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Post by xphen0m on Mar 2, 2019 15:27:51 GMT
Here's a big tip (that's what she said) for Fire Promoter, that I found out last night while playing. This has a huge effect on attendance.
All of your matches need to be booked and positioned in relation to the fact we're allowed 10 matches. You don't have to use all 10 slots, but for instance, if you're running a two match show, your main event should always be in slot 10, and your opener should always be in slot 1. I saw this have a pretty significant effect on attendance last night.
Also, your match order does effect attendance as well, as well as who is facing who.
We could use a dedicated Fire Promoter thread.
EDIT: I'll explain where I noticed this last night, stemming from a show I was booking a certain way and two situations on top of that.
I booked a show where the world champion was being placed in a tag match (so no world title match) and someone was missing the show because of poor health. I cannot remember, but it's one of my stars. On top of that, I decided to not put the tag titles on the line. Even with 7 or 8 matches booked, I could not sell out the 15,000 seat place. I was at maybe 12,500. I swear, I started switching wrestlers and matches around and attendance starting jumping up and down. This is when I ended up moving the main event tag match to the 10th slot and saw the attendance jump up. I then moved the semi-main event to the 9th slot, and saw the show become a sellout. The game will actually label your main event, and your first three matches get the "rookie" label. That's when doing this.
Usually, it would seem this doesn't have effect as I had never noticed it before.....but then I came across a situation like last night (injured star and only title on the line was a the Jr heavyweight title) and saw this happen.
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Post by tvirusinfected on Mar 3, 2019 1:55:33 GMT
Awesome I will try this tonight, thank you!
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Post by sonny615 on Mar 3, 2019 12:14:13 GMT
Thanks for the tip but I'm not entirely sure this is correct.
The game decides on 'rookie' and 'main event' matches based on the number of total matches you have.
So if you have 4 matches on the card, match 4 will be labeled as main event and will get the same benefits as match #10.
the first one or two matches will be labeled as rookie, it's not always 3.
At least this is how things were for me.
I assigned a pair of guys to match #4 then assigned the same guys to #10, the attendance stayed the same.
However, it seems that any *incremental* addition to a card, adds more people to the venue.
For example, I had two matches on the card.
I set match #3 as Main Event and added guy 1 vs guy 2 and got 700 extra people.
Then I removed those two and added different wrestlers on match #3.
I proceeded to add guy 1 and guy 2 as main event #4. The addition of the same guys added 850 people (again, moving them to #10 didn't change a thing).
The more matches you have booked on a card, the more people any extra match will add, based on my observation.
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Post by ligerbear on Mar 3, 2019 15:27:43 GMT
Thanks for the tip but I'm not entirely sure this is correct. The game decides on 'rookie' and 'main event' matches based on the number of total matches you have. So if you have 4 matches on the card, match 4 will be labeled as main event and will get the same benefits as match #10. the first one or two matches will be labeled as rookie, it's not always 3. At least this is how things were for me. I assigned a pair of guys to match #4 then assigned the same guys to #10, the attendance stayed the same. However, it seems that any *incremental* addition to a card, adds more people to the venue. For example, I had two matches on the card. I set match #3 as Main Event and added guy 1 vs guy 2 and got 700 extra people. Then I removed those two and added different wrestlers on match #3. I proceeded to add guy 1 and guy 2 as main event #4. The addition of the same guys added 850 people (again, moving them to #10 didn't change a thing). The more matches you have booked on a card, the more people any extra match will add, based on my observation. This has been my experience as well. In addition, this may not be accurate, but I think not all letter popularity is equal. If 2 guys are are both the same level of popularity in the region you are wrestling in, but one guy has additional popularity in other regions, I think it will boost his drawing ability compared to the other guy. Also the preferred style of that wrestler can impact things too so pay attention when adjusting the style of a match. Some times it will impact the draw by like a dozen people, other times ive seen it change by several hundred. My personal strategy is to change the match style (when relevant to the involved people) if it barely impacts the draw negatively just for the sake of slowly introduxing diversity to my cards in case down the road I ever do need a main event in another style for whatever reason. |
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Post by xphen0m on Mar 3, 2019 16:03:42 GMT
Thanks for the tip but I'm not entirely sure this is correct. The game decides on 'rookie' and 'main event' matches based on the number of total matches you have. So if you have 4 matches on the card, match 4 will be labeled as main event and will get the same benefits as match #10. the first one or two matches will be labeled as rookie, it's not always 3. At least this is how things were for me. I assigned a pair of guys to match #4 then assigned the same guys to #10, the attendance stayed the same. However, it seems that any *incremental* addition to a card, adds more people to the venue. For example, I had two matches on the card. I set match #3 as Main Event and added guy 1 vs guy 2 and got 700 extra people. Then I removed those two and added different wrestlers on match #3. I proceeded to add guy 1 and guy 2 as main event #4. The addition of the same guys added 850 people (again, moving them to #10 didn't change a thing). The more matches you have booked on a card, the more people any extra match will add, based on my observation. From further testing, this sounds about right after what I saw last night. Usually, I book my main event first (10th slot) and work my way backwards. I was at a point where I had three matches booked (out of 10 planned) and the three matches had the rookie, middle and main event labels. So I t interchanged the middle and rookie matches then saw a bump down in attendance. It wasn't much but putting them back in the original order bump the attendance back up to what it was originally. |
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Post by Spunk on Mar 3, 2019 21:58:29 GMT
Yeah, the game takes the first booked match and marks it as 'rookie,' and moves on from there.
You could book match slots 3 - 7 and it would do the same and not impact the drawing capabilities.
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Post by OrochiGeese on Mar 4, 2019 1:47:28 GMT
I think I understand one part of the past few posts (that booking "Matches 1 through 4" in Match Slots 1 through 4 has the same effect as booking them on slots 6 through 10) but I'm still unclear about whether the game penalizes us for the order in which we actually select the matches. Do we benefit from choosing the opening match first and booking until we finalize the main event? Cause I've been booking backward in that I always set the main event on the card first and then set the matches before that. Does the game care about the timing of the order in which we actually finalize the matches on the card? If the first match that you book is in Slot 10, wouldn't the game understand that it's the main event and couldn't be a rookie match? Or am I somehow losing potential attendance by booking the main event in slot 10 BEFORE booking the opener in slot 1?
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Post by ligerbear on Mar 4, 2019 4:53:27 GMT
I think I understand one part of the past few posts (that booking "Matches 1 through 4" in Match Slots 1 through 4 has the same effect as booking them on slots 6 through 10) but I'm still unclear about whether the game penalizes us for the order in which we actually select the matches. Do we benefit from choosing the opening match first and booking until we finalize the main event? Cause I've been booking backward in that I always set the main event on the card first and then set the matches before that. Does the game care about the timing of the order in which we actually finalize the matches on the card? If the first match that you book is in Slot 10, wouldn't the game understand that it's the main event and couldn't be a rookie match? Or am I somehow losing potential attendance by booking the main event in slot 10 BEFORE booking the opener in slot 1? The timing of the order makes no difference. Just look at the attendance forecast. |
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Post by OrochiGeese on Mar 4, 2019 6:15:59 GMT
Thanks for the clarification! 😁
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