Catchup problem

[CricketFan]

Hi All,

First time posting in this forum, longtime fan of the ICC games.

I would like to draw your attention, to a quirk in the current version of the game.

I am playing with Surrey in the English County Div2, and I am having a very frustrating time. There appears to be some kind of catch-up mode in the game, I have a great list I have developed over a couple of seasons, yet struggle to bat successfully in every single first innings my team bat and then fail to bowl the opposition out.

Eg, I scored 270 in the first innings, then have the opposition on the ropes in reply at 6-29, before two opposition batsmen with absolutely no form whatsoever, put on a 250 run partnership. I eventually bowled them out for about 370. In their second innings they are successfully chasing down 423 to win in about a days play.

The above example and similar, I have encountered in almost every county match in the game, and I have tried everything without success. I never encountered this in the previous versions I have played over the years.

It has sucked all the fun out of this version of the game.

Disappointed.

[Phylos Fett]

I'm pretty sure the developers have said that there is no catch-up in the game a few times.

[batcarry]

this issue has been discussed so many times that now i am affraid that the childish thing may over re-act to this and in the next version it would be a nightmare for the batsmen to bat in the 4th innings...... despite myself being the victom of this thing as the computer Ai seems to always chase down huge targets in the last innings with great wear and tear on pitch................

[chenyan]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Observer_bias

Build a bridge and get the f'k over it. There is no catch-up mode

[cricfan1]

The gameplay of ICC 2010 is 80% balanced only thing is too much changes
in gameplay will only put down effect in ICC 2011 gameplay

[Machinax]

the computer Ai seems to always chase down huge targets in the last innings with great wear and tear on pitch................

It works for human players, too. I chased down 374 on the last day of a Test with four wickets left. Pitch had deteriorated, but I was playing as Sri Lanka (5th place) against Bangladesh (8th).

But yes, the AI does take on large totals in the 4th innings too easily. I like to declare early to give my bowlers time, but it's hard to judge because you rarely see the AI playing for a draw when batting last.

[Sureshot]

this issue has been discussed so many times that now i am affraid that the childish thing may over re-act to this and in the next version it would be a nightmare for the batsmen to bat in the 4th innings...... despite myself being the victom of this thing as the computer Ai seems to always chase down huge targets in the last innings with great wear and tear on pitch................

Any changes we do make to the 4th innings issue will be done with solid testing, we'll always attempt to be as realistic as we can with changes. It's something we will look to improve and work out why it isn't quite producing the results we want. We look to be as accurate as we can with changes we make and the game as a whole, sometimes we miss the mark, but any change to the match engine is very important to us. It's the core of the game to us.

[Scritty]

I'm certain it's not intentional - but in this version it seems to happen a lot. You can compare it with ICC2009 or earlier and it is not an issue.

I think it's a complex result of some other algorithms that are supposed to imitate a teams reaction to a rearguard 4th innings action rather than a deliberate catch-up mode. I also get a lot of 400+ scores or 5 session innings on nightmare pitches to force a draw or a win. Normally after the side made under 250 in the first innings when the pitch was considerably better.

Might be a "boundary condition" error - when the pitch or the conditions get SOOOO bad - a derived variable gets so low (or high) it resets itself. I'm guessing of course, but I have had players with over 1000 first class wickets before now suddently go back to 1 wicket in the records in earlier games of the series, so these boundary (and by boundary I mean data boundary - not "4's" and "6's") do have a bearing.

Anyway - flying back to Stormwind now - just dinged my third and fourth characters to 85. Sooon be able to end game 5 man instances all on my ownsome. Ooops - wrong game.

Scritty