an NFL player, I dunno. Really we haven't been taking advantage of the massive Star Power he oozes, and that's something I intend to change.
(http://i.imgur.com/fCwE1fz.png)
Another gem, Brooke can both walk the walk AND talk the talk. Another great gimmick as well, the key to her is if I can snag this other female wrestler whose name escapes me. If so, she will most likely be the head of our attempts at a tag team division.
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Buzz is... well he does his job well. His job is of course getting the crap kicked out of him fairly often. However, his momentum is really low, so we should think about giving him a few wins in the future in order to make him actually appear to be a threat when we do need him to lose.
(http://i.imgur.com/hKrsCSl.png)
The name change didn't stick for some reason, but that's besides the point, Jack is literally gold waiting to happen. his gimmick is near perfection, and his momentum is pretty damn high for our promotion, second highest infact. If Stoner ever loses that belt, Jack is definatly on the shortlist of who would be the one to end up with it in the end.
(http://i.imgur.com/YjhSTor.png)
Yeah, still didn't get around to finding a picture. Not quite sure what I can do with her yet, gonna take a wait and see approach.
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Neonivek again is a solid in ring worker, who just needs that little bit of a push to make it big I feel. If anything, I would put him as the one to take the titlebelt from Stoner in the future, him or Peaches. Again a solid gimmick, and more importantly a low paycheck.
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He is not going in the ring under any circumstances.
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I honestly have no clue why the hell we even still have this guy on the roster. I mean just... look at his... everything. Do I even need to say it? Even when he takes a loss our fans are unhappy because it means they had to endure his existence again.
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Another of the new guys, so judgment is of course reserved.
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First things first, Roberts needs a new gimmick as soon as the game will let us change it without penalty. His current one is falling a bit flat, and it's really holding him back. In addition we're gonna try to see if we can't bulk him up to Heavyweight, although he can of course tell us to shove off if we ask him that. The fact that his mask, and thus his reputation, is BTWF specific is a boon, because it means he should be reluctant to leave us for another promotion where his fame won't go with him.
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Again, more talent we really should be utilizing more. A perfect gimmick and the skills to carry them, she could easily help us out in the near future. Of course that paycheck is a bit of a bother if we start using her constantly.
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Despite not being in any major matches in, well ever I think, Peaches is the wrestler with the most momentum going for her. I swear to god we need to get her a top spot in BTWF and fast. Great Gimmick, Great In Ring skills, Great Acting skills, she could easily carry her own weight and then some.
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One word describes Powerful Man perfectly. Overpaid. But we might be able to work something with him if we try hard enough. The big issue with him is he is again, paid far too much for his level, especially when he doesn't have a solid gimmick.
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Despite being an actual stoner in reality, people just aren't buying his Stoner gimmick. again, not mcuh we can do untill the time period passes where changing his gimmick won't penalize us, but it is something to look for in the future. That said the big thing about him is the fact that he is the Champion. This means a lot of showboating, Acting, Playing it Up, and not a lot of actual wrestling. Not everyone can be a title belt contender after all, so he would only fight the very best. Or we could strip him of it really quickly, that's an option too.
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A great enforcer style character, Silencer can always be used whenever we need a mercenary style character to do someone else's bidding. He also picked up a fair amount of momentum during that Title Belt storyline, which is great news.
(http://i.imgur.com/Grls5qh.png)First, his face fucking scares me. Second, a midcarder who has managed to get some decent momentum and a great gimmick. Unfortunately, the man couldn't act his way out of a wet paper bag. Infact, the aformentioned paper bag probably has more personality than he does. Midcarder for life that one is.
So with those as our current workers what kind of storylines could we get going with? For one we need a storyline for our female wrestlers, as well as one to shake up the Midcard I think. To add to that an extra signing or two might work if we expanded the show length, but that risks bring us into the red, which is something I want to avoid. What are your thoughts?
Alright and we're back, and the first thing to do is hire our newest worker, Max Greene.
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Now at this point I will point out any more wrestlers would likely start some roster bloat, so for the foreseeable future submissions are done, unless you are ok with being a free agent that's only checked in on every few updates. With that in mind we move on to our next show and the start of one of three planned storylines. The other two are likely to be something involving the women on our roster, and a race for a "Young Blood" belt, but nothing is set in stone yet.
Before the next show, another bit of sad news as a legend of the business passed away. He will be missed.
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But, the world keeps turning, and we have to move on to our next show, and the one that sets up the Jack/Neonivek proxy feud. So, without further Ado, here is the gameplan. A bit of a note, I'm thinking of going into less detail each update, but instead pushing more shows per update to make up for it, how do you all feel about this? The reason I'm saying is, if we sorta keep at the one show per update pace, we're probably never going to see the late game stuff before the heat death of the universe. Since I promised a double update this time I figured why not try it out here and see how it works. Especially as, by now, you guys probably have a decent handle on what the numbers mean.
But as I said, gameplan.
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In the ring, in front of everyone in the audience (And internet streams, which is where, abstractly, most of our viewers probably are), Neonivek starts chewing Eastman out for not allowing him a run on the title belt, which he feels he has more than earned. Enraged by someone challenging his authority, Eastman fires Neonivek on the spot, proclaiming to the crowd that as long as he lives Neonivek will never find another job in wrestling. Neonivek snaps, pummeling Eastman mercilessly until he is escorted out of the arena by security.
Next, we have Max, the newcomer, bragging about how he is going to turn this promotion on it's head, and how he is the new beginning. He's not really a heel, just arrogant, and is going to be broken of that pride by his future mentor, don't you worry. His first match is set up against everyone's favorite lunatic, The Mighty Albatross. His arrogance of course comes to bite him in the ass, as Albatross mops the floor with him. Afterwards, Albatross celebrates, going completely mental as he is wont to do. At this point neither have met their mentors yet, it's just a "regular" match as far as anyone watching knows.
Finally, we have Peaches going against Stoner for the title belt. As any wrestling fan can tell you however, if someone has a go at the champion, but hasn't had some sort of story leading to it, they probably aren't going to get the betl. This here is no different. However it IS important to feed top talent to the Belt occasionally in order to make it seem more legitimate. This is going to be the first in quite a few title defenses Stoner will have before he eventually loses the belt.
Now with all that said and done, what's the final result?
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Anyway, that's part one of this weeks update, part two is Tuesday/Wednesday depending on writer's block. The one thing I can guarantee is we will see something done with Monkeyhead and a few of the new hires as well. That said, see you Tuesday/Wednesday/I-should-probably-stop-promising-exact-dates-to-be-perfectly-honest-day.