FOF 6.0c Released.

[Ben E Lou]

:)

http://home.avvanta.com/~solecism/FrontOfficeFootball2007.exe (http://home.avvanta.com/%7Esolecism/FrontOfficeFootball2007.exe)

EDIT: It's also available now via the FOFC download section: (http://www.younglifenorthdekalb.com/fof2k7downloads/FrontOfficeFootball2007.exe)

[Logan]

Any details on it before I install?

Yes, I want someone else to take the plunge first.

[Deattribution]

Also, like the other patches, you need to uninstall and reinstall the game with the new patch.

[Raiders Army]

sweet

[Raiders Army]

also sweeter that my twin is reading the thread as well.

[Dutch]

I thought Jim was travelling across country with his family in an old broken down U-haul truck. Shows what I know.

Downloading now.

[Raiders Army]

67% of the way there! Only 7 more minutes!

[DolphinFan1]

67% of the way there! Only 7 more minutes!


I'm so glad I have DSL, I already have it downloaded.

[Raiders Army]

I've got cable but it's really slow for some reason. 34.1 kb/sec...may have something to do with Time Warner! :mad:

[DolphinFan1]

I was able to get 159kb/sec.

Anyone have a fix list?

[DolphinFan1]

The How acquired crash is no more!

[azjoe_02]

No more CTD on the How Acquired button.... :)

[Galaril]

So any clue what this does ( I have given up expecting any kind of readme with FOF patches) or are we suppose to just experiment play to figure it out for ourselves?

[amdaily]

So any clue what this does ( I have given up expecting any kind of readme with FOF patches) or are we suppose to just experiment play to figure it out for ourselves?

This is finally starting to get a bit annoying. For all I know the only thing that was fixed was the how acquired bug. Should I even bother downloading this thing?

[MizzouRah]

Woo Hoo Ben!!


Thanks!!!!!

[DolphinFan1]

I'm pretty sure Jim would have tried to fix most of the reported bugs. I have to go to work soon, but when I come home I will fire it up to find out if the kick and punt return penalties are being assessed to the right team.

[Ben E Lou]

Preliminary indications are that each of the following have been addressed to some degree:
"How Acquired" Crash
RB Carries
AI Roster Building Issues
Turf toe
There may be other stuff.

[gbeats]

has it fixed the problem where the city information is identical for every city, bar the % that they want a team?

[Ben E Lou]

has it fixed the problem where the city information is identical for every city, bar the % that they want a team?That's not a bug. That's the "level economic playing field" option at work. If you want city information to be different, you need to start your career with that option disabled.

[Ben E Lou]

Key explanation added in Help File:

Contracts which reduce the player's salary once the regular season has begun may not fit under the cap even if the cap cost of the proposal is less than the cap value available. This is because contracts are paid out each week.

For example, if a player is making a salary of $1.7 million, or $100,000 per week (the season has 17 weeks), and you are renegotiating in week 15, $1.5 million of that salary has already been paid, and will still count under the cap.

So, if you renegotiate him down to $1,020,000, or $60,000 per week, this will only reduce the contract by $40,000 per week, and you will only save $80,000 under the cap. Since any bonus still would apply to the current year, you might not be able to keep a new offer under the cap under these conditions.

[gbeats]

has it fixed the problem where the city information is identical for every city, bar the % that they want a team?

nope. all cities have a population of 1.12 million.

[Northwood_DK]

nope. all cities have a population of 1.12 million.

That is not correct if you turn off level playing field. I got correct numbers in all categories.<O:p</O:p

[Ben E Lou]

My soul.

[Ben E Lou]

nope. all cities have a population of 1.12 million.Let's try this again...

That's not a bug. That's the "level economic playing field" option at work. If you want city information to be different, you need to start your career with that option disabled.

[twothree]

nope. all cities have a population of 1.12 million.

As Skydog stated, this is not a bug, but an option. You need to start a new game to have cities with different populations. And also as Skydog stated, when you start the new game you need to click "No" on the option "Began new game with level economic playing field"

[Ben E Lou]

It feels like there are more short-term injuries. Anyone else got a sense of that?

[amdaily]

Preliminary indications are that each of the following have been addressed to some degree:
"How Acquired" Crash
RB Carries
AI Roster Building Issues
Turf toeThere may be other stuff.

Thanks for trying to group some of this stuff together. Definitely helps.

[TroyF]

This is finally starting to get a bit annoying. For all I know the only thing that was fixed was the how acquired bug. Should I even bother downloading this thing?


