Nice riding by the team, picking up NC's one by one. I think there was an opportunity in the German WC to attack maybe, when Argos were slowing the pace, not sure.
Anyway, there should be some sort of system to sort out the points wasted on the RES stat, some people improved RES much more than others (erm Zoltan)...
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Wow! Brewer....safe to say that you are the cause of many hours of my life lost...although it is worth it
Just caught up, would be here for ages congratulating everyone who has done so well over the last 2 months odd...so just a huge round of applause to the team.
Nice to see us still racking up the wins..although also nice to see us in with some stiff opposition once in a while also. Really looking forward to next year...and when we inevitably make it the top and race the likes of SKY!
NC' coming thick and fast also.
Now hopefully Owen will book his ideas up and start winning some races and performing. He has been little short of poor to be honest! Brewer - any chance you could let me know of the schedule for him over the remaining course of the season/month ahead?
For my measly 3 points I will put them towards the following:
Anyway, thanks for catching up, I appreciate that it must have been quite an effort to watch 10 or so videos. I really wish we had some tougher opposition as well, it's a pain in the arse being the favourite team in every race because everybody expects us to do everything .
Owen has been okay but for some reason, as I'm sure you've noticed, he just has too many bad days. I've never had a more inconsistent rider! The July schedule will be in the next video. Unfortunately, not too much for Owen this month as he slowly winds down his season. The Tour of Britain is, of course, an important race for him though. Apart from that, I don't know yet. He will probably do the Tour des Pyrenees and maybe the Tour du Limousin but tbh, his season has virtually finished. Hopefully, he will get that elusive first win somewhere.
I feel like the 22-25 riders are a wee bit screwed on this Natural Progression (albeit biased, but Marc has only received 1 NP [I think]), when's that age group being represented next?
Oh, and since there is a resistance bug, you should let some of the riders with higher resistance stats take 10 points off and be allowed 5 points to develop any stat under 65, but not above 68. Just my idea since resistance doesn't really matter.
Oh, and btw, +sprint for Bennett. He's trying to be just as good sprinting as he is climbing Edited by bennettWPS on 08-10-2013 08:38
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Hours? I want days of your life. *Evil Laugh*
Anyway, thanks for catching up, I appreciate that it must have been quite an effort to watch 10 or so videos. I really wish we had some tougher opposition as well, it's a pain in the arse being the favourite team in every race because everybody expects us to do everything .
Owen has been okay but for some reason, as I'm sure you've noticed, he just has too many bad days. I've never had a more inconsistent rider! The July schedule will be in the next video. Unfortunately, not too much for Owen this month as he slowly winds down his season. The Tour of Britain is, of course, an important race for him though. Apart from that, I don't know yet. He will probably do the Tour des Pyrenees and maybe the Tour du Limousin but tbh, his season has virtually finished. Hopefully, he will get that elusive first win somewhere.
You can wait on Meek to win, but I'm honestly ready for "Mr. Average" Mike Smith to win his first race haha.
Bakker is still going for WC, admit it. He's going to dethrone Tony Martin.
And the last stage of Sibiu, you can't change it to a mtn stage, even the stagemaker has no say. The game automatically categorizes it, quite annoying.
And giving back our RES points would help... but it's your call...
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I guess we're already strong enough to not rely on additional points transferred from RES, so I vote for keeping them the way they are.
About Firsanov:
A short PCS search shows all his stats are based on two races: Tour of Belgium 2012 and Vuelta a la Comunidad de Madrid 2012.
He did indeed beat Gilbert and Westra uphill in the former and Quintana by 2 minutes on a mountain stage in the latter + finished strong in both TTs, but he seems to be horribly inconsistent. Nothing really worth mentioning since.
Though he's Russian, so inconsistent might be the wrong word
About the acceleration bug: that's borderline unacceptable.
I mean due to us being in the top position every time, it's bearable.
But imagine having to rely on other trains and not being right in the best wheel: no way of even dreaming of the win.
Finally, great work at the NC's to basically everyone and +1 DH for Bauer please. Next progression update will probably be MO and HIL, I have faith in you that long-term thinking could pay off here
@cio: Yes, if you look at Varga's 77 FL and Zoltan's 76 SP, yes, we are quite strong, but we are nowhere near competitive in DH, STA, REC,...I suggest returning points back but you can only spend a small portion on primary stats. That way we'd have more balanced and realistic riders, if for example we jumped to WT next year, most GT contenders have at least 77 REC, most monument contenders have at least 75 STA, and keep in min he's playing this between hard and extreme. I guess we're already strong enough to not rely on addition points if we're battling the Haedos and Opies of the world.
baseballlover312, 06-03-14 : "Nuke Moscow...Don't worry Russia, we've got plenty of love to go around your cities"
Sarah Palin, 08-03-14 (CPAC, on Russian aggression) : "The only thing that stops a bad guy with a nuke is a good guy with a nuke"
Big thanks to jdog for making this AMAZING userbar!
(Germany TT race)
. Are you going for the WC?
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