When you reload the career it will be updated correctly, its a visual bug

Does anyone have a general strategy for choosing which team to sign a contract with?

I am speculating that being somewhere around the fifth best rider on a team would provide the best balance of opportunity and supporting cast.

Hi guys. One big question. I tried this mode and I'm wondering how to race in tour de l'Avenir? It's not in schedule...
Please HELP.

Since patch 1.2, you can no longer play Nations Cup events such as Tour de l'Avenir.

I've obviously come to this mode late, having only bought 15 a month ago. I love it. It's a much more immersive experience centering on one rider. I have a ton of questions and I hope there's enough life in this thread to answer them.

1. My 24 year old climber has hit Level 21, and last level-up he only received a total of four points. Does the rider tend to get less points as he goes through higher levels?

2. I have never trained the rider as a climber, yet he's turned into a fairly one-dimensional climber with MO 84. Is the "random" progression determined by what you choose to start with, as well as the training program you choose.

3. On the Rider Data page he's classified as a Climber with average rating of 78, but if you look at the progression chart he's rated as a Stage Racer 82. Why is he not classified as a Stage Racer 82: or is that not a real number?

4. I think I'm getting a bug where every session I play the rider will get the XP bonuses - Top 10, Top 5, Breakaways. In Season 4 riding the Giro he got an XP bonus saying "First breakaway of 25 km in Continental" for example. Has anyone else noticed this?

Lastly I noticed comments earlier in the thread about team-mates not supporting the player's rider because he's not listed as Leader. I have noticed the opposite: team-mates protected my rider, and in fact the team Leader relayed at the front when my guy was not ahead of the Leader on GC or favoured to win over the Leader. And my rider did go out and win the stage so it was the right decision.

Grateful for any responses.

1.Indeed, and if you ask me it makes sense considering how fast he grows until then

2.Never seen that happening tbh, it obviously depends on what you were training him on as well. If you trained him as a fighter that shouldnt have definitely happened f.e., however it is possible that training him as a puncher or a stage racer the training doesn't give the wanted effect on his growth.

3.Those are 2 different numbers. The average is normally lower than the score you get in the training tab, which is based off less stats, namely the ones where your pro excels. Like, while the average takes into account the rider types typical stats and the backup stats, that score only takes into account the typical riders stats and in case of a stage racer, only a few backup stats such as acceleration resistance and recovery.

4.Yes that's unfortunate and you are definitely not the only one. Hasn't been fixed and will never be for pcm 15 at this point.

2. It's a normal thing. I usually end up with at least one important skill underpowered in most of my Be a pro careers. I once ended up with underpowered flat despite being ONLY on barroudeur, time trial and northern classics training all throughout my career. In my other career I had very poor resistance compared to other riders of my level depsite being only on training types with 2 or 3 arrows in resistance all throughout my career. Kind of annoying. I pretty much never train in my main specialization, because then I would certainly end up as a ridiculously one-dimensioned rider.

I think your specialization might have as big influence on skills you are getting improved as the training you chose.

Hi, what is the attribut in the DB for I, II, III .... which is the stage of participation in the diff. races (WC-> 2.2 ...) - sry for the english

You can view the different levels in sta_uci_class, procyclist pass. Level 1 in the db corresponds to level 2 and so on though, so pay attention to that

Ok, thx, and where is this level to find in "cyclist" - or is it in another filesection?

Thanks for responses.

I have trained mostly as puncher, and one level as stage racer, but MO has gone up when training as barodeur and sprinter also, so I think there must be a strong influence from starting as a climber.

I am clueless as to why that would go up training as sprinter because every time I did it with a MO higher than 74 or so it always went down instead to favor the new rider type. However you can look up and fix the different stat packs indicatively in dyn_training_exercise for each rider type.

Anyway what you say about starting as a climber is very true, the game doesn't change the rider type in dyn cyclist even after you completely change your specialisation. No idea how much is the effect but this basically shows it continues to have an influence even after the start of your career. However bear in mind that puncher, besides training mostly hill and acceleration etc, it also keeps an eye on the mountain stat, so yeah that, summed up to starting as a climber may have been it. Heck even fighter plays a role!

as I do to increase the resistance ?

The best training to increase resistance is either Fighter or Stage Racer. All the others are on par, so yeah they give the same resistance boost.

I would like to ask, what are the difference between playing in normal and hard difficulty, in be a pro mode?

Nothing, just the stats of the AI riders. Hard has a value of f.e. 1,025 multiplied to each Stat of a rider, while normal is just the stats of the riders as they are. You can see those values in local.cdb.

Thanks for the reply.

So it simply means, that when playing in hard, the AI is gaining some stats. Not just you.

You aren't gaining any stats, no rider of your team or your procyclist. Only the CPU controlled riders are.

Well that's weird. I guess I should play in normal then.

Love the be a pro mode. Great potential :-)

I just raced my first WorldTour race Pais Vasco... Surprisingly won the young riders competition, oh and the points... Turns out, I've also won the GC

My climber is 78 mo, 77 hi, 80 acc, 67 sta, 69 rec, 63 tt, 61 fl

I originally planned for him to be a helper for the GC guy in the mountains... But in my second year as a pro I'm too strong to go for breakaways, so I can't usually compete in mountain jerseys and I tend to end up in the top 10 quite often.

I play on normal, it's a bit too easy for me, but hard in be a pro is way harder, I barely can keep up and without team support I'm unable to correct errors.

I'll continue this carrer until I won the TDF, which should probably happen within 2-3 years, next year I want to go for the giro and vuelta, let's see how that goes...

Once that is done I'll probably do a puncher and see how far I get with him.
Without editing stats at first, and then maybe readjusting some things a bit...

Good times.