kissaha wrote:
I'm wondering how you can keep all the older riders from improving drastically before they start declining? If you lower their potential, their stats will decrease too fast when they hit their "declining age". I'm tired of having Contador reaching 85MO and 80TT in just a year, it's just not very realistic, and makes longer saves unrealistic. So how can you keep the riders who are unlikely to improve from improving?

kissaha wrote:
I was hoping for another answer I know of this option, but it is extremely time consuming to research and edit so many riders. Aren't there any files which determines the way riders develop?

fcancellara wrote:
You could edit their potential...

kissaha wrote:
If you lower their potential, their stats will decrease too fast when they hit their "declining age".

bigggassi wrote:
How about the riders evolution factor which you can set at the beginning of every game. Normally it's 0.5, but you can decrease it to, lets say 0.2 and you got a much slower evolution. Also you are able to edit this factor during the game if you edit the DYN_manager table. Lets say you are doing this, none of the riders will get a drastically boost during the 1st season while riders still getting older. When you edit the factor in the beginning of the 2nd season to the normal level some of the older riders have achieved already their decline year and don't get any big benefit.

I use it especially in historic databases to limit the evolution in the first year. At the beginning of the 2nd season I increase the factor to make the development a bit faster. For me it's just working fine.