|
General Be a Pro Discussion
|
|
| Ad Bot |
Posted on 05-12-2025 21:23
|
Bot Agent
Posts: Countless
Joined: 23.11.09
|
|
| IP: None |
|
|
| poilbrun |
Posted on 15-08-2015 18:14
|
Under 23
Posts: 69
Joined: 16-07-2008
PCM$: 200.00
|
How does one create a picture for his cyclist? It looked like it was a simple 64*64 8bit tga, but if I create it that way, it shows as a square and not a circle in-game... |
| |
|
|
| Tempo |
Posted on 15-08-2015 19:06
|
Amateur
Posts: 11
Joined: 26-03-2010
PCM$: 200.00
|
Apologies if this is in the wrong section. I've used the fast editor from 2011to edit my saved game. I've just changed my be a pros mountain limits and current STA value. However i cant see my save in the load screen. Doesn't still to work when i save over the current save either. Any idea whats i'm doing wrong here?? |
| |
|
|
| Tempo |
Posted on 15-08-2015 19:23
|
Amateur
Posts: 11
Joined: 26-03-2010
PCM$: 200.00
|
Nevermind im a fool  |
| |
|
|
| vismitananda |
Posted on 16-08-2015 00:26
|
Domestique
Posts: 451
Joined: 23-02-2012
PCM$: 200.00
|
pangelang wrote:
Has anyone managed to get selected for the Tour de l'Avenir or the Worlds? Or does anyone realize how the selections work?
Thanks in advance!
Too bad we can't play Ncup (ex. Tour de'l Avenir) anymore, after the 1.2 patch. Also I have yet to race in an U23 races. Although I am in an Under 23 team.
I was selected on World Championships in my first season and this happens to me every time I create a rider. Just be a constant rider in every race. You don't have to win everything but some handful of race wins will do, you'll just have to be a consistent finisher, like top 10 or top 5 in every race.
-Pain is temporary, Quitting lasts forever-
|
| |
|
|
| Lamba |
Posted on 16-08-2015 08:31
|
Stagiare
Posts: 150
Joined: 15-07-2015
PCM$: 200.00
|
Stptterson22 wrote:
Hello
First time playing a PCM game and loving it.
My question is what nationalities and teams are best to choose if I want to compete in U23 races? I am currently a British rider in my first season with Rologne ( British team possibly not the correct name).
I want as many races a season as possible mainly because I want to do more races and minorly to make my rider better.
Sorry if this has been answered already.
Go for an Italian continental team.
MG. Kvis-Vega (VHS) is my favourite so far.
Unieuro Wilier and Team Idea can also be alright. |
| |
|
|
| Lamba |
Posted on 16-08-2015 21:57
|
Stagiare
Posts: 150
Joined: 15-07-2015
PCM$: 200.00
|
I'm trying to make a classics-sprinter who focuses on flat, hills and cobbles, aside from the sprinting and physical attributes.
However, playing team career, it's extremely powerful to just make a train and then ride the train to the finishline and win. Even I can do that, and I do consider myself rather much of a noob in this game.
So in my be a pro career, realizing I most likely wouldn't have anything that looked like a train, I simply tried following one of the favourites in the flat PCM Daily Cup 2, but it pretty much seemed like my dude just maintained his pace, instead of actually following him. There was always about 4 riders' distance between his backwheel and my dude and I missed out on the sprint, even though I tried following him the last 15km.
Any tips on how to win sprints if I can't get a wheel? 
Putting it to 95 effort and asking my dude to follow a good sprinter (who had a train) seemed like my best shot, but when he can't even put in the effort to get to that wheel, it's just a big fat L, innit? |
| |
|
|
| Faewulf |
Posted on 17-08-2015 07:28
|
Amateur
Posts: 4
Joined: 08-08-2013
PCM$: 200.00
|
Hello ya'll. I made a swedish climber 19 years old and world class level. I wanted to make him a balanced cyclist so I trained with the axis baroudeur, puncher and nothern classics. Despite this it keeps putting points mainly in mountain, so now my rider halfway through his second season is 77 mountain, 73 hill and the rest low sixties/high fifties.