Nah, you probably shouldn't. Jim is notorious for releasing patches that fix a single thing and then breaking 300 things that used to work. By the 6th patch the game will actually just start uninstalling itself so you don't have to.

[MizzouRah]

Nah, you probably shouldn't. Jim is notorious for releasing patches that fix a single thing and then breaking 300 things that used to work. By the 6th patch the game will actually just start uninstalling itself so you don't have to.

:D

[Rizon]

Nah, you probably shouldn't. Jim is notorious for releasing patches that fix a single thing and then breaking 300 things that used to work. By the 6th patch the game will actually just start uninstalling itself so you don't have to.

After it uninstalls itself will it delete my porn stash hidden on another partitioned drive?

[MizzouRah]

After it uninstalls itself will it delete my porn stash hidden on another partitioned drive?

It will auto-hide your pot stash.

[Capital]

I just hope that the double FA bug was fixed. This was the worst bug IMO. Does anyone know? or have seen it still?

[Northwood_DK]

I just hope that the double FA bug was fixed. This was the worst bug IMO. Does anyone know? or have seen it still?

I have not seen it yet but I will be very surprised if that was not on the to-fix-list.

[Capital]

I would be surprised if it was not on the list. Anyway, this patch was a nice surprise for the weekend, especially as I was one of the ones to not leave on Black Friday.

[aran]

Just in time for me to start my first serious entirely fictional career. Cheers!

[EagleFan]

I was able to get 159kb/sec.


45.5 MB in 1 minute 32 seconds. Transfer rate 506 KB/Sec. :D

[Sweed]

Nah, you probably shouldn't. Jim is notorious for releasing patches that fix a single thing and then breaking 300 things that used to work. By the 6th patch the game will actually just start uninstalling itself so you don't have to.

I downloaded the patch and now I can't feel my legs! :eek:

[gbeats]

That's not a bug. That's the "level economic playing field" option at work. If you want city information to be different, you need to start your career with that option disabled.

thanks, i didnt even know about that! :rolleyes:

[Eaglesfan27]

Is the voice when you push the about FOF icon new or have I just always had my computer muted when I hit that?

[Ben E Lou]

Is the voice when you push the about FOF icon new or have I just always had my computer muted when I hit that?
You must have been muted. Front Office Football was taped before a live studio audience for version 6.0.

[14ers]

AI Roster Building Issues
What does this mean?

I am having a problem in my game with the AI releasing its best players during the season. After reading the posts on here I have cranked my injury setting all the way up to 200 and now almost every week there is a player being released by the AI with ratings in the 70s and 80s. I am assuming there is something wrong with how the AI is replacing its injured players come gameday.

[Ben E Lou]

What does this mean?

I am having a problem in my game with the AI releasing its best players during the season. After reading the posts on here I have cranked my injury setting all the way up to 200 and now almost every week there is a player being released by the AI with ratings in the 70s and 80s. I am assuming there is something wrong with how the AI is replacing its injured players come gameday.With 6.0c?

[14ers]

With 6.0c?
Edit: Yes, what are the Roster AI changes with 6.0c.

Will this help the computer manage to keep its better players when picking up a player off the WW for an injury replacement during the season?


OR, does this have nothing to do with in season roster evaluation?

[MizzouRah]

What does this mean?

I am having a problem in my game with the AI releasing its best players during the season. After reading the posts on here I have cranked my injury setting all the way up to 200 and now almost every week there is a player being released by the AI with ratings in the 70s and 80s. I am assuming there is something wrong with how the AI is replacing its injured players come gameday.

I'm using "c", but I have injuries at default (100) and I'm not seeing this.

[willem]

I am having a problem in my game with the AI releasing its best players during the season. After reading the posts on here I have cranked my injury setting all the way up to 200 and now almost every week there is a player being released by the AI with ratings in the 70s and 80s. I am assuming there is something wrong with how the AI is replacing its injured players come gameday.

I'm not seeing this at all with the new patch.

[14ers]

I am asking if 6.0c will correct this WW problem. I have not yet installed 6.0c on my computer. This problem was seen with my careers in 6.0b.


Sorry for the confusion.

[MizzouRah]

It must because I have yet to see it.

[DolphinFan1]

The penalties on Punt and Kick returns are fixed. They now get assessed to the correct team.

[Antmeister]

Well now that it has reached that magical 3rd patch, I have picked up the game (plus I have the time to play this weekend). Thanks for all the effort Jim. Can't wait to dive in.

[14ers]

Any idea on when the "new look utilities" mod will be released for Patch 6.0c?

