Great Moments in EWR History II

[Metalheadbanger Man]

Okay, I really am having trouble downloading the new update to my EWR Data. I am stuck with the 2003 data, and cannot change it. I'm trying to extract it to the folder, and its giving me nothing. I don't even seem to have the option to unzip the folder with the new data in.

Unbelievably frustrating.

[Waffel113]

Suddenly, my EWR is updated to 2012!!!

What is this feel that I'm feeling?

[Metalheadbanger Man]

Its okay kids, I managed to update it all by myself. So proud of me right now.

[Waffel113]

A quick report of my first week.

Feuds I have going on:
CM Punk vs. John Cena
Sheamus vs. Alberto Del Rio
Antonio Cesaro vs. Santino Marella
Cody Rhodes vs. Sin Cara
Jimmy in Paradise vs. Prime Time Players
Kharma vs. Layla
Christian vs. The Miz

Raw:
1v1 angle involving Punk and Cena (97%)
Antonio Cesaro def. Santino Marella to become United States Champion (71)
Interview with A.W., Prime Time Players (70)
Ryback def. JTG (64)
Interview with Cody Rhodes (90)
Jimmy in Paradise def. Epico and Primo, brawl to back (77)
Sin Cara def. Cody Rhodes (82)
Authority angle with Big Johnny, Ziggler and Orton (73)
Layla def. Eve Torres, Kharma came out and attacked Layla (75)
Randy Orton def. Dolph Ziggler (86)
CM Punk def. John Cena (81)

NXT:
International Airstrike (Gabriel and Kidd) def. McGillicurtis (63)
Authority angle with Dusty Rhodes, Corey Graves (77)
Hunico def. Derrick Bateman with help from Camacho (58)
Interview with William Regal (75)
Video about Punk/Cena feud (87)
William Regal def. Trent Barretta with Brass Knuckles (62)

Superstars:
Drew McIntyre def. Alex Riley after cheating (73)
Interview with Christian (81)
Jimmy in Paradise/Prime Time Players video (69)
Michael McGillicutty def. David Otunga and Trent Barretta with help from Johnny Curtis (65)
The Usos def. Zack Ryder and Santino Marella (76)
Video hyping debut of Damien Sandow (71)
Ted DiBiase def. Jinder Mahal after botched Khali interference (67)
Christian def. Cody Rhodes, Miz comes out for a beatdown (86)

SmackDown:
1v1 Angle: Del Rio challenges Sheamus for next PPV (90)
Ezekiel Jackson def. Drew McIntyre, McIntyre attacks ref (69)
Layla def. Tamina Snuka, fights off Kharma (64)
2v2 Angle: Jimmy in Paradise and Prime Time Players brawl in ring (73)
Peep Show: Christian and Miz fight (89)
R-Truth def. Darren Young (64)
Sin Cara and Christian def. The Miz and Cody Rhodes, Miz/Rhodes revenge attack (83)
Video hyping Sandow (76)
Daniel Bryan def. Big Show in submission match, Big Show attacks Bryan (66)
Interview with Mark Henry (75)
Mark Henry def. Sheamus after Del Rio interference, Sheamus fights them off (79)

[Jeremy]

I am wondering what gimmick would work best for Aces and Eights considering the biker glitch.

[TOO SWEET]

Whats the Biker glitch?

[robferatu]

I asked this question a few weeks ago, and I thought I'd ask again. Does anyone remember how to book two events in one month?

[Waffel113]

Before my next report, I've made some big signings:
El Generico
Joey Ryan
Sara Del Rey

Feedback on my booking is greatly appreciated.

WALL OF TEXT INCOMING. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED:

RAW 2nd Week:

1v1 Angle: Jericho and Punk get into a confrontation (97)
Interview: Daniel Bryan tears into BEEG (80)
Evan Bourne def. Sin Cara. Cody comes out to attack Cara (83)
Interview: Aksana and Antonio Cesaro talk (73)
Kharma def. Alicia Fox, Layla comes out, gets beatdown (66)
Big Show def. Daniel Bryan (73)
1v1 Angle: The Miz attacks Christian backstage (93)
Prime Time Players def. Usos and Hunico and Camacho (71)
Interview: Jericho hypes his match with Punk (97)
Sheamus def. The Great Khali, Del Rio comes out and attacks Sheamus (73)
Chris Jericho def. CM Punk through underhanded means, Cena comes out for the save. (98)

NXT 2nd Week:

