myp wrote:
Well, I've got to stumps on the first day, and my opinion of the AI has gone quite a bit downhill. The bowling AI seems to be fine, but as in BLIC07, they seem to bat as if they forgot to go to the toilet before coming out. I ended up posting what seemed a below-par 301 from 68.1 overs, only to leave them on 140/7 from 21 overs at the close of play.
Two comedy run outs (and two close things) started things off. They would scamper a quick single, only to start coming back for another just as my bowler or wicket keeper got the ball - ludicrous. Also, at one point their run rate was 7.5. Obviously some of that was the fact I was bowling a lot of tripe, but Brad Haddin came in with Australia on a perilous 52/5, only to swat Broad for 18 off one over, post a breezy 42 from 22 and square cut the ball to my point fielder thinking his job was done.
Only Simon Katich seems to be taking the game seriously, still there on 44 from 65 balls.
My own comedy AI failure story from the demo. Batsmen had edged it past the slips, where it stopped. One of them ran to it within a second or two , and then stood there looking at it while another fielder came from elsewhere. What should've been a tight single became 4 runs.
Or the abject camera failure story, whereby I'd hit the ball off into the field behind the batsmen, and the camera showed me the ball, taking up the entire screen. So I didn'[t know if I had time to run. Probably 2 runs in there.