Alright, first thing I've done before doing an update proper is throwing together a logo for us so that blank space isn't staring me in the face every time I visit the home screen.
It's not great but hey, it was made with one of those free online tools and 45 seconds in GIMP, so, for the amount of effort it took it'll suffice. You can actually see the Gimp Window with half of the logo in the bottom that was accidentally left in frame. The tool I used didn't do multi line gradients so I had to generate each half on it's own.
So with not much to do untill our next show, I simm away while keeping an eye out for any interesting stories from the news feed. That said, one of the features I like is how, when you are processing the AI's turn, it shows you a profile from a random worker currently active in the database. As an example
Sometimes this can help tell you about workers who you may not have heard of yet.
Sadly, on Wednesday, Week 3, January 2013, the wrestling world lost another of it's own.
Freddy was a decent worker who at one point worked for the SWF, and after his contract was up he was snapped up by USPW, where he won their title belt in 2006 before falling to the midcard over the next seven years. However, he is now just another grim reminder of how rough this business can be, passing away at only the age of 43.
Finally another loose end tied up on Friday, Week 3 of January. Boston Brawler finalized his contract as our Road Agent. At the age of 60, with 42 years in the business, he should know quite a few tricks to teach our workers to improve themselves in the ring. Or he might drop dead of old age in a year.
Next we have what I like to call the Tuesday Night Wars. SWF and TCW both hold their TV show in the same timeslot. Now ratings wise SWF has about double the viewers of TCW, their last show having a TV rating of 12.55 against TCW's 7.07. However if we look at the actual shows.
We can see they're both neck and neck. Really it was the main events that hurt SWF, earning a 74 and 78 while TCW's finisher hit a 90. It will be interesting to see how this continues. Perhaps in a few years TCW may finally be able to slay the beast.
However the rest of the week and a half goes by without anything noteworthy happening, so we proceed to our show. Now first off, the length hasn't been shortened yet. This will change next month, because well.... I only set it for the first show, now the second. And the game autosaves every day, so we can't fix it now. However, I feel we can make it work again.
Anyway, we're cutting it a lot shorter than before though, only reaching around 75 minutes.
Now first off, you'll notice the first leg of the show is centered around Leopard King being a cocky son'a'bitch and then getting the ever loving piss beaten out of him by our second least favorite wrestler, Otto. My hope with this is we can squeeze a bit of popularity out of this, to make Otto slightly less worthless. Leopard King was EXTREMELY unhappy with the booking, but since we plan to get rid of him after the show, he can shove it.
Next is the further development of the Stoner/Sackhead feud. With Stoner still "Injured", he discusses with Hoster about watching his back while he recovers. Later in ring Hoster makes the mistake of announcing this alliance to everyone in the ring, leading to Sackhead calling Hoster out.
Next we have Peaches and Martin going against each other. There is a little bit of back and forth between them, but not enough to warrant an angle. This is covered in the 2 min of "non wrestling time" that gets put into every match automatically.
And finally, we have Hoster and Sackhead going at it for 17 min in a very slowly building match. It's very likely this will tire them out, but this early I'm more exploring everyone's endurance while the dings we get for a bad match aren't as punishing.
Two very important incidents happened during the match.
First off, Neonivek became tired during a relatively short match, now this may have been a one off thing, or it could be a serious issue that needs to be looked at. However it did tank the match something fierce.
Second
Our main event also didn't do too well, as Hoster wasn't able to keep up with such a long match. Also 15 minutes apparently wasn't long enough for the slow build approach which seems a bit crazy to me to be perfectly honest.
Anyway our final show rating came out at
So a 1 point drop from last time, which is basically margin of error material. Do note the Hoster and Stoner angles. ALthough Hoster isn't that great in the ring it seems, he is AMAZING on the microphone. In general our angles are going over better than our wrestling itself. This may or may not be a good thing in the future.
Anyway, after the show I go to release Leopard King. It asks me one question.
YES I AM SURE!
So we burned that bridge to the ground, and have only one last thing to do now. Advance to the next month.
And the damage is....
$3,686 Profit! Yes our sponsors came through with $9,965 that month, leaving us with actual money in the bank. Next month we may actually hire another wrestler or two, both to replace Leopard, and to fill out our roster a bit more. In addition, we will be adding a second storyline. Anyway, the updates should be a bit more frequent now but I'm not promising anything. So until next time, remember, if you can't wrestle, at least know how to act.
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