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Fantasy Cycling 2015 - game changes (and report issues)
There'll be a news announcement on the site too, but for you lot here's a more in-depth rundown of what's new and changed for 2015.
The back end of the game (which very few of you ever see of course) has been completely overhauled, and the game engine has had some fairly fundamental changes too. The most fundamental is that a tour is now a separate thing from a competition, so one tour can have more than one competition running at the same time. Tour Down under has three: standard, purist and an Aussies only one (we'll be doing those for the grand tours and the Tour of Britain too. Not Aussies, mind). Before it was a user that had multiple teams, and it was a bit of a hack to be honest. This is a much more elegant and versatile way of doing things.
It gives us a load more flexibility to offer different competitions, and we can now select in the back end what leagues different competitions count towards. so just-for-fun comps like the Tour de San Luis purist and the Aussies-only comp won't count towards your overall season score. That also means that down the line we should be able to offer some user-run competitions alongside the ones we're doing in-house.
So each user only has one team now. Premium is different, then, in that it simply allows you to enter as many competitions as you like. If you're a standard player, you can only enter eight in a season. Realistically that means standard users will be entering the competitions they were allowed to last year, so it shouldn't work out that different.
Also pretty fundamental is the change to the way transfers are handled. This season you'll get a set number of transfers for a standard race, and you can use them in whatever way you see fit. We tried this out with the Skoda game last year and found it a much more interesting way to play because there's more strategies available, and it opens the possibility of bigger changes at the end of a competition if different users have employed different transfer strategies, or just run out...
We now have the ability to select the team size for any competition too, as well as the budget. Generally, races will be teams of eight, with nine riders for the Grand Tours and fewer for things like the country-specific fun competitions; we've gone with five for the Aussies only one.
The roster changes thread has been replaced by an email system that will automatically send you updates of any changes affecting your team - check the checkbox in your account page if you want them. There's also the option to automatically receive stage updates, and the game will email you each time a new competition is opened if you have general updates enabled.
The overall leagues have changed. There's a standard season league for all standard comps, and a purist season league for the purist comps. As well as that there's a road.cc monuments competition which is just the big stuff: Spring Classics and the Grand Tours, presently. We may add a couple more to it but it won't be more than eight competitions so you'll be able to play it as a standard user. There aren't any specific non-premium leagues as there aren't any specific non-premium competitions any more.
Rider stats we've simplified a bit to make it easier to understand for new users, and we've also added stats to the transfers page so you can get an overall idea of the strengths and weaknesses of your team.
There will be plenty of prizes on offer this year, but we haven't teamed up with anyone to offer prizes for every stage. We're still working through some missing ones from last year, and it's better if we handle the prizes in house. There will be prizes for the Tour Down Under, news on that soon.
There's a bunch of stuff on the to-do list and there's some things that will no doubt need fixing. If you have any issues with the site functionality, comment on here and we'll have a look at them.
If you're new please join in and if you have questions pop them below and the forum regulars will answer as best we can.
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Thanks a lot !
I wouldn't swear to it Dave but I am pretty certain up until now its been with two extra transfers.
so just did a spot check TA 7 stages we had 14 transfers
PN 7 stages we had 14 transfers
Even trentino 4 stages 8 transfers.
scrub my above comment ......its early...late night being a bell end
I seem to have been omitted from the London rankings...
It just doesn't show me to be anywhere in a regional league.
Not a big problem, but I was enjoying my high place.
Anybody else had this?
I've had about 10 notifications that Vervaeke has been removed from the roster, seem to get one or two every day.
looking into the 500 badge issue too
Hi Dave,
Still not got my 500+ points badge for Tour de San Luis Bonus Purist and now see that I should have got 250+ badge for Ruta del Sol Purist and haven't.
Thanks.
Hi,
It appears there's quite a few problems with the points badges.
I'm missing;
-Ruta del sol purist 250
-Ruta del sol standard 500
-Tour of Qatar standard 500
-Tour Down Under - Aussies only 250
I am getting an email every day telling me to log in to check my stage scores.
However, I clicked the button that said I didn't want to play those games (and I didn't ever start to play that race by picking an initial team or something).
I ticked the notifications box to get emails, but surely I should only be getting notifications about races I am actually playing.
Problem resolved. Great game btw!
Is the server which hosts the fantasy game offline today?
Need to sort my team out for tomorrow.
I just get:
Service Unavailable
The service is temporarily unavailable. Please try again later.
I'm getting this too
There are 549 riders available for Paris Nice including Contador, Froome etc...who are racing Tirreno.
game is back up.
startlists for paris-nice and tirreno are far from complete so i haven't done the first trawl yet
Hi Dave, a few issues to report
1) Arnaud Demare was showing as selectable for KBK, I picked him then discovered he was never riding, so this was an error in him being listed, can I have the transfer back please?
2) i left Stijn Vandenberghe in for KBK, and though he didnt race, Cav won, Stijn would, in the past, have picked up 5 points for a team mate win, but I didnt get that. Has the rule on this changed?
3) I selected a team for the first womens classic on saturday, I dont know how they did because I appear to have scored zero points, despite having Lizzie Armistead in my team, who came third?
Cheers
1) Demare was due to race but pulled out late
2) Only riders who are riding score the team-mate bonus
3) The first women's classic is happening right now as I type
I'm currently being told my team is over budget but in the balance section i have still got 4.4 points, why is this? if I remove someone and replace it with a very low priced rider it works but not if it is within 5 points ish of 0?
Any suggestions?
Looks like people are having their points from the Womens's Classics added to the overall season league, but the competition info says it's a Bonus race that won't count towards any leagues??
Am I hallucinating or is Greg van Avermaet leading the Strada Bianchi when I received an email 24 hours ago telling me he had been removed from the roster and I took him out of my team. Can I have the points he scores please.
Looks like the changes I made on the back of the Van Avermaet email have been reversed and the right points and badges awarded well done game!
Is Benat Intxausti not starting Paris-Nice? I didn't see him on the available rider list.
Big issue in Paris Nice Stage P : Maurepas › Maurepas points:
You have Sebastien Chavanel FDJ 20!
It's Sylvain Chavanel from IAM Cycling who got the 20 points.
(You have this game running with names and not unique id's... ??!!??)
PS: Hope you fixed the Womens Classics - Bonus Standard because you said "This competition doesn't count towards any leagues" but it was counting (i lost a couple positions in the Overall Season league right after you uploaded the points from Le Samyn des dames.
Paris Nice Stage 1 - Morkov was 17th but I got no points for him
please fix thanks!
Tirreno Adriatico - Jesse Sergent should be on the Trek team - everywhere I can find shows him starting rather than Stuyven.
http://www.cyclingquotes.com/news/stuyven_out_of_tirreno-adriatico/
Could be important with the change to an individual TT for the first stage.
I seem to be missing some points.
Paris-Nice Stage 4
Tom Dumoulin
Apologies if I've got it wrong!
If I wanted to get spammed with roster changes I would have ticked the 'send me updates about roster changes affecting my teams' box. I didn't, so please stop sending me them.
When will you be updating the Milan Sanremo roster? It still doesn't include Cav.
Are the riders going to updated for the classics prior to Milan-San Remo as some favourites that are riding for example Mark Cavendish, Kristoff etc are not available to choose?
HELP!!!!
I'm trying to update my teams for the races this weekend and all I get on the login page is a message that says "the game is updating", this has been the same since yesterday afternoon...what's going on...
At this rate I am going to be unable to update any of the races both standard and purist....
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