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  • April 27, 2012 at 11:54 am #15651
    londonplayer

    Reading through the new info, it’s not entirely clear if you can win the bike if you don’t go premium?

    “Podium prizes can only be won by premium users.”

    So, presumably, if you don’t go premium, and you play the Giro competition, even if you were to come first in the points overall, you wouldn’t win the bike?

    Or have I read that wrong?

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  • April 29, 2012 at 11:00 pm #676733
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    robert_obrien

    I think we’re all gradually
    I think we’re all gradually realising that nothing we thought was ‘free’ is free. Google, Facebook and the rest gathered our details so they could offer us stuff they think we want and it’s now overwhelming. If the strategy was made clear from the outset maybe people would be more discerning – ‘by signing up to this free service your inbox will imminently be flooded with irrelevant sh*t’.

    April 29, 2012 at 10:25 am #676731
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    fluffchucker

    dave_atkinson wrote:letsgoup

    dave_atkinson wrote:
    letsgoup wrote:

    1)Will we be able to see who is a premium or standard subscriber in the league tables? Just an idea…

    yes. there’ll be a separate premium league in the free tours. plus on player profiles there’ll be some other premium functionality coming soon :-)


    Dave – how many have signed up for this great game so far
    £10-£7 really just doesn’t seem enough to me 😉

    April 29, 2012 at 8:55 am #676729
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    TERatcliffe26

    Yeh I have to do some of the
    Yeh I have to do some of the maths by hand, as I dont have the software clever enough to do the copy and paste job and work it out. Its not just that it would be the inputting of the correct mountain points, sprint points for the stage. Its easier for me to just read the results for a rider and input the score myself. Also even if I worked out a way of doing it, setting up the formulas to put the correct data in the correct places would be just as big a nightmare.
    For the number of teams that are in it, doing it how I do it is probably the most straight forward way.

    April 28, 2012 at 9:12 pm #676727
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    Alan Tullett

    TERatcliffe26 wrote:Basically

    TERatcliffe26 wrote:
    Basically Alan, I input the scores for each rider, then my spreadsheet calculates the total for youe team (to be fair I’m good at doing this stuff, so I don’t make many mistakes) but that’s why I ask what u expect and then I either agree or disgaree, but I can explain how I’ve scored it (sometimes I miss the odd point as someone is 5th in the points etc).

    Well I will do bayern if people want, but can defo do tour of luxembourg as in the week between giro and dauphine.

    That update will make a difference dave, cheers, think if we do any others we will set a standard value for any teams not on the database

    So you don’t have a system where you can copy and paste top 20 for the day, top 10 GC etc and then it calculates the rider scores for you. You have to do that by hand and then use ‘if’ formulas I suppose to calculate the different team scores. Must be quite time consuming. I wonder if it can be automated further to make it easier to do. But with the premium game I’m probably going to get satiated, I think, although purist is different and not so time-consuming.

    I could help if you’re busy sometimes as I used to teach IT and can do a little java programming.

    April 28, 2012 at 8:37 pm #676725
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    giff77

    Haven’t had a chance to get
    Haven’t had a chance to get online proper to sign up 🙁 been relying on the mobile site. It’s on my to do list. Looking forward to seeing the new layout.

    April 28, 2012 at 4:22 pm #676723
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    letsgoup

    See below. Messed up comment.
    See below. Messed up comment.

    April 28, 2012 at 4:19 pm #676721
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    letsgoup

    dave_atkinson wrote:yes.

    dave_atkinson wrote:
    yes. there’ll be a separate premium league in the free tours. plus on player profiles there’ll be some other premium functionality coming soon :-)

    I knew it would all be in hand, as always. I’m getting excited about the new additions already. 😀 I do like my stats stuff displayed. :B

    April 28, 2012 at 2:02 pm #676719
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    Rvizzle

    dave_atkinson wrote:Rvizzle

    dave_atkinson wrote:
    Rvizzle wrote:
    Dave – one initial gripe – Where’s the Forum button within the Fantasy Cycling Microsite gone!?

    just got to do a bit of fiddling with the grid to make room to get it back in. fear not, it will reappear

    Skills. I presumed it hadn’t been overlooked. Cheers Dave

    April 28, 2012 at 1:49 pm #676717
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    dave atkinson

    letsgoup wrote:
    1)Will we be

    letsgoup wrote:

    1)Will we be able to see who is a premium or standard subscriber in the league tables? Just an idea…

    yes. there’ll be a separate premium league in the free tours. plus on player profiles there’ll be some other premium functionality coming soon 🙂

    April 28, 2012 at 1:47 pm #676715
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    dave atkinson

    Rvizzle wrote:Dave – one

    Rvizzle wrote:
    Dave – one initial gripe – Where’s the Forum button within the Fantasy Cycling Microsite gone!?

    just got to do a bit of fiddling with the grid to make room to get it back in. fear not, it will reappear

    April 28, 2012 at 1:46 pm #676713
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    dave atkinson

    londonplayer wrote:I agree.

    londonplayer wrote:
    I agree. Premium players should be able to select a 2nd purist team to run in conjunction.

    the main problem with this is that there’s already a bunch of people running a second purist team (on a separate login), so there’s a problem with amalgamating data. we’re looking at solutions to that problem though.

    April 28, 2012 at 1:38 pm #676711
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    frankiejay

    So, this is probably the
    So, this is probably the silliest question ever, as I will never win anything in the game, but let’s imagine for a moment that this blind squirrel finds a big nut and manages to win one of the races.

    Would you pay the shipping of sending a bike to America? 🙂 I’m just curious.

    April 28, 2012 at 12:53 pm #676709
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    londonplayer

    I agree. Premium players
    I agree. Premium players should be able to select a 2nd purist team to run in conjunction.

    April 28, 2012 at 12:29 pm #676707
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    Rvizzle

    Have just signed up. £7 for
    Have just signed up. £7 for a year, when I’ve had two years for free so far seems fair enough. If we want this to improve every year as it has thus far, it’s inevitable that some £ is needed.

    Dave – one initial gripe – Where’s the Forum button within the Fantasy Cycling Microsite gone!?

    ooh I like the idea of having purist team as well as a non-purist team. Or is that just being greedy?

    April 28, 2012 at 11:00 am #676705
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    letsgoup

    I have just signed up.
    I have just signed up. Struggling to find the time for the current stages but hey ho its only £7 which is great value. For extra stages I might just try picking random teams with no thought. Might work out better than the planning and form studying I do at the moment. Which doesn’t work….

    I have a couple of questions too :/ (|: :

    1)Will we be able to see who is a premium or standard subscriber in the league tables? Just an idea…

    2)I have asked this before I know. Having signed up for premium can we play a normal and a purist team side by side for each race under one account. I know people create another account for this (which has been accepted by road c.c. but actually against the official rules) Can it be added at a later stage?

    I think what has already been done is great and the inclusion of the above two points would create perfection for me personally. As said before good value for £7/10 but its always good to have a wish list in life. 🙂 🙂 🙂

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