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Community Jersey Competition - A status update
Hello everyone, this is SportingNonsenseWaghlon. As few of you might remember, we are having a competition to find a jersey that represents PCM.Daily very well.
But well, its been a week (plus one day), and we now only have 6 days left of the competition, but we dont have enough jerseys (like we can ever have enough jerseys), so we are urging you to dig deep into your hearts and folders of failed jerseys attempts and send us some of your stuff.
Head right over here and read the rules and get drawing. You have until sometime Friday to send me your stuff.
It's that time of year where the activity once again reaches new heights, where the news about PCM09 is being published, where several files for PCM08 are being released. For the very same reason(s), we're looking for more crew members to streghten the team updating PCM.daily.
We're looking for some rather specific types of people:
- Article Writer(s) We're looking for people who're capable of writing insightful articles about cycling (e.g. race previews) and PCM in general (tips and tricks, guides, etc.). We don't expect anyone to speak or write perfect English, but the more correct, the better.
- Event Starter(s) PCM.daily has had success with several of its projects, e.g. The Management Game, the Xpert Eleven Leagues, etc. Other projects haven't been anywhere near as succesful, e.g. the Online Ladder, but nevertheless, it's always good to present new projects. Therefore, we're now looking for people who're full of good ideas, and who're able to bring these ideas to life and keep them going for a longer period of time.
- Online Race Organizer(s) From time to time, we get invitations to online races. We're now looking for someone who wants to take charge of these online races and are willing to spend time planning them, setting up the qualifications, etc. In general, PCM.daily is expecting to focus more on online races in the future, so this section will end up being quite important.
- Fantasy Betting Organizer(s) Dankan is probably not going to be able to keep up his job on the Fantasy Betting game as he did in the past, so that's why we're requiring someone to help/replace him. (Proof of) Cycling knowledge is required to apply for that spot.
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In general, we're not looking for people who are only interested in 'power' and being able to delete Waghlon's posts (although that'd make sense at times). We're interested in people who honestly want to help improve PCM.daily to the better. We don't care about age, country, native language, etc - all we care about is how interested you are in changing PCM.daily.
You apply by sending me, CrueTrue, a private message. If you decide to apply, please include a short description of yourself, which position you're applying for, what you think that you can do for PCM.daily, and why we should pick you.
Who would have thought that we in mid-February would have the first screenshots of Pro Cycling Manager 2009? I didn't, so I was quite shocked when reading Aroda's (who, by the way, is a Spanish Cyanide employee) forum thread with a link to a French article with the first two screenshots of PCM09.
The screenshots are published at a French website, Clubic, which has also posted a few more details about PCM 09. There'll be 180 races and 65 teams, and they've also managed to get the official license for the Vuelta a Espana.
The AI has been improved, and graphically, the game has got another notch up, especially when it comes to 'side-effects' such as water, vegetation and animations. More importantly, the 1 unrevealed track event is revealed: Omnium will be in PCM09. The article also states that there'll be several different velodromes available.
Announcing The PCM.Daily Community Jersey Competition!
Announcing The PCM.Daily Community Jersey Competition!
On behalf of the PCM.Daily staff, im pleased to announce that we will hold a competition to find the jersey(s) that will represent PCM.daily in all the PCM-communities until the next time we decide its a good idea to hold a competition. Did we mention that everyone is invited?
There are four categories, each with its own winner and own polls: Freestyle, The Main Event, Comical Relief and Track. This means people who are better at making jerseys pretty much from their free imagination can compete at almost level terms with silly jerseymakers and people who like to make their jerseys from a set of limitations. The Track category just encourages people to make racing stripes.
To add to the competition: Its anonymous: The jerseys must contain no traces that indicates its your work nor are you allowed to tell anyone its your jersey. This is because people sadly occasionally forget about the quality of the jersey and rather look at who made the jersey.
The grand prize is... nothing really except the small amount of fame that comes with this. But the winning jerseys will effectively represent us in event where we will be competing against other communities (think the small track war we had against PCM-Benelux).
Anyway, head over here and read the full rulebook, realize that there is a deadline, and then discuss with your fellow "Daily'ans".
Update, 10/02 11:22: Someone pointed out that the rider skins had been messed up - and unfortunately, he was right. It's not a huge bug, but to get the optimal playing experience, please (re)download the updater.
As promised, we've now released an update to PCM.daily's 2009 DB, upgrading it to version 2.1. It includes several bug fixes, meaning no more 2nd stage of TdU crashes (fixed by replacing the 09 TdU with the 08 TdU), no weird messages (we hope?), national teams have been fixed, the Giro hill/mountain columns have been corrected - along with a bunch of other minor bug fixes.
We've also added a little to the V2. It includes three new 2009 shirts (Adria Mobil, Amore e Vita and Palmeiras Resort), updates to already existing 2009 shirts, new champion shirts for some teams and file name changes to national team shirts ending with swe (it has to be swd).
Hopefully, this will solve the main problems that people have been experiencing after the release of the V2.
