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General Career Discussion 2013
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| cio93 |
Posted on 07-08-2013 15:04
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Is it only me or do lots of scouted youngsters have exactly two stars left in EVERY stat?
I've seen this multiple times already. Even for 63 AVG guys.
Edited by cio93 on 07-08-2013 15:04
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| Miguel98 |
Posted on 07-08-2013 15:10
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That guy Morillo, minus his TT and PRL skills, is similiar to Juan Mora, one of my riders in my MG team. Neverthanless, wtf happened to those Young Riders files? |
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| brewers90 |
Posted on 07-08-2013 15:12
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I don't know but it's the fact that he's Venezuelan aswell. A country well known for producing world class all-rounders 
@cio, he has 3 stars in Flat  |
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| cio93 |
Posted on 07-08-2013 15:18
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How's the GT winner challenge going brewers? 
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| brewers90 |
Posted on 07-08-2013 15:21
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Not brilliantly tbh. With the story and this new DB I'm trying out, I've kinda lost motivation for it, sorry. |
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| cio93 |
Posted on 07-08-2013 15:29
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Well I don't mind, especially as I'm in the story 
Small Stölting update:
Surprisingly, we received Wildcards for all 3 March stage races.
Luckily they all fit perfectly in our fitness plans, so Herklotz got 7th in P-N, while Dehoust managed 8th in Tirreno. 
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| I_Mayo |
Posted on 08-08-2013 15:03
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Started a career with GreenEDGE using Real Name DB. Sponsors expectations to perform well in Australian national RR and TDU seemed like a hard task for a guy who hasn't played PCM 2013 at all and PCM in general for half a year. But fortunately for me at least month of January went pretty good.
Here are the results in mont January:
Australian Championship (ITT)
Travis Meyer:
5th
Luke Durbridge:
7th
Australian Championship (RR)
Michael Matthews:
5th
P.S. Gerrans was only 11th.
Santos Tour Down Under
Simon Gerrans:
1st Overall
1st Stages 2 and 5
1st Mountain and Points
3rd Stage 6
5th Stage 3
Matthew Goss:
1st Stages 4 and 6
5th Stage 1
Michael Matthews:
2nd Stage 1
9th Stage 6
I also won team overall.
Btw, playing on hard.
Edited by I_Mayo on 08-08-2013 15:05
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Posted on 27-11-2024 22:41
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| aas169 |
Posted on 08-08-2013 15:06
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I''m currently enjoying a career with a custom pro continental team, but I, for some strange reason, didn't get a wildcard for the tour de france. Does anyone know how to edit this? |
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| pavuk |
Posted on 08-08-2013 15:43
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Is it normal that the game is acting so slow in carrier?
It takes like 15 seconds to complete simulate to another day with 3 races only at it (not participating), and when i open profile of some rider, it is delayed by 1-2 second until it open
I using slightly edited FCD v1.2 with personal changes, but in "pure" cdb its the same.
for some reason when i try official DB it act much quicker even with same amount of races per day
my computer specs: i5 2,2GHz, 1GB ATI card and 4GB RAM, It's not best, but enough for full detail 3D mode, I don't get it why game can't use more RAM for making calculation quicker, at task manager It uses about 300MB memory only, (in a compare of some strategy game like Civilization V - I'm out of free RAM here). Is this standard behavior or is a chance that re-install will fix it?
Yep, thats me down here...
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| cio93 |
Posted on 08-08-2013 15:48
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Same here.
Adding the usual slowing down a few years into a career, it takes 15 seconds+ to simulate a stage. FCD 1.1 with a brand new 1000 € laptop.
Most probably, as you said, simply the huge DB, plus maybe not a perfect performance optimization by the DB makers.
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| Lachi |
Posted on 08-08-2013 19:48
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The stage simulation has nothing do to with the DB because there are always the same amount of riders involved. But if there are more teams and races in a DB these 15 secs cumulate.
BTW: I am not sure if the simulation takes that long or if it is rather the saving after a stage. When it comes to saving, the DB size does matter. |
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| ruben |
Posted on 08-08-2013 20:20
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pcm reminds me of previous FM versions which also took ages (and took out my interest in FM for a while)
Need some DB optimalization.. also the amount of useless messages.
