2009 Features Requests

[Yorks13]

I really like the idea of pre-season games against Uni teams, I don´t like the idea that player attributes should be included as choosing your team based on knowledge of players and performances is a great aspect. I would really like to see the option of signing a new overseas player mid-way through the season if your curent player either goes away on Int. Duty or gets a long term injury (4 or more weeks) because that is very frustrating when it happens. I also think that if you were able to set up a relationship with an overseas team from India, SA, AUS etc. (would not have to be named for licensing reasons) it would be very good as for a certain fee per year you could send 2-3 players to that team so that they could gain experience, this would be a great way of developing youth players without having to play them in your team it would also be a very easy to integrate into the game and so as to not make it very easy to get your younger players better, you would have to pay more for different teams which would then result in them gaining more experience and getting better than they would if you payed less. I think this would be a great addition to the game and I hope you take it on board.

Cheers

[muhammad saad]

Hey chris plz reply ,did you like the idea? or other forum members plz reply to the thread if you like this idea.

[muhammad saad]

I think there should be a 3d net session where you can put your batsman against your best bowler(or any bowler) to see them head to head ,it would be cool to put your youth player batsman against your premier bowler to see how he played him is he ready for the first team(based on the number of misses ,edges and out) This will be the excellent edition and also not hard to implement.

[jcosgrove]

Duckworth / Lewis affected one day games would be more realistic. There is never any rain affected one day games in my experience. If you look at the games in the friends provident there is always rain affected games.

When bowling medium pacers defensively in one day games I feel there should be an option to bring the keeper up to the stumps. Obviously it could increase the amont of byes but would mean chances of stumpings.

I think more emphasis should be put on 20/20. Including the champions league, IPL, world 20/20 and the stamford games.

I am also sure that powerplays are in play in friends provident games this season.

[muhammad saad]

Duckworth / Lewis affected one day games would be more realistic. There is never any rain affected one day games in my experience. If you look at the games in the friends provident there is always rain affected games.

When bowling medium pacers defensively in one day games I feel there should be an option to bring the keeper up to the stumps. Obviously it could increase the amont of byes but would mean chances of stumpings.

I think more emphasis should be put on 20/20. Including the champions league, IPL, world 20/20 and the stamford games.

I am also sure that powerplays are in play in friends provident games this season.

Its already there ,just choose spinners field.

[Tiresias]

Yes, this is a fantastic idea.

Similarly, I'd also like to see some mechanism introduced which would allow players of the county & international version of the game to provide rough batting orders/selection policies etc. for their counties while they are in charge of the international side.

[Sureshot]

Duckworth / Lewis affected one day games would be more realistic. There is never any rain affected one day games in my experience. If you look at the games in the friends provident there is always rain affected games.

When bowling medium pacers defensively in one day games I feel there should be an option to bring the keeper up to the stumps. Obviously it could increase the amont of byes but would mean chances of stumpings.

I think more emphasis should be put on 20/20. Including the champions league, IPL, world 20/20 and the stamford games.

I am also sure that powerplays are in play in friends provident games this season.

The tournaments like IPL, Champions league, World T20 and the Stamford challenge matches, would all be subject to a license being granted.

The Duckworth-Lewis system is very complex, although adding it to OD matches on the ICC series would be a fantastic addition. It wouldn't be at all simple to introduce.

[jcosgrove]

i agree, it is very difficult - maybe we just need some rain affected one day games and maybe a rough calculation rather than exact duckworth lewis.

[KentLad]

In brief I would like to see the following:

Additional Tournaments
- ICC Champions Trophy
- Asia Cup
- ICC World 20/20
- Under-19 World Cups
- ICC Intercontinental Cup (4 day tournament for the likes of Ireland/Canada/Scotland etc)
- ICC World Cricket League (for Ireland/Scotland etc - top 3 or 4 qualify for next World Cup)
- England Lions matches against touring teams and also an end of season tour - ideally if England coach you can select this squad also).

Other
- Name a provisional squad of 30 for tournaments like World Cups and Champions Trophy which you later cut down to 15.
- Replace injured players
- Include Australian First Class cricket as playable
- Ability to sign players on loan
- Ability to sign additional overseas players on short-term basis (eg for 20/20)
- Integration of the IPL/Stanford Tournaments - maybe not playable but some of your players may get called up for the IPL thus making them unavailable for you.
- It should be possible for Kolpak players or players from Ireland/Scotland etc to qualify for England after 4 seasons of playing over here. (I think that's the qualifying period!)
- Players like Langer/Trescothick should be retired from Internationals.
- Ability to play a career as Scotland/Ireland and other non-test playing nations.
- Allow you to pick Irish/Scottish players for the national team for the FP Trophy - plus an overseas player.
- Allow some players like Symonds to have more than 1 type of bowling
- Duckworth-Lewis (Good luck with that one though!)
- A bit more player interaction - players coming to you asking why they have been left out - could affect their form if you don't respond in the right way etc...
- Players like Billy Taylor of Hants (One-Day) or Chris Lewis (20/20) only being available for designated matches.

I realise that not all of these will be possible but I would love to see some of these included.

[jcosgrove]

I think picking A Teams as well as full teams is a great idea. You can then test out your young players on the international stage also.

Under 19's world cup would be very good too.

I would also like to see you being able to select coaching staff and bringing in specialist bowling/batting/fielding coaches to help improve your club.

[Simbazz]

Even if tourniments such as the 20/20 WC or Champions Trophey where not available to be put in the game due to licensing, atleast make it "easy," for us to add them ourselves! This isn't illegal! Same with earlier games and logos etc, let us edit them.

[Agent47]

You are right.So this once again means that a database editor is an absolute must have for stat based games. If you give us an editor, you guys will have more time to improve the game as you dont have to do as many patches as of now and it lets you concentrate on implementing other important things to this game.

[Simbazz]

The editor thing, let people ruin thier games with legends and win every game etc. just add something to online play so that edited database games cant be used! (Or atleast something like that)

Because, us proper ICC players want an editor to improve the game, not to ruin its challange.

[Packer Al]

2009 Request Youth Development

It would be useful to have a screen automatically updating the development of Youth Players based on perhaps a star rating system of maybe one to three stars maximum analysed by bowling/batting techniques achieved

[aus5892]

I have a couple - in real life, pace bowling pitches (such as a green pitch) often start off good for the pacemen and then start to flatten out, making it easier for the batsmen, whereas the turn tends to get much greater for spinners on the last few days, but in the game both seem to only get better (for both types of bowlers). This is obviously the reason that teams often bowl first when it's a pitch that's good for the pacemen, but ingame this seems to have no value.

My other suggestion is a very basic one, the coin toss. In game, you always choose heads or tails, but in real life it's the away team. I'm sure that wouldn't be a hard one to fix.