Black Thunder
School Cricketer
- Joined
- Apr 9, 2006
- Online Cricket Games Owned
I've been playing the game for the last day or so and have played one full year (or close to) as Australia and have found the following bugs for you guys to look at:
- Shane Warne is not available for selection in the tests even though it says he's retired from one-day cricket.
- List of international tours should be in chronological order when you go there from the Test and ODI rankings. This is only a minor thing.
- The Australian domestic competition doesn't have batting and bowling bonus points.
- There should be the announcement of retirements for anyone from your home country. At the end of the 2006 Stuart MacGill just dissapeared from the "pool of players" but there was no announcement. I also think anyone who's played 20 or more international games from another country should come on the news as a retirement announcement.
- There should be more general news (maybe in the second edition this could be looked at) as it creates a little bit more between games rather than just clicking which gets a bit repetitive and boring. One of the great things about Football Manager is how it keeps you intrigued even when your not playing games because there's so much news. Things like internaitonal debuts, FC debuts within your own country, Milestones (centuries, 5-wicket hauls, hat tricks, careers runs in FC and/or test cricket, being picked as captain for the first time etc,.) should all come up in the news section.
- In the game engine you should be able to see the full bowling card and the batting teams partnerships at any point.
- For some reason when i go on to "today's scoreboard" every now and then when i run the mouse over a game i can't actually go to the match summary. This happens maybe one in every five to six games that appears on the scoreboard.
- When Australia were due to play their first test against England it was on November 9. THere was a round of shield games on November 6 but all the Australian players played in this round because i had a cleared selection on the Australian page. I picked my 12-man squad on the 8th, which meant on the 9th my Australian players played in both the first day of test and the last day of the shield games.
- I couldn't change my squad from the first to the second test.
- In one of the games Ponting was dismissed but continued to bat. In the scorecard section it showed him as "lbw Anderson" but continued to score runs. Eevntually he got bowled by Hoggard and the scorecard changed to show "bwd Hoggard". The wicket also got contributed to Anderson and at the end of the innings it showed 11 wickets being taken by England (Anderson 5, Hoggard 3 and Harmison 3).
- For some reason whenever Western Australia play they have guys who are batsman (usually Sean Marsh and Adam Voged) batting 10 and 11. This isn't a database error (i.e. these guys being listed as bowlers instead of batsman) becaus ethey are still listed with the bat symbol next to them.
Aside from those i haven't come accross anything else although like any windows application i'm sure there are others (hey, even Microsoft Word is full of bugs if you search hard enough) which we will eventually found and be taken out of the game.
But tthis game is a definate improvement on the original version released and it's great to see the developers working to improve it.
For this reason, and also because i believe the only way the series can develop with further more improved editions is if the developers are getting some sort of financial benefit, i will be buying the game when i get a chance this week. And i also encourage others who have the money to do so as well.
The first step for the develepors is to get rid of as many bugs as they can, releasing a new version every couple of weeks, and then working on a second edition. I honestly don't think it would be worth their while trying to incorporate any new features into the game as it could lead to further problems which could actually set them back.
Once that occurs a few things i would like to put on the wishlist for the developers:
- More news. I believe the following should be given news status:
:: Any contract signing by the teams located within your country.
:: Any contract signing by a player who's nationality is listed as the country which you manage in.
:: Any contract signing by a player from another country who has played 50 or more international games (tests and ODI's combined)
:: Retirements as above
:: Milestones within Test and ODI matches - debuts, centuries, 4 and 5-wicket hauls, hat tricks, career milestones such as thousand runs, fifty wickets etc,.)
:: The same Milestones in FC matches involving players from the country which you manage.
:: Milestones in FC matches not involving players from your country, but involve players who've played 50 international matches.
:: Any firing and re-hiring of coaches
:: End of Month updates of all Domestic compeititons during the season
:: End of Season summary of all Domestic competitions (winners, top runscorers, wickettakers etc,.)
:: Injuries to plays within the country your managing.
:: Injuries to significant international cricketers (50 or more).
- The obvious thing everyone has bought up is training. Even something very basic to begin with which could then develop into a more complex training scheme in future editions.
- A potential improvement ratings on players.
- An overall ratings for batsman (same as skill for bowlers)
- More skills breakdown for bowlers.
- A fitness attribute (there may already be one - i just thought of it but don't know if it's in there)
- Mental attributes for a player: composure (performance under pressure), loyalty, determination and mental fitness is probably all that is required for now.
- International "A" Games
- When being the national manager, the ability to request FC teams pick certain players. FC team can agree or reject that request.
- Fielding positions. This is the big one. Even if it's a set of 5 pre set fields.
- Ability to command a batsman to take over the strike - useful in ICC for the end of an innings with a batsman shielding the tailend.
There are a few others but that will do for starters.
