Diary Idea! Want your help!

[PoisonedSuperman]

Hey everybody, I am going to be starting a new SWF diary in January 2009, and I would like your help in a big way.

I want your ideas on what happened in the C-Verse from Jan 2008 to Jan 09 and I will update the game to reflect that. That means promotions who debuted, workers, hirings, firings, relationships, promotion relationships, champions and so forth and so on!

I will do every promotion that gets a good following so please don't hesistate. Even if it makes my job a little harder, I am up for the challange!

[Bigpapa42]

Future diaries are always interesting. My suggestion would be to slowly reveal how the year 2008 played out through the diary, rather than have one big "catch-up" post on what went down. Its a way to hook readers. So when the diary starts and people see Tommy Cornell is the SWF World Heavyweight champion and Jerry Eisen now owns TCW, they will want to know what went down. And they will keep reading if you feed them bits at at time. Just a thought.

[UFC-KING]

Hirings : I would say, Big Smack Scott gets fired :D

[UkWrestleFan]

Bruce The Giant and Sean McFly return to the company.

[PoisonedSuperman]

All good ideas, i will put them all in the game. Any more? :P

[James Casey]

Jay Chord would be signed to MAW, of course, but also working in Japan (GCG, most likely).

The Guage twins would be working in TCW, probably as a masked tag team. I find they tend to go to Japan usually, so I'd like to see what they'd do in an American fed as a team.

SWF fall to Cult. This always happens, so may as well put it in anyway. Most of their workers end up on PPA deals, although a few who would have been on long-term written contracts are still exclusive.

Darryl Devine to become the first American freelancer, working for USPW, FCW and CGC on short term deals.

Leftie Wilkes and Duberry Excess to unite as a tag team in 4C.

Cal Sanders and Tempest Appleby to unite as a tag team in NOTBPW.

A DeColt leaves CGC - for USPW.

Primus Allen is signed to RIPW on a developmental deal.

Brandon "Masked Patriot" Smith is the new RCI champion. Antonio has a run as MAW champion, which flops, so back the belt goes to Jean Cattley.

Casey Valentine and Antonio both sign at least one other contract.

Davis Wayne Newton signed to all three Canadian feds.

At least two members of Swarm sign with CZCW.

Rich Money cracks the SWF main event scene.

Big Smack Scott and Kurt Laramee have a lengthy SWF Tag title reign.

One of the XDW kids wins The Quest - with PSW :p

[PoisonedSuperman]

What I have done so far

Bruce The Giant and Sean McFly have joined SWF
Jay Chord is in GCG and MAW
The Gauge Twins are in TCW
Don't know how to make anyone a free lancer but Devine has contracts in all 3 promotions!
Leftie hasn't debut yet!
Alex DeColt has signed a 6 YEAR DEAL WITH USPW! And recieved a huge overness increase in America. CGC is bookerless
Casey Valentine signs with NOTBPW
Antonio goes to NYCW
All 3 members of SWARM Go to CZCW
Supersonic signs with RIPW

SWF has gone down ten percent in every American and Canadian region, causing it to become Cult!
TCW is international sized
USPW becomes national, Alex DeColt is the new booker

Runaway Train, Kurt Laramee, Jack Bruce, Angry Gilmore, greg rayne, Bj O'niel, Akima Brave and Kid Toma are gone!

Train is in GCG as Barry Bowen
Laramee is in PSW
Jack Bruce shocked the world when he signed with TCW
Brave and Toma are in USPW
Angry Gilmore is in BHOTWG as Elemental IV

Pistol Pete Hall returns to America as he joins USPW! Yes I am an USPW fan.
Robert Oxford, Art Reed (as Da Monster) were the final two members to sign on as written contracts to SWF.

Robbie Retro, Jessie, Bart Biggz, Remo and Zimmy Bumfhole are all on PPA contracts.

Neveda Nuclear has been called up and giving a small boost in stats, he is managed by The Guru.

That's it for now, what do you guys think?

[Sinning_Grin]

Jack Bruce vs Troy Tornado?



