Features you want to see in next iteration of Big Ant Cricket

Paras Jasal

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Graphics
1) Add more animations to the game. My suggestions would be player entrance from the dressing room and exit as well, Man of the Match ceremony and also occasionaly random animations such as camera focus on a player after he takes a catch, or camera on captain during an intense match etc.
2)Crowd should be made 3D and attendance & sounds should vary according to the formats of the match and teams playing.
3) LED Stumps, 3D adboards on pitch and the most importantly an overlay prematch of the playing teams etc (like channel9 or star sports, can be included for customization in academy
4) Random statistics showing in between a match such as most wickets of tournament, most runs etc
5)Better grass texture
6)There can be birds etc on the ground as well?
General/Gameplay
1)Better fielding, like throws should be fast incase a runout is possible
2)Wicketkeeper should be quick and not wait like he does now
3)Include women's cricket, WBBL , Women's World Cup
4) Wicketkeeper should be less flexible while catching, Slips are there for a reason
5)Player emotions which can effect their game. ( Also opens possibility of sledging)
6) More bowling variation of AI, also AI needs to be improved overall, eg make more changes according to condition of match.
7) Better atmosphere. Like home team crowd getting quiet when someone of the team gets out or cheering hard when opposite team player is out
8)Include the possibility of sledging which affects player emotions
Career
1) A new cash system!. You can earn cash by winning Man of the match, signing contracts etc. This can be used for buying equipment which can boost our stats a bit, donations to organisations ( which will improve our popularity) or buying day to day stuff which can improve our mood and hence form
2)Popularity- Popularity can be gained by playing better cricket, giving donations, giving interviews ( choice to do after you score a century or man of the match etc)
3)Awards- Awards can be gained like cricketer of the year etc
4) Auctions- Auctions can be introduced for leagues like IPL
5)Intl. Tournaments during career- Career gets a bit boring after you reach international as there are absolutely no international tournaments. Add Asia Cup, World t-20, World Cup, Tri-Series etc.
6)Rivalries- New thing called rivalries should be introduced, eg Eng vs Aus, Indi vs Pak etc. It creates pressure on players, also players are aggressive etc.
7)Injuries- These are a must, if someone is hit, there should be doctors rushing animation and the player should be retired hurt. It should be in other modes apart from career too.
8) After an over, the possibility of talking to the other player on crease about mentality, eg- rotate strike, full on aggressive or balanced.
9) There can be cutscenes between the talks b/w coach and players
10) Evolution- The teams should evolve according to time, eg out of form players getting dropped, new computer generated players replacing the retired ones etc. I hate playing with the same team again and again.
11)If we are a captain, we should be able to choose the playing XI
12) Interviews- there should be interviews on certain occassions like if you score a match winning knock or become the man of the match or player of the year etc and there should be 3-4 options to choose from and it can affect your career, eg if you speak against a player then he would be your rival and play hard against you or if you speak some good thing the team mentality can improve.
13) Some special cutscenes, like player sobbing in the dressing room after a WC Final loss or player dancing etc after a WC win.
Thank you for reading, these may be difficult to implement but it surely can be implemented and it would make the game fantastic!
 

kashan123999

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I was thinking is it possible that we could have the bowling circle around before the bowl gets delivered as an indication of length of the delivery and its possible direction? It'd make the game on higher difficulties much more fun as we'd not then pre-decide the shots. Moreover, It has been said time and again that edge frequency and implementation (as a function of sweet spot of the bat) needs a complete revamp.
 

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It'd be great if domestic teams from all test-playing nations were added in career mode, even with fictional names. It's strange for a Pakistani/South African to start his career in England or Australia.
 

hiyagasriiniyavan

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My suggestions for Bigants to improve new DBC 17 are:

