TEW/PWS Wrestling Simulators Discussion

[Leon TrotSky]

As I sometimes decide to do, I have simmed four-and-a-half years of the Chronicles 1992 database, and I think I've come across the most cursed timeline yet.

• First of all, the landscape of Japanese pro wrestling is completely different. AJPW has gone out of business, with NJPW soon to follow (being over 20 million in the hole). The titans of Japan are all shoot-style companies, with RINGS (never having adopted full-on MMA), UWFi, and Fujiwara Gumi being the top dogs. The only pre-1990s Japanese company to stay strong is AJW.
• Wrestling in Mexico as we know it is soon to die. AAA flopped, and now CMLL is in a similarly bad situation to NJPW. UWA Mexico is also in debt and spiralling, leaving no companies left in Mexico at all.
• Other major companies that went bust include CWA (the European one), FMW, pretty much everything from Canada, and both the American women's wrestling companies active at the beginning.
• The titan of the wrestling game is without a doubt WWF, who appear to be adopting a strategy similar to WCW around this time in real life. Just keep a bunch of old guys! Top stars are Hogan, Flair, Savage, and Warrior. The 80s never ended!
• WCW is doing a bit better in terms of pushing new talent, but not much. Case in point: Sgt. Slaughter is in the middle of an all-conquering run as both NWA and WCW World Champion. I guess, don't question Bill Watts? Top stars are Steamboat, Slaughter, DDP, Sid, and Vader.
• GWF and Herb Abrams' UWF are still going strong, with ECW not really making a huge dent.
• Steve Austin is a midcarder in WCW. He recently had an affair with Missy Hyatt.
• Rocky Maivia (as he is currently known) is in the Wild Samoan Training Center, evidently, as he's only working for WXW. He's unknown.
• Paul Levesque has never found a contract. Neither has Glenn Jacobs.
• Mick Foley is in WWF as Mankind, but can't push through the steroid ceiling.

 

[Kim Jong Umb]

picked up TEW 2020 for first time in couple of months decided to play as GFW in 2010 signed a shit ton of people thinking of running a stable with Chuck Taylor, The Bravados & Bayley as Momma's Fav Bravado and have them be this over the top heel group

 

[Chris]

Just discovered this gem of a character and signed him to my Scottish hardcore fed, obviously

 

[Chris]

Ya hate to see it

 

[Roy Mustang]

CHRIS I'VE TOLD YOU TO STOP KICKING PUPPIES

 

[Chris]

Just realized that basically 75% of my roster are cool with doing deathmatches but literally 1 is a decent star and all my others refuse lol they are smart

 

[Chris]

For no reason whatsoever the other Scottish promotion, SNP, and their scumbag owner declared war on me I use a lot of the talent they use but so far they are still working both companies so I think it might be grandfathered in where you can't sign the same people. This gonna be a bitch bc the market is thin but thankfully he gets in disagreements with workers all the time and they leave so I could still maintain a small enough roster to survive. They're loaded so I can't match any money battles tho

 

[Chris]

Since I'm going to be bare bones for awhile I'm enjoying slow simming to see how the game world is going, the wrestling industry seems to be thriving mostly.

USPW, SWF, and TCW are all growing and putting on good shows, SWF is becoming fully international and TCW has fully recovered from the Wolf Hawkins scandal (he's still unemployed) and have made a sizable dent in Canada. The American indie scene is also great at the moment with a ton of companies thriving with a show on wrestleworld and pretty deep talent for variety.

The rest of the world is pretty strong with all the big companies putting on great shows, especially EMLL in Mexico, they win all the awards. None really branching out of their home region much, EMLL just a bit in America. Japan is still a little weak from the tsunami nerf, but most companies have slowly been growing since the game started, its just slow. USPW has more popular stars in Japan than BHOTWG for instance, but not many

 

[Leon TrotSky]

I hate the period just after growing a size in TEW. Your shows suddenly go from "awesome" to "decent" even when you're still steadily getting better, and your matches pivot from "exceptional" to "poor"

 

[Chris]

I try and cap my size at whatever I'm at currently until i think I'm ready to move up myself, it doesn't always make a difference but sometimes I have the pop to grow in size but not enough money/talent/etc to support the other requirements.

Worst was when i was booking a developmental company in the cverse and grew in pop crazy fast bc I put a weekly TV show on the parent company's global broadcaster...but then I couldn't sustain the minimum feuds and heat i needed so all my shows got lower ratings bc of those penalties so once I lost pop to drop back to small I made sure to cap that

 

[Grimoire Lenin]

So, first test run of CYN, made them Tiny sized company, gave them $150k in funds, and put them on a constant schedule as a test to see how much money they'd blow through with their talent. Yeah, I added a bunch of big-name problematic talent, Drake Younger as ref, Tessa Blanchard, etc. etc. etc.

The worst part about this was seeing MAURO RANALLO and fucking Big Cass get hired by the company.

I'm going to have to fix that almost immediately though tbh.

 

[Chris]

SWF just hired the most popular 21CW wrestler from the UK as they keep expanding globally. 21CW has plenty of other stars so shouldn't be much of a loss actually. SWF still nowhere near catching USPW from a business standpoint but consistently have better shows and make better hirings.

 

[Chris]

lmaooo I have this guy employed, this is the company that started a war with me that he's got issues with

 

[Kim Jong Umb]

So decided too play as mlw in March 2022 I pretty much did a complete overhaul of roster I released everyone except the big names in mlw hammerstone holiday homicide Laredo kid etc. I did release Enzo and Jeff Cobb ended the brand split and put in a women's divsion the whole la park fam gone too

 

[Chris]

The mod had a brand split?