Thats okay, I thought you might have it down already and could could and paste

Right, back to planning..

If the database launches today, I want Gabon startlists by thursday morning. Just send me a list with the 6-8 names you want in the race. I'll complete any missing startlist by my own, corrupt judgement.

Startlists for San Luis and Tour Down Under by sunday evening.

For the rest of season part 1, I want one big PM containing:
- a list of your races with the riders you're sending
- the total racedays used for each rider

When it came to creating riders, I had to correct waaaay too many mistakes. Therefore, any mistakes in the PM will cost you points. Hopefully this will encourage you to double and even triple check the stuff you wrote down is correct.

I'll need this by the end of the month.

No problem.
What the deadline for the big PM ? I don't have race until GP La Marseillaise.
Also, how it is gona work ? One race (by race I mean a one-day race or a stage from a tour) per day or two races per day (One WT and one CT) ?

Big PM is due end of the month, though the sooner the better of course. I hope to stick to the calendar more or less (skipping any free days of course), but it all depends on the race reporters and I'm not going to pressure them

Well, a short calculus show that we will have for the first part of the calendar :
31 WT Race days
55 CT Race days
86 Total Race days
But we have 28 superposed race days, so we will have a total of 58 race days => 2 months.

Btw, I hope no one signed for Tour de Langkawi, Kuurne-Brussel-Kuurne, GP di Lugano and Clasica Almeria at the same time, because he will not have enough riders.

Unless the team is called Team Europcar, then you have enough riders
(CT is 6-8, right?)

Allright, before the end of the month seems easy.

Does the big PM has to be an Excel sheet or something else

Good question, I tend to make my planning in Lachi's Season Planner, so I prefer just giving a list per race(or 1PM with a big list, ofc )

Typed out, easier to do for startlists for reporters

No, just typed text please. It would make it a lot easier for me if I can just copy/paste your startlists into the startlists I give to the race reporters


I'll add an example of how I want the PM to look:

Title: Teamname planner or something

Hi Ollfardh my best friend, here are my startlists:

Gabon:
That Climber
Another Climber
Some Sprinter
Decent Cobbler
Time Trialist
Danny Pate

...

Volta Limburg:
That Climber
Another Climber
Some Sprinter
Decent Cobbler
Time Trialist
Danny Pate

And the race days:

That Climber - 3
Another Climber - 14
Some Sprinter - 15
Decent Cobbler - 9
Time Trialist - 26
Danny Pate - 53

Yeah, I guess Danny Pate can have more than 62 racedays? He deserves it...

Well, obviously. It's 63 days just for him to win all 3 Grand Tours. Though, to be fair, he doesn't need any prep races, he's always in top shape.

I'm actually tempted to add a Danny Pate rule: Sky can only send Danny Pate to each Grand Tour

Nah, that won't work because, once again, Alakagom will overlook his sensational performance in the 2009 Critérium International and give him disgustingly underrated stats

Another newbie questions :

1. Which of the next features are enabled / disabled in EPIC ?
- Form / Fitness
- Freshness / Tiredness
- Form day
- Satisfaction
- Rhythm
- Country bonus
- Weather bonus
- Objective bonus (if any)

2. When I send a list, the team strategy (who is team leader, who will run in breakaway, who is designated sprinter) will be chosen by me, or by the AI ?
3. When the DB will come, we must to introduce the custom young riders in DB, so we will have something like DB_version_EPIC in order to see the custom riders as well ?

1) It's standard single race mode. So nothing season/career related. I was planning to add daily form, but it was not doable.
2) AI chooses, as it can't be decided. You can assign a leader for RP purposes though
3) Atlantius will probably add the epic database somewhere once he's finished

1) The thing is that even in single race mode, the riders have some pre-defined fitness values. Are they disable or not ?
2) OK, I was expecting that, so is good .
3) Great !

3) I will upload the .cdb here. I can't tell you the exact moment, but it should be within 24 h of the expansion pack getting released (assuming they upload the .cdb separately as well).

How many race days are the GTs? They include rest days right?

21 days. The race days count as stages rather than actual days. Some races have two stages on the same day and that will still count as two race days