[Mr. Nerfect]

Crowd: Goldberg! Goldberg! Goldberg!

Bischoff: What's that? You want to see Hogan?

Crowd: Goldberg! Goldberg!

Bischoff: The Ultimate Warrior?

Crowd: Goldberg!

Bischoff: Savage?

Your Timeline has revealed where the interest from audiences was. Goldberg was where the obvious money was. They still loved Flair. Eddie Guerrero, Chris Benoit, Chris Jericho and Rey Mysterio had that emerging potential, if WCW wasn't where "the big boys play." Raven was interesting and doing some well-received work in the mid-card. If you could have found a way to change the mentality of the "stars" in WCW, to consider that working with these guys might have made them look good as opposed to simply guarding that spot. Mick Foley is still kind of mocked for making stars as opposed to making sure he himself was considered one at the time period. The attitude amongst talent seemed to be to make sure you got the glory. Maybe having some private chats with some clever talent, like Raven and Konnan (who was quite outspoken about company direction and got far more out of that company than talent would allow), could have allowed some strategies to be put into place in order to get the talent you need to into much better positions? Or maybe they would have just ratted you out to Nash and you'd be done? I don't know. Navigating this backstage shit is hard.

If you can convince guys like Nash that working with a guy like Eddie Guerrero can allow him to take responsibility for Eddie's success and that he can do less work and look better, maybe you have a chance?

As far as on-air direction goes: I usually hate non-title matches. But seeing as you get to book the Dome, maybe having Goldberg beat Hogan in a non-title match makes better sense for the overall direction of the company, even though I do hate non-title matches. Hogan is a chickenshit anyway, so he can say he was only in "exhibition mode," while every punter knows that Goldberg can beat Hogan. Put the heat on that chase. Starrcade seems like a long way off to do the title switch, but slowing things down is probably for the best. EDIT: I just saw you are taking the title switch. Okay. Fuck. Um. Well, people believed in Goldberg, so him as a babyface champion isn't a bad thing. In stories, your protagonist should always be active. Make sure he's the one picking the fights with the nWo and is killing them out of the company. You need a heel act swelling underneath, and Scott Steiner and Raven seem like two very different but capable acts. So no Scott losing to Rick. Raven could have provided a "thinking man's" Lex Luthor to Goldberg's Superman.

WCW seemed to have a really bad run of PPV main events during this period. Piper and Warrior in main events with Stevie Ray; celebrity involvement; also a Travis Tritt concert. If you can't magically make WCW care about Bret Hart and Ric Flair, maybe you can put them into positions with the rising talent you do want to focus on. Bret Hart with either Chris Benoit or Eddie Guerrero; Ric Flair could call bullshit on Jericho's Goldberg taunting; Raven and Perry Saturn can put a helmet on Billy Kidman at the Gold Club to get into it with DDP for stealing his idea, if only he had real friends. If that's going on while Goldberg is chewing through nWo members, maybe things have a chance of building instead of falling off a cliff?