What We Would Like In ICC2011

[Clifford]

it would be great if zimbabwe will be playable again. They're returning to test cricket this year: http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/cric...we/9406807.stm

[Themer]

As long as nothing changes and Zimbabwe are going to be playing by the end of the year I'd fully expect it to be returned to being playable.

[Machinax]

You know, I can't believe I forgot to mention this, but at the toss, you, as the player, get to call every single time. Every single time! That can't be right. I mean, I assume there's a 50/50 randomizer thingie in the game to make the result of the toss truly equal, but the computer should get the right to call the toss at least half the time.

[enigma]

Great! Now there'll be a few more boring Test-series & more mockery of Test-records. They say Test-Cricket is in danger, well, the biggest danger to Test-Cricket is ICC, their stupid FTP that adds unnecessary, uncompetitive & boring Tests & their decisions of giving Test-status to Ban & Zim, these guys should be playing 4-Day-Cricket against stronger Test-nations' A-Teams & when they start beating the A-Teams regularly, THEN they should get Test-status. While they're at it why don't ICC give Test-status to all the associates & affiliates too!

[enigma]

How about introducing a button to stop "Play Over" mid way through for those who play with highlights on "Every Ball"? I often use the "Play Over" feature & sometimes I realise that may be my aggression should be higher/lower than it is or that I need to tweak my field a bit, etc & I'd rather not wait till the end of the over till I may've lost a wicket or the opposition batsmen may have exploited the field & hit a couple of boundaries so how about adding a button to stop highlights when in "Play Over" mode?

Secondly, I don't know if this has been discussed before but why not let us see the fixtures for the next year on the Transfers Window itself? I know there is the "Full Season" column but often some Overseas players will say Yes because they're not contracted to their national sides & then they're selected by their country all of a sudden & then sometimes we've to do without both the Main as well as the Reserve for a month or two; it is really annoying. But if the fixture-list is made available on the Transfers Window itself then we can choose our Main & Reserve taking into account their country's matches & the likelihood of them getting selected, of course, fixture-list should also clarify about when they'll be playing the "Overseas League"; "Full Season" column could still be retained though for those who don't want to take the time to look up fixtures.

[Phylos Fett]

How about introducing a button to stop "Play Over" mid way through for those who play with highlights on "Every Ball"? I often use the "Play Over" feature & sometimes I realise that may be my aggression should be higher/lower than it is or that I need to tweak my field a bit, etc & I'd rather not wait till the end of the over till I may've lost a wicket or the opposition batsmen may have exploited the field & hit a couple of boundaries so how about adding a button to stop highlights when in "Play Over" mode?

You could always play ball by ball. I alternate between using the ball by ball and over options, depending on the circumstances - mainly when I am worried about what you have just said, I opt for ball by ball - when I don't care (for want of a better word) I play by the over.

[enigma]

You could always play ball by ball. I alternate between using the ball by ball and over options, depending on the circumstances - mainly when I am worried about what you have just said, I opt for ball by ball - when I don't care (for want of a better word) I play by the over.

I know we can play ball by ball but clicking every ball gets annoying after a while, that's why I extensively use "Play Over", especially in FC-games. The things I've mentioned aren't something we plan on & that's what makes the proposed feature all the more important. In my opinion, they should already have had this feature of stopping the Play-Over-highlights.

[DP Doominator]

This is my first time on this forum and I have given this quite a bit of thought. In my opinion there are a couple of simple (I'd imagine) things that would improve my enjoyment of the game.

1) Being able to train a batsman up to bat in a specific position eg training Ian Bell up as an opening batsman.

2) Players to be able to have different roles depending on the form of the game eg Tendulkar is a one day opener but a middle order batsman in Test matches.

3) Players to be able to be an all rounder and an opening batsman eg Shane Watson

And finally some harder ones to implement

4) Being able to interact with your players begin matches so you could tell a player to buck his ideas up if he wants to stay in the team or put an arm around his shoulder depending on the player. And to tell a player he is dropped and what he needs to do to get back in the team eg learn how to score at a quicker strike rate or to increase his accuracy with the ball

5) Choosing who gets a central contract

6) Scouts to look at the county scene and recommend players who are looking good and players who are struggling

[outbreak]

With interacting with players,
i'd like to see something like a news page for each team which had little bits on what pllayers are thinking. It may have "david warner wants to play more fc cricket" "so and so wants to bat higher up the order". These would also link in at the end of seasons if we were allowed to poach players from other clubs, with the disgruntled players showing up in these news feeds being more likely to agree to a buyout from their club if they are not getting the games/playing in positons their happy with. Should allow you to get them cheaper when their looking to drop their club if it hasn't improved on their demands.

