Nations DB Add-on for PCM.daily's Expansion Pack released
The World Championships have arrived and to celebrate, we at PCM.daily are releasing a Nations Database add-on for our Expansion Pack. It has all the features of the Expansion Pack (which you must have installed before installing this add-on), but rather than the usual teams, you can race as national teams instead.
There remains 94 teams in total, with 22 in the ProTour Category and the rest being Continental. You can see the full nation list here. The larger nations have multiple teams in the database, with Spain, Italy and France each having two ProTour squads. For these three, the best riders from the respective countries are shared amongst the two ProTour squads, but for all other nations the selection has worked on a basis of the A team for the best riders, then B team for the next best, and so on. Where possible, different variations of national jerseys are used to help differentiating between teams from the same nation - using jerseys that have been made since 2008.
Luckily, there hasn't been too much activity in the Bug Reports thread for PCM.daily's Expansion Pack V2, but that won't stop us for releasing a patch for it, updating the DB to V2.1.
Most of the changes are save-game compatible, meaning that you do not have to restart your career to benefit from the changes. Here's a full list of fixes:
- File names for Tour Down Under 2011 - File names for Tour de France 2013 - Prize money for some classics - Transferts and AUS NC shirt for Footon-Servetto - UKR NC shirt for RadioShack - Transferts for Team Type 1 - Landbouwkrediet's road helmet, less blue, more green - AI Calendar adjusted for American PT teams (not save-game compatible) - Stage/race settings for some stages/races adjusted (not save-game compatible) - Updated US Champions for the 2010 Champions DB (not save-game compatible) - Cody Campbell changed to Canadian nationality (not save-game compatible)
A big feature of PCM.Daily are our race coverage threads, we discuss most major races as they feature live on television, and other races we discuss results. The UCI made the decision to organise the 2010 road cycling world championships in Australia.
This means the races will be middle of the night european time, whilst some channels will be showing it live, Eurosport will not be showing the races live (Only the TT's are on the schedules right now).
We have therefore decided to split the race topic, the current thread (click here) will remain open and will be used for pre-race discussion and live race discussion should you be watching it live. On the other hand those of us watching on Eurosport will have a seperate thread, which will be hidden and remain spoiler free, so those watching on Eurosport will be able to follow the race and discuss it as if it were live.
And you can join in, we are going to create a topic that will only be viewable by those members who want to be in. The rule is obviously, no spoilers, should you spoil it, you will probably be punished. If you want to take part in this thread post a comment below and you'll be added to the group providing you are trustworthy.
Yet another update to the PCM.daily Expansion Pack has now been released - and this time, we're going from V1.x to V2, since this update is pretty much a full conversion of the 2010 DB we made for PCM09.
19 teams and races have been added along with yet another batch of real stages, several new scouting zones, including countries such as Venezuela, China and Iran, the Lithuanian national team has been replaced with the Czech national team, meaning that it's now possible to play with Kreuziger and co. We've also adapted the creation of new riders (thanks, Ruben!) to make it a bit more realistic.
There's also the subject of variants which I'm sure that many of you are interested in, so here goes (these numbers include the 2010 route variants): 5 Tour de France, 5 Giro, 2 Vuelta, 2 Dauphine Libere, 2 Vuelta al Pais Vasco, 2 Tour de Romandie, 2 Österreich Rundfahrt, 2 Paris-Nice, 3 Volta a Portugal, 3 Tour de Suisse, 2 Tour Down Under and lots of World Championship routes. Except for the WC, all the other races are completely new stages.
After a rather long period of time without new members of the PCM.daily Crew, I'm glad to announce that Roturn has joined the team as of today.
Roturn, a 22 year old German named Michele (he stresses that he's not a girl, so don't go hit on him), has been playing Pro Cycling Manager since 2003 / 2004. Especially over the past year or so, he's been one of the most helpful members of the community.
In the PCM.daily Crew, he will primarily focus on keeping you updated with PCM-news and keeping the downloads section updated. He will also be a part of the PCM.daily DB Team where he will be a great help when it comes to stage making.
