After the announcement by Cyanide's staff and revealing there would be nomore patches for PCM 12, we've been quite busy in getting PCM.Daily DBdoneasfast as possible. And with the help of one man - lluuiiggii - we areclose tofinishing the project ! Hats off to him, as again he was responsible forconstructing the DB together.
Additionally, here are some of the features that will be included in our DB. Every day stuff is added to the DB and so lluuiiggii gave us quick overview of new important features. Read more to find out the details !
Another week has passed by, so it's time for a new edition of the Weekly News. This time finally with some news on the 1.3.5.0 patch for Pro Cycling Manager 2012.
Cyanide: No more patches for PCM12 Despite an earlier announcement of a patch 1.3.5.0, Cyanide hare now refusing that a patch is under way, according to Cycling Manager Italia. The patch annoucement was removed from the Cyanide Forums after just a couple of hours and now Cyanide states that Pro Cycling Manager 2012 has been finished. This means that the fixes in patch 1.3.5.0 will never be released.
Stage Variant Pack released by Cyanide Now that work on a new patch for PCM12 has turned out to be canceled, Cyanide's focus has turned on to releasing variants for the game. A pack containing 6 variants for various races was released shortly after the latest Weekly News.
PCMBenelux replaced by 'PCMFocus' One of the biggest PCM communities for a lot of years, PCMBenelux has been closed, more or less. This has, of course, led to a replacement for the Benelux community. The new page is called PCMFocus and can be visited on PCMFocus.com.
Stage Database is getting populated Since the launch of the stage database, some stage makers have uploaded a lot of stages, making the number of stages increase to almost 500 already. The most complete set of stages is the entire 2000 Tour de France by bigggassi.
With roughly a week since the latest weekly news, it's time for a new edition for you, while we wait for a new patch or some news from Cyanide. Luckily, the community still provides enough material for some news for you!
17 new teams in the next version of the PCM.daily Expansion Pack lluuiiggii has just finished the teams list for the new version of the PCM.daily Expansion pack. 17 new teams has made it into the database since the last version, making the total number of teams exactly 100. So far, 15 additional new races have been added. The number of races is likely to be increased even more, though.
Beautiful stages being made for PCM12 If you haven't visited the PCM12 stage forum for a while, now is the time to do it. Some beautiful stages have been made showing an growing creativity and sense for detail among stage makers. Shack has made some very interesting stages with a high variety of fun details, e.g. motives made of camper vans or hay bales on routes running on land formed as a palm tree or races inspired by a toy race track. Another member who has shown a high sense of detail in his stages is Magh Norway with his beautiful coast lines and small villages.
A Tale of Two getting close to 500 posts In early August, Ian Butler started a story about two young Belgian cyclists, Stijn and Eric, making their way into the professional cycling scene on the World Tour team Lotto-Belisol. Now, after just one month, his thread has reached 25 pages and is very close to it 500th post. Along with some impressive results, his race reports with lots of in race pictures has made it the most popular PCM12 story so far.
PCM.daily Favourite Team Contest has found a new winner For three years, Mresuperstar has organised a poll to find out which cycling team isthe most popular on PCM.daily. The contest was won by Bbox Bouygues Telecom in 2010 and by Garmin-Cervelo in 2011. However, none of these teams were even in this years final, as the final was fought out between Rabobank and Liquigas-Cannondale. Want to know the winner? Find out right here.
PCM.daily reaches 75,000 members In August, PCM.daily has reached 75,000 members on our website. Some of the older users may remember how we (or some of us) used to celebrate every thousandth member with a new thread in the forum. For some reason, this came to an end after the 10,000th member. I guess issoisso got tired of counting... Anyway, happy 75,000th member! We hope that you still enjoy visiting PCM.daily without feeling too overcrowded. ;-)
In a clear sign that Cyanide's summer vacation is now over, they've released their first official file in just over a month. It is not a new patch, but instead a pack of Variant stages.
It includes the following races: - Tour de France - Giro d'Italia - Vuelta a Espana - Paris-Nice - Critérium du Dauphiné - Tirreno-Adriatico - World Championships RR and ITT (Astana, Bogota, Bristol, Doha, Luxembourg, Moscow, Postojna, Roulers, and Solingen)
Here at PCM.daily, we always try to find new ways to improve our website. Our first addition was in late-2008, when we launched the Fantasy Betting section. Then, we changed our focus to developing tools that take advantage of and increase the availability of the great work by the PCM community, when we introduced the Shirt Database in 2009. Later, in 2011, our Tips & Tricks section was launched and now it's time to launch our next project: The PCM.daily Stage Database. It's been under development on and off for more than a year and has turned out to be the, probably, biggest addition to the PCM.daily website ever.
The stage database contains both actual stages, historical stages and fantasy stages which all are categorized in a different number of categories, making it easier to access them.
You can go to the stage database by clicking here or by clicking on 'Stage Database' in the left-hand menu.
As with the shirt database, it is possible for everyone to upload their own creations. To upload stages, go to this link, which can also be found on the Stage Database landing page.
If you have any comments or feedback on the stage database, please post them in this topic.
