EWR Thread 2

[Corporate H]

I bought TEW and now I wish I didn't. There's WAY too much to do.

[Drillbit Taylor]

dennisstamp316 said:

Has anyone pulled off a successful face vs. face feud? Or do those not usually work?

I did Rockers vs Hart Foundation. Both faces and came out fine

[JMA]

Why are certain wrestlers labeled as "lazy in the ring"? I've had wrestlers with extremely high technical skills and a high Attitude called lazy. What determines this?

[Deleted]

bencrocker said:

I bought TEW and now I wish I didn't. There's WAY too much to do.

I'm really contemplating getting that game. How different is it to EWR?

[Arthur Digby Stamp]

Weird thing just happened to me...

I'm in October 08 on my game as TNA, and Linda McMahon just retired. When the new management showed up, they cleaned house and got rid of some established guys, like John Cena and Rey Mysterio. When I tried to sign them, I offered them $300,000 a month contracts, main event spots, and creative control. Their response?

"You're going to have to offer me more then that to get me to sign a written contract!"

They insist on having open contracts for $300,000 a pop! Although, it could be worth it just to have Sabu destroy them both in a handicap match or something.

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dennisstamp316 said:

Weird thing just happened to me...

I'm in October 08 on my game as TNA, and Linda McMahon just retired. When the new management showed up, they cleaned house and got rid of some established guys, like John Cena and Rey Mysterio. When I tried to sign them, I offered them $300,000 a month contracts, main event spots, and creative control. Their response?

"You're going to have to offer me more then that to get me to sign a written contract!"

They insist on having open contracts for $300,000 a pop! Although, it could be worth it just to have Sabu destroy them both in a handicap match or something.

That happened to me with Edge. I dunno what it is, it's ridiculous.

BTW, who took over WWE? Bill Busch has in my game.

[The Line]

bencrocker said:

I bought TEW and now I wish I didn't. There's WAY too much to do.

thats why I never bought anything after 04(well, I think I bought 05, but Elicense has no record of it). They seemed to get way too complicated for their own good. Before, it would take about a half hour for a month if you were global. Now it takes like a half hour a week.

[Arthur Digby Stamp]

am90 said:

dennisstamp316 said:

Weird thing just happened to me...

I'm in October 08 on my game as TNA, and Linda McMahon just retired. When the new management showed up, they cleaned house and got rid of some established guys, like John Cena and Rey Mysterio. When I tried to sign them, I offered them $300,000 a month contracts, main event spots, and creative control. Their response?

"You're going to have to offer me more then that to get me to sign a written contract!"

They insist on having open contracts for $300,000 a pop! Although, it could be worth it just to have Sabu destroy them both in a handicap match or something.

That happened to me with Edge. I dunno what it is, it's ridiculous.

BTW, who took over WWE? Bill Busch has in my game.

Victor Jovica. I had to Wikipedia him.

[JMA]

I've been enjoying editing my 2001 scenario more than actually playing it. I've always trying to make it as accurate as possible.

[Tyfo]

Alright, I just started trying a current WWE game again. Im about 2 months in and ive finally found the way to run the 3 brands and keep the main eventers morale from dropping.

I just throw the main guys from the other shows in a battle royal. Just takes up 1 segment on the show, but gets all the top guys involved, so technically their on all the shows. After 2 months, all my main event level guys morale are no lower then 87, when usually by this time, I have at least 4 or 5 in the 50's.

I book a Raw, I throw SD and ECW guys in the battle royal, I book ECW, I throw Raw and SD guys in, I book a SD, I throw Raw and ECW guys in the battle royal. It works.

The feuds im running right now are:
John Cena vs. King Booker (WWE title)
The Great Khali vs. Batista (World title)
Triple H vs. Randy Orton
John Morrison vs. CM Punk (ECW title)
Shawn Michaels vs. Mr. Kennedy
Undertaker vs. Edge
MVP vs. Matt Hardy (US title)
Rey Mysterio vs. Chavo Guerrero

In other news, I have all the current developmental talent in OVW, the only callup so far has been Katie Lea. She ran in and attacked Candice Michelle on Raw.

I signed Jimmy Rave away from ROH (since hes leaving anyway) to a developmental deal. I also signed Prince Nana to a developmental deal and I plan to debut them together when their ready.

I also have signed Ruckus and Big Babbi Slymm (WSX's Keepin' It Gangsta), Orlando Jordan, and TOA to developmental deals.

And now Kurt Angle's TNA contract was running out so I signed him. He'll be coming in 2 months.

[Monster Under Your Bed]

I started my own company at regional level - MidWest Wrestling Federation. I've finally built it up to be the top company, now called Seven Seas Wrestling (I think I named it that because I've been reading "A High Wind in Jamaica.")

I have two shows, one of Fox competing with RAW and one on Spike TV competing with Smackdown.

I've got 5 belts:
Seven Seas (98 image): Samoa Joe
Seven Seas Cruiserweight (85 image): Hi69
Seven Seas North American (89 image): Max Boyer
Seven Seas Tag Team (87 image): Ryuji Ito and Takashi Sasaki
Seven Seas Women's (52 image): Cheerleader Melissa

I've really enjoyed mixing completely goofy characters with the more realistic. I've been having much more fun with this company than when I was booking WWE.

