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Setting up a circuit roster
TerryFunka | Posted on 03/11/05 at 03:53:50 How do you go about selecting your roster when you first start a circuit? do you go the 'm' approach or do you go for the x amount of high flyers, x amount of brawlers x amount of submission wrestlers to keep a roster even or what other methods do you use? |
Snabbit888 | Posted on 03/11/05 at 06:36:28 I do a general rule of 4 tag teams, 8 midcarders, 8 upper-midcard/main eventers. Add 4-6 cruiserweights if I have a cruiser division. |
americamamushi | Posted on 03/11/05 at 07:08:20 I usually start with a base of 10 faces and 10 heels. Sometimes randomly chosen, sometimes not. I usually try and think of like 2 definite tag teams (or stables) and also a few other possibilities for teams if need be and build things up from there with the hiring of new wrestlers and such as I progress with having cards. But the 20 man roster is usually what i start with |
suicidalbynature | Posted on 03/11/05 at 08:45:00 it depends. i just started out with 32 guys. five tag teams and then 22 singles. with that many guys you can have a few scrubs and then be able to establish a clear hierachy in your circuit. |
Critic of the Dawn | Posted on 03/11/05 at 16:14:41 Lately I've mainly been going with random generation, but in the past one of the methods I used for a circuit I ran for a few months was pretty unique. I just watched Heat and Velocity for 2 weeks, then started a circuit with the idea that the wrestlers that appeared on those shows became disgruntled enough at being underutilized to leave WWE and start their own indie promotion. Since I had this indy as a member of the NWA, I occasionally had NWA Champions show up on the show, and was eventually planning a cross-promotional angle with TNA. It was pretty interesting. My two biggest names were Rhyno (used as a monster heel) & Chris Jericho (the crowd favorite babyface). I also used The Hurricane as a top level babyface, and actually elevated Crash Holly to the position as my top cowardly cheating heel by giving him A-Train as an enforcer. Crash even won the title. Then he died and I kinda lost the will to go on with that circuit because it felt disrespectful to me, and having him die as well would have really thrown a wrench in my plans. Eric "Critic of the Dawn" |
Ckzippy | Posted on 03/12/05 at 09:23:07 I usually start with 16 wrestlers, eight heels & eight faces that I choose for whatever reason. Since I run four shows a month (once a week), I have a four-week tournament for the circuit's primary title, and then just kinda go from there. |
Vertigo | Posted on 03/13/05 at 23:42:30On 03/11/05 at 16:14:41, Critic of the Dawn wrote:Crash even won the title. Then he died and I kinda lost the will to go on with that circuit because it felt disrespectful to me, and having him die as well would have really thrown a wrench in my plans.I wouldn't see it as being disrespectful to run a circuit with a dead wrestler - you could have worked that into your promotion and maybe had a yearly memorial show of some sort - or, since it's TNM, you just could have went on. It's fantasy and I often times like to use dead wrestlers. I even considered Crash as a possibility to bring into my CP circuit, but I thought of someone who would fit in better... but I didn't NOT pick him because he's dead. As for choosing my roster, I usually go the random until I have 10 or heels or 10 faces, then I choose the remainder of either heels/faces to round out the roster. However, I have one interesting circuit I ran. With my visualizer, I used pictures of the old rubber LJN WWF figures and I ran a circuit where the only wrestlers I could hire and work with were the actual LJN figures that I owned. As I would win some from eBay, they would become available for me to hire. |
cerberos | Posted on 03/14/05 at 00:11:33 I kinda took a few things and kinda threw them into each other. I took the idea of picking a few people I wanted to build the company around (I only picked one) and then did random from there. I usually the do random for everyone else. I have eight tag teams (4 matches) and then 12 singles (6 matches). Then I build from there. Sometimes I will go out and hire someone (I did this with Muhammad Hassan instead of having Daivari as a full time wrestler). That is how I pick my most recent roster. I also like to take a current roster and see what I can do with them from a certain point, like I did with Smackdown this summer. Geno |
kingleo | Posted on 03/14/05 at 01:27:46 I just download a bunch of wrestlers and throw them together in the biggest tournament I can make. I always base my matches on ratings, too. |
colmatteus | Posted on 03/29/05 at 23:46:04On 03/11/05 at 16:14:41, Critic of the Dawn wrote:Lately I've mainly been going with random generationI've heard you say that before, and I know that's how you started LIW (love the circuit, btw)... but what do you mean when you say you randomly generate a roster? How do you go about doing that? |
Critic of the Dawn | Posted on 03/30/05 at 02:26:32On 03/29/05 at 23:46:04, colmatteus wrote:Generally I start with a roster of 20 wrestlers. Here's how I select them. I have a test circuit in email mode. In that circuit, I book 2 tag team matches featuring all mystery wrestlers. This gives me 4 tag teams. For the rest, I book 2 tournaments. 1 with 8 wrestlers, and 1 with 4. When TNM asks if I should let it choose the wrestlers, I say yes. If any women wrestlers show up, I scrap the match and do it again until it's all eligable guys. Thus, this gives you: 4 tag teams (8 wrestlers) 12 singles wrestlers (8 from 1st tournament, 4 from 2nd). To continue the theme of randomness, I choose the guys who I bring in to LIW in a similar way. Every now and then I run a random tournament in the test circuit and add all the wrestlers involved to the end of a big list. I use wrestlers from this list in order (mostly) when I need to bring in new people. This, along with the m key in circuits, gets you to use some guys that you normally wouldn't in new and interesting ways. Eric "Critic of the Dawn" |