You cannot base their stats on one race !
Contador 83
Froome 83
Quintana 82
Nibali 81
Porte 81
Valverde 80
Rodriguez 80
Uran 79
Aru 79
MORE
Landa77
ALOT MORE
Nah, I can follow your logic, but Purito needs his yellow bar in his performances as well.
Basically any top rider(at least climber and puncher) needs a good or at least decent RES stat to perform, in PCM.
It might not be very hard to define which types of riders should have good RES, but it is very hard to do it individually per rider.
RES is therefore also often used as variable ''backup stat'' if someone for instance would be ''79,4MO'' essentially, so too weak at 80MO but a bit underpowered on 79. An easy solution is then to give the rider a bit stronger RES stat.
What I mean is that Valverde should have one of the highest RES stats of stage racers while Rodriguez should have one of the lowest RES stats while still being decent in it.
Edited by Forever the Best on 09-06-2015 17:55
evanroche7898 wrote:
You cannot base their stats on one race !
Contador 83
Froome 83
Quintana 82
Nibali 81
Porte 81
Valverde 80
Rodriguez 80
Uran 79
Aru 79
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Landa77
ALOT MORE
Lol Porte 81,same with Nibali,1 higher than Valverde and Rodriguez,2 higher than Aru,4 higher than Landa and only 1 lower than Quintana?
Contador 82-83
Froome 82-83
Quintana 82
Nibali 82
Landa 80-81
Aru 80-81
Pinot 80-81
Porte 79-80
Uran 79-80
What do you think guys on these stats?And what they should be?
The Schleck Fan wrote:
Contador 82-83
Froome 82-83
Quintana 82
Nibali 82
Landa 80-81
Aru 80-81
Pinot 80-81
Porte 79-80
Uran 79-80
What do you think guys on these stats?And what they should be?
Quintana should be 83 same as Contador and Froome, for the simple reason climbing is his speciality and he doesn't have the TT skills to match those two in the game, on 83 he has a chance to beat them in a GT.
You forgot to put Rodriguez and Valverde and both should be 80 and Uran 79. Porte 80 but with poor rec for a big GT contender
83 - Contador(bit weaker REC after Giro), Froome, Quintana
82 - Nibali
81 - /
80 - Landa, Aru, Pinot, Porte, Purito
79 - Valv, TVG, Peraud, Bardet, Uran
However, with PCM 15 coming soon, we are considering getting a bit closer to the Cyanide matrix(who have more 80+ guys than we have).
Basically that would be upping some of the subtop by one.
Meaning guys like Pinot, Landa and Aru would end up 81, Valv to 80, etc.
What would your opinions be about that? Would it be okay to get the subtop a bit closer to the ''Big 4''?
Note that we would still not be too close to the Cyanide matrix, but one step closer can't hurt.
@bob7
that's exactly what I have him on.
Edited by Jesleyh on 09-06-2015 22:49
Well, you know, the thing is, Cyanide has even way more than 27 on 78+, they have 39.
It is a matter of matrix, and I reckon Cyanide knows best how the game responds to certain matrixes(I actually had a talk with them about that).
Moving away further from the Cyanide matrix would be a foolish thing to do, if anything, it should be closer.
Edited by Jesleyh on 09-06-2015 23:01
83 - Contador(bit weaker REC after Giro), Froome, Quintana
82 - Nibali
81 - /
80 - Landa, Aru, Pinot, Porte, Purito
79 - Valv, TVG, Peraud, Bardet, Uran
However, with PCM 15 coming soon, we are considering getting a bit closer to the Cyanide matrix(who have more 80+ guys than we have).
Basically that would be upping some of the subtop by one.
Meaning guys like Pinot, Landa and Aru would end up 81, Valv to 80, etc.
What would your opinions be about that? Would it be okay to get the subtop a bit closer to the ''Big 4''?
Note that we would still not be too close to the Cyanide matrix, but one step closer can't hurt.
@bob7
that's exactly what I have him on.
At the moment the 81 looks lonely with no riders on 81, which is why both Aru and Landa should be on 81.
The only problem I see with putting more riders up in the 80s, is that it might become too much like the hill stat with too many riders competing near the top of the final climb, but admittedly mountains are much longer than hills so it might work out.
Like most things it's an experiment that could work or it might not.
I wonder, aren't these good stats make races too unpredictable ? I mean that a huge difference beetwen how computer rides and how I ride with the same cyclist.
Out of interest why did the PCM stats initially move away from the Cyanide matrix, was it because they seemed unreal?
If that was the case, why is there a move to go back towards them, is it because that Cyanide now have a better understanding of their own matrix system?
@bob7
Well, a DB has to find the right balance between gameplay and realism. In my opinion, especially with weaker form, the top riders should be beatable. Not structural, but now and then.
Of course the top 4 are the guys that should fight for the TdF win, theoretically, and they will, a 78MO guy will normally not be able to threaten them when on top form, which is realistic. But well, since Froome, Conta etc. do not win every race they enter in real life either, the gaps in the stats shouldn't be too big either.
@Tafiolmo
That is a very interesting question, that I, to be honest, don't know the answer to. As far as I know and as long as I'm around here, the PCMdaily top stats have always been like this, and it's definitely not as if I want to change the matrix PCMdaily is, well, "known for", but small changes in the subtop won't do any harm.
So the change would have to be made years ago, but what I also can't exclude is that it was the Cyanide matrix which changed. I could look into this later.
Oh and Wiggins is a very difficult issue.
Since the game starts at 1 Jan 2015 and he was riding for Sky at that point. But as you know, he stopped aftet Roubaix, but also winning a TT earlier the year, if I recall correctly...
Cyanide has him at Sky I know, at least, but I am undecided what to do with him.
Edited by Jesleyh on 09-06-2015 23:29
