Post by rarau on Feb 18, 2017 13:21:42 GMT 1
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Invisible skills
Every cyclist in Peloton has a number of invisible skills: future ability and injury proneness.
Each skill has a hidden future ability skill (FA), that determines how fast your cyclist will train in that particular skill. The fastest training cyclists that are currently known, 'pop' every 5 weeks, but some cyclists might go up a skill only after 11 weeks. (More information about future ability in the 'Training' section.)
Future ability is a very important factor, but only when the skill has reached a minimum of 7. For skills lower than 7, future ability won't have any impact on the training. Once the skill has reached a value of 7, the cyclist's FA for the skill will be taken into account and this will determine if the cyclist is really talented enough to improve further.
Each skill has its own FA, so if you notice your cyclist not improving fast enough after reaching 7, there's a good chance that his talent lies elsewhere and you should consider training another skill.
The biggest change compared to the old version is the FA or Future Ability. In the old version, FA was a hidden skill for cyclists that determined how fast they train skills. A form of 'talent', you could say. The FA still exists today, but now there is a different FA for each primary skill. This means that while a cyclist might have a bad FA for the mountain skill, he could still have a good FA for the flat skill. In the old version, you would have been stuck with one FA for all skills.
Another important change, related to this FA, is the speed at which cyclists gain skills. We have significantly increased the training speed of skills with a low value: any skill with a value below 7 will train as if the cyclist had an FA value of 20! Once the skill is at 7, the cyclist's own FA for that skill will be used.
Since you don't know the FA, there is always a risk you're training a skill that the cyclist isn't talented in. But this way, the skill can be trained at least to a value of 7. This will be important for the new race engine, that will be used from season 2 onwards (more on this in a later announcement). In this new engine, having a cyclist who is good in multiple skills will be important to get good results.
In the past, it was usually sufficient to have a high flat or mountain skill, and other skills were neglected most of the time. As this will change with the new engine, we wanted to promote the training of cyclists in more than just one skill.
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Tubara said:
But you need to have in consideration that the young cyclists in most cases have low "fa" and low capability to improve in principal primary skills (Mountain, Hill, Plane) from seven to up.
ANSWER from Schizm:
That is totally untrue , the total FA is the same for every cyclist, 70 points randomly divided over 6 skills (in fact fixed for 2 skills and variable on 4 skills).
p.s. if Schizm consider we could make this topic Sticky