What makes a good scenario?

[bigharrycool]

Basically i'm thinking of redoing a historical scenario maybe 95 or 97 and I was wondering what you thought made a good scenario.

It's my belief a focus should be on playablitiy as opposed to realisim. Not to say realism should be ignored.

What do you think playable wages should be? By this I think you should be able to play an ECW scenario without going bankrupted in 3 months and at the other end WWF should be able to steal WCW talent and visa versa without pushing wages too far into $200'000 range.

I think a lot of the stats suffer too much from bias. A lot of WWE headliners have awful stats, but if they would be put on a card they would be a bigger draw than some no name indy sensation. How would this be best reflected?

In saying that how should you reflect genuine future stars without overdoing it?

Other issues include relationships, staff etc.

Just really wanted to generate discussion as its obvious a lot of people are unhappy with a lot of the scenarios available, but if you had some time what would you do to improve them.

Harry

[Rocky]

I think a lot of the stats suffer too much from bias. A lot of WWE headliners have awful stats, but if they would be put on a card they would be a bigger draw than some no name indy sensation. How would this be best reflected?

In saying that how should you reflect genuine future stars without overdoing it?

That's where overness comes into play...

In any scenario, historical or fantasy, the first thing I look for is depth. Is there enough within the DATA to go long term. Before becoming a "fantasy scenario"

As for reflecting Genuine future stars. I'm guessing you're referring to how Orton/Cena/Punk etc can be portrayed in this timeframe,

You can easily make anyone a star... It's not their Brawl/Tech/Speed stats that make them stars.

Mostly concentrating on realistic overness and decent enough charisma to assist in building up overness.

Ahhh too tired to think...

[bigharrycool]

Ok I would agree depth is a key to making a great scenario.

In relation to this how many workers would make a scenario worth while?

Most scenarios seem to have around 500 workers. I feel this is a little too low because after you minus the workers who are contracted to the big two it tends not to leave enough workers to develop a new up and coming promotion if you should desire. Around 600 or more would be a little better.

I agree Charisma and Overness are key.

In terms of payment, I feel there should be more structured.

I have come up with the following structure with which I feel allows growth and interest for all the levels of promotion.

Legends/Long term Main Eventers - Around $125'000

Main Eventer: 81-100 - Around $100'000

Upper Midcarder: 71-80 Around $70.000

Midcarder: 56-70 Around $45'000

Lower Midcarder: 41-55 Around $25'000

Opener: 21-40 Around $15'000

Jobber: 0-20 Around $5'000

Just some thoughts. Let me know what you think.

Harry

[ChrisPMWBenoit]

Average Wage per month for wrestlers

Backyard = 10k

Small = 20k

Regional = 40k

Cult = 70k

National = 100k

Global = Unlimited

Remember this is the average wage of your roster...so going by this...RVD when he was in ECW would be over 70k as he was one of their bigger stars so would probably be on 100k or something like that. WWF 2001's average wage would be higher than National's average wage because they were global so there midcarders would prob be on 125k with upper midcarders like Benoit, Jericho, Angle etc on about 150k or so and the likes of Austin, Rock, HHH & Taker near and around 200k...that's how I would calculate it...

Average Wage per month for staff

Backyard = 5k

Small = 10k

Regional = 20k

Cult = 40k

National = 70k

Global = Unlimited

[ChrisPMWBenoit]

Overness

This is what I go by...

00-15:(5k) Backyarder

Unknown to the public wrestlers...make a few up and make their wrestling stats pretty shitty, these are not mostly trained wrestlers

16-30:(15k) Little Known Indy Worker

Just starting out on the indy scene or washed up indy stars

31-45:(30k) Well Known Indy Worker

Just starting to get noticed on the indy scene

46-60:(60k) Regional Star/Big Indy Star/Foreign Star

Who all the small regional promotions will be looking to book and the big stars from outside North America who have had minimal exposure in NA

61-75:(90k) Cult Following/National Worker

RVD in ECW, Bryan Danielson now/Midcard WWE workers like Hardcore Holly, Test, Albert, APA in 2000

76-85:(120k) National Star

TLC Tag teams in 2000, Booker T & Scott Steiner at WCW dying days, Scott Hall & Owen Hart at their most popular

86-95:(150k) International Star

Kurt Angle, Benoit & Jericho in 2000 would be 80s bit of this. Undertaker, Randy Savage in early 90s, Bret Hart & Shawn Michaels in mid 90s would all be in the 90s end of this

96+ :(200k) Global Superstar

Hogan 80s, Rock & Austin attitude era

Edited August 10, 2010 by ChrisPMWBenoit