I asked before I wish Cyanide would add some sort of a dev mode or fast mode for people who want to fly through career.
FM has this now with FM Classic |
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| cio93 |
Posted on 08-08-2013 21:30
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Lachi wrote:
The stage simulation has nothing do to with the DB because there are always the same amount of riders involved. But if there are more teams and races in a DB these 15 secs cumulate.
BTW: I am not sure if the simulation takes that long or if it is rather the saving after a stage. When it comes to saving, the DB size does matter.
It's definitely the DB if the Daily DB simulates a lot faster, which it does.
On the other hand, you might be right with the saving. The red bar stays for ~7 seconds, while the time between two bars is roughly twice as long.
Edited by cio93 on 08-08-2013 23:29
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| scoup |
Posted on 08-08-2013 21:55
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After the Tour of Romandie (which served as preparation) comes the long awaited Giro de Italia. My leader is Kreuziger.
Top 5 contenders :
Spoiler Roman Kreuziger (My rider)
It will be very difficult to reach a top 3 with these climbers, wish me luck! |
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| Avin Wargunnson |
Posted on 09-08-2013 06:39
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cio93 wrote:
Lachi wrote:
The stage simulation has nothing do to with the DB because there are always the same amount of riders involved. But if there are more teams and races in a DB these 15 secs cumulate.
BTW: I am not sure if the simulation takes that long or if it is rather the saving after a stage. When it comes to saving, the DB size does matter.
It's definitely the DB if the Daily DB simulates a lot faster, which it does.
On the other hand, you might be right with the saving. The red bar stays for ~7 seconds, while the time between two bars is roughly twice as long.
It is database for sure. I have newest desktop rocket model from Dell and with FCD it take me 2 seconds to get on players profile, there is some lag right from the start of career.
Anyway i started career with custom CT german/czech team Alpine Cycling Team and already set most of the calendar and objectives (it took me some two hours). Unfortunately i forgot to raise potential of Herklotz who is in my team, so he will reach only max domestique role in WT in the future. (or i will edit him every year).
My leaders are König, Arndt, Herklotz, Geschke and Kluge
I also have Grabsch as the road captain and many scouted talented germans and czech riders + Vakoc,Hirt and Süterlin. Cant wait to play. 
Edited by Avin Wargunnson on 09-08-2013 06:40
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| admirschleck |
Posted on 09-08-2013 06:44
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Just edit Herklotz MO/HIL/TT lim and his potential in career .cdb file and i think it should work.
About your team, it would be one hell of CT team, probably even the best one. It would be pretty big challenge if you swithc to PCT division with that team. But , your career , your decision.
Edited by admirschleck on 09-08-2013 06:49
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| Avin Wargunnson |
Posted on 09-08-2013 06:55
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admirschleck wrote:
Just edit Herklotz MO/HIL/TT lim and his potential in career .cdb file and i think it should work.
About your team, it would be one hell of CT team, probably even the best one. It would be pretty big challenge to try going into PCT division with that team.
I thought potential change needs to be done before the career start, as it sets the values only at start. I can only edit his actual stats in running carrer, or not?
Team is strong, but it is composed to push for promotion to PCT in first season and there it will be nice realistic team i believe. Only two of my young scouted (at team creation) riders are potentially some 77+ on AVG, rest od team like König or Arndt should end on something like 73-76AVG. My final goal is to bring riders like Kreuziger, Tony Martin and Kittel in three, four years and become a major central European force in WT.
Edited by Avin Wargunnson on 09-08-2013 06:56
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| valverde321 |
Posted on 09-08-2013 07:00
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Avin Wargunnson wrote:
admirschleck wrote:
Just edit Herklotz MO/HIL/TT lim and his potential in career .cdb file and i think it should work.
About your team, it would be one hell of CT team, probably even the best one. It would be pretty big challenge to try going into PCT division with that team.
I thought potential change needs to be done before the career start, as it sets the values only at start. I can only edit his actual stats in running carrer, or not?
