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As mentioned above, Nord was definitely working for WCW. As for the others: Manny Fernandez worked for WCW in late '97 and I'm pretty sure made sporadic appearances on Worldwide and the other smaller shows. He should be in under an open contract. Maxx Muscle may not have been. It's hard to tell with the gap in his match history. Looks like Brian Knobbs wasn't in WCW at the time so I'll remove him. I added those relationships. I didn't remove hogan/savage because they were still really good friends at this point as far as I can tell.

I just don't think if you saw Abraham Washington you'd think he was a wrestler off the bat. In most cases, Superstar Look are for people who undeniably look like a main event wrestler... I don't think AW has that kind of look to him.

I assume he means Ricardo Lamas, Korean Zombie, and possibly Clay Guida? In terms of actual rankings, well, Pettis isn't even ranked. Edgar wasn't either, but he was a former champion at a higher weight class moving down after a very contentious loss to the current LW Champion. Plus Edgar is a natural 135 pounder. As for Pettis, while I love this match up from strictly a fight standpoint, and I don't care much about the rankings in this case, Pettis is circumventing the logjam at 155. He doesn't want to wait his turn for a title shot (Which I totally understand from both a financial standpoint and the fact that he should have IMO gotten an insta-title shot when he joined UFC). But I mean, he's the #2 contender at LW and never held the UFC title, so it's not like Edgar dropping down to 145.

Rousey has 10 arms in her MMA collection... impressive. Carmouche had her in some danger. The main event had some good drama, and the whole show (sans the disappointing Schaub and Machida fights) was good. Dan Henderson has the best chin in MMA. Just amazing. Even at 42 years old, with all the wars he's been in, his chin hasn't deteriorated.

I'd give Zeb speed of around 5 and tech of about 15. I don't think he should have 0s in each. I agree with unchecking superstar look for Washington. Not 100% sure on Fonz Factor to be honest. He was charismatic in his own way.

Not sure if I'll get an update posted. Had to babysit my sick niece most of the weekend. I'll try to get something posted soon. Meanwhile, if people could reach a consensus on the risk ratings for TBS, TNT, and WCW in general, that would be good. I gave the networks moderate increases in the meantime after looking at these two threads: http://www.ewbattleground.com/index.php?/topic/3982-matches-and-the-risk-levels/ http://www.ewbattleground.com/index.php?/topic/3984-angles/

You said you're still getting used to the computer - Is it a Windows 7 or 8? I know on Windows 7 you can right click a program file and select Run As Administrator. Depending on how your user profiles are set up and other settings, you might need a password.

Try checking the properties of the folder and the files and making sure they aren't read only. Either that or make sure you're running EWR as administrator.

Did you unzip the folders/extract the files first after downloading them?

People can easily change anything they want themselves. The whole point of posting suggestions in this thread is what the default settings should be. That said, I think cocky fits better than biker at this point.

True, but War Games was never done on TV as far as I know. It was a PPV-exclusive, done on Fall Brawl for the most part... There is no risk limit for PPV, and only sponsors would be effected by raising the risk for a PPV event. As long as the player returns the risk to the TV-appropriate levels before the next show, there wouldn't be a problem. That said, what does everybody think? WCW wasn't really afforded many risky angles, characters, or match types... Things were kept PG in the primetime slots. I don't really remember enough about other programming on TNT at this time, besides NBA basketball, and on TBS it was mostly comedy blocks.

Why lower Jeff's overness? Jeff Hardy is my favourite wrestler but I don't believe he is as over as Sting, and I don't believe he should be so far off of Bobby Roode. I guess to me, and Jeff Hardy isn't my favorite wrestler - and Sting is my all-time favorite wrestler - I think Jeff and Sting should be equal. Sting is probably more over with the TNA fans and a lot of older/former wrestling fans know him from the WCW and NWA days. That said, Jeff Hardy has been a main eventer in WWE semi-recently and was on their flagship shows and stuff off and on for the last 10 years. I think a combination of those factors evens their over out. That said, I'm not even gonna complain if Sting is a point higher, but that's just how I see them kind of leveling off and being equal. I don't think Nash is more over than Rey Mysterio... that guy sells so much merch and could be put in a WWE Title match at any point and not be out of place. I mean, he was one of the two guys WWE put in a title match when Punk "left" WWE. I think Rey should still be around 91 or 92.

I didn't realize that. I saw Dean Malenko trained Kane and added it. I'll remove the relationship, thanks. I didn't know that about Bearer and Sunny. I'll add a hate relationship. I'm gonna try to post an updated data by next weekend. Please keep posting, everyone - this is a huge help!

I'd give him 92.8675309 but not a ten-millionth higher. I know how silly it looks when I'm arguing about whether he gets 91, 92, or 93, but point being he should be higher than Miz, and when Miz is 91, then IMHO Hardy shouldn't be lower than 92... again, I know it's arbitrary arguing about stats that are based on perception and opinion, but that's mine.

Thanks, guys. I added Jarrett/Austin as a dislike. I'm not sure about Kane's relationships in the game at the moment, but if you guys want to tell me which ones - specifically - that don't need to be there, I'll remove them.

