Queens of Chaos RELEASED!

[Remianen]

It is 2010 and the world is seemingly backwards. Women's wrestling is the hottest, fastest growing segment of the industry. Rumor has it that this was the result of the subtle machinations of a billionaire fan, who assembled the right group of allies to assist him in staging perhaps the most high profile coup in wrestling history. This shadowy presence, known colloquially as 'The Investor', manipulated the press and created a large pile of kindle, with the flashpoint being a simple film Perhaps 'simple' is a misnomer as this film, a documentary, sported the highest budget of any film of its kind, backed by one of the most aggressive multilateral advertising campaigns ever seen by the entertainment industry. The film, entitled “The Total Package - Women of Wrestling”, followed the lives of a handful of women wrestlers showing their routines, highs, and lows, grossed over $77 million dollars in its opening weekend and, to date, over $483 million overall. It blew the cover off of a segment of the industry never before seen in such vivid detail. It rocketed its creators to almost instant stardom and added rocket fuel to an already swiftly building movement. In its wake, wrestling schools around the world opened their door to female aspirants, turning out talent of varying degrees. The creator and primary benefactor of the movement, after being roundly insulted and defamed by one of the most prominent organizations in women's wrestling, decided to come out from behind the curtain and lead the vanguard of the movement. Establishing ties with existing promotions supporting women's wrestling and opening a host of others, The Investor spent millions plumbing the very depths of the world's shady “wrestling schools” for talent to be developed. The centerpiece of the movement has been chosen as Queens of American Wrestling. While there are doubters residing in the ivory towers of wrestling, there are many who believe a storm is coming, that this could very well be the age of the queens......

…...the Queens of Chaos.

I can't hold off on this anymore. I know there are errors somewhere but I've been futzing with this for almost seven months so it's time to just let it go.

QoC is a futuristic management scenario mod with a significant twist. The world has changed. One promotion, focused around women's wrestling, is close to reaching worldwide dominance. The promotion is heavily capitalized with an awesome locker room environment....but there are chinks in that shiny armor. Besides an absolutely massive payroll, the promotion is also trying to find a way to destroy a rival, knowing any talent they release will go straight to their rival (who are hurting as a result of high level defections and one particular roster raid, forcing the hiring of a new (less capable) booker and several workers who would not have been considered previously.

The mod is intended to be run as owner and booker (since owner goals will get you fired within two years, by design) of QAW, though all other promotions (save QAW's children) are also up for grabs. Dan Stone Sr. retired and left the reins of NOTBPW to his little girl, Victoria. Using her exploding popularity in several storylines, the promotion rose to National in December of 2009 (so as the game starts, they have to pad their roster, somewhat to the detriment of your rival promotion).

QAW's child promotions (and allied promotions as well) find themselves flush with cash with rapid growth plans. However, one of QAW's challenges is that as a result of the events that led to its creation, it secured several relatively short term broadcast agreements from every corner of the globe. Problem is, the promotion isn't yet popular enough to satisfy ALL of those broadcasters (most, but not all). Your roster is extremely large but full to the brim with undeveloped talent. You have a dozen "shooting star" type talents brewing in various development territories, waiting for their shot. (Pro tip: Let 'em marinate for a year before you call them up. They're shooting stars for a reason). The top of your card is aging and perhaps close to retiring but they're capable and over and can still go.

Some suggestions:

- The greatest overt challenge in the mod is AAA. You're staring down the barrel of a flamethrower with your Sunday best gasoline underwear on. The greatest overall challenge in the mod is QAW.

Database Info (only changed fields noted):

Alter Egos: 434 (9 additions)
Angles: 449
Chemistry: 67 *
Dojo Grads: 407
Dojos: 40
Eras: 2 (Women's Wrestling era added)
Events: 203
Gimmicks: 311
Locations: 363
Move Sets: 1462
Moves: 1577
Narratives: 21 (mainly establishing trainers)
PPV Agreements: 14
PPV Carriers: 30
Promotion Pacts: 40
Promotions: 69
Stables: 28
Teams: 407
Titles: 181
TV Networks: 48
TV Show slots: 24
TV Shows: 24
User Characters: 7 ("The Investor" being the unique one)
Worker Relations: 335
Workers: 2201

* Yes, it's a lot. However, it was one of the only ways I found to make tag team wrestling a defined focus as well as trying to keep certain people together and/or creating a general baseline of performance.

