OrangeKing

Sorry, I didn't have a change to reply to anything until now. My fighters are definitely getting pay raises as their contracts expire -- a lot of them are on the ends of their first (very low) contracts from when I started out, thus the very low fighter pay! I gave out 7500 free tickets, which ended up being a good estimate. I still made over $45,000 in profit on the event. An empty seat costs you $10, but a free ticket only costs you $5 (because you get $5 back in merchandising and such). I'll look over specific questions and answer them when I get back. I will say that anyone who thought this was going to be a trainwreck simply never looked at the math (or was looking at it incorrectly).

I wanted to start a discussion thread about the event my org is running tomorrow -- SAFA 11: Insanity. The name was originally chosen for how silly it was to have a mid-sized org run an event in a 12,000 seat arena; certainly, if this was viable, someone would have done this before me, right? Then I actually looked at the numbers, and I can't say I'm sure why nobody has tried this yet. Even with giving out a substantial number of free tickets to ensure that I come close to filling the arena (thus destroying all previous attendance records), I'm still going to make a slight profit. To be honest, though, I would have run this event happily at a slight loss, because the hype benefit should be huge. The fighters may not be amazing, but we're certainly going to set some records tomorrow. Would anyone like to chime in on how I could possibly be the first person to attempt this? Don't get me wrong, on an individual basis, I can understand any org owner who wants to be very conservative with growth, or maximize profit on each event. What I'm really surprised by is that nobody has been just a little bit bold and taken a chance on a big event -- particularly the orgs that have over a million dollars in reserve cash to play around with. By the way, if you think this one was crazy, next week we're going for 16,000!

You could try to beat them by having more non-fights or lower attendance.

I think the option for fighters to take private sessions with increased benefits is a good one. I'd suggest that the cost for a decent trainer for one session be reasonable - perhaps the same as a week of gym dues - with a rapidly scaling cost for more proficient trainers, with the best ones charging a fortune for private lessons. It would be another good answer to the question of "what can I do with all this money?"

I'm running a small-to-medium sized org (SAFA in Rio), so I'm not even thinking of running a PPV anytime in the future yet, but there are some orgs with a lot of money in reserve. I wonder who will be the first org to try running a PPV, just to see what happens? Obviously nobody will able to hold a profitable one for quite some time still, but I don't doubt that someone will try to do one before the end of 2009 - probably by sometime in the fall. After all, pretty soon there will be plenty of orgs who could run a PPV with no real risk to the solvency of their company, even if they take a big loss on it, and I'm sure a lot of people are curious.

The rules are often explained as "the fighter judged to win the round receives 10 points, while the loser receives 9 or fewer." However, the actual judging rules include drawn 10-10 rounds.

I think one way to implement this that would be simple adjustments to what your fighter should do when his corner thinks he's up/down so much on the card that he can't win/lose a decision. It wouldn't be perfect, of course, but you could code each fighter a 'corner' that works like an average judge (with maybe a higher tendency to think a round might be a draw to avoid strategy changes unless the corner is very sure).

One possible idea is an automated warning that has to be read before making any moves with a company that would take you under x dollars left in the company account. Perhaps one warning for going under $5k or $10k, and another if you actually are attempting to dip into your manager's account.

Are some of the trophies not meant to be permanent? I see that YB Sol now has only the silver P4P trophy, for instance, even though he was at one point the #1 P4P fighter. Just pointing this out to make sure it's a feature, and not a bug.

I think it would be nice if org owners had something like these to give out -- maybe smaller, or in another section. So, as someone said, if you ever become a champion, you'd have something commemorating that even after you lost the belt (with silver and gold levels denoting certain numbers of title defenses, maybe). It's not something that's a high priority, but it would be nice and give a better impression of a fighter's history in the future when we'll probably be seeing a lot of guys moving up the various tiers of orgs.