When I play any game and I find things that to me seem to be there just to make things difficult at the expense of logic, I usually stop playing the game very quickly. There are two areas of the game that I have found this. Maybe somebody can give an answer that makes sense of either of both of them.
Career Mode.
I have created at new team in Continental. Age range 19-23. Ave range 69-73. I @72, 1@72, 2@71, 1@69 and the rest 70. In the riders sheet under Season you have the Heading Satisfaction and sub-headings Satisfaction, Satisfaction Quality (whatever that is,) Prestige and Route. On 24 March all riders were very satisfied under all sub headings. On 3 April Satisfaction, 15 riders dropped to satisfied. Satisfaction Quality all riders very satisfied. Route 1 rider dropped to satisfied. Prestige 1 rider satisfied, 4 riders unhappy, 5 riders very unhappy and 8 riders annoyed. I have not changed anything in the schedule in this time, so how can there be such drastic change in just over a week in prestige satisfaction?
Pro Cyclist.
Training! I was able to get my fitness up to 100% early in the season because I was not registered in a race until mid March, I made the assumption that if you have 1 or 2 races a week with intensity set at 3 this would maintain fitness at 100 percent but the fitness level drops quite rapidly with that setting. Now I have never been a cyclist so maybe they require a very different training regime. In football (I never played at the highest level) once you are fit and play once a week (at least) and have a medium intensity training regime you are able to maintain your fitness. Can someone explain why cycling is different? Or is this something that the game throws up in order to make your life more difficult?
I have no idea about the first, but in regards to the second, I think that's partly how you visualise 100% fitness. I don't think 100% fitness should be regarded as being 'in shape', like a football player can be during the season, but rather as extraordinary match-of-a-lifetime now-or-never super extreme top shape. Cyclists train to get to this one or two times a year, it's called peaking. I hope this way of seeing the 100% makes it more palpable for you
Thanks Rad. It makes a little sense but it still doesn't alter the fact that if your fitness is high and you have 1 or 2 races a week with a reasonable intensity during training your fitness should be maintained at a reasonable level, not begin to drop like a stone. My team mates who race in the same races as I have full fitness for each race while keeping their freshness at peak levels. If computer controlled riders are able to do that then so I should I. Just seems to me that this is done to make it difficult, which I don't mind providing it is logical and to me at least, it is not logical.
