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Returning To MMA Tycoon - Is It Possible To Start Again?

Editorial by Chris Dewing

I don't know how many people are likely to remember the name Chris Dewing, but for a while I actually contributed a bit to the Tycoon universe. Back in June 2010 I joined the game and very quickly went VIP to build my first company, a Clothing company called Liberty Fight Gear. This was soon changed to Lightning Fight Gear after I found out there was a real company called Liberty. I soon sold that and opened up a Fight Org in Montreal called Stampede Fighting Championship, we achieved reasonable success in the 14 months that the org was open, and I like to think that the managers who signed their fighters up to me were treated well and had a good experience.

When the fight org fun was over I decided to focus on my fighters, I had 15 of them at the time thanks to a combination of VIP and purchasing extra slots. I put an exhaustive amount of time into training them, not to mention the $1.5 million I had from the closing down of SFC, and eventually I had a legion of fighters that were strong enough to win. Unfortunately there was one thing missing, I lacked the managerial talent to use the sliders with any effectiveness and despite having high stats these fighters suffered continual losses. Now short on money due to the private gym costs I made money the one way I knew how to, by writing show reviews for Blitzkrieg. The reviews were widely praised but they took an enormous toll on my time and energy, writing out a review of just 10 fights would often take 4-5 hours of my free time, and it reached the stage where I didn't have the time or the mental strength to keep doing it.

With no money, no strategy talent and a deepening sense of failure looming over me, I made the very hard decision to cut my ties with MMA Tycoon and disappear into the night. The game that had once been the centre of my life became nothing but a mere afterthought, and the fighters I had worked so hard to train lost their gym places, lost their contracts and lost the majority of their abilities. When my VIP expired I then lost 5 of them to free agency, picking the 5 to get rid of was very tough choice to make and further cemented my frustration at my inability to get anything out of the game.

You may be wondering why I've written all this. Well the basic premise behind it is that I'm coming back to MMA Tycoon, and I'm starting from scratch. Well, almost from scratch, I'll be keeping a few of the fighters I had in the past, but other than that it's as if I never played before. To be honest, with all the changes that have taken place in the 12 months since I was last here it will be almost like I haven't played before anywhere.

My plan is to document the process of intergrating myself back into the game, the struggles I face at the beginning, and maybe even a few highlights here and there if things go my way. I have purchased VIP again and once I have found my feet I will be looking into starting a new fight org up in the hope of being able to do as well as I did with Stampede back in the day. My biggest fear in all this is the biggest fear I have had for some time, that a "new" manager will never be able to make a dent on the Tycoon landscape due to the pre-existing fighters, managers and companies having such a stronghold on what's going on. It was hard enough to get anywhere when I had a strong foundation, now I have no base to build on and no real idea of what I'm trying to build.

If there's enough interest I'll keep people updated with how things are going, such as fighter training, contracts, money issues, all in the hope that I will be able to find out whether the MMA Tycoon world is possible to break in to, or whether I will be stuck on the outside looking in. Thanks for reading.

 

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