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  • August 22, 2012 at 11:47 pm #16642
    thefatcyclist

    Hi guys,just a note to say i’ve abandoned the fantasy game. I’ve been thinking about it fo a while, and decided I can’t do this anymore. reasons.
    1. Time,
    2. Whilst many of you find playing the gane enhances your enjoyment, I have increasingly felt the opposite. Instead of enjoying the racing, all I can think of is,”Damn I was going to put him in my team>”
    3.I have not gotten to grips with the key on a daily basis, picking the winner is now secondary to picking the breakaway guys. This is no reflection on Dave and the Game engine, just i’m crap at it.
    4. It’s all gotten a bit serious on the forum and the banter has gone out of it.
    5. I missed the american premier race completely through stupidity.

    So today is my last day, and i’m asking Dave to remove me from the game, because I can’t bear to see me drop like a stone till season end. Unless i’m on page 1 no good for me.

    All the best guys and I will drop in from time to time to see how things are going.

    😀

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  • August 23, 2012 at 10:17 pm #696721
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    enrique

    enrique wrote:Sometimes I

    enrique wrote:
    Sometimes I think it’s ludicrous that a breakaway guy can get [s]double or[/s] more points than the stage winner gets.

    Yeah, I stand corrected. What I meant to say was that I find it a liitle ‘out-of-whack’ that a rider get more than the 35 points a straight-up stage winner gets, no matter how many points he gets for the intermediate points or the KOM points along the way.

    The higher glory, and the higher points, in my opinion, should always go to the stage winner.

    Fatty, out of curiousity, if the game switched to just finish line points, would you stick around? 🙂

    August 23, 2012 at 9:59 pm #696719
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    enrique

    thefatcyclist wrote:…

    thefatcyclist wrote:
    … picking the winner is now secondary to picking the breakaway guys…

    I agree. Sometimes I think it’s ludicrous that a breakaway guy can get [s]double or[/s] more points than the stage winner gets.

    Maybe next year we can limit the amount of points breakaway riders can get.

    Maybe just award points for only the top three riders over any climb or lower the points on offer for the climbs.

    Yeah, it’s nice to get points for a breakaway rider, but I agree with the notion that a breakaway rider should not be able to get as many or more points than a stage winner.

    EDIT: [i]I stand corrected below.[/i]

    August 23, 2012 at 9:37 pm #696717
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    Gkam84

    Ok not quite. I thought he
    Ok not quite. I thought he had double on the day he scored 100, but next best was 59 😉

    http://fantasy.road.cc/stages?sid=79

    I personally don’t play for the prizes, but was gutted the purist in the TdF was not just for premium aswell 👿

    I don’t think the premium has taken anything away from the forum as its the same 5-10 guys posting ALL the time and hardly anyone else. But during the day, alot of people will be working. So I understand that.

    August 23, 2012 at 9:25 pm #696715
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    Alan Tullett

    Gkam84 wrote:I don’t think

    Gkam84 wrote:
    I don’t think any changes are needed. The only a breakaway guy can outscore the stage winner is if there 3 cat 1 mountain climbs and some sprint points.

    Other wise it is only if the break away stays away and wins. Thats the only reason that ONE rider this season has scored double what any other rider has scored on a stage ;)

    Who was that? I can’t think of any rider that’s done that and I’ve had quite a lot of the big breakaway guys, including Voeckler.

    I LOVE breakaway guys, they’ve saved me from disaster on many occasions. It’s the sprint stages I’m not so good at.

    I have to admit there have been times when I’ve felt the same as thefatcyclist especially after a bad day. But when you get 1, 2, 3, and 5 like today you feel quite good even if it’s silly.

    There have been times when I’ve thought I won’t bother next year but winning a prize helps especially if it’s useful (I hope the Bryton will enhance my training) and it’s definitely enhanced my understanding of cycling, which wouldn’t have happened if I was only interested in who won GC. Now I understand all the minor triumphs of riders who aren’t great climbers but can still win a stage or have a jersey for a day or two.

