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The thing is, this is a North American wrestling simulator, so at least for overness, foreign wrestlers from any country outside of the US, Canada, or Mexico will not be rated as high even if they're huge stars in Japan.

I've been trying to do a realistic 1998 scenario forever, but it can be quite a bit of work. I wish you the best of luck with this one and look forward to playing or helping in whatever capacity I have time for down the road.

You could just put Larry Legend, Kris.

I agree with lowering it to seventy. While he did act in self-defense, he overreacted, IMO. He shouldn't be hitting fans, even if they are provoking him. 70 sounds about right.

I wouldn't raise Cena's overness. He still gets a lot of boos despite being a face. I know WWE plays it off as him being controversial, but he's not doing anything to garner the boos; they happen naturally because a lot of people dislike him, and since he's a babyface, that's not exactly a testament to him being over with 99% of the wrestling fans. Anyway, I agree with Hogan getting fonz factor. Not sure about raising his charisma to 96. Same goes for Dusty. Those guys' best promo days are clearly behind them. As for Brock, why do you think he deserves 88 in selling? I could maybe see around 80, but 88 seems awfully high for a guy who still has this aura as a monster and bad ass. He flat-out no-sold a Pedigree right before latching on the match-ending kimura against HHH. Even if it's part of his character, he's no-selling moves and I don't think even when he DOES sell he deserves an 88. Regardless of if he is getting the desired reaction or not, he is still getting a reaction, what overness is all about. EVERYONE in wrestling knows who he is, as well as people outside of wrestling, he's transcended that cultural barrier. As for Brock, it is based off of his match with Cena. No selling a move for character purposes isn't the same as being incapable of being a good seller (See: Undertaker). His selling was near perfect at Extreme Rules. -Raise Kaitlyn's brawl to 51, stiffness to 41, and selling to 73. -Raise Eve Torres' brawl to 49. -Raise Mr. McMahon's overness to 98. I feel like his brawl should be raised to 61, as well. Tremendous psychology and emotion put into his brawls. Cena isn't getting the desired reaction, though. When Rocky Maivia was getting "Rocky sucks" chants, it wasn't because he was "over." It was because the fans didn't buy into his act. The same thing is going on with Cena, granted on a much larger scale. I know we're only talking about a point or two here, but 99 puts him in a special class that I don't feel like Cena is in.

Seems kinda high for them. They aren't exactly good brawlers.

Comedy: look at his work with Colt Cabana in Ring of Honor, or his work in the Jericho feud where he pretended to be drunk or even some of the zanier Pipe Bomb stuff (like the WWE Ice Cream bar thing) he has done Acting: Granted he's never starred in a movie, but he's shown a wide range of emotion (guess this also ties into versatility) from being angry, sad, cocky, ecstatic, whatever... He's never had difficulty expressing his emotions. Intensity: How the hell can you say he fails at intensity? I'd say this is his strong suit, but really he's so damn well rounded. But lately he's been bitter, angry, and driven, and he always comes off as intense and determined. I agree Jericho and JBL are great. Kennedy is pretty good, too. But Punk is a cut above all those guys right now, although Jericho is close.

I wouldn't raise Cena's overness. He still gets a lot of boos despite being a face. I know WWE plays it off as him being controversial, but he's not doing anything to garner the boos; they happen naturally because a lot of people dislike him, and since he's a babyface, that's not exactly a testament to him being over with 99% of the wrestling fans. Anyway, I agree with Hogan getting fonz factor. Not sure about raising his charisma to 96. Same goes for Dusty. Those guys' best promo days are clearly behind them. As for Brock, why do you think he deserves 88 in selling? I could maybe see around 80, but 88 seems awfully high for a guy who still has this aura as a monster and bad ass. He flat-out no-sold a Pedigree right before latching on the match-ending kimura against HHH. Even if it's part of his character, he's no-selling moves and I don't think even when he DOES sell he deserves an 88.

I actually realized that a week or so ago when I was working on stuff again. Not sure how that happened, but I've changed it. Gonna do my best to get some kind of an update posted this weekend. We'll see how busy it is.

Well, that's kind of saying do not remove Chris Benoit from the game, although he is "dead", I still use him as an active wrestler in my games. If you want to use her in your games, just request stats and make her in the File Editor anyway, but if she is really retired, she has no business in the game, that's how it goes. A lot of people temporarily retire and come back. Look at Jericho. Look at what Beth Phoenix is doing. I'd leave her in as a non-wrestler.

