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General Career Discussion 2013
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| Miguel98 |
Posted on 03-08-2013 22:06
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Get Zabel'd Jesleyh. |
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| lluuiiggii |
Posted on 04-08-2013 00:38
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Jesleyh wrote:
A certain 23 year old Frenchie with Initials TG comes to mind
Correct if I'm wrong, but I think Thierry Gouvenou did nothing at 1992 
I think I should have added "20 year-old". For a 23-year old, Kwiatkowski would be an even better example 
But well, I understand your point, and you said you get mine too (which, just to recap, wasn't "72~73+ riders in several stats can't exist at 23~24 yrs old", but rather "if cio thinks this rider is unrealistic, don't blame it on Cya files, they're not totally bad, just needed some synchronizing with the .cdb" )
Miguel98 wrote:
Get Zabel'd Jesleyh.
For some reason I loled at this 
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| leolebanov |
Posted on 04-08-2013 22:13
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Inspired by Cio93’s and Jesleyh’s desire to promote German team into WT so I’ve started a career project as a Scandinavian custom team Norwegian. My team is consisted of mainly Norwegians and couple of Swedish. Main goal for my career is to get WT license and to win major WT races with Norwegians. My leaders are
V.S. Laegen – 71MO/70HI – future great GC contender. Hope he will bring us some major victories in future.
Landa (SP)– 71SP/74ACC - 4 stage victories – future great leadout man
V. Breen - 73HI Puncher - Maybe the future winner of LBL.
S.H.Enger - 71SP/71AC - future great sprinter
G. Rasch 71CO/68STA NC
Domestiques
A.Wetterhall SWD
K.Skjerping
C.Bertilsson SWD
L.O.Aasvold
O.Svendsen
F.Wilmann
F.Ludvigsson SWD
R.B.Borgersen
F.Eidsheim
V.R.Bugge
U23 riders signed
J.Videhult SWD 73TT/72PR
O.Ansen
Wassbakk
Best result at 2.1 races – 2nd at Tour of Japan
After five months my team is placed 32 in CQ ranking and hoping for PCT promotion with 20 victories up to now.
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| Miguel98 |
Posted on 05-08-2013 21:28
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Ok, it's official. My team is getting the Rojas-Farrar syndrome. Why do I only get 2nd places?  |
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| kyanto |
Posted on 06-08-2013 06:51
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Finished 6th at Giro
Catapulted me to 13th place with my team!!
Kinda weird that I did so well.. but I'll take it
Consistency is really key. Rolland etc. finished many MT stages ahead of me, but they kept randomly losing time at hilly stages.
Most beautiful was the MTF stage win in stage 14 though. All the favorites either attacked on the first mountain or in the flat in between... except Uran, so Sky made tempo and caught everybody. I could protect my leader the whole way and managed to stay with Uran more or less the whole time. In the end I outsprinted him on the last km. Felt great |
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| Matrix |
Posted on 06-08-2013 07:24
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Ian Butler wrote:
Great idea!
I'm already enjoying my career with a custom made rider at FDJ! Hilly stages are amazing to play.
Also, it's amazing to plan a season, much more fun than before.
So in Tour Med the team already scored with Vichot and Bouhanni!
I did this with Movie Star, while I waited on my custom stuff to be done.
So far we are scoring wins in many races early. I might of created a rider that in awful form and condition could win most races. I thought I had created one that was in the 70s on climbing, hills, TT, recovery, fighter, acc.
Well once I fininished him and started the game, his stats where at the lowest 75, and most 82-84. Needless to say if I need a win, I use him. But most times he is at a camp (known as at home). Because while I wanted a good rider I did not want Superman.
Past that odd but at times helpful glitch.
Climbs are very nice, you can tell even with the best climbers it isnt a flat ride. I recall in PCM 11 or 12, perhaps both, a rider such as Contador would fly past on a climb. Not that easy in 13, now you see he struggles to get past. As in real life.
TT's I sim, I have never been good at them. But I did fast forward one and it is much better detailed than in previous games.
Hills are great, again no 1 rider just vanishs down the road.
Flat stages tend to bore me, if I have a good sprinter, I still can almost set my sprint train up halfway to the finish...and ride it to the finish. My sprinter still manages a top 5. Might be a glitch, or just getting very lucky thus far.
Overall the game is great. The new rider stats and schedule take some getting use to. The schecdule Im still not great at. Seems I set it up, and start racing only to notice I need rider "X" in that race, he can win it. And so rider "X" ends up in the wrong condition come one of his goal races. But the rider fittness is great. You now MUST use real life ideas and tactics if you want to win anything over a 2-3 day stage race. Otherwise a rider can work too hard 1 day and lose time for the next 2 days as he recovers. You have to pay close attention to when you should attack or ride protected...much like real life. The 1 time my team was in bad shape but my GC hope was great...I couldnt pull a stage 9 Chris Froome, I had to use other teams as help and lost a bit of time. Its more statagey now, and I enjoy that.
Pain,Agony,Suffering...Thats why I love cycling! |
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| Avin Wargunnson |
Posted on 06-08-2013 07:49
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Matrix wrote:
Overall the game is great.
Yeah, really great.
Only that some stats are not functional at all.
New fitness system is horribly implemented, so it does not make sense, rider hapiness system is broken.
Breakaways are way too powerful because of that broken stats, riders in the break are fast as peloton after their 150+km ride. If i am not setting the tempo, even when i have no real purpose to do it, it wins at least 30% of stages.
