Fire Promoter Impressions

Poor Mr Cobra! I hope he's enjoying his retirement in my save :D

Yeah, we ran a cross promotion event years ago & they put their HW title on the line & one of my guys won it, ever since then, every couple of months they send me a wrestler or two. It's up to me to put them in the title match but they're obviously trying to win it back & it spices up the card a bit, so far they've not managed it. They've sent me their Junior champ a couple of times too & I can book him in a title match for his belt. The card I'm running now, Jeff Brain one of my new Luchas has just won it so I've two of their belts now


You're right, I can only really book 8 matches a card really & 6 or 7 if putting on multi man matches. You're making me want to hold back guys so I can loan them to other feds to see if they can snatch some titles

Everytime I look to book a card in Europe I'm looking at a 300 seater gym again & it would be a huge cost hit so I just don't bother. I think the most popular guy I have is a C rating

As long as he stays in retirement, I'll wish him well 😁




Interesting - I haven't had any promotion try to send me their wrestlers even though I've won a ton of Championships from theirs. Maybe it has to do with how they win it? Like if I invite their Champions to my show and then win their Title, perhaps they are less likely to try to get it back then if my wrestlers get loaned to their promotions and win their Titles on their shows? But I've had methods happen of winning Titles from other promotions and they never send wrestlers over to get them back. Maybe they are scared 💪




The best is when you casually loan a low/midcarder and suddenly they are a Champion!! LOL.

After you start regularly loaning wrestlers, make sure you get into the habit of checking the results of the events of other promotions. It's the top option in the "Help" menu. The interface is a little weird but if you highlight each promotion (on the vertical list) and press like "Q" or "W", you'll go past their factions screen and then onto their event results screen. Then you can see which one of your wrestlers won matches. That, combined with seeing a little belt on their profile, gives you an idea of how they did.

It can get VERY initially confusing if one of your wrestlers won a tag team (or trios) Title because it won't always show their name on the Titles screen. It only shows the name of the first member of the team. So if one of your wrestlers suddenly holds a title, and you can't find it on the Titles screen, here's what you should do. You can find out who your wrestler was paired with by looking at the promotion events results and seeing who was in their match. It may be one of your wrestlers or one of the promotion's home wrestlers.



It's probably just better to wait. That's what I plan to do. I do wonder if there is a difference if my wrestlers are popular in the 3 other promotions rather than just 1 of them. With no European free agents, I need all the help that I can get so it probably makes sense for me to save Europe til the end.




Oooh, faster counting referees is a very good idea to avoid injuries. I like that idea a lot! 💡

Same with checking out the body damage map and not book someone with a vulnerable area against a submission user of that body type. I haven't even considered these ideas when booking wrestlers.

My wrestlers have laid out a number of invited wrestlers. I feel a little guilty 😓




And I hope it doesn't somehow hurt the relationship with my fed and theirs.

I started making SERIOUS BANK once I was able to sell out the Urban Large Arena with $40 and $60 tickets.  Even if I run a smaller show, it's well worth it to sell out a Medium Arena while charging $40-60 than a Large arena with $10-20.  Even if you have to increase advertising costs, you make much more off those higher ticket prices. Year 1 I was barely able to turn a profit but by the end of Year 2 I was regularly making multi-million dollar profit each month.  And that's with maintaining my gym and inviting a ton of wrestlers from other promotions and freelance.  I spend a lot of money on merchandise too but I believe that ends up working for my profits. It's kind of harder to figure that out all of the time.

I do need a text file at this point to keep track of all my wrestlers's ranking, popularity, and which promotions they hold Championships in.  Booking one month of my shows plus loaning wrestlers now takes like 20 minutes but that's also because I ran the "unlock money" code so I have a large roster.

I haven't maxed out my gym yet but I do maintenance after each month. Most of my equipment and gym features are on a low level though. I should probably work a little more on that, especially since I am making the money to support those upgrades. I wish we could set the game to auto-maintain the gym so we didn't have to spend the time in doing it when we just want to keep things running normally without upgrading it.




It definitely is getting kind of easy for me. Like right now it's just a matter of time until I eventually move over to the other regions. The thing is, I want to play through the mode just to see all the cool and funny things that can happen. And I am enjoying simulating my own storylines a little through Fire Promoter, but mixed with the outside talent and the little bonus things that happen throughout the mode.

Does anyone know what the difference is between the difficulty levels? Does it just take longer for your wrestlers and promotion to get popular? Do you start with less money? Is it like Oregon Trail where you start with a carpenter rather than a banker but are awarded with more points at the end? LOL.

"(Invited Wrestler) refuses to work your show because they have contracted dysentery" 💩
"BDG wants to work a cross-promotional event? Do you accept (), reject (), ford the river?"




I have 58 wrestlers. Among them, they hold 30 Championships, including all 5 of my own.

I started with about 63 wrestlers. 3 retired and 2 just walked out.

