Database Editor for ICC 09????

[Ankur Lathwal]

All ICC fans have been requesting a lot of essential features in icc over the years....thousands of mails & posts....but no effect on the icc makers....:(

So the thing is clear....if they don't wanna add domestic competetions & T20 leagues from other countries....then why not they just give us a database editor so that we add teams , players & play custom leagues???

I think every true icc fan will agree with me because even when no one listens our sugestions for our favourite game, we still bother to buy it every year....

ICC 2002 had an editor called Magpie (thanks to Niel Pickup & company)...it had a lots of bugs but still it was great thing for a true icc fan....but now we can't play icc 2002 forever because it doesn't have T20 cricket & other features.....

I am adding a poll & i am sure the results will be in my favour....
So when all the fans want an editor ...why can't they give us????

[Imager36]

To be able to edit players would definetly take away from the game to me, but a competition editor wouldn't go amiss.

[MarksNotts]

The endless data editor debate, its been going on since ICC1(almost as long as the England wicket keeper debate!), personally i think it would ruin the game, to be able to see and edit player abilities would just take away the excitement of discovering a young gem or finding out that your medium pacer with a poor first class average is a one day dynamite!!!, also there is the online issue, people would just make super teams and online play would cease to be any fun(not that i play online anyway).

[the_trademarc]

The main reason why ICC has latest this long and has been so successful is becuase they have never tinkered with the thought of a database editor. It effectively renders the game useless, and update and new versions will not exist because people will not feel the need for it.

Getting domestic competitions into the game is way way harder than just programming it in. The licensing, copyright and statistical issues itself renders it a very tedious task. I dare say I believe they have already started working on this for ICC2010, so fingers crossed.