OK Here is my Wishlist for next versions career mode (as this is really the mode i am obsessed with)
I totally understand that some of these are totally unrealistic and not possible, Im just throwing ideas out there:
* Annual Ranking Points to be spent on something like example:
1. Training camps: So your good down legside but just cant play offside shots, well at the end of the year you can spend 3,000 annual ranking points on the Offside training camp that improves your attributes! other training camps could be Power Hitting, Bowling Yorkers, Defence, Outswingers, Catching etc etc
2. More Powerful equipment: 2,500 annual ranking points buys you Biggs super bat that gives you a bonus to your power hitting, or maybe a different bat that gives you a bonus to your defence, buying better cricket shoes may make you run faster, or make your footwork better, gloves could help your reflexes, a new helmet may help you play short balls better etc etc
3. Publicity: 5,000 ranking points might buy you a front page spread in the newspaper, which may then get you more attention from the international, IPL and county selectors
4. Pretty much anything to make earning the reward points worth it, as right now, Im not sure what the point of earning these points are??
* Speaking of Newspapers, maybe once a month a newspaper comes out and talks about whats happening in career mode, how well your going depends on what type of article you get, dominating International may get you the Back or front page spreads of the sports section, sucking in domestic cricket may get you a little paragraph down the bnottom of some pointless page??
* One thing id love to see in Career mode is Player awards! Domestic cricket awards, IPL cricket awards etc etc ICC Awards.... Team of the year, player of the year, Batsman of the year, allrounder of the year, Innings of the year anything..... Give yourself some major achievement. 10 years in you could be known as 2 time MVP of the Sheffield Shield, 3 time ICC cricketer of the year...
* Adding further to that maybe a page which list your milestones on career mode. Like this player has won 6 X BBL title, 3 X sheffield shield Titles, 6 X County champions, 3 X T20World Cup winner, 2 x Ashes winner and also stuff like listing 7 centuries, 10 50's in Domestic one dayers, or something a little bit more flashy for your achievements
* expanding a little, Id love a little more in depth ont he stats, Like listings of your Highest Partnerships in certain forms, or even a dedicated page to you listing your year by year stats in further detail, Im a stats man, and so are the majority of cricket lovers, stats mean everything to us
I have a heap more in my head, but i wont expand just yet
By know means take this as any kind of criticism, even though i have been playing games for 25+ years i have no idea how hard these things are too implement so i dont want to be ignorant
But Id love to build this career mode into not just a sporting game, but a quality RPG game as well, which can be asily done by the simplest of allowing people to upgrade equipment and improve attributes like all quality RPG, MMORPG or Slash and Hack games do
Why not try and implement the best of both worlds into one epic career mode game
I do understand the budgets are limited, but hopefully DBC sells like hotcakes and you boys make millions to enhance the budget for the next iteration??
I got more, i might add later Rosco
but here is that post where I suggested the above idea:
