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TDF - end of season
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| Ian Butler |
Posted on 03-06-2012 21:46
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I've had a career with Team Europcar for 8 seasons, and I've noticed something rather weird, and I wonder if someone else has ever experienced this before.
In every season, I worked up to TDF, of course, trying to get a good result.
But I think I saw TDF too much as a final destination (all my other goals were before TDF), that after TDF, I felt my season was over. I cancelled most races to come and mostly simulated the ones I had to ride.
Anyone familiar with this kind of problem? |
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| fcancellara |
Posted on 03-06-2012 21:47
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Ian Butler wrote:
I've had a career with Team Europcar for 8 seasons, and I've noticed something rather weird, and I wonder if someone else has ever experienced this before.
In every season, I worked up to TDF, of course, trying to get a good result.
But I think I saw TDF too much as a final destination (all my other goals were before TDF), that after TDF, I felt my season was over. I cancelled most races to come and mostly simulated the ones I had to ride.
Anyone familiar with this kind of problem?
I sometimes already have this after the Giro...
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| Ian Butler |
Posted on 03-06-2012 21:48
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fcancellara wrote:
Ian Butler wrote:
I've had a career with Team Europcar for 8 seasons, and I've noticed something rather weird, and I wonder if someone else has ever experienced this before.
In every season, I worked up to TDF, of course, trying to get a good result.
But I think I saw TDF too much as a final destination (all my other goals were before TDF), that after TDF, I felt my season was over. I cancelled most races to come and mostly simulated the ones I had to ride.
Anyone familiar with this kind of problem?
I sometimes already have this after the Giro...
To be completely honest, I did have it with the giro for the last 2 seasons of those 8, as winning the Giro was then my primary objective for Rolland (TDF wasn't working out as I wanted to) |
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| baia |
Posted on 03-06-2012 21:51
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............. but if you simulate the rest of the season, you might loose the train..
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| Ian Butler |
Posted on 03-06-2012 21:55
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I'm sorry, what train are you talking about?  |
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| baia |
Posted on 03-06-2012 22:20
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 Just a way to say you might loose your rankings...
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| Ian Butler |
Posted on 03-06-2012 22:24
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Oh, yeah, I do, but the good part is I played on normal, so at the end of TDF I was up first with almost two times the points of the 2nd in ranking, so at the end of the season, it was balanced out more  |
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| Rory426 |
Posted on 03-06-2012 22:40
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Definitely been there. I've been on PCM2007 for 4-5 years, upgraded to 2011 just this week, on almost all of my later PCM07 games I couldn't stick with it past le Tour. I downloaded every database but I got bored. Loving 2011 though! |
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| ShortsNL |
Posted on 03-06-2012 22:49
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I'm only in my second season but I quite like the second half of the season. Giro period is most boring for me.
Here's a suggestion to keep it interesting for you guys in the 2nd half:
I a role-playing aspect in my team where, if I achieve at least 80% of all sponsor goals, who are worth at least 90% of all the stars, I grant myself a budget increase of anywhere up to 10 %.
For example if you have a primary sponsor with 10 goals, ranking 5 stars to 1, I need to achieve at least 8 of those goals. This means I can practically only miss out on two races who together aren't worth more than 3 stars.
This way, I force myself to ride for the sponsor goals and keep focus throughout the year. It definitely keeps things interesting, because I need to plan my season carefully to achieve all goals. |
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| Caruut |
Posted on 04-06-2012 00:39
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I'm a huge classics fan, so the Giro di Lombardia and the rest of the Autumn classics are always a big part of my season, as well as the World Champs. I might suggest changing your manager nationality to that of one of your star riders and trying to win the WC as an important late-season goal.
I also really enjoy (though why I'm not quite sure) doing ITTs in PCM, so I've been considering changing the Chrono des Nations a bit. Before the WC ITT, it was a hugely prestigious event, on a huge 75km course. I thought I might try and make a very long version and up its popularity a bit so as to ensure more top riders present for it. |
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| lluuiiggii |
Posted on 04-06-2012 00:40
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Caruut wrote:
I also really enjoy (though why I'm not quite sure) doing ITTs in PCM, so I've been considering changing the Chrono des Nations a bit. Before the WC ITT, it was a hugely prestigious event, on a huge 75km course. I thought I might try and make a very long version and up its popularity a bit so as to ensure more top riders present for it.
Popularity has no effect on whether good or bad riders show up. To make sure top riders take part, you need to change STA_program (it isn't easy, but if you want to go on with it, by searching STA_program here in the site you might find some more detailed info).
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| Ian Butler |
Posted on 04-06-2012 15:39
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ShortsNL wrote:
I'm only in my second season but I quite like the second half of the season. Giro period is most boring for me.
Here's a suggestion to keep it interesting for you guys in the 2nd half:
I a role-playing aspect in my team where, if I achieve at least 80% of all sponsor goals, who are worth at least 90% of all the stars, I grant myself a budget increase of anywhere up to 10 %.
For example if you have a primary sponsor with 10 goals, ranking 5 stars to 1, I need to achieve at least 8 of those goals. This means I can practically only miss out on two races who together aren't worth more than 3 stars.
This way, I force myself to ride for the sponsor goals and keep focus throughout the year. It definitely keeps things interesting, because I need to plan my season carefully to achieve all goals.
I like that financial bonus idea! Thanks a lot! Maybe I'll try to set some goals myself in the second part of the season. |
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