Rejoice! We still have a full(ish) real calendar! And we will in July too! But as announced in another thread, as things stand, we won't have in August. It's strange, everybody seems outraged at Luques absence, everybody relieved that Alk and Gipfel now are working on it and making big progress. But everybody running away fast when it's about the absence of designers. Yes, as Gipfel noted, if we had 5 designers with 100 active managers, now with 40 only 2 is logic. True. But then we have to accept a smaller real calendar too at some point.
We have 2 guys who have designed real races this year. One of the 2 really shouldn't be designing unless it helps him relaxing or something from his other voluntary job. The other one is notoriously ill-mannered. And has designed 95%+ of all one day races in the last 4? years or so. (I can already see it coming, some idiot will now research that number instead of doing something more useful)
And we have 3 guys who have designed fantasy races, one of them is one of the guys who designs real races too.
Possibly I missed somebody.
So one of these 4 designers has decided that he will limit his designing from August on to 10 stages a month. Plus if nobody else designs it, parts of the Vuelta or the whole one if necessary. So that makes 21+10 stages max, 31. Vuelta or no Vuelta won't change the number 10 at all though. If somebody else does it, that lazy designer will still only design 10 stages.
And since that designer is also the calendar assistant and responsible for:
a) proposing a calender
b) putting races online
c) making sure all the races in the finalized forum preview are designed or checked, so he can put them online.
the proposed calendar for August will be very limited. Vuelta and 10 races. After all if a full calendar is proposed, nobody designs anything except that guy, he will be forced to design everything due to c) above. With 7 one day races (first fast count) Burgos-Ain or Arctic-Benelux we come close to 20... half of them sadly won't be proposed and the way it looks for the moment not raced either.
What can change that very flexible (in both directions) number?
The following things will increase that number:
a) People designing real races. Yes, many have no experience, those who have, no time or no motivation maybe, all of which is ok. And some who might be motivated to try, don't have access to the editor due to a password bug. There's other ways to help:
b) CHECK races. See if the routes changed. Which is very easy, very fast (unless you have to do it for every single race, which possibly you then still have to design, then it adds up) Easy: Go to
https://www.la-flamme-rouge.eu/maps/rac ... a9dbd1fbf9
Change the month if necessary.
Click on the race you want to check.
Open the flash version of c4f
Open the calendar from last year.
Look for the same race
compare.
See length, hills, then names of towns or hills written in our profile etc etc. Sometimes it takes 5" to see it's different, sometimes you might need a few minutes...
Post your findings here. "Completely different!" Same!" Or "seems the same but different intermediate sprints" "Same circuit, but fewer/more". Whatever fits
If you can't access flash anymore, more difficult, but using this you still are able to do a slightly less precise check:
http://www.radsportfreaks.de/radsport/show_races.php
Input the name of the race the race, click all races (otherwise it only shows the ones that were never in the calendar) search, click the most recent one, the popup opens.
If you then claim "same parcours" but it finally turns out it wasn't, but hard to see with only the popup, no problem (if it looked like the same there, if it looked completely different, that's another story)
c) design fantasy races, with clear focus on sprint races. But others are welcome too.
All these 3 things will increase the minimum pensum the designer threatening a strike (not more than 31 stages designed in August, great strike..) is willing to do. And how many races will appear in the first August preview. And no, don't wait till August with that work, by then the minimum number might have dropped...
What could cause the number to drop further?
a) Silence in this thread regarding this topic. Let's not react, then he might change his mind won't work, on the contrary.
b) Comments that this strike-threatener deems idiotic. Try to use common sense, "it's your job" is a sure decrease. Since it simply
isn't the calendar assistants job (or anybody else's) to design basically the whole 1 day race calendar on his own.
c) Posting stuff only in the ingame chat. Post it here. I'm not interested in a general chat discussion. So it doesn't help the game if for some reason you deem it beneath you to post your arguments/criticisms/help in the ingame chat. And in the end it's for the game.
So, time to step up. Not only June, but being untypically nice in this period, the usually ill-mannered designers who threatens a strike has left a few races open in May, hurry up to be the first to show how useful you can be and check (+design?) one of them. First post of the May calendar...