I think given the developements since the first version was released i believe we could be on track for a fantastic series of cricket management games.
It's just going to take time and patience and a thick skin from the developers to happen.
- Shane Warne is not available for selection in the tests even though it says he's retired from one-day cricket.
- List of international tours should be in chronological order when you go there from the Test and ODI rankings. This is only a minor thing.
- The Australian domestic competition doesn't have batting and bowling bonus points.
- There should be the announcement of retirements for anyone from your home country. At the end of the 2006 Stuart MacGill just dissapeared from the "pool of players" but there was no announcement. I also think anyone who's played 20 or more international games from another country should come on the news as a retirement announcement.
- There should be more general news (maybe in the second edition this could be looked at) as it creates a little bit more between games rather than just clicking which gets a bit repetitive and boring. One of the great things about Football Manager is how it keeps you intrigued even when your not playing games because there's so much news. Things like internaitonal debuts, FC debuts within your own country, Milestones (centuries, 5-wicket hauls, hat tricks, careers runs in FC and/or test cricket, being picked as captain for the first time etc,.) should all come up in the news section.
- In the game engine you should be able to see the full bowling card and the batting teams partnerships at any point.
- For some reason when i go on to "today's scoreboard" every now and then when i run the mouse over a game i can't actually go to the match summary. This happens maybe one in every five to six games that appears on the scoreboard.
- When Australia were due to play their first test against England it was on November 9. THere was a round of shield games on November 6 but all the Australian players played in this round because i had a cleared selection on the Australian page. I picked my 12-man squad on the 8th, which meant on the 9th my Australian players played in both the first day of test and the last day of the shield games.
- I couldn't change my squad from the first to the second test.
- In one of the games Ponting was dismissed but continued to bat. In the scorecard section it showed him as "lbw Anderson" but continued to score runs. Eevntually he got bowled by Hoggard and the scorecard changed to show "bwd Hoggard". The wicket also got contributed to Anderson and at the end of the innings it showed 11 wickets being taken by England (Anderson 5, Hoggard 3 and Harmison 3).
- For some reason whenever Western Australia play they have guys who are batsman (usually Sean Marsh and Adam Voged) batting 10 and 11. This isn't a database error (i.e. these guys being listed as bowlers instead of batsman) becaus ethey are still listed with the bat symbol next to them.
Aside from those i haven't come accross anything else although like any windows application i'm sure there are others (hey, even Microsoft Word is full of bugs if you search hard enough) which we will eventually found and be taken out of the game.
But tthis game is a definate improvement on the original version released and it's great to see the developers working to improve it.
For this reason, and also because i believe the only way the series can develop with further more improved editions is if the developers are getting some sort of financial benefit, i will be buying the game when i get a chance this week. And i also encourage others who have the money to do so as well.
The first step for the develepors is to get rid of as many bugs as they can, releasing a new version every couple of weeks, and then working on a second edition. I honestly don't think it would be worth their while trying to incorporate any new features into the game as it could lead to further problems which could actually set them back.
Once that occurs a few things i would like to put on the wishlist for the developers:
- More news. I believe the following should be given news status:
:: Any contract signing by the teams located within your country.
:: Any contract signing by a player who's nationality is listed as the country which you manage in.
:: Any contract signing by a player from another country who has played 50 or more international games (tests and ODI's combined)
:: Retirements as above
:: Milestones within Test and ODI matches - debuts, centuries, 4 and 5-wicket hauls, hat tricks, career milestones such as thousand runs, fifty wickets etc,.)
:: The same Milestones in FC matches involving players from the country which you manage.
:: Milestones in FC matches not involving players from your country, but involve players who've played 50 international matches.
:: Any firing and re-hiring of coaches
:: End of Month updates of all Domestic compeititons during the season
:: End of Season summary of all Domestic competitions (winners, top runscorers, wickettakers etc,.)
:: Injuries to plays within the country your managing.
:: Injuries to significant international cricketers (50 or more).
- The obvious thing everyone has bought up is training. Even something very basic to begin with which could then develop into a more complex training scheme in future editions.
- A potential improvement ratings on players.
- An overall ratings for batsman (same as skill for bowlers)
- More skills breakdown for bowlers.
- A fitness attribute (there may already be one - i just thought of it but don't know if it's in there)
- Mental attributes for a player: composure (performance under pressure), loyalty, determination and mental fitness is probably all that is required for now.
- International "A" Games
- When being the national manager, the ability to request FC teams pick certain players. FC team can agree or reject that request.
- Fielding positions. This is the big one. Even if it's a set of 5 pre set fields.
- Ability to command a batsman to take over the strike - useful in ICC for the end of an innings with a batsman shielding the tailend.
There are a few others but that will do for starters.
I think given the developements since the first version was released i believe we could be on track for a fantastic series of cricket management games.
It's just going to take time and patience and a thick skin from the developers to happen.
