I have played ICC for over 10 years, but have hardly ever played online due to the amount of teams that were edited. I read that the latest patch prevented teams with edited players playing online and decided to have a go online.
I played a person with a team full of players full of very good averages and didn't really think anything of it. However, when I looked more closely at his players they'd all played a ridiculous amount of games for even a 20 year career. I then checked their date of births and when they made their debuts, all of his players had made their debuts before they'd reached the age of ten. Some had even managed the extremely impressive feat of making their test match debut several years before they were born. In addition they were all on contracts of over three years.
I asked the person how this had occurred and they admitted that they had edited their players' ages. I then asked him if he considered this to be cheating. He replied that it was only considered cheating if one edited the ability of their players, editing their ages didn't count as editing player. This is an extremely unsatisfactory answer, to me it seems quite obvious he was editing players and therefore cheating.
In my opinion any kind of editing, especially when giving such a grossly unfair advantage as changing players ages obviously does, should be regarded as cheating and players who carry out this kind of practice should have their teams banned. I thought that such teams were already blocked, but apparently not. I hope the administrators will look into this and come up with a solution so those that wish to play online fairly can do so without wasting their time playing those more bothered about winning than playing fairly and in the spirit that cricket is meant to be played in. Otherwise, it's back to single player for me.
I played a person with a team full of players full of very good averages and didn't really think anything of it. However, when I looked more closely at his players they'd all played a ridiculous amount of games for even a 20 year career. I then checked their date of births and when they made their debuts, all of his players had made their debuts before they'd reached the age of ten. Some had even managed the extremely impressive feat of making their test match debut several years before they were born. In addition they were all on contracts of over three years.
I asked the person how this had occurred and they admitted that they had edited their players' ages. I then asked him if he considered this to be cheating. He replied that it was only considered cheating if one edited the ability of their players, editing their ages didn't count as editing player. This is an extremely unsatisfactory answer, to me it seems quite obvious he was editing players and therefore cheating.
In my opinion any kind of editing, especially when giving such a grossly unfair advantage as changing players ages obviously does, should be regarded as cheating and players who carry out this kind of practice should have their teams banned. I thought that such teams were already blocked, but apparently not. I hope the administrators will look into this and come up with a solution so those that wish to play online fairly can do so without wasting their time playing those more bothered about winning than playing fairly and in the spirit that cricket is meant to be played in. Otherwise, it's back to single player for me.
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