Small suggestions

[Cider Riders]

How about a White Jersey column in the division table?

[Quatannens]

Some suggestions:

1. Do something about the fact that top-teams in very small coutries get the same amount of supporters and sponsor deals while their weekly costs are much much lower. They probably even don't need a total wage higher than 100000, but they probably earn more than Aanderekker in Belgium. Sponsor is the same, supporters are probably more and the pricemoney from races is earned a lot easier if there's barely any competition.

I checked the supporters and there is a maximum=11434 of core supporters (or how do you call them? )?

2. Why does the mood have to stay delighted? Why not let the mood get back slowly to content when a cyclist doesn't win anything anymore? With this rule the impact of a victory (race or jersey) shoud be bigger. So a cyclist can get a high mood, but it will lower again when the cyclist doesn't perform well.

[pawelkepien]

I hope that this idea wasn't suggested on the forum (if it was - sorry for the repeat ), but maybe it'd be nice to make an auto-login option/checkbox on the main site?

[starbucks]

Hello, i have been playing this game for some months now and first let me congratulate you guys with this idea of a game. I am myself a passionate biker and it is nice to see finally a tactic game for us on the internet.
Still i should like to do some humble suggestions to maybe even improve the feeling of the game.

Myself i am from Belgium, but i entered my team in the USA. Thinking, considering the size of their nation, there would be some more teams/competion. I thought wrong (should have known that Belgium is still the beating heart of biking ..
So this leads me to my first suggestion. (I apoligize if some of this suggestions were already on this forum)

1.There are too many both teams in the game, this strongely effects the game experience. For example, myself i have only two real challengers. Wouldnt i be neat to have some more real teams in a division?
2. Couldnt there be some kind of major league (like Protour) to unite the best teams in several countries? Speaking about a real challenge
3. Tactics arent really important enough in the game -- it s more best rider wins.
I have a feeling that team effort doesnt matter at all.
4.Daytrading is too easy. Leading to a quest of buying the better rider just before a big stage. And since moneymaking isnt a problem, i am spending more time on the tradingpage then i am on the racepage. Every week i am buying new riders (selling or firing the old ones, who were looking strong back then) but since my opponent bought a better one, i have to be quick and get me a better one myself.
5. A seperate small competition (this i stole from the forum for youth riders is an idea to consider. Since daytrading is so easy, i am only keeping my young riders to get me a white jersey. A part from that they dont really add something to the team, and this is a shame (youth riders arent really the future here, sounds a bit absurd).
6. Maybe stats are overrated. Dont get me wrong popping isnt a bad idea, but they shouldnt be that important. Meaning you have good and bad riders but the difference is smaller, so maybe cutting a bit back of the maximal points each stat can have. Good thing is that you guys have put condition in the game, but this isnt nearly as important enough i feel. You should be able to 'peak' with certain riders for a longer period. Keeping there good feeling an good legs as well as the opposite. The fact that their condition is 'below the weather' and they cant just perform as good as they want. Also they cant have a great condition the whole season. So you really have to plan there season and seeing where you aiming them to be good..
So also training, should be more about building their condition or trying to recover then simply trying to pop them
Even maybe making popping something you cant really control, that choosing the area there popping in cant really be chosen. You cannot force talent

I hope you guys dont think i am just want to 'badmouth' this game. If it was to be bad i wouldnt have made myself a paying customer eh ..
It's just that their is much potential to even increase the game experience..
Thanks, Thomas (i hope someone is reading this , almost a novel ...

[Berserker]

@ Starbucks:
1. Bots degrade to the lowest divisions. It is indeed a pity that 4th dvision teams ride against these teams. This is why the game needs to expand the number of teams, but this is (hopefully) a matter of time.
2. There is the Peloton Champions League and funraces like the PFFF Cup to compete internationally.
3+6. You really have to peak to certain races in higher divisions. I understand that in lower divisions it's a group of good cyclists which win most races without much effort because of the lower level.
4. Indeed, maybe there should be a tax on transfers corresponding to the period that the cyclist is in your team.
5. An extra competition (Hattrick?) is perhaps too much, they already have a separate ranking.
But it's true that when they are 21, they are sold and have to wait a couple of seasons before they can compete with the 'big boys'.

I've read your short story

[lee1950]

starbucks:
I expect to see you up in USA Div 1:1 pretty soon! Div 2:x and 3:x are not as deep as 1:1 in USA, so the sooner you get here the better - we can definitely use your energy! We're having the most competitive season here in a long time with two teams challenging Ploiesti for the top spot. It's exciting to see, even though I've dropped from second to fourth.

