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General Career Discussion 2013
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| Alakagom |
Posted on 20-08-2013 20:50
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cio93 wrote:
nutter453 wrote:
@ Cio93, what skin are you using there I like the look of it and it looks slightly darker than the default one.
I only use the FCB database V1.1 with no further additions.
Sooooooooo......
sorry to say this, but Spoiler I just won the challenge  .
Froome faded in the last stages while Quintana was really strong.
Demare WAS a pain in the ass, but the jersey was sealed after the last intermediate sprint, and Herklotz even managed to finish fifth in Paris 
Well, white obviously...
And such a close teams classification 
So I got a bit tired of Stölting anyway, what is the next challenge going to be? 
I was thinking of some options.
-Win all GT points jerseys with Kittel (multiple times in a row?)
-keep Novo Nordisk in PCT without reinforcements
-win more TdF green jerseys with young Zabel than the old one did 
etc. etc.
Shouldn't be too hard, you win it just once and you already beat his record Well, at least you should if we apply same thing they did to Armstrong on his results too.
Kittel challenge sounds fun, although Novo Nordisk is even a better one. Good luck with that!
And gratz on your Stölting reults. I admire your passion for this game, I coudln't find motivation to play even few races with this game so far :L
Edited by Alakagom on 20-08-2013 20:51
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| valverde321 |
Posted on 20-08-2013 20:52
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To do the true Novo Nordisk challenge you can only sign riders with Diabetes or similar diseases like what Gomez Marchante had. 
Edit: Why is your motivation so bad Alak? I find this years version the best in quite a long time. The game is a lot of fun to play in 3d mode.
Edited by valverde321 on 20-08-2013 20:56
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| pcm2009fan |
Posted on 20-08-2013 21:01
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And for every generated rider you find with Nordisk, you need to attach a random number between 1 and 100, and if it's 1... bingo, you found a "diabetic" |
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| cio93 |
Posted on 20-08-2013 21:10
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Alakagom wrote:
Shouldn't be too hard, you win it just once and you already beat his record Well, at least you should if we apply same thing they did to Armstrong on his results too.
Don't get me started! 
Alakagom wrote:
Kittel challenge sounds fun, although Novo Nordisk is even a better one. Good luck with that!
Going after GC's all the time means I'd like to go back to sprints, plus Argos is always my favourite team to play with.
On the other hand, there's been lots of GT riding lately, and usually, I rarely get to play them at all. So it's a bit overflow if there are like 15 GTs ahead again.
Alakagom wrote:
And gratz on your Stölting reults. I admire your passion for this game, I coudln't find motivation to play even few races with this game so far :L
Thank you
As soon as I have a really exciting and challenging goal, my motivation hits an all time high
But I have times where I really want to start a career with team x only to stop after February, and that continues for ten further careers.
Yeah, this game is really awful to play at times, and I was close to smash something several times, but I'm used to that since 7 years...
valverde321 wrote:
To do the true Novo Nordisk challenge you can only sign riders with Diabetes or similar diseases like what Gomez Marchante had.
If you could point out a site where all those riders are listed?
But I actually have an idea:
How about I just write down 50 (or whatever number) random rider ID's + 50 random young rider ID's, look them up in the DB and mark them as "having Diabetes", thus reducing the possible transfers to those riders?
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| Jesleyh |
Posted on 20-08-2013 21:11
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Yeah, PCM 2013 is more fun than PCM 2012
But you are probably waiting for your own DB, aren't you, Alak?
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| lluuiiggii |
Posted on 20-08-2013 22:21
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Congrats on winning the Tour!
cio93 wrote:
How about I just write down 50 (or whatever number) random rider ID's + 50 random young rider ID's, look them up in the DB and mark them as "having Diabetes", thus reducing the possible transfers to those riders?