Champagne Lover is in CZCW as well as SOTBPW
Wolf Hawkins has been kicked out of The Syndicate and turned face
Dan Stone Jr is in TCW
Phil Vibert joins TCW's announce booth
James Prudence and Darryl Divine join SWF
Steven Parker and JD Morgan join TCW
Blonde Bombshell returned to TCW manage Aaron Andrews
Remo has won SWF Championship
Larry Wood to 4C

[Phantom Stranger]

Josh Jones decides to get serious about his career early.

[Kamchatka]

Feel free to ignore any and all of this.. just my two cents, but hot damn I love a good created scenario in the cverse.

My advice would be take into account the economic crash and mirror that with SWF. Cut your warchest by 60% atleast and set the economy to F+ and falling.

Imagine what would happen if SWF properly fell in the C-verse. It would quickly turn into a free for all, the TV companies would drop it, PPV next, then the superstars would get nervous and actively look elsewhere. TCW would jump on the chance to become Number 1 and give Eisen a damned good kicking in the process. Cornell would likely pick up any wrestlers with good performance skills and overness as he jumped up to international, possibly creating a second brand. For the rest it might feel very much like a sinking ship and with every day passing USPW, who are on the verge of national by now, would look more and more appealing as a job prospect.

Then youll get the board of directors and shareholders taking action. Cue where you step in I'd imagine.

MHW starts up and is run by Gino Montero. Hires a lot of good young Mexican talent and starts to climb steadly up the mexican charts.

Another Australian Fed (Or New Zealand Wrestling) has started up and is being run by The Comedian, who then proceeds to war with APW.

Tamara McFly starts up CWWF.

USPW would have cemented its womens division.

Nemesis has to be back in some shape or form by now, it doesnt make sense for him to have gone on hiatus for that long. (Though thanks to Eisen-verse's diary I can't imagine him anywhere but at the helm of XWA) Vibert on the other hand would probably will be out of action for a while until he finally finishes sulking.

I second Josh Jones turning up, or Captain Charisma as I like to think of him.

Something has to be done about the UK. Perhaps sort out its influence ratings so that 21CW has atleast a slight chance of reaching national on its own steam. Also take a good look at the possibility of Mosc and ROF merging in an attempt to survive 21CW's rampage. (Not too sure if that would work considering their products)

Definitely bulk up PSW's overness a little, they always seem to remain stagnant in games I run but I doubt Naess would allow that to happen. Possibly they might bring in one or two hard hitters.

Steroid overdose tragedy. Big Smack Scott seems the likely candidate.

[Derek B]

Stop trying to be mean to Bis Smack Scott!! If the SWF is crashing a burning as much as everyone seems to want them to do, then someone like Big Smack Scott is going to be a valuable asset to the SWF. As one of the best guys in the industry at getting people to hate him (deliberately or otherwise), BS Scott could become a major heel. In fact, I'd have him finally kick the steroid habit and spend more time in the gym/ring training hard under the watchful eye of someone like Enforcer Roberts. BS Scott could actually develop into a decent all rounder and be elevated up the card, which given everyone is apparantly leaving the most established company in the US, would be interesting. :p

Brand splits are lame. It's lame in real life, the Cornellverse doesn't need one. But the idea of TCW having so much talent that is hurts them is intereting... over paying and under utilising a talented roster might lead to them crashing themselves, though it's more likely that they'd just fire a few people and hope for the best. Huge roster, glitzy spending habits and a failing economy/industry could make TCW pretty interesting.

But hurting the SWF down to a level where they can't recover is too lame... they should always be competitive and have a few guys they can rebuild the company around. Faith, DuBois, the Bumfholes, BS Scott, Enforcer Roberts, Eric Eisen, the ex-DAVE guys they signed to long deals, Enygma... they should all be pretty prominent on the roster. :)

[Bigpapa42]

A few ideas...


At Least One Tragedy

Someone dies. Someone notable. Someone unpredictable. Something big enough to rock the industry. I would avoid a "Benoit tragedy", but someone that would have some effect. Bruce the Giant dying due to his hormone problems. Or Jack Bruce ends up wheel-chair bound due to a botch at a house show... but tragedy turns to triumph as Jack becomes the most popular color commentator ever!


At Least One Surprise Star

Marc DuBois main eventing SWF or Davis Wayne Newton becoming a top heel in TCW aren't exactly surprising. Cameron Vessey becoming Tommy Cornell's arch nemesis in TCW would be. Or Paul Huntingdon becoming the new Triple H and getting a monster push.


