New Cricket Sim released

[bigster83]

I have released the first version of my cricket match engine. I'd appreciate some feedback please.

You can download it from http://bigstercricket.tripod.com

Cheers,

Andrew Nichsolon

 

[Yasa]

i cant see the icon to start the game up ...is it just me

 

[Magrat Garlick]

Hint: Get that thing off tripod, fast. Get a site on freewebs or something...much cheaper and fewer pop-ups and spyware

And, on my computer at least, it doesn't work unless the java is in the same folder as ICricket.

Edit: I also get this error...

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoSuchFieldError: java.awt.Color: field BLACK not found
at screens.results.MatchSummaryPanel.<init>(MatchSummaryPanel.java:40)
at screens.results.MatchResultFrame.<init>(MatchResultFrame.java:24)
at game.Match.<init>(Match.java(Compiled Code))
at CricketSimulator.main(CricketSimulator.java:15)

 

[bigster83]

i cant see the icon to start the game up ...is it just me

run ICricket.bat file

else double click on cricket.jar

and...

it doesn't work unless the java is in the same folder as ICricket,

have you installed JRE, or JDK? if you have installed JDK then you need tinker with your path variable...

also, I have a forum of my own (not on tripod) http://bigstercricket.proboards27.com/index.cgi

That exception if because you have an old version of java. I have changed it now, and it should work though. However, I would recommend getting a new version of java...

Cheers

 

[Magrat Garlick]

I've got that fixed. Problem is that error though...it comes after the match is simmed or when I try to play a game. Any clues?

Edit: Ah right. Thx, I've got a new and better version of java at home (I think)

 

[bigster83]

If you re-download, i think it should work now. Then you'll actually be able to see what has happened in the game!!!

 

[Magrat Garlick]

Nah, sorry - I guess it's just my crap version of java playing up. No worries mate

 

[superkingdave]

Looks great so far mate, and England beat the World XI

and Thorpe scored 185* and 252

Jones the glove appears to be batting below Hoggard and Chris Ried is spelt wrong but they are irrelevant

Keep up the good work

 

[bigster83]

Making your own teams

It's very easy to make your own team. Just copy one of the teams that's already there, and change the names/attributes of the players. I will gte round to writing a tutorial to do it, but it's not hard to work out...

have a look in the /teams/england directory...

 

[Magrat Garlick]

Okay, match bugs:

There is a LOT of golden ducks...

How out column is messed up sometimes

Fast bowlers bowl way too long spells.

Edit: I suppose this would come later, but since you can change line and length, why can't you change the bowler?

 

[superkingdave]

tailenders are unrealistically rubbish
made Lancashire side - that works ok
scorecards look good, like the fact you can view where the ball went

Just a few niggles to work out with regard to stats etc
With the amount of things you are taking into account this could be a very good sim

 

[bigster83]

excellent...

I will be continually working on this, so I'll let you know when I make a new version etc. You're right, changing the bowler is coming.

"made Lancashire side - that works ok" - LOL, lots of golden ducks and rubbish tailenders!!!!!!!!


The tale enders are rubbish because their batting attributes have been set a bit too low. Trial and error on that. It's quite hard to quantify the qualitative...

You can actually change some of teh things that affect teh match in the matchweights.txt file. Some of the variables aren't very obvious as to what they do, but have a fiddle and see what happens

 

[Magrat Garlick]

More suggestions:

add a toss

teams don't automatically declare when reaching 500

 

[bigster83]

Yeah, I know, but one day they might...

Also,
http://bigstercricket.proboards27.com/index.cgi

I have a forum for suggestions and bugs etc.

 

[steds]

"made Lancashire side - that works ok" - LOL, lots of golden ducks and rubbish tailenders!!!!!!!!

 

[lord_of_darkness]

its just the start i guess.. give the man some time with the suggestions etc coming and he is sure to update things slowly..

 

[kears_falcon_9]

I have broad band, o this download should be fast. But i cant even download it. i click the link but it just sits threre for ages.

 

[IsuraE]

I can't acces the link, but I'm interested in the technology/tools you are using. My old cricket sim was in Java, haven't worked on it in a while but thinking of restarting maybe in VB.net or C++. VB seems to be the easiest to get a user interface up quickly, but how is it for object-oriented design?

 

[Rich2001]

I have broad band, o this download should be fast. But i cant even download it. i click the link but it just sits threre for ages.

If the owner has no objections then Cricket Web would be more than happy to add his game to the Downloads center, should download then

 

[age_master]

i dah no trouble downloading it at all...

this is a great effort for the first release

suggestions: (apart from the ones i read above)
- A List of all the bowlers figures on the match screen and you can change bwolers when you want.

- Batsmen aggression levels arn't set for individual bowlers (or the option of it at least) but are set and stay for all bowlers.

- a link to a scorecard from the match screen

without having played it much the match engine seemed pretty good

looking great so far