Am trying to start a custom career with the minimum budget to build a cheap team of (hopefully) talented youngsters, but am getting killed by my staff costs. Always seem to start off with at least one Legendary coach with my monthly staff costs somewhere in the 50-80k range. I can't get anywhere close to making that much with the riders I'm getting at 2k/month a pop.
Obviously I can sack the ones I end up with, but I'd rather not pay the replacement cost straight out to get in some more reasonably priced ones (not to mention more realistic to the type of team I'm trying to set up).
Is there any way of making this more realistic at all?
Okay thanks. I assume something like that random assignment of staff is hard coded and can't be editted anywhere in the database. Shame. I'll try editting the save.
Cyanide was too lazy to care about people wanting to play with small teams.
But these things are easy to fix and I don't consider it cheating.
If you want to keep it somehow real, then fire the actual staff and sign new staff in the game, then fix the budget and your bank account afterwards.
Else you could just reduce the wages of your actual staff or raise the budget.
To fix such things you need to edit your save using an editor which can be found in the download section (or in my signature).
Your save is here: My documents\pcm2011\users\your name\database\solo\name of DB\
Coaches would be in the table called DYN_coach, sponsors would be in DYN_sponsor, (I think you get the picture)
But your bank account is in the table called DYN_manager in the column finan_i_solde.
If you do not know which column you have to edit or do not understand how the database or the editor does work, ask again.
Thanks for the help. Have finally got a game going without crippling staff costs, although strangely I could now afford a lot more than i have thanks to Luke Rowe taking his 3rd breakaway victory by the end of February and GC victory in the Giro di Sardinia as a result. (time for extreme maybe?)
Did a bit research on the assignment of staff on a custom career and the problem seems to be particularly bad when you play as team from a country without subregions, for example as Great Britain. This seems to give you a random collection of expensive multinational coaches. Whereas starting as a French team full of French riders seems to give you a relatively low cost set of French staff.
