How do YOU play?

[Timfromnarnia]

Let me start off by saying I love wmma2, It has taken up lots of my free time and when I am not playing I often catch myself thinking of new things to do in the game.

What I love about this game is the endless posibilites of things you can do. The game I started in wmma2 I started my own company via editor and hire alot of fighters with 2 or less fights and see if I can get one of them to the top of the rankings.

I was just curious to see how other people to like to play this awesome game.

[samuricex]

Started my own company right off the bat. I'm just trying to build myself up to have the best fighters and be the best org around. Playing GAMMA or ALPHA feels like you start off at the end of the game for me. I'll probably play ALPHA for my next play through though, since I've already played "through" the game.

[LFC_chris]

I'm playing with SIGMA, rose up to National pretty quickly but it's a bit of a struggle now because I started before the lastest patch so I'm far more popular than 99% of my fighters.

At the moment I'm trying to turn Niko Soldo into the biggest fighter in the World, which tbh isn't the most difficult task ever.

[Hawk1665]

Playing as XCC, mid level international, August or November 2002.

I had been staying fairly comfortably at National with no intentions to move on. But I finally decided to use all the talent I'd accumulated and made the push to International. Then Sylvester Collins and Jeff Carlton just sealed the deal and shot me up to around 40%.

The way I play may not be how you're supposed to play, but it's what works best. I keep my eye on the popularity of my promotion, and then I run events with no concern of what the game wants. I've deduced that not every event you can run will or should be a "great main event". So I intentionally tank shows with the full purpose of getting fighters on people's TV. Then when my popularity seems to be dipping a little too low, I throw together a big event on TV or PPV to shoot it back up.

If you have the stars, you really don't have to worry about what the game deems as the "best" main event. You just need to be able to pull out the occasional big show. This only works at the middle range of the popularity system though. You don't wanna mess up and get shunted to a lower level, or accidently go up one. But if you're about 80%, you run events until you're down to 50% and then you hold a big event that shoots you back up to 78%...Sure in the end, you may have lost a few percentile, but nothing drastic. I have an army of mid/high national guys, with a supporting column of low. I just only have two international guys as of right now.

[NickC13573]

Playing as XCC, mid level international, August or November 2002.

I had been staying fairly comfortably at National with no intentions to move on. But I finally decided to use all the talent I'd accumulated and made the push to International. Then Sylvester Collins and Jeff Carlton just sealed the deal and shot me up to around 40%.

The way I play may not be how you're supposed to play, but it's what works best. I keep my eye on the popularity of my promotion, and then I run events with no concern of what the game wants. I've deduced that not every event you can run will or should be a "great main event". So I intentionally tank shows with the full purpose of getting fighters on people's TV. Then when my popularity seems to be dipping a little too low, I throw together a big event on TV or PPV to shoot it back up.

If you have the stars, you really don't have to worry about what the game deems as the "best" main event. You just need to be able to pull out the occasional big show. This only works at the middle range of the popularity system though. You don't wanna mess up and get shunted to a lower level, or accidently go up one. But if you're about 80%, you run events until you're down to 50% and then you hold a big event that shoots you back up to 78%...Sure in the end, you may have lost a few percentile, but nothing drastic. I have an army of mid/high national guys, with a supporting column of low. I just only have two international guys as of right now.


So you do that to gain fighters popularity, then you raise a level?

[Mr_Tricky]

I made my own promotion and it folded, after a while OMEGA opened up and I became president there, now I'm building up stars in Mexico and I'm almost at National.

[LFC_chris]

Playing as XCC, mid level international, August or November 2002.

I had been staying fairly comfortably at National with no intentions to move on. But I finally decided to use all the talent I'd accumulated and made the push to International. Then Sylvester Collins and Jeff Carlton just sealed the deal and shot me up to around 40%.

The way I play may not be how you're supposed to play, but it's what works best. I keep my eye on the popularity of my promotion, and then I run events with no concern of what the game wants. I've deduced that not every event you can run will or should be a "great main event". So I intentionally tank shows with the full purpose of getting fighters on people's TV. Then when my popularity seems to be dipping a little too low, I throw together a big event on TV or PPV to shoot it back up.

If you have the stars, you really don't have to worry about what the game deems as the "best" main event. You just need to be able to pull out the occasional big show. This only works at the middle range of the popularity system though. You don't wanna mess up and get shunted to a lower level, or accidently go up one. But if you're about 80%, you run events until you're down to 50% and then you hold a big event that shoots you back up to 78%...Sure in the end, you may have lost a few percentile, but nothing drastic. I have an army of mid/high national guys, with a supporting column of low. I just only have two international guys as of right now.

I'm doing something similar now. I'm doing my best not to put on events where the main event is regarded as very poor, but I've put on a few where it's been classed as disappointing.

It's working OK, as the slightly weaker events are costing me just a few percent, and then I can put on a better show which gains me much, much more.

[Hawk1665]

I do it to gain fighter popularity (Colm Dee being mid level national is a good example of my tactic), but I also do it to build win streaks. If you contain yourself to just the events where you can have a great main event, the lack of matches (since you can only do ten fights per card) don't add up.

Now if I run a event every single month, regardless of main event, I'm getting at the very least 120 matches. Win streaks start piling up. If two fighters have great win streaks, the game seems to let you pass even if they aren't huge draws. And then if they go out and have a great fight on a big show, then you've further established them.

The only problem, is now that I'm International, I have TV and PPV around the world. The other worldly places don't have the stability that I've built in the US, so I can't just go running around willy nilly. Like I just purposely waited six weeks to run a show so I could lock in a great main event and a co main event. But if I wasn't in danger in those areas, I could pretty much run whatever I want.

[Thriller]

Still on my first game with ALPHA-1. KDM FC is gonna be next. I never played as small companies on WMMA1, but it's much more fun on WMMA2. :)