Have you thought any more about altering the scouting regions, lowering the number a little. I think it would help the cpu scouting and let their scouts connect with more of the talents, of course they could still miss them anyway.

Jesleyh wrote:
It would be easier with the excel editor. You could do it in half an hour I think, if you have sorted out which small regions should form big ones.
Just sort on the stage 'region' they got. If the Netherlands has 3 regions, you could give 501,502,503(that would be illogical geography-wise, but just as example) to 501. 504-508 to 502 and 509-512 to 503.

Then you could just copy the number 501 and paste it in all the current 501,502,503 regions. Same for the rest, it shouldn't take hours to adjust, really.

Oglalakev wrote:
That's a pity, I guess it leaves increasing the frequency of good talents using the STA_region table as my preferred option.
In the previous DB I had reduced the frequency of potential 1-3 riders, from around 70% to 60%. I then bumped up the potential 4 riders marginally so that around 80% of riders would fall in the 1-4 range. Potential 5-7 riders received a minimum of 50% boost, with potentially 6 almost doubling. I had raised potential 8 as well but they became too common so I wouldn't be keen on doing so again.

Oglalakev wrote:
I personally prefer to spread the increase across the regions, with only the smallest failing to receive a bump. Part of that is because I have based teams in some moderate cycling nations, but also you can't exactly predict which sponsors will come into the game and presumably teams scout their sponsors preferred regions (I don't know how to check if that's true).

Be certain to give Flanders a bump as that's the most obvious way to raise the odds of good NC riders making it into the DB.

I like to increase 7 as well but it's went up by about 50%, so often from 1 to 1.5% in many regions.

I tend to do the same, but only in the DB I'm going to use. For the sake of a universal DB I think that keeping things generally in line with the current status quo is probably the best way to go.

I'm also thinking (though I just told Jesleyh that I wasn't going to get involved) that perhaps giving NC a universal bump will help create more of those riders. If you add just 1% to all the regions for it the number of those riders should increase.

ruben wrote:
In general I think there needs to be far lower 1-2-3 riders and much more potential 4-5 riders.
6 is, with Kents XML's, doable with a little more talent (especially in the big countries). 7/8 should be kept small. Potential 8 really only a little.

Btw you can calculate easily how many potential X riders will appear. In the fcm db it's about 3000 riders a year. So then if you keep the potential % the same for each country you know about how many will appear.
Say the average is 1% for potential 6 talents, then around 30 riders every year will be potential 6

ruben wrote:
yeah, too many worthless riders created (1/2/3) as I thought.

Also, what I noticed in my longer career testing, is that STA_training_excercise probably f.cks up development a bit as well. The limits are good, but some are never reached or reached incredibly slowly because of that. It needs to be reworked somehow.