Is this some sort of bug? It pisses me off a little anyway. And btw I'm also using the 1.5 "expansion" |
| |
|
|
| Humlesnur |
Posted on 17-08-2015 13:27
|
Free Agent
Posts: 107
Joined: 27-09-2011
PCM$: 200.00
|
@Lamba
For sprints I find that riding on an effort value around 80-85 within the last 10 km will move you towards the front and from there on it should be possible to latch onto a wheel of another favourite. As soon as you click follow your effort value is irrelevant as your rider will do everything he can to catch the wheel of the followed rider. What is important is that you're just behind and riding at roughly the same speed as the rider you want to follow, since your rider then won't have any catching up to do. Also you should generally avoid trying to follow a rider on the other side of the road as that often will create gaps.
Put simply, you should effort on around 85 till you're just behind the rider you want to follow, then follow. From there on you should be attentive to make sure you don't lose the wheel but if so swiftly change to effort again until you catch up again or find another rider to follow.
@Faewulf
Every rider type has pre-determind limits for every stat (see spreadsheet on page 43), which means a climber will never be good or even decent at cobbles and will generally develop climbing skills regardless of what you're training.
If you want to make a balanced rider I recommend you download PCM Fast Editor and edit you rider's potentials. Sadly this ruins the experience of customisation a little, but since the un-edited experience hardly allows for any customization since every rider of a particular type will be almost exactly the same at full potential, it is still more enjoyable. |
| |
|
|
| Faewulf |
Posted on 17-08-2015 14:06
|
Amateur
Posts: 4
Joined: 08-08-2013
PCM$: 200.00
|
Humlesnur wrote:
@Faewulf
Every rider type has pre-determind limits for every stat (see spreadsheet on page 43), which means a climber will never be good or even decent at cobbles and will generally develop climbing skills regardless of what you're training.
If you want to make a balanced rider I recommend you download PCM Fast Editor and edit you rider's potentials. Sadly this ruins the experience of customisation a little, but since the un-edited experience hardly allows for any customization since every rider of a particular type will be almost exactly the same at full potential, it is still more enjoyable.
Alright, thanks for the answer. Had tried to open it with lachis editor and the editor coming with the game but I receiver errors. But this fast editior worked great.
So there's no way to create a Gallopin-esque rider in the game without editing? That is decent/good at pretty much every stat. |
| |
|
|
| Humlesnur |
Posted on 17-08-2015 14:18
|
Free Agent
Posts: 107
Joined: 27-09-2011
PCM$: 200.00
|
So there's no way to create a Gallopin-esque rider in the game without editing? That is decent/good at pretty much every stat.
A puncheur would probably be fairly close although he would still struggle a little in TT and only have decent sprint.
Riders like Valverde, Sagan, Kwiatkowski, Cancellara etc. are however impossible to make. |
| |
|
|
| servus |
Posted on 18-08-2015 09:02
|
Free Agent
Posts: 148
Joined: 19-07-2013
PCM$: 200.00
|
I have installed the 1.2 patch but i can choose U23 teams |
| |
|
|
| Waghlon |
Posted on 18-08-2015 09:14
|
Team Leader
Posts: 6542
Joined: 18-08-2007
PCM$: 200.00
|
servus wrote:
I have installed the 1.2 patch but i can choose U23 teams
It's pseudo-random which teams come up. But once the career is going, you can choose to sign with them normally.
