are you sure you can go back into this insanity? - SSJ2Luigi (Café Pedro)

Sweet 16 Patch

Ok it's 1.6 not 16, but i needed some sort of fun headline. Primarily general crash fixes Patch 1.6.1.0 dropped early in the week. To be honest it's not a revolutionary patch and is just an accumulation of small crash preventions and optimizations it does show Cyanide isn't quite finished with PCM16 yet. No official word but signs are there we may get a 1.7 (or at least a 1.6.2) patch before the harsh winters forces us all to the computer.

Ideas for 17

Think you know what will make PCM17 the definitive cycling manager game? Well Cyanide have actively asked us at PCM.Daily to gather together all the suggestions to try and give them extra help in developing next years edition. You'll lose a lot of ability to complain if you don't try and suggest differences. Just pop over to our Wishlist thread and try and follow the posting guideline. The quicker you can post the idea the longer Cyanide can work on it.

Not that this annoucement is all sunshine, as it comes with what some view as a heavy asterix that the main development focus will be on multiplayer. Make of that what you will, perhaps if enough of the community voices their concerns it won't happen.

Man-Game Madness

It's been a week for the ProContinental and Continental Tour teams. The PCT headlined by the Duo Differdange, and to put it politely the result was divisive. The put it less politely, you might as well have played the lottery instead. Not that Novotek will particularly care! Who'd have thought the cobbles would be the race to provide normality. Gent-Wevelgem being taken by Lierse in a thrilling and close fought classic that really was classic.

The CT headed first to Hungary, where Kraftwerk dominated and Podium Ambition faltered, in a fractured and confusing finale. From there teams headed to Bulgaria and a mixed race. Some stages going to plan, some to breaks and every team having some ups and downs. The highlight really being the surrounding sponsor talk the event generated before finishing earlier today.

Thread of the Week

I mean we're deep into the gritty center of the years final Grand Tour. So Thread of the Week wasn't really going to be anything but Vuelta á Espana 2016! Overall we've been dominated by the Cycling threads recently as the season ramps up towards the Worlds and it's overall conclusion not too far off now.

Due to community feedback a new patch 1.6.1.0 was released for PCM16 to fix couple bugs as also some other optimization. It possibly is not the final patch as they look forward for more feedback. 

For the full changelog, read more.

We have been contacted by Cyanide that asked, if possible, to send them PCM 2017 suggestions as development of the new game will start very soon.

In other words this is your opportunity to contribute directly in the new game by proposing new features, that will be directly sent to the developers to get more visibility. Suggestions can be of multiple kinds but main direction of new game development will be the multiplayer mode (all the rest will be improved, so if you have ideas, please write them down). 

Please make sure you categorize them in your post under this nomenclature:

Solo
Career
Pro Cyclist
Multiplayer
Ladder
Friendly
Gameplay
Track
Others

To do this, post your suggestions in this thread.

Thanks in advance!

After a Volta a Portugal, which saw Spilak23 come out comfortably on top, Velogames are back with one of the 3 GT events: the Vuelta one.

The deadline is really close at the moment, with entries closing at 17:00 CEST (Central European Summer Time) on Saturday 20th August 2016, as the rules state, so hurry up, and build a team that can get you on top of the Daily League rankings. And why not, perhaps on top of the Overall rankings, as it has happened to a few other Daily members in the past seasons.

If you want, you can join the discussion in this thread, where the Daily members have been gathering since the start of the season to discuss their fantasy teams. If you, at the end of the tournament, will find yourself in the top 25 of the Daily league, you'll be awarded from 50 to 2 points in the Daily Velogames Overall league, given that this tournament awards double points compared to the others.

The rules, as well as the scoring system, can be found on the Velogames site.

To join the PCM.Daily velogames league use the following code: 911510081516. Good luck!

A new patch, 1.5.1.0, has been released a few minutes ago.

The changes listed in the changelog are mostly miscellaneous bugfixes, but a few issues - such as the inability to choose a custom database in multiplayer - have been sorted out as well.

Click read more to read their official announcement and the full changelog.

In order for the changes to take place, just run Steam and wait for it to update the game.