What We Would Like In ICC2011

[q felt]

Maybe with a Pakistan career, you should be able to spot fix and see how much money you make before you go too far?

[Chewie]

It's not like Nannes and Cooper are going to go back and play for their original nation any time soon though

But I think that before a player represents one country, he should be able to be picked for two separate countries

[Coyote]

* Players like Dirk Nannes/Tom Cooper who are eligable for more than one nation.
* Tournament editor, so that we can tweak the county season, international itinary, etc.

[Sureshot]

Just spent some time improving our development document. Some very good features in here and the document is quite big now. Thanks for all your suggestions and helping us take the game forward.

[Ioraerth]

Being able to organise stats by clicking on column headings.

[Hampshire]

Ok guys im back and updating this thread lets bring in those ideas.

[Kevin Hedger]

Some suggestions might already have been discussed in here, but you call me lazy enough not to rummage around. I will list a few which I think should be included after reading some recent posts.
1. More accurate pitch report
2. More realistic run outs and catches.
This has been mentioned many times I believe. Dropped catches are way too much and run outs are always funny, always on direct throws and that too on keeper's end.
Some times even when I bat at no aggression, batsmen gets run out.
3.An accurate batsmen and bowlers ratings.
It has been mentioned in some thread that how game makers have made some unknown bowlers and batsmen more stronger than the current cricket stars, probably one of the reason why people use editors. So let's just fix it.
4. Icluding an official editor in the game which could edit batsmen upto 2000 max. and bowlers upto 400 max, meanwhile programme the game in a way that it could no loger be edited by other cheat programmes like Hex Editors and Art Money.
5. Including the option for a field coaching and wicket keeper coaching to an extent that we could use our keepers to stand upto the stumps against medium pacers.
6. Including the features of reverse bowling, and bowling slower balls may be leg or off cutters or slow bouncers.
7.Feature of including the Hall of Fame, sometimes you get a player who scores more centuries than S Tendulkar or whatever but when he retires all of his records are just left in user's memory. Is it possible to have a Hall of Fame to include the records of game's legends.

[TheSussexShark]

Maybe a run agression bar. In a T20 match when singles are important I might want to get Cosgrove to play agressivly but not run for tight singles, respectivly, but if I had Carberry then I would want him to go for them. Obviously for this you would have to incorporate the phyiscal fitness of the players into the game and their profiles.

[lancashire r the best]

as an all rounder the bat glows up to show their a batting all rounder who bowls a bit e.g pollard or the ball glows up to show theie a bowling all rounder who bats a bit e.g bresnan

[lancashire r the best]

day/night games

better training for bowlers i.e swing bowling etc

pre-season tours for county teams

more tournaments e.g IPL champions trophy etc

fielding training for less drops better stops etc and also misfields and players hv 2 back up

buy out a players contract a month b4 the end of season

finally rain effected one day games, the duckworth lewis comes into it that would make it a better game

[enigma]

3. In T20s, in addition to batting aggression level, I would like to be able to instruct new or weaker batsmen to take singles, without necessarily being 'aggressive'.

This must really be looked into & I've raised this point before as well that when we lose a set batsman in an OD(I) or T20(I), the new batsman just plays out too many dot balls even if we're into the last few overs of the innings which just takes away all the realism of the game & if we raise the aggression too much then they just get out, so it'd be nice to have a "singles mode" option which we can turn on/off for ALL batsmen (not just weaker or whatever) & say, how consistently they score singles in "singles mode" should depend on how good a runner they are, like say, Carberry should score more singles than most in the same number of balls, & make it so that playing in "singles mode" increases the chances of getting runout but that chance is lower for good runners like Carberry & higher for others, etc. so accordungly, there should be a rating on each players personal page denoting how good they're at stealing quick singles (just like we've preferences listed therein). To balance things out a little, make it so that while in "singles mode", batsman will ONLY take singles & they won't be scoring any other scoring shots. Further, I believe this "singles mode" should only be available in limited overs games ie OD(I) & T20(I) & NOT in longer formats of the game.

[6ry4nj]

And now for my wishlist

Please please can I have in next version:

1. Run outs involving keeper or player over the bowler's stumps (ie not all direct hits)

2. Less short leg catches especially in limited overs.

3. In limited overs, it's too easy to get a single straight to the circle fielder. In 'real-life'*, these singles are often risky and frequently simply not on.

4. Team/individual season and historical records for one-dayers and T20, not just for first-class/tests.

5. A highlights package of boundaries and wickets that can be viewed after the game is over.

6. Shies at stumps that miss, or more generally, returns that are not fielded at the stumps and require backing up (or occasionally result in overthrows)

And that's it for me. I thought there'd be more

[outbreak]

Personally some of these changes i find unnecessary to me the highlights in game are just to say hey this player is out/ hit a six/ whatever not a this is a direct representation of what just happened video clip. The graphics serve this purpose fine for me and don't need to change. I think content and management options are more wanted for me.

[6ry4nj]

Really important changes (I reckon)

Here's my list of desirables for 2011. I have tried to put them in decreasing order of importance. I have not got round to playing version 10 yet, so profuse apologies if I mention something that is already fixed.

1. I find it often impossible to follow the flight of the ball to the outfield in highlights. If we cannot have slow-mo and freeze-frame like we did in 06 version, I would like a trail of dots or something behind the ball to make it easier to follow.

As an aside, the problem is exacerbated by the white ball, when all the games are in daylight. (Especially with the white sightscreens lol. No wonder my teams all bat like Monty...)

2. I regard wickets as highlights when I'm bowling but not when I'm batting. I would like the option of a highlights level of boundaries but not wickets. Again, this is something that was available in ICC06 but has since disappeared.

3. In T20s, in addition to batting aggression level, I would like to be able to instruct new or weaker batsmen to take singles, without necessarily being 'aggressive'.

4. The correct field placement rules for each type of game/powerplay should be enforced. In 'real-life', I believe umpires call no-balls for infringements of this type.

5. The program currently allows powerplays to start mid-over, AND count the full current over towards the PP duration.

6. I believe fieldsmen never throw to the bowler's end. I could live with this (though I'd rather not) if it wasn't for the cases where the fieldsman is much closer to the bowler and the on-strike batsman (who generally takes longer to set off than the non-striker) is clearly short of his ground.

These are the most vital (imho) changes I would like to see. There are a couple of longstanding bugs that I would like fixed but this might not be the appropriate thread for them.

[Hampshire]

Ok guys. Im currently on holiday and this will probably be my only chance on a computer. So don't think that i've just abandoned this thread.