Cricket Academy Feedback/Suggestions/Bugs Thread

[blockerdave]

Thanks Ross.
Basically would just be awesome if the link went 2 ways and merged the players, so I had one entry, not 2 (and it had stats).

 

[BigAntStudios]

I was editing my player again to assign attributes - I noticed that if you set a skill to any level it counts towards the overall balance of batsman/all-rounder/bowler regardless of how high you rate that.

What approach should we take there? I'm making just a plain bowler, but want to show a preference to the different kind of shots that I attempt to play - but don't want to try and say that because I have put two dots onto a front foot shot that I'm suddenly an all rounder.

If you have 70% of your skills in one group (batting skills or bowling skills) then you are a specialist, otherwise you are an all-rounder.

So in your case the approach would be to keep the batting skills at relatively low values to the bowling skills. Vice versa if you want a specialised bowler.

Yes and no... When there's not much to choose (e.g. Knott and Russell) it's pretty subjective. When its comparing a guy with a 37 average to guys who trip off the tongue when mentiooning English great batsman it's less subjective I think.

I grew up watching Athers and he held England's batting together im a very weak side and he was "great" in terms of his English peers in that era, and certainly played some unquestionably great innings. Is he an all time great for England? Don't think so. I can only say that when it took be a while to figure out who M Atkinson was because Atherton didn't enter my mind in terms of all time England. Had there been a P Mall I would have immediately thought Peter May even though Atherton was very much my era and May retired years before I was a glint in the milkman's eye. I think that's a reasonable yardstick.

I just thought I'd throw it out there for consideration, if it wasn't too late.

The biggest issues for me are 1)Will there be a Cowdrey commentary name when they are finalised because there is a Cowdrey generic player? 2)Will I be able to create an umpire directly rather than make a player then have him available to umpire?

None of the team lists are a definitive this is how it must be. There's opinion and subjectivity that's why we have the Academy. If you don't like the roster that is there by default then you can change it as you see fit. You just might need to do some manual changing up to get them in the specific team that you want.

Cowdrey will be a commentary name.

Umpires will not be able to be created directly.

I've had about an hours play on the update. A few things have struck me. I've edited a couple of players and noticed the green bars for skills and attributes move very slowly and this is making it very time consuming, this could be because my laptop isn't particularly fast, is anyone else experiencing this? Just thought oh my god I've got around 200 players to edit

Secondly, the green bar isn't very clear and again could be my laptop, but I would much prefer a number rating out of 100 maybe for each skill/attribute. This would be more precise as at the moment its hard for me to tell where the green actually ends. For example I personally want to set say Tendulkar's batting stats around 95 and Ponting maybe 93, but at the moment its going to be pretty hard to tell if I've got the skills accurate relative to each player.

I would like to know others opinion on the rating out of 100 point, its a suggestion more than a criticism by the way.

You can use the touchpad/mouse to quickly set the skills and attributes.

With regards to how the ratings bars are set up, that is how it will be in the final version and it will be balanced appropriately.

so it seems if i link a player, it creates a 2nd player?

i.e. I had a SF Barnes, I linked him to the Barnes generic player in the england all time best. now i have a barnes in that team with all the stats, and the other barnes with no stats? that's pretty annoying as it doubles my work - i have to replace the unlinked barnes with the linked one wherever i used him.

When you link a player, if you have any of the checkboxes un-checked then what happens is the selected elements of the player being linked over get replaced, and the other player remains as is. If you select to link all elements of the players then the 'other' player gets deleted as they would be identical.

 

[MattW]

Just wondering if we could get the drilldown options for the team groups into every place that a team list gets shown? For example when you're adding a player to a team you get the big long list of teams without the handy groupings.

 

[Snowy]

When you link a player, if you have any of the checkboxes un-checked then what happens is the selected elements of the player being linked over get replaced, and the other player remains as is. If you select to link all elements of the players then the 'other' player gets deleted as they would be identical.

If one were to link all elements and the 'other' player gets 'deleted', then would unlinking the player guarantee that both the original disc player (e.g. M Church) and the created player (e.g. Michael Clarke) would still exist?

 

[MattW]

Minor bug.

 

[BigAntStudios]

Minor bug.

Thanks for that, the more bugs you guys find the tighter the patch will be. Keep'em coming


so... I have to ask - what's with the signature?

 

[Biggs]

I have to ask - what's with the signature?

He's waiting for an image to replace it of a glorious cover drive with the TGGI Bat...

 

[MattW]

Thanks for that, the more bugs you guys find the tighter the patch will be. Keep'em coming

Just for you...

 

[saif258]

pegi has failed me.thats disturbing.theres a dude on top of the stands.

 

[BigAntStudios]

pegi has failed me.thats disturbing.theres a dude on top of the stands.

That wasn't there before.... was it? I can't have missed that!

I guess Chief did say you could put them anywhere....

 

[aditya123]

Ross, is there a way you guys could allow for the team names to be printed on the front of the kits via CA. Would it have legal ramifications? Also, does the sponsor on the Chennai t-shirt say 'Loop'? There is a cellphone company called Loop mobile in India. Make sure you keep away from any likeness to them (in case you don`t have license.) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loop_Mobile. Just wanted to bring it to your notice, just in case. We don`t want a third rate cellphone service provider causing trouble to a promising game due to some vague logo likeness.

 

[MattW]

Ross, is there a way you guys could allow for the team names to be printed on the front of the kits via CA.

And second to this - can there be the option for either multiple sponsors or to not show the logos everywhere - it seems odd having the same logo both across the stomach and on the chest.

 

[BigAntStudios]

I'll run these past the guys tomorrow.

 

[MattW]

Just in case you need to replace Loop as a sponsor...

 

[sahilnatu]

Just in case you need to replace Loop as a sponsor...

You smell of Biggs.