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PCMdaily's Fantasy Olympics!
Hello!
As you are probably well aware, the Olympics are drawing near and PCMdaily is launching it's own Fantasy game for the Olympics, for everyone to join in!
The format is simple, you have 100 points to spend on a total of 10 riders from 5 different rider categories. The categories are as follows (click on the links to view the riders in each category and their price):
Each team will contain 3 Road riders, 1 Mountain Biker, 1 BMX rider, 2 Track Sprinters, 2 Track Endurance riders and 1 wildcard to make up the 10. (The wildcard can be chosen from any of the categories).
To enter, take the following template and fill it in, then either post it as a comment to this news article or PM it to SportingNonsense. Remember that you must not exceed 100 points in your team.
Team Name: Team Example Road: Stefan Schumacher (GER) 20 Road: Laszlo Bodrogi (HUN) 8 Road: George Hincapie (USA) 6 Mountain Bike: Jakob Fuglsang (DEN) 8 BMX: Ivo Lacuks (LAT) 4 Track Sprinter: Ross Edgar (GBR) 10 Track Sprinter: Jason Kenny (GBR) 8 Track Endurance: Bradley Wiggins (GBR) 24 Track Endurance: Taylor Phinney (USA) 8 Wildcard: Jurgen van den Broeck (BEL) 4
Wow, two Weekly News editions in two consecutive weeks - that's unbelievable! :P
Databases for patch 1.0.2.3 Patches are not 100 % good. For example, they often make all databases incompatible, meaning that the database makers got to do a lot of work again to make it compatible. Luckily for us, they don't mind this, and throughout this week, several databases have been released for the latest patch. First of all, there's Justin's Good Ol' Fan DB which is based on Dankan's Real Name Package. It's nothing but a .cdb-file, but to get the most optimal experience it's recommended to download and install the Real Name Package before using Justin's DB. PepsiLight, who has made the very succesful PepsiLight UltimateReal Package, followed up by releasing an update for his package making it compatible. Compared to the previous version, it also includes a stat update, new name for Saunier Duval, and the dopers have been removed. The Dutch Divinity Project had timed it perfectly. They had planned to release an After-Tour update, and they did so just after the patch was released, thus making it compatible too. It doesn't include any other new stuff except for new stats. The German Eeyor has also updated his package to make it compatible with the patch. As with the Divinity Project, the update also contains some stats updates, but that's also pretty much it. Last, we have two French packages, one update and one new. The updated package is Heras61's package, the new one being Pack Complet. They have pretty much the same features, so choosing between them, I guess, is a matter of looking at the stats.
So what about the historical databases? A lot of you like to play with historical databases, bringing you back to the "good ol' days", but unfortunately, we are still yet to see any historical databases. That said, there's a lot of them in the making, so it's just a matter of hanging on and have patience. On the official forum, you can find 4 projects: TdF-2005, 2004, TdF-2003 and a 98-08 DB. Of course, you can never know how many of these will actually be made, but the 98-08 DB is very likely to become reality someday as it's made by the quite experience databaseur, dj-cycloteck. On PCMBenelux, you find two interesting projects: Another 2003-package, which has Ruben as a part of the "crew", and the so-called Vertigo DB, which take the best riders from 1990-2008. Unfortunately, both projects haven't progressed very far yet.
There's probably more out there, so it will be interesting to see what's released in the future.
PCM.daily vs. PCMBenelux - qualification reminder This is basically just a reminder. As I mentioned last week, we have been challenged by PCMBenelux for some rounds of elimination, and some of you signed up to become a part of the PCM.daily team which will meet PCMBenelux. The qualification will begin tomorrow at 19:30 British time - mrlol, Ruben and Alex153 are all pre-selected, so they won't have to show up. This leaves 5 spots for the rest of the 16 players who take part in the qualification. You can read more about it in this thread.
PPDB to release databases for PCM08? This is rather old news, but since it hasn't been mentioned here until now I guess it's still relevant. PPDB, known for its Giant databases for PCM06, didn't make any databases for PCM07, but has already released one DB for PCM08, a real name package, based on the stats from their PCM06 projects. This happened a while ago, and since then, they haven't said much - they haven't updated the DB either to make it compatible with the patches. So question is, will PPDB continue making databases for PCM08, or is their main focus still on PCM06?
New Slovakian PCM Website For the first time in 8 years, a Slovakian CyM/PCM-related website has opened. As always, we are happy to get more "collegues", and we wish tomco3131, the owner of the site, the best of luck with it. At the moment, it has PCM-news, an online gaming clan, a small downloads section and a tagwall, and you can access it at this link: http://www.pcm.gigapc.sk
PCM.daily's Management Game to reach the first Grand Tour PCM.daily's Management Game has been progressing a lot during the summer holiday, and after a Michael Boogerd killing spree in the Ardennes classics, it's finally time for the first Grand Tour of 2009, the Giro 'd Italia, which as always has Damiano Cunego as the favourite for the overall win. He will be challenged by Emanuelle Sella, dope-boy Ricardo Ricco and Domenico Pozzovivo -- time will tell. For now, you can discuss the race in this thread.
