Dear All,
Here's a list of some features that I would love to see in Cricket Captain. Some of these should be very easy to adopt for the developers, I believe:
A. Some gloss and glamours, particularly some features so that achievements and failures feel consequential/significant
1. DRS
2. Rain affected games for ODI and T20s, complete washouts for some tests, ODIs and T20s
3. Player pictures for AI players
4. News feeds & press-conference like questionnaires [similar to Football Manager, even Cricket Coach has this feature] - even real players and coaches like to receive feedback and read news/articles about them/their games/achievements. Cricket Captain can go one step further by adding some challenging comments from ex-players, commentators, journalists - e.g. that particular player is poor on short ball, that country is not good at playing spin or playing abroad, a win of a particular country is an upset etc, these sets some challenges/urge to achieve certain things and proof people wrong
5. Congratulation/ cup screens for winners - like the pre-2005 versions
6. Cup/ trophy counts like Football Manager, plus hall of fame
7. Player of the match, player of the tournament, top scorer, top wicket taker, top allrounder features following tournaments/serieses [e.g. world cup], player of the year, team of the year, bowler of the year, best young player of the world and similar awards categories
8. Comparison statistics for top retired players - so that you can rank them - e.g. I am in 2303 with the 2005 version, I would have loved to see the stats of my top retired players like how many of them scored 20+ ODI/test centuries, 10000+ runs in tests/ODI, 500+ wickets etc
9. Double century counts like 50s and 100s
10. 30+ runs counts for T20s
B. Management features/ developing players
11. Options to appoint assistant coaches and physios who would have real impact on players
12. More features for training
13. Cricket coach/ football manager type skills bar so that you can judge precisely how your players compare. Right now, the only way to judge this is by comparing their salaries.
14. Options to change team/ apply for other jobs/ options to get fired
C. Game experience
15. New playing engine. The current engine is being used since 2008. The current version also looks very clumsy and slow.
D. Management options
16. Under 19 and women's world cup, series
17. A team series tours
18. Options to manage U19 and A/B teams in addition to the main teams
19. World Cricket League [does not have to be playable] with options for the teams in the WCL to qualify for major tournaments
20. Options to schedule additional matches/ series
21. Other major tournaments such as the Asia Cup
E. Editor
22. Football Manager type game/player editor can be attractive
23. A fixtures editor with the options to change tournament structures - this is going to be great. Furthermore, given that the formats of major tournaments changes frequently - e.g. men's ODI world cup, this might be a handy option
24. Option to arrange multi-team tournaments and play those, like we can now play the world cup, champions trophy, ashes tournaments and bilateral series.
Finally,
25. Could we have T10 tournaments too? This is surely going to be added to international tournaments in 10-15 years.
Many thanks
Here's a list of some features that I would love to see in Cricket Captain. Some of these should be very easy to adopt for the developers, I believe:
A. Some gloss and glamours, particularly some features so that achievements and failures feel consequential/significant
1. DRS
2. Rain affected games for ODI and T20s, complete washouts for some tests, ODIs and T20s
3. Player pictures for AI players
4. News feeds & press-conference like questionnaires [similar to Football Manager, even Cricket Coach has this feature] - even real players and coaches like to receive feedback and read news/articles about them/their games/achievements. Cricket Captain can go one step further by adding some challenging comments from ex-players, commentators, journalists - e.g. that particular player is poor on short ball, that country is not good at playing spin or playing abroad, a win of a particular country is an upset etc, these sets some challenges/urge to achieve certain things and proof people wrong
5. Congratulation/ cup screens for winners - like the pre-2005 versions
6. Cup/ trophy counts like Football Manager, plus hall of fame
7. Player of the match, player of the tournament, top scorer, top wicket taker, top allrounder features following tournaments/serieses [e.g. world cup], player of the year, team of the year, bowler of the year, best young player of the world and similar awards categories
8. Comparison statistics for top retired players - so that you can rank them - e.g. I am in 2303 with the 2005 version, I would have loved to see the stats of my top retired players like how many of them scored 20+ ODI/test centuries, 10000+ runs in tests/ODI, 500+ wickets etc
9. Double century counts like 50s and 100s
10. 30+ runs counts for T20s
B. Management features/ developing players
11. Options to appoint assistant coaches and physios who would have real impact on players
12. More features for training
13. Cricket coach/ football manager type skills bar so that you can judge precisely how your players compare. Right now, the only way to judge this is by comparing their salaries.
14. Options to change team/ apply for other jobs/ options to get fired
C. Game experience
15. New playing engine. The current engine is being used since 2008. The current version also looks very clumsy and slow.
D. Management options
16. Under 19 and women's world cup, series
17. A team series tours
18. Options to manage U19 and A/B teams in addition to the main teams
19. World Cricket League [does not have to be playable] with options for the teams in the WCL to qualify for major tournaments
20. Options to schedule additional matches/ series
21. Other major tournaments such as the Asia Cup
E. Editor
22. Football Manager type game/player editor can be attractive
23. A fixtures editor with the options to change tournament structures - this is going to be great. Furthermore, given that the formats of major tournaments changes frequently - e.g. men's ODI world cup, this might be a handy option
24. Option to arrange multi-team tournaments and play those, like we can now play the world cup, champions trophy, ashes tournaments and bilateral series.
Finally,
25. Could we have T10 tournaments too? This is surely going to be added to international tournaments in 10-15 years.
Many thanks
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