Tour de France : Questions/Answers

And what about the bonification seconds? Is that integrated in the game? Because they are in the tdf of this year

Good point. From Wikipedia:

"Time bonuses make a comeback for the 2015 edition of the race. In the first part of the Tour, stages from second to eighth, the three first finishers of stages will earn bonuses of 10, 6 and 4 seconds respectively. Bonuses are not awarded for time trial stages. Sprint competition points system will also change. A stage win will be worth 50 points instead of 45, second place awards 30 instead of 35 and third 20 instead of 30. The sprint points rule change is aimed to make a stage win more valuable"

Game is already finished so hopefully this is correct

Wikipedia is wrong I think. Unless ASO changed its mind and did not warned us, time bonuses are awarded for all stages (except time trials). What is written on Wikipedia is the first version ASO presented the day they unveilled the stages of TDF15 but a few months later, they extended the bonuses to all stages.

Exactly, it's as you say, all stages in the Tour 2015 line will have bonus, confirms this article by French daily L'Equipe published on its website last week.

http://www.lequipe.fr/Cyclisme-sur-route/Actualites/Les-bonifs-temps-de-retour/541079

This bonuses wakes me new doubts about the functioning of the Pro Team:

- There will all seasons bonuses at all stages in line of the Tour ?, or only in the first season (2015)?

- There will also be bonuses Criterium du Dauphine and Criterium International ?, I guess not, but for confirmation.

Whereas last year the wind was always the same all along the stage, this year, it is more dynamic. The stage can start with a moderate wind that will change to a strong or light wind. On the contrary, an other stage will start with a ligth wind that will evolve to a moderate wind.

Resistance is the speed at which yellow energy decreases. Endurance allows to change this speed depending on the length of the race.

Could you please elaborate a bit longer on the meaning of resistance/endurance? Not sure I fully understand yet...

About the wind, I understand it is dynamic for a given stage, but, does it vary for different runs of the same stage or is always following the same pattern? I mean, every time we play a stage, will the wind vary the same way?

Finally, now that you are clarifying the meaning of some stats... I got confused by TdF2014 behaviour of energy recovery... after the first stage (and after the first one after a rest day), every rider showed a full bar, no matter what they did. Was it a representation problem or was it intended? If the latter, could you explain (briefly) how recovery works?

Thanks!

and what about bradley wiggins, is he still in team sky or in team wiggins?

and as you posted the stats of contador, would you mind to post the stats of nibali, froome and quintana as well so i could compare them to each other?

In any case, from what i read on the forums, i think you guys did a great job this year with all these improvements!

Wiggins is in an other team. I let you guess which one

"plain""mountain""hill""downhilling""cobble""timetrial""prologue""sprint""acceleration""endurance""resistance""recuperation"
"N.Quintana" "67" "82" "77" "75" "59" "73" "69" "64" "75" "72" "78" "81"
"A.Contador" "71" "82" "79" "75" "60" "77" "75" "58" "75" "73" "79" "83"
"C.Froome" "70" "82" "78" "71" "57" "80" "77" "62" "77" "74" "80" "82"
"V.Nibali" "73" "81" "79" "83" "70" "75" "75" "61" "72" "75" "78" "80"

I do not understand, then be Bradley Wiggins in the TDF 15 ?, formed part of the game this year ?. Does the Team Wiggins appears in TDF 15 ?, or on the contrary, will be as a legend ?. In one way or another it would be a great news to have the English star in the game .

Could you post a gameplayvideo on youtube?

[Patatrasse]

and my guess about wiggins is he will be among the legends

Right

[Patatrasse]

This bonuses wakes me new doubts about the functioning of the Pro Team:

- There will all seasons bonuses at all stages in line of the Tour ?, or only in the first season (2015)?

- There will also be bonuses Criterium du Dauphine and Criterium International ?, I guess not, but for confirmation.

Bonuses are on all races, not matter the season. We don't want the players to know every specific rules of each races. Consequently (with the permission of ASO), the rules are the same on Criterium, Dauphiné and TDF

[Patatrasse]

Could you please elaborate a bit longer on the meaning of resistance/endurance? Not sure I fully understand yet...

Resistance carac :
A 60 RES rider will loose more yellow energy than a 80 RES rider for the same effort.

Endurance carac between two 80 RES carac riders :
A 60 END carac will loose more energy than a 80 END carac for the same effort on the 200th kilometers but they will loose quite the same amount of energy if they do the same effort on the 50th kilometers. Note that figures are only for example. I don't have precise figures.

About the wind, I understand it is dynamic for a given stage, but, does it vary for different runs of the same stage or is always following the same pattern? I mean, every time we play a stage, will the wind vary the same way?

You won't have the same wind. Direction is completely random whereas wind force is "semi" random. Force is set for each stage but then increases or decreases randomly.

Finally, now that you are clarifying the meaning of some stats... I got confused by TdF2014 behaviour of energy recovery... after the first stage (and after the first one after a rest day), every rider showed a full bar, no matter what they did. Was it a representation problem or was it intended? If the latter, could you explain (briefly) how recovery works?

Thanks!

Recovery has been redone from scratch this year. I will post on the devblog about that during this week.

[Patatrasse]

Could you post a gameplayvideo on youtube?

No, I won't post any video. The only one available is the one made by Focus

Are you guys thinking about an online mode for tdf 2016?


And also, when you pick a team, there is a score for mountains, time trial and sprinting. Is this score for the whole selection of the team or only the 9 riders that are set by default to enter the tour de france?

Then I have another question about the menu to give teammates orders. I heard in your video that we won't be able to summon that menu anymore when we are in a turn (or if the perfect line is red). But what about when you are in the menu and a turn in full descent comes up? Does the menu close, does it stay there and if it does, are you able to close it?

This bonuses wakes me new doubts about the functioning of the Pro Team:

- There will all seasons bonuses at all stages in line of the Tour ?, or only in the first season (2015)?

- There will also be bonuses Criterium du Dauphine and Criterium International ?, I guess not, but for confirmation.

Bonuses are on all races, not matter the season. We don't want the players to know every specific rules of each races. Consequently (with the permission of ASO), the rules are the same on Criterium, Dauphiné and TDF

Go, leave me a little cold with that answer. I think a mistake to transfer the credits to 3 races, when in reality the operation is different, the Criterium and Dauphine no bonuses.

So that users are not confused with the different systems of every race, I think it would have sufficed with a short explanation in the game manual.

I do not see well, which are conditioned every race/seasons only work well because this year's Tour 2015, and possibly next year and not adopted the bonus system in Tour 2016.

It would have been better to introduce bonuses Tour season (2015) and in subsequent seasons a random system to determine whether or not to include them in each Tour. While on the other side in the other two races, Criterium and Dauphine would never have bonuses.

Anyway, once again I am extremely grateful to him for his availability, and exhaust their time to clarify our barrage of questions about TDF 15 thank you very much and greetings.