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[mjd1988]

I wouldn't worry about the team score as others have said, some groups, abr, dirt, rwb have 3 or 4 teams per category so they have a much deeper well than us

 

[Peter Salt]

I wouldn't worry about the team score as others have said, some groups, abr, dirt, rwb have 3 or 4 teams per category so they have a much deeper well than us

Exactly. That said, we are doing really well IMHO. Just 3 points behind the likes of DIRT that have 20+ riders and 9 points behind WTRL that have 50

 

[alex_cycles]

Exactly. That said, we are doing really well IMHO. Just 3 points behind the likes of DIRT that have 20+ riders and 9 points behind WTRL that have 50

Yeah I'm taking it as a very big positive too. Peter are you still intending to do them all? Those bonus points are starting to really kick in now

 

[BurningLegs]

Are you all taking a day completely off the bike today??

For those who are interested in badge hunting there are badges available for consecutive days of activity. I think maybe 7 days in a row or something?

 

[Peter Salt]

Yeah I'm taking it as a very big positive too. Peter are you still intending to do them all? Those bonus points are starting to really kick in now

Yup. Already signed up for 6pm tomorrow and then 7:30pm Sat+Sun.

Looks like tomorrow will be another fast and furious day, and then the lovely Alpes

 

[Peter Salt]

Are you all taking a day completely off the bike today??

For those who are interested in badge hunting there are badges available for consecutive days of activity. I think maybe 7 days in a row or something?

Yeah, there's one for 7 days in a row and another for 14. Got them both

Recently also ticked off all the route badges. I think I'm just missing the one for going up the Alpe 25 times, Everesting, and 1100 & 1200 watt peak power.

 

[alex_cycles]

Are you all taking a day completely off the bike today??

Yep. Raced two short ones on Monday and two FRR stages Tue and Wed. All metrics are good (HRV, RHR, body battery etc), but the legs want a break. I went from "gold to old" in three days

For those who are interested in badge hunting there are badges available for consecutive days of activity. I think maybe 7 days in a row or something?

Got all the easy ones
Just the really long routes and nasty challenges (e.g. Alpe x5 & x25) to go

 

[Peter Salt]

The new addition to the roads in Makuri Islands will almost certainly be coming out in the next few weeks. There's a Tour of Makuri starting on the 3rd November and while the first four stages are on existing routes/roads, stage 5 (beginning 18th Nov) and stage 6 (21st Nov) are both on new routes - Makuri 40, Turf & Surf, Country to Coastal and Island Hopper.

The low detail maps that have been released so far (see https://www.zwift.com/uk/ridemakuri-stage5 and https://www.zwift.com/uk/ridemakuri-stage6) makes it looks like there's two ways to get to the new roads - either a junction in the tunnel between the original map and Neokyo, or across the bridge in the harbour area of Neokyo that was previously inaccessible.

Will there be additional XP? If not then probably not. All the new stuff is dirt, right? Meh.

 

[alex_cycles]

Will there be additional XP? If not then probably not. All the new stuff is dirt, right? Meh.

"When the routes are available" seems to imply that there will be a new route and therefore a route badge, which would mean XP.
(If they do things the way they normally seem to.)

 

[Peter Salt]

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"When the routes are available" seems to imply that there will be a new route and therefore a route badge, which would mean XP.
(If they do things the way they normally seem to.)

Got that, I meant additional additional XP. I believe that's what they did last time around, when they made some rebel routes 'official' - if you did them in an event you were getting triple or quadruple XP - not just double.

 

[steverob]

"When the routes are available" seems to imply that there will be a new route and therefore a route badge, which would mean XP.

Ah, it looks like they've hidden the details on the Stage 5 & 6 pages now - the new routes were visible when I was on that page earlier today.

The Stage 5 Longer Route is "Makuri 40", the Shorter Route is "Turf & Surf".
Stage 6 Longer Route is "Country to Coastal" and Shorter Route is "Island Hopper".

I think about half the new roads are dirt, but the rest is tarmac.

 

[alex_cycles]

Got that, I meant additional additional XP. I believe that's what they did last time around, when they made some rebel routes 'official' - if you did them in an event you were getting triple or quadruple XP - not just double.

Yeah it was triple. Remember that now. Got ya. You'll be asking for double-draft as well next

 

[Peter Salt]

Yeah it was triple. Remember that now. Got ya. You'll be asking for double-draft as well next

Really want those lvl42 discs for my sprint/rolling stages so every XP matters. Marginal gains!

 

[alex_cycles]

Really want those lvl42 discs for my sprint/rolling stages so every XP matters. Marginal gains!

Totally get you. I'm about 300km from getting the Roval Alpinists at level 32. (Could be less if I could be arsed to ride one of the long routes and get double XP too many racing temptations though. wranking points)
Since very early on I've tried to reach the higher levels as quickly/efficiently as possible. The main hindrance is I still like riding outside

Latest news though is my wife's just got a new phone so her old one is now my second Zwift Companion controller for the "rearview mirror" tablet. Will be trying it out in tomorrow's race to see if it's any use or just plain silly (could go either way, that one ). Think it might be helpful when sprinting for the line to see what's happening behind. Watching the time gap in seconds isn't very satisfactory unless the gaps are large.

 

[Peter Salt]

Totally get you. I'm about 300km from getting the Roval Alpinists at level 32. (Could be less if I could be arsed to ride one of the long routes and get double XP too many racing temptations though. wranking points)
Since very early on I've tried to reach the higher levels as quickly/efficiently as possible. The main hindrance is I still like riding outside

Latest news though is my wife's just got a new phone so her old one is now my second Zwift Companion controller for the "rearview mirror" tablet. Will be trying it out in tomorrow's race to see if it's any use or just plain silly (could go either way, that one ). Think it might be helpful when sprinting for the line to see what's happening behind. Watching the time gap in seconds isn't very satisfactory unless the gaps are large.