In the column "value_i_has_diabetes"? (just curious by what you mean "mark as having Diabetes )
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| cio93 |
Posted on 20-08-2013 22:31
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lluuiiggii wrote:
Congrats on winning the Tour!
cio93 wrote:
How about I just write down 50 (or whatever number) random rider ID's + 50 random young rider ID's, look them up in the DB and mark them as "having Diabetes", thus reducing the possible transfers to those riders?
In the column "value_i_has_diabetes"? (just curious by what you mean "mark as having Diabetes )
There is a world outside of .cdb
Stuff like pen&paper or such...dunno if you already heard of that at your young age
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| Avin Wargunnson |
Posted on 21-08-2013 08:02
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valverde321 wrote:
To do the true Novo Nordisk challenge you can only sign riders with Diabetes or similar diseases like what Gomez Marchante had.
Edit: Why is your motivation so bad Alak? I find this years version the best in quite a long time. The game is a lot of fun to play in 3d mode.
This is beyond me, the game is predictable and boring as hell, i found it much worse than fully patched 2012, but everybody has different measures. Unfunctional race planning, stats and hapness system does not help much to my motivation to play, worse is incredible blocking, operpowered breaks and same riders attacking at foot of the last climb every day
Congrats Cio, your dedication seems incredible, i played like 20 stages since you started the challenge, i cant hardly play more than two in the row, especially in GTs, where it is all the same all the time.
Edited by Avin Wargunnson on 21-08-2013 08:03
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| I_Mayo |
Posted on 21-08-2013 14:39
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Finished month of February (also first two days of March due to Le Tour de Langkawi) in my GreenEDGE career. Bunch of palmares but ... only 2 wins (if you count in one points calssification). To be honest, I enjoy this career quite a lot. Don't know how I will be able to start new one when PCM Daily DB comes out.
All that said here are the results for past month:
Tour of Qatar:
Team 5th Stage 2
Kruopis 2nd Stage 5, 7th Stage 4, 9th Stage 6
Impey 8th Stage 1
Howard 10th Stage 3
Vuelta a Mallorca:
Davis 2nd Stage 2, 4th Stage 1
Langeveld 3rd Stage 4
Meyer 9th Stage 3, 11th GC
Tour of Oman:
Goss 3rd Stage 3, 4th Stage 1, 9th Stage 6
Clarke 4th GC, 7th Stage 5, 9th Stage 4
Gerrans 5th Stage 3
O'Grady 8th Stage 3
Lancaster 9th Stage 1
Weening 11th GC
Volta ao Algarve:
Davis 4th Stage , 7th Stage 1
Meyer 5th GC, 6th Stage 4, 7th Stage 3
Albasini 9th Stage 3, 13th GC
Langeveld 9th Stage 1
Durbridge 10th Stage 4
Omloop Het Nieuwsblad;
Langeveld 28th 
Kuurne-Brusseles-Kuurne:
Howard 1st
Le Tour de Langkawi:
Matthews 1st Points Classification, 2nd Stage 9, 3rd Stage 1,
5th Stage 7, 6th Stage 2, 7th Stage 4, 8th Stage 8
Clarke 2nd Stage 3, 3rd GC, 7th Stage 1, 9th Stages 5 and 9
Sulzberger 9th Stage 1
Beppu 10th Stage 4
Hope this doesn't take up too much space.
Edited by I_Mayo on 21-08-2013 14:41
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| valverde321 |
Posted on 21-08-2013 16:33
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Avin Wargunnson wrote:
valverde321 wrote:
To do the true Novo Nordisk challenge you can only sign riders with Diabetes or similar diseases like what Gomez Marchante had.
Edit: Why is your motivation so bad Alak? I find this years version the best in quite a long time. The game is a lot of fun to play in 3d mode.
This is beyond me, the game is predictable and boring as hell, i found it much worse than fully patched 2012, but everybody has different measures. Unfunctional race planning, stats and hapness system does not help much to my motivation to play, worse is incredible blocking, operpowered breaks and same riders attacking at foot of the last climb every day
Congrats Cio, your dedication seems incredible, i played like 20 stages since you started the challenge, i cant hardly play more than two in the row, especially in GTs, where it is all the same all the time.
