What is Musketeer?
Musketeer is a paid feature in which you can unlock a lot of extra in game features.
Statistics Center
The Statistics Center is a feature available to all Hitwicket Musketeers and helps you compare players of your team and other teams.
If you go to the main Statistics Center, you will be able to compare your team with other teams which started at a similar time as well as rank teams, players, leagues, and users. You can also have a look at transfer statistics to make sure what price to ask for a player or to decide your budget for buying a player. Within the team comparison, you can analyse the strongest teams, top batting/bowling lineup, top fielding side, highest salaries, largest stadium, largest fan club, and the number of players teams which started at a similar time at a glance!
In the player rankings, you can find the top batsmen/bowlers/keepers around a certain age, in a certain division, and even on the basis of performance on a certain pitch type! You can also find out for which amount players were transferred for latest, if any.
In league rankings, you can have a look at the strongest leagues (in terms of average team Skill Index), which shows you their average team Skill Index, the total Skill Index of that league, the average fan club size of teams in that league, and the average stadium size of teams in that league. In the League Rankings, you can also see the costliest leagues and the best batting/balling/fielding/keeper leagues.
If you go to the main Statistics Center, you will be able to compare your team with other teams which started at a similar time as well as rank teams, players, leagues, and users. You can also have a look at transfer statistics to make sure what price to ask for a player or to decide your budget for buying a player. Within the team comparison, you can analyse the strongest teams, top batting/bowling lineup, top fielding side, highest salaries, largest stadium, largest fan club, and the number of players teams which started at a similar time at a glance!
In the player rankings, you can find the top batsmen/bowlers/keepers around a certain age, in a certain division, and even on the basis of performance on a certain pitch type! You can also find out for which amount players were transferred for latest, if any.
In league rankings, you can have a look at the strongest leagues (in terms of average team Skill Index), which shows you their average team Skill Index, the total Skill Index of that league, the average fan club size of teams in that league, and the average stadium size of teams in that league. In the League Rankings, you can also see the costliest leagues and the best batting/balling/fielding/keeper leagues.
Bookmarks
Bookmarks,as the name suggests, are meant for providing quicker access to player,match, forums, bilateral series, and league pages. If you choose to bookmark a player, you are notified when the player is put up for auction, and you can ask for a reminder for the auction deadline (by e-mail as well as within Hitwicket) at 30 minutes before the auction deadline.
Transfer Guru
The transfer guru is a feature available to musketeers to alert them once players of a specific criteria (defined by the user) is put up for auction. You can set the criteria in terms of Batting/Bowling style, Age, Fielding, Wicket keeping, Batting vs Seam Bowlers, Batting vs Spin Bowlers, Bowling Main, and Bowling Variation.
Advanced Training Lab
With the Advanced Training Lab, you can see which player received which training in which week, what training was given in which week, how many weeks since the last skill increase (includes Fitness, Form and Experience!), etc. You can also view the complete training history of any player currently in your squad.
Public Relations Office
With the Public Relations Office, you can let the world know what your plans are for the season, about various changes in the way you manage your team, about a lucky youth pull, etc. through press releases. You also get a chance to be included in the Hitwicket Times (the Hitwicket news page).
Team Records
If a manager is a Hitwicket Musketeer, anyone can view his team records. These records include Bounty Records, Player Records and Team Records.
Other Musketeer Features
Other Musketeer Features include Extended Match Tracking, Performance Archives, Market Research, Bilateral Series*, Scout Preference, and Auto Bid. Yet other features include:
- Short Transfer Deadline: You have the option to put up a player on auction with a 48 hour deadline instead of a 72 hour deadline.
- Match Analysis: If you want to track down form, fitness and experience changes from the past week, or want to compare their form, fitness and batting/bowling ability from a previous match to the current stats, you can avail the match analysis facility. This appears as a tab on the match page.
- No Ads*: As a musketeer, you have the power to switch off advertisements within the game.
- Challenge Match Timing Change: Being a musketeer gives you the power to change the time at which a challenge match is played.
- Jersey Number: You can assign a jersey number to all of your players.
- Match Comments: Being a musketeer, you can voice your pre match and post match comments on the match page.
- Match Orders: You can save different match orders for league matches, challenge matches and practice matches. Also you can save different match orders with a different set of trainees.
- Player Tag: You can tag a player as Batsman, Bowler, Keeper for future reference.
- Manager Title*: If you become a musketeer, you can have the title of Sir (Male) / Dame (Female) before your name. This title will appear wherever your name appears in the game.
- Player Talk: You can voice something your player has to 'say' on his player page.
- Deactivation Protection*: If you are a musketeer, your account will not be deactivated due to inactivity (not logging in for 4 weeks).
- Extra Youth Scout Countries*: When you become a musketeer, you unlock 2 extra youth scout countries, which stays even after the expiry of your musketeer subscription.
- Extended Youth Recruitment Time: To make it convenient for those who are unavailable on scout day (Monday), Hitwicket gives all musketeers an extra week to recruit the scout.
- Musketeers can now change their League Match time - No more missing matches due to Timezone or office late-shift!
- They can schedule a time to list their player for sale - No more forgetting to sell the player!
- They can schedule Training Focus change - Never forget to switch between Fitness and regular training!
- A different default lineup can be set for the first and second league match of the week.Super useful to ensure that all our trainees play!
- The Autobidding feature is gives you the ability to start bidding from the last 5 min. So no one will know in advance whom we are planning to buy!
Musketeer Free Trial
In the Musketeer Free Trial, you can only use a limited number of the Musketeer features. The aforementioned features marked with a * are not available for the Hitwicket Musketeer Free Trial.
You can avail the Musketeer Free Trial after becoming a reliable manager (2 weeks) or for your birthday (1 week), if you give Hitwicket your birthday.
You can avail the Musketeer Free Trial after becoming a reliable manager (2 weeks) or for your birthday (1 week), if you give Hitwicket your birthday.
Hitwicket Credits
Credits are paid units of currency in Hitwicket, which can be used to play two types of special matches:
Instant Match: Go to any match in the last one month and you will see a link, 'Play Instant Match'. The match is scheduled instantly and you will have 15 min to set your own lineup.
Exhibition Match: This is similar to a challenge match but without the 'Wednesday only' restriction, you can send a challenge request to another user and play the match at a predefined time and on a pitch type of your choice.
Go to any team page and you will see a link 'Exhibition match'.World Conquest:Ready for a new Challenge? Try beating the Top Region Teams in Hitwicket in the New Hitwicket World Conquest! You will be facing increasingly stronger teams as you go forward with the ultimate test being against the India Cup 1 & 2 Champions Uttar Pradesh.
Lets see how far your Team goes.
Instant Match: Go to any match in the last one month and you will see a link, 'Play Instant Match'. The match is scheduled instantly and you will have 15 min to set your own lineup.
Exhibition Match: This is similar to a challenge match but without the 'Wednesday only' restriction, you can send a challenge request to another user and play the match at a predefined time and on a pitch type of your choice.
Go to any team page and you will see a link 'Exhibition match'.World Conquest:Ready for a new Challenge? Try beating the Top Region Teams in Hitwicket in the New Hitwicket World Conquest! You will be facing increasingly stronger teams as you go forward with the ultimate test being against the India Cup 1 & 2 Champions Uttar Pradesh.
Lets see how far your Team goes.