*Official* My Cricket Simulator: Updated Demo Available (29-12-2008)

[Neil Pickup]

Originally Posted by Tom Halsey

Sorry. Should have explained. On the scorecard of the England v Australia game you attached. Some bowlers were at almost 3 wides an over!

EDIT: I should add that my tests of the game found no excess amount of wides!

If you read the previous pages, there were plenty of explanations for the excessive levels of wides.

[Tom Halsey]

Read them, yes, but I didn't know you were bowling a Bodyline kind of line. Ah well, thanks.

[Samuel_Vimes]

End of over 24 (6471 runs) - Australia 6586/0 - Australia RR: 274.41
AG Wharf 1.0-0-6471-0 (3200w, 0nb)
ML Hayden 0* (64b, 0x4, 0x6), AC Gilchrist 0* (80b, 0x4, 0x6)

So much for bowling idiotically outside off, then...

[Mr Mxyzptlk]

Originally Posted by Samuel_Vimes

End of over 24 (6471 runs) - Australia 6586/0 - Australia RR: 274.41
AG Wharf 1.0-0-6471-0 (3200w, 0nb)
ML Hayden 0* (64b, 0x4, 0x6), AC Gilchrist 0* (80b, 0x4, 0x6)

So much for bowling idiotically outside off, then...

LOL!

[age_master]

hopefully not a sign of things to come

[Neil Pickup]

Originally Posted by Samuel_Vimes

End of over 24 (6471 runs) - Australia 6586/0 - Australia RR: 274.41
AG Wharf 1.0-0-6471-0 (3200w, 0nb)
ML Hayden 0* (64b, 0x4, 0x6), AC Gilchrist 0* (80b, 0x4, 0x6)

So much for bowling idiotically outside off, then...

Well what did you expect it to do?!

[cameeel]

Bangladesh 0/2 from 50 overs
Aus 0/0 from 50 overs
It was set on agressive and normal alternating, bangladesh's runs were both wides

[Neil Pickup]

Originally Posted by cameeel

Bangladesh 0/2 from 50 overs
Aus 0/0 from 50 overs
It was set on agressive and normal alternating, bangladesh's runs were both wides

Read the last two pages.

[Samuel_Vimes]

Originally Posted by Neil Pickup

Well what did you expect it to do?!

Stop occasionally so I could get the line adjusted?

[Neil Pickup]

Originally Posted by Samuel_Vimes

Stop occasionally so I could get the line adjusted?

You pressed next over!

[cameeel]

any chance up another update?

[cricketboy29]

hmm, should all the batsmen really be getting out for 0?

[age_master]

Originally Posted by Neil Pickup

Read the last two pages.

[Neil Pickup]

Okay, I've spent the last two weeks in East Anglia. There is nothing to do in East Anglia.

I spent around thirty-forty hours coding. This is the result - a fully 'complete' sim match engine with a rewritten editor and team selection screen - I've tested it reasonably thoroughly and it seems to adjust well to various game lengths. I've found a lot of bugs which I *think* I've ironed out - batting stupidly slowly, scoring at 10 an over chasing targets, spinners taking loads for not many, excessive runouts, too many sixes - but some must remain I'd guess.

I'm not sure how the ability levels in the database translate through to performances in the game, you may need to tweak the ground attributes to get sensible results - I think that 40 is bowler-friendly, 20-25 reasonable and below that flat; anything above 40 will do stuff. Creating extra ground data would be great!

Please test both game and editor to the point of destruction - and then we'll decide where to go from here with the rest of the project. Commentary and AI will be the next stage I think - no comments on the quality of the comms, please, they all need rewriting and volunteers will be required!

[Samuel_Vimes]

Run-outs seem to create weird commentary - you can have a non-striker run-out but it says the non-striker faced and, I quote "excellent fielding from Martyn to run out the batsman" (would seem like the striker was run out)