Not going to lie Lex looks AMAZING in the thumbnail.

@ruthlessjobber

2 ай бұрын

Struggled to find a decent photo of him from this period, I wasn't completely happy with this one, but perhaps I'm wrong.

@davemacwrestling

2 ай бұрын

@@ruthlessjobber it sounds silly but finding half decent pics from around that time in good enough quality for thumbnails is so hard. I mean finding a press shot of the Taskmaster around that time is near on impossible for me lol

@ruthlessjobber

2 ай бұрын

@@davemacwrestling Try doing an 80's / early 90's UK save!

@davemacwrestling

2 ай бұрын

@@ruthlessjobber lol aw man I can imagine that is a nightmare!

Stories are coming along nicely, and you've made Nitro an easy watch (something I don't think it ever was in reality). Ratings are fighting back, but it's not unsalvageable. Just put an extra premium on the main event match, and shave down the potential players aloud to partake. I'd be looking at limiting the main event to workers who are providing 70+ in segment ratings for matches. Anywhere else on the show, I love the mixing and matching of big timers, but the last match of the night is carrying so much of the weight for the overall show grade. That's got to be hallowed ground. At least until you've been able to get some of these talented guys more over, it's just too early to get them into the main event. The time is coming for the nWo and the old guys fighting them to hand the show off to the likes of Jericho & Booker, but that time hasn't yet arrived. Gotta squeeze the juice out of Hogan, Savage, Sting, and Bret while they've still got it. All that said, I'm loving this series, and it's cool to hear you talk about seeing the value of booking stables, now that you're experiencing it. That's the beauty of any creative endeavour; there's always more to learn.

@ruthlessjobber

2 ай бұрын

Thanks for the advice. In any private save I'd be booking the hell out of my major stars/stars in the main event, but I'm trying to be realistic here and don't want to repeat matches too often, so I'm kinda stuck a little. People are getting over, some quicker than expected so I don't think it'll be too long until ratings get a bit better.

@GregMcNeish

2 ай бұрын

@@ruthlessjobber You want to be realistic by NOT spamming the nWo in TV main events? XD

@ruthlessjobber

2 ай бұрын

@@GregMcNeish I wasn't watching wrestling during this era so can't connect with your comment, but I'm assuming that's exactly what WCW did. I watched WWF from 1992-1994 and spamming anybody, even the champion wasn't a thing on TV, so my realistic is probably vastly different to what most people would consider in the late 90s. But even with the nWo being the focus every week, surely the main event of each Nitro wasn't the same match(es) over and over?

@GregMcNeish

2 ай бұрын

@@ruthlessjobber I watched WWF from 1993 onward, so I feel you on that. I wasn't a WCW viewer (I always thought it looked and felt like crap as a show), but that's certainly my impression that the nWo dominated the show, especially in the upper card. Granted, they had like 27 people in the nWo, so there's a lot of variety of matchups they could trot out there even with the same basic dynamic. And yeah, I'm not suggesting having a carbon copy every show, just narrowing the focus. For instance, just looking at Hogan, Nash & Hall from nWo and Bret, Sting, Savage from the anti-nWO alliance, that's 10 tag match combinations (including 3v3), and 9 singles pairings. That's a much tighter focus than I'd ever dream of suggesting - especially since multi-man tag matches afford the opportunity to sneak in a "lesser" (merely based on segment contribution) worker or two - but even just with this tiny selection of wrestlers, you could get 4 months of main events (including PPV) before you'd have to repeat a match-up. Now, I'm 100% with you that this is a boring approach. All I'm really saying is that for the first little while - and it really shouldn't take long for the uber-talented folks like Jericho to break through - you might have to bite the bullet and figure out how to MAKE the faction warfare interesting. That was really what WCW did during this period, when they were leading the way for the first couple years of the Monday Night Wars. They locked in on how to make "WCW vs. nWo" the hottest thing in wrestling, while trotting it out at the end of every single show for a solid couple of years. It's not easy, but it can be done. Just maybe not with Sid as the in-ring workhorse :p Again, loving this series, and if story is more important than grades, then you're rockin' it. I'm just throwing in my 2 cents in response to the frustration you voiced in the video. If you DO want the grades to tick up, this is how to do it in the short term. Cheers!

@ruthlessjobber

2 ай бұрын

@@GregMcNeish Yeah, I get you on all of that, I also want to leave most alliance vs nWo matches for the PPVs to make them a bit special. Something else that was the done thing in the early 90's. Also worth noting is that TEW doesn't always translate real life booking (particularly historical) very well. I I'm about 4/5 episodes ahead of what you're seeing now and things have developed somewhat. I never anticipated having the nWo around for too long (goes back to my old view on using stables), but might have re-invent them in some way rather than just get rid.

I'm using the same mod and went in and edited the WCW roster. The popularity seems to be set up by someone with a WWF bias.

@ruthlessjobber

12 сағат бұрын

I wasn't watching wrestling at the time so it's hard for me to comment on that, you could well be right though, there was one or two that seemed a bit low to me.

Yeah that rating is rough, but your doing good to put the guys you wanna push with bigger stars, if only those stars werent 40+ years old... Try to recruit indie guys on ppa and one night deals and just make them job out for your ffuture stars with a promo as a next segment. Overall, the situation doesnt look very pretty, but as long as you keep the ratings high enough to not piss off your TV company you might reverse the situation, getting the pop back is easier than finding a strong TV deal when your WCW on a losing pop streak.

@ruthlessjobber

2 ай бұрын

I know I'll reverse it eventually. I'm getting younger guys over, I guess I'm playing through a "transition" period for the company and I'm shaping the roster for the next half decade. Once I have the likes of Jericho, Booker T, Goldberg (and a few other guys I'm looking to bring in) all in the main event, it'll look better.