    It has its frustrating side though. I took out Danielson before he did his break yesterday, and I find the Premium tours a bit of a distraction during the grand tours.

    I think the lack of action on the forums is due to the Premium payment as now only a few hundred people are going for the bike whereas before there would have been loads more and some of those would have joined in some banter.

    I haven’t had much time to watch stages live and so can’t comment on the action. I just watch highlights which is never the same even if you don’t know the result.

    If you give up something you’re not enjoying any more that’s sensible – hope you have more time to enjoy your real cycling as that is what is really important. This game should just enhance your enjoyment of that by giving you more insight into what pros can achieve.

    August 23, 2012 at 7:43 pm #696713
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    Gkam84

    I don’t think any changes are
    I don’t think any changes are needed. The only a breakaway guy can outscore the stage winner is if there 3 cat 1 mountain climbs and some sprint points.

    Other wise it is only if the break away stays away and wins. Thats the only reason that ONE rider this season has scored double what any other rider has scored on a stage 😉

    August 23, 2012 at 6:10 pm #696711
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    giff77

    Oh FC. Please don’t!!!
    Oh FC. Please don’t!!! You’ll be missed 🙁 says he who rarely appears in the fantasy forum mainly due to work more than anything else and the threads have exhausted themselves when I get to look at them! Though you do seem to have thought it out but hopefully you won’t be too much of a stranger….

    August 23, 2012 at 10:27 am #696709
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    drheaton

    I felt the same just after
    I felt the same just after the Giro, the Criterium and Tour de Suisse just felt like pointless races that just weren’t fun so I made stupid transfers, took loads of penalty points and ended up winning a stage through pure luck. For me, the only fun is in the three week grand tours, the rest don’t interest me as much which is why I only put in purist teams for most of the premium races. Nothing is as fun for me as the Giro, TdF or Vuelta.

    You’ll be missed and I agree, some of the fun has gone out of it (and the forum does seem to be less fun with more people complaining) but if that’s the case, take a break and see how you feel next year.

    I don’t know what’s lined up for next year but the game is always changing and progressing so don’t give up on it entirely.

    August 23, 2012 at 9:48 am #696707
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    TERatcliffe26

    Will be sad to see you leave,
    Will be sad to see you leave, but dont make a drastic decision, but ultimately you do leave, you have your reasons, and hope to see you on here every now and again

    August 23, 2012 at 8:03 am #696705
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    Raleigh

    Go for a long bike ride and
    Go for a long bike ride and mull it over.

    August 23, 2012 at 1:44 am #696703
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    TheBigMong

    Couldn’t you at least make up
    Couldn’t you at least make up some story about how you broke both your collarbones trying to log onto the website, or ate some contaminated steak while mulling over your next set of transfers?

    Go purist. It’s the only honorable thing to do.

    August 23, 2012 at 12:32 am #696701
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    Gkam84

    Oh but fatty……You cant
    Oh but fatty……You cant just leave the game…. :”(

    I understand some of the points though. At the start of the TdF I felt a bit the same, I didn’t have time nor connection because of a job I was doing. So just put in a purist team and did not to bad. But saw my season total drop like a stone.

    I still think picking the winner of a stage is the way to go, but in some cases, the breakaway stays away and I lose a shed load of points, twice i’ve seen it happen this season. With Voeckler in the TdF and today with Danielson in the USA.

    It has gotten a little serious on the forum’s, but it also doesn’t seem to be attracting anyone new posting. Last season there were a few of us involved in banter like my “tip of the day” 😉 but lately its the same few guys day in day out :/

    Can you not just play purist races till the end of the season and forget about being on the first page?? :B

    I think if you do that and see what next season has in store, you might just keep yourself slightly interested. I understand that there will be some changes a foot for next season :B

    If not, then all the best and see you around the forum from time to time. >:D<

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