Problem: In DYN_team_race I can see Chris Froome and Nairo Quintana are in their respective rosters for the Giro and the Tour. I would rather want them to compete in both Tour and Vuelta as irl.
I've found all these following threads dealing with the subject, but most of them are from previous versions and so not 100% sure if all the columns mentioned are still the same: A - B - C - D - E
In my savegame I also found columns like "DYN_season_targets" (three races) and "DYN_cyclist_planning" (empty for AI riders).
So I'm still not 100% sure how to change other leader's programs in the easiest way.
1) Is it enough to make sure that fkIDtype_leader, fkIDtype_leader_specialisation, fkIDfitness_program and DYN_team_race are edited accordingly (as lluuiiggii suggests in A?
If yes, I can't find fkIDfitness_program, where can I find the fitness program of an AI rider?
2) What confuses me is the fact, that Froome's fkIDtype_leader_specialisation is 25TOUR_GIRO and in DYN_team_race he's nominated for Giro and Tour.
BUT: If I look into DYN_season_targets, Froomes targets are Tour, Paris-Nice and Vuelta (Season target/Manager P2; AltObjective1/ManagerP1; AltObjective2/ManagerP3 respectively). How can that be?
I will add that simply changing fkIDtype_leader in November or December (before the 1st of January) makes a lot of difference. I wasn't concerned about a Tour-Vuelta-double, just generally stronger riders in the Vuelta and changed a few riders from cya_tdf to cya_vuelta. Here's the help I got:
asoutar: "type_leader_specialisation however is a different story it seems even if you edit that it gets changed by the game on 1st of Jan so you cant change if someone does Tour-Giro double or whatever unless you edit it in dyn_team_race."
It seems to me that it is not possible to directly control the fitness program of AI riders, which is an issue when adding custom made races to the calendar. In that case changing the type leader is unlikely to work as no leader types are associated with a custom race.
I attempted making changes to the fitness programs in STA_type_leader_specialisations where fitness programs for each leader specialisation are listed (gene_ilist_fkIDfitness_program), but it didn't have any effect. The changes are not overwritten when you start a save like if you change fkIDtype_leader_specialisation in DYN_cyclist, they just don't take effect.
So I'm wondering if changes to STA_fitness_program_week will also be ineffective, or if you can change existing fitness programs so that riders using them have peaks and lows at different times than originally?
Also does anybody know what the 30 custom fitness programs are for? They are all similar with level 1 fitness for all weeks. If changing fitness programs like this works, couldn't you make your own custom fitness programs using these?