IN BATTING:
(1)need more difficult in batting,(now legend difficult should be in pro)
(2)true 360 area shots and singles,and defend shots should go for four,all shots and stokes need in new game like real cricket without missing
(3)cap and helmet and NONE changing option should be in the game when batting
(4)walking shot needed
(5)forearm pads changing option when batting
(6)injury options should be in game when 2 or 3 times getting hurt by bowlers in 2 or 3 matchs then that player must miss some other matchs or tournment and GIVE other player chance
IN BOWLING:
(1)more swing in pace bowling and slightly decrease the metre length of good and perfect ball length,make it like YORKER metre,OVER PITCH Metre,LENGTH,GOOD LENGTH,SHOT LENGTH metre,and SHORT PITCH BALL
(2)need more spin and bounce in SPIN bowling, and speed of bowling must be diffierent,like 80 kms,87 kms,95 kms
(3)changing options rist,forehand bands when bowlers needed
(4)need more SLIP catchs,and behind catchs in new game and TOP edges in slow balls and caught and bowled in spin bowling
(5)diffierent types of bowlers actions in pace and spin bowling
(6)when spin bowling need options to bowl from edge of the creese and from near umpire
(7)injury options for bowlers should be in case of long spells with over speed countinuly in test matchs long spells in 2 or 3 matchs or in ODI 2 or 3 tournment long spells with over speed balls countinully should be make a bowler injury

Carreer:
(1)when playing from age 16 to 35 player should be change in apperrence and look,please make changing options in look, appearrence,bats,kits,helmets
(2)injury options for carreer players
 

warpfactor

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I'd certainly be interested in people's thoughts on that matter.
My preferred World Cup format would be 4 groups of 4 (similar to 2007) but then going straight into quarter finals rather than the super 8. No need to drag it out too long or guarantee India a certain number of games for TV rights purposes.

One other thing I'd enjoy would be better umpire selection in career mode. Currently it just picks two at the start of the career and they stand in every match rather than getting umpires selected intelligently for each match to better replicate what actually happens.

It would be great to be able to categorise umpires by level and nationality, so English umpires would officiate County matches, Australian umpires State matches, with a mix of Australian and other top level umpires at 'bbl' and Indian with other top level umpires at 'ipl'. Then in tests and international tournaments have two top level umpires of independent nations. Then in bilateral ODIs and T20Is have a top level independent umpire and a second level home umpire.
 
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RedskinsUK

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I only have a couple of requests that may have already been posted

1) more stadiums from England. We have some great ones like Headingley, Trent Bridge, and of course the Home of Cricket - Lords

2) As the womens game is becoming more and more popular and the games are enjoyable to watch can there be the ability to at least get this feature into the academy?

3)A performance structure would be good in career mode. If your not performing your dropped and need to get better perfomances in practices / nets to get back in?

4) More career modes / leagues to get picked for.

Although the current ones are good there should be more added like Carabean premier league etc...

5) keep up the great work you are doing for us Cricket fans. Absolutely luv DBC and cant wait for next version.
 

imVkohli

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Will we have a manager career mode or a coach career mode ?
 

ShARi1949

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Ihave couple of requests
1: in career mode if you are not performing well you should need to be dropped.
2: add ending ceremony that to ask captain how does it feel and give man of the match award
3: Add Pakistan career, New Zealand career, Indian career to start not just two nations like Australia and England
4: Aged problem in career mode if your age more you get selected quickly its not based on your performance change that too
I'll be very thankful to you if you will add these requests of mine plz
 

andy982183

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The bowling meter blocks half of the screen real estate, so convert the tachometer style to bar graph style.
 

kusudial

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Give the option to make or edit a calendar before the start of the year ( or just able to make your own calendar before career starts)

and give option to not to play in a game or series before the game starts
 

passwordistaco

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Wouldn't mind a news sort of thing where you can see cricket happenings around the world, games, milestones for players etc. Similar to what FIFA does. Would add to the career realism a bit.
 

Paras Jasal

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I wrote a long wishlist but seems that no one apparently read it xD.
Anyway another feature i want to see in the game is, before every series/tournament begins the squad of 16 players should be displayed in career mode & lineup should change even in middle of a tournament to, for example there is a spin pitch and spinners should be added by a captain instead of you and other pacers? or like there is a game with some big hitting team and its a vatting pitch, slow players can be dropped and big hitters in?
 

blockerdave

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A couple more things I think would be great:

Version control in match type /competition. Instead of taking a match type snapshot, the competition should know what version of the match type was in force when it was started. Any changes to that match type would create a new version: competitions started after that would know to use the new versions but competitions already going would know to use their version.

Ability to share match types and field sets via the academy

Ability to flag a field set as available to the AI or not.
 
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A way to create highlights so you can share them would be good. The game remembers all the big shots, well timed shots, crucial wickets and the important wickets. You have a highlight reel in the menu and you select which ones to make a video from.

@Paras Jasal
I read your list.
It is nothing you have done wrong but the majority of what you suggested has already been suggested before.
 

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