Written by Jonas Pro Cycling at 19:30 30/12-2016
Day 32 season 39, could be the most important date of the OCM history. No single update has ever had the potential to improve this game, as this upcoming update can.
The 'Experience rolled back to what it was meant to be' update.
More than ten seasons ago our 210 sprinter Martin Østrup had great succes in our team. He was considered high experience with level 6 at age 29, which in modern OCM is ridiculously low. The age of experience had already kicked in. But prior to that, the real stars of the game was the riders with the best skills. Period. I used to drool over riders with great skills. Something changed in the seasons to come. A slow evolution that changed the fundamental things in this game, to something far away from riderskills.
Now we are ready for the unchange. We are ready for skills once again to matter.
Following a quick captain brushup on the expectations for each of them:
Foncho Reto - most skilled timetrialer ever to ride in this game, has been bought from Abelixe. We hope the changes will do him good. The game deserves a guy like him to be the number one in his metier.
Armando Silveira - is now one of the better riders in the game, but not as good as his skills promises. He has been suffering from decent but not the best experience. We hope the changes will bring him the last bit up in the absolute top. He is amongst the topskilled hillsprinters and can end up as most skilled 'super allround sprinter' in fierce competition with Florian Akos
Sebastiao Cesario - just got second in last seasons TT award. He is not that great skillwise though. He will become human in two days, as he won't have his huge experience advantage.
Vivian Lasalle - even though he is former ITT WC winner two times podium and close to being a top 10 specialist, he has not performed well over his career. He will be better and may be almost as good as Cesario will be bad.
Gale Reason - was bought as the leading star of the team. Best cobbler on stats ever, but never even close to winning an award. In the fall of his career, we believe he can start to perform. Maybe he can even be among the best in his discipline. It would suit the game to have a guy like Gale in the historybooks.
We are now looking towards Hong Kong Hourrecord, which can be a milestone. Who will step up and who will fade. That race can tell.
Let's see how the changes turns out. We hope once again that great riders can promise great results.
See you in 2017 day 32 season 39
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Thanks. Theoretically its not certain yet, but almost. Very happy with the season.
It have paid off for you, #1 both as team and with a rider. Congratz!
Thanks guys
It paid out the changes, nr 1!!!
Grats mate;-)
Congrats no1
Thanks WonderDee, it's not bad at all. A huge deal of luck was involved ;)
Quick - I am still not sure if the result in Hongkong is mainly because of the update. Foncho won the race last season plus Cesario and Dantel Diez on the podium are high exp riders. Seems they haven't gone all bad overnight. No matter how, I have been adapting to this change for 15 seasons now ;)
I think the direction is good. Experience was too important. What I don't like is that teams that didn't adapt at all get this for free and that teams which adapted to changing circumstances get punished. All of a sudden all young riders are worthless. Riders under 26 yo will not be able to win a race with the new engine.
check the result of Andeby his riders. A coincedence he's leaving right now? ;-)
1-2-4 in the first race after the update. Congratz ;)
For sure a strong indication ;) They did though have superlegs and good legs. So it's not entirely clear how much the update effected the result or how much it just was an incredible amount of luck.
I think the answer is yes;)
I agree, lower influence could also be a good direction to go. I think that would have been the choice I would go with.
I am sure you will make it past division 6. You just got to decide if you are a climbing or sprinting team. :)
Continuation of original post------- go but just lower it's influence in the game is going in the right direction. Anyway I will still be floating between div 6 and 8 at the end of this season lol.
As someone reasonably new to the game, I share in your anticipation in this update. When I started I went through the rule-book and forum and got all the things I could quantify. A riders experience seemed to me then and more so now to be too
important in a riders make-up. I'm not sure having a usable limit that applies across the board (a maximum that will be useful to the rider) is the best way
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