Bidding wars

[Ninja Turtle]

I am currently playing a real world 1995 scenario with WCW, who, of course, is at war with WWF.

I have yet to see the "bidding wars" part of the game. Every attempt at negotiations with someone from WWF always fails with "so-and-so does not want to negotiate due to your war with WWF" (paraphrasing).

Will being at war always trump bidding wars? Or does it depend on the workers personality? Both companies are VERY close in popularity and prestige, and the same thing has even occurred with lower midcarders.

[skiesofryan]

I've been running into that issue with my game too. WWE guys are up for contract negotiations and I can't steal them b/c we're at war.

[hurricanendp]

i've had it a few times with free agents, i've lost a few because my owner has not allowed me to offer more than a certain amount, which happens to be the amount the other companys are usually offering

[DNS-4LIFE]

how do you know when they are coming off contract. do you get a email , .... or ?

[Ninja Turtle]

Originally Posted by DNS-4LIFE

how do you know when they are coming off contract. do you get a email , .... or ?

I believe you can shortlist the worker, but in my case, most of the time it will show up on the news page that the worker has or will begin contract negotiations with their current company.

[pantaloons]

They don't want to negotiate with you because you are a lesser company than the one they work for.

[maskedpropaganda]

A good example of this, is if your an American company who wishes to aquire the services of Jacob Jett. CGC will always want Jett. He will either say he is not interested, or I am thinking if ya fed has reached Cult level, you and CGC will go into a bidding war. (You will lose unless you are willing to off Jett who would most likely be a midcard or lower midcard in you cult sized fed alot more than his asking price. I think I won if I took the 600-700 he was asking and turned it into 1500. lol course that is way over paying a midcard level talent even when they are that talented.)

[wrestlingfan#1]

I believe this was a problem in 08 as well, where if you are at war you are unable to have any dealings with that company or its workers.

[jesterx7769]

Only if you are the less prestigious company, all of these complaints are coming from people playing as less prestigious companies, when I played as RAW in Australia you start out being at war with APW and DIW but I was able to sign their top workers to P.P.A. deals causing them to leave APW/DIW b/c of the war (except for The Comedian since he is DIW owner after all)

[Maaaddenman]

After reading this thread i was thinking the same thing, about me not seeing any bidding wars since i began playing 10. Right after reading i was playing my USPW game and I went to sign Roger Cage but SWF swooped in and took him from me, losers.

[Gigas]

Originally Posted by jesterx7769

Only if you are the less prestigious company, all of these complaints are coming from people playing as less prestigious companies, when I played as RAW in Australia you start out being at war with APW and DIW but I was able to sign their top workers to P.P.A. deals causing them to leave APW/DIW b/c of the war (except for The Comedian since he is DIW owner after all)

Those are PPA deals, not written. I have the same exact problems as the others.

[jesterx7769]

You are saying though you can't even get to the negotiation screen though b/c you are at war, not even getting to the point of written or PPA, are you a larger company than the one you are trying to steal workers from that you are war with?

[Gigas]

Originally Posted by jesterx7769

You are saying though you can't even get to the negotiation screen though b/c you are at war, not even getting to the point of written or PPA, are you a larger company than the one you are trying to steal workers from that you are war with?

Yes. I made USPW intentionally bigger than SWF so I could sign Skull Debones. He tells me too bad, You are at war with SWF so I wont sign with you. They all tell me that.

Kinda defeats the purpose of going to war with someone if you cant steal their guys away.

edit: although it just worked that time. Interesting.

[jesterx7769]

Well you did not up your prestige and momentum then, b/c I just ran a test with USPW where I made them global, gave them A prestige and Momentum, edited his contract so he was less than a month, then signed him to a written deal.

[Lt. Lucrativo]

I'm pretty sure that workers will only agree to negotiate with whichever company has the higher prestige when two companies at war are trying to bid for them. I'm pretty sure it was that way in 2008, as well. Doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me that a worker would refuse to even enter negotiations, but that seems to be the way it is. I agree that it defeats the purpose of going to war with any company that happens to be more prestigious if that relationship precludes you from having any chance of stealing its talent.

What I'm not sure about is whether it's a hard and fast rule that a worker will always only negotiate with the more prestigious company or whether it's just very likely he or she will refuse the less prestigious company outright. I haven't seen anyone who says he's been able to try to steal anyone from a more prestigious company yet, but that doesn't necessarily mean it's impossible. I'd be interested to hear if anyone has been able to do it.