Okay. After a fun night of trying to get the server back on its feet and a game glitch that affected everyone’s tactics, we’ve decided to neutralise today’s stage and run the game on from tomorrow. Everyone’s team will be reset to the one they finished the Dauphiné with, and transfers will be limited to four – the two you should have been able to make today, and the two you would have got anyway.

Here are the questions you no doubt have, and the answers:

What happened to the server?

We’re not entirely sure, but we think it was a damaged site module on road.cc coupled with high traffic. We don’t think it was an attack. We’ve removed the module now and we’re investigating the issue.

Why was the game allowing me unlimited transfers when I was only supposed to get two?

The game switches from the transfer page to the unlimited ‘pick team’ page based on a list of unlimited stages that’s separate to the main stage list. Stage 37 was in that list when it wasn’t supposed to be, probably from way back when we hadn’t clocked that the two tours overlapped.

Why have you reset my team back to the end of the Dauphiné?

Because that’s the most sensible line in the sand; there was never meant to be an unlimited stage in this section of the game, and many people set their tactics accordingly. Also, the server issue meant that some people lost credits when the server didn’t log changes properly, so re-establishing everyone’s team at that point solves that problem too.

I’ve only got four transfers now and a whole bunch of Dauphiné riders though!

Well, that’s the situation you would have been in had the game run through this stage as it was scheduled to do.

Any other questions, post them below and we’ll respond.