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Post by person on Dec 12, 2010 14:34:03 GMT -5
Simply put, what was your first E-Fed like? Was it good, did it suck, were you a CAW or a real wrestler ect.
My first E-Fed didn't even start as an E-Fed, it was on the SD vs Raw forums for SDvsRaw 2009 and as a way to pass the time we started hosting mock shows with people being wrestlers from the game. Eventually they made their own site after other people *jealous people* were complaining that we shouldn't be posting E-Fed stuff in off-topic >.>
The Fed didn't last long as others were invited to join an actual E-Fed and I went on to be a sporadic member of Extreme Wrestling Empire 2009 and 2010 and it's short lived off-shoot ACW (different ACW obviously, think it was Absolute Championship Wrestling)
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Post by jamiemunday on Dec 12, 2010 14:50:01 GMT -5
Mine was the Outsider Wrestling Federation and it is to this day the best efed I've been in. I wrestled as Drake Munday, the younger brother of Jamie and it was a bit awesome. It ended last year after being around since 1998.
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Post by person on Dec 12, 2010 16:02:10 GMT -5
1998 wow, I've never seen an E-Fed that was that old.
Why did it end?
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Post by Johnie Basham on Dec 12, 2010 17:21:07 GMT -5
I started out in a AOL chat based e-fed called OWF (Online Wrestling Federation) in... I wana say 1996 or so. It was aol 2.0 if that tells you anything. We emailed our rps to everyone in the fed rather than a msg board (I didn't even know what a msg board was until a few years ago.) There were no points for creativity it was based on total words and you got... EXP for every 100 words or some such. You actually roleplayed out your match in a chatroom and used the //roll dice system in the chatroom to determine if your attacks hit or if you were able to defend the attack. You had hitpoints and if they reached zero or negative numbers you could be pinned... It was pretty interesting for what it was at the time, but I've been in much better e-feds since.
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Post by Bubba Anthony on Dec 12, 2010 17:25:19 GMT -5
My first e-fed was ICW (Immortal Championship Wrestling) on The Wrestling Game, run by Mike Steel (not relation to ACW). I went there with no experience, but alot of heart, and worked their for about a year. I made friends, and had a good time. It was a decent federation (probably cause I was on the creative team ). Although the best e-fed I've been in (besides this one), is the one I run on TWG (called Ultimate Deathmatch Wrestling)
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Post by Eric Donavan on Dec 12, 2010 22:34:16 GMT -5
This eFed was my first. Never heard much or thought much of them despite being a wrestling fan until late '08 when I tried to devise one of my own. Ended up finding this one, which had just started, and giving it a try...and I've been here ever since. I've been with a few others since but this has always been the predominant one for me.
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Post by Evan Harrison on Dec 12, 2010 23:03:45 GMT -5
I started out in 4th grade, I believe. It started out as just a small category on a Proboards site called "WWF Mirror Images", which was a cool little website dedicated to WWE (then-WWF) back in 2000. It had two boards... One dedicated to RPing and one dedicated to the shows. I had a character named Rojo which was based off of Jeff Hardy, and continued using this character until my fourth e-fed (named WhW) which closed in the late winter of 2005. I gave up on e-fedding since most of the people I RPed with were much older than me and had either stopped taking it seriously or didn't have anymore time/desire for it. From late 2005 until early 2007 (when I found AWA), I basically RPed on superhero-themed websites in my free time...
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Post by imbest on Dec 12, 2010 23:10:51 GMT -5
My first e-fed was sometime in the mid- to late-nineties. I was fresh out of high school, had a fresh new computer w/ dial-up, and found a few like minded blog posters on prowrestling.com who steered me to ACF (Kirk, the prez, never told us what they stood for). It began as shoot RP based w/ mixed population, but ended in a merger with another fed (EWA) who was strat-based and strictly CAW to form our "circles" hybrid fed. By 2003, politics won the war and lost it forever. EWA's website was hosted on geocities. ACF was hosted by anglefire. I can't remember the board names, but I remember they kicked butt. When the first mass message boards came out they allowed full HTML. It was cool. Nowadays, mbs are too restrictive for my tastes... but I trudge on.
