WWE Game: Moving it to "The Squared Circle"

[Hammy]

Me and D having been discussing the ways in which we could work it, numbers wise to allow more in, and we came up with leagues.

"A" League - Premier League.  The current participants over at HTGTH.

"B" League - People here who want to possibly join - Ragu, slashfro, Tony, A Private Eye, Axl4Life etc.

As we crown the 1, 2, 3 in league A - World, IC and US Champ in the B it would be something like - European, ****, Cruiser.

Now clearly the B League is also very important, we'd work promotion/relegation.  Bottom 2 from A come down, Top 2 from B come up. (Or something similiar)

Thats also a good way to keep more active players in the top league as people who lack interest and get low down would get relegated.

Now the leagues cant be identical, the B league would be "easier".  There would be no trade limit, to pick people up it would be first come first served, and with less people involved in that league (initially) teams would be bigger.  Therefore the people who fare better would generally be those with more interest in it, the more competitive.

Also the winner of the previous game can't be relegated in the next game, they get a one game "Free Pass"

Thoughts?

[D]

U know my feelings. I think it would be cool.

[slashsfro]

Can someone point out what the rules and stipulations of this game are?

[Hammy]

Can someone point out what the rules and stipulations of this game are?

Its similiar to the one you do at ROV, same basic concept.  Just scored slightly differently.  The 2nd League would be tweaked to differentiate it from the 1st League but here are the rules, as they are now (copied and pasted)

Rules

DRAFTING HAS A 24 HOUR TIME LIMIT

RAW/SmackDown!/ECW/Superstars/Impact! Match (+5)
RAW/SmackDown!/ECW/Superstars/Impact! Win (+7)
SNME/3 Hour Raw/Smackdown/ECW/Impact!/TV Special Match (+6)
SNME/3 Hour Raw/Smackdown/ECW/Impact!/TV Special Win (+10)
Internet Match (+2)
Internet Win (+3)
Pay Per View Match (+8)
Pay Per View Win (+12)
All Shows: Win a Title (+30)
All Shows: Special Guest Referee (+2)
All Shows: Lumberjack (+2)
All Shows: Win a No.1 Contender Match/Match that earns a Title Shot (+6)
All Shows: Retain a Title (+20)
All Shows: Any Means Necessary Title Retaining, leaving still Champion Win/Lose (+5)*
All Shows: Eliminating an opponent from a Royal Rumble, Battle Royal, Elimination Match (SS, Tag, Gauntlet), Elimination Chamber, 6-Pack Challenge etc. (+5)
All Shows: Disqualification (-4)
All Shows: Lose A Title (-10)
All Shows: Is A Survivor In A Survior Series Match (+5)
All Shows: Wins King of the Ring, or a tournament where they have 3 or more matches (+25)
PPV: Fight in a Gimmick match - This now covers everything from Triple Threat, Guest Referee and Handicap Matches to the Royal Rumble any match that isn't the "norm" 1 vs 1 or 2 vs 2 standard bout (+4)
PPV: Is in the Main Event of a PPV - Otherwise known as having the LAST match on the event, not the title match, the last one, whichever that may be (+5)

*If the person retains normally for 20 points they don't get these 5 as well as

A person get's injured, fired, released, quits, dies, flys away to Japan, Bolivia, D's House, it will cost you a trade to ditch them and in all cases, aside from death they will return to the draft list.

No more than 6 Trades all game ($120,000)

DRAFTING PROCESS FOR DEBUTANTS AND THOSE ON THE DRAFT LIST

Everyone has to be bid for and to win that bid, 48 hours has to pass by without anyone outbidding you, minimum bids for all is $20,000.

The most you can bid assuming you haven't used any trades is $120,000.  When you bid for someone you state who you will drop if you win the wrestler, then when the 48 hours have passed the switch happens automatically.

If one person bids all their $120,000 and someone wants to outbid them they have to use points as well (This only happens when the $120,000 is involved). 

If someone bids you cannot bid the same you have to bid an increased amount of at last an extra $1,000 unless they have bid $120,000 in which case you bid that and points to.

Anyone who debuts during the drafting process will just be added to the list, timing's a **** 

Swaps are illegal.

You cannot drop you No.1 or 2 Draft picks, unless, they are injured, fired, suspended, or vanish off tv for 3 weeks or more.

We don't do Beer Drinking Contests, Boxing Matches, Masterlock Challenges, MMA Matches, Diva Dodgeball or any other non wrestling events/contests, we do WRESTLING matches.

You can draft as many new guys as you can afford.

You bid for someone, you can't withdraw the bid.  (Jim lurks and moderates this thread 24/7 to so no deleting post either...)

TNA will be apart of the game from the start, the initial drafting process only.

1. You can only have 1 TNA wrestlers per team (You don't have to pick any)

2.1 After the initial draft no TNA wrestlers can be picked they are only available during the initial draft

2.2 The loophole to this is if someone on the draftable WWE Roster or your team joins TNA during the game they are available and their points on TNA wrestling will count, with 90 day no compete clauses this is unlikely to happen.  If it did, this wrestler could be dropped from your team as well.