Team is strong, but it is composed to push for promotion to PCT in first season and there it will be nice realistic team i believe. Only two of my young scouted (at team creation) riders are potentially some 77+ on AVG, rest od team like König or Arndt should end on something like 73-76AVG. My final goal is to bring riders like Kreuziger, Tony Martin and Kittel in three, four years and become a major central European force in WT.
Yeah. Potential sets the max limits of each stat going into careers and I think it may be the speed of growth as well but Im not sure.
All you've got to do if you want a rider to grow once a careers started is adjust the max limits of the stats you want.
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| g_maZta |
Posted on 09-08-2013 18:47
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Hi all!
I'm rather new to the forum, although I've been reading for a long time.
i started last year trying PCM11 and got sold. You might even say this game was what sparked my interest in the sport of cycling.
Now with PCM13 I think we have a decent game on our hands, and I've jst started a new career.
I'm a fan om manager/simulation games, and I really enjoy when these are so hard that you have to read a lot of forum posts to really appreciate it.
Now on my save I've come to the end of march I believe it is, with my custom PCT team.
I opted to only pick young riders(you know, the randomly generated ones), and managed to find as many as 8 future greats. Some of them potentially greater than others I must say.
Since I'm new to the whole world of cycling, I decided to almost exclusively participate in .2 races, and it's going great!
In fact, I believe a promotion is within reach already after the first season.
I have a couple of riders who dominate the PCT rankings. Especially one of them named a randomly generated rider named Holdorf (German talent 19 years old) with stats like FL 73, HIL 74, SPR 77 (still 4*). I'm thinking he may be a future TDF contender as he already has like 12 victories from about 15 possible(this is on normal difficulty btw).
I've read just about every race guide (like tips&trick and Kentaurs brilliant newbie tips) and I'm doing good in almost all categories. The flat races, be it NCs or flat stages in general I almost always win. The hill- and mountain stages are a bit harder though, and I'm just starting to be in contention here as well. It seems I'm a bit too impatient, and spend my efforts a little too early in the climbs.
Actually I find that the most difficult races are not the ones with hill/mountain finish, but those which have a hard climb and downhill before the finish. it seems whatever I do on the climb, someone catches me on the downhill.
I also see that many players dislike the cobbled stages, but for my part I think they are great! This is where one lonely rider really can make it on his own! I've never managed to finish a cobbled stage with my team like pearls on a string, but I have won a few with my best cobble riders, and I must say, it really is a great feeling when one of my riders makes everyone else eat his dust and fly across the cobbled sections.
However, there are some things I don't fully understand.
Like; is there any way to see how many "ranking points" a race gives when planning your season? seems i just keep winning and still there are a couple of teams and riders besting me in the rankings. These are CT teams and I'm a PCT team so it might be natural as I cannot compete in the same quality races.
Maybe I should just be happy my PCT team is actually doing better than all but a few CT teams?
I've also read that there's practically no way to keep my riders happy when they cannot compete in the most prestigious events? This bothered me for quite some while, as i keep winning, but about half of my riders are annoyed.
Of course, as a PCT team I cannot participate in the TDF, Giro and the Vuelta this first season, but I'm really hoping for a promotion and maybe get a wild-card next season.
Many of you might say that as a total noob I should have started with a strong team like SKY or something, but in my mind it's much more fun to start at the bottom and work my way up (I usually do this in the FM-games as well) trying to sign the big names if my team gets enough rep.
I'm at least going to fire a couple of riders with no potential, and see if I can find some new talent, or maybe some established riders, to bring me further glory next season. (Since I've edited the ridiculous sponsor goals, I think next years budget is going to be quite nice)
Well, this was most of all a "hello, here I am" sorta post.
I just want to give a special thanks to Lachi for his editor and to whomever made the PCMdaily DB.
Now I'm heading over to the stages database to download a whole bunch of new stages.
BTW - Don't forget to watch Arctic Race of Norway this weekend (started yesterday). Although it's not the greatest line-up, I hope this might be a race for the future! Fantastic scenery.
ok then, cheers all! 
g_maZta
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| baseballlover312 |
Posted on 09-08-2013 19:26
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Well with those kind of guys it's no wonder you are winning in only .2 races. Those are the very bottom.
RIP Exxon Duke, David Veilleux, Double Feature, and Monster Energy |
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