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Genre: Simulator, Sport, Strategy, Indie

Australian Football Coach

Big fix: v0.19.6 released
The latest version of Australian Football Coach fixes some more problems with the game, including a major problem which fixed both the match fitness problem (it became very hard for players to lose match fitness, so you had constant exclamation points on your team selection screen) and players playing in the reserves and the main squad at the same time, which caused a number of fitness issues.

Some very obscure situations led to some crashes as well and these have been fixed. Thank you to those who reported these problems!

Full change list for v0.19.6:
- Fixed: Game would crash if you had a lineup spot empty, were coaching games, and were the away team
- Fixed: Proper number of news items displayed on larger resolutions
- Fixed: career stats no longer duplicate if player played less than a minute
- Fixed: Game no longer crashes if AI does not field a player in the central defense position
- Fixed: Proper league rounds for historical game statistics
- Fixed: Odds display again
- Fixed: Players constantly lacking match fitness
- Fixed: Players getting picked for multiple games in the same round
- Fixed: Rookies now play for the reserve team as opposed to not playing at all
- Fixed: Rookies now have match fitness allocated against them
- Fixed: North Melbourne affiliate team switched to Werribee from Ballarat
- Added: News regarding players kicking 5 or more goals in a match

Version 0.19.5 released: tackles crashes and youth coaching
Version 0.19.5 has been uploaded to Steam! The biggest changes you'll see are if you coach a youth team - no longer are you subject to the random whims of your computer-operated recruiter, but you get to pick your team from a list of recruits before the start of each season. NOTE: This feature has been barely tested, so hopefully it works right.

You'll also notice some more transaction-related news items and some minor fixes. The game also will stop crashing in certain situations on the list menu due to a bug introduced in v0.19.0.

There will be no quick patches for a few days, but still working hard on the game! Some behind-the-scenes stuff has been developed and will be fleshed out more fully in the coming weeks. The focus is on improved form, morale, 16-player teams (hmmm... wonder what's being planned here), and an in-game player editor.

As always your feedback is welcomed and appreciated, whether it be reporting a crash to desktop or an idea to improve the game.

Full list of changes:
v0.19.5
- Fixed: State league players showing up on post-game stat sheet
- Fixed: Rucks now take a couple seconds to return to play following a ruck contest (in an attempt to minimise their statistical dominance)
- Fixed: Game no longer crashes on Details screen
- Fixed: Game no longer selects players without a team on Details screen in certain instances
- Fixed: 19-year-olds no longer generated for Under-18 league
- Fixed: 19-year-olds now "retire" properly from Under-18 league
- Fixed: Statistics table going outside the box on higher resolutions
- Fixed: Injured players now don't get random injuries which override whatever their current injury is
- Fixed: Set proper number of games for Under-18 league as of 2017 and fixed playoffs starting too early
- Fixed: More typos :/
- Added: Youth coaches now get to select their team from a list of zonal recruits
- Added: Additional news items for player trades, major contract renewals and free agent signings
- Added: News for player retirements

Version 0.19.4 released
A minor update on finals weekend fixes several bugs including one that caused the game to crash for some users.

Thank you for your feedback so far - as always, please get in touch if there's a problem with the game or if you have an idea to make it better. More substantive updates are in the works!

v0.19.4
- Fixed: Fitness occasionally went above 100% during training
- Fixed: Message regarding state leagues now no longer includes players who had a national league game scheduled on the same day
- Fixed: Game stopped crashing if message list is empty
- Fixed: Game now properly loads news colours (was not saving them, so will only affect newly created news)
- Updated: Game now displays full news/message table on higher resolutions
- Added: news message if you can move a player to the injury list without jeopardizing his eligibility

More news added, some bugs fixed - Version 0.19.3 released
A couple more bugs were reported so yet another new minor version released. Some tweaks for some of the more visible bugs that were quickly reported, mostly involving relatively new features. For instance, the debut message ran whenever a player debuted in a new league, including the state leagues.

The update also includes several new features, including a prospect update, expanding rivalries a little bit and more news regarding who's featuring for your club in the state leagues.

