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Post by maxz on May 10, 2013 12:23:02 GMT 1
wowowowwoooow! unbelievable! I get my first victory in 1:1 in the 3rd race! I'd never expect! I think next time we'll come back on earth, but for now... I'm a man on the moon...
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Post by maxz on May 10, 2013 12:48:55 GMT 1
well... anw.. I LOVE THIS ENGINE
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Post by Genomico on May 10, 2013 12:51:30 GMT 1
Gratz Max My guy for today got a fall while he was leading, too bad, but in the end we all get bad luck.
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Post by maxz on May 10, 2013 12:54:22 GMT 1
Gratz Max My guy for today got a fall while he was leading, too bad, but in the end we all get bad luck. thx mate... yeah i saw.. I was lucky, but this is the game..
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Post by maxz on May 10, 2013 12:58:00 GMT 1
div 1:1 Gurule 02:28:39 PAN div 2:1 Puscasu 02:28:54 Evcont div 2:2 Folkmar 02:29:29 De Mechelaars div 4:8 Grandidier 02:31:43 WORLDTEAM
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Post by Ab Normaal on May 10, 2013 13:00:22 GMT 1
Congratz Maxz with the victory
But I keep finding this a strange Engine. My prediction: 0 mass sprints in the first 2 stages of a three day tour. And this should be impossible. Huge error in this engine.
So all three day races will be very predictable. Put the rider that suits the best to the course in attack on point one and his changes that he will stay away are 100%.
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Post by negru on May 10, 2013 13:33:11 GMT 1
Congratz Maxz with the victory But I keep finding this a strange Engine. My prediction: 0 mass sprints in the first 2 stages of a three day tour. And this should be impossible. Huge error in this engine. So all three day races will be very predictable. Put the rider that suits the best to the course in attack on point one and his changes that he will stay away are 100%. It doesn't always work like this. Ask Max in our series last season. There were just a few, right, but there were also flat races finished in mass sprint. What is true is that helpers need to go at higher effort. 70% is just not enough. But with helpers running at 80-85%, a mass sprint is pretty possible. I think the engine is realistic, nobody thought when it was created that no one will have an interest to chase from the peloton and go at higher effort, as long as you need a team too large and the cyclists will participate to a very low number of races. I think the problem is still the fitness, and the main one is the way it regenerates. maxz: Do you really think that Gurule would have been able to beat Puscasu today?
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Post by maxz on May 10, 2013 13:38:53 GMT 1
hohohoho... never and never my friend... you know i can't beat him... and about RE... as negru said if u want massive sprints u have to go for it with tactics... like in RL..
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Post by Ab Normaal on May 10, 2013 13:45:10 GMT 1
Congratz Maxz with the victory But I keep finding this a strange Engine. My prediction: 0 mass sprints in the first 2 stages of a three day tour. And this should be impossible. Huge error in this engine. So all three day races will be very predictable. Put the rider that suits the best to the course in attack on point one and his changes that he will stay away are 100%. It doesn't always work like this. Ask Max in our series last season. There were just a few, right, but there were also flat races finished in mass sprint. What is true is that helpers need to go at higher effort. 70% is just not enough. But with helpers running at 80-85%, a mass sprint is pretty possible. I think the engine is realistic, nobody thought when it was created that no one will have an interest to chase from the peloton and go at higher effort, as long as you need a team too large and the cyclists will participate to a very low number of races. I think the problem is still the fitness, and the main one is the way it regenerates. maxz: Do you really think that Gurule would have been able to beat Puscasu today? Today six helpers at 100%. Six!!! So definately ZERO mass sprints.
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Post by maxz on May 10, 2013 14:03:25 GMT 1
how can u have 6 HPs???
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Post by Quatannens on May 10, 2013 14:32:25 GMT 1
The helpers aren't good enough, that's true. Nobody wants to put 5 cyclists at 100% just to win a mass sprint. And the current helpers aren't the best cyclists at all. They are chasing way better cyclists probably, but the disadvantage from being solo isn't big enough The amount of cyclists in a group doesn't matter enough I think.
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Post by Genomico on May 10, 2013 14:37:36 GMT 1
If it will all be mass sprints, people would complain it's impossible to attack and general classifications would only be decided by bonus seconds at the finishline.
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Post by Ab Normaal on May 10, 2013 18:21:21 GMT 1
how can u have 6 HPs??? I don't, but there were more teams who assigned several helpers at 100%, all aiming for a bunch sprint. If that is the case, it should be very hard (not impossible, but very hard) to avoid a sprint. Now the engine is build in a way that attacks are almost always succesfull in an early stage because all helpers at 70% are influencing the peloton speed negatively. So, in theory you can assign an attacker and also four helpers with low flat, they slow donwn the peloton that much that your attack is guaranteed succesfull. I agree with Quantannes that the disadvantage of being solo (like in real life) doesn't exist here at all. Off course, like Genomico says, it shouldn't all be mass sprints, but that won't happen. In my opnion it should be that if several teams aims for a sprint, it should be really, really hard to avoid it. Now it is the case that all attacks are succesfull as long as you have enough sprint to get away and a little tt skill.
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Post by maxz on May 11, 2013 10:11:29 GMT 1
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Post by Mike on May 11, 2013 11:17:15 GMT 1
how can u have 6 HPs??? I don't, but there were more teams who assigned several helpers at 100%, all aiming for a bunch sprint. If that is the case, it should be very hard (not impossible, but very hard) to avoid a sprint. Now the engine is build in a way that attacks are almost always succesfull in an early stage because all helpers at 70% are influencing the peloton speed negatively. So, in theory you can assign an attacker and also four helpers with low flat, they slow donwn the peloton that much that your attack is guaranteed succesfull. I agree with Quantannes that the disadvantage of being solo (like in real life) doesn't exist here at all. Off course, like Genomico says, it shouldn't all be mass sprints, but that won't happen. In my opnion it should be that if several teams aims for a sprint, it should be really, really hard to avoid it. Now it is the case that all attacks are succesfull as long as you have enough sprint to get away and a little tt skill. I don't think you need just a little tt skill, but a lot of it. That's my experience in this matter. I need 6 sprint and at least 4.5 - 5 TT to stay away (last season, but this season also up to now)
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