2009 Features Requests

[Myrmecophaga]

It would be good if bowlers got a bit of stamina back when they took a wicket, because you can go on bowling longer spells when wickets are falling.

It would be good to have a different default team for the different forms of the game.

[acook]

It would be good if bowlers got a bit of stamina back when they took a wicket, because you can go on bowling longer spells when wickets are falling.

It would be good to have a different default team for the different forms of the game.

na it's not realistic at all

[qpeedore]

The bowler could get a really slight boost of stamina when they take a wicket. I don't think it's being unrealistic. Bowlers regularly fight off fatigue to go for another over if they've previously taken a wicket, especially if they're bowling well.

[Myrmecophaga]

Douglas Jardine argued that a bowler should always get another over after taking a wicket, no matter how it was taken, logically, that is based purely on the extra life, stamina, that the bowler gets.

[Jamie]

Storing Players' Stats Post-Retirement

The one thing that prevents me from buying this game, year after year, is the fact that once a player retires, *poof* - they disappear! Why on earth doesn't this game maintain -all- players' statistics, even after they've retired? A mate of mine plays this religiously and one of his players, Terry Shuttleworth, with whom he became quite obsessed, scored 16,000 test runs at an average of 59 and played till he was 41!

Now good ol' Terry featured in a number of amazing partnerships, scored some match-saving centuries and won the otherwise-hapless Kiwis pretty much 90% of all their victories. But once he'd retired, that was it, apart from the international records screen, to which he'd contributed a couple, he may as well have never existed.

How fantastic would it be to be able to go back, look at his wagon wheel in any particular game he played, see the progression of his average over his test career and even be able to relive actual innings of his! And the thing is, this wouldn't be hard at all - with some fancy in-game compression, you could do all this with another gig or two of HD space, which most computers today would manage with ease.

Please, please do this - there's so much I love about this game, but the one thing that holds me back is this lack of any sense of history perpetrated by a complete disregard for maintaining player records post-retirement...

[qpeedore]

The ability to declare during intervals would be nice. If it's in there, I haven't seen it yet.

[Webbo]

Re: Jamie - Storing Player Stats

I am the 'mate' Jamie refers to in his post above. Terry Shuttleworth was my main man (I've had a few but he was the king), scoring 42 test centuries over a test career spanning 18 long years. He is the legend of NZ cricket and to be honest, I'm gutted I can't flick back to a screen called 'Retired players' or something similar and view his career stats, highest score innings, best partnerships, career strike-rate etc, etc. The list goes on and this game would be brilliant if it had this feature. It is the only reason I am playing the 2005 version of ICC and haven't upgraded to the later versions.

Also, why is ICC not backward compatible in terms of saved games? I have played ICC 2005 for a number of years and am up to around 2065. Should I want to buy 2008's offering, I have to start my whole game again and lose all my history? NO FEAR! A mate of mine who bought the 2008 version has told me that this is indeed the case.

My last gripe to an otherwise extremely entertaining game is the fact that scorecards are also not saveable. Would love to be able to right-click on that WC final scorecard where we won on the last ball and click "Add to classic matches". Would be fantastic if the developers could create a Cric-info type interface!!

Other features I'd love to see would be:
- The ability to declare between sessions
- Not allowing you to continue without selecting a wicketkeeper in the squad (if you accidentally leave them out whilst in a hurry)

There are more but I'll post them when I can remember them.

Please take these comments on board. I'd be very interested to know if Jamie and my points are something that has been looked into previously.

Cheers

[qpeedore]

Webbo - it's there.

Go to "Fixtures and Results" and select a completed match. You can save not only games you've played, but any game of the season you're currently in (international and county games).

Also, if you don't have a specialist keeper in your squad or you set someone else to wicketkeep, the game says "You have selected a wicket keeper who does not normally play in that position, do you want to continue?"

[qpeedore]

I'd like to see a better animation for the stumpings. The batsman simply doesn't look that eager to get back into his crease.

I'd also like to see the third umpire involved. I don't believe that's there yet. With the new referral systems in place, use of replays and the TV umpire is essential.

It would be good to have batsmen automatically have the highest aggression level for a free hit.

As I think of more I'll add them...hopefully I have some good ones so far...

[Webbo]

nah sorry qpeedore i'm going to have to pull you up there re: the keeper thing, it only tells you that as you're going into the match, not when you select your squad. once it's selected you can't go back. if you've inadvertently not selected a keeper in your squad there's not much use in it telling you that you don't have a keeper just before a game now is there?

to your comments:Go to "Fixtures and Results" and select a completed match. You can save not only games you've played, but any game of the season you're currently in (international and county games).

i don't want to see this type of stuff:

2 Mar 2062 - 2nd One Day International
Aus beat Sri L by 35 runs

2 Mar 2062 - 3rd Test Match
England beat WIndies by 60 runs

3 Mar 2062 - 2nd Test Match
India beat P'stan by 2 wickets
SAfrica beat NZ'land by 10 wickets

I WANT SCORECARDS! they can do this but not .txt scorecards? what a joke!

[Mongrel]

If you click on the match, you can see a scorecard.

But I agree, I'd love more records keeping to stop me having to do it myself. I'm lazy like that .

[Webbo]

Yeah i know you can see the scorecard from within the game (only in the current season), but the 'Save' bit only allows you to save the results of the matches. If I'm in say, 2050, and I want to have a look at a game in 2024, why shouldn't I be able to? Just seems odd as all of the data is there already, just needs to be saved...

[Mongrel]

Ahh I gotchya.

Meanwhile, I can't help but thinking the money available to sides needs to be increased. It's a bit disappointing to see many sides without and international player and people such as Hamish Marshall and Michael Di Venuto being forced to retire after one season because nobody can afford them.

[qpeedore]

...hmm...it works for me in ICCIII at least. Anytime I try saving cards in 08, the game gives me a dialog box saying that it needs to close. But I did check III and it worked.

You need to select the fixture, bring up the card, and THEN save it. You need to save each innings separately, it looks like, but you have ALL the details there.

An example is attached.

EDIT: As for the keeper thing, do you mean when you select your squad at the start of the season? That would indeed be a good addition.

[Bobby]

Haven't read through all of the pages in this thread. I imagine its been covered, but the coaching needs a major overhaul,

Perhaps - for a start , have the ability to hire coaches? Secondly , there shouldn't be a limit on how many coaching/net sessions a side can have. When have England only been able to give a net to 8 out of their 11 players?

Also , the other thing , for me, is at county level, I'd like to be able to see/manage my second team. At very least see who's doing well in my second team - and coming up through the youth system.