 It's been a while since we last had an update about PCM.daily's 2009 DB - mainly because we all needed a break after the rather hectic release of the V2. However, we're back in action now with the ambition to make a good, final V3 release (as planned from the beginning).
As we've mentioned in previous updates, the main idea of the V3 is to keep (+/-) the amount of new teams and races which are already in the DB. Instead, the main work will be done on the polishing part. One of the annoying things about the DB is the rather unrealistic startings fields - at times, you'll see Gobernacion del Zulia participate in a Norwegian race. The reason for this is simply that Norway and Venezuela are in the same nationality group in the DB (other countries). It's a rather huge job to add new nationality groups, which is why it wasn't done for the V2 - however, I'm happy to say that this is one of the things that we've already changed for the V3. Instead of the current 7 nationality groups, the V3 DB will have 13.
Some of you may wonder why we don't just go ahead and add all countries to the nationality groups. We would - but PPDB's tests have previously shown that PCM simply can't handle that amount of data. Therefore, we're keeping it at 13 which, in the early tests, have shown great results in terms of team participation.
Another thing that we've been working on is more scouting zones. And as with the nationality groups, I'm happy to announce that this is also going quite well so far. In-game, we now have 58 (15 more than in V2) different scouting zones, including new countries such as Venezuela, Cuba, Finland, Mexico and South Africa.
Other than that, we'll make sure to completely update all teams to 2009, adding more and new 2009 race routes, and adding more 2009 team equipment.
In terms of release date, we're going for some point in April. It may be earlier, it may be later. |
