You don’t. All rides count toward the seed/floor value, and if you push floor high enough you could end up with a higher score. Having floor below seed is of course a problem since you’d have to raise floor by quite a lot to move up.
Here it is:
I know you want it with real scenery, but when real climbs are proposed people often just say make it a portal climb.
Sounds good, coincidently after a decent week of training for 5 days straight I appear to have jumped to C Pacer Group.
Will we have the option to opt out of Goals entirely?
Also will be able to opt out of Personalized Recommendations?
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As a Brooklynite, I am probably one of the few looking forward to this expansion going to Prospect Park. From Zwift insider’s description it sounds like we’ll be taking the subway routes there, which is odd because well, we’re on bikes and NYC has a number of lovely bridges with bike lanes. But I’ll withhold judgement until I see it.
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This would be good, I am not interested in goals or the recommendations - I would prefer to disable or hide them. I do whatever rides I am interested in on the day.
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This indeed. Do give an option to turn it off.
If there is going to be AI recommended workouts and various things, is anyone addressing the elephant in the room around Fitness tracker not being ‘fit’ for purpose and missing half of some users data?
There is no point recommending a IF0.9 workout (or something similar) when the user has done a hard or long run the night before but zwifts AI platform has no idea this happened? Seems a recipe to injure or burn out subscribers?
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Is it possible Zwift staff actually does read the forums?
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There is a difference between ‘w/kg’ and ‘w’.
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the climb portal is so dull to ride though. If they could use some AI generated scenery it would be a huge improvement.
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I know, I agree, but that’s what we’ve got.
I could have suggested maybe overlaying a real video somehow (of the real climb), but that would need the road elevation to be absolutely spot on to the real thing.
AI generated scenery for portals could be a thing if we had portals for new flat routes as well, because then all the people using them would want AI auto-gen scenery, so the climb portals would get it too.
I’d like to see the video shot to match the profile.
For Norton Summit they’d be jumping over barrier and going down the side of the hill then climbing back up to the road
Please no real videos! I switched from Rouvy to Zwift because I much prefer the obviously fake cartoony animated look of Zwift over the static video images from Rouvy
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It doesn’t even have to be “AI”
AI this AI that…
People forget that geological data has been around before computers lol; scatter placement of things like trees etc. has been a possibility to place into game engines world models since the 90s.
Everyone forgets games like the Microsoft Flight Simulators of the late 1980s were placing polylines of where water, forest, and city areas were… in the 1980s! Soon to be textured versions including mountains and farmlands in 5.0 in '93!
The data exists, it was never difficult to use.
It’s either a choice, or lack of interest.
Would be careful with expectations on accurate elevation; even today that is still very difficult without actually going on location and GPS tracking elevation.
Radar lidar has improved, and satellite photogrammetry is going a long way… but the way Zwift had to do elevation back when it began means it was using traditional elevation maps, which even today… are not that accurate.
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Really I don’t even need an accurate representation of anything, I just want to cycle in a fun and engaging world, where eg dinos and phantasy creatures roam. It would also be fun if we could blast or ride each other of the road (like Mario kart)
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If there is a stunning real life scenery, then I much prefer that than cartoon style.
Perhaps I’m strange in being the only one who enjoys real life beautiful mountain scenery however. When I’m riding IRL in those locations, that’s half of the enjoyment.
I think most of us prefer riding in the mountains but riding indoors trying to fool myself be in the mountains just doesn’t work for me. So if I cannot ride in the mountains give me an experience the mountains cannot give me, a game or a phantasy world….
depends how it’s delivered I’m probably the opposite for a game. having some irl video being played in front of me i don’t really find engaging. at least with the cartnoonish scenery if feels like the rider and scenery belong together.
irl of course is very different
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I actually started out on Rouvy. I looked with disdain at the cartoony and gamified aspect of Zwift but I found Rouvy’s world empty, boring and it just looked off. People either move painfully slow or comically fast because the videos are obviously shot from a motor vehicle going a constant speed and due to lense distortion nothing ever comes into view. There’s nothing to look at on the side of the road, unlike in Zwift. And I don’t really race but I like the idea of power ups and using them strategically, as well as finding a perfect setup
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