Dean Ambrose def. Jinder Mahal, continues beat down after match (54)
Authority Angle: Dusty hypes Bo Dallas (76)
Video Angle: Miz vs. Christian feud video (86)
Sara Del Rey def. Raquel Diaz (39)
Bo Dallas def. Johnny Curtis (61)
Bray Wyatt and Leo Kruger def. The Ascension (Conor O'Brien and Kenneth Cameron) ( 54)

Superstars 2nd Week:

1v1 Angle: Wade Barrett and Randy Orton brawl (88)
Ted DiBiase and Derrick Bateman def. Hunico and Camacho, they argue (69)
Cody Rhodes def. Sin Cara, if shenanigans occurred, I don't remember. (85)
Natalya def. Alicia Fox (66)
Video Angle: Recap of Cesaro/Marella feud. (74)
Johnny Curtis and Michael McGillicutty def. Tyson Kidd, Gabriel comes out for the save (69)
Interview: Randy Orton hypes match with Barrett (85)
Wade Barrett def. Randy Orton through cheating (90)

SmackDown 2nd Week:

Interview: Sheamus challenges Del Rio to next PPV (90)
Video Angle: Hype for Sandow debut (64)
Prime Time Players def. Camacho and Hunico (65)
Epico def. Kofi Kingston with help from Primo, TROOF comes down for the save (70)
Interview: The Miz verbally attacks Christian (95)
Angle: Del Rio arrives in a fancy car (83)
Debut Angle: Damien Sandow attacks Yoshi Tatsu (76)
Ted DiBiase def. Jinder Mahal after botched Khali interference (70)
Randy Orton def. Wade Barrett (91)
Interview: Christian hypes Main Event with Del Rio (87)
Alberto Del Rio def. Christian through cheating, out comes Sheamus for the save (87)

RAW 3rd Week:

1v1 Angle: Jericho blasts Punk with the GTS (99)
Daniel Bryan def. BEEG by cheating, BEEG gets revenge (75)
2v2 Angle: Prime Time Players attack Jimmy in Paradise, steal belts (77)
Jack Swagger def. Santino Marella after Dusty Finish DQ involving Vickie Guerrero (77)
Interview: Antonio Cesaro hypes title match with Alex Riley (79)
Antonio Cesaro retains US Title after interference from Aksana, Riley attacks Aksana for some reason (72)
Christian def. Cody Rhodes, fights off Miz attack (87)
Interview: John Cena hypes triple threat main event (93)
Brodus Clay def. David Otunga, celebrates (78)
Interview: CM Punk verbally attacks Chris Jericho (91)
John Cena def. Chris Jericho, CM Punk (91) (Gotta make the challenger look strong)

NXT 3rd Week:
Debut Angle: Joey Ryan attacks Dusty Rhodes
Debut Angle: El Generico saves Raquel Diaz from beatdown at the hands of Dean Ambrose and Sara Del Rey (76)
Tyson Kidd def. Derrick Bateman, they shake hands (63)
Interview: Raquel Diaz cuts into Sara Del Rey (58)
Jack Swagger def. Hunico after botched Camacho interference, Hunico attacks Camacho (58)
El Generico and Raquel Diaz def. Dean Ambrose and Sara Del Rey by DQ, they brawl to the back (58)

INTERLUDE: Brock Lesnar has a cocaine habit. (REHAB)

Superstars 3rd Week:

2v2 Angle: Cody Rhodes and The Miz brawl with Christian and Sin Cara (80)
Dolph Ziggler def Trent Barretta and Mason Ryan (65)
Kaitlyn def. Alicia Fox, They shake hands (53)
Authority Angle: Big Johnny announces Christian/Cara vs. Miz/Rhodes for tonight's Main Event (79)
Interview: Rhodes/Miz continue respective feuds with Sin Cara and Christian (85)
International Airstrike and Evan Bourne def. McGillicurtis and David Otunga (65)
Interview: Christian hypes tonight's Main Event (90)
Rhodes/Miz def. Christian/Cara, they attack the losers (77)

SmackDown results tomorrow.

[joebob27]

Finally got around to posting my May show.

Thoughts:

Having to have your biggest show of the year at Nassau Coliseum is depressing.

First match is a dark match, to get the Yakuza (KENTA/YAMATO) over in preparation for a tag title shot. HaasRhodes is the ever creative name for Cody Rhodes and Charlie Haas, who team because I can't sign Shelton Benjamin.

