Post by smathis on Dec 21, 2010 9:16:50 GMT -5
Yup. I hit this a lot too back in the day, especially during Jimmy Snuka's long title reign in my fed. Snuka squashed everybody for two years or so. I brought in Strangler Lewis to try to get a competitive feud going. Snuka squashed him too. And the Lewis -- who was supposed to be this monster technical wrestler -- sunk all the way down the card. Even losing his way out of contention for the junior title.
To "fix" the issue, I did two things.
First, I went to a non-storyline fed. I no longer try to set anything up. I just put the guys into their bracket and let them duke it out. Sometimes matches disappoint me. Heck, sometimes whole events disappoint me. But it's not that big of a concern because it's one small piece of a larger thing. It's more transitory because I'm not building it up to be anything more than it's not.
The second thing I did was work through a lot of trial-and-error and researched a lot of different wrestling games to find a quicker way to play. And mostly that was accomplished by getting rid of the "10 minutes of move-1s" that Shon talks about. Those simply cannot happen in my matches anymore.
So, for example, a match on a recent PPV between Arik Cannon & Amish Roadkill and the Love Brothers that went over an hour in "gametime", really only took me a little over half an hour to play. That same match with normal rules (or matches like it) would have easily taken an hour or more otherwise.
The non-storyline fed makes it so that the dice do what they do. And if I'm fighting them, that's often ruining everything I've planned. The quicker play gives me less of an investment in the results during actual play. So if that match between Bruiser Brody and Hulk Hogan is a complete bomb. No big. It was probably only 5-10 minutes out of my life.
And I generally play while the TV's going or my wife needs me to go get something or the kids wake up, etc. So it's not like it's even a full 5-10 minutes.
To "fix" the issue, I did two things.
First, I went to a non-storyline fed. I no longer try to set anything up. I just put the guys into their bracket and let them duke it out. Sometimes matches disappoint me. Heck, sometimes whole events disappoint me. But it's not that big of a concern because it's one small piece of a larger thing. It's more transitory because I'm not building it up to be anything more than it's not.
The second thing I did was work through a lot of trial-and-error and researched a lot of different wrestling games to find a quicker way to play. And mostly that was accomplished by getting rid of the "10 minutes of move-1s" that Shon talks about. Those simply cannot happen in my matches anymore.
So, for example, a match on a recent PPV between Arik Cannon & Amish Roadkill and the Love Brothers that went over an hour in "gametime", really only took me a little over half an hour to play. That same match with normal rules (or matches like it) would have easily taken an hour or more otherwise.
The non-storyline fed makes it so that the dice do what they do. And if I'm fighting them, that's often ruining everything I've planned. The quicker play gives me less of an investment in the results during actual play. So if that match between Bruiser Brody and Hulk Hogan is a complete bomb. No big. It was probably only 5-10 minutes out of my life.
And I generally play while the TV's going or my wife needs me to go get something or the kids wake up, etc. So it's not like it's even a full 5-10 minutes.
