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Post by sonny615 on Mar 6, 2019 22:25:19 GMT
[Part 5] July - What a way to say goodbyeSo, we are saying goodbye to our Small Rural Japan 'hometown' court (I know, I should have given it a name...). On one hand, I knew that if I wanted to move to a bigger venue next month, I couldn't afford to go crazy now. On the other hand, I wanted a memorable show. After all, these fans have been with us from the very start. Obviously, the show was a full house. In the opener, The legendary Tiger Mask faced another veteran, MEN'S Teioh.  We also had two of our titles on the line: Scott Lost set to defend his Jr. Title against D-Mask II while Zama accepted Minoru's challenge for a World Title Shot following Minoru's win in a tag team match. While the title matches seemed like the main attraction on paper, the real memorable moment came from a match that wasn't even advertised... Yoshihiro Takayama pretty much became the "bring me a fresh challenge" kind of guy. I already accepted the fact that I won't see amazing matches out of him but he's still a big attraction. He's still a legend with high reputation whom I can use in other ways than high rated matches. Anyway, Takayama comes out and asks for a challenge. Out comes Tetsuya Endo. Endo is honestly one of my favorite wrestlers to watch in DDT and in general. At the very least, he's a future KO-D champion for sure. Even though he's on the higher end of my affordable budget, I decide to bring him in for a match. Guess what, Endo stuns Takayama and scores a huge upset! I was absolutely thrilled to see this. I go ahead and sign Endo for a permanent contract immediately after the show. Endo's salary is around $5K. Just for comparison, my most expensive guys at that point were around $1 - $1.2K. This is probably my first decision where the 'fan' side of me beats the 'manager'. Looking at the show rating, we didn't do so great but it was a memorable show and I feel like the fans left happy.  Both champs retained, BTW, which I am super happy about as it adds credibility to their respective belts as well as build themselves as household names. Next show is going to be important!  On a side note, considering the Batista vs Triple H storyline in WWE, this bit made me laugh:  |
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Post by OrochiGeese on Mar 6, 2019 22:34:20 GMT
Finally started my first play through last night. Decided to wait until I had unlocked the ability to do a tournament (it ended up being August) to crown a heavyweight champion as I didn't want the belt to be awarded arbitrarily; had 3 wrestlers too many for the tournament so sent them out on loan - two came back with titles (a Junior belt and a tag team belt); so in one month I went from my fed holding zero titles to three 😂 How does one unlock tournaments? When you start a new event, "tournament" should be an option below the top regular show option. You can't do a tournament at the start of Fire Promoter but somewhere around mid-year you get enough progress toward a tournament. Last night I was able to run one in July (Tetsu won!) but I may have been able to in June. I just hadn't checked since like April-May when my progress was around 75% or so toward unlocking it. After about 6 months of running shows, you should have enough progress toward a tournament to run one. But you can't run them consecutively. They are trying to make sure they are paced out. I appreciate the concept but I'd prefer to be given the choice of when I do that, even if it means running them into the ground. (see: UBL for the past two years 😭 ). With the progress you've made in your Fire Promoter run-through, my guess is that you can run a Tournament by now. I also think we are able to establish a new Title or defend a title in the Tournament. |
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Post by brangus on Mar 7, 2019 9:51:49 GMT
Last night I had my final card of year 3 and the main event ended up being one of the top 10 matches I've seen in my Firepro history. It was between Daniel Bryan and the dominant champion Okada. Okada joined the promotion early in year 2 and promptly captured the heavyweight title from Kenny Omega. 10 title defences later against top competiton from my promotion to the best competiton around the world landed him in the main event against Bryan. 9 minutes in Okada hit the rainmaker. I thought it was over as Okada was dominating. I was wrong. This was the first of 6 rainmakers. I wish I would have recorded this one. There were at least 30 near falls. Bryan had Okada in the yes lock multiple times to no avail. He hit another rainmaker at the 50 minute mark and Bryan kicked out at 2.9 again! After the 4th running knee, Bryan skipped a pin attempt and slapped on another yes lock in the middle of the ring and the greatest wrestler in the promotion's short history tapped out. New AEW world heavyweight champion. 54 minutes of pure epic firepro wrestling goodness. What makes this so sweet is that it was the promotions "Wrestlemania". All titles were on the line. It was my highest rated event since promoter was released. I have a couple screenshots I'll post this evening after work. What a match though man.
