General Discussion

[Cricketman]

How about live matches? they have it on cricsim, and i think it's quite good!

 

[Ollie_H]

I would love to be able to test this. I have vista so can check compatibility issues.

 

[treva]

I would like to be put down as a tester, seeing as I sim both competitions and would love to test the thing out

Good luck to you guys, I was thinking the other day that someone should try a new version out. This would make our Cricsim unique to others around...

 

[Abhas]

How Different is C# from C++?? I have never used C#. If it is similar to Java, it must be quite similar to C++ as well.

Lemme brush up my knowledge quickly

 

[Kshitiz_Indian]

Oh my my, I just read this thread. Pretty nice Sohum.

Infact, if you talk to Simon, I had come up with the idea quite ago in an MSN chat with Simon but I dropped it due to its vastness and me being only one at that time.

I would certainly like to help with this project. I'm pretty good at vb.net now, thanks to some recent projects like the scoreboard manipulator and Mod Manager, and especially AbBh and Colin. But I've seen you're not interested in vb.net.

My point is, these types of programs could be easily made in vb.net, dunno much about the flexibility part but modular programming in vb.net is very much possible. But then I don't think many people in the coding team know vb.net!

On the other hand of vb.net, I've started learning C++ too. I know some OOP concepts already, not many though, and I'm sure I'll grasp C++ pretty quickly. Visual I've heard is the IDE so that should not be a problem. So I would definitely like to be in the coding team

Good luck to all guys.

 

[Abhas]

Great.I was expecting you to be in the coding team.
Any chances of AbBh ??

 

[Kshitiz_Indian]

I don't think he would be having the time for this, he's pretty busy these days.

Infact even I won't be having like 8 hours a day! But I'll be willing to find time for this project.

 

[Abhas]

Yeah, same here. My late nights are over, coz i've started Gymming in the morning. So, Hoping i can take out enough time during the day.

 

[Insomniac]

If you centeralize the server in a way that anyone can use it, wouldn't it be prone to being "hacked" and edited.

Just something to keep an eye on, whether it can be edited by any normal user if it is made available to every Tom, Dick, and Harry.

 

[Abhas]

There will be security options present to counter that.

The accessibility is a much minor issue when compared to the actual coding of the project.
We need to decide on the programming language and databases first before we can even proceed to think about the algorithms.

 

[Kshitiz_Indian]

I seriously don't think we should go for web programming. Windows programming should be best for this purpose.

ROFL, I just read somewhere, the original Cricksim was made in QuickBasic!

 

[Abhas]

Lol.. TBH it's not a surprise, no wonder its so buggy

Even Foxpro can handle this easily.

Lets do a vote count.
I vote for C++ / C#

 

[ZoraxDoom]

Good luck with this. If you need commentary lines, I could write bucketfulls...

I say keep this simple. Batting skill value, bowling skill value, and fielding skill. Batting skill value is all inclusive of average, strike rate, and same with bowling skill. Different bowling types, pitches, batting handedness.

It would be nice if you built a basic model where match situation affects how the team or players play.

Also would be nice if you could pick the bowlers to bowl.

After this, then I figure you can make it more complex. You can then have values for economy, strike rates, average, etc. along with a more complex engine.

Good luck again.

 

[Kshitiz_Indian]

The simpler it is, the faster and easier it is to make it. I guess everybody would know it and act accordingly!

 

[sohum]

I had this in mind, thats why i suggested a web based application. I suppose we can host it on the PC host (if possible), so there won't be costs involved.

I seriously don't think we should go for web programming. Windows programming should be best for this purpose.

I personally think the only thing we should centralize (if anything) is the database server. Web-based would be nice but I think it would take a lot longer to debug and get the kinks out of. Type-checking is a really non-trivial thing here--trust me when I tell you that you really want to take advantage of the VS debugger and compiler! The high-level code we develop can always be ported to PHP/ASP once we are done with the implementation, if there is a real need for it.

Anyhow, if we use ODBC it should not matter what DB software we use. So the main decision we need to make here is whether we want a client-server solution or whether each client keeps its own database.

sohummisra added 1 Minutes and 43 Seconds later...

How about live matches? they have it on cricsim, and i think it's quite good!

In theory this would not be that hard if we centralize the database, because the engine could just sleep in between calls and we can develop a game viewer that refreshes every 90 seconds and pulls the latest data from the DB.

sohummisra added 2 Minutes and 41 Seconds later...

I would like to be put down as a tester, seeing as I sim both competitions and would love to test the thing out

As I mentioned earlier, you, aus5892 or w3lshrugby may be the testing lead (depending on who wants to organize it). These decisions will probably be the next ones after we choose the implementation languages. Whoever is testing lead will be responsible for choosing their team (you can use the list of volunteers, of course) and basically testing the program out for usability and realism.

sohummisra added 1 Minutes and 47 Seconds later...

How Different is C# from C++?? I have never used C#. If it is similar to Java, it must be quite similar to C++ as well.

Lemme brush up my knowledge quickly

If you know Java and C++ you should have no trouble jumping into C#. I found it a pretty easy transition from a Java background and having a C++ background will definitely help you when it comes to some of the memory management issues and namespaces and such.