National Championships

[Alkworld]

I checked now how to implement the NCs again, and it's actually quite simple in the code. However, some questions arise:
- How were the profiles generated? Roby maybe knows? I also asked Buhmann, maybe he remembers
- With the small number of teams, should we go with the normal NCs or add some restrictions? E.g. minimum number of teams or riders in the race? Maybe combine some countries into one race?
- When should we have the next NCs? Real ones in June? Three times per year like before? Or a little less like two NCs and two WCs per year?

[Schnuggeritos]

As I'm too new to talk about past NCs, I can only give my two cents on the last point.

I'd prefer multiple NCs per year as the rider age to every month and some rider will never get a chance to ride a second NC. I'm a friend of a two / two split you suggested but I also like the idea of three NCs per year. First race in the first quarter, second one between Giro and Tour or right after Tour and the third one between Vuelta and Andes, maybe right after Andes.

[bergwerk cycling]

oh ... thats nice to read .-)

if its not too complicated: i think a minimum of 10-15 riders per state and all others perhaps together in 4 continent-champion-cups (Africa, America, Asia+Ozeanien, Europa)

don't know the rules of the profiles and the starting times.

three times would be nice --- for example Febr / June / Oct

[Quick]

Very cool! NCs and WCs were always fun. Personally would keep 3 times and no restrictions. Every nation deserves a champion and even if it's only one rider starting, that still makes him the best of his nation.

[Alkworld]

As it's easiest to implement, I'll just start with the NCs like in the past. The masters of the calendar will just need to reserve a timeslot in February and I'll prepare everything.

[bergwerk cycling]

Thanks

[Hansa]

My only suggestion for this is.

Only let riders with points start here.

No need to fill the NCs with a bunch of 0 point riders from farmer teams.

[Alkworld]

My only suggestion for this is.

Only let riders with points start here.

No need to fill the NCs with a bunch of 0 point riders from farmer teams.

That's old code doing it exactly that way

[Robyklebt]

The Donkey too late, but like it was works too.

My proposal would have been that we need at least 10 active riders (however you count that (current points/in a team that is active/races ridden in the last 2 months) from 4 different teams to have a NC start. But for the moment like it was works too.

[Gipfelstuermer]

My favorite solution as I like a 'realistic' calendar:

Real ones in June

with 'realistic' races:

My proposal would have been that we need at least 10 active riders (however you count that (current points/in a team that is active/races ridden in the last 2 months) from 4 different teams to have a NC start. But for the moment like it was works too.

But of course also OK if it happens more often and under other rules.

[Hansa]

My only suggestion for this is.

Only let riders with points start here.

No need to fill the NCs with a bunch of 0 point riders from farmer teams.

That's old code doing it exactly that way

the last NCS before we switched away from Flash had a bunch of 0 Point riders. but if thats how it should be its fine

[Robyklebt]

For the next ones the ability to open more than one tab would be nice. As it used to be pre-flash. Then you could open as many tabs ingame as you wanted, since flash only one, or open the game in different tabs. For normal usage no problem as it is right now, but for NCs.... easiest would be if when you click on show, it simply opens the race in another tab.

[bergwerk cycling]

i say Thanks to all the busy guys who worked yesterday so hard that it runs ...

I had much fun, the races are sometimes very exciting and something completely different to the other dayraces.


Next time + ad online and it will be perfect!

i look forward for the next NC and WC .-)

[flockmastoR]

i say Thanks to all the busy guys who worked yesterday so hard that it runs ...

I had much fun, the races are sometimes very exciting and something completely different to the other dayraces.


Next time + ad online and it will be perfect!

i look forward for the next NC and WC .-)

Some suggestions from my side, in order of priority:

1) Group riders based on team membership instead of total points. The current arrangement becomes confusing during big group NCs. Sorting by points can be done manually but it will be lost upon page reload.

2) Eliminate riders with either 0 points or no races in the last 2 months. It was okay to start this way, but now there are many inactive riders who receive the jerseys and stage wins in palmares. If only one rider remains with points, they should automatically receive the award, or the race should start when there are at least 5 riders present. Nations without active riders should not receive a jersey or win.

