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Dear community,

I try my best for this game every day, and I came to the conclusion, that right now the best is to ask you for help.

In the last three years, I have volunteered for many roles here, especially being one of three admins, but also some more roles in addition. There were ups and downs, but overall I am very happy with the progress we made together. The number of players have increased significantly and hopefully can increase further.

Now, I am searching for volunteers in this game. I realized that I do not spend enough time in my admin-role (development & bugfixing), mostly because of a currently too busy private life, but also a little bit because I have these additional roles in the game:

A) Calendar Manager
B) One Day Race Designer
C) FPC Member
D) Marketing Manager
(detailed descriptions below)

I considered dissolving the Gipfelstuermer team to have more time for development, but this seems very risky to me. If I lose the interest in the game, I might lose interest in the admin-role, too... So my preferred solution would be to get some help for these additional roles. That would free up some of my time and help me focus more on development & bugfixing.

Below is a more detailed description for each of the four roles (skills & qualifications not to be taken too seriously).

If you are interested to volunteer for one of them, please write here or via PM

Gip


A) Calendar Manager

The Role
- Create & publish the Preview & Final Calendar for the 15th/25th of each month
- Discuss races, editions and times with users and find solutions together
- Organize the profiles & races in the in-game editor
- Communicate with race designers in the public forum, via PM and via in-game chat
- Back-up for last minute race designs (or last minute calendar changes)

Skills & Qualifications
- Know the UCI calendar by heart
- Diplomatic communication with users
- Clear and timely decision-making, with or without compromises

Reward
- A fantastic race calendar each month (thanks to you)
- Better in-game race editor (thanks to me having more time for admin-work)

Start Date: Whenever you want. You can select the month you like to start with (earliest August because July is already ongoing).


B) One Day Race Designer

The Role
- Design at least 3 one day races per month
- Keep up and improve the high C4F Standard for race design
- Emergency / last minute action to complete the calendar each month

Skills & Qualifications
- Know every cobblestone, hill and Grashalm in the whole of Europe by first and last name
- Master of ridewithgps and Google Street View (can be learned)
- Have a PhD in mathematics (e.g. to calculate elevation gain in a reverse circuit)
- High frustration tolerance when using the in-game profile editor

Reward
- Exciting, realistic one day races (thanks to you)
- Better in-game profile editor (thanks to me having more time for admin-work)

Start Date: Whenever you want. You can start any time now with the races scheduled for July.


C) FPC Member

The Role
- Open, discuss, vote and execute Fairplay Cases
- Discover fairplay breaches and investigate suspicious users
- Conduct fairplay hearings with accused players

Skills & Qualifications
- Photographic memory of each race km, the race chat and the race log
- Always keep calm and stay fair (even when insulted repeatedly)
- A degree in law and cybersecurity

Reward
- Fair and friendly community (thanks to you)
- Better in-game FPC tools (thanks to me having more time for admin-work)

Start Date: Whenever you want. No urgent FPC cases ongoing right now.


D) Marketing Manager

The Role
- Be an advocate for new players
- Create and distribute marketing e-mails
- Develop new, fresh ideas for marketing campaigns
- Collaborate with the admins for clever timing of marketing content

Skills & Qualifications
- Ability to think like a Newbie
- Be diligent for the 'boring' marketing (e.g. Manual, Forum Q&A, Mentoring, E-Mails)
- Be creative for the 'exciting' marketing (e.g. Social Media, SEO, Guerilla Marketing)

Reward
- Larger community with more new players and more interesting races (thanks to you)
- Better tools for newbies, like tutorials etc. (thanks to me having more time for admin-work)

Start Date: You can still participate in the Tour de France campaign or start afterwards.

First of all, great to see the ongoing developments in this Game. Thank YOU for this.


I hope you (all of you) will get some help. I am unfortunately a DAU (dümmster anzunehmender Nutzer) and i dont have good plans for IT and things about this. So the only think i really can to is to design some Races. Ridewithgps is a site i can use. More ist not possible. Sorry.


But i have interestes in the social media department. The game have something like this? Never saw this game there.

Hi,

Can't the calendar be managed by 3 or 4 guys? It allows discussion and back up in case of non availability

Here is a little update following this Call for Volunteers. We now have new volunteers:

FPC
CircleCycle

NC
RC Hachen
ATB - Racing

Marketing
schappy

You can also see all official roles under Manual > Administration.

Thank You to everyone who volunteers for the game. We can only keep it alive (and grow) thanks to you.

