September 2026

[Gipfelstuermer]

I'm leaning towards adding Cro/Langkawi as beginning of October will have a clear one day race focus. And the one day overlap actually helps one day race participation.

But I see the problem with the unrealistic WC, as normally the best riders will be focussed on that instead of going to some cat2/3 stage race... We could have the stage races as Div6 only, but that's very strict again. Normally we would need something like a points limitation. Races parallel to WC should only have riders with <5000 points or something like that

[rsv flaschbier]

I'm looking at it from a different point of view.
Our game aims to rebuild the original UCI calender and Cro and Langkawi both are 2.pro. The 2'nd highest UCI category. So I think we should ride them.

I understand the WC problem, but can't we simply move our WC to the 21.09.? A day without any tour.

[flockmastoR]

I'm looking at it from a different point of view.
Our game aims to rebuild the original UCI calender and Cro and Langkawi both are 2.pro. The 2'nd highest UCI category. So I think we should ride them.

I understand the WC problem, but can't we simply move our WC to the 21.09.? A day without any tour.

You are contradicting yourself here, when you want the real cycling calendar you cannot simply move on of the most important one day race in RL. In my view, riders who ride at Cro or Langkawi shouldn't be able to start at the WC. But I understand that this is technically more complicated to implement than a totally unrelated (to other races/energy) WC race.

[rsv flaschbier]

We already handle the WC in a different way than in RL. Both races (road race and ITT) on the same day.
And no, I don't want to block 2 days with WC.
So for me the most simple solution is to move our WC.

[Radunion]

I do not see the point in the current discussion. Our riders already do so many more races than real riders can do. Races that would be impossible considering travel arrangements. The principles we have are following the real calendar and doing max. 1 race per team and day. Those would be kept.

Of course, it depends on Alk to say it works technically before they calendar gets final. So far we only interpret his old posts.

[flockmastoR]

I do not see the point in the current discussion. Our riders already do so many more races than real riders can do. Races that would be impossible considering travel arrangements. The principles we have are following the real calendar and doing max. 1 race per team and day. Those would be kept.

Of course, it depends on Alk to say it works technically before they calendar gets final. So far we only interpret his old posts.

1) our riders do very little races compared to real riders based on our one month = one year simulation. Eddy Merckx won more race than can be ridden by a c4f rider in his whole career.

2) the previous WC races already broke the principle of 1 race per team and day (road race, ITT)

In the past, the rule was ONE DAY reserved for the WC races. But I think we also already broke that rule with riding it in a normal team race once (because WC racing was not possible in new version at that time).

So imo the point of the discussion would be how we WANT to proceed in the future given that the technical circumstances changed. But I think it shouldn't be discussed in the September calendar planning topic, but I didn't start that discussion here.

[Yamaka Corse]

In the past we had U24 world cup too, so it was nice for every active manager that could be involved in a very hard race. Right now the main problem is that if you don't get one of the the top teams you can just sit and watch. Having a race + 2 time trials doens't give the same number of playable spots that there were in the past, I mean competitive spots.

So I'm thinking than have a race like in 2024 already happened (and partially in 2023) Can allow lower rank players to play.

I don't care about bytes if they "races" 1000 or 300 is the same for me, but players should have a chance to play and enjoy the game 24/7