Since Jim has just done away with the Player Position Experience bars and left only the colors, I was using someone's game mod that included numbers for Player Position Experience. I am color blind so without the numbers that were in that game mod or the bars that were in Patch A, I am clueless on a Player Position Experience.


Thanks.

[Vinatieri for Prez]

I could be wrong, but I believe you can still use the old ones that worked with the prior patches.

[DaddyTorgo]

I could be wrong, but I believe you can still use the old ones that worked with the prior patches.

you can 14ers...i've already reinstalled the mod you're talking about

[14ers]

you can 14ers...i've already reinstalled the mod you're talking about
Please post a link.

[Vinatieri for Prez]

It's all in Skydog's stickied info/mods thread.

[14ers]

It's all in Skydog's stickied info/mods thread.
I couldn't find it there.


The mod I am remembering had you replacing the entire FrFoot2007 game file. I think it was made by Icy.

[14ers]

I found what I was looking for.
http://www.operationsports.com/fofc/showpost.php?p=1287203&postcount=54
Ok, for those that don't know how to edit the .exe file with reshacker, here is mine already modded with the new positions tags and numerical tags.

To use it do the following:

- Make sure you don't have the game running.
- Go to the FOF2k7 folder (by default C:\Program Files\Solecismic Software\Front Office Football 2007).
- Rename your FrFoot2007.exe to FrFoot2007.old (this is just to backup the original).
- Unzip the content of my zip file in that location (by default C:\Program Files\Solecismic Software\Front Office Football 2007)

Launch the game, you should see the changes.

DOWNLOAD IT HERE (http://www.prodeportes.com/fof2k7/bitmaps/icy_exemod.zip)

Here is how it will look, scout view:

http://www.prodeportes.com/fof2k7/bitmaps/bitmaptest3.jpg




(http://www.prodeportes.com/fof2k7/bitmaps/icy_exemod.zip)

Now, am I going to have to wait untill he updates this, or can I just download this EXE file for patch 6.0c?


Thanks

[JeffW]

This might not be the best place to post this, but I wish that Jim made the interface more customizeable.

Namely, why not have the images for position tags, ratings stored on the hard drive as picture files so we can edit/replace without using resource hacker? Stuff like the option to have text only box scores would be great too.

[Ben E Lou]

I found what I was looking for.
http://www.operationsports.com/fofc/showpost.php?p=1287203&postcount=54


Now, am I going to have to wait untill he updates this, or can I just download this EXE file for patch 6.0c?


ThanksNo. As said, use the utility from gstelmack in the download folder.

[Emiliano]

Strange thing: the game doesn't start anymore for me. I did the usual uninstalling/re-installing, I click on the link, and nothing. I've already re-downloaded and re-installed the patch 3 times. I'm sure it's something on my PC, but it's very strange because I didn't install or modify anything.

Does anyone have this problem?

EDIT: Problem solved. Freaking firewall! Still strange, though.

[Raiders Army]

That happened to me as well. I downloaded and installed the game again and the game wouldn't open up. It did nothing at all. No error, nothing. I uninstalled the game, rebooted, and downloaded and installed the game. It works fine now.

[DaddyTorgo]

That happened to me as well. I downloaded and installed the game again and the game wouldn't open up. It did nothing at all. No error, nothing. I uninstalled the game, rebooted, and downloaded and installed the game. It works fine now.

had this happen to me last night as well...hmmm

edit: but it just loaded now, so i dunno

[Kokoshin]

Hmmm, I just downloaded the game (only had demo) and have same problem, though I haven't solved it.

I tried to uninstall, reboot, re-download and reinstall and still the same. It refuses to start.

Any ideas?

[DaddyTorgo]

Hmmm, I just downloaded the game (only had demo) and have same problem, though I haven't solved it.

I tried to uninstall, reboot, re-download and reinstall and still the same. It refuses to start.

Any ideas?

weird. something is going on here.

[Emiliano]

It appears that my problem was the firewall (in my case, Kerio Personal firewall, the free edition). Once I disabled it, the game started normally. The fact still remains very strange because I've used this firewall for 3 or 4 years, and it never caused compatibility issues.

[Vinatieri for Prez]

I found what I was looking for.
http://www.operationsports.com/fofc/showpost.php?p=1287203&postcount=54


Now, am I going to have to wait untill he updates this, or can I just download this EXE file for patch 6.0c?


Thanks

Yes, you will have to wait forever. Icy already agreed for Jim that he would not alter the exe file for protection reasons; which makes sense. Use GST's utility instead.

[Icy]

As has been said, i won't release the modded exe anymore after Jim suggested it to me. I respect his opinion as it's his product.

You can always use reshacker yourself or Greg's great modding utillity.