Solecismic Software Product Support

Front Office Football 2007 was released in October 2006. An update, to version 6.1a, was released in December 2007. This update is free for all Front Office Football 2007 customers.

If you purchased the game after December 9, 2007, you most likely have the updated version. To check to see if you have the update, press the desk icon near the upper right corner of the game screen. The version number is in the bottom right of the information screen.

Installing the update will not affect your saved games in Front Office Football 2007. Download the installation file and run it. You should be all set. If your license was active before the reinstall, it should remain active.

Installing the update may require that you first remove the existing game using the Add/Remove Programs option from the Windows Control Panel.

Careers that you began with the October release are fully compatible with the updated version.

The following changes are included in the 6.1a update, along with everything changed through 6.1:

• Properly use coach's discipline ratings to affect team penalty frequency.
• Teams will not expect the run when the opponent comes out in a five-receiver formation.
• Tweak Hall of Fame criteria to generate more realistic position distribution.
• The Recommend button in the playoffs should create a game plan for opponents beyond the first round.
• Unsportsmanlike conduct against the defense is now an automatic first down.
• Tweak to Solevision to avoid generating a first-down comment after a lost fumble.
• Correct team pass rush percentage calculation on summary screen and in HTML.
• Further tweak running back choice algorithm. Study real-life limits, remove part of the exploit for putting low-endurance backup on chart.
• Remove potential exploit of coach ratings from using software designed to read MFC displays.
• Change text on player salary screen to properly reflect how veteran minimum works.
• Tweak to avoid timing problem when exiting Solevision before games are over, crash might be possible.
• Correct resolution of standings tiebreakers when three or more teams tied, and common games are used inter-divisionally.
• Correct resolution of draft order when in-conference teams have same record and same strength of schedule.
• Fix corruption of data files causing defensive players, increasing from defensive line exponentially to secondary, to experience a higher injury proneness after year one of a league. Note, this resets injury proneness for all players, but this is the only fair way to fix the problem.
• For a greater challenge, increase overall maximum injury setting from 200 to 400.

Please feel free to examine our new Player Guide for Front Office Football 2007.

The College Years

For most gamplay questions about this and any of our products, your primary source of information is the help file included with the game. The help file can be viewed by pressing the F1 key from any screen in the game.

If your question is about the ViaTech licensing process, please visit ViaTech's Support Link. This includes most installation issues and, in particular, licensing errors such as "error 23" when starting the game.

For technical support, please see the Solecismic Software F.A.Q. If your question is not answered in the F.A.Q. or in the help file, please send a message to the support address at the end of the F.A.Q..

The TCY 1.3 Update - CD Version is available for The College Years. DO NOT download the update if you have the downloadable version of the game, licensed from ViaTech.

For those of you who have the Downloadable version, and purchased it prior to the 1.3 release on September 14, 2004, you should download the Version 1.3 Download and reinstall the game. This will replace your existing version, and will not affect your license for the game. DO NOT download this version if you own the CD version of the game.

The download version and the CD version are completely incompatible products, though they contain the exact same function.

Updating the game does not prevent you from continuing careers, but since it contains the latest schedules and conference alignments, teams will end up playing schedules that don't fit in with the alignments from a career begun before the update, as they will not change conferences.

Front Office Football 2004

Front Office Football 2004 was released through Solecismic Software on November 13, 2003 and is no longer on sale.

A patch, updating the game to version 5.1d, was released on June 14, 2005. To install the patch, simply download the installation file and run that file.

The patch will not harm careers started with version 5.0. Those of you who purchased the game more recently than June of 2005 downloaded version 5.1d when purchasing, so there's no need to reinstall.

For the answer to frequently asked questions about the game, please see the Solecismic Software F.A.Q..