johncrofts
12-16-2010, 06:30 PM
I have been playing ICC in it's various forms since 1999 and the MOST disappointing thing about the game is that it has hardly changed at all.
These are the things I would like to see implemented or eliminated:
1. Set up a hot-key option to decide if your batsmen should take a run-I am fed-up with these suicidal and stupid run-outs over which I have no control
2. I want to be able to customise my players-make them shorter, taller, fatter, thinner, change their hair colour/style, even change their skin colour
3. Why isn't the money not used for new player contracts not carried over to the next season if you don't use it?
4. It's complete nonsense that players without a contract would rather go out of the game than take considerably less than they are demanding.
5. Get rid of the high incidence of batsman dismissals on 19, 29, 39, 49 ect (especially 39, that number is the kiss of death)
6. The "tiredness factor" causing batsmen to get out just before a break is way overdone
7. First class keepers don't let through this many byes as in ICC
8. Far too many dismissals to no-balls
9. Leg sides wides often not given in 1-day matches - in real life they are given 99.9% of the time
10. LBW decisions need looking at - left-arm bowlers bowling over the wicket often dont even get given the plumb ones when the ball has clearly pitched in line and hitting middle - also batsmen often given out when playing at balls which have hit them outside the line of off stump
11. There are some very curious MoM decisions
12. Get rid of the high incidence of dropped catches that your granny wouldn't drop
13. I can accurately predict a wicket falling before the ball is even bowled - thats wrong and suggests too great an element of the result of a match being decided beforehand and everything else that follows is just aimed at achieving that result.
14. There are never any overthrows
15. Players throwing at the wicket never miss it
16. Run-outs are never achieved by throwing to the wicket-keeper or a player standing at the bowlers wicket
I would have hoped for an even better game than this after playing for over 10 years. Not saying that ICC is not a good game-it just needs a lot of improvements to bring it up to the standard of a great game. Just take a look at how much football management games have improved in 10 years
These are the things I would like to see implemented or eliminated:
1. Set up a hot-key option to decide if your batsmen should take a run-I am fed-up with these suicidal and stupid run-outs over which I have no control
2. I want to be able to customise my players-make them shorter, taller, fatter, thinner, change their hair colour/style, even change their skin colour
3. Why isn't the money not used for new player contracts not carried over to the next season if you don't use it?
4. It's complete nonsense that players without a contract would rather go out of the game than take considerably less than they are demanding.
5. Get rid of the high incidence of batsman dismissals on 19, 29, 39, 49 ect (especially 39, that number is the kiss of death)
6. The "tiredness factor" causing batsmen to get out just before a break is way overdone
7. First class keepers don't let through this many byes as in ICC
8. Far too many dismissals to no-balls
9. Leg sides wides often not given in 1-day matches - in real life they are given 99.9% of the time
10. LBW decisions need looking at - left-arm bowlers bowling over the wicket often dont even get given the plumb ones when the ball has clearly pitched in line and hitting middle - also batsmen often given out when playing at balls which have hit them outside the line of off stump
11. There are some very curious MoM decisions
12. Get rid of the high incidence of dropped catches that your granny wouldn't drop
13. I can accurately predict a wicket falling before the ball is even bowled - thats wrong and suggests too great an element of the result of a match being decided beforehand and everything else that follows is just aimed at achieving that result.
14. There are never any overthrows
15. Players throwing at the wicket never miss it
16. Run-outs are never achieved by throwing to the wicket-keeper or a player standing at the bowlers wicket
I would have hoped for an even better game than this after playing for over 10 years. Not saying that ICC is not a good game-it just needs a lot of improvements to bring it up to the standard of a great game. Just take a look at how much football management games have improved in 10 years