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Adjust the overall workrate for an entire show?

CptainDanPosted on 08/11/04 at 07:06:00


Wouldn't it make sense to be able to instruct your entire roster to "take it up a notch" for an important show?  It's frustrating when you have an important match on a "pay-per-view" that gets, say, 3 stars, and then a rematch at a house show or something later that gets 4 stars.  Wouldn't it be a neat feature if, every now and then, you could flag a card as extra-important and get all the workers to give it their all to ensure exceptional performance?
91Posted on 08/11/04 at 08:36:01

Not really, since most wags would just check that option every time. Besides, stuff like that does happen.
CptainDanPosted on 08/11/04 at 16:13:15

Well, I figured it would be something you'd only be able to do after a certain number of cards.  It would only work once every five or ten cards, or something like that.  Maybe, to even things out, you would even have to run the opposite, a "low effort" card FIRST, to earn the right to use the feature.  It just doesn't seem right that wrestlers put forth the exact same amount of effort for every show.
AnubisPosted on 08/14/04 at 05:57:43

If a wrestler is professional and a good worker, they put their best effort into every show.
91Posted on 08/16/04 at 00:55:38

On 08/14/04 at 05:57:43, Anubis wrote:If a wrestler is professional and a good worker, they put their best effort into every show.
Well, that depends. If someone like Jeff Hardy is performing a house show, what's the point of doing a million squillion high flying twenty foot somersaults for one thousand people and risking a bad injury when none of it would have mattered in the slightest. Plus, of course, with todays schedule, in the WWE at least, there are so many matches going on for a single wrestler that it's sometimes wise to pace yourself. Still, they should certainly be putting in a good plentiful of effort for each show, else you are cheating those who paid to show up.
FrankieLoPosted on 08/16/04 at 04:10:00

I think it would be a good add-on.  And for those "wags" that would use it everytime, they are just not a true TNM player.  Because the true players will use that add-on with respect toward his/her fed.
91Posted on 08/16/04 at 17:40:57

Well, I suppose you have a point.
Some GuyPosted on 09/07/04 at 17:12:41

On 08/16/04 at 04:10:00, FrankieLo wrote:I think it would be a good add-on. And for those "wags" that would use it everytime, they are just not a true TNM player. Because the true players will use that add-on with respect toward his/her fed.
Well i don't bother running house shows on my circuts. i run the big card of the month style that oliver uses. So i would have this on all the time.

Plus i think Rick's BCW would be the same way. Since he just has one weekly card.

Point being some people only bother with the "important cards"
Rick GarrardPosted on 09/08/04 at 01:31:15

If you book properly, you shouldn't need the said flags for "extra" emphasis on bigger cards.  I've booked CW well enough to have a recent match between Ron Garvin and Bobby Eaton bust out a **** rating, while Nikita Koloff vs Steve Armstrong pulled a ***1/4 rating.  It's really more about proper booking than it is bonus points for big cards.  

Personally, I think that it holds more true to the real world when the best matches aren't on the PPV, as it's been said by many top guys that they've had MUCH better matches in front of a few thousand people than they tend to do on PPV, as when they try harder, the smooth match flow seems to fall apart from trying TOO hard.
91Posted on 09/08/04 at 02:13:43

Mind you, Eaton is awesome and Steve Armstrong is no slouch either.
Oliver CoppPosted on 09/12/04 at 14:55:31

On the other hand, there's hardly ever been a bigger stiff than Nikita Koloff ;)

I kind of lean towards Rick in this argument. TNM rewards good booking. There, I said it. Good, logical, cohesive booking will always give you better cards, better ratings and better crowd reactions than hot-shotting a Russoesque fed.

Back to the topic: if such a feature were offered, there would have to be a trade-off of some kind such as a higher injury probability. This, also, would be consistent with real life.
Critic of the DawnPosted on 09/12/04 at 17:47:08

Now *that* would be something I could get behind.  While TNM rewards good booking, having the ability to effect an across the board workrate increase of five or so for large shows with the understanding that injuries would be more likely would make it something I would have to think quite a bit about before using.

That's the only way I'd really use such a feature, I think.

Eric "Critic of the Dawn"