But getting back to the frustrations, I would agree with some of Bernards points, Cyanide obviously puts very little money into each years release, must only have a few guys working on it. examples being...

Equipment is just a money sink, it provides no effect in game. They have it in Armada and it seems to actually impact attributes, why can't they have it make an impact in career like the concept intends.

As I've learned recently, sponsoring a youth rider also has no impact at all, its just another money sink.

They make claims about the AI being better. Well I see no AI improvement over 2010 and it's still completely predictable. 90% of the time the AI will always catch a break with about 20KM left to go and the breakaway AI never tries to avoid that, they ride at the same low pace until the pack is close then even when they speed up at the last minute or two the pack closes even faster as if they are chasing at an insane pace but never seem to be tired out by it.

Can't speak for detailed simulations, but quick sims provide absolutely pathetic results to the extent I will never sim another race again.

2010 they didn't have collision detection so riding through the pack was completely unrealistic. But now they do have it and its just insanely frustrating with the random starting positions and literally getting stuck in the middle of the pack if they are doing slow. There are times it's literally been impossible for me to get a single rider into the front to join a break or chase until it was 3+ minutes gone because even though every rider was trying to get to the front the collision detection prevented it completely.

As everyone knows the sponsorship goals are a pathetic joke. i mean even with 1.3 and the official DB (the daily expansion DB made it worse), a custom team with the lowest possible budget still gets a goal to be in the TDF which it's quite impossible to enter when my team is USA based. But regardless of the flawed goal system. It's meaningless anyway. As long as you don't completely fail in the events you do get in the sponsor doesn't seem to ever get disappointed.

Scouting... pretty basic, but that's ok, i mean you can't really do all that much with how to scout cyclists. However, why do we have 15 different regions to scout in Germany when they all list Fighter and Sprinter, as the primary specializations. Again they go through the trouble of making all the regions to what effect? Sure over all its minimal but I'm just pointing out how repeatedly they start with a concept then its completely half a**ed.

Sure most of that is the management side of things but the simulation isn't much better imo. it really does seem like they only have 3-5 people working on PCM which really is a joke. I complain about Football Manager too, but the reality is Cyanide could learn MASSIVE amounts about being successful with a small niche game from Sports Interactive.