Post by tommybrownell on Jun 25, 2010 16:18:15 GMT -5
I'm wonder if it would be a nice addition to TNM to have a Circuit-specific option checkbox for "Technical Circuit" or "ROH-like Circuit" to represent a circuit where the focus is on the in-ring content and less on stuff like promos.
This could be represented by using the wrestler's Work Rate instead of their Charisma when calculating Heat. Just an idea...
Another great is example is running a WCW '94 fed, and bringing in Hulk Hogan. Realistically, he starts with much higher heat than 5, because he's Hulk Hogan.
I did this for my WCW '97, editing Hogan's and Sting's Heat to be 9 before Starrcade '97 because that match was HUGELY anticipated.
So far, I haven't noticed anything too crazy about it running a weekly fed on the default contract settings (and the belief is that monthly should be the assumed default).
After about 28 cards in my WCW (with Card Multiplier = 2 and PPVs not counting against contracts), here are the wrestlers on my Who's Hot list:
Bill Goldberg (undefeated)
Sting (World Champion)
Scott Steiner (Tag Titles)
Chris Adams (being pushed heavily on WCWSN)
Chris Benoit (feuding with the same stable - The Flock - for the entire circuit's existence)
Eddie Guerrero (has held or feuded over the Cruiserweight Title the entire time)
Chris Jericho
Ernest Miller
Johnny Grunge (TPE were generally kinda popular and I've been pushing them; oddly, Rocco Rock's Heat is still at 5)
At least two that are a bit dubious but not ridiculous: Buff Bagwell and Konnan.
So far so good. But then we get to random luchadores: Chavo Guerrero Jr, Psychosis, Silver King, and El Dandy (but who are we to doubt him?)
Then Yugi Nagata (I guess I've pushed him a bit but Heat of 9?!), Rick Martel (2-7 and Charisma 75 but Heat of 9?!), and Craig Pittman (total jobber at 0-3 but Heat of 8).
Hogan and Bret Hart have Heat of 7 (and I don't think I ever adjusted Bret's Heat manually - which I should have to represent how huge it was him coming to WCW).
This tells me two things:
1) That you totally need to have Johnny Grunge "HBK" Rocco Rock...
2) I think you overestimate how excited the WCW fanbase was to have Bret Hart in WCW. They were excited, yeah, but he was in thin ice with his interactions with everybody...and the first time he crossed Flair, even in a friendly way (two months into his run) the fans were turning on him. Bret (hate to say it) just didn't have the universal appeal of a Hogan when jumping feds.