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I suppose I may as well float publicly something that has been considered - whether people would support changing the Five5 match type, and thus ranked quick matches, to have a reduced amount of wickets per team - in order to give some incentive to care about your wicket online.

My worry about any specific changes that might make online play differently - such as mentioned above with a limit on how far you could move in your crease - would be that people are naturally going to find new exploits, I could imagine if batting got limited in some way, then there would be a delivery bowlers could then use that would be very hard to counter, that currently isn't.

I've certainly had some interesting and fun online matches so far.
 

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Yeah @MattW , I agree , its maybe too early to just change anything in the Online setup now . Lets just first get a good amount of matches under the belt and then we can see where the trend goes .

But what surely must change with the next Patch is the settings for Pitch , Umpire selection etc. needs to be brought back so that we can set it the way we want and not random as it is now .

Any all the well known bugs and stuff that doesnt work as it was planned (Batting,Fielding)
 

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@MattW

Yeah , forgot that one . In public its viewable , but a privately sent Invite you have no idea , and nowhere to even look .

Jerm had to ask me on Whatsapp whats the difficulty , so defnitly needs to be shown somewhere .
 
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I know that people exploiting and cheesing is to be expected from any online game when you're just using random matchmaking and especially when there's ranked matches/leaderboards... But for me DBC14 was one of the worst online experiences at default/quick match I've ever played, after a handful of games I was done with it.

The format (5 over/10 wickets) contributed towards creating a mess that bore no resemblance to cricket at all. It was better when arranging matches through adding people and playing a longer/custom format.

I haven't played 17 yet, but I really don't think a 5 over/10 wickets format can be enjoyable for me, no matter how balanced the gameplay is, so I would support changes being made here... I think 2 wickets for a 5 over innings would balance out the risk/reward much better, or maybe 3 wickets/10 overs.
 
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Hate when you rack up a good score then the other player disconnects, should be accounted for on the leaderboard ☹
 

Rohit Basu

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There should be given bonus points to the leaderboard and there are too manny players who quit or disconnect after batting they should be banned for online play.
 

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Had a bloke set up way outside off for a large percentage of deliveries, to counter I would bowl even more outside off almost off the pitch which would be considered a fair delivery for a batter setting up there, but would still be called a wide. I know it would be hard to implement what balls would be considered a wide while the bowler is running in, but just bringing it to attention.

I wooped his ass with the bat though with some nice movement around the crease of my own, which was really fun.

I like that we can see the batter premeditating coming down the wicket, whenever I saw this I'de just put the ball short or wide.
 

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Had a bloke set up way outside off for a large percentage of deliveries, to counter I would bowl even more outside off almost off the pitch which would be considered a fair delivery for a batter setting up there, but would still be called a wide.

Did you try bowling on the stumps? If yes, was he able to hit shots to deliveries bowled on the stumps even though he was standing way outside off?
 

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Yeah i would bowl an outswinger to a right hand outside leg, which would swing "out" and hit leg stump.....see if he can reach those!
 

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Did anyone try to move the Batsman down the pitch while taking stance in offline matches. I tried to move the Batsman down the pitch in a casual match yesterday but not able to push him more than 4 or 5 steps. He started moving backwards when I pushed him more.

When this limitation can be done in offline matches why can't this be done in online. Same way, why can't we have a limitation for batsman moving offside or onside in the crease.

I don't say that he should move at all. But standing near wide line is something crazy.
 

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Did anyone try to move the Batsman down the pitch while taking stance in offline matches. I tried to move the Batsman down the pitch in a casual match yesterday but not able to push him more than 4 or 5 steps. He started moving backwards when I pushed him more.

When this limitation can be done in offline matches why can't this be done in online. Same way, why can't we have a limitation for batsman moving offside or onside in the crease.

I don't say that he should move at all. But standing near wide line is something crazy.

i have batted half way done the pitch and outside off offline and could smash everything through onside...

if someone did this to me online i reckon round the wicket short fast leg cutters might be the way round it?
 

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You can have a game with me and you can take that stance. Let me see how you connect those shots.
Its all in the art of bowling and I do include spin as well.
Yes Bro Its all about bowling and there r many thing to learn,people take stance but still they r not able to do much with stance because i know how to control that,so people who all are crying stance wide line n all do not know how to bowl.
 

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