Team Career Mode

[gregOldswindford]

I think there should be a new mode added which allows you to pick a team and play a career mode with that team and control all players. You could also make signings and pick your team. And you could also have the same selection process as player career mode but for what teams you are able to manage eg. Start as a county manager and work your way up to international or IPL. Another thing is that you could train your players to make them better.

I think this would be a good addition to the game whether it's in the next update or a futre game.

 

[Biggs]

You can already do that, it's called Cricket Coach 2014

 

[gregOldswindford]

You can already do that, it's called Cricket Coach 2014[/QUOTE

That's not on console ( I play DBC14 on xbox one ) and you can't control the players yourself in game.

 

[Biggs]

Genuinely not sure what you're going on about. If you want to play as a team, you play a casual, tour or competition game. You can create your own tours or competitions and play as a team in the academy/arcade modes. If you want a team simulator and do signings and "Manage" a team, you turn on your PC and buy Cricket Coach. They're two completely different styles of game.

It's like requesting a first person shooter mode be included in a role playing game.

 

[Skankhunt 42]

I can understand where's he coming from......... it's FIFA effect!

 

[Pat]

I think there should be a new mode added which allows you to pick a team and play a career mode with that team and control all players. You could also make signings and pick your team. And you could also have the same selection process as player career mode but for what teams you are able to manage eg. Start as a county manager and work your way up to international or IPL. Another thing is that you could train your players to make them better.

I think this would be a good addition to the game whether it's in the next update or a futre game.

If my memory serves right, that was the original plan for career mode in DBC. But they found individual career mode to more sensible/useful to implement and hence, went ahead with that.

 

[blockerdave]

I've never understood the attraction of this mode type, which a few people have asked for: it's a bugger's muddle.

Cricket doesn't have a transfer market, so what sort of "signings" do you make? The coach doesn't have as much influence on the on-pitch action as a football/rugby coach. And especially they don't have control over every player: a player might not follow team orders.

This would be a terrible addition, and I hope Big Ant don't waste their time on it when the actual career mode needs a lot if fleshing out in terms of retirees & regens, selection flexibility, appearance/equipment changes etc.

 

[Markkkkk]

I've never understood the attraction of this mode type, which a few people have asked for: it's a bugger's muddle.

Cricket doesn't have a transfer market, so what sort of "signings" do you make? The coach doesn't have as much influence on the on-pitch action as a football/rugby coach. And especially they don't have control over every player: a player might not follow team orders.

This would be a terrible addition, and I hope Big Ant don't waste their time on it when the actual career mode needs a lot if fleshing out in terms of retirees & regens, selection flexibility, appearance/equipment changes etc.

Oh Dave I am sad to inform you that I 150% disagree with you. I would definantly want a team career mode and I think its one of the most needed additions (Besides the often mentioned others like AI, stats etc.). Now I agree with you, there are no transfers in cricket so a club career mode is pointles, HOWEVER a international team career mode would tie up so many loose ends. It would be the exact same as the player career mode, except you're managing a team for example PNG (reason why later), as PNG you have to arrange tours or let the board do it and play your way up and up and after many years of doing this you could be awarded Test stauts (Unrealistic but why would we want to follow the ICC anyway?). It would only work however with the fixes that player career mode need (The ones you mentioned), as you progress up the ranks cricket becomes more popular and hence your regens become better and better, or you are SAF and you drop rankings and hence your regens are worse. As you plod along your adventure you could check the U19 and U21 and A sides of the PNG cricket and watch as some U19 wonderkid decdes he'd rather play for England and becomes unselectable (Gary Jones) or you find a late bloomer who ends up being a Key player at the age of 34 (Chris Rogers). See this is what the game is missing, its all the same, Ill play a test vs WI and after that the stats might be updated and everything is reset. A career mode like this would add so much longetivity as you are hooked on playing to see if your 19 year old regen who the public said was a waste of time is now 30 runs from being the fastest to 5000 runs.

 

[blockerdave]

Oh Dave I am sad to inform you that I 150% disagree with you. I would definantly want a team career mode and I think its one of the most needed additions (Besides the often mentioned others like AI, stats etc.). Now I agree with you, there are no transfers in cricket so a club career mode is pointles, HOWEVER a international team career mode would tie up so many loose ends. It would be the exact same as the player career mode, except you're managing a team for example PNG (reason why later), as PNG you have to arrange tours or let the board do it and play your way up and up and after many years of doing this you could be awarded Test stauts (Unrealistic but why would we want to follow the ICC anyway?). It would only work however with the fixes that player career mode need (The ones you mentioned), as you progress up the ranks cricket becomes more popular and hence your regens become better and better, or you are SAF and you drop rankings and hence your regens are worse. As you plod along your adventure you could check the U19 and U21 and A sides of the PNG cricket and watch as some U19 wonderkid decdes he'd rather play for England and becomes unselectable (Gary Jones) or you find a late bloomer who ends up being a Key player at the age of 34 (Chris Rogers). See this is what the game is missing, its all the same, Ill play a test vs WI and after that the stats might be updated and everything is reset. A career mode like this would add so much longetivity as you are hooked on playing to see if your 19 year old regen who the public said was a waste of time is now 30 runs from being the fastest to 5000 runs.

