So i looked in the editor for talents, and the talents with the highest potential and so on, but how do i find the rider ingame? Lachis editor showed a region number, and then i sent my scout to search for talents in that region.
1. Will my scout automatically find this talent when he search the region the talent is from?
2. How do you find the rider ingame, or add him ingame? Since you cant, or i havent found a name search function, is the best option to look at the u23 standings and find him there?
I know this is considered cheat, but i am just curious. Cause i have played 3 seasons, and used scouts and the u23 standings every year, but very few riders (2-3) from the u23 standings, or my scouted future greats have great potential.
Only 1 rider from the u23 standings in the 2016 season had potential over 6, and he was not even high on the rankings. And it seems that, all the great talents you have to find them with your scout, atleast in this save.
Not really much the u23 standings has to offer, tbh
I'll add something I have written before: Don't just go by potential with U23 riders. No matter the potential, the current stats are random. If you look at U23 riders closely with the editor you'll find some who have the maximum potential in a stat (85), but a current ability of 57 or so. That rider will never reach his potential, maybe at the age of 35, if his abilities don't start declining earlier.
Makes much more sense to get a rider with a potential of 5 with an AVG of 70+ than a potential of 8 with an AVG of 60 or less. Note you cannot see the AVG rating of U23 even in the editor, but you can take a good guess (or work it out even) by looking at the stats. Also, by just looking at the U23 rankings. Those riders right at the top of the ranking will definitely have a decent AVG.
And if you do find a strong rider with a high potential who doesn't appear in the U23 rankings (maybe because he's from an "exotic" country) chances are high that no other team hires him - and then he will appear as a free rider when he's old enough. Sure, if he already has an AVG of 75 he'll now ask for 20k/month instead of just 2.5k if you hire him directly for them U23, but he should be worth it.
I guess you have a point, many of the riders with top potential spawn with low AVG stats. But i could maybe increase the stat gain and hope they develop fast enough. Right now the evolution of stats is set to 0.5 (default) afaik, should i up it a bit?
Its just a bit annoying keep finding guys with 70 in mountain, and they only reach 75-76 in mountain. Only found 2 nice riders, one very nice one, with almost the same stats as Gillou, not as good, but he can challange him. And another who maybe reaches 78 in mountain and 76 rec, and 76 tt
But my best raiders is by far the riders i got from the beginning. Almost all the riders i signed with back then are pretty usefull. One who maybe reaches 83-85 hill, and another with 80 in cobb, is it supposed to be like that?
Also after looking in the editor, i was wondering why some of the stats are so different from the current top riders. Almost nobody will reach over 80 in both mountain and hill, also one will reach 83 in cobb, but only 69 in hill. It just seems a bit strange no riders can or will be better than Quintana, Urban etc.
I play with the normal database i guess, patch 1.4.0.1. Dunno if this have anything to say about it
If you must, you could just up the stats manually via the editor. Or instead of changing that evolution setting, more effective would be to change gene_i_year_progression in dyn_cyclist for the specific rider(s). It's a random number between 1 and 5 which changes at the start of every season and determines how well a rider will develop that season- set it to 5 manually.
Apart from that, if you don't see any young riders with really high potential in climbing it means sooner or later 78 can become the new 85. I definitely noticed that in a looong career in PCM 09, after 20 seasons there were only two riders left with climbing 80+, the rest was 78 at best, even their potentials.
In PCM 14 my longest career so far was 7 seasons and even at that point the number of really strong riders (apart from sprinters, way too many of those around) was dwindling. Very few TT and cobblestone specialists left and many of the climbers were getting old. I tallied them up in this post:
