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Next Generation - Free Agency R2.2
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| Croatia14 |
Posted on 17-03-2016 15:20
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Don´t we all love the Man-Game? Don´t we all love ICL? Didn´t we all love EPIC? Don´t we all look forward to PCR? We, trekbmc & Croatia14, absolutely love it!
That´s why we decided to create a story game. Another one you would say? Do we really need a new addition to the Story Game section, that has deep similarities to some of the running games?
We say yes! Yes because it´s just amazing how these games and the interaction between the teams work. Yes because Man-Game´s off-season break sucks.  Yes because we can´t get enough of PCM.daily story games!
And yes because we love to hype talents and let them develope. How is that point fitting into this you might ask yourself now? This game will contain the top riders from the world of cycling, as valued in the PCM.daily 2016 DB. Under 25.
The best riders won´t be Froome, van Avermaet, Sagan, Kittel, Kristoff. The best guys starting this game will be the likes of Kelderman, Demare, the Yates brothers, Ewan, Gaviria, Senechal. Starting with these we will see a game developing with the developement of the cyclists. Therefore we want to proudly present you Next Generation.
Some ideas of these are not exacty our own, for example the Free Agency system is based on the ICL one and with Man-Game influence. But we spent hours of hard work to create a system, that adds the influence of other story games onto the base of our idea. Our claim is to not waste your time by presenting you a half-hearted experiment, but to invite you to play a deeply planned and in many time-consuming steps optimized project.
Now feel free to give our game a chance and sign-up for it right here 
Edited by Croatia14 on 11-05-2016 16:06
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| Croatia14 |
Posted on 17-03-2016 15:20
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Game-Schedule
Pre-season
Sign-Ups
DB Release
DB Additions
Budget Release
Calendar Release
Free Agency
Transfers
Jersey Deadline
Goals
Season
Race decisions (optional)
Riders-to-race decisions (optional)
Training Camps (optional)
Racing
Standings
Staigaires (starting in August)
Post-season
Final Rankings
Promotion/Relegation
Money decisions
Developement (including additional money)
Edited by Croatia14 on 21-04-2016 21:13
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| Croatia14 |
Posted on 17-03-2016 15:20
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Game Basics
General
- Game: PCM15
- Single mode racing
- Database: PCM.daily 2016 db, a custom U25 version
- Custom Jerseys
- Euros as currency
The teams will be fantasy ones, they will all be in one division if the teams don´t cross the border of 24 teams. The budget is the same for each team (7,5 mio teams), what you do with that is up to you. There is no minimum level for riders. If there is a smaller amount of teams than needed national teams will take part in these races as placeholder.
The riders will all be under 25 and taken from the PCM.daily 2016 DB, proposals for additions will be possible. The world and national champions jerseys will be taken from the respective U23 championships. The decline & developement system for riders will stay secret in detail. Generally we can tell you that age & potential will be the factor for general developement. For the additional developement there can be money spent, also ranking points and goal accuracy are factors. Points from additional developement have more influence if used on weaker riders.
The calendar mostly contains real races, some additions are made though. Tours and classics are divided into 3 categories each, there will be an additional 1-day race series included as well as WCs, NCs and the Olympic Games. The U25 classification will be replaced by an U21 classification. The points system is based on the CQ-Ranking, though stage results and special jerseys are increased in the value a little.
To the free agency it will be based on silent auctions system. There will be a minimum wage for every rider, beneath the highest bid contract length, nationality and loyality will have an influence on the riders decision. Again, the exact influence is kept secret, but the riders will more likely sign short contracts than longer deals. Contracts can be up to 3 years, when a contract expires the rider will go to the free agency. Due to the loyality bonus it´s easier for teams to resign riders than it is for other teams to sign them. This system makes it a lot easier for teams coming into this league later though. Fines will be spoken by the board, but what stands is that a team that goes over the budget will make them loose their most wanted rider voted by the league members.
For the transfer system every trade idea you can imagine is possible, for example 3-way trades. Loan deals are possible, also while the season is running. If a rider should be signed after the free agency, the minimum wage will be the fee for the team. In August there will be the additional possibility of signing staigaires for half of the wage. The additional riders for the new season will be available there, but there will be only a small amount of information about these.
The race planning for the teams and the riders can be done before the season via planners. But as an innovative part of this it´s also possible to change this planning for every month or just doing that monthly. The upside of this system is the possibility to react to injuries as well as ranking changes, it benifits activity which should animate participants to closely follow this all season long.
While the season is running, there are some factors that influence the season. First of all there are three goal races to set for the season. Secondly injuries can occure every month, at the beginning of every month there will be a list which riders are unable to ride races for a claimed period. There is also the possibility of purchasing training camps to increase the stats of a rider. Finally there is a dynamic race day limit of 30 race days (one-day races have the value of two race days). Going over the race day limit will lower the stats by 1 each 2 race days over the border, but there is the possibility of recovering riders. This recovery will be 5 race days each 2 weeks without a race.
