A different way to play: Replay Style
Jun 13, 2020 14:36:47 GMT -5
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Post by stu on Jun 13, 2020 14:36:47 GMT -5
Greetings fellow promoters. Thought I'd share a style I've developed of playing LOW, or COTG for that matter, that may appeal to those of you who have played countless replays for tabletop sports.
Any of you who have played Strat-O-Matic, or any sports tabletop simulation, have probably embarked upon a season replay of some sort. For me, I used to do Braves season replays all the time, where I played a particular season's worth of games for the Braves, kept stats, and see how they did. I've wanted to try something akin to this with wrestling games, and after a lot of trial and error, have come up with a system for doing so.
I'm now playing career replays (well, I'm not technically playing a series of historical matches, which would be a real replay, but I'm using the term "replay" just for simplicity's sake) for a lot of wrestlers. These are projects where I anoint a wrestler for which I'd like to do a career replay as World Champion, and then have him travel the country and globe defending the title. But wait, you say....what if he loses the title? That would end the replay would it not? Glad you asked that!
It is for that very reason that I've developed the Replay System. So, without further adieu, here is what this system is:
*Replay Style Methodology for Recording Title Reigns:
A. Choose one wrestler to be World Champion (or secondary or tag champ) for their respective fed, or choose one wrestler for which to run a career replay. That World Champion will then have a series of matches (or even one match here and there) and will remain World Champion until his reign is declared over.
B. Wins, Losses, Draws, Wins by DQ, Losses by DQ (W-L-D-DQW-DQL) will be recorded during the title reign (NOTE: This is optional). When a wrestler loses a bout, he’s considered to have lost the title (and the wrestler who won the match gets credit for a title “defense”….see “C”). When a wrestler wins a title match, however, that win is considered 1 title defense within his reign. The rule of thumb is it takes 20 title wins/defenses to equal one World Title reign (5 title wins to equal one secondary or World Tag-Team reign).
C. After the title reign is declared over (which again, can just be one match), the wrestler’s title defenses are added to his overall defenses to keep track of how many career title reigns he has. Each wrestler who has had a title win/defense (and who has subsequent “reigns”) keeps recording title wins/defenses until his wins reach 20 total (or 5, in the case of a secondary or World Tag-Team Title). This is considered his first “reign”, and each title “win” within that reign is considered a title “defense”. He will not be acknowledged as having won the World Title for a 2nd time until he wins another 20 title matches (or 5, with a secondary or World Tag Title). For example, a wrestler who has won 40 World title matches will be acknowledged as having won the World Title 2 times, with 40 defenses.
D. Clean wins count, as title match wins/defenses. Wins by DQ or Wins by Count-out will also count as wins/defenses. Losses by DQ or losses by COR, even though both would be considered as defenses in traditional wrestling, do not count as title wins/defenses.
E. Finally, all title defenses before 6/13/2020 are considered as historical title defenses, and are added to a wrestler’s career defense totals. They do not count towards actual title wins or reigns. For example, Godsend has 56 title defenses historically, before 6/13/2020. And he’s “won” the World Title (which means he won a World Title match during his “reign”) 22 times. Godsend’s career record would then be considered as him having won the World Title 1 time (the 20 “wins” count as one reign), he’s 2 wins into his 2nd World Title Reign, and he has 78 career World Title Defenses (the 56 Title Defenses prior to 6/13/2020 plus his 22 “wins” which count as title defenses).
This system works really, really well for me at least, and I wanted to share it with fellow promoters. Who knows, some of you may be like me, in that you'd love to run a career replay for your favorite wrestler. And right now, I'm running many replays for LOW wrestlers, COTG wrestlers, and bootleg wrestlers, jumping around from project to project to give me tons of variety.
Advantages of this system:
*Since your Champion remains your champion until you're tired of the replay, well, no worrying about having the belt being taken away quickly!
*Feuds still develop....in fact, they're even more heated, since they develop over a title match!
*I'll never run out of replays to do. If I tired of Nick Bockwinkel's replay for the moment, I just set it down, play Star Warrior's career replay for a while, and then pick Bock's back up when I want. There's just as much variety to this as running a regular fed.
