I've noticed on several occasions that my rider has yellow, red and green bars all slightly below max at the start of a race. I don't know if this is a bug or something specific. It can't be fitness or race day condition as I've noticed it happening regardless of either being low or high. Anyone else noticed this? Is there an actual reason for it?
Is there anyway of changing or affecting the teams you get offered in pro cyclist mode other than what country you pick? I'm Irish and I usually choose to be an Irish rider but I get offered the same two Continental teams every time. The Pro team option can vary between one or two possibilities. It is fairly boring playing with the same teams over and over again. I would love if the developers opened up the team choice so it wasn't restricted by your country. Do they think nobody travels to improve in their chosen sport? Or that people don't grow up sometimes in a different country to where they are born. Does anyone know of a way to change this?
That usually happens in a stage race, because the bars are affected by freshness. The harder you have to race, the more tired you get in the following days and have smaller bars, even at the start of a stage.
It's a realistic part of the game. In real life in stage races riders' resting HR goes up but their max HR goes down as they get more and more tired. Recovery should be even more emphasised next year so that you can't do a bigger effort than your freshness/stamina currently is. So that GT collapses become possible.
For your second question, the way that comes to mind is using different databases. The basic DB only has 40 Conti teams, but in reality and in some custom made DBs there are about 150.
Thanks for the reply. Makes sense re. freshness although I do have a decent Recovery stat. which I thought would mitigate it. I assumed the team options being limited was down to region choice as I have used both the default and custom databases with the same options.
Yeah, in the game of course it helps to have a better recovery over a worse one. But it just never happens and it should never happen that a rider doesn't get more tired and the bars don't get smaller after racing in successive days. Even if a rider existed with every stat at legendary levels.
You assumed right. The team choices are limited by your nationality. It's always 2 Conti teams from your country (if the DB has that many) + 1 Pro from your region.
I meant that for some countries the default DB only has a couple of teams so what you're offered is always the same. For some, like South American or Australian riders, it has none so you're always offered foreign teams.
But if you have a custom DB, you can choose from all the teams that there are. So it's less likely to always be offered the same 2 teams.
Well I've tried the PCM DB and World DB. When I choose Irish I always get offered Evo Pro (Irish) and Vitus (UK) as the conti teams no matter what. There seems to be some variety on the conti pro option but thats it. Looks like next pro career I'll have to start with a conti pro team.
It's funny because if I create an Irish team in a career mode the sponsor always wants representation from Ireland (obviously), UK (fair enough but many of us here might not be keen ) and Belgium (guessing due to historical connection - Sean Kelly basing his team there etc.) but I never get offered a Belgian conti team as an Irish Pro Cyclist. Oh well.
Just to update on this I am an idiot but in case others are not aware I thought I'd better post about it. When picking a team clicking 'Random Choice' will randomly change the teams on offer. I had always assumed that it just automatically picked one of the three you had and moved on but it does actually change the choices. Not always but if you keep clicking it eventually you will get other Conti teams from other countries. It still always starts with Evo and Vitus for me but I can force it to change with the random option. We really need a questions sticky here for idiots like me
) and Belgium (guessing due to historical connection - Sean Kelly basing his team there etc.) but I never get offered a Belgian conti team as an Irish Pro Cyclist. Oh well.