MASSIVE thanks to fusionfreak, ShadowedFlames and cappyboy (I did your girls good, didn't I? ), Clarity, jtlant, Trell, ReapeR (every new promotion belt (and one of the old ones) is his work), praguepride, Astil, Apupunchau, and everyone who contributed in my long winded thread. Some of the stuff will be released in the first update in September (which should include about 30 rookie workers (many of whom are children of existing workers) and 8 promotions, including WLW-USA as well as a very large "real world" injury file).

And of course, many thanks to bobinc for hosting. You can find the mod at bobinc.net.

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Note: The pictures file is rather large due to it being the default pics plus all the custom worker pics plus many of the alts I use.

Feedback is welcome!

[Genadi]

Nice work Remi looks like a huge amount of work you put into this I'll definitely give it a try soon.

[mike b]

Awesome,simply awesome.
Been waiting for this one also. Now one more mod to go and ill be in wrassling heaven.

[Self]

Dowloading now. Looking forward to giving it a whirl.

[ShadowedFlames]

I'll be downloading this tonight; this is what I've been waiting on to really get into TEW 10 (for obvious reasons ).

[Remianen]

bah, found an error already.

You'll notice that someone on 5SSW's roster has a written contract. This was supposed to be explained across several workers' bios (in Adam Ryland style) but I forgot to do it. So here's what happened.

In an early version of the mod, 'The Crush Gals' tag team consisted of Megumi Nakajima and Otsune Tsumura. But testing showed that those two losses really dinged 5 Star badly and stifled their growth rate. So I rethought things and came up with the following:

In exchange for agreeing to a working agreement, 5SSW traded Gemmei Oonishi and shared Megumi Nakajima with QAW and got cash and the long term exclusive services of Otsune Tsumura (with some of the cash going to offset her cost). This basically allowed 5 Star to secure the services of one of their young core members, increase the value of a worker they have (Nakajima) and secure their future viability and access to more workers they can make use of (via talent trade) while at the same time adding to the potential list of '5 Star Alumni' who 'went big'.

In similar fashion, EWA "traded" Karen Bilous to QAW for Aud D'Hoffryn and cash. Karen is really a better fit with UEW than EWA and Aud fits EWA to a T. Typically, if you run with 'New Worker Generation' on 'High', a women's worker is generated in Europe the first year (often a Middleweight brawler type) and she signs with EWA from the start so this makes up for the loss of Miss Information.

Oh, and NOTBPW with 'The Investor' is the closest thing to god mode that probably exists in TEW. The presence of Lauren Easter and the working agreement with QAW and USPW...well, I'm sure I don't need to spell it out.

EDIT: And big thanks to Comradebot for his EWA diary that I used as a basis for EWA's role.

[ShaunGBD]

Is their new people in it, if so about how many?

[Remianen]

Originally Posted by ShaunGBD

Is their new people in it, if so about how many?

Almost 200 (default DB has 2082 workers).

[mike b]

Looks like quite a bit.Will down load this asap im having major PC issues as i type this i could not download anything last night. Good job Remian now as soon as i get everything back and running its on to AAA

[Remianen]

Originally Posted by mike b

Looks like quite a bit.Will down load this asap im having major PC issues as i type this i could not download anything last night. Good job Remian now as soon as i get everything back and running its on to AAA

Godspeed to you, mike. Oh and don't make any plans that involve Gorgon.

*cough*

[mike b]

Originally Posted by Remianen

Godspeed to you, mike. Oh and don't make any plans that involve Gorgon.

*cough*

ummm whyyyyyyyyyyyy

[ShadowedFlames]

Looking through the editor, so far only spotted a couple of things that might need your attention, Remi. I'll leave them at your discretion, but here they are:

For Indigo Rose, you have all the areas set to "available," but don't even mention the reason this counteracts the bio's description of her fear of flying. I'll likely tack on a sentence on my copy about how she has to be ferried across the ocean on a boat to wrestle in the US/Canada/Mexico/Japan/Australia because of said fear of flying (thank your diary for that little work-around), but it's something you might want to check on in case anyone else wants to point it out.

