Name rider: Olivier Mirtic Location Slovenia Screen:
By far my best rider. I'm pretty sure he is potential 8 but I don't look into savegames because that would spoil the fun. He developed pretty fast even though I slowed down the gained experience for every rider to 1,5 to 2,5 points. (original cyanide game potential 8 rider gains between 5 and 6,5xp points.. ).
The jumping in levels is now way slower and more realistic. It takes talents time to develop.
For instance, just this year (5th season) the best talents are now coming through the top ranks (Marañon, Kahraman, Mirtic and Matlik) from the scouted riders, and they are now 22/23/24. So this is pretty neat and realistic.
List with talents atm
Unfortunately Matlik is without team now, he was ahead of my Mirtic until last year, so the AI progresses as fast as me, also a good point.
Marañóndid top 10 in the Vuelta last year. Kahraman was a domestique at T-Mobile, but now switched to Discovery. Vulpitta is also worth a note, level 2 rider and already at 77 hill with pretty good other stats. He'll become worth class and I suspect him of being potential 8 rider
yeah i call it PCM 2007 enhanced. I changed some stuff in how the riders gain experience points, what the chance of good scouted riders are, etcetera.
The game is SO much more blanaced now. The only problem is I used the original DB as base, so that some riders are really too bad and others too good. But it's not disturbing me. It's kind of an alternate universe thing what could have happened if...
great! i've also made a similar job, some questions.
1. are dh and fighter status adjusted to new riders? i would say yes because of the young riders picture, but just wanted to be sure.
2. have you managed to get some decent sprinters with equal stats of sprint and acceleration? this really piss me off because the progression of acceleration for level gains isn't in the db so young sprinters develop fast in sprint but not in acceleration, resulting a lot of hushovd style sprinters. i guess that you have changed training value to acceleration for sprinters to get them develop well as i'm seeing in the 2 young sprinters.
3. last question, does the stage racers become good at mountain and time trial but not at hills? that really piss me off as if you simulate a hilly stage they usually loose a lot of time.
1) I did change downhill and fighter stat for young riders yeah. It's the most annoying thing of the original game
2) Yeah, in STA_training_exercise the original value is 3 for sprint and 2 for acceleration, so they always progress too fast in sprint. I made it 3/3. So its now equal.
3) At the moment there are no new super stage riders yet. Maranon and Kahraman are pure climbers and they have pretty good hill stats for that (both 75).
The stage racers should get good hill stats. In my own team Srebnic and Sweeney look ok for now. It's still a bit of a wait how they develop at level 4.
By the way, as a solution for stage racers losing time in hilly stages in grand tours, you can change hilly stages to have mountain 1.00 or you can make it a mountain stage in STA_stage. Or when it appears flat, make it a flat stage.
apart from the gameplay issues i didn't change much though. sucky cyanide stats, only added some talents in free agents (Boom, Mollema, Coppel, Henao, Galimzyanov etcetera), and I added 5 national teams (Slovenia, Sweden, Lithuania, Luxemburg and Ireland)
I'll need to add jersey too. I'll upload it in the evening
Big wins
-Spilak won the World Championships again, on a totally flat course, he escaped on the tiny hill that was in the course (Valencia). Kump managed 3rd in the sprint, Mirtic wasn't selected so I didn't gamble on a sprint.
-Mirtic won 2 TDF stages and won the green jersey! A huge result. Especially since he was scouted in the second season. It brings a lot of satisfaction. Though it was a hard battle with Haussler and Weylandt who were very close.
-Svab won 3 Vuelta stages and finished 4th in the GC.
-Spilak also won Paris-Tours and a stage in the Tour de Pologne (and some smaller wins not worth mentioning)
-Ian Dugas won a Giro time trial. He is also close to the world top in time trialling now.
Talents
-Mirtic has now reached level 4 and is the best sprinter in the world, he surpassed Boonen and Haussler this season and is the only sprinter with 83SP. He has 79 flat and 70 hill as well and not done progressing either. He is potential 8 so I did expect this, but with my new progress model it still took 4 seasons to develope his potential
-Jeronimo Marañòn, a Spanish climber from Milram, has really developed well this season, winning the Vuelta in style. Just when he finished the Vuelta, he jumped to full level 4, and is now the best climber, surpassing Tour winner Andy Schleck who was 82 CL (Maranon now has 83). With his potential 8 Maranon will be a force the coming years
-Hannes Kahraman, the Austrian version of Maranon, also progressed well this season and finished 4th in this years Tour de France. He still has to reach 100% of level 4, so he can still make another jump, with his climbing already at 82 it's safe to say he will probably become the best climber in 2012. It took 5 seasons for the AI to develop Maranon and Kahraman, both potential 8 talents, to become the best. This is a realistic curve I like to see.
-With the regressing of the older stars, new stars come up. Andy Schleck finally lived up to his potential winning the Tour, Thomas Dekker finally managed to podium, and even though he still won most of them, Valverde had some good competition in the hilly classics, he did win AGR, LBL, Zurich and Lombardia, but it took him a lot more trouble than usually.
-Ian Dugas, my canadian time trialler, is now at 79 TT at the beginning of exp. level 4, so he'll be one of the best next year.
-Luka Srebnic, my slovenian GC hope, is becoming a force now with 76 CL and 75TT, I hope he can become 79/80CL and 78/77 TT, so I can win either Giro or Vuelta one day. The Tour will probably be impossible with his potential 6.
-Other than Mirtic reaching the top, Kump is doing well too (80 SP), as well as Svab (78 CL) and Sukalo (76 CL). Spilas has reached almost his full potential (78 HILL). And I found I have another talented sprinter in Kvas (76 SP at level 2).
Enough to develop the coming years!
what could have happened if... 
, got the time to see the changes and it's really good, could you please upload the original database i'd really like to play with it