Someone Unexpected Jumps to Japan

Not full-time, but part-time. What if TCW fell to cult, Wolf Hawkins contract came up, and while he resigned with Total, he also signed on to become the face of GCG? Or Rich Money decided he also wanted to star for Burning Hammer along with Supreme?


At Least One "WHAT?" Champion

Maybe its always just because I wanted to see someone have the kajones to put the SWF World Heavyweight belt on Big Smack Scott or Kurt Laramee, but I think a shock champion would be interesting. Even if it was just a short run mid-year rather than one that is continuing through the start of 2009, such a booking faux pas could also be the catalyst that saw a major promotion drop to Cult.

[Bigpapa42]

Stop trying to be mean to Bis Smack Scott!! If the SWF is crashing a burning as much as everyone seems to want them to do, then someone like Big Smack Scott is going to be a valuable asset to the SWF. As one of the best guys in the industry at getting people to hate him (deliberately or otherwise), BS Scott could become a major heel. In fact, I'd have him finally kick the steroid habit and spend more time in the gym/ring training hard under the watchful eye of someone like Enforcer Roberts. BS Scott could actually develop into a decent all rounder and be elevated up the card, which given everyone is apparantly leaving the most established company in the US, would be interesting. :p

Brand splits are lame. It's lame in real life, the Cornellverse doesn't need one. But the idea of TCW having so much talent that is hurts them is intereting... over paying and under utilising a talented roster might lead to them crashing themselves, though it's more likely that they'd just fire a few people and hope for the best. Huge roster, glitzy spending habits and a failing economy/industry could make TCW pretty interesting.

But hurting the SWF down to a level where they can't recover is too lame... they should always be competitive and have a few guys they can rebuild the company around. Faith, DuBois, the Bumfholes, BS Scott, Enforcer Roberts, Eric Eisen, the ex-DAVE guys they signed to long deals, Enygma... they should all be pretty prominent on the roster. :)

Hey! That hurts!

Do agree about BSS getting a slight skills bump and a major role would definitely be interesting. I also think if you are going to drop a promotion down to cult, there should be a reason. Something that caused it. Poor choice of champion, a major storyline that failed, something.

Putting TCW in a position of strength but with some serious issues to deal with would be interesting as well. Have them sign back Jack Bruce and maybe someone like Bruce the Giant to monster contracts not because they are needed, but simply because they can. Cornell letting success go to his head and not planning properly. Suddenly, they have a really bloated, aging, and expensive main event scene...

[dPro]

Maybe, if TCW has become the number one promotion, it has gone to Tommy Cornell's head and he has become a major douchebag.

[Liamo]

Why does everyone hate the SWF? Realistically, there's no way it would suddenly crash and burn, and it always bugs me when it happens in my games. If anything, I'd say they try to expand further afield and try and conquer the UK market, seeing there's a lack of a real top promotion. I personally don't see how TCW could become number one promotion in the world so quickly while it treats wrestling as a legit sport. Just because we're all "smart fans" and we'd like wrestling to be more about great matches and less about wacky angles doesn't mean the casual fans would.

[James Casey]

No-one hates the SWF (well, not many) but they ravage the rosters of smaller feds and still can't book a show correctly - they've gone from Global to Cult back to Global back to Cult... about half a dozen times in my game.

Any comeptent booker should be able to make SWF succeed, and yet they keep failing, and that's why we recommend that it happens in this diary.

A BSS title reign sounds like justification for a lengthy spell in the doldrums. Christian Faith retiring would also be interesting, as he's at that age (side note: Jack Bruce retired about two years into my game, so by that standard Faith is well past due).

How about Steve Frehley becoming World champion and having a feud with Scott, leading to Frehley botching a big move and injuring Frehley, the schmozz finish landing Scott with the belt but bringing a rash of bad press down on SWF (and wrestling in general - crash the industry while you're at it) ;)

Richard Eisen decides to gut it out by pushing Scott, but it's too much for the casual fans who pass on SWF programming, leaving them with just the hardcore faithful, stuck at Cult with their biggest star retired, brightest up and comer out long-term and BSS in control of the big belt.