3) (High priority but may not be worth the effort) Display online teams
As far as I got it -> Everybody is shown offline at the NCs and there is some kind of hack that the riders don't jump out of tempo (which was the reason for the first stop at 10:05)/quit the race. I still don't get what's the problem of showing who is on? Yeah there are several NCs in parallel and you don't know if the manager really is online in THAT race, but still the information if the manager is active at the current time helps you a lot. Currently the NC races are riden like that
-> Silence in chat, nobody says "hi", because than it is clear he is on
-> Check an early attack to see if you can grab the title without a hard fight
--> if all hanging: still not sure if they are online and hanging or if they put in following in the morning and never show up
--> if noone hanging: chance you get it for free or some silent Comrade starts to chase, all other silent Comrade can profit because as long they don't move or chat they can profit.
Probably some in between solution would help with "activity traffic light" on the team page. Click on the team popup and show a green/yellow/red dot for "online"/"recently online"/"offline"

[Chemnitz Pro Cycling Team]

i say Thanks to all the busy guys who worked yesterday so hard that it runs ...

I had much fun, the races are sometimes very exciting and something completely different to the other dayraces.


Next time + ad online and it will be perfect!

i look forward for the next NC and WC .-)

Yes! I want to add my Thanks as well! It was a lot of fun.

[Alkworld]

For the next ones the ability to open more than one tab would be nice. As it used to be pre-flash. Then you could open as many tabs ingame as you wanted, since flash only one, or open the game in different tabs. For normal usage no problem as it is right now, but for NCs.... easiest would be if when you click on show, it simply opens the race in another tab.

I tried that, but didn't manage to implement it with little effort. The workaround is to login multiple times in different tabs, then you can have multiple open races.

[Alkworld]

1) Group riders based on team membership instead of total points. The current arrangement becomes confusing during big group NCs. Sorting by points can be done manually but it will be lost upon page reload.

Easy, will do it for June

2) Eliminate riders with either 0 points or no races in the last 2 months. It was okay to start this way, but now there are many inactive riders who receive the jerseys and stage wins in palmares. If only one rider remains with points, they should automatically receive the award, or the race should start when there are at least 5 riders present. Nations without active riders should not receive a jersey or win.

Checking the 0 points is way easier than checking for races, so I'd go the simple way here.

3) (High priority but may not be worth the effort) Display online teams
As far as I got it -> Everybody is shown offline at the NCs and there is some kind of hack that the riders don't jump out of tempo (which was the reason for the first stop at 10:05)/quit the race. I still don't get what's the problem of showing who is on? Yeah there are several NCs in parallel and you don't know if the manager really is online in THAT race, but still the information if the manager is active at the current time helps you a lot. Currently the NC races are riden like that
-> Silence in chat, nobody says "hi", because than it is clear he is on
-> Check an early attack to see if you can grab the title without a hard fight
--> if all hanging: still not sure if they are online and hanging or if they put in following in the morning and never show up
--> if noone hanging: chance you get it for free or some silent Comrade starts to chase, all other silent Comrade can profit because as long they don't move or chat they can profit.
Probably some in between solution would help with "activity traffic light" on the team page. Click on the team popup and show a green/yellow/red dot for "online"/"recently online"/"offline"

Getting the regular online status shouldn't be the problem, it was only too much on a busy day like yesterday. The old solution was to have one online status per user, so you can see who's online in general, but not, if he refreshed exactly the race you're looking at.

[cataracs]

I think 2 WC's / 2 NC's would be cool.

But the NC's have always been a "mess" like this. I think reducing the number of riders and having a limited number of riders per team(3-4) would make it a better competition.

[Gipfelstuermer]

Question to the community:

In case a rider has more than one jersey, e.g. National Champion and Yellow Jersey in a race, what would you like to see?

We changed it to show only the Yellow Jersey in the Race Screen and the Sprint window then, but somebody was confused as to why his NC Jersey was suddenly gone. If we show both, others might be confused to see two jerseys (or even more) next to one name as normally you can only wear one jersey in reality.

Which illustration would you prefer?

[cataracs]

Yellow, Green/ whatever tour jersey should come first!

[lennylenny]

how does it work in real cycling? would prefer whichever way it is there

[claw]

Yellow, Green/ whatever tour jersey should come first!

As in real.. !

[Alkworld]

During the NCs, there were some discussions about them. As the chat is already forgotten, feel free to discuss these topics here. The bugs we had this time, I should have fixed by now.

[flockmastoR]

Old but gold topic: Sorting of the riders (start number)

now: sorted by points
wanted: sorting by teamname (or id)

[bergwerk cycling]

jepp ... sorting by teamnames would be important.

And i think a small incentive with points and money are nice for the first 1-3 riders
different of the category or the opponents

I know not everyone is fan from the NC ... i think its a
nice and sometimes very exciting change to the normal races (if there are enough manager in the race)
an the jerseys are really nice to have