I'll be honest...I don't own PCM 12 yet, and I'm not sure if I'll get it. This isn't a personal request, but a request for the greater good.
Once, a pioneering young stage maker created a stage so diabolically insane that the best way to win was to send riders up the road and hope they weren't caught before everyone ran out of energy. A stage so ridiculous, that it would almost certainly be impossible for a land crawler, let alone a bicyclist.
I am speaking, somewhat obviously for those who have been around for as long as I, of SN's legendary Uzbek Sharktooth. It needs to be reborn. I'm not sure if any original copies still exist. The original link appears to be dead (https://www.mediafire.com/?6j3jmnlcj4i), and a forum search yields only 18 posts, but most importantly, this photo:
I believe it can't be reproduced with the PCM10-12 editor, at least not 100% equal: the max the Stage Editor takes for slopes is +/- 25%, outside this range it'll accuse an error and you won't be able to export the stages (save some rare bugs)
When speaking of "monster stages", perhaps one of the hardest is RicRaf's Cuneo - Col de la Lombarde. It was originally 441 km in PCM11, but the finish is down to the last mountain top, and thus only 380 kms, in the PCM12 version.
I think it was the same deal when SN first made it, and it was a bug that allowed it to export...so...does anyone know any tricks for finding such bugs?
Afaik, you could add pretty much any slope in the old stage files (PCM09-ealier), after all they were .xml files, which could even be edited with the notepad. I remember making a circuit stage with a 30% or so climb in the old editor. But well, since you say so I'm not sure now.. I guess SN should be able to answer it, being a stage creator in both editors