[viscera]

I do believe I'm screwed in this current game of mine.

I started off by splitting WWE into three seperate brands, RAW, owned by Linda, Smackdown, owned by Ted Turner, and ECW, owned by Paul Heyman. I was controlling Smackdown.

During the first month I was booking things, my ratings made a huge downspiral, eventually dropping so bad, I had to switch to a late evening spot to avoid losing my television deal. RAW and ECW are doing no better, with the latter now at 5% Public Image. Meanwhile... TNA is at the top of them all, at 64%

[Monster Under Your Bed]

For once, someone I actually like on my roster married a daughter of the owner -- Alex Shelley!

[The Line]

for anyone doing current stats running ROH, whats your advice to make things successful

[Brain Of F'n J]

thebluedevil said:

for anyone doing current stats running ROH, whats your advice to make things successful

I'm running RoH right now. This has been my formula, and it's made me successful enough to buy out AAA.

Step #1: Sign EVERYONE to written contracts from day one. You can't do house shows without them. No house shows, no extra ticket revenue. Plus, written contracts=not spending yourself into oblivion on per appearence players.

Step #2: Fill in the holes in the roster with new people. Yes, this may violate some all-holy rule of yours to maintain the roster, but if you want to make money, you need to look outside the box. In my first few months, I picked up Josh Prohibition, Justice Pain and The Messiah, then added Blackout (Onyx & Rainman), Tyler Black, Joey Ryan, BLK OUT (Sabian & Ruckus) and Christian York. Not all of them worked out, but through trial and error, several of them (Pain, Messiah and Blake, especially) have really caught on.

Step #3: TV is a must, PPV is not. Don't worry about getting three TV shows ... get one, make it a ratings hit. Get your company used to the production costs of TV. When your company is making money continually, look for a second show ... and make your first choice the same network you're already on. But wait for PPV until the audience can really handle it. If your large shows are barely drawing 2000 people, the cost of putting on a PPV won't counter what you earn from PPV buys.

Step #4: Program your feuds wisely. With the smaller audience and different performers, you'll have to rely on your bigger stars for awhile. Pair off performers on their strengths ... brawlers vs. brawlers, high fliers vs. high fliers.

Jed Shaffer
~This concludes our lesson for today.

[Square]

I just started a womens division with WWC and I bassicly ramsacked Shimmer and signed all of there girls to written contracts

[bubbles]

I book 90s ECW and when Tod Gordon resigned as chairman Kevin Sullivan took over his duties. My champs are:
World - Lance Storm
TV - Chris Jericho
Tag Team - RVD and Sabu

Think I'm gonna have Lance Storm drop the title to Mike Awesome soon. I've got Jericho feuding with Bob Backlund and Ricky Steamboat who don't like Jericho's egotistical attitude. RVD and Sabu have held the titles for about 9 months now, I'm gonna keep them on them for a full year and might even go a year and a half because they're always 100 over and the tag title image is 99.

One thing I hate is when before you really get to use somebody they end up getting one of those injuries that make their stats drop. I have Kane who I just call Glen Jacobs because having an Undertaker's brother gimmick in ECW would be pretty dumb and he got injured and lost some stats but he's still quite good. Steve Corino wasn't too lucky so I had to release him and now he works for cult level companies which is a shame because I probably would have had him as a top level guy eventually.

[The Line]

brainofj said:

thebluedevil said:

for anyone doing current stats running ROH, whats your advice to make things successful

I'm running RoH right now. This has been my formula, and it's made me successful enough to buy out AAA.

Step #1: Sign EVERYONE to written contracts from day one. You can't do house shows without them. No house shows, no extra ticket revenue. Plus, written contracts=not spending yourself into oblivion on per appearence players.

Step #2: Fill in the holes in the roster with new people. Yes, this may violate some all-holy rule of yours to maintain the roster, but if you want to make money, you need to look outside the box. In my first few months, I picked up Josh Prohibition, Justice Pain and The Messiah, then added Blackout (Onyx & Rainman), Tyler Black, Joey Ryan, BLK OUT (Sabian & Ruckus) and Christian York. Not all of them worked out, but through trial and error, several of them (Pain, Messiah and Blake, especially) have really caught on.

Step #3: TV is a must, PPV is not. Don't worry about getting three TV shows ... get one, make it a ratings hit. Get your company used to the production costs of TV. When your company is making money continually, look for a second show ... and make your first choice the same network you're already on. But wait for PPV until the audience can really handle it. If your large shows are barely drawing 2000 people, the cost of putting on a PPV won't counter what you earn from PPV buys.

Step #4: Program your feuds wisely. With the smaller audience and different performers, you'll have to rely on your bigger stars for awhile. Pair off performers on their strengths ... brawlers vs. brawlers, high fliers vs. high fliers.

Jed Shaffer
~This concludes our lesson for today.

What network(s) did you get a show or shows on?

["Sweet & Sour" ImSoFudginGreat]

If you haven't changed your risk level then you can get a show on Bravo, or try the USA Network, they gave me a graveyard show which then got moved to a late evening show when my Public Image grew.

[Square]

imsofookingreat said:

If you haven't changed your risk level then you can get a show on Bravo, or try the USA Network, they gave me a graveyard show which then got moved to a late evening show when my Public Image grew.

E! TV does well for me