Still site problems Last week, I mentioned that we have a couple of site problems at the moment. There's a few PHP errors here and there, and we can't accept any submitted photos at the moment. Unfortunately, none of this has been fixed yet, so there's still no reason to send in screenshots - they won't work anyway ;) We are still working on fixing it.
Speaking of "site problems", we have been mentioned on the sarcastic blog, DerailedUK. According to them, PCM.daily is "Worst of the web", and, well, it's really a lot of fun to read. Hurry up and visit the blog before next month's issue takes the place: http://www.deraileduk.com/
Believe it or not, Cyanide just released a third patch, 1.0.2.3, which fixes something about the ladder DB for multiplayer mode. If you've already installed 1.0.2.2, you need to download this. If you didn't get to install the new patch, download the full 1.0.2.3 patch here.
Update: Both files are now placed at PCM.daily's server.
Although it's only a (rather) short while ago that Cyanide released the very first patch, they have now decided to release the 2nd patch, 1.0.2.2. It fixes some of the problems which were created with first patch, e.g. the crash after each online race, and other things. Click "Read More" for the full fix list
It's been almost 2 months since the last Weekly News, and that's mainly due to two reasons: 1. At that time, all the news were 'too important' to be a part of the Weekly News section, and 2. Due to all the problems the site experienced shortly after the release of Pro Cycling Manager 2008. This 59th edition will hopefully resemble the return of the Weekly News - not on monthly basis, but on weekly basis as it's supposed to be. Enjoy.
Still a few site problems Although the site is now fast, we are still experiencing a few problems here and there. First of all, there's no reason to submit screenshots or Tour de France-photos to our screenshot sections. It doesn't work properly for the time being, but I'm working on fixing it. Another problem is that there's some sort of error message in the votes part of the download section -- however, the votes are still counted, so you can keep on voting as much as you like ;) Speaking of the site and the technical part of it, the site will be upgraded to a 25/25 mbit connection on the 1st of August, making it even faster than it already is. I don't think that this will result in any down-time.
Downloads round-up As you may have noticed, we have been busy adding a lot of files to the download section of this site. I'm not going to go into detail with it, but I will try to bring a short round-up. First of all, several downloads have been made available. Some of them have been ported from 1.0.0.0, some are released after the release of patch 1.0.1.4. The latest one of them is Eeyor's Reality DB which has new and more equipment as one of its main features. There's also the A.S.O. DB, Evans89 Pack, the Dutch Divinity Project and Heras61's DB Pack. Also, the PCM Scandinavia project has been patched, so it now works with patch 1.0.1.4. They are all available from the Current Databases-section along with our own project, the Plus Package.
Other than that, Jan_Ullrich11 is making himself quite popular here at PCM.daily with his backgrounds. We have currently added backgrounds of Contador, Cavendish, Valverde, Kohl, 2 x Schleck and one of Kreuziger to our Backgrounds section, and you can find even more in this thread on the forum. Speaking of graphical stuff, you really should pay our Other graphical elements-section a visit. For those who care about graphics, it's got lots of interesting stuff, including a velodrome pack, Tour de France motos, shirt packs and more. You can also find downloads which make your game look worse, but on the other hand also optimizes the performance, making the game able to run on worse computers.
Enjoy! :)
One server down Unfortunately, the two servers which originally hosted the files here at PCM.daily when the site opened back in November 2006, have been taken down, probably due to inactivity. A few PCM06 files were still hosted on these, simply because they had never been moved to the "new" download server, and therefore some PCM06 downloads are now down. When a link is reporten broken, I try to find the file and reupload it, but in some cases, it's not possible. In any case, I advice people to search for the download on this site too.
Online gaming - PCM.daily vs. PCMBenelux PCM.daily is just one of very many communities in the PCM-world. Pretty much every country has its own website, but PCM.daily is something special as it tries to "unite" members from different countries at one place. And since we gather the best of the best, we also believe that we are the best at online gaming, in particular track racing. We have now been challenged by the Dutch/Belgian community, PCMBenelux, since they for some reason believe that they are better than us (haha! :P). If you want to prove them wrong, feel free to apply in the qualification thread right here.
Dankan leaves for a while - PCM Fusion DB continues Unfortunately, Dankan, leader of the PCM Fusion DB project, will have to leave the community for a while - you can read more about it in this thread. This is of course sad, especially since he recently won the "Most helpful member 07/08"-award here at PCM.daily. It won't have any effect on the PCM.daily/PCM-Spain-project, PCM Fusion DB, though. This will now be led by Roger, and the project will continue - so no worries just yet ;) Everything is progessing as planned.