Also, I'm interested for your take on Sterling Silver's availability to wrestle in Mexico despite the bio saying otherwise. I'm certain your rationale trumps mine, but I'll admit to a touch of curiosity.

Good call, as well, on noting the Devil's Disciples as a team in the d-base; I think that's one detail I forgot when I sent it to you. Now to just envision what their finisher is in my mind....

EDIT: Is it just me, or does QAW not have a default January PPV?

[mike b]

Sweet got ma pc fixed. What happened i had a corrupt file it would not recognize my user account. so had a heck of a time logging in and stuff so i deleted my account fixed everything and now i downloaded this.
Looks very very good.

[Karl_Kitsch]

This mod totally needs a graphics pack to go along with it.

[Remianen]

Originally Posted by ShadowedFlames

For Indigo Rose, you have all the areas set to "available," but don't even mention the reason this counteracts the bio's description of her fear of flying. I'll likely tack on a sentence on my copy about how she has to be ferried across the ocean on a boat to wrestle in the US/Canada/Mexico/Japan/Australia because of said fear of flying (thank your diary for that little work-around), but it's something you might want to check on in case anyone else wants to point it out.

Yup. I used the 'mass edit' feature to make all the women available in all areas. I didn't change Indigo Rose because by the time I started plotting the diary, most of the workers were 'done' (or so I thought. See the multi-bios omission for whether that was true ). I should've put the train/cruise ship thing in her bio but whiffed on it.

Originally Posted by ShadowedFlames

Also, I'm interested for your take on Sterling Silver's availability to wrestle in Mexico despite the bio saying otherwise. I'm certain your rationale trumps mine, but I'll admit to a touch of curiosity.

Think of it this way. You have a chance to work for the largest women's promotion in the world. They tell you they'd like to send you to their dev promotion in Mexico since that audience would be most likely to appreciate your character. What do you say? No?

Honestly, Rose and Silver got caught in the crossfire of my blind hatred for area limits for the women. This is an area that TEW doesn't really mesh well with reality. If Rachel Summerlyn (or any young, green worker) were offered a chance to do a tour with NEO (or any of the other regular joshi promotions), they'd do it. No questions asked, usually. This, despite the fact that they had never worked that area before (and thus, were only available in the US & Canada or something). At first, I was just going to release with just 'Restrictions off' and have each worker stick to their home area. But restrictions off is a toggle so if someone wanted to play with 'real' restrictions, it would basically mean that, say ZEN (who uses women alongside the men) or anyone in Europe or the UK, wouldn't have access to the vast majority of the talent in the world (who are largely based in the US, Canada, or Japan). Plus, it made things unstable financially as the smaller promotions (like the aforementioned Zen) often got saddled with travel expense requests. So I did both.

Originally Posted by ShadowedFlames

EDIT: Is it just me, or does QAW not have a default January PPV?

QAW has no January PPV because, I, um, ran outta graphics. *cough* Heck, Genesis uses a graphic I had from my LFC diary in 07. But honestly, I figured it would be good to let folks play around for a month before creating it. As it stands, the day the mod starts, you hafta book the A show. For similar reasons, I deleted the starting storylines I had because I couldn't pick the "important" ones (they're all important in my mind ) and there were too damn many of 'em (each title for each child promotion plus 11 for QAW ).

Oh and it's also why I didn't include a finisher list. I felt I was taking enough liberties in kind of directing what should be done in the mod that I really needed to let folks use their imaginations as much as possible. I figure I'll use the diary to show folks the way I envisioned things but it's quite alright if they don't see it the same way. I'll give a little hint though. The existing C-Verse workers with QAW specific alts or alter egos, tend to be those with huge plans for them (at least in my mind as I was putting things together).

Oh and mike b, she tends to go North of the Border in week 1 or 2.

Oh yeah and I considered a screen/graphics mod for this but nixed it. I've leaned on so many people for this already, I didn't want to ask for any more stuff.