Pro Cycling Manager - anyone played it

[Dekker_Tifosi]

DT - what do you have rider evolution set at to be most realistic?

0.3

Though sometimes I prefer a game with radical changes then I go for 1.0

 

[Vino attacks everyone]

0.3

Though sometimes I prefer a game with radical changes then I go for 1.0

i actually prefer 0.2 because after a couple of season you usually gets 20 people with 80+ in the mountians etc

 

[Gloin22]

how do I check the version of my PCM??

Go to Control Panel/ Add or delete Programs. Find PCM and ther should be a the version number beside it

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

i actually prefer 0.2 because after a couple of season you usually gets 20 people with 80+ in the mountians etc

...which doesn't matter as the scale goes up to 85.
Usually best rider starts with MO 81 or 82. And a 77/78 is already really good. After years go by the scale is higher, but the difference between top and subtop stay the same. Now a 80/81 climber is what used to be a 76/77 climber.

I don't have problems with it.

 

[dlwssonic]

Do you guys hear play most of the races in career mode, or only the important ones?

 

[dlwssonic]

Go to Control Panel/ Add or delete Programs. Find PCM and ther should be a the version number beside it

thanks! I have the latest one.

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

Do you guys hear play most of the races in career mode, or only the important ones?

when i want to go for a long career i usually only play important races or races i like...

when i want to go for an intensive one i play everything but i usually don't get further than 2 seasons doing that

 

[Vino attacks everyone]

...which doesn't matter as the scale goes up to 85.
Usually best rider starts with MO 81 or 82. And a 77/78 is already really good. After years go by the scale is higher, but the difference between top and subtop stay the same. Now a 80/81 climber is what used to be a 76/77 climber.

I don't have problems with it.

you havnet had a problem with it?
Hard Giro stages usually ends up with 100 riders misses the timecut becasue there is 3 ++people on every team that has 78+ on mountian after 4 or5 years witch makes it pretty unrealistic at times.

thats my opinion, but if it doesn't bother you it is good for you

 

[will10]

when i want to go for a long career i usually only play important races or races i like...

when i want to go for an intensive one i play everything but i usually don't get further than 2 seasons doing that

I once attempted the ultimate challenge - to play every single stage of the PPDB Giant 06, using the team switching trick of brun et al.

Reached Het Volk after like a month of playing It surely can't be done

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

you havnet had a problem with it?
Hard Giro stages usually ends up with 100 riders misses the timecut becasue there is 3 ++people on every team that has 78+ on mountian after 4 or5 years witch makes it pretty unrealistic at times.

thats my opinion, but if it doesn't bother you it is good for you

I don't have any of that happening. I've had 15 year long careers where in GT's 170 men finish... even with teams with 4 80+climbers

So whatever you have is a freak occurence or a bad DB with a bad youngridercarac file

 

[Vino attacks everyone]

I don't have any of that happening. I've had 15 year long careers where in GT's 170 men finish... even with teams with 4 80+climbers

So whatever you have is a freak occurence or a bad DB with a bad youngridercarac file

yea i have used fast editor at times to fix these veirdly good youngsters

 

[Vino attacks everyone]

OMG i can hire Michele Ferrari as team doc

 

[Parrulo]

OMG i can hire Michele Ferrari as team doc

What type of rep does he has? Would be silly if it was anything other then legendary

 

[Vino attacks everyone]

What type of rep does he has? Would be silly if it was anything other then legendary

he is indeed the doc that takes the second most wage

 

[hatcher]

Just realised I downloaded 2011 on release day last year, and still haven't played it. Going to start a career right now.

 

[hatcher]

Not a good start. Install all patches, set up custom team, set up rider schedules for (frankly ludicrous) sponsor goals, get a nice 4th overall at San Luis, and now I can't get passed Jan 26th without the game crashing crashing crashing.

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

Weird. You sure you didn't forget or misplace something (like stages from a DB or something?)

I just played the TDF in 2016 (season 5, 2012DB). Andy Schleck looked like winning it for the 3rd time. But, he fell in the LAST corner (!!) of champs elysees
Jeanneson won the Tour instead. (french ppl happy!). I was 3rd with De Greef, who strangely grew into one of the best climbers

 

[hatcher]

You are correct. Looks like a stage from Langkawi is missing. Forgot how much I hate navigating PCM editors!

 

[Caruut]

Just finished my first 2011 season, and first ever in PCM. Spring highlights included 5th at RvV and 2nd in Paris-Roubaix for Bernie Eisel. The major hilly classics were a resounding failure, didn't top 10 in any with Rolland, Vanendert and Sagan. Sagan and Eisel won several 1.1s each, to round off a pretty good spring.

As the season rolled on, inexperience began to show - I didn't know about how number of race days affected performance. Rolland and Sagan started the Tour de France on 65 days each. Sagan managed to take home green and a stage from a break, plus 2nd to Feillu on stage 1 and 3rd to Chavanel and Flecha on another break. Rolland top-10'd as well, which was nice.

Moving into the last part of the season, Jelle Vanendert won the Tours of Austria, Slovenia and L'Ain as he built up to his main season goal; the Vuelta. In the opening TTT, a relatively weak team supporting Jelle lost only a minute on the stage winners. The favourites for the GC were Contador, Anton, Rodriquez, Wiggins and Vanendert.

