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Post by Cory Olson on Apr 22, 2024 11:35:11 GMT -5
Another one of my biggest regrets is sticking with exactly 100 years in the future even when we went to 2 sets per year. I eventually "caught up" but it makes for some weird history with guys coming in way before their official debut year and having some years with no new wrestlers at all. This is a great example, Matt! When I started playing COTG, I pretty much used the actual dates I would play cards as part of my storyline, just 100 years in the future. (So when I started in 1994, my fed history was 2094, even though I was playing with the 2086 characters.) I knew that most promoters played by the storyline years but as a naive teenager, I couldn't understand how promoters could schedule cards not around real time.  Now, having gotten behind in my USWA, I see that it's very easy just to schedule as many cards as you want in a storyline month or year and it doesn't have to match real time. |
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Post by Matt on Apr 22, 2024 12:29:08 GMT -5
Another one of my biggest regrets is sticking with exactly 100 years in the future even when we went to 2 sets per year. I eventually "caught up" but it makes for some weird history with guys coming in way before their official debut year and having some years with no new wrestlers at all. This is a great example, Matt! When I started playing COTG, I pretty much used the actual dates I would play cards as part of my storyline, just 100 years in the future. (So when I started in 1994, my fed history was 2094, even though I was playing with the 2086 characters.) I knew that most promoters played by the storyline years but as a naive teenager, I couldn't understand how promoters could schedule cards not around real time. Now, having gotten behind in my USWA, I see that it's very easy just to schedule as many cards as you want in a storyline month or year and it doesn't have to match real time. Yes, I did exact dates too. So some months when I played a lot there were lots of cards, other months had very few. Bad setup, but I didn't think of it that way at the time. Now, "time" is irrelevant, I just have x number of cards in a year. Our time is meaningless to most of the galaxy anyway! |
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Post by mikefortune on Apr 22, 2024 21:26:26 GMT -5
Ok, I gotta defend myself. Yes I asked about paying for Chuck Carter and his family to come to G-con. My reasoning was, why are teenagers having to pay for a trip for a grown ass man to go on vacation. Others felt the same way and Chuck didn't make it out. Talked to Tom and he remembered that as well. So there, I can be a mean Canadian.
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Post by Vegas on Apr 22, 2024 22:01:26 GMT -5
Although I have alwasy been good since 2006 and 2008 of posting my LOW fed results and my Indie fed results respectively, my personal biggest regret is not using the COTG fed thread on the message boards to create an electronic history of my COTG feds. These days I find the title histories subthreads invaluable for quick references for my fed histories and I also copy and paste those title histories on another drive as a backup.
I kept my COTG fed records on paper which got lost on one of my many moves (prior to be buying my current home in 2010) forcing me to restart my fed history with the color cards which I call my color card fed which so far is comprised of the years with color cards: 2078-2079, 2087-2093, and 2125-2139. Hopefully I can fill in all the gaps eventually with future COTG color card set releases.
Cool to hear a reference for The Honeymooners. I loved that show and how it was similar to The Flintstones which was one of my favorite cartoons as a kid (my parents used to take me to Flintstoneland in British Columbia) and apparently remains somewhat popular today as you can still see the Flintstones cereal and vitamins at the grocery store.
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Post by paul on Apr 23, 2024 13:31:21 GMT -5
Although I have alwasy been good since 2006 and 2008 of posting my LOW fed results and my Indie fed results respectively, my personal biggest regret is not using the COTG fed thread on the message boards to create an electronic history of my COTG feds. These days I find the title histories subthreads invaluable for quick references for my fed histories and I also copy and paste those title histories on another drive as a backup. I kept my COTG fed records on paper which got lost on one of my many moves (prior to be buying my current home in 2010) forcing me to restart my fed history with the color cards which I call my color card fed which so far is comprised of the years with color cards: 2078-2079, 2087-2093, and 2125-2139. Hopefully I can fill in all the gaps eventually with future COTG color card set releases. Cool to hear a reference for The Honeymooners. I loved that show and how it was similar to The Flintstones which was one of my favorite cartoons as a kid (my parents used to take me to Flintstoneland in British Columbia) and apparently remains somewhat popular today as you can still see the Flintstones cereal and vitamins at the grocery store. Holy Cow! I had forgotten all about that Flintstoneland. I went there once as a kid on a summer camp daytrip. I only have vague memories of it but I do remember I had a good time. Yabba Dabba Doo! |
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Now, having gotten behind in my USWA, I see that it's very easy just to schedule as many cards as you want in a storyline month or year and it doesn't have to match real time. 