3.1 You cannot drop the TNA wrestler at any point throughout the game, no matter what happens to them, you are stuck with them so it is a big risk

3.2 If your TNA star leaves for WWE then their points on WWE TV will count, since they started the game as a TNA star and the rules state you cannot drop them then you are still stuck with them

4. Impact will be scored like RAW/Smackdown/ECW, TNA PPVs scored like WWE PPVs.  TNA has an Internet Xplosion Match on its website each week, this will be scored like Heat was, all internet exclusive matches are scored as such.

"If" by some miracle the game ends in a tie, we'll have a week of overtime, covering RAW/Smackdown/ECW/Superstars/Impact/And if there is one that week even a PPV, and whoever is ahead at the end of the week wins, if it's still a draw we have another week of Sudden Death overtime 'til a week eventually ends with someone ahead.

[Hammy]

Put simply the WWE Game has been a great success at HTGTH, I think everyone who's played it can testify to that.  With the wrestling dudes moving here things are moving over.

Now the game has a max number of participants of about 12-13 players, it really can't fit anymore, hence the idea of "2 Leagues" for the people who have never played it before to join in.  It seems like the fairest way and should be quite exciting, a chance to get "Promoted" and for the people in the top league having to worry about being relegated and such.

The difference maker for League 2 would there would be no limit on trades and with an estimated 8-9 participants teams would be bigger.

[Sober_Times]

this rule of jobbers like myself ending up in the b league will be in effect after the next game right? Cuz god damnit i am so ready to play this game and get back to at least IC status. I'm a one time IC Champ that became a hell of a jobber looking to get a big push. 

I swear I am never taking HBK again. 

[Rankin]

I swear I am never taking HBK again. 

Thats like BlowUp saying he's never picking Festus, you can't believe it! 

[BlowUpYourVideo]

Seeing as I will never be in danger of being relegated to the lower league, I have no problem with that idea.






And you can definitely believe I won't pick Festus. Lest a monster push be thrown his way of course......

[Gnrfan]

Why are we moving the game? Am i missing something? HTGTH has been good to us.

As far as the league thing goes.... I'm not sure. i'm not sure how motivated i'd be if i was in the "B" league to play. The best thing about this game is the banter with the people and seeing battles develop with people you've played with for ages.

I'll guess i go where the game goes and i guess you guys have already discussed it, but i think i'd prefer one league with 4 picks each than two leagues. Obviously if you have 20 guys who wanna play then something has to be done but not sure how 2 leagues will work.

Aside from that i take it the rules are gonna be the same?

[timothy]

I like the Idea of it being here. Also the other thing too.

[Hammy]

As far as the league thing goes.... I'm not sure. i'm not sure how motivated i'd be if i was in the "B" league to play. The best thing about this game is the banter with the people and seeing battles develop with people you've played with for ages.

The banter would continue.  The extra league is a way to introduce new players into the fold.  And a relegation aspect will not stop the banter, it will help enhance the excitement, and if you were unlucky enough to go down, chances are you'd get promoted again, its just a way of looking at manage extra players.

As for the move, with wrestling talk and the Predictions game here and this being a wrestling board it just seems to make sense rather than having things spread across 2 boards and here we just see the possiblity of development, we are still in the throwing ideas out there stage, if people have other ideas, plans, thing they think could work then we are all for hearing them.

Timothy will get to stay in the game this way to, since he got banned at hell 

[More Cowbell]

I think to help the idea of two leagues work how about a format like this:

Premier (traditional) league;wwe champ, ic champ,us champion.

Delux league (with new simpler rules) ecw champ, european champ, cruiserweight champ.

2 leagues with different rules.  Where you play for 5 month games. Then the top two in each league qualify for a 1 month playoff. At which point whoever is on ur roster u are stuck with no more trading and whoever scores the most during the playoffs during that 1 month will become the World Heavyweight champion.  That way EVERYONE in both leagues has a chance to become World champion.

[D]

I still say add TNA and if someone doesn't keep up, that is their problem. With the internet and results readily available, it isn't too hard to tell who does what.

then u could have up to 20 easy

[Hammy]

I still say add TNA and if someone doesn't keep up, that is their problem. With the internet and results readily available, it isn't too hard to tell who does what.

then u could have up to 20 easy

We could but people have been against that before to.

What we could do, is leave the one at HTGTH at HTGTH.

And have a new one here, an additional one for anyone who wants to do it, WWE vs. TNA.

[More Cowbell]

Donnie, I know u love TNA but having all out TNA without limits doesn't play fair I know people can read spoilers and such but I enjoy watching matches for points and not spoilers like for me I nev er see TNA much that's why I took. Booker T I thought he was still champion.  If u want all out tna why not just have a seperate tna game with 6 to 8 people and 3 to 4 person teams.  I don't want to see all out tna or if that's what people want have 2 leagues one with all out tna bullshit and a traditional league so more people can play.