Bored of riding the same races over and over? Bored of guys like Froome & Cancellara dominating the world of cycling? Bored of the current World Tour teams? Then this database is something for you.
This is a big fantasy DB, optimized for a playable career mode. It includes customized cyclists, teams, races and a customized calendar. You won’t see Froome, Quintana & Nibali fighting for GT wins, but Piot, Montoya & Signorini. You won’t see Cavendish, Kittel & Sagan fighting for the Green jersey, but you’ll see Vermeersch, Barbi & Peeters fighting for it. You won’t see OPQS, Sky & Movistar being the dominating teams, but Qantas, Lacoste, ExxonMobil & KBC instead.
The idea started when Ulrich Ulriksen brought out a Fantasy Rider Mod. He made a personal mod for me as well. I started editing the teams and riders quite intensively, so that it’d become a very realistic new cycling world. But in the end, it wasn’t enough for me. So I started adding some nice fantasy races. But it got more and more, so in the end, It felt like a complete Fantasy DB.
I wanted to keep it a personal DB at the start. But at some point, I decided it wouldn’t be a bad idea to share the DB with the PCM community.
So I started working again, customizing the calendar, adding some more races, re-doing some stats etc.
There have been some problems, but in the end, with some testing help from Daloe, the DB is now finally ready for a release.
Features
- Completely new cyclists(generated by Ulrich Ulriksen & edited by me)
- 100 new teams(generated by Ulrich Ulriksen & heavily edited by me)
- Around 50 new races, including 3 new GTs(Vuelta a Colombia, Tour of the USA, the Great Race)
- A fully customized WT calendar
- A fully customized .HC calendar
- A moderately customized .1 & .2 calendar
- Customized rider schedules fitting to the calendar
- Realistic potentials, decline ages etc. for a good, playable Career Mode.
- Modified WC teams, so that every good rider in the DB has a chance to win.
- A few variants for some important races
Installation:
1. Download and install the PCM.daily Expansion Pack.
2. Open the file with 7-Zip or similiar.
3. Inside 7-Zip, open the folder named Jesleyh's Fantasy DB.
4. You will find two folders: 'To My Docs' and 'To Program Files'. Open the Program Files folder and extract the content to your main PCM-folder.
In most cases, this is Program Files/Cyanide/Pro Cycling Manager - Season 2013.
For Steam users, it's Program Files/Steam/steamapps/common/Pro Cycling Manager - Season 2013.
5. Open the Documents folder and extract the content to My Documents/Pro Cycling Manager 2013.
6. Open the game and pick the Jesleyh_FantasyDB.cdb database file in the Options -> Database tab.
This doesn't always work. Sometimes, when entering a stage, the game randomly crashes. Even if you play the same stage twice, once it crashes, once not. Odd bug that I thought to mention.