It does feel a little bloated in regards to having so many wrestlers of low popularity holding so many top titles of other promotions. But the redundancy is annoying me more than the pure title bloat. A lot of wrestlers seem to hold tag titles with wrestlers that they shouldn't be tagging with!! I don't like that other promotions don't acknowledge my faction organization when they book my wrestlers. Apparently wrestlers from other promotions will be more likely to no-show your events if you put them with wrestlers from rival factions. But there's no way to pressure other promotions to acknowledge your storylines and faction connections. It's weird seeing two wrestlers that hate each other in my storylines hold Tag Titles together in other promotions. It's also weird seeing a wrestler hold BOTH the Junior and Heavy singles Title of another promotion. It's like there's no rhyme or reason as to how other promotions use your wrestlers when you send them over there. There are too many Titles that my wrestlers shouldn't have and too many titles that others should have. Sometimes I have to basically switch titles from other promotions from one of my wrestlers to another more logical wrestler on my own events.




That's weird about having the same move, a finisher no less, in their moveset. As much as I prefer the majority of Fire Promoter defaults to the original SWA edits, there are definitely some oversights. The "can't run up turnbuckles" thing is something that shouldn't happen anymore.

I really wish they allowed us to access and edit the Fire Promoter defaults.

After you press "Quote" and see the text input screen, go to the "BBCode" link option at the bottom of the text input screen. You'll see the BB code for the quotation function and will be able to use that code in your post.

 I'm quoting your above post so every time I want to quote a new part, I find this part at the very top of the quoted post:

[quote source="/post/23883/thread" author="@flashburton" timestamp="1553119714"]

I put that code at the start of the quote of yours I want to use and then I put:

[/quote]
at the end of your quote, so that I can go back to signifying that it's my section of the post and the quote is over.


Sometimes I'll mess up the tags though if I'm quoting you quoting me so it can get a little messy LOL.




Yeah, I don't really understand why I don't have more promotions sending their wrestlers after mine given that my mine control more than 50% of like the bottom 4-6 feds in my Fire Promoter world!! You'd think they'd come back after their Titles. Maybe because I did the "unlock cheat" they are afraid of me!? LOL.




I wonder if a higher ranked edit in popularity will get a higher frequency of Title matches in other promotions. I'm not so sure of that though as two of my bottom feeding jobbers have won Titles!



Wow, I love that Beast character and his nickname! What a grand debut for a new signature wrestler!

A wrestler that has a low trust rating for their fed is more easily convinced to join yours, right?

Looks like you do! Now you're getting it! 🎩🙋‍♂️




That's a good question. On one hand, my popularity in my home region is "S" and higher than all of theirs in my home region. It's also higher than a lot of the promotions that I've worked with in their home region. However, I have S/D/D/D so I'm only popular in my region where most of them have some level of popularity everywhere.

Like you said though, the fact they are even working with me at all shows that I'm popular enough on some minimum level. I have had a working relationships (for a year) with two promotions so far. I've run numerous cross-promotional shows. I've accepted many invites and loaned many wrestlers. So I have a solid relationship with many of the feds and and outright Friendly relationship with them as well.

But onto my third year, I've only had like two wrestlers loaned to me!!

Maybe they don't want their Titles back! 😁




Is Jack a Heavy or a Junior? If he's a Heavy and was booked as a junior, perhaps a glitch occurred?

That happened to someone else recently too (I think SonnyX). The game booked one of his heavyweights for a junior title. I understand how a junior can be booked for a heavy title (since it's all-encompassing) but the reverse isn't supposed to be able to happen! A junior can compete for both titles, but a heavy can't.




The Bear felled the Beast!! 🐻🐼


Hmmm, reading what yu said there about trust got me thinking. Big question here:

Is the "Trust" setting of a wrestler working for another promotion supposed to represent their trust for their home promotion or their trust for your promotion?




I really like the defaults but I think I'd need some of my edits in there. I am considering starting a new save without the cheat with like the 6 starting wrestlers we can use, but with my edits. I do feel as if my current playthrough with my entire roster and oodles of money is kind of watering down the experience. But since I'm in the third year, I also want to see the cut scenes that can happen. It would be hard starting from scratch again right now. Kind of torn but maybe will try to run the two saves in an alternating way.

Honestly, I never imagined I'd be so sucked into Fire Promoter. Everything else within Fire Pro and my other games have taken a backseat. It also helps cause it's a very easy game to play when I'm tired. It's just basically mouse clicking. Over the past few weeks, by the time I've gotten to actually play something, I'm too tired for anything physically active (like a fighting game) and my brain is too tired to make edits. Just booking my edits with Promoter is a way for me to get some minimum level of Fire Pro experience but in a novel and fun way.




That goes back (and maybe answers) my earlier question too. I'm still confused as to what "Trust" means in relation to a wrestler from an outside promotion. Originally I thought it meant the trust they have with their promotion but now it seems that its actually the trust they have with yours?

Ack, my interned died right when I posted a response to this and I lost it! I'll go a bit shorter on a replay.



You may still have something to that theory though for two reasons:

1) My popularity outside of my home region is "D" and so the other promotions I work with that are outside my region may not see it worth it to send wrestlers my way. Perhaps there is a higher bar to clear for getting them to send wrestlers than there is for them to accept my wrestlers or loan them to me when I ask/pay for them.

2) Popularity may still be a factor in an overall algorithm for them offering their wrestlers to me.





I can't remember offhand and don't have the game running in front of me but do wrestlers in the "Freelance" area have Trust ratings? If so, who would it be toward? If they do have trust, that may imply that trust is actually with your promotion even for wrestlers that are in promotions.





It will be SOOOO much quicker than the 20 minutes it takes me to book one card and then loan all my remaining wrestlers to other promotions!




What about doing the cheat but then starting with only like 10 as a happy medium?