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Post by brangus on Mar 8, 2019 1:58:16 GMT
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Post by skummy on Mar 8, 2019 2:27:07 GMT
That card you had Brangus had to be really fun to watch!! Wow a 93 overall! I'm gonna see if I can top that!
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Post by Guacamole Anderson on Mar 11, 2019 3:07:22 GMT
I'm doing what I said I wouldn't...started e-fedding with Fire Promoter today.
So. Much. Fun.
Started with Central States in the mid-80s, with the 12-promotion option on Normal difficulty. (WWF, NWA-Crockett, AWA, World Class, Mid-South, Continental, Memphis, Stampede, Florida, Portland, Southwest and Southern are the others).
Didn't use the roster cheat. My starting six roster is: Harley Race, Rufus R. Jones, Dave Peterson, Bulldog Bob Brown, Ox Baker and Avalanche Buzz Tyler.
So far, I've brought in The Missing Link, Art Crews and Rock-n-Roll RPM Mike Davis for guest shots. And I managed to sign Ed "The Bull" Gantner.
I'm up to April...having decent (not great) cards and making decent (not great) money running small shows. Being super conservative with my money.
What's really fun is seeing all the activity in the other promotions. Bruno's in Stampede...what?! Magnum and Wahoo are NWA Tag Champions...how?! Dick the Bruiser won the AWA title...why?!
Good times.
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Post by OrochiGeese on Mar 11, 2019 8:34:19 GMT
Palida Fantasma is now simultaneously holding two Tag Team Championships of another promotion: the DFW Heavyweight Tag Team Championship with Yoshirozuna and the DFW Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship with Matt Rivers. Too bad I can't book him to defend both titles on the same show.  |
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Post by sonny615 on Mar 11, 2019 11:46:15 GMT
Palida Fantasma is now simultaneously holding two Tag Team Championships of another promotion: the DFW Heavyweight Tag Team Championship with Yoshirozuna and the DFW Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship with Matt Rivers. Too bad I can't book him to defend both titles on the same show. But can you book him to defend titles that aren't of your fed on your show? The game didn't let me do it before... not sure if patch fixed it. |
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Post by brangus on Mar 11, 2019 20:57:39 GMT
Palida Fantasma is now simultaneously holding two Tag Team Championships of another promotion: the DFW Heavyweight Tag Team Championship with Yoshirozuna and the DFW Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship with Matt Rivers. Too bad I can't book him to defend both titles on the same show. But can you book him to defend titles that aren't of your fed on your show? The game didn't let me do it before... not sure if patch fixed it. I've got the same thing going on. Omega is the GFW Jr. Heavyweight champ but it won't let him defend it. |
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Post by OrochiGeese on Mar 11, 2019 22:30:39 GMT
So far, yes. Just about every time that I've wanted one of my contracted roster wrestlers to defend a Championship (that they won from a different promotion) on one of my shows, I've been able to. The only times I've had problems fell under these specific exceptions: 1) When it was a Junior Heavyweight Championship and there wasn't an eligible Junior on the roster to defend. 2) When it was a "Combined show" and I wasn't allowed to choose Championships that the other promotion was able to provide eligible wrestlers for due to roster size and due to who they chose to wrestle. That came across as a "Question Mark" on the Event booking screen. I was in a 1 year contract with the DFW promotion that was rather small but had popular wrestlers relative to my roster at the time we made the contract. They only had 5 wrestlers so every Combined show we did, they couldn't agree to any tag team matches (Championship or not) cause they wouldn't be able to fill out the "5 matches" seemingly required by these Combined shows. Also, they wouldn't let me defend more than 1 Junior Heavyweight Championship since they didn't have more than one Junior on their roster, LOL. 3) When my wrestler held a tag team championship (or 6-man) with a wrestler that was not on my roster AND wasn't invited to my show. In this thread I wrote about some of the challenges in defending Championships from other promotions held by wrestlers that I've contracted. To sum it up: If your wrestler shares a Tag Title from another promotion with a wrestler from another promotion, you need to invite that wrestler to your show in order to defend the Title. If your wrestler shares a Tag Title from your promotion with a wrestler from another promotion, you also have to invite that wrestler to your show in order to defend the Title. |
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Post by sonny615 on Mar 11, 2019 22:47:09 GMT
Hmmm... so my super heavyweight guy wins a Junior championship in another promotion but then can't defend it because the criteria is not met (even against another junior).
