Jesleyh wrote:
I don't know if they're ridiculous, but they're probably not perfect.

Luckily there are some DBs that will change the regen names.

And I don't think comparing PCM to Football Manager is a good idea, FM has what, 20 times a bigger budget?

Plus, I wouldn't like everyone having a face in 3D mode. You cannot see the faces often(only when they look up) and they slow down the game quite a bit.
Ah yes they have basic faces generated, but only a few different ones.

Dax wrote:
It's really easy to add faces if they're missing though! You literally just need to add a 64x64 tga image with the photo under Gui\cyclist_photo (hello Paint.NET)
Then with an editor like Lachi's, find your cyclist and just write the file name (without the extension, like for example "acontador" ). I don't remember the field's name but you will find it easily

I always did it. I even changed the names of the young riders sometimes, actually

This is the first time I see someone complaining about the names though, lol

Kentaurus wrote:
This is something that the expansion pack people do take care of, I know the PCM.Daily expansion pack adds much better depth to this aspect of the game, and are already working on adding it to the EP for PCM15.

Dax wrote:
Again, I just don't understand what you mean. I never paid too much attention admittedly, but I don't remember them being so unrealistic ? Unless you're talking about real-life young riders but that would pose a license problem again.

As for the faces, yeah, I can't remember but I guess you cannot set a face for U23 riders. However, I mean, you can't even race with them and they don't appear in your squad, so what's the point?
Once you sign them, they will appear in your list and you can set it.

That said, andy suggested that in PCM2015 they have faces, which would be a good thing considering the bigger role of your dev squad (unless he was confusing that the faces-in-race). I hope that now it's possible to set them too.

Dippofix wrote:
In my last PCM career, my two favourite regens were named "Che Bouckenhouge" (Australian) and "Homobono del Rosario" (Philippines). Homobono is now the name I want my first son to have.

Dippofix wrote:
I got someone with the last name of Wirtschaftsberatung, which makes absolutely zero sense. It's translated to Economic Conference or something like that...

krikkern wrote:





Thank you, both of you, for proving my point There should instead be a huge pool of real names (first and last) that the game would pick names from, depending on nation/region.

A French rider should be given typical French names (Gaston, Pierre, Armand or whatever have you)
An Englishman be given realistic English names (John, Steven, Alan, Smith, Johnson, Thompson or whatever have you)
So on so on.

names like you two mentioned are exactly the kind of names I have been referring to, which is always something of a deal-breaker or mood-killer for me.

I'll be sure to keep my eyes open for some iprovements on this in the EP, which Kentaurus mentioned above.