Going into the new season it´s possible to take money into that, though a secret percentage of that will be taken away from the board.
Any questions about the game system will be happily answered here.
Edited by Croatia14 on 17-03-2016 15:26
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| Croatia14 |
Posted on 17-03-2016 15:21
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Current Task: Free Agency Round 2
Budget: 7.5 mio €
Database: https://www.dropbox.com/s/apy4cpctg4y....xlsx?dl=0
Free Agency R2: https://www.dropbox.com/s/1bjpe6glr9a....xlsx?dl=0
Deadline: 25th of April
Edited by Croatia14 on 21-04-2016 21:13
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| trekbmc |
Posted on 17-03-2016 15:21
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Current Task - Free Agents
Teams
 Blue Water Project - Croatia14
 Saeta - trekbmc
 Deezer Cycling - MARSUPLIAMI
 Lotto-Jumbo NL - SSJ2Luigi
 Allianz-BMW powered by X-series - jaxika
 Nakatomi Industries - Tyrell Corporation powered by Soylent Green in association with the United Nations Space Command supported by Sunnydale Varsity Team formerly Hilly Valley Varsity Team - TheManxMissile
 Shamelessly Hunting Ewan - jandal7
 Topsport Vlaanderen - Ollfardh
 Pilsner Urquell-Budweiser - Luxemburger
Lufthansa French Futures Cycling - AbhishekLFC
 Team Renova - PeterRyder
 Gaerne - matt17br
 Schuh p/b Wiggle Professional Cycling - Martii_Scotis01
Team Sky - emre99
Firebird Racing - Tafiolmo
Amstel Pro Cycling - canojuancho
ENI Racing - The_Hoyle
 Our Dream Foundation - Alfa Romeo - bikex
 Movistar - DaveTwoBob
Fly Emirates - Watever - knockout
Edited by trekbmc on 11-05-2016 16:38
"What done is, is one." - Benji Naesen
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| MARSUPILAMI |
Posted on 17-03-2016 15:24
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Ok, I will give this a try, come on!
Team Name: Deezer Cycling
Abbrevation: DZR
Nationality: France
Home Town: Paris
Jersey: The one I have just made for that sponsor. I can provide you a link if you need it
Edited by MARSUPILAMI on 30-03-2016 14:09
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| SSJ2Luigi |
Posted on 17-03-2016 15:35
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Don´t we all love the Man-Game? no, not really
Don´t we all love ICL? eh, seeing Vegeta Cycling Team is pretty fun, I give you this one
Didn´t we all love EPIC? LOL NO!
Don´t we all look forward to PCR? highly questionable 
edit: LOL DIDN'T READ SIGNUP 
Team Name: Lotto-Jumbo NL
Abbrevation: LJM
Nationality: Netherlands
Secondary Nationality: Germany
Home Town: Amsterdam
Jersey: offical Lotto-Jumbo jersey that's in the game
Equipment Sponsor: Bianchi
Edited by SSJ2Luigi on 17-03-2016 15:46
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| Croatia14 |
Posted on 17-03-2016 15:38
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SSJ2Luigi wrote:
Don´t we all love the Man-Game? no, not really
Don´t we all love ICL? eh, seeing Vegeta Cycling Team is pretty fun, I give you this one
Didn´t we all love EPIC? LOL NO!
Don´t we all look forward to PCR? highly questionable
that ICL point is at least something
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| sgdanny |
Posted on 17-03-2016 15:57
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I have made a whole db with young riders, check it out Might wanna add some of those
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| jaxika |
Posted on 17-03-2016 16:04
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Team Name: Allianz-BMW powered by X-series
Abbrevation:ABX
Nationality:german
Secondary Nationality:belgian
Home Town: Munich
Jersey: ABC from ICL
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| TheManxMissile |
Posted on 17-03-2016 16:08
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Team Name: Nakatomi Industries - Tyrell Corporation powered by Soylent Green in association with the United Nations Space Command supported by Sunnydale Varsity Team formerly Hilly Valley Varsity Team
Abbrevation: NITCpbSGiawtUNSCsbSVTfHVVT
Nationality: Republic of Texas
Secondary Nationality: Republic of Hawaii
Home Town: Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station
Jersey: my MG jersey
Equipment Sponsor:
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| MARSUPILAMI |
Posted on 17-03-2016 16:27
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Abbreviation are supposed to be that... abbreviations! I mean, shorter than the Name but MUCH MORE SHORTER!
