So I started a career with Radioshack and I saw that A. Schleck had 3 stars at hills potential and only 1 at mountain. Ok, no problem, I will play like this and make him a hills classics specialist. I had to restart the career because I didn’t pay attention to the prize money detail, but now A. Schleck have 3 stars at mountain potential and only 1 at hills, while Cancellara potential stars are distribute differently.
I don’t have the option “random potential” checked, I use only the original DB, because I don’t have a good internet connection right now, so I guess I should have the same values for the riders.
Another case : I started a career with AG2R and then a career with a custom team where I had Betancur and I saw that his potential stars are distribute differently. For example in one career he had 2 stars on TT potential, while in the other he had 5 stars TT potential, so it is a big difference.
Well, you'll never recieve exact the same limits, that wouldn't be fun.
Random potential unticked means that riders have the potential they got assigned in the DB(1-8). But if you have for instance 7 potential, you can still get different amounts of stars, it's always a bit random. Though if you have 7 potential, you have a lot more chance to progress(a lot) than potential 3 or 4.
Random potential does way more than that, they switch up the potentials 1 or 2 up or down. So the guy with 7 potential could get 8 potential and be most likely a super-talent. But the guy could also get 5 potential, with a lot of chance the guy does barely progress.