All Jelle's main rivals had gone through a fairly heavy classics campaign, plus a Tour de France. While Vanendert had 35 days of racing in his legs, Wiggins already had 45, and Contador, Jrod and Anton all over 50. To even get that low, his rivals had barely raced since July, while Jelle was in great shape.

On stage 4, the MTF on Sierra Nevada, the gods decided that as well as being fitter and less fatigued than his rivals, they would give Jelle a +5 daily form. He took the stage by over 2 minutes to win the red jersey, and kept it all the way to Madrid, eventually beating Contador into his second GT 2nd place of the year by over 10 minutes.

While Jelle was infuriating the fans of Spain by trouncing the home favourites, Rolland won one of the Canadian WT races, with Sagan coming 2nd in both, finishing behind Scarponi in the other. After his great end-of-season, I though I'd try putting Jelle into the GdL to support Sagan. With Rolland, Sagan and Vanendert in a group of 20 containing the other main favourite as we hit the Madonna del Ghisallo, I sent Vanendert up the road to cover for Sagan, my leader. By the summit of the Colma di Sormano, he had 3 minutes on the group with Sagan, Gilbert and the rest, and 1.5 on Basso, who had attacked halfway up. Basso caught him on the flat, but he had enough in reserve to hang on up the final short hill and outsprint Basso to win the race. Sagan came third after following Gilbert and Scarponi, then outsprinting them.

 

[Parrulo]

Just finished my first 2011 season, and first ever in PCM. Spring highlights included 5th at RvV and 2nd in Paris-Roubaix for Bernie Eisel. The major hilly classics were a resounding failure, didn't top 10 in any with Rolland, Vanendert and Sagan. Sagan and Eisel won several 1.1s each, to round off a pretty good spring.

As the season rolled on, inexperience began to show - I didn't know about how number of race days affected performance. Rolland and Sagan started the Tour de France on 65 days each. Sagan managed to take home green and a stage from a break, plus 2nd to Feillu on stage 1 and 3rd to Chavanel and Flecha on another break. Rolland top-10'd as well, which was nice.

Moving into the last part of the season, Jelle Vanendert won the Tours of Austria, Slovenia and L'Ain as he built up to his main season goal; the Vuelta. In the opening TTT, a relatively weak team supporting Jelle lost only a minute on the stage winners. The favourites for the GC were Contador, Anton, Rodriquez, Wiggins and Vanendert.

All Jelle's main rivals had gone through a fairly heavy classics campaign, plus a Tour de France. While Vanendert had 35 days of racing in his legs, Wiggins already had 45, and Contador, Jrod and Anton all over 50. To even get that low, his rivals had barely raced since July, while Jelle was in great shape.

On stage 4, the MTF on Sierra Nevada, the gods decided that as well as being fitter and less fatigued than his rivals, they would give Jelle a +5 daily form. He took the stage by over 2 minutes to win the red jersey, and kept it all the way to Madrid, eventually beating Contador into his second GT 2nd place of the year by over 10 minutes.

While Jelle was infuriating the fans of Spain by trouncing the home favourites, Rolland won one of the Canadian WT races, with Sagan coming 2nd in both, finishing behind Scarponi in the other. After his great end-of-season, I though I'd try putting Jelle into the GdL to support Sagan. With Rolland, Sagan and Vanendert in a group of 20 containing the other main favourite as we hit the Madonna del Ghisallo, I sent Vanendert up the road to cover for Sagan, my leader. By the summit of the Colma di Sormano, he had 3 minutes on the group with Sagan, Gilbert and the rest, and 1.5 on Basso, who had attacked halfway up. Basso caught him on the flat, but he had enough in reserve to hang on up the final short hill and outsprint Basso to win the race. Sagan came third after following Gilbert and Scarponi, then outsprinting them.

i smeel original database and easy/normal difficulty mode

 

[Caruut]

Your nose doesn't lie to you. How was I to know any better?

 

[Parrulo]

Your nose doesn't lie to you. How was I to know any better?

you were i guess

time to go big tho, http://pcmdaily.com/news.php

register on pcm daily download and install the 2012 DB for the 2011 and enjoy the game on it's full potential, also maybe trying hard mode would be good to improve the excitement in the game

 

[Caruut]

you were i guess

time to go big tho, http://pcmdaily.com/news.php

register on pcm daily download and install the 2012 DB for the 2011 and enjoy the game on it's full potential, also maybe trying hard mode would be good to improve the excitement in the game

On PCMDaily already. Since I like my career, I'm probably just gonna whack up the difficulty and not have the new DB. If I start a new career I'll get the DB. Surprised by how much I enjoyed making my own shirt and accessories.

 

[Parrulo]

On PCMDaily already. Since I like my career, I'm probably just gonna whack up the difficulty and not have the new DB. If I start a new career I'll get the DB. Surprised by how much I enjoyed making my own shirt and accessories.

just start a new game with the PCMdaily DB (don't forget to make your default DB on options before starting said career) and sideline your current one for a while, after all you won't lose a saved game, i bet you won't touch it again tho. The PCMdaily DB is just that damn superior

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

dudes i spotted bavarianrider on PCM daily

http://pcmdaily.com/forum/viewthread.php?thread_id=22585&pid=514523#post_514523