Several new achievements have been added as well!

If you see anything amiss while you play, please pass it along on the discussion board so the bug can be fixed.

v0.19.3
- Fixed: Tweaked match fitness issues
- Fixed: Players get injured in training now (was always generating a blank injury)
- Fixed: Player debut announcements for state league games no longer appear
- Fixed: Player debut announcements for national league games now appear properly if not a generated player
- Fixed: News did not colour properly when in the process of generating said news
- Fixed: Added real values in database for Pendlebury Contract Length and Dangerfield salary
- Fixed: 2017 Injury file not loading properly (only affects Naitanui)
- Fixed: Players loading with no preferred state team
- Fixed: A couple typos :/
- Added: Losing to a rival club now makes the board unhappy
- Added: new Steam achievements
- Added: top prospects in youth league news message
- Added: message for when a player on your team gets selected in a draft (youth/state teams)
- Added: message announcing upcoming rivalry games
- Added: news regarding players selected to play in their state leagues

A quick patch: Version 0.19.2 released
Less than 24 hours after the Steam launch and already a quick patch, largely due to an icon failing to show to let you know your players weren't match fit on the primary selection screen (appears as an exclamation point).

A couple other areas of the game were tidied up as well.

v0.19.2
- Fixed: Possible issue with game crashing if certain player attributes were set to zero
- Fixed: Match fitness exclamation points not showing up in main selction screen
- Fixed: League rounds now display properly for leagues that don't start exactly at Week 1
- Fixed: Made it less likely for short players to be generated/be tall backs/forwards
- Fixed: National league incorrectly set minimum salary for all leagues
- Added: Match fitness/star icon for players who are not match fit but also selected in the 18
- Added: Preseason match for Victorian U-18 league

Our first Steam version released!
Version 0.19.1, the first AFC version to be released on Steam, is finally out!

0.19.1 contains a number of big bug fixes and some new features as well, including new formations, better career tracking statistics, and further refinements to the user interface and game flow.

If you have purchased through the www.australianfootballcoach.com website, please get in touch with your order number and email address and we will provide you with a free Steam key.

Full change log:
- Added: A couple new injuries to hurt your players
- Added: Added news feed for players referred to tribunals
- Added: Added news feed for players who retire due to injury during a game
- Added: Improved AI team coaching and selection
- Added: Improved main screen user interface and flow
- Added: Improved news feed display
- Added: introductory tutorial messages for scouting, training and preseason team selection
- Added: News articles regarding goal milestones
- Added: Player behind the ball formation
- Added: Player forward formation
- Added: Players who play in a game more likely to have a more positive training session
- Added: News for important milestones (games, goals)
- Added: Leading goal kicker of the year news
- Added: Career statistics underneath season statistics on player page
- Added: Steam achievements!
- Fixed: a couple typos :/
- Fixed: AI contract offer logic
- Fixed: AI would play rucks in ruck rover position
- Fixed: Auto-interchange code now deals with rucks much better
- Fixed: bug meaning players on the bench were receiving played minutes
- Fixed: bug related to loading 2017 season statistics
- Fixed: career tackles now update properly
- Fixed: hid box scores for preseason games, since game-by-game stats not tracked for preseason (yet)
- Fixed: leagues would deactivate upon game load
- Fixed: low fatigue due to improper match fitness problem
- Fixed: messages would appear in reverse chronological order upon game load
- Fixed: Ruck rover position colouration would show as ruck position instead of any position
- Fixed: salaries now scale within the range of the salary cap by team
- Fixed: Stats now persistent post-match on match engine screen
- Fixed: Retired players now stay retired and don't join state leagues after retiring
- Fixed: Player time-on-ground not updating during occasional plays
- Fixed: Rookie-listed players not selectable unless elevated on "button" squad selection screen
- Fixed: Tactics screen now properly loads currently used formation in formation dropdown
- Fixed: Player salaries no longer based solely on player overall skill
- Fixed: Defenders no longer go walkabout to the corners of the ground when playing man defense
- Updated: Changed how coaches would get their contracts renewed
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