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Originally Posted by JonInMiddleGA
This, way more than people might think at first blush.
I have something around 125 guys on the main roster alone with my long-running sandbox game, and I acquire everybody with a pulse ... and still face persistent issues with the feeling of very stale booking.
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Ha, ya, I remember when I had my TEW WCCW dynasty here, I booked a feud to go on for a few months, and someone asked me if there was a penalty for repeating matches. I thought, shit, I'd love to mix it up, but I only have about 4 guys over enough to give me a good main event match with David Von Erich, so I needed to stretch things out.
In real life, the obvious response is "build more stars", but the only way to do that is to have a midcard guy decisively win some feuds against those top 3-4 contenders you have, and knock them down a notch. And that can make things worse. Now instead of 3-4 top contenders, you have maybe 2 top contenders, one recently-elevated mid-carder who may or may not flop, and another guy who just lost a big feud to the mid-carder. Soon you have a 10-15 "top guys", all of whom have lost feuds to others in recent memory, and aren't really big stars.
Bringing in someone new was always the answer in TEW, and the answer in most of wrestling history. But that is really difficult for the WWE in modern times when they're the only big game in town. NXT could really help though.