What We Would Like In ICC2011

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There should be a player and team creator and the ability to distribute points among them.A highlights feature would be nice too and third-umpire as well. I don't know what's wrong with T20 matches but they aren't fun. Lastly, please try to send copies of your games to gaming websites for reviewing to make the game more popular. I came to know about CC2006 through a review.
And the commentator declares the umpires decision before the umpire does.

[Phylos Fett]

With regards to Aus, with those changes, can I just confirm that things that need polishing from 2010 (for Aus domestic) would be:

Movement of players between sides.
Player abilities.
Final of the Aus League should be 5-days.

Yep - they're pretty much it except for the OD format mentioned below.

Do you know when these city sides are announced? (ah, just found an article, should be soon, which is good.)

1 Brisbane, 2 Sydney, 2 Melbourne, 1 Hobart, 1 Adelaide, 1 Perth side.

Some pretty big overhauls, I don't like that OD format (not to mention how awkward it will be to introduce).

How have these changes gone down in Aus?

The general feeling I am hearing is a resounding "whatever" - the powers that be change the format, and don't really care what the players or public want. The OD format seems to be as popular as the old format - ie, you never really hear much about it.

The new Big Bash format will be more interesting to follow, as it seems that players could end up anywhere and won't be tied/linked to their former/current OD and First Class sides. So, Joe Bloggs who plays for Tasmania in the OD and First Class, might also play for Brisbane in the T20.

[Sureshot]

Really? I didn't know that. Seems to be a lot of work to do on Aus domestic for 2011, thankfully the English season is unchanged.

With regards to Aus, with those changes, can I just confirm that things that need polishing from 2010 (for Aus domestic) would be:

Movement of players between sides.
Player abilities.
Final of the Aus League should be 5-days.

Do you know when these city sides are announced? (ah, just found an article, should be soon, which is good.)

Some pretty big overhauls, I don't like that OD format (not to mention how awkward it will be to introduce).

How have these changes gone down in Aus?

[Phylos Fett]

Do you mean the split innings format?

That's in the Domestic One Days. In the T20s they are now going to have 8 city based teams, rather than 6 state sides.

[Machinax]

Do you mean the split innings format?

[Phylos Fett]

Out of curiousity, do you think ICC2011 will have the new Australian Domestic Limited Overs series and the new Big Bash (T20) series that starts in 2011/2012?

[ab5ides1]

And for anyone who's interested, here's a link to a documentary about how the associates qualified for the world cup:

http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/video_audio/498153.html

It's quite interesting, but a lot of it's designed to make the ICC look good.

[ab5ides1]

Speaking of Associate teams in the Divisions (and this has nothing to do with the topic), I just noticed that Alessandro Bonora, the captain of Italy (who just made 124* against Oman), was actually born IN Italy, and is not an emigrant from a cricket-playing country (as is the rest of his team, I think). Very cool.

I was so chuffed upon finding out that I had to share

EDIT: found another Italian-born player! Amazing!

Isn't his brother playing too? And I just want to be able to play as Ireland and work my way up. I bought cricket coach for that very reason, but it's so unrealistic and unchallenging. ICC is definitely the best game of it's kind, but with associates it would be even better.

[Machinax]

Speaking of Associate teams in the Divisions (and this has nothing to do with the topic), I just noticed that Alessandro Bonora, the captain of Italy (who just made 124* against Oman), was actually born IN Italy, and is not an emigrant from a cricket-playing country (as is the rest of his team, I think). Very cool.

I was so chuffed upon finding out that I had to share

EDIT: found another Italian-born player! Amazing!

[Machinax]

I'd suggest limiting it to only the Division One Associate teams.

[Hataf]

As soon as there are a number of playable associate nations, and those nations can be promoted to test nation status, I will be buying that game.

I think the promotions should be able to occur either with the team you are playing or an ai country also. I would really like to be able to play a career as, say, NZ, and 10 years into my career suddenly Canada gets test nationship, and there become tours home and away.

I know this is complex, but to me it really will add to the long term playability and functionality of the game. I think, to give it that functionality, at least 12 associate teams are needed (who can all also qualify for the world cups, in the 12 team ICC cup).

If you had more associate teams, you could even have a two tier associate structure, with some starting with one day status and others having to earn that. For one day teams, they might get one home and away ODI tour a year against test nations. If there were 20+, it would allow for 8 teams to get promoted to tests over the course of a career and still have 12 teams competing to qualify for the world cup. The ICC tournament could see promotion/relegation in time for the next ICC tournament (every 2 years for 20/20, ODI) with one or two of the lower (not top 12) teams being randomly generated as being promoted.

I would like to see this option for the following nations (starting condition in brackets):

Playable teams

Zimbabwe (one day and test) - no qualifying necessary

Ireland (one day)
Scotland (one day)
Kenya (one day)
Canada (one day)
Afghanistan (one day)
Netherlands (one day)

Namibia (initial 12)
U.A.E. (initial 12)
U.S.A. (initial 12)
Bermuda (initial 12)
Uganda (initial 12)
Denmark (initial 12)

Non-playable teams (I'd prefer them to be playable, but I can understand drawing a line somewhere)

Oman (seeking promotion)
Italy (seeking promotion)
Nepal (seeking promotion)
Cayman Islands (seeking promotion)
Argentina (seeking promotion)
Papua New Guinea (seeking promotion)
Hong Kong (seeking promotion)
Tanzania (seeking promotion)

Thats 20, and probably sufficient to keep a real potential for variation in the game. If JUST THIS ONE change was made to the existing game, then I would overlook and forgive any other issues just because I have been waiting for this piece of functionality forever.

Adding any other teams would be a bonus: e.g. Bahrain, Singapore, Botswana, Malaysia, Guernsey, Jersey, Fiji and Norway. In my view, 12 is minimal but I would buy it instantly. 20 would be way better functionally, and would make for an awesome game. More than 20 would make it my favourite game ever!

@Chris Child - this kind of change could be quite an effort from a coding perspective. If there was a genuine interest in adding this functionality, I'd be willing to do any research you needed (I imagine name databases for generating new player names is a big one), or help in any other useful way, in my free time if it helped to get this functionality into the game.

This ONE CHANGE REALLY needs to be done. Period.

[Machinax]

Hear, hear.

[ab5ides1]

For me its still and will always be letting minnows be playable and allowing them to get one day then test status for good performance. I'm really excited for this feature.

I'm not sure how the long term future of the world cup would be handled if its only 10 teams and you get minnows up to test nation status. Perhaps only the top 10 ranked odi teams can compete in the world cup.

I know the game is meant to be realistic, but if the ICC are being stupid, power-hungry fools there is no need to go with what they rule, but instead do what should be done.

[golden]

For me its still and will always be letting minnows be playable and allowing them to get one day then test status for good performance. I'm really excited for this feature.

I'm not sure how the long term future of the world cup would be handled if its only 10 teams and you get minnows up to test nation status. Perhaps only the top 10 ranked odi teams can compete in the world cup.

[Machinax]

I was thinking about a customizable scorebox/infobox etc - several options you could drag in/select, but that might be too complicated.

Something on that line - when you're chasing in a limited-overs game, the game will tell you what the required run rate is, but it'll never tell you what your OWN run rate is for that innings. It'd be nice to have them both, required run rate and actual run rate.