AFC2023 has been available just under a month and thanks to your support, a number of improvements have been made across all aspects of the game. This week's patch focuses almost exclusively on long plays. Player development has always been a strange issue in the Australian Football Coach series, as the AI is programmed to make the best possible decision it can (given parameters), so previous versions had strange bugs where the AI was drafting over-age players with the top pick in the draft. This has been mostly fixed, but there was an additional problem: players weren't retiring normally. Some would stick around for years, which is clearly not how the way player attribute modelling was supposed to work over time. However, player potential's also been designed to be a fairly complex game element, where you are able to develop young players, but not every player will necessarily reach their potential. This version should fix that. Several tweaks were made, several long plays were conducted, and player potential was modelled and compared to expected, and it's working well now! If anything, players are now retiring too early, but that's better than having 40-year-old duffers clogging up your lists. Most players will still progress either up to a certain age or a certain skill level, but you should see more rapid improvements in your promising youth and more rapid declines in your aging players across all save files. The lack of updates over the past week or so was due to a lack of reported hard crashes (the primary concern with patches) and due to testing ways to improve simulation speed. This was done on a different code set and the results meant that it's more of a future project. As a result no substantial improvements have been made. This includes the online mode, which is still a work in progress. Some minor improvements to game speed have been made, but unfortunately you probably won't notice them unless you've played a long time, as the game's started to clean up some data bloat that was dragging game speeds down. Hope you long players enjoy the new version! CHANGE LOG - Fixed: Leagues without any sort of feeder source (draft, zoning) now have additional automated youth intake - Fixed: Completely reworked player development - players should now progress and regress as intended, most player development was pretty flat and players weren't cycling into retirement - Fixed: Fitness was being treated similarly to other actual attributes and has been reworked to increase more quickly - Fixed: Game would sometimes crash calculating attendance - not sure how widespread this was - Fixed: Game was not loading club best and fairest winners from save files - Fixed: Could not figure out where children were being duplicated, but wrote code to de-dupe them on save game load - Fixed: Shortlisted players not being on a team would occasionally crash the game - Improved: Game now unloads out of date scouting reports on saving or annual turnover - Improved: Game now unloads out of date shortlists on annual turnover - Improved: Slight, again likely imperceptible improvements in game speed. Haven't noticed anything in testing but may cause issues with screens not refreshing - Improved: AI Training logic