I'm assuming that a lot of you dig Smackdown!: JBI but I'm sure you'd agree that as a one-player game the lifespan is limited to a month or two at best. MULTIPLAYER is the way forward.

 

4 friends and I in Bristol are the SWWA (see the sig.) and we meet monthly, usually at Cannanball Haze' house (name changed to protect the guilty) for several hours of competition.

 

There are several factors in this that have increased the longevity of the game (it also worked for SD!:2 on the PS1):

 

1. First of all, each of us has a stable of wrestler, all of which have to be CAWs. At the last count there were about 25 or 26 of them. Having this many wrestlers gives far greater freedom when you come to...

 

2. ...the booking. We have an SWWA meet every month and every third month is a "PPV" night with major titles on the line.

 

An easy way to begin the card for a night is with a round-robin tournament: every in the tournament

fights every other wrestler in the tournament. So, if

you've got 5 wrestlers in the tournament, that'll give

you a total of 10 matches (4 per wrestle [hope this is

making sense!])

 

You can then repeat the tournament but with Gimmick Matches (TLC, Street Fight etc.) so you've got 20 matches.

 

A win gets 3 points, a draw/double countout gets 1, a loss gets 0. Keep track of these scores and you've got

aready-made league table once the tournament's

over. The winner could get an extra Smackdown

(finisher point) for a later match or get a title shot, it

varies.

 

You need about 25 - 30 matches for a good four hours wrestling so if you've got some lesser titles (the SWWA includes WORLD, CORPORATE, HARDCORE, and TAG) you can contest these in various ways. A mini King of the Ring usually does the trick but don't use the KoTR

on the game, fight standard singles matches and

record the results yourself as it'll give greater control.

 

If you get tired of booking or other people want a

chance to book, hold a "Hell in the Commissioner's

Office" match! Just set up a 4-way Any Where Fall

match but pick the Commissioner's office as the location

and no one's to leave the room until there's a winner.

 

If you've found this useful or interesting then that's a good thing.

 

If you've found this pointless and unworthy then I hope you've not wasted too many braincells on reading this!

 

Any questions will be answered forthwith.

See that is undoubtedly great, the only problem for me is that I don't have any mates who like wrestling at all.

 

Yes before you say anything, I do have friends, they just don't like wrestling.

 

My problem is that whenever I've tried to get any of them to play Smackdown JBI they just hate it and find it boring.

 

I do however think your idea is a great one, because I actually think it's a better game than most people gave it credit for.

 

The Goldberg CAW bug was annoying, and the career mode is pitiful but the matches themselves are all pretty good.

What's the bug???

Last month's main event (Logan v Jon Doe for the SWWA World Title) was a 20-minute Ironman match but got disrupted 'cause every time Logan went for a particular grapple move the d@mn thing froze!

the bug is that if you use the Goldberg moveset when you create a wrestler and save it on the memory card, the game crashes every time you try to start it up.

 

Means you have to wipe the Smackdown data from the memory card before you can use it with the game again.

 

Infuriating if like me you didn't know first time round, spent ages getting all the extra characters etc, created loads of guys like RVD, Lance Storm, Kensuke Sasaki etc etc, and then had to wipe the whole lot

I've not had that one happen...yet!:xyx

Sounds a better idea than these dam e-feds

Sorry to take so long to reply: can only get on here while at work!

 

I've clicked on links for e-feds before and it seems like a watered-down live roleplay-type thing: I can't see how they'd get a game out of what seems to just be describing fictitious matches.

 

I don't know about anyone else but when reading a show report I don't want to know every, single, solitary move pulled off, just the story, pops and high-spots.

 

What was my point? Oh yeah, cheers BRM!