I've been gathering a lot of feedback from mainly our forums for how you want the game to progress, I'd like to open this up here. There is a lot I've taken in, but it would be great to hear as many opinions as possible.
Discuss.
Discuss.
It may be a bit to early to suggest ideas for the next ICC 2010.
But i just have some comments and solutions concerning it.
In ICC 2009 and all the earlier editions i feel it lacks career modes as you can only really captain/manage 9/10 international sides as well as the 18 county sides.
The obvious solution would be to include more leagues which i think they are thinking of doing such as the Australian one and the IPL.
Another solution that occurred to me that i would think would be much easier to implicate would be a manager career.
This would involve starting at the bottom coaching a county team (or even 2nd XI then full county team) then maybe moving up to the likes Bangladesh and onto India etc...(this would work better when they introduce more leagues).
This would be similar to that of football manger where you could get fired and re hired etc... and build up your ranking points by winning titles
making more teams want to hire you.
They could also introduce more manager basis things( i no at the moment it is more of a captain).
Also a really good idea would be to introduce a player career (you can kind of do this at the moment be re naming a player).
This would involve starting at the bottom at maybe a club team (just following your player not captaining whole team) and move up through county, IPL and then onto country and THEN get the change to captain your side, you could then retire then go onto be a managing.
They could introduce lower level club teams or make 2nd Xi's playable with Regen's kind of like FIFA manager.
At the moment i feel it is a bit repetitive, I only buy ICC every 2-3 years as there aren't enough changes. I feel they really need to build up the different game modes add to the "captain" at the moment with "manager" and "player".
Maybe at the beginning of the game you can make a player and put him in your county team or aussie domestic team if they have them etc.
It could work something like this, most of it on drop down menus:
Player name: ...
Player type: opener, batter, batter keeper, keeper, all rounder, bowler
age: under 20 as they haven't player FC cricket before
Batting Style: Right/Left , how aggressive e.g: (very agr, agr, mod, def, very def), leg/off preference, pace/spin
Bowling style: type (RF, RMF, RFM, RM, OS, LS, SLA, LM, LFM, LMF, LF), how aggressive (same as above), maybe preferences etc
and whatever else goes into a player
Or players don't start off with preferences but they get them after maybe 20 games according to how they have played, and they can change over time.
and then have like numbers for each stat on a 1-5 basis and let players select how good they are. (im just going to plug some numbers in)
eg: for a batsmen - second team average
1 (average player, very hard) 30-35
2 hard 35-40
3 normal 40-45
4 easy 45-50
5 (great player, very easy) over 50
and just randomly generate an average between what they selected maybe have one for part time bowling and one for fielding etc. Those very hard, hard, normal, easy, very easy are just difficulty levels. Very hard is your an average player and need to train him up etc and it would be easy for a guy with high second team average as he is already good
and then you what get a player e.g:
Fred Smith, Lancashire, age 19, batsmen, RHB. LS
second team batting average : 44.44
bowling : 39.22 @ 3.5 (only part time)
salary : 22,000
Hedger also said this in the same thread:
"Player Name:
Age set to 17 or 18 (only one though)
Player Type: Batsman, Allrounder, Keeper (Batsman), Bowler
Batting Style: Right/Left Handed, Leg/Off Side pref. Front/Back Foot pref. Pace/Spin Pref. and aggressiveness is set randomly.
Bowling Style: Right/Left Handed, Seam/Spin Bowler and it will automatically choose (e.g. If you choose Right hand and Seam, you could get Right arm medium, Right arm medium-fast, Right arm fast).
Skills automatically set to a guy with international potential by the time he's about 24 or so."
and then put that player into your county team as like a 20th, 21st player etc and try and make them into a good international player, at the moment it would only really work for England thought because only one domestic competition.
that's just an idea not really sure if that is kind of idea others looking for
and then you got manager mode where you get sacked and re hired etc with more manager stuff than there currently is etc i wont go into that
Tis why I've always wanted to be able to arrange international tours within certain parameters based on teams placings and who they are for historical reasons.
For example the year before the series starts you are able to choose the amounts of Tests/ODIs/T20s. For series such as the Ashes there should be rules that mean there has to be 5 or 6 tests, 3-5 ODIs and 0-2 T20s.
While for teams where there is no "historical series" you should be given a bit more leeway but given a vague number you have to play in relation to how close you are in the rankings. So for example two team ranked 1 and 2 in the test rankings would have to play 3-5 matches while teams ranked 1 and 7 would only be able to play 2-3 tests.
Basically something along these lines would allow people who find a certain format boring and would just skip it can cut down the number of matches without just not playing them but, more importantly, a system whereby as time elapses you can allow teams who progress from where they are now to play more games. For example Bangladesh who usually progress to be a decent team but you can barely play them as the tours are set in stone.
IPL should be there. Without it the game is looking boring. They should release it fast.