THE THOMAS VOECKLER PROPHET OF PCM DAILY
 |
| |
|
|
| kostracik |
Posted on 18-08-2015 14:43
|
Amateur
Posts: 8
Joined: 02-08-2015
PCM$: 200.00
|
The end of season two and actually rider at lvl22 I have nothing to train because I used for almost lvlup save and when I did not like what +attributes rider got so I rewrote savegame and retested until I was satisfied.
https://prntscr.com/861324 |
| |
|
|
| Lamba |
Posted on 18-08-2015 19:19
|
Stagiare
Posts: 150
Joined: 15-07-2015
PCM$: 200.00
|
kostracik wrote:
The end of season two and actually rider at lvl22 I have nothing to train because I used for almost lvlup save and when I did not like what +attributes rider got so I rewrote savegame and retested until I was satisfied.
https://prntscr.com/861324
Can't you get a few levels in TTR and PRL?
I'm currently at the point where I just wish there were more levels, more ways to earn exp and a lower amount of skillups per levelup. That way you COULD be a beast early in your career, but you still progressed along the way. |
| |
|
|
| Pipper1807 |
Posted on 24-08-2015 07:34
|
Amateur
Posts: 1
Joined: 26-05-2012
PCM$: 200.00
|
hey guys... im new to this site.. but im having same problems as i can hear many other people are.. i have made a young danish climber in the pro cyclist mode, but i cant get him to get better on flat, hill tt and so forth, but i read many people wrote something about a pcm fast editor.. so i downloaded that, in hope off when i create af new rider later today, that i can moderate his potential, but my question is, how do I, use the pcm fast editor, how do i find my own rider, and make sure, all of his potiental is off the chart.. hope for a fast reply... in advance.. thanks lads |
| |
|
|
| Forza-Diavolo |
Posted on 25-08-2015 14:36
|
Stagiare
Posts: 197
Joined: 22-07-2010
PCM$: 200.00
|
When I had run my first season and was about 2016, I saw there was a lot of good riders who were without contract riders Jungels, Trofimov, Rohan Dennis, Coppel, Elissonde, Peter Velits, Meyer, Boaro, Malori, Barta, Juul -Jensen, Luis Leon, Bookwalter, Slagter, Jeremy Roy. But then the year after, in 2017, I see the list again of riders without team Bouhanni, Kittel, Degenkold, Bennet, Greipel, Kristoff, Stuyven, Coquard, Viviani, Modolo, Demare, Matthews, Nizzolo and Hofland. Is it a bug in the game, or is it het coincidence? |
| |
|
|
| JELITOcz |
Posted on 25-08-2015 22:41
|
Amateur
Posts: 5
Joined: 24-08-2012
PCM$: 200.00
|
Okay, just finished the last flat stage and I finally won a jersey... No, wait, I didn't. Apparently I withdrew. And got myself some, uh, fractured vertebrate. Thank you very fffffudging much!  |
| |
|
|
| Thoppie |
Posted on 27-08-2015 12:19
|
Amateur
Posts: 2
Joined: 27-07-2009
PCM$: 200.00
|
Does anyone have an overview of the xp bonus achievements/events in the Be a Pro mode? I know you get additional xp for long breakaways, but all of them are only one time bonuses, right? I would have liked it if you would gain additional xp for finishing races every time, not only the first time. |
| |
|
|
| JELITOcz |
Posted on 28-08-2015 08:10
|
Amateur
Posts: 5
Joined: 24-08-2012
PCM$: 200.00
|
How do you guys plan your season? Is there any general recommendation for maximum days raced etc.?
EDIT: Nvm, Adam Hansen style schedule does just fine. 
Edited by JELITOcz on 28-08-2015 11:46
|
| |
|
|
| Ian Butler |
Posted on 11-09-2015 17:31
|
Tour de France Champion
Posts: 21379
Joined: 01-05-2012
PCM$: 400.00
|
Riding the Tour with my Pro. Not so important.
Most important is: turns out quite funny with Dumoulin and Aru battling it out for 2 weeks against each other just at this moment in the real Vuelta.
Dumoulin cracks in the mountains, though.
And then, a 57 km itt on the one-but last day.
Wilco Kelderman grabs the lead and wins the Tour! Dumoulin on 2!! Dutchies everywhere. |
| |
|