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Post by Kyle Travis on Dec 13, 2010 0:05:49 GMT -5
Mine was CEW (Championship Electric Wrestling), back in 1999. It was CAW based. I started playing there as Kyle Travis.
The fed lasted about two years. I left after a year. As a fed, it was okay. The main issue was the owner was very 1980s minded. What this means is that if you played a cruiserweight (CEW's limit was 235lbs for Cruiserweights) and you wrestled anyone over 300, you would automaticly lose. It didn't matter if the person's RP was two paragraphs of just swearing and you wrote Shakespeare, you were losing.
Was not the best I've been in. Still so much better then LAW. Don't get me started on that...everyone's heard that horror story.
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Post by dahlia on Dec 13, 2010 1:40:09 GMT -5
ACW is the first eFed I've ever been in, though I have done RP other places, mostly AOL based starting around 96 - 98. I had friends that had eFedded that would go on and on about it and I had no idea what they were talking about - though now I wish I had gotten in then, heh.
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Post by Bubba Anthony on Dec 13, 2010 7:24:30 GMT -5
I feel so young haha
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Post by Jay Omega on Dec 13, 2010 8:24:02 GMT -5
My first fed was the eXtreme World Championship Wrestling Federation, or XWCWF for short. I joined up during the original era, back in '96 I believe. They closed down, and I drifted for about a decade before they re-opened back in '08. The reunion was short-lived, though, and the X closed its doors again almost a year ago. Then I came here, and the rest is ongoing history.
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Post by misery on Dec 13, 2010 9:23:55 GMT -5
I think I remember that fed somehow..
My first fed was the EWF.. it didn't last very long.. so I moved on.. to some other feds that didn't last very long. Then I moved onto to the XWA... which was better.. but corrupt as all hell.. so then I finally wound up starting my own fed with some friends.. the IWF.. it made it through a month..
then I did some other stuff.. not very memorable
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Post by jamiemunday on Dec 15, 2010 11:11:50 GMT -5
1998 wow, I've never seen an E-Fed that was that old. Why did it end? Well, some crap happened to the owner so he set up a farewell tour, however half way through the tour he kinda fell off the face of the earth.
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Post by imbest on Dec 15, 2010 11:41:41 GMT -5
1998 wow, I've never seen an E-Fed that was that old. Believe it or not, long before the internet there were "e-feds" in wrestling magazines. You'd design your character by filling out a form (that form even had an section with a wire-framed wrestler which you could draw how he/her looked) and mail it in. For a nominal (even though it was more than my monthly allowance) fee and subscription to said magazine, you'd be booked and wrestle each month in their newsletter that accompanied the mag. My knowledge of that was what set me to look for it on the internet. Sure enough, once I learned the terminology for searches I found several e-feds (they were primitive by most standards today). That was... what? 15 years or so, give or take a couple years. RPGs have been around for who knows how long. I'd say the TSR (released D&D with standardized rules in '78? Late 70s, I know that much heh) formalized it, popularized it, and spawned the neo-sci-fi-fantasy games (Wolfenstein was the first I played and I had several of the Transformers "pick-your-path" books where your decisions throughout the book affected the ending) of the 80s which morphed in what we have now. See wiki's entry for MUDs for more details. So, yes... in its essence e-fedding has been around a while. Addendum: Sticking to the specific wording of your post, an e-fed that has been operating continuously since 1998 is possible, but highly unlikely. I can really only see it if the fed somehow drew a cash flow for the operators, tied to a major wrestling news website or had a very good match writing program - though the ones I've used have been crap.
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Post by Jay Omega on Dec 15, 2010 13:48:15 GMT -5
It's not too unlikely, Shawn. Remember that the AWA ran for eight years straight. Granted, it may have been one of the better feds I've seen(pity I didn't find it until after they closed; thanks for the head's up, Misery), but that's probably what gave it such longevity. Jamie says the OWF is the best he's been in to this day, so there's actually a pretty good likelihood of the fed having a decent sized history.
