Cycling Manager

This game is a suprisingly addicting Cycling Manager.

If you want to play a manager game without endless micro-management, just with the core elements to

• sign up riders for the different races
• set up basic tactics
• watch results
• preplan your season
• hire and dismiss riders
• watch statistics

Then you might try out this Cycling Manager.

At the start you choose from 25 Teams, which are ordered by general strength. You can examine all riders from every team before you sign up. Do you want to play with a team that is already very strong? With a midfield team? Or with a team from the bottom of that list and fight your way up to the top? It's you choice!

Few tips and tricks:

Endurance is crucial. When Energy is at 100, then Endurance doesn't matter. But the higher the Energy loss, the more Endurance kicks in. Therefore you Energy planning is quite important. The different driving styles which you set up in the tactics, cost different amount of energy per race.

Breakaways are only for gathering mountain and sprint points. Currently not for winning races.

Savegame:

At the moment there is only one savegame supported. But if you want to play more than one career with a different team for example, that is no problem. Just go into the Folder 'CM_Data' and rename the File 'CM_Data.cus' to something different. When you now start the game again, it's creating a new savegame :)

Available in english and german.

Changelog:

Version 1.1

- Set max value of Endurance from 99 to 97

- AI set tactis now taking Endurance into account

- AI teams now puts always at least 2 sprinter in

- AI 'signing in'-limit: 80 Energy

- Various beauty improvements at the Statistics tab

- New salary calculation

- Sponsor now pays half of the budget at the beginning of the season

Version 1.2

- At the start of a new season, all riders attributes get mutated by random +- 3

- Grand Tours now includes less mountain stages

Version 1.3

- At Grand Tour replaced 1 random stage with 1 mountain downhill stage

- World Championships moved back in time by one week

- Increased time gap at time trial

- Tweaked time gap calculation in general

Version 1.4

- Added a stage profile overview under 'Stage Tips'

- The gained points of the selected stage is now shown in the overall results tab

- Fixed a rare results bug that only occurred at a first stage of a tour

Version 1.5

- Added a global race stats view in the statistics tab

- Added a rider transfer overview in the finance tab

- Slightly decreased time gap at time trial

- Intermediate Sprint Points now one tier higher

- Extended the name list for riders to support now 13 seasons, instead of 5

- Bugfix: The 10th and last monthly rider salaries are now applied

- Bugfix: You cannot sign in to an already ongoing race anymore

- Bugfix: You can no longer accidentally jump over the season change by using the '10 days' button