Opener is a US Title match, Anderson did the job to protect Hero.
Anderson then turned face the next TV show, as he's inexplicably gotten over while having mediocre results.

Daniels/Bryan neverending feud continues.

Womens match is a women's match. Melissa recruited Kong for revenge, it didn't work.

Wade Barrett found his overness cap and it was in the low 60%'s.
So you can figure out what happened.

Del Rio lost the Super Cruiser title title to Jay Lethal because of Mick Foley's interference after Del Rio insulted him a few days earlier. Lethal transitioned the belt to Shelley. Evan Bourne was finally in a match that didn't suck. This was an Ultimate X match.
Hopefully a belt hung better than a X.

I already explained Del Rio/Foley.

Lucifer obliterated Abyss, powerbombing him off the stage, and then challenged the winner of the main event.

BMI beat Chavo and Carlito in a TLC match. Which sticks out like a sore thumb on that match listing. Given the time that was given to this match, total dud.

RVD and Joe began what will be a hot feud. Joe is doing the "big match losing streak gimmick". After the match he laid out RVD and turned heel. This will continue.

Angle took the title back from Swagger to culminate their 4-5 month program. Swagger did alright as an interim champ.

The Bob Sapp experiment continues, he's up to around 30% everywhere and probably halfway to TV.

Mike Tenay wanted too much money, so he was told to take a hike. He did the Super Cruiser show. Replacement? Terry Funk, who also joins the road agent team. Makes no sense why he'd be a PBP for a Cruiser show, but that's the beauty of the game.

Had another fight night backstage where disgruntled midcarders, scrubs, trainers and the like got into it. Val Venis got fired for getting into two fights, which is never a good idea when your main service to the company is jobbing on the developmental show. Charlie Haas got suspended for a week, and Mark Briscoe and Jay Lethal got fined.

New additions are Gail Kim and the Hart Dynasty. The big signing that I need on the face side is just not there. Holding out hope CM Punk's contract he signed last game year was a 1 year deal. He's down to C+ overness in the US and I will sign him if he comes available, even if I have to rig the game, because why would he want to stay in the WWE? Unless I fired too many of his friends.

[theryno665]

So I dusted off my WWE game to book for Survivor Series and, for no real reason at all, I gave Ricardo Rodriguez the US title.

[theryno665]

Alright, just booked Survivor Series and actually managed to do an entire old-school team based show.

Pre-Show NXT Match
NXT GM Matt Striker/Alex Riley/Percy Watson/Mike McGillicutty/Jake Carter
defeated
NXT Champion Heath Slater/Conor O'Brian/JTG/Curt Hawkins/Tyler Reks
Sole Survivor: Matt Striker

Team Random Faces vs Team Random Heels
United States Champion Ricardo Rodriguez/Santino Marella/Drew McIntyre and The Power of Funk (Mason Ryan and Brodus Clay)
defeated
High Society (Antonio Cesaro, Wade Barrett and Ezekiel Jackson)/Hunico/Nick Rogers
Survivors: Ricardo Rodriguez and Santino Marella

Random CM Punk promo to boost the ratings.

Divas Match
Divas Champ AJ/Kharma/Kaitlyn/Beth Phoenix/Sofia Cortez
defeated
Layla/Natalya/Eve/Naomi/Tenille
Survivors: The entire heel team as Kharma lays out the face team single-handedly.

After the Divas match, AJ takes credit for the win and is called out on it by Trish Stratus. AJ tries to get Kharma to back her up but she refuses, allowing Trish to attack AJ and pose with the Divas title.

Team Miz vs Team Punk
The Miz and the Show Offs (Dolph Ziggler, Kofi Kingston, Jack Swagger and David Otunga)
defeated
WWE Champion CM Punk/Zack Ryder/Matt Cross/Evan Bourne and Justin Gabriel
Sole Survivor: The Miz

Team Foley vs Team Teddy with Smackdown ownership on the line
Smackdown GM Mick Foley/Christian/Derrick Bateman/None More Black (Seth and Silas Black)
defeated
Daniel Bryan/Street Rat Pack (Sami Callihan and Dean Ambrose)/Tyson Kidd/Giant Bernard
Survivors: Mick Foley and Christian

After the match, WWE COO Triple H fires Theodore Long once and for all and makes Foley the permanent Smackdown GM.