Sounds gash. If it's management only, they need to build a new game engine. If you control every player, it's not about management/selection/identifying players etc it's about how good you are at playing.

 

[Biggs]

Don Bradman Cricket is first and foremost an arcade cricket game, pick-up-and-play focussed. The Career mode is there for us and for longevity, it's not ever going to be rejigged to be a team management simulator because the amount of casual fans who would enjoy that part of cricket would be a tiny fraction of the purchasing market. I'd much prefer the single-career mode stayed and was fleshed out with relevant achievements and starting from College all the way through to International level. Cut scenes of receiving your first "cap" throughout all these levels, getting to "level up" your character with new gear, custom assignment of XP so you can design your character how you like, all that and more.

....again, if you want to manage a team, you can do aspects of that via the Academy Tour creator, making your own tours and match types and so on. Anything else, it's another game entirely.

 

[grkrama]

I would also like creating Cricket administrators in the academy so i can custom create N.Srinivason and Giles clarke share and have board room sim. them making under-table deals, big 3 stitch ups, behind closed doors on the other side of the practice nets area, went out anger on the santa when they have disagreements on who gets a bigger share of the pie or when incensed at outside cricket folks for having the temerity to ask them questions etc.

option to have moles and GC hairstyle a must.


personally I wouldnt mind having seasons with teams though instead of just tours, like we had in EA07 with player form carrying between matches, but wouldn't want it clumbered with other management stuff other than squad selection.Still wont give it much of a priority. it should be like end of the list[certainly not until career is properly done and over even if it takes another couple of iterations] and fleshing out career is right up there in the priority.

 

[grkrama]

hmmmm...On second thought @Markkkkk 's idea does have potential

Rather than calling it management in the category of cricket coach or captain etc. iwouldnt want all that contract signing up stuff.

This would be like more like BCC mode [stick to Intl teams only]

It starts with all teams with their base rankings , let the mode have 20 odd seasons mirroring career, [hope this time a proper FTA with both away and home type matches are scheduled]


Based on the team performance team rankings change[obviously in a biased way to promote bcc 3]

Other than that may be throw in a Player of the year award, so when someone from zim or ban gets one it will be extraordinary.

Throw in the WC, Test championship, Ashes for eng& Aus if you can get license it will create a drama &story on its own.[this is a must for career as well]

I would say that's about it as long as improved stats and ability to change squads are included in the next iteration, this should be gold.

Most of the kicks out of this mode other than gameplay would be got through, squad management[just selecting players from the team pools on our choice] , stats and rankings.

 

[whiteninness]

I like how someone gives a suggestion for the game and instead of properly discussing it people simply say "it is inappropriate, no one will want it".

 

[blockerdave]

I like how someone gives a suggestion for the game and instead of properly discussing it people simply say "it is inappropriate, no one will want it".

I acknowledged people have been asking for the feature, I said I don't understand the attraction.

The suggested mode has no internal logic and would be a poor addition.

If it's pure management, let's take domestic cricket: well what "signings" do you make when there's little or no transfer system? What's the point in making somebody a star player when you a) can't sell him for millions to improve finances like in football and b) if the game is realistic he'll get a national contract and hardly play for you?

If you're given playing control of the whole 11, the management aspect disappears. Why unearth a promising leg spinner if you can't bowl spin? How do you ask your middle order to play out the draw if it's you playing? You find a brilliant conservative opener, but you play a shot a ball? It doesn't work.

Flesh out single career mode - add international tournaments and test rankings, make captaincy more meaningful by giving us a say in selection, tactics, bowling plans etc. that would add much more than the OP suggestion which really isn't a properly thought out mode at all.

 

[whiteninness]

I know that there is a fundamental difference between management style games and arcade games. Arcade games will ultimately be won and lost by your skill with the controller. Nevertheless, that doesn't stop soccer, basketball, hockey etc from having reasonably deep managerial modes, albeit not at the same level as Football Manager.

I think there is scope. It doesn't have to be in depth. As a first step, it could basically be just stringing together tours with player progression and generation. That's what the career mode needs too, because right now it's completely static which is a killer for me.

Controlling a national side, watching young kids come through the state system, picking your squad for different tours, watching your international rankings rise and fall, lots of stat tracking... These are all things I think a lot of people would be keen on.