Astronot_Yet
School Cricketer
I've found that as soon as I take out second or third slip accidental edges start being generated that go through the gap. There is clearly some scripting here to provide an artificial penalty when you remove slips.
That said first slip seems useless as the keeper always seems to magically leap across and take a catch there. This is the same keeper who runs forward and gives away byes to bouncers. There seems to be nothing you can do to stop this. (A workaround is to take out first slip and make him a backstop on the boundary if you are bowling bouncers... but that is just silly and uncricketlike.)
These are issues that should have been sorted by now. They are not minor quirks as they fundamentally affect fielding positions.
Exactly. I remember in Ashes 17, I used to put my "slips" at the edge of the 30 yard circle. And even then many of the "edges" were caught by the 3rd man instead. But at least there were some catchable edges. Cricket 19 seems to have broken up the entire system. Not sure about other consoles, but on PC, it's really disappointing to see no slip dismissals in over 500 overs of Test Cricket for me.