Bragging Rights - Team Raw vs Team Smackdown
World Champion King Truth/Intercontinental Champion Cody Rhodes/Randy Orton/William Regal/Ted DiBiase
defeated
John Cena/Alberto Del Rio/Sheamus/Tag Team Champions Kane and Mark Henry
Sole Survivor: King Truth

[Deleted]

Just for kicks, I'm working on an EWR WCW 1998 scenario. It's actually not so easy with the many talents on the roster. You can't keep everybody happy and I didn't feel like breaking it all down with random brand splits.

-All the lower-level guys signed were sent to developmental. Christian and Lodi were the first two to "graduate".

-Most of the guys whining they aren't on TV enough, I usually just release. Scott Steiner, Scott Hall, Randy Savage & Hollywood Hogan (who won't do any kind of jobs to anybody but Sting) are all unemployed and neither WWF or ECW picked them up after a couple of months.

-Ric Flair put over Bret Hart in a nice feud, started whining about his time. I had Bill Goldberg go over him clean, and Ric decided he wanted to retire from in-ring competition. He's my authority figure while Dusty Rhodes is out after Raven's Flock injured him. (Ric's only there because he gets me 95-100% in his promos.)

-Konnan is getting over pretty well as a "bum" feuding with Chris Benoit. (Some things you just try to shut these guys up. I was never a big fan of Konnan anyway. Who knew this would work?)

-I added two title belts for the lower & mid-carders to fight over on the C-show: WCW Hardcore & WCW King Of Saturday Night.
Perry Saturn, Fit Finlay, Crash Holly (whom I signed as Finlay's lackey) Meng & Norman Smiley all fight over the Hardcore belt.
Hugh Morrus won the KOSN title after a well-booked feud with Michael Wallstreet. (Now, guys with low morale are all lining up to feud with Hugh: Curt Hennig, Rick Steiner and Kevin Nash all had interest.)

-As often as they've been wrestling from the beginning, Eddie Guerrero & Dean Malenko are still going strong. I've had a few feuds start and finish, but these guys show no sign of letting up.

Nitro is beating Raw weekly in the ratings by a full point, averaging a 6.5.
Thunder gets consistent 2.5-2.6 ratings.
Saturday Night was a graveyard show getting a 0.55. I finally got it moved to late evening and scored a 2.56.

[Deleted]

You know, these booker games really help give you an understanding of exactly why so many workers get underutilized.

Especially if you're playing the WWE.

After you've sorted your title situations out, gotten all your big feuds set, settled on your booking structure for all your TV shows and devised what you're building to the PPVs, there's always a fistfull of folks that just slipped through the cracks.

Try to be as impartial as you like, there's going to be some people sitting there unless you just toss them in random matches just for the sake of getting them work, unless of course you're more the future endeavoring type.

I guess that's why there's a creative team, as much as we shit on them. It's a tall, tall order to ask one man to keep all this running without skimping anywhere.

[Gus Richlen: Ruffian]

Still running the original roster from EWR in WWE. Just called up Mercedes Martinez, Bret Albright, SoCalVal, Alex Shelley, and Necro Butcher.

My feuds coming to an end at the Rumble are:

WHC Christian vs. Gus Richlen
WWE Champion Edge vs. Randy Orton
Women's Champion Victoria vs. Alexis Laree
Jeff Hardy vs. Joey Matthews
Undertaker vs. Rhyno

I'll probably have the two heels in the world title feuds (Christian and Orton) win so I can have a face win the Rumble itself.

[theryno665]

Sept 29, 2012 9:50:42 GMT -5 @lesscra said:

You know, these booker games really help give you an understanding of exactly why so many workers get underutilized.

Especially if you're playing the WWE.

After you've sorted your title situations out, gotten all your big feuds set, settled on your booking structure for all your TV shows and devised what you're building to the PPVs, there's always a fistfull of folks that just slipped through the cracks.

Try to be as impartial as you like, there's going to be some people sitting there unless you just toss them in random matches just for the sake of getting them work, unless of course you're more the future endeavoring type.

I guess that's why there's a creative team, as much as we s*** on them. It's a tall, tall order to ask one man to keep all this running without skimping anywhere.

Yup, I hear that. That's why I made NXT a third brand, even though EWR isn't roster-split friendly. And even then, wrestlers fall through the cracks. I'll usually try to tie lower midcard wrestlers into major feuds somehow, but it usually doesn't work for very long.