I dont find it boring compared to PCM12 at all. There the only way to make an acceleration anywhere was using the dot, which really isn't fun for me.
I dont see this game as predictable compared to others either. Its pretty much the same. The race planning and stuff is stupid but I can kind of work with it still.
I really haven't noticed too much problems with blocking, I feel last years game and especially 11 were worse for blocking. I do find the breaks need work, but they get caught quite a lot for me. It depends on the strength and size of the peloton for me which is pretty realistic.
Also, I've only seen the riders all attacking at the foot of the last climb in Stage Race mode. In career, the peloton doesn't give up as quickly or at all compared to stage race mode, so I dont see it happen much.
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| cio93 |
Posted on 21-08-2013 20:53
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Well, let's just put it that way:
With 5 kilometres to go, Peron was still in the peloton.
Edited by cio93 on 21-08-2013 20:54
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| Jesleyh |
Posted on 21-08-2013 20:57
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NOVO NORDISK 
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| valverde321 |
Posted on 21-08-2013 20:58
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I've never seen a proper time for when the peloton should just be sitting up, like it does in PCM. One of the dumbest things to implement into the game, and it was only to make people think the game wasn't broken because on climbs you couldn't accelerate ahead of the group because of the broken attack button. It was essentially to hide another one of their bugs that I guess they never felt like fixing until this version.
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| lluuiiggii |
Posted on 21-08-2013 23:10
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cio93 wrote:
There is a world outside of .cdb
Stuff like pen&paper or such...dunno if you already heard of that at your young age
Ah, I thought you meant marking them in the .cdb
Concerning the above discussion, from what I've played so far PCM13 is definitely not perfect, but the gameplay is certainly better than 12 to me. If better than 11 and 09 is another question, I guess the answer will be clear with some time with the full patched game (I've only played since 09, so I can't give opinions before that)
Edited by lluuiiggii on 21-08-2013 23:11
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| Miguel98 |
Posted on 21-08-2013 23:12
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A few words to describe PCM 2008: create gaps with attacks on every bloody terrain. |
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| Cmknudsen |
Posted on 24-08-2013 18:39
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I am still playing with Rabobank(fourth season, at the final stages of the giro) i think i will try something new, but i am wondering if, this is a bad time in regards to when the PCM Daily DB will be released? Who would you recommend to start a new Carrier with? i would prefer a pro tour team, because i have been playing a lot at continental level with Rabobank |
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| I_Mayo |
Posted on 25-08-2013 17:14
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Had won three stages with Goss in P-N, had finished 7th with Meyer in stage 6 when suddenly it was all fucked up. Why? Because after T-A stage 3 I press next but instead of going to message board it goes to next T-N stage 4 with 7th stage of P-N being simulated in which I lost 6 minutes with Meyer!!!!!!! Fuck you Cyanide!!!
Edited by I_Mayo on 25-08-2013 17:32
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| coutas98 |
Posted on 25-08-2013 17:29
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I'm building a youth team for the Cont Tour, the Soch team (which i think it is an unlicensed Bosch). Guys like Sütterlin, Arndt, Thurau, etc. and a lot of youths self-generated by the game. |
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| greco |
Posted on 26-08-2013 15:40
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imo its not thread worthy, so im going to ask here. Have you huys experienced or do experience, that the peloton slows down and does so on a regular basis?
If so, have you experienced that this behaviour is database related og does this happen no matter what ? |
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| Jesleyh |
Posted on 26-08-2013 15:45
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Sometimes, but not always.
Also, I'm starting up my LKT career from a lot earlier again, so I have something to play before the PCMdaily DB is out.
@coutas
Sounds nice, maybe a bit too talented. Though you should really play with a DB.
Edit:
The team:
LKT - Brandenburg(Season 2)
Edited by Jesleyh on 26-08-2013 15:50
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