PS: We will have one more position available in the FPC in the future and if somebody wants to take those calendar tasks from me, we can also talk But for the moment, I'm happy I have at least one task less, so a little more time to focus on development.

Call for Volunteers

Gipfelstuermer wrote: ↑

Fri Jun 21, 2024 1:03 pm

C) FPC Member

The Role
- Open, discuss, vote and execute Fairplay Cases
- Discover fairplay breaches and investigate suspicious users
- Conduct fairplay hearings with accused players

Skills & Qualifications
- Photographic memory of each race km, the race chat and the race log
- Always keep calm and stay fair (even when insulted repeatedly)
- A degree in law and cybersecurity

Reward
- Fair and friendly community (thanks to you)
- Better in-game FPC tools (thanks to me having more time for admin-work)

Start Date: Whenever you want. No urgent FPC cases ongoing right now.

The FPC is looking for another member. The pool of FPC members is to be expanded so that short-term inactivity of individual members does not lead to long decision-making phases. In the long term, it should be a replacement for my spot, as I would also like to dissolve the dual role as admin/FPC member. In any case, I would support the FPC by providing more detailed information if necessary.

Please feel free to contact me via PM if you are interested.

Call for Volunteers

Dear Community,

I guess you all know that this game is run by volunteers sacrificing their free time to keep this game alive.
We are still looking for a new member of the FPC.

Additionally, I will quit the job as adjundant of the calendar manager Gip (Fantasy Calendar). So we need a reliable person for helping Gip with the calendar starting with March. The calendar functionalities are quite easy to use and I can support with the self-made tools for visualization of available races.

Please write in here or contact GIP directly via PM

Dear Community, we are still looking for a Member for the FPC, if anyone has interest in this position answer here or contact one of the Members via PN.

Greetings.

flockmastoR wrote: ↑

Thu Feb 20, 2025 11:10 am

Call for Volunteers

Dear Community,

I guess you all know that this game is run by volunteers sacrificing their free time to keep this game alive.
We are still looking for a new member of the FPC.

I suggest Medical,he's better as FPC instead of NC lol.

Hansa is also very bad for FPC, would be better to switch places with Chemnitz and Schnugg imo.

I would understand if my lack of experience prevents me from being eligible, but if not I would love to be a part of the FPC!

Falcor CC wrote: ↑

Wed Apr 09, 2025 9:11 pm

I would understand if my lack of experience prevents me from being eligible, but if not I would love to be a part of the FPC!

Falcor CC added now as newest member of the FPC.
@Falcor CC: You'll see a new entry "Fairplay" in the "More" menu. There's an internal chat of the FPC members you can use to get in touch with the other members.

Hello,

I would really love helping with the one-day-race-design. Had much fun the last weeks with ridewithgps and the profile editor here, so I know, how to do it and I am having fun, doing it.

TDM_Luxembourg wrote: ↑

Tue May 13, 2025 8:04 am

Hello,

I would really love helping with the one-day-race-design. Had much fun the last weeks with ridewithgps and the profile editor here, so I know, how to do it and I am having fun, doing it.

Cool.

You can check out this thread: June 2025 and/or the In-Game Calendar for June 2025.

For each one day race, you can roughly follow the steps:
1) Check if this year's profile is available already (highest chances to find it on official race website / la-flamme-rouge / Google News).
2) Check if it was ridden in C4F previously
3a) If no, completely new design necessary
3b) If yes, compare previous profile with this year's profile for potential changes
4) Do all the design magic (exact percentages on the climbs, circuits, cobbles, last5km, all the important stuff)
5) Post your result in the monthly thread
6) To get a 1a with a star * from me, add the profile under Editor > Race Editor to the correct race.

I see that it takes quite some time for the FPC-cases to get handled. So I would like to volunteer for the FPC if that would speed some things up? So hereby 'I volunteer as FPC-memmber!'.

NBeullens wrote: ↑

Fri Jul 11, 2025 12:05 pm

I see that it takes quite some time for the FPC-cases to get handled. So I would like to volunteer for the FPC if that would speed some things up? So hereby 'I volunteer as FPC-memmber!'.

Thanks for your initiative.
@FPC members: If you agree, I can add him (needs to be done directly on the database)

More than welcome!

Helllo, dear admins and fpc members

I guess you already got information about a nomination for fpc from me. So, here it is.

As you saw in june, I am a competent designer. (I were in vacation for july designing, it didnt perfectly work on my phone, so that will change again for august.)

And so ill try to be a competent fpc member too and help solving, finding and reviewing problems/cases faster.

Greetings

TDM