Just think ahead to 2018(should the world survive that long), when Jeff Christianson makes the 47th return of his career, he's gonna be all like "The ACW's still going? WTF?"
EDIT: I totally forgot to mention the quality of the feds I've been in. The original XWCWF(held on the InsideTheWeb mb system) was fun, but we were all kinda immature, so the action wasn't exactly realistic. Case in point; Scathe's Skyscraper Match, which involved the participants fighting on the roof of a skyscraper. The objective of the match was to throw your opponent off, and have him land on a car. If you missed the cars and hit the pavement, you had to climb into a helicopter, and the match would continue. As improbable as this sounds, Scathe's opponent(whose name escapes me) had to climb into the helicopter not once, but twice. And he competed the next week.
The rest of the feds I've drifted through have either been biased against newcomers, or really corrupt. When the X reopened, it was a lot more realistic. I feel bad that Nathan had to do almost all of the work himself, but he did a pretty good job, all things considered. The format was a little different from here, but I enjoyed it. Partly due to the fact that I was the biggest fish in the pond, but mostly because of the sense of fun. As the name implies, there was still a fair amount of over the top violence(see any one of the Renegade title matches), but nothing like the stuff we did back in the old days.
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Post by imbest on Dec 15, 2010 14:09:54 GMT -5
Josh, I'm not saying that a decade run for a fed is inconceivable, just that one from 1998 or earlier is not likely to still function without a long hiatus or break. The way I look at e-wrestling, 92-96 was era 1; everything was new and experimental. Most of the feds ran around this time had one "prez". Era 2 was when coalition of wrestlers began to expand what e-feds have grown into, typically having an owner and GM (or different permutations of the title of the fedheads) - largely do to the WWF/WCW wars. That time frame, loosely, is 96-00. The era 3, which is where I disappeared for a while, was following the ebbs and flows of the WWE era, and things have grown out from there - chiefly stability of fed (more people knew how to play the 'game') and the "unwritten rules of e-fedding", by this time, are widely known. With all the advances in communication and the simplicity of running a fed (when compared to the archaic first two versions), a present fed can be ran for years and years, given the dedication and creativity of handlers and staff.
Of course, I am using the loosest, roundest numbers and classifications that I can get away with.
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Post by brianoneil on Dec 15, 2010 14:17:50 GMT -5
NHW, or "No Holds Wrestling" was my first. I joined this shortly after that one. It was alright, but I prefered this one by a long shot.. That, and two of my best friends were on it so..Hell.
NHW is down these days, but my parting from it wasn't exactly layer cake and candy if you can dig it. I'd like to just say that ACW's my first and only E-Fed regardless of what I said to contradict myself previously in this post. >_>;;
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Post by Jay Omega on Dec 15, 2010 14:27:29 GMT -5
Heh, you make a convincing argument. And since this timeline you've laid out covers nearly 20 years, your skepticism is pretty well-founded. Hell, the only reason I've stuck with e-fedding so long, after I've lost all interest in "real" wrestling, is because every time I try to quit, Jay starts poking and prodding around in my head, telling me he's not ready to retire yet. So I've had the "good" fortune of living through the transition of each of these eras.
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Post by Cole Blaze on Dec 15, 2010 18:03:11 GMT -5
This is my first E fed, I had never RPed before this, and the chick that stared it all got me into it, I went into a chat room and thought it was wrestling based, talking wrestling, How wrong was I, this chick talked me into looking at the site, and when I popped on not even an hour later this dude popped on and went to talking to me, made rping sound fun as hell ( thanks Shane ) so I thought what the hell,
I signed on and been here ever since, been fun, being honest I have been here like three or so years and its been great, Hell for the times I have been away the ACW has been something on my mind on almost a daily basis, Even the people have grown on me,
Looking a them as family that I cant remember there faces! but family none the less!
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