I just bought PCM12, as it was fairly cheap on Steam. I have never really played this game before, so I know very little about the game and how it works.
Now I have a few questions, that I hope some of you experts can answer:
I started a new game as Christian Watches-Onfone in the Continental division. I am using the PCMDaily13 DB.
1. Is the staff you start the game with totally random? ...I have Miguel Indurain as a trainer, which I doubt is very realistic.
2. Is the starting schedule (almost) totally randomly selected? ... or are they selected based on team (division) and sponsor requirements?
3. When does it save my game the first time? ... I tried using the external Schedule Planner, but my current game (one one day passed) does not appear in the list of save games.
Should I just leave it be (at least for the first season), or would it be better to rearrange it?
2) Based around team and division yes, but it will change from career to career
3) It will save daily so you can load in each day. It also creates a "weekly save" database file you can use for editing. Weekly saves are created after 7 days.
3. From Jan 2nd onwards you should already be able to use the Season Planner. Are you sure you checked in the savegame's directory? That would be My Docs/PCM12/Users/username/Database/Solo/DB of career. As ManxMissile said, there are also Weekly Saves which you'll find in My Docs/PCM12/WeeklySaves.
As for changing the races you'll be taking part, well if you're new to the game you might find easier to just leave it the way it is, and just assign the riders to the races. However the game does not do a really good job in the race schedule for CT teams, so you could change some races. Basically, set goal races (e.g. Post Danmark Rundt) and then take part in some races before that one so that your key riders can build some form for the goal race.
Edited by lluuiiggii on 14-04-2013 22:04