I think every active manager would love to see a handful of U23 races on the schedule - that's a nice suggestion. Even if the purses and points were cut down, it would be helpful to get some experience for the youngsters, and more racing is always good! There are some holes in the calendar that they could fill...
a) three open dates between Milano-Sanremo and Ronde v.V.
b) two open dates between Eindhoven and TdeFrance
c) two open dates between Vuelta and Zuri-Metzgete
d) lots of singleton dates open for junior classics

[pmlf]

The U23 races seem a pretty good idea..

Two suggestions:

1.Adding a pavê skill to the riders, along with two more pavê races such as Omloop and E3;

2. By the end of the year, every division would race four races: World U23 TT Champs, World U23 Road champs, World Elite TT Champs and World Elite Road Champs. Then the results would be compared by country or even globally, and each country (or just one for each category on the all game) would have their respective World Champions. And they would always wear a special rainbow jersey in the results, such as the yellow square that GC leaders have on classifications page, etc.

[lee1950]

Mar 31, 2010 18:33:19 GMT 1 pmlf said:

The U23 races seem a pretty good idea..

Two suggestions:

1.Adding a pavê skill to the riders, along with two more pavê races such as Omloop and E3;

2. By the end of the year, every division would race four races: World U23 TT Champs, World U23 Road champs, World Elite TT Champs and World Elite Road Champs. Then the results would be compared by country or even globally, and each country (or just one for each category on the all game) would have their respective World Champions. And they would always wear a special rainbow jersey in the results, such as the yellow square that GC leaders have on classifications page, etc.

Two very nice suggestions.

Regarding #1:

The Pave skill would have to be generated for existing riders, maybe something like: Random + factors for Flat, Experince, and Age.
Just for discussion and giggles:

Pave Skill for existing riders generated as the sum of:

- Random, where 1-7=0, 8-12=1, 13-16=2, 17-18=3, 19=4, 20=5
- Flat, where 0=0, 1-5=1, 6-9=2, 10-14=3, 15-20=4
- Experience, where 0=0, 1-5=1, 6-10=2, 11-15=3, 16-20=4
- Age where
..... 18-24=0 or 1 (50%/50%)
..... 25-29=0, 1, or 2 (33%/33%/34%)
..... 30-34=0, 1, 2, or 3 (25%/25%/25%/25%)
..... 35-50=0,1,2,3,or 4 (20%/20%/20%/20%/20%)

The highest possible would be a skill of 17, although my guess (without doing any math ) is the generated highest skill would be between 12-15, and the average somewhere around 3 or 4.

Then new riders could have their Pave skill generated through the normal process.


An alternate way to give cobblestone racing some Pave flavor would be to generate between five and ten flat/fall checks for those stages/races. Of course, without increasing injury chances . This way riders with high Steering and Balance are rewarded, similar to RL.

[pmlf]

Wooh awesome work lee, I could really see that be implemented in the game

[lee1950]

Clearly I have way too much free time!

[pmlf]

Eventought, it wasn't easy to find such a good way to add a pavê/cobblestone skill to this game!

[pietagoras]

I'm new here but i thought it would be nice if i had more than 12 riders (which i think is ok, right?) and I became active on the transfermarket. But now my inbox is crowded with new bids notifications. Maybe it would be handy that those notifications would appear on the transferpage. Now you have there 2 tables Buy and Sell. It would be handy to have a third table with riders you have bid on, but there is currently an higher offer. (I hope everbody still follows)

[goof]

Oct 27, 2011 8:11:21 GMT 1 pietagoras said:

I'm new here but i thought it would be nice if i had more than 12 riders (which i think is ok, right?) and I became active on the transfermarket. But now my inbox is crowded with new bids notifications. Maybe it would be handy that those notifications would appear on the transferpage. Now you have there 2 tables Buy and Sell. It would be handy to have a third table with riders you have bid on, but there is currently an higher offer. (I hope everbody still follows)

I understand what you're mean and you're right. Shouldn't there be a possiblity to watch a cyclist, so that this cyclist will be listed somewhere on the transfer page, even without necessarily bidding on the cylist? Just like on Ebay. ;D Notifications then wouldn't be needed anymore.

[triplef]

there is such a thing, almost, it's the shortlist in the tool menu.

(though I wonder if it might be a premium only option...)

[pietagoras]

Oct 27, 2011 16:50:16 GMT 1 triplef said:

there is such a thing, almost, it's the shortlist in the tool menu.

(though I wonder if it might be a premium only option...)

but on the shortlist you can't see your bids nor the highest bid so that doesn't really help.