New races in the calendar

[p]

I know the calendar predominantly consists of UPT (Pro Tour) races. But what do you think of adding some new races? Is it an acceptable idea or you find we would have too many events to participate? I thought about:

Stage races:
Tour Down Under (actually, it's an UPT event)
Tour of Qatar
Tour of Oman
Giro di Sardegna
Tour Mediterranean
Vuelta a Murcia
Volta ao Algarve
Criterium International
Tour of California
Tour of Britain

1-days:
Kuurne-Bruxelles-Kuurne
Omloop Het Nieuwsblad
Montepaschi Strade Bianche
Coppa Sabatini
Giro del Piemonte

Of course, not everything should be introduced (it could be too much) but I think we should constantly try to make our game more and more perfect Also, the list I made isn't a complete one so any proposals are welcome.

I would also suggest moving Tour de Pologne to the period of Deutschland Tour, as it is in place commonly known as 'the real world' (I heard something like that really exists ). Is Deutschland Tour to be organized this year (it wasn't last year)? If not, it could be expelled from the calendar.

[Berserker]

This idea was mentioned before and I certainly like the idea.
Scheldeprijs could be dropped and, for example, the Omloop can come instead...
But you have to take the length of a season into account, I think the length is good as it now is.

[tiagoiowa]

and the tour to Portugal and Belgium?

[lee1950]

Of course, Job #1 is getting The Peloton back to it's old stable self.

Job #2 is attracting new managers.

Job #3 is keeping current managers happy with new fun stuff. I would love to see:

- a few more races/tours (there are open dates in the early calendar)
- some new stage types
...Mountain TT (added to the Tour de Suisse?),
...Cobblestones (increase the risk of flats by ~200-500% to favor riders with high Steering in Paris-Roubaix?)
- develop one or two new tours/races every season. No need to expand the calendar - just swap out a current race for a new one
- Update the race profiles for one of the GTs every third season or so.

These would give managers something new to manage, which imho is a darn good thing in a management game. And with fun races, they could all be tested thoroughly.

If even 10% (eight race days out of 79) of the calendar changed every season, it would help keep things fresh.

[NikeBoy]

Completely agree !
And the plan was to change the race profiles (and adding a lot of new races) when the new race engine was finished. Unfortunately this plan has already a delay of more than 6 months

The idea went even further : a racetool has been developped which will be integrated in the game in such a way that premium users can create their own race profiles and use these in the funraces.

We will take some of these profiles and add it to the current races so that we will end up with, for example, 200 races, out of which we will (randomly) take 79 races each season, so every season is completely different to the one before.

There was also a plan to have different calenders per division, but I don't know whether this is a good idea ...

[ElGringo]

Mar 29, 2010 6:18:22 GMT 1 NikeBoy said:

Completely agree !
And the plan was to change the race profiles (and adding a lot of new races) when the new race engine was finished. Unfortunately this plan has already a delay of more than 6 months

The idea went even further : a racetool has been developped which will be integrated in the game in such a way that premium users can create their own race profiles and use these in the funraces.

We will take some of these profiles and add it to the current races so that we will end up with, for example, 200 races, out of which we will (randomly) take 79 races each season, so every season is completely different to the one before.

There was also a plan to have different calenders per division, but I don't know whether this is a good idea ...

If you need help to make the profile from the Portuguese Tour just ask