General
- 2016 rosters
- Over 3100 riders (about 800 retired free agents have been removed)
- 107 teams (& 9 U23 teams)
- About 750 HQ custom sponsors
- PCM.daily's totally revised stats for all riders
- New rider potentials and popularities
- 2011 to 2015 Palmares for almost all races
- 105 real track riders with realistic stats
- Correct regions for almost all riders
- Real names for divisions, CQ Ranking and Vélo d'Or
- Cyanide Cup renamed to PCMdaily Cup
- "Cyanide News" replaced with "Cyclingnews.com"
- More realistic stat development for young riders (including your rider in ProCyclist Mode)
- More types of riders to be generated
- More realistic regen production from every country in the DB
- New, more realistic names for generated young riders
- A few countries added
- National teams of Sweden and Ukraine replaced with Czech Republic and Ireland
- 444 real trainers
- 153 real physicians
- 321 real scouts
Graphics
- Correct graphics for all teams (a few 2015 shirts are included for the CT teams that miss their graphics)
- Correct HD graphics for all custom sponsors
- NC, WC and/or race leader jerseys for many teams and custom sponsors
- Accessories for many teams and custom sponsors
- Updated national team jerseys
- New and updated leader jerseys for a lot of races
- Jacky Durand's Sponsorkits for WT races and many others
- New flags replacing Cyanide's default ones
- Rider photos for all riders in WT, PCT and for most of CT
- Logos for all races and race categories
- Custom newspapers for all races
- Real frames of 51 different brands
- Real wheels of 19 different brands
- Real helmets of 30 different brands
- Real glasses of 6 different brands
Stages
- 2016 race calendar with correct dates for WT, HC and .1 races
- About 360 races (more than 40 newly added races)
- 2016 variants for some races in the calendar
- Realistic teams' lists for all races
- Correct rules and classifications for most races
- Added a lot of National Championships (GBR, NOR, IRL, NZL and a few others), including a lot of ITT championships
Other
- Updated translations
- Lots of added sound comments
Variant DLC
To reduce the size of the installer of the 2016 Database, we decided to release most of the race variants as a DLC. This DLC contains all Continental Tour variants, as well as most of the WorldTour variants. We kept at least 2 variants of each WorldTour race in the base download (3 for Giro/Vuelta and 5 for TdF). You can find the download link at the bottom of this post.
Because we got a lot of replies asking for help with the installation, we decided to write an extended installation guide for the installation.
A clean install of Pro Cycling Manager 2015 is recommended before installing this database, to avoid bugs and to save you some space in your HDD. This database is a standalone database one, so you won't need the Expansion Pack to play with it.
1. Download the database from the Downloads section or with the link provided at the bottom of this post.
2. Unpack PCMdaily2016DBSetup.zip
3. Go to the folder where you unpacked the file and open the folder Files.
4. Copy the contents of the folder Program Files and paste them in the installation directory of PCM2015. This is usually C:\Program Files\Cyanide\Pro Cycling Manager – Season 2015 or with Steam C:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps\common\Pro Cycling Manager 2015. It could be different when you installed the game in a different language (for example in Dutch the folder will be Pro Cycling Manager – Seizoen 2015) or when you manually changed the directory while installing the game.
You need administrator permission to copy files to this directory. When Windows asks if you want to overwrite existing files, click Yes.
5. Go back to the folder where you unpacked the file and open the folder Files.
6. Copy the contents of the folder Documents and paste them in your Documents folder. When Windows asks if you want to overwrite existing files, click Yes.
7. Now it's time to start the game. On the main page of the game, go to Options (the "gear" at the bottom of the screen), then click Database (the last tab at the top of the popup screen) and select PCMdaily_2016DB_v1 as your database.
8. You have completed the installation process of the database. Have fun!
If you followed this guide, but you’re still having problems with the installation, check the FAQ on this forum. If your problem isn’t listed in there, ask your question in the General questions thread.
Edited by haasje33 on 28-02-2016 18:40