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| Croatia14 |
Posted on 17-03-2016 16:27
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TheManxMissile wrote:
Team Name: Nakatomi Industries - Tyrell Corporation powered by Soylent Green in association with the United Nations Space Command supported by Sunnydale Varsity Team formerly Hilly Valley Varsity Team
Abbrevation: NITCpbSGiawtUNSCsbSVTfHVVT
Nationality: Republic of Texas
Secondary Nationality: Republic of Hawaii
Home Town: Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station
Jersey: my MG jersey
Equipment Sponsor:
I´m sorry but the Abbrevation has to be 3 letters
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| TheManxMissile |
Posted on 17-03-2016 16:29
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Abbreviation: ßへف
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| Croatia14 |
Posted on 17-03-2016 18:11
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Have to make an ordinary sign-up myself so
Team Name: Blue Water Project
Abbrevation: BWP
Nationality: Slovenia
Secondary Nationality: Italy
Home Town: Kranjska Gora
Jersey:
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| PeterRyder |
Posted on 17-03-2016 19:53
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When will the market begin?
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| Croatia14 |
Posted on 17-03-2016 19:55
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therefore there is the game schedule, first of all we need enough managers, every thing else is ready
so I would say pretty fast after the sign-ups 
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| jandal7 |
Posted on 18-03-2016 04:37
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Team Name: Shamelessly Hunting Ewan
Abbrevation: SHE ()
Nationality: Aussie
Secondary Nationality: Kiwi
Home Town: Paraparaumu
Jersey: TBC
Equipment Sponsor: Avanti
24/02/21 - kandesbunzler said “I don't drink famous people."
15/08/22 - SotD said "Your [jandal's] humour is overrated"
11/06/24 - knockout said "Winning is fine I guess. Truth be told this felt completely unimportant."
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| AbhishekLFC |
Posted on 18-03-2016 07:07
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I want to sign up . But I have a few questions as I've not participated in any of the mentioned Story Games...
1)When I choose my team, do I start with 0 riders or are some assigned?
2)At the start of the game, are all riders free agents? How do we pick up riders at the start?
3)Could you please explain further how the silent auctions work...
4)Which parts involve me making decisions? I'm asking to see if I can dedicate enough time to this game.
5)Can I use the in-game jerseys?
6)Without sounding too silly, how tough is a playing a game like this? I've tried following the man-game somewhat in its previous season. Seemed like a lot of work!
Thanks in advance
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| Croatia14 |
Posted on 18-03-2016 07:33
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AbhishekLFC wrote:
I want to sign up . But I have a few questions as I've not participated in any of the mentioned Story Games...
1)When I choose my team, do I start with 0 riders or are some assigned?
2)At the start of the game, are all riders free agents? How do we pick up riders at the start?
3)Could you please explain further how the silent auctions work...
4)Which parts involve me making decisions? I'm asking to see if I can dedicate enough time to this game.
5)Can I use the in-game jerseys?
6)Without sounding too silly, how tough is a playing a game like this? I've tried following the man-game somewhat in its previous season. Seemed like a lot of work!
Thanks in advance
first of all: great that you are interested
1) you create a team by youself, anything is possible - 0 riders in your team
2) yep, all riders are free agents - there will be a silent auction system, we´ll present it in detail when we come to the free agency
3) basically it´s like this: everybody has the same budget and makes offers for riders in the first round - then we look who has got the highest offer and if no one is in a 10% reach of this the rider will go there - if there are 2 or more offers in the 10% reach there will be a "sudden death" about who gets the rider with new bids of the 10%guys. The higher bid will get the rider (no 10% anymore). All riders with no bids on will stay free agents for a second round of silent auctions, and the procedure starts again. Like this you slowly fill your team, there are 4 rounds in total. After that you can still make transfers with other teams.
4) In our plans it works out that way that you need some time for the free agency, but much less cumulated time for the race planning than in similar story games (ICL, Man-Game). That´s the upside of the monthly planning system. Basically the downside of it is that trekbmc and I have more work to do, but we´ll happily take that for a custom-friendlier game. If it´s fitting you better to do all the season planning at once, that´s possible too. I think that would take around 1,5 hours at one point but from then on you don´t have to invest time because it´s just following races.
To conclude Pre-Season and Post-Season is where most work is done, while the main season (the longest part) is sitting back and enjoying for you.
5) yes, as said in 1) everything is possible: we already have a team that exist in real life, a custom team from the daily db and complete custom teams...for me it´s most exciting to ask a jersey maker to create a custom one for a custom team, but that decision is up to you
6) It´s mostly learning by doing. If you have questions I´ll be there for you, trek as well. Personally I felt that man-game is pretty hard to follow (one point is that it´s just much bigger), but I think it will be not to hard to understand once you´re in it. Free Agency and Race planning are a bit harder, but then feel free to contact me and I´ll guide you, so that you don´t make the mistakes I did in my first season in a story game
Hope this could clear up things a little for you and you are still interested
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