Leaders always attack on the foot of the last climb, which make majority of the stages predictable and boring.
You have to ride in the front row almost all the time, which is not real. Because your leader can be easily blocked by invisible wall of 50 riders.
Ton of another bugs, that are for years in the game, even when adressed by community for million times.
Apart from these "not important" things, game is really flawless. 
Edited by Avin Wargunnson on 06-08-2013 09:19
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| Teddy The Creator |
Posted on 06-08-2013 08:25
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Avin Wargunnson wrote:
Matrix wrote:
Overall the game is great.
Yeah, really great.
Only that some stats are not functional at all.
New fitness system is horribly implemented, so it does not make sense, rider hapiness system is broken.
Breakaways are way too powerful because of that broken stats, riders in the break are fast as peloton after their 150+ ride. If i am not setting the tempo, even when i have no real purpose to do it, it wins at least 30% of stages.
Leaders always attack on the foot of the last climb, which make majority of the stages predictable and boring.
You have to ride in the front row almost all the time, which is not real. Because your leader can be easily blocked by invisible wall of 50 riders.
Ton of another bugs, that are for years in the game, even when adressed by community for million times.
Apart from these "not important" things, game is really flawless.
You're never pleased Avin. Some of those are a bit of stretch imo, but I understand your frustration. |
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| Miguel98 |
Posted on 06-08-2013 08:39
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Avin is right. I can live with schedules, but the attacking at the base of the mountain pisses me off really hard.
And then there's the ACC stat. It cases so much time for your rider to reach full speed so when he does he's too far behind to fight for anything. |
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| Avin Wargunnson |
Posted on 06-08-2013 09:16
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Teddy The Creator wrote:
You're never pleased Avin. Some of those are a bit of stretch imo, but I understand your frustration.
Yeah, not easy to please me, but i was fine with older editions of the game (2008 and older especially). There were always some bugs,every game have some, but it was not so much game breaking and frustrating. Cyanide was at least trying back there, now they seems happy with their sold copies number and are fine with non-functional stat after several patches for example. I cannot accept that as paying customer and fan of the series.
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| Lachi |
Posted on 06-08-2013 11:59
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The worst problem in my opinion is the blocking. You can lose up to 3 minutes on 5 km if the road is narrow. To prevent this, your riders have to be on the very first part of the peloton. For me the only difficulty of this game is keeping my riders in the sweet spot, winning stages is easy after you mastered that.
Another very annoying bug is the 5km attack bug. If you attack at the correct time, you rider will win for sure because your rider can ride the same speed as the chasing peloton for a short time.
And to top it, read this:
My rider was in the break-away all day long. He wasn't totally exhausted because he stopped working after it was clear that the peloton would catch them. I then used him to drag the peloton over the last hill but I had set the % too high so he rode away. the peloton never caught him and he won with a 2 or 3 bike length.
Yes, very realistic, good job Cyanide. |
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| Miguel98 |
Posted on 06-08-2013 13:56
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Right done with May (I'm already mid-June but that's for the next update) so here are the results:
Rund um den Finanzplatz Eschborn - Frankfurt
2nd Kluge
3rd Thwaites
Vuelta as Asturias
2nd König Stage 1
7th König Stage 2
4th König GC
Rund um Köln
5th Thwaites
11th Kluge
Bayern - Rundfarht
1st Kluge Stage 1
5th Voss Stage 1
9th Wetterhall Stage 1
2nd Voss Stage 2
4th Barta Stage 2
5th Voss Stage 3
10th Kluge Stage 3
2nd Barta Stage 4
5th Wetterhall Stage 4
9th Voss Stage 4
2nd Barta GC
3rd Voss GC
7th Wetterhall GC
Tallin - Tartu Grand Prix
3rd Kluge
SEB Tartu Grand Prix
12th Jarc
Leading the CT ranking by 300 points and we're closing up to Europcar on CQ Rankings for best PCT team on the ranking. We also got the wildcard for Vuelta. |
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| cio93 |
Posted on 06-08-2013 15:34
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2014 is history for Team Stölting already (I was able to simulate most races after July with the advantage we had).
To pursue consecutive promotions, I expanded the roster to 24 so I can hopefully field 3 groups lead by Herklotz, Selig and Dehoust.
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| Miguel98 |
Posted on 06-08-2013 15:39
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So your already PCT? |
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| cio93 |
Posted on 06-08-2013 15:59
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Yep. Trying to get realistic HC lineups lowered the amount of points necessary to promote from 1200 to 900, but we had 1600 anyway.
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| Miguel98 |
Posted on 06-08-2013 16:03
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Uh, need to hurry to finish this season to promote into WT. |
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| cio93 |
Posted on 06-08-2013 17:37
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Finished race planning.
Exactly 150 race days almost equally split up on the three groups will hopefully be enough.
Lots of HC races as fitness peaks might be the key.
If I don't promote this season though, I might have to either lower some stats or edit extreme difficulty to not make it too easy next season
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| warchex |
Posted on 06-08-2013 22:31
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The group thing in the schedule menu, what is it good for? |
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| Ian Butler |
Posted on 07-08-2013 10:23
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Just helps you organize. You can also only show riders from a group in the planning section, making it easier to select the right riders. |
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| brewers90 |
Posted on 07-08-2013 15:02
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Okay, what were you saying about the unrealistic young riders?
Unsurprisingly, he won on his professional debut. |
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