For these main reasons, this really works for me at least. Anyway, wanted to share this with you all, and my next post, I'll demonstrate how this works!
Any of you who have played Strat-O-Matic, or any sports tabletop simulation, have probably embarked upon a season replay of some sort. For me, I used to do Braves season replays all the time, where I played a particular season's worth of games for the Braves, kept stats, and see how they did. I've wanted to try something akin to this with wrestling games, and after a lot of trial and error, have come up with a system for doing so.
I'm now playing career replays (well, I'm not technically playing a series of historical matches, which would be a real replay, but I'm using the term "replay" just for simplicity's sake) for a lot of wrestlers. These are projects where I anoint a wrestler for which I'd like to do a career replay as World Champion, and then have him travel the country and globe defending the title. But wait, you say....what if he loses the title? That would end the replay would it not? Glad you asked that!
It is for that very reason that I've developed the Replay System. So, without further adieu, here is what this system is:
*Replay Style Methodology for Recording Title Reigns:
A. Choose one wrestler to be World Champion (or secondary or tag champ) for their respective fed, or choose one wrestler for which to run a career replay. That World Champion will then have a series of matches (or even one match here and there) and will remain World Champion until his reign is declared over.
B. Wins, Losses, Draws, Wins by DQ, Losses by DQ (W-L-D-DQW-DQL) will be recorded during the title reign (NOTE: This is optional). When a wrestler loses a bout, he’s considered to have lost the title (and the wrestler who won the match gets credit for a title “defense”….see “C”). When a wrestler wins a title match, however, that win is considered 1 title defense within his reign. The rule of thumb is it takes 20 title wins/defenses to equal one World Title reign (5 title wins to equal one secondary or World Tag-Team reign).
C. After the title reign is declared over (which again, can just be one match), the wrestler’s title defenses are added to his overall defenses to keep track of how many career title reigns he has. Each wrestler who has had a title win/defense (and who has subsequent “reigns”) keeps recording title wins/defenses until his wins reach 20 total (or 5, in the case of a secondary or World Tag-Team Title). This is considered his first “reign”, and each title “win” within that reign is considered a title “defense”. He will not be acknowledged as having won the World Title for a 2nd time until he wins another 20 title matches (or 5, with a secondary or World Tag Title). For example, a wrestler who has won 40 World title matches will be acknowledged as having won the World Title 2 times, with 40 defenses.
D. Clean wins count, as title match wins/defenses. Wins by DQ or Wins by Count-out will also count as wins/defenses. Losses by DQ or losses by COR, even though both would be considered as defenses in traditional wrestling, do not count as title wins/defenses.
E. Finally, all title defenses before 6/13/2020 are considered as historical title defenses, and are added to a wrestler’s career defense totals. They do not count towards actual title wins or reigns. For example, Godsend has 56 title defenses historically, before 6/13/2020. And he’s “won” the World Title (which means he won a World Title match during his “reign”) 22 times. Godsend’s career record would then be considered as him having won the World Title 1 time (the 20 “wins” count as one reign), he’s 2 wins into his 2nd World Title Reign, and he has 78 career World Title Defenses (the 56 Title Defenses prior to 6/13/2020 plus his 22 “wins” which count as title defenses).
This system works really, really well for me at least, and I wanted to share it with fellow promoters. Who knows, some of you may be like me, in that you'd love to run a career replay for your favorite wrestler. And right now, I'm running many replays for LOW wrestlers, COTG wrestlers, and bootleg wrestlers, jumping around from project to project to give me tons of variety.
Advantages of this system:
*Since your Champion remains your champion until you're tired of the replay, well, no worrying about having the belt being taken away quickly!
*Feuds still develop....in fact, they're even more heated, since they develop over a title match!
*I'll never run out of replays to do. If I tired of Nick Bockwinkel's replay for the moment, I just set it down, play Star Warrior's career replay for a while, and then pick Bock's back up when I want. There's just as much variety to this as running a regular fed.
For these main reasons, this really works for me at least. Anyway, wanted to share this with you all, and my next post, I'll demonstrate how this works!