Case in point: On Smackdown I had a Derrick Bateman vs Tyson Kidd mini-program, involving Kaitlyn, which therefore sometimes involved AJ and therefore Daniel Bryan, who at one time groomed Tyson Kidd as his apprentice. But when Kidd's morale dropped, I almost considered letting him go to trim the roster and change things a bit. But I had him booked for Survivor Series so I Arsenic'd him back up. I did recently let go of Primo though for the same reason.

And then there are guys who'll get over even if you rarely use them. Hunico was a major surprise to me as I only have a chance to use him every once in a while and before I knew it, he was up to Upper Midcard status.

[joebob27]

Yeah, I started a WWE game after cleaning up the database, so I don't have to go broke firing 100 people, and the roster is just still too damn big. Guys like Sheamus, ADR, Kane and Mark Henry have nothing to do at all.

And so much for fantasy booking, I'm in a scenario that starts with CM Punk and DB as the champs, by the end of December, John Cena and Randy Orton will be the champs.

Of course heel Cena with his stable of heels. Gee, I wonder how many times that move has been made in EWR games.

[theryno665]

Sept 29, 2012 12:31:26 GMT -5 joebob27 said:

Yeah, I started a WWE game after cleaning up the database, so I don't have to go broke firing 100 people, and the roster is just still too damn big. Guys like Sheamus, ADR, Kane and Mark Henry have nothing to do at all.

And so much for fantasy booking, I'm in a scenario that starts with CM Punk and DB as the champs, by the end of December, John Cena and Randy Orton will be the champs.

Of course heel Cena with his stable of heels. Gee, I wonder how many times that move has been made in EWR games.

Surprisingly, I haven't turned Cena heel and don't plan on it. I'm also in a spot where guys like Sheamus, Kane and Mark Henry don't have much to do but I made the mistake of sending too many big names to Raw. Sheamus basically just became Cena's buddy but I'm tempted to have him turn on him eventually. I gave Kane and Mark Henry the Tag titles but I can't imagine a team in my game capable of taking the straps off him. Surprisingly enough, I've gotten Del Rio fairly over even though I broke him away from Ricardo and had him in a pretty one-sided feud against CM Punk.

[joebob27]

Sept 29, 2012 18:34:20 GMT -5 theryno665 said:

Sept 29, 2012 12:31:26 GMT -5 joebob27 said:

Yeah, I started a WWE game after cleaning up the database, so I don't have to go broke firing 100 people, and the roster is just still too damn big. Guys like Sheamus, ADR, Kane and Mark Henry have nothing to do at all.

And so much for fantasy booking, I'm in a scenario that starts with CM Punk and DB as the champs, by the end of December, John Cena and Randy Orton will be the champs.

Of course heel Cena with his stable of heels. Gee, I wonder how many times that move has been made in EWR games.

Surprisingly, I haven't turned Cena heel and don't plan on it. I'm also in a spot where guys like Sheamus, Kane and Mark Henry don't have much to do but I made the mistake of sending too many big names to Raw. Sheamus basically just became Cena's buddy but I'm tempted to have him turn on him eventually. I gave Kane and Mark Henry the Tag titles but I can't imagine a team in my game capable of taking the straps off him. Surprisingly enough, I've gotten Del Rio fairly over even though I broke him away from Ricardo and had him in a pretty one-sided feud against CM Punk.

I had to demote Del Rio and he didn't take it well. The thing I have a hard time getting used to, compared to TEW, is that working means more than winning or losing.

In my TEW game everything has to be thought out to keep the momentum levels up and keep it able to be transfered from guy to guy. If I have someone take a month off for kayfabe injury or I just have nothing for them, it doesn't matter.

Kind of the opposite in EWR, you can throw them out there and have pointless matches and they're cool with it. Take them off the air for a week, though, and watch out.

[Perpetual Nirvana]

Sept 29, 2012 12:31:26 GMT -5 joebob27 said:

Of course heel Cena with his stable of heels. Gee, I wonder how many times that move has been made in EWR games.

Yep, guilty. Cena is the leader of the Nexus in my game.

[joebob27]

I just screwed up today and Christian won the WHC by accident. Whoops. Well, he'll get to keep it for a month since I don't feel like changing the title twice in a week. I want to unify the titles eventually, so it's not the end of the world.

Although it creates one of the worst Survivor Series matchups I can remember, by turning an Orton/Jericho title match into a Christian/Orton/Jericho/Bryan title match.

Undertaker/R-Truth/Sin Cara/Santino vs. Abyss/Kane/Henry/Ziggler

Yeech.