As I pointed out : For the more competitive amongst us. There is absolutely nothing wrong with casually playing on-or-offline.
It is easy to score 500+ runs on the easiest mode, that's why I suggested Pro and upwards. It can easily just be on Veteran, personally I'd like to see someone scoring 500+ on Veteran mode in a T20 match.
Why do the entire cricket community keep track of International records etc.
Records are made to be broken!
DBC online records are mainly most XP points and most wins, the leaders there doesn't necessary mean they are the best online players, it means they have spend countless hours online...
The main reason for stressing Career mode is because that you can not alter the players skills etc. you have to earn them. Personally I do not know of anyone who has started a career in DBC'14 from scratch and finishing it. My idea will improve the longevity of the career mode.
Just wanted to make myself clearer. For those of you anti leader boards and records that your problem as this thread is intended for
Features you want to see in next iteration of Big Ant Cricket.
You can edit player skills for career mode though? The vanilla game will have the fake players, but I can't imagine anyone won't immediately be replacing all of those with creations from the Academy and presumably the skills etc. will also carry over into career mode.
This means that the people at the top are more than likely going to have gotten there through cheesing it. Even on Veteran/Legend difficulty, if all of the opposition are skilled to be totally useless with 1 in all skills (and player attributes have a big impact as I hope they do) then you're going to have quite an easy time scoring loads of runs and taking loads of wickets. Locking down career mode to be less customisable for the sake of a leaderboard would be a real shame.
I agree with your approach to records and statistics, I would love the game to have extensive stat tracking as much as anybody. It would also be interesting to see how other people have been doing with their careers and their stats, but as long as all of that is saved locally then we can share such experiences on forums such as this one, in threads such as this;
How are you doing in your career? - Don Bradman Cricket 14 Forum on PlanetCricket Forums
Personally I don't see the value in a leaderboard if it doesn't measure skill in a level playing field, and possibly introduces limitations to the single player experience for the sake of trying to maintain the illusion of their integrity. So many games have leaderboards which are totally pointless because the people at the top are always either cheesing or hacking. Seen GTA leaderboards for races with laps taking less than a second, FIFA skill challenge scores of millions when the maximum possible legit score is a few thousand etc...
Solution : Have a separate feature where you choose a fixed team (fixed players with fixed skills etc.) vs AI (also fixed team with fixed players skills )
Everyone has an equal chance to get the best scores etc.
I quite like this idea actually, maybe a sort of Stick Cricket style daily challenge where you have to use the set teams/stadium/conditions and go for a high score in 5/10/20 overs. Probably wouldn't play it myself but as long as you can make sure everyone has to use the same skilled players, it would be a fair challenge worth having a leaderboard for. On PC especially I imagine people would still hack it in some way to get to the top though.
You're entitled to your views and to express them here, and I don't disagree with many the ideas or think leaderboards are pointless. In some games I'm quite competitive too and like to see where I can get on the leaderboards (e.g. Trials Evolution times/scores) but don't see how it would benefit DBC's career mode. You have a different view and that's fine, you seem like the competitive type from your high scores in the Arcade on here
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