maxime86 wrote:
finished stage one of my TDF variant

lluuiiggii wrote:

So there we go for the 20th TdF variant against 3 Vuelta variants

And honestly, I'd practice a bit more before starting a big project such as a variant. Looking at the screens, for example, I've noticed that you're not using road markers, there's some weird terrain sometimes (2nd and 6th screen from 1st French NC) and a bit lack of fields/forests sometimes. Also, as a suggestion for much more enjoyable gameplay, try to use wider roads more often, specially when you're going through flat roads and near the start/finish, try to avoid "crazy" when it's not really needed such as in the 5th screen of 2nd French NC (sometimes when you're following the .gpx to the letter you get these things, because there are a lot of roads inside the city, but usually you can just ignore them, because they're not the actual road, and yes a combination of roads; and then make 'smoother' curves in the city), and try to make the last kms as straight as possible, specially if it'll finish in a mass sprint, it's more enjoyable this way. Btw - you don't need to "avoid" going into the city with fields/forests, they'll stop automatically at the beginning of the city.

For example in screens of your 1st TdF stage, there are some parts that you can see a lot of 'empty' landscape - try to avoid that, and if you want to have this (like here, to show the sea), have some houses, some buildings, and some grass, makes it more realistic, specially for a big city like Barcelona.

I think you should keep taking requests, they're a great way to practice, test-play your stages, looking for things that could be better, make use of the stage DB to take a look in the .zcts files from more experienced stagemakers and try to be a bit "perfectionist" when creating stages (but in a practical way, not placing a house every corner) - otherwise you might end up like me or some other people on the forum, who were very new to stage making, decided to go for big projects such as variants (which honestly aren't that needed by now, specially of GTs) and later on when they were more experienced were like "wow my earlier stages suck" Creating small races is also a good way to contribute to projects like Giant DBs and learn at the same time (and if the stage isn't that good, it'll just be a small race anyway - while people who'll play a TdF variant will be expecting to face very good stages)

maxime86 wrote:
Request rules:

please send my a GPX file of very specific things you want for the race, I will not do any real stages onlly fantasy races or fantasy NCs and don't request too many stages (5 is a max)

maxime86 wrote:
Hey guys after realizing my first 2 stages Suck I decided to go all in in to an Amgen Tour of California variant, because none have been ever created from my knowlage