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Office Report |
With LWO President Paul
Vincent |
| July 18th, 2001 |
First I'm going to deal with a few things at LWO. Results are
looking to stay the way they are. The poll was at a split. It's possible
outside voters may have came in and tainted the poll, but according to the poll, we're
staying to the current style of results.
Now about angle fed changes. What does an angle fed offer that an RP fed doesn't?
The problem with RP feds is they always emphasis that size = quality, which isn't
true. I've seen a person write 4 good lines which were a hell of a lot better than
the 20 pages another guy put out. Angle fedding would offer for people to concern
themselves more about the quality of their role-plays instead of forcing out words to get
a certain amount of words out, or a certain amount of pages or paragraphs. Angle
feds also allow angles to run more smoothly. Let's face it, there are dominators in
LWO. If I put El Nijo Del Doragon up against Ryzon, at this point it seems obvious
who's going to win. With an angle fed your role-playing doesn't matter on who wins
the match. You don't need to even RP well to win a match with an angle fed.
Which is indeed the problem. RP feds if pure would force people to improve their
quality of writing. But most RP feds aren't pure, they're based on size most of the
time. I've always found that an angle federation is a lot funner than an RP
fed. RP feds have egos. Angle feds usually have a lot more co-operation.
If we are to change over to RP fed style the length you've been in LWO will be the
result of the kind of push you get. I'd like to put a system in for this that if you
don't role-play at an expected quality or above (I have a frame of reference on all of
you) you'll automatically lose the match irregardless if it means losing some content in
angles. So I hope you guys would still try and role-play well even if we switch to
Angle fed.
Another thing that'll be coming up is not one, but two pay-per-views next month. Our
first one will be very soon. It'll be a standardized pay-per-view event, nothing
really special about it, it's name will be Destiny. Our second pay-per-view in the
month of August will be named Friends and Enemies. This pay-per-view will end our
first full season. In it we'll feature the tag team tournament. A lot of
people have been asking to have tag titles included in LWO's line-up. Tag titles I
don't mind, they'd just always become unpopular after a while. So, after our next
pay-per-view I'll set up a tag team form and a tag team roster. Basically you'll
either fill it out and get the team with the person you want (make sure you ask that
person first though) or you'll be forced with someone. This event will account for
everyone in LWO. But that's not all. We'll be holding a Latino Rumble.
We're trying to think up something special about it, like a cage or something.
It'll feature everyone in the federation. The winner, is the new LWO Latino
champion. That's right, this is the chance for anyone, to move from the bottom to
the top. If we do indeed turn angle, the Latino Rumble will be the one event based
on actual role-plays. |
ECWF and Vincent Empires had it's 1-year anniversary a week ago. My
first shocker was that there was really nothing special at ECWF to commemorate the day.
That's all there really was, was a short two lines on the main page just saying it
was a year. I take this time to thank a few people. First I'd like to thank
the crew that stuck with me through thick and thin, that'd be Paul Sundberg, Adam
Vanderwyst, and Chris Redden.
They're the only ones who have truly earned my respect. The only time they took any
time off was when we were big and could support with out them. My admiration and
respect goes to them. ECWF will be holding their 12th pay-per-view event "End
of the Road." This'll mark our full year of pay-per-view events, and over 150
cards written. One thing about ECWF is recycling of pay-per-view names. This
means that once we're done with End of the Road we're going back to the old Karnage card.
End of the Road will feature two things. First it'll feature the ECWF
tradition, that has mamed more champions than anything else in the King of the Cage.
Basically every star that has ever been in it has excelled to greater new heights.
Another thing they've come up with is the Velocity Cup. I say blast you.
The Latino Rumble was originally going to be called the Latino Cup, the person
would get their name inscribed on a cup and would get the Latino title after going through
a Royal Rumble. But, some how the crowd at ECWF came up with this as well.
The split of ECWF is very well ready. Each federation would get 30 wrestlers a
piece. Not many have been showing concerns about habing to go to EUW. |
| Gateway RPG had it's first chronicle. I can tell you one thing, it
is indeed original. I had a completely different dream for Gateway RPG.
Basically it's an event that tells you what happens and to what person's point of
view. Like when say Brutazlier and Icon are going to a certain area, it won't be one
set of results. The results will be from two different opinions. Honestly I
never thought Gateway would get started. We had a lot of problems with getting the
thing started. The main problem was getting people to join. I can advertise an
e-fed, because anyone can do that. But not everyone can think purely of creativity,
which was the basis of Gateway. A extremely good writer found the federation and I'm
happy that he's in it. In e-wrestling he's known as Azrael Ravenell. Hopefully
Gateway RPG can hit a full roster soon and have full co-operativity with the handlers and
staff. |
| Legendz, UGH! LoL, five months ago we began the initial planning of
it. I began to make biographies for the Legendz stars and could only get 50% of them
done. Legendz was a real wrestling federation of legendary stars from the golden age
of wrestling. I ran out of time and uploaded everything to it's server and handed it
over to Chris Goodfellow. Chris had told me that he'd get them done. Three
months later he resigns as Legendz president with the site never having had changed since
I had first put it up. Thankfully Lee Longpre (known as Vanity) is running it now
with Paul M (El Cu Cuy). I don't know when Legendz will open. I'm hoping it
can open before the Summer is out. Specialty feds always take longer opening than
normal ones. I made LWO in two days, I made ECWF in 1. I just finished the new
PWL lay-out and that only took me 3 hours. Basically these federations don't get
open quickly is because these federations have a very large database. Feds with
large databases tend to flaunder and never get open. I don't want this to be the
case with Legendz or Gateway RPG. |
| EUW will be opening any time now, they haven't even open, but with the
ECWF split they'll be 7 away from a full roster. Talk about getting it all from the
start. |
| PWL is a project we're trying to get open. I've been giving it a
lot of advertising influence. The problem I'm seeing as the lay out. It looks
too bland. It looks like a template that geocities might make. Many of the
graphics on it are made very well but the color scheme is way off. So I decided than
and there that I should indeed design a "new PWL." It's going to have the
best of both worlds. It'll have the journalistic look of LWO, but at the same time
have the fan base look at ECWF has. I don't do that well of a job with color schemes
that are dark colors but I do as I can, and this is what I did (screen shot): |
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| Most of the places with PWL banners on it (which is all that is on the
page) will be replaced with pictures of the wrestlers in the fed. I could have made
it more graphical great, but if I was to do that than I'd take a ton away from load up
time. It'd take an entire 9 seconds to load up all the other graphics I could have
put in navigation. Doesn't sound like a lot does it? Take the time to consider
that the average human has an interest span of about 25 seconds. If it takes 20
seconds to load up the full page, and an additional 9 to load up the extra graphics,
that's 29 seconds, which in my mind is too much. LWO loads up in 24 seconds, before
I made the front page changes it loaded up in 12 seconds. |
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