There were calls earlier this month for further research into the development of the ball following a trial at the Sheffield Shield.
Only 11 per cent of players rated the ball a success and just a quarter agreed it provided a fair contest between bat and ball.
The developers of the ball, Kookaburra, have now tested a new, harder version of the pink ball with the CA's National Performance Squad in a net session in Brisbane.
Sean Cary, CA's senior manager of cricket operations, admitted the ball is a work in progress and has called on players to accept that the pink ball will not be able to truly replicate the traditional red one.
"We need to work with the players to manage their expectations," Cary said.
"They adapt to playing in different conditions from going to the Gabba to Adelaide Oval, going from Australia to India, from India to the United Kingdom. They adapt to playing with a Kookaburra ball compared to a Duke ball.
"[The players] probably underestimate how well they do adapt to change and I can't see why going from a red ball to a pink ball is going to be that big of a difference for them."
Plans for a day-night Test match could happen as early as 2015, with the fixture likely to happen in New Zealand's tour of Australia starting in November next year.
One of the changes for the new ball included a green seam as opposed to white, as players suggested the white seam was hard to pick up.