I tried to keep that in mind but probably went overboard between combining 3-4 different sources' worth of relationships. I thought Austin wasn't fond of Flair because of WCW politics, which would've only been a few years before that. I know Austin didn't like Hogan or Bischoff much around then, and for some reason I thought Flair was included. I'll remove Austin/Taker, though I thought they were friends at this point. I'll bump this down to a dislike, but in a shoot interview with Bigelow, he trashed the shit out of HHH. This interview was from like, 1997 I think, even before HHH made it big. Some of them might have been too early, I don't know. I forget if there were any sources for these or I was just copying the relationships for Foley from the other scenarios. I'll leave the Jericho/Storm and Edge/Christian ones in but take the rest out, like for Benoit and Edge/Christian. Pretty sure Paul Bearer was good friends with Undertaker and Kane outside of the ring... As for Austin and Kane/Bearer, I don't remember if that was part of that group I mentioned earlier or not. I'll have to go find the source again. Probably too early for Rocky to have those relationships, though I might keep the Austin one since they'd worked together several times and Austin helped his career a lot in the early going during the NoD days... It does relate a lot to Bret and the screwjob and the attitude problems HBK had around this time. Taker seemed to dislike Shawn and they didn't repair their relationship for several years from my sources. Good point. They probably didn't have any contact, so it was just respect. I removed this one. I think they should at least have friendship. I can remove these two. I think they might be unneeded, since they were friends of friends and not necessarily direct friends. I can remove these. I wasn't sure when the stuff between Jericho and Zbyszko started. I don't think Jarrett and Austin disliked each other yet. I don't think they spent much time if any working in the same promotion... Jarrett had just rejoined WWF a month or two before this scenario and I think most of the problems were because of Debra? I don't even remember what the check comment is, so yeah. If you can provide a source from '97, that'd be good, as this is January 1st 1998 and I don't think they had any real interaction yet. I'll add/change these.

I definitely agree I probably have too many relationships. I took them from PhilaHItman and the current scenarios and went through both Wikipedia and Cagematch to do my best to validate/verify them... But I agree I probably have too many. That said, there are a few I just want to clarify: This scenario IS for January 1998, so you are correct. That said, I didn't put Kane speaking as No because I believe he was speaking by the end of the year with the assistance of the voice box. Plus if he gets signed by another organization, it's not like he CAN'T speak, he just chooses not to. It's really tough in those situations. I have trouble telling if Taz/Sabu was strictly in character or not. It seems inconsistent through a lot of the records, whether their relationship was actually bad or if they just played up their kayfabe rivalry. It's tough because I don't know if it should be friendship, dislike, or just nothing... I'll change most of the other stuff you suggested. I'm not sure about Nash/Hall and Hogan, though. That's another situation where depending on that specific point, it's tough to tell if they were friends or not. I put them down as friends because the Outsiders talked about how much money Hogan made for them and how he's the one guy everybody should want to work with at that time because he made the most money, more than Flair or anybody else... So, I don't know if that's friendship or strictly business. If you can, please give me more examples of relationships to remove. Just as a warning though, all the Undertaker/Kama Mustafa/Yokozuna etc. relationships (I forget who all was in that big group) are based on a group of guys who hung out regularly backstage and were sort of a clique of their own. It was pretty legit from what I could find.

Jeff Hardy's overness should still be at least 92. The guy could show up on Raw or SD! and get a louder reaction than someone like Mark Henry, Alberto Del Rio, or The Miz. He could main event and be world champion in WWE right now and he'd get the crowd reactions to compensate.

Sorry for not replying sooner, but anyway, as tedious as it is, there are a lot of errors - I imagine anyway - with the data. I'd love it if someone could at least skim through the wrestlers and see if anything sticks out that needs fixing, stuff like incorrect nationalities, speak yes/no, missing stats, missing pics, etc. That would be one of the first things; if you have the time and interest in doing it, I'd appreciate it.

Barao vs. McDonald was a great fight. Both those guys are world-class.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/2013/02/11/nfl-san-diego-chargers-david-chao/1911653/ Lower David Chao's talent to absolute zero.

Just an update - Coming along very slowly but I'm still working on it. I'll hopefully release another update some time soon-ish. I haven't heard anything from Disturbed since the board switch, so I'm hoping he's still able to work on those sponsors, but if not I'll get those done eventually. This isn't exactly my top priority, as between work and life and weather issues, there's other stuff that takes prominence, but I still want to get this finished sooner rather than later.

Dude, not to come across as a dick myself, but you've got to quit saying shit like "up for discussion", "end of discussion", or "hopefully that stops discussion." You come across as a major tool. This is a DISCUSSION board. The whole point of this thread, in particular, is to DISCUSS the stats of the game. Bill is the one doing the stats update, so unless he comes in and says "no more disussion on this topic", then EVERYTHING is going to be up for debate and discussion. Just say your piece and hope enough people agree with you that the change you want gets made, but don't get pushy or controlling about it, or you'll come across as an asshole and wind up getting flamed or constantly have people troll you by asking for proof of your suggestions.

Abyss should be Joseph Park, not Joseph Parks.