2009 Features Requests

[Chris Child]

Wow. You guys really have been busy. I've read through all the lists and posts on this forum and made notes on everything for our design meetings. There are some great suggestions here. It’s excellent to see so many people getting involved.

There's still time to add more. It would probably be impossible to get everything mentioned here in for next year, but with your support we'll be able to keep making this game for many years we'll keep adding as much as we can every version.

Thanks again,
Chris

[acook]

thats good to here. what are the current faviourites to go in the new game?

[Themer]

Thanks for trawling through all these requests it makes us happy to know that we've helped you get ideas for further versions and not been ignored.

[muhammad saad]

thats good to here. what are the current faviourites to go in the new game?

Yeah I would like to know that too plz tell your most important feature/work for 2009 edition

(I personally think it should be U19 teams with U19 world cup plus custom/limited type editor to make new domestic competitions for different unlicensed countries)

[Malcolmp]

I haven't read all the posts so this may have been mentioned already. For me, the ability to play tests between historical sides, or between historical and modern sides would be great fun.

[Myrmecophaga]

Second class counties would be fun to be able to play, if combined with the changing counties idea.

[Manickam]

It would be better if we can create our own players. Maybe create a player with our name.

[Agent47]

Off topic, but to Chris. No one here hates your game because of the little thing here and the other thing thats not present there. We tried to give you feedback on a great game that most of us have been playing everyday atleast for the last 2 years(believe me we have got people playing till the year 2170). Good to see that some of these ideas are going to be implemented and cant wait for the next version. It would be great if someone keeps posting little portions of the features in this forum when the game is being made( When the making starts). Cheers !!!

[Packer Al]

Player Profiles / Coaching Records / Prize Money

Player Records :

Would it be possible to highlight the members of a player's own team members under Players Profiles so that they can be quickly identified by scrolling to see how their domestic/international rankings are progressing

Training Records:

Would it be possible to have coaching modules recorded in a players personal records automatically on allocating sessions - I am trying to record them manually and it is time-consuming and awkward

Prize Money :

I would like to see a financial display of prizemoney to be won by final placings either as a separate screen or maybe included in the competition rules areas to assist in prioritising team selections

Great game though !!!

[chrisyt]

ipl

it would be great if we had the ipl where you could have unlimited overseas players. and big money to use. you could also have a 50 over competition and first class competition for the ipl in a game mode seperate to the carrer mode

[Themer]

I wouldn't like the idea of an IPL theres other areas in the game which need tweaks before something like that should be undertaken. I also don't see how it could be implemented in the game as it is.

[Lennon_Marx]

Must admit I havent played ICC for a few years, but wanting to get back into it. But a few suggestions that I'd like to reiterate/suggest:
- A database editor- I could care less about editing players atrributes and such, though obviously it would make non official adjustments to players that much easier and more worthwhile, but where I really would find a database editor useful is for other parts of the game: editing/adding/removing competitions/teams at various (eg. new teams becoming eliligible to play test matches, new state/county sides; ability to add a new competition if you want) if for no other reason than we all know cricket isnt a static game and competition come and go- having a structure element to the editor would allow those of us who desire to say add the IPL or incontinental cup or the Aus domestic season, or create the long wished tiered test system (just as examples) would be wonderful to have and would get around the pesky issues involving licencing. This would allow for some very interesting long term careers for those who like the idea of cricket evolving through time. This and the following idea are both very successfully implemented in the Out of the park baseball series, and large scale customisation such as this really does make the sky the limit in regards to the types of management game players and the number of them who could conceivably become interested in the game itself

-Perhaps as an offshoot- an evolving national player base (eg West Indian/Zimbabwean/Bangladesh) national teams slowly improving/ diminishing as it would in response to real life factors (eg. winning a world cup, gaining test status, a player with huge success like Murali). Even if this isnt something that finds its way into the game in its retail, to have an option like this in an editor would be a huge boon

-Much wider player/team/competition stat history is an absolute must. In a game like cricket where so much of the interest in the game is in the statistical side, this is an area where you make a much more interesting game with only a very minimal change. Within this you could add yearly awards (wisden/cricinfo, county player of the year, MacGillvray medal etc, etc), hall of fame, invitational cricket teams etc. This is for many players of this particular genre of game one of the most important areas, in terms of really creating an interesting and absorbing gameplay environment

-allow for hirings/firings, based upon performance on the field, handling of finances and so forth. Also perhaps a expectations faciltity, whereby if you take charge of a certain team the expectations of your performance will be modified by the teams history, current squad quality, previous years performance and available finances. Would allow for far more depth within the game, and allow for career progression to occur on multiple levels

- Really like the idea of reforming the finance, fixtures and training models to make them more realistic, as have been discussed, the key i guess in the fixtures model that i particularly would like to see, is the ability to create new stadia/grounds and especially in the international side of things choose which stadium gets what game. Hiring/firing coaches and better contract negotiation/barganing ideas perhaps as well as the option to create/remove a salary cap from competitions would be awesome

-down the road- ability to play women's or junior cricket (U17s/19s) within the career progression model. Eg you can choose to start off managing only the youth side to begin your career, instead at starting at county level

-Really like the idea of a better atmospheric model for night games, rain reduced games and the multiple ways in which those elements can have a major effect on the game of cricket. Perhaps even to the level of the Kookaburra white ball (where used) not swinging as much as the Duke, results of footmarks effecting only small parts of the pitch.

- I guess the overall message here is to go and obtain every possible sports management game there is available, look at the things that are done to provide for the players (especially in terms of customisation), and kind of go from there

[acook]

managing under 19s and 17s team would be quality especially if you could work closely with the 2nd and 1st team coaches. And if you do well after a season or 2 get offerd the 1st team job at not just ure own county but any.

[Themer]

I would like to see some sort of rating system implemented to show how well a certain player performed in each innings. Like what is seen on Football Manager so I can see more easily how well people are performing oblivious of there figures in the match. Eg If a bowler bowls superbly but for no runs it is hard to see how well they have done apart how many times they got the batsman to play and miss etc. It isn't a must but would improve the overall feel of the game , in my opinion.


ADDED: Also I believe that the International teams should be consistant which there selections. In a test series England went through 3 wicketkeepers.

[Shelsey]

Also I believe that the International teams should be consistant which there selections. In a test series England went through 3 wicketkeepers.

That's not unusual