I would put Ryback's over around 79 and Wade Barrett's at 82.

WWE RAW spoiler:

Found it odd that Vitor kept pulling guard, but given he was hurt by Jones' kicks and had a short training camp and thus wasn't in top shape, I suppose it makes sense. Add in the fact that he was able to trap Jones in that tight armbar in round one and got him in triangle position in round two, it wasn't too farfetched for Vitor to think his best shot at victory was a submission... Still wish he would've gone for broke and tried to knock Jones out, which I guess he did in round four, only to get taken down and put in that nasty Americana. Sick fight all around, though. I don't regret watching it or the Flyweight Title bout for that matter. Not sure what the booing was about, but the fight between Benavidez and Mighty Mouse was fast, furious, and fun. I'll look forward to Uncle Creepy working his way to a rematch against Johnson and hopefully taking the belt, though.

Well, I used all the relationships you had (thank you for that). There were a lot of guys who didn't have any relationships, even after using your file. I'm nearing the end of that. Alter egos, I have over 300 guys done for that, I think. I still have work to do on other areas, though... everything from staff, tag teams, sponsors, and rosters for promotions range from somewhat incomplete to very incomplete. It's definitely a work in progress...

Expanding on the Night of Champions spoilers:

Might want to wait a week or two (closer to the end of the month) for clarification. I know he attacked one of the Robbies at a house show, but he's still doing this free agent gimmick, so who knows what he'll end up doing. I know it's a stretch, but he might be on an open contract or just making one-off appearances to throw people off Aces & Eights? I have no clue, but it wouldn't hurt to wait a couple weeks.

I was still going through relationships one by one because there are a LOT that were missed, especially for the lesser known workers. I want the game to be as detailed and complete as possible. I also was still entering in alter egos. That said, I haven't had a lot of time to work on it, but I'm still working on it sparingly. I'll try to post an update as soon as possible, but it's not looking like this weekend I'll get a lot done.

I can understand lowering her behavior (and I'd suggest lowering it to 44). But why would you lower her attitude? Attitude is how willing she is to work angles and lose matches and things like that, I think. What happened there is a reflection on her real-world behavior.

Most people would probably have just skipped a month. I really admire your dedication and appreciate your consistency, Bill. Hope you get your laptop back soon.

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I don't know if Su Yung's real name is Lauren McBride, but yeah.

Cornette's very good, but not to the point where he'd be a 100 over household name after cutting 30 promos (which is what you're suggesting). 85 or so makes more sense. I don't follow your argument. You are saying because of game mechanics, we should lower his charisma? Cornette is still one of the premier talkers in the business, right up there with Flair, Jericho, Rock, McMahon and Austin in my book. ...yes, I *am* saying we should make stats based on what they mean in practice in EWR. So if someone is a great high flyer, but they aren't over because WWE isn't pushing them, we need to lower their speed? The fact is, Jim Cornette could easily get to an extremely high level of real life "overness" based off of his promo skills, just because he was never put in a spot where he was able to by management and the creative team isn't a testament at all to his skill. As a matter of fact, in real life he WAS at an extremely high level of popularity (more like disdain, since he was a heel) during his early NWA/WCW and WWF days. It's like saying Colt Cabana's skills should be lowered because he never received a push when he was Scotty Goldman. The argument by Quickquid reminds me of back in 2006-2008 when people claimed CM Punk wasn't good at promos and didn't deserve higher than Randy Orton in charisma because he wasn't given promo time in WWE and wasn't entertaining on the microphone and was overrated on the indies. Seriously though, I'd leave Cornette at 94. While he is one of the best talkers in the business, I would put him just a cut below the true elites in the 96-100 range - like Jericho, Punk, etc. Ric Flair is at 94. I'd put Cornette around that, or maybe bump Flair up to 95. While on the topic of charisma, with Daniel Bryan's recent awesome work on the mic - catchphrases, segments with AJ, segments with Kane, segments with everyone else from Rock to Cena to Charlie Sheen (lol) - I think he should be around 90 or so in charisma. I know that's really high, but he's shown more charisma in the last year or so than guys like Orton, Del Rio, or a few others around the upper 80s.