I guess we can call it a bug?
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Post by OrochiGeese on Mar 12, 2019 3:48:36 GMT
Hmmm... so my super heavyweight guy wins a Junior championship in another promotion but then can't defend it because the criteria is not met (even against another junior). I guess we can call it a bug? LOL how did your super heavyweight guy win a Junior Championship in another promotion? 😁 Is he marked as a junior in edit mode despite having a large appearance? Or did you mark him as a heavyweight only to have Fire Promoter consider him a junior in the one specific promotion where he won that title? I suppose that was the bug there rather than the not being able to defend it part. Either way it sounds like that Title may be stuck with him unless the game allows Titles to be vacated somehow. |
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Post by sonny615 on Mar 12, 2019 9:41:03 GMT
[Part 6] August - What a disaster!My first show in the 3,500 seat venue. Should be a big one, right? Well, as you can tell by the title, things didn't go the way I planned... While I did manage to achieve the goal of having a full house, the show rating was probably my worst ever. First mistake, I used the random assign card in order to maximize attendance. Big mistake. The card came out bad. I still changed a few matches here and there but it'll be a while until I let the game decide my card for me. My other, smaller goals, were to keep feeding Takayama with worthy opponents, hopefully to get a good match out of him. I also wanted to capitalize on Tetsuya Endo's successful debut and get him rolling with more victories. For Takayama I brought in one of my favorites, the legendary Kodo Fuyuki. Surely, this match has to be good. Nope. Takayama showed up super upset following his loss last week and suplexed Fuyuki into oblivion, ending the match within 8 minutes. Tetsuya Endo lost to Tiger Mask, which was a bit of a let down for me. If that wasn't enough, my main event didn't even happen! I got the Usos signed as free agents and Jey decided to not show up. We really need an option to make a last moment substitution, especially considering the game teasing you saying something like "boss, what shall we do?" (and you can't really do anything).
With no main event and 3 out of 5 matches in the 60% range, I really need to think how I bounce back from this. No more sloppy booking, no more free agents in main events. An additional semi-mistake I made was to experiment with a new referee who turned out to be a super fast counter. That explained some of the very short matches.  |
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Post by sonny615 on Mar 12, 2019 9:41:41 GMT
Hmmm... so my super heavyweight guy wins a Junior championship in another promotion but then can't defend it because the criteria is not met (even against another junior). I guess we can call it a bug? LOL how did your super heavyweight guy win a Junior Championship in another promotion? 😁 Is he marked as a junior in edit mode despite having a large appearance? Or did you mark him as a heavyweight only to have Fire Promoter consider him a junior in the one specific promotion where he won that title? I suppose that was the bug there rather than the not being able to defend it part. Either way it sounds like that Title may be stuck with him unless the game allows Titles to be vacated somehow. I don't know! He's a heavyweight for sure! I reported a bug. |
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Post by DM_PSX on Mar 14, 2019 12:46:12 GMT
I tried to run Kawaii. Started with 6 guys on the roster. No female free agents because I didn't add the premade Kawaii. So Now I'm downloading all the female wrestle parade wrestlers just to have some people to hire. :D
and then it crashed on the keeping up with other promotions screen. I'm having the worst possible experience with this DLC.
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