Features were important from the beginning, if you look at the original ad,

straight off, I am listing features. This time around, which by the way is the fifth substantial football management game I have written, I am trying to be minimalist. For two reasons, 1. to finish the game more quickly, and 2. to focus the games design process on what is really essential.
But, I did add a couple of things last week, that I decided were essential to first release. So I was concerned that I had pushed the finish date back. However, the good news is I am implementing them faster than I expected so, it shouldn’t be too bad. I have a good code base of tools and data structures I have created, so it sped things up. 🙂