EWRevenge Players!!

[Tongsoon of Cygnus]

I'm looking for anyone else who plays the EWR sim game! I have a small roster (20 workers), and all but 2 are jobbers and openers. One is a mid-carder, the other is an upper mid-carder. For a regional promotion, is this a good set-up, or should I promoter some workers.

Also, I'm going with a PPV style show every Monday (ala NWA-TNA pre-Spike), and I need to know if this is a good route to take.

I just started playing this and I love it!! Very realistic, micro-management HEAVEN!! Makes me wonder why no one has put one of these puppies on a console yet. RTS games seem to do well on consoles, I would love to see a wrestling sim there.

Any help any of you would have on this would be great!!

[jsanudo]

I have been playing off and on for a year now. My suggestion is to promote so of your guys. No one is going to want to go to a show full of jobbers. Also, I dont suggest using the weekly PPV model. Try to get a TV deal (even if its late now on some crappy channel). After you get a TV deal, start doing one a month medium or large shows. After you reach Cult Level, start doing PPV's. Thoughs are my suggestions.

[CynthiaCM]

This sounds interesting. Can somebody tell me more about EWR?

[thefamoustommyz]

It's a Promoter-Sim, basically, you run a fed...

It was part of a very long series called Extreme Warfare, all of which were availiable for free, until Total Extreme Warfare was released. The first several were very limited, but EWR opened up a lot of the options...TEW actually smokes them all, but it also costs $30.

www.400softwarestudios.com/tew/tew_overview.php

There is the website for the newest, which should link to some message boards that, at least used to, have areas for discussing all versions.

Oliver Copp, creator of TNM, has worked in the wrestling industry and said that his first, most fundamental complaint was that the numbers weren't even close to realistic.

That said, I've killed many an hour on the Extreme Warfare series...though TEW requires a fairly hoss machine, ESPECIALLY if you want to open up the whole world for gameplay.

[pikemojo]

I just wish that I could play on my Mac. I need a $200 program called virtual pc in order to use any .exe files. It sucks.

[Tongsoon of Cygnus]

I've played EWR for about a month now, and I also picked up 5th Generation Wrestling Sim (I get them all at pwse.net), and they're virtually identical. Except 5GWS has a fantasy draft, something I wish EWR had.

I noticed it's a challenge to get your fed making money in EWR. I've tried three times now, and every time I get fired for losing money in the company.

Can't say I've ever heard of TEW. I do have Federation Online, which is a quirky little sim-style game.

I have noticed the Weekly PPV model is terrible, I used it once and have never gone back to it since. Honestly, if this is even remotely accurate to real life, I don't know how NWA-TNA survived with a weekly PPV style!

[Barnestormer]

My "favorite" EWR version is verion 4.0, which I still play from time to time, mainly because it has the Heartland Wrestling Federation in it (with my all-time favorite wrestler, the Human Time Bomb, HTB, along with his real-life sister, Tina Ambrose). The only problem I have with the whole EWR system is every month, you're continually losing money, and there's nothing you can do about it but just keep on going with your promotion until you go completely bankrupt, so I don't play it that much anymore. If I'm going to play a sim of the caliber of EWR, I'd want something where I don't have to worry about the money. I just want to make the matches and decide who wins and who loses.

[Graymar]

With respect to Barnstormer,

I have played (and still do) EWR for years...and you can make money with the sim...but you have to be patient!

;D

Graymar

[PureHatred]

Yeah, for real, I love EWR and once you get the hang of it, making money is actually pretty easy. The key is, especially at a regional level, to get as many of your workers as possible to sign written contract. It saves you tons instead of paying per appearance.

And do your homework, there are always tons of talented indy workers that will put on great matches and have charisma that will work for like 11 K/mo.

At the smaller level, I always hit up Aidan nathans, Jonny C, Burchll, Austin Lee and Chris Idol.

And listen to your personal assistant! Sophie knows all!

[Holland227]

EWR is one of the greatest games I have played. I took a backyard fed to global status in 30 years game time. It is a tough game but once you get the hang of it, you can easily make money.

[Tongsoon of Cygnus]

so the secret is getting written contracts? I usually had them on pay for play contracts, and it got expensive really quick! What about the merchandise and production levels? there's still a lot about EWR i'm still learning, so any help would be great. I just wish they had a fantasy draft, like 5gws does. All of the really good ones are locked into the WWE (i.e. Goldberg the God), so it's tough to get some really big-name talent going. Also, what seems to work better, high or low risk values? I tried a fed once called XXX Wrestling, had the risk level set for 100%, but couldn't get anyone to wrestle in the buck-naked match!

[CaseyFJones]

High risk isn't a good idea. You won't get a TV deal that way(which is BS, because the "HIGH RISK" model is based on XPW, which DID have a TV show here in CA despite doing stuff like the Buck Naked match and having a champ sell the title for a bag of coke).

If you want high risk people to do that match, hire old XPW workers

[PureHatred]

High risk doesn't work and thats actually very accurate. I live in L.A. and the only time you saw XPW was on a local channel at like 1 AM. Think about it, whats the chance that something like CZW is ever going to be anything except for a cult fed? Not very likely.

BrianB2089, if Goldberg is really who you consider a god of wrestling, EWR might not tbe the best game for you. Because a lot of the most successful workers are the ones with the best work rates. In the game, (and in real life, actually) Goldberg is garbage. He costs a ton, he bitches constantly, his morale is a bitch to keep up, he works stiff, injures people constantly, will only put on decent matches with a select few, and really only puts over his friends.

But other than that......

Basically, at a small level, do a search for orkers with high attributes in at least one thing and a decent amount of charisma. And try to pair off guys with similar stats, because they put on the best matches. Dont try signing guys you know. Sign guys with low salaries and decent numbers and make them stars. All the guys I named above become huge stars after a while.

[Tongsoon of Cygnus]

PureHatred, I'm starting to see what you mean about Goldberg. Which is a shame, too. Right now, I'm running a fed called the XWF, and it seems to be doing ok, for the most part. It's currently at Cult level, and hasn't made a decision to go up or down yet.