Yet another crew-member has decided to resign from his adminstrator post - this time, it's our (drunk) Swedish friend Alex134. He's been a part of the crew ever since the site opened, but as time went by he became more and more inactive due to more and more school work. So, in some way, this was expected. Alex has promised to try and stay active whenever possible, but as he said, there's no reason to be in the crew when he doesn't have time enough for the task.
With Addy291 gone, we now have two open spots in our "famous" Management Game. These teams are the Pro Tour team FloGas and the Continental team Nippo.
FloGas ended 6th in last season, and that was mainly due to some of the team's star riders such as Oscar Freire, Andreas Klöden, Matthias Kessler, Mark Cavendish, etc..
Nippo had a pretty bad season, ending 16th. However, Nippo has never really been a fantastic team, so it's definitely a challenge to takeover this team - and that's the fun part of it ;)
Yesterday, I received a private message from our admin Addy291 who said that he'd like to resign from his adminstrator position, and furthermore he also said that we shouldn't expect to see him again all that often. He said that he hasn't really played PCM for months, and that he feels he's lacking motivation to keep on going. And well, since I can't force him to stay it's time to say "goodbye" to the Most Helpful Member of the Year 06/07. To one who has helped an unbelieveable amount of players, and to one who will be missed a lot at this site.
Yep, we finally reached the 50th edition of the Weekly News. We have, of course, existed for much more than 50 weeks, but as you know, we once in a while tend to "forget" them - mainly because there's not always not enough news. Anyway, here we go - 50th edition and still going strong ;)
Waghlon reviews the Bouri 08 DB Despite all the critism and "flaming", Waghlon has just published a just as critical review, and this time it's the French who's going down. Bouri released his DB last week and was immediately critized by pretty much everyone who tried the DB, and this critism is repeated in Waghlon's review. You can read it here and have a good laugh :)
..and if you want the DB anyway Well, yes, if you've read the review and want to see if it really is as bad as Waghlon says, you can download it here at PCM.daily. Specs-wise, it sounds good. It's based on the PCM Spain-project, it's a huge package with lots of graphical improvements, and you get a 08 DB - or, well, you "partly" get a 08 DB since the guy has actually forgot to change some of the teams' names and abbreviations. Read the review for more information, or go straight to download here.
So if you want a good 08 db ... ... you have to wait. The Spanish website, EuskalPCM, released their 2008 project, and despite much critism one of the creators didn't hesitate to call the project for "the best DB of the world". I doubt it's true, though, since it hasn't exactly received good votes in our DL-section. Anyway, you get an updated DB with 45 teams, you get the shirts for the teams and a set of accesories. It does probably also have more stuff than that, but these weren't mentioned in the official announcement. You can download the large pack here.
U23 Talents DB available And since you have now experienced that there's no good 2008 databases available, you might be interested in this DB instead. It's a Talents DB which solely consists of U23 riders and teams. It's made by the Italian community, and that also means there's a lot of Italian riders and teams -- but you do get "international" teams and riders too, though. It's an interesting DB, and it's good to see something "new" instead of just another hopeless attempt at making a 2008 database. So, if you're as enthusiatic as me, go ahead and download it here.
New icons Danish member, Lampert, has made a bunch of new icons to use with the game. You get icons for pretty much everything in the game, including icons for trainers, doctors, scouts, Pro Tour & Continental Tour, and much, much more. There's a screenshot in the download description. See it and download it here.
Valverde to win the Pro Tour After a few weeks of voting, most you tend to think that Alejandro Valverde (Caisse d'Epargne) will win the Pro Tour. He got 15 % of the votes. 1 percent more voted that they thought an unlisted guy would win. Time will tell, but one thing's for sure: The winner of the Pro Tour is not necessarily the best cyclist throughout the year - just look at the PT-calendar ;)
Minor site updates With help from Aab-ern, I've added a new statistic to the site -- "Most Active Forummers". It shows the most active members in the forum, both the most active during the past 24 hours and the past 7 days. It only counts forum posts, not comments ;) Other than that, we have made it possible to avoid the advertisements which are placed around the site. You can read more about that here.
Quite a long time ago, PCM.daily decided to add a banner advertisement to the front page and a bunch of text link advertisements to the download pages. This was done to make sure that PCM.daily received money enough to keep the site running. And things will stay like that. However, for people who have donated money to the site, the banners can now be removed. When you donate 10 € or above, you will be added to a User Group which won't see the advertisements placed around the site. This will apply for a year. After that, the advertisements will be visible again.
Please notice that we are not planning to make features availablle exclusively for donating / paying members. This should not be seen as some sort of "Gold Membership" and "Silver Membership" - it's solely a way of saying "thank you" to those who have donated to the site.
You can donate using the Donate-panel in the left of the screen. You can pay with MasterCard, Visa, American Express, Discover and your PayPal account. Any donations below 10 € are of course also more than welcome. All money will be used solely for this site, PCMdaily.com
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