[enigma]

I can see here that the developers were thinking about putting in the real-life-like contracts-system even before ICC2010 but I wonder why it wasn't done!

I think this is a decent suggestion by Themer. I think there must be two different types of contracts as there are in real life. Further, I think only 1-year contracts should be issued so that they can easily be rotated rather than getting stuck on some players even though they mightn't be playing for England as is often the case in the current version.

Another thing is that those players who are going to be playing in the "Overseas League", they shouldn't be demanding the kind of salaries that they would had they actually been available for the whole season.

[lybrook1]

i know this is probably not a feature for this game but the ability to control just the one player and improve him (i.e be a pro in fifa)
also love the idea of having scouts

[Mully2010]

i know this is probably not a feature for this game but the ability to control just the one player and improve him (i.e be a pro in fifa)
also love the idea of having scouts

I was thinking about the same thing but i would be better to improve other area first.
it is great idea because it would attract a lot more players.

[DonaldC]

A few suggestions: -

1. The ability to tell your bowlers to bowl a yorker or bouncer

2. The ability to tell batsman to look to 'milk it' i.e. looking for 1s and 2s

3. Add pace and bounce attributes to pitches, e.g. in India they are likely to be slow and low, in Australia more likely to be quick, bouncy pitches

4. Add abilities to bowlers - e.g. James Anderson can bowl inswing, outswing and reverse swing. Mitchell Johnson can barely bowl in-swingers (to RHBs). As far as I can tell from the database editors that have been going around, there is no way to differentiate between bowlers that possess different skills.

5. Display players' height. Very important in considering bowling options before games.

6. Be able to know the conditions of a test match before you select your squad for it

7. More of a bug - the short ball seems to be really easy to play. You never see steepling bounce from a back-of-a-length ball that takes the splice in ICC. A key for RF bowlers

[enigma]

1. The ability to tell your bowlers to bowl a yorker or bouncer

Well, it's sort of already there, isn't it? And at least I wouldn't like ICC going too much in the direction of "Brian Lara Cricket"

2. The ability to tell batsman to look to 'milk it' i.e. looking for 1s and 2s

This feature has been mentioned a lot so we may see it being implemented in some form in ICC2011.

3. Add pace and bounce attributes to pitches, e.g. in India they are likely to be slow and low, in Australia more likely to be quick, bouncy pitches

I've mentioned in several threads that playing conditions are the core of the game & that the game-play & the statistics generated won't be completely realistic until not only things like "Pace-Meter", "Bounce-Meter" are included but also "Seam-Movement of the pitch" but implementing it would be pretty complex so I wonder if we'll see any major improvements as far as playing conditions are concerned.

4. Add abilities to bowlers - e.g. James Anderson can bowl inswing, outswing and reverse swing. Mitchell Johnson can barely bowl in-swingers (to RHBs). As far as I can tell from the database editors that have been going around, there is no way to differentiate between bowlers that possess different skills.

It'd be nice but I don't think the game is YET there where such features may take priority, and considering that it's hard enough getting all 3000+ players' core batting/bowling ratings correct, it'd be harder still to get their skills-set correct so it'd be pretty difficult to implement I'd think.

5. Display players' height. Very important in considering bowling options before games.

It'd be nice to see not only their height being shown on their profiles but also its effect on the game-play, like taller bowlers being more difficult to handle on bouncy pitches, etc but again, I wonder how easy it'd be to get the height-statistics for 3000+ players.

6. Be able to know the conditions of a test match before you select your squad for it

Do you mean a Test-series?

7. More of a bug - the short ball seems to be really easy to play. You never see steepling bounce from a back-of-a-length ball that takes the splice in ICC. A key for RF bowlers

I've seen a fair few getting out fending the ball but I suppose we'll see a lot more of it if the "Pace-Meter" & "Bounce-Meter" are added to the existing playing conditions.

[Phylos Fett]

Whilst posting in another thread, I remembered something that was available in older versions of the game - you used to be able to save sides - for example, when playing the domestic side, I'd have a team setting saved as First Class Side, and a One-Day Side. Once I was granted the English Captaincy, I'd have a Test Side and a ODI Side. So, when you were chopping and changing between the different games, you could just load the setting, and have the batting order, captain, opening bowlers, and keeper all there as you left it, rather than mucking around with it again, especially when you have specialist teams.