The cobble, hilly and sprints are so much better, but I'm really struggling with the mountain stages. Played the Stage to Etna within my career, and the top 28 finished within 25 seconds of the winner.
Did some testing on the Alpe D'Huez stage and a basic formula started to present itself:
- Around 140 riders in the P at the base of the final climb
- Around 50 riders with 5km to go
- Top 4 or 5 favourites attack with around 3km to go and they go on to win
- Then a group of around 5 second tier riders sprint out the minor placings
- The a group of around 30 riders come in all together.
What I've noticed is the big groups do not break up on the mountain. Not sure if this is because teams just don't pressurize on the front or what. It just makes mountain play quite unrealistic with a free for all over the last 3 km rather than being a show down on the whole of the final mountain.
Any one else having this trouble? As the mountain stages are my favourite to play, this is really bugging me.
if there's nobody to set the pace ofcourse many riders can follow. When i played that stage we were the 5 favorites left with 5 km left. "talking about the etna stage"
vandergeil wrote:
if there's nobody to set the pace ofcourse many riders can follow. When i played that stage we were the 5 favorites left with 5 km left. "talking about the etna stage"
That's what I'd prefer. Maybe I've just had bad luck. Did many riders drop, or was group formed by an attack? Was the group ahead of ahead of a reasonably sized peleton?
well i got 2 of my men to set the pace, and then they slowly just dropped, and with 10 km left i think there were about 20 men left. and from there i attacked and the other favorites followed. After me and the other favorites finished, groups of 3-10 followed. And later the peloton.
The chance of the peleton NOT setting a high pace is big.
Because there is no Actually leader, or a real situation.
where a team has to defend the jersey, or the outsider teams has to take some chances to get some time down to the rest of the favorites..
Guess thats why you´ll see these bigger groups together.
