TEW/PWS Wrestling Simulators Discussion

[Chris]

So even though I'm like 7 years into one, I've decided to start a new Cverse sim game with some tweaks. Basically I turned organic companies and rosters on, and I turned the picture requirement off so workers will be generated organically and not based on if there's a free pictures, this way India will actually have more content. I have a ton of extra pictures unused but it seems like it'd be a pain to add then to the free pics for new workers generated so i think I'll just go in an add a pic when I see picture less workers myself since that'll be easy.

So far I've done almost two months, nothing too notable happening and the game world is mostly progressing as it usually does to start. Was a bit of a shock remembering how some of these companies started tho

 

[Chris]

I also downloaded WMMA5, Adam's MMA sim similar to TEW. I've never tried it before but I really like the comic book game he did so I thought I'd try this too. I'll start a game and sim through it today sometime

 

[Grimoire Lenin]

Thinking of doing a run sometime in the 90s, just trying to decide when would be a solid jumping point.

I'm thinking sometime between 1993 and 1998 before the Indy companies are all utterly fucked by WCW and WWF.

 

[Samoa Looch]

Summerslam 1997

 

[Grimoire Lenin]

Summerslam 1997

I don't think any mod starts there tbh.

As it stands, the start dates I'm looking at are:

Jan 93
Feb 93
September 95
August 96
November 97
December 97
and Jan 98

 

[Chris]

September 95 is always a fun starting point for me

 

[Grimoire Lenin]

September 95 is always a fun starting point for me

Yeah, always fun to try and quick save SMW before it dies lol

 

[Samoa Looch]

August 96

Give Vader the Title at Summerslam

 

[Grimoire Lenin]

Give Vader the Title at Summerslam

I was hoping to run an indy.

 

[Grimoire Lenin]

But yeah, I think I pinpointed September 95 as my starting date, gonna play as NWA.

 

[Samoa Looch]

I was hoping to run an indy.

Oh... uh... my bad, I didn't realize that was the idea

Make your own Indy... heck, make Stampede and start after the Montreal Screwjob with the whole gang as the cornerstones.

 

[Grimoire Lenin]

Working on deciding an NWA product that doesn't just fit, but will also help attract sponsors to the company. I've mostly narrowed it down to:

- Classic Balanced
- Comic Book Dark
- Competitive Entertainment
- Episodic Entertainment (so far my personal heavy favorite)
- Golden Age Pro Wrestling
- Modern Throwback
- Silver Age Pro Wrestling

 

[Kim Jong Umb]

Modern Throwback

 

[Hoss]

So I've been playing with the "The War Rages On" mod, which kicks off in 1997. I wanted to do a little micro indie and try to grow it, so I created a company called Third Coast Wrestling that is based in the Mid South (Texas specifically) and does shows along the gulf coast. I'll eventually share more info on the progress of that, as I get to it.

But, I forgot before I started this game that I had modified the database to build in a scenario where Vince tapped out to WCW and sold WWF to Chris-Craft Industries and moved Raw to UPN, which is under Chris-Craft's ownership. I also had HBK and Triple H leave to WCW, along with Undertaker and most of his BSK guys like Savio Vega, Rikishi, Brian Adams, Mideon, and Yokozuna.

As far as name changes -

Undertaker = Mark Callous
Triple H = Paul Levesque
Yokozuna = Kokina
Rikishi = Solo Fatu
Mideon = Tex Slazenger

For whatever reason, I didn't send Godfather to WCW I guess, and I've also noticed that Kane is not in either of the big two companies, but I'm gonna let that just ride.

Either way, WCW's roster is STUPIDLY stacked, because in addition to the people I had built in to go to WCW, they also signed Sid Vicious from WWF. WWF's roster is still really damn good too though, and arguably has more upside. I made it through the year 1997 and the results of the awards are as follows -

Wrestler of the Year - Shawn Michaels (WCW)
Company of the Year - WWF (not bad considering I had put them at a disadvantage to WCW)
Match of the Year - Shawn Michaels vs. Eddy Guerrero at WCW World War 3
Show of the Year - WWF Survivor Series
Tag Team of the Year - The Outsiders (WCW)
Young Wrestler of the Year - Juvi Guerrera (WCW)
Veteran Wrestler of the Year - Hulk Hogan (WCW)

Just looking at the PPVs from either company is a lot of fun because the AI has been putting together some great stuff. I strongly encourage you to take a look at what I feel are some of the best cards produced by the two companies...

WWF Survivor Series (Show of the Year)

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WCW Starrcade (my personal favorite on paper I think)

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WWF SummerSlam

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WCW Fall Brawl (WCW's best rated show)

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WCW Souled Out (the first PPV with full star power)

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Also one funny tidbit is that Sid Vicious got signed to WCW and just days before his WWF contract expired and his WCW contract began, he publicly exposed the rampant drug abuse in WCW, which resulted in like half the roster being pissed off at him and developing a strong dislike relationship towards him. The toxicity in that locker room has to be astronomical with all the drugs, egos and backstabbing.

 

[Samoa Looch]

Look at those cards... HBK pulling Hogan to a 6 stars Match and apparently being the overall MVP of the Wrestling World...