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General Chat / Time to stop new sign-ups for this era?

« on: November 19, 2007, 08:47:20 pm »

Rankings page reports 1,786 players in the 1950s.

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General Chat / To player: Stealth Bomber Air

« on: November 12, 2007, 04:22:48 pm »

Stealth Bomber Air operator:

While I respect and appreciate your right to price routes competitively, you've created an extraordinary amount of work for everyone in game by lowering the rates on all your routes by 200 or 300 or 400% in the last 3 days.  Because there is no automated way of managing routes, you're forcing every player who competes with you to manage all their routes individually. I play this game 5 or 6 times a day, managing routes carefully, and this morning I had over 100 routes that fell below 75% (and some below 50%, and some below 25%) because of what you're doing.  Again, I have no problem with your undercutting, but the results of it -- the pain of point and clicking and typing 100 routes of management -- is very uncool.  The game's lack of featureset will remedy over time.  Maybe you could be a bit less drastic in your actions so that your fellow players aren't demotivated from playing?

Just an opinion,
David

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General Chat / ROI on Super Constellations

« on: November 07, 2007, 07:52:10 pm »

I've only been playing for a few weeks, and just took delivery of my first Lockheed Super Constellation.  I'm having a little bit of trouble figuring out how to maximize revenue for these puppies.  For my first plane, I did one long-haul route, and filled-in the rest of the hours with some short-haul routes.  If I take the purchase price and divide by the current DOP for the plane, I get a complete ROI after 6.6 [RL] days.  Does that sound about right?  It's much longer than it takes for me to recoup the purchase price of the smaller planes, so I was curious if 6.6 days is a good, medium, or bad number, in your experience.

Thanks!
David

IonWorks
AirlineID: 6654

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General Chat / Terminal construction

« on: November 01, 2007, 04:21:17 pm »

So IND (Indianapolis International Airport) was out of gates, and I had 22 more routes planned out of there.  So I constructed a terminal with 5 gates.  Of the 2 original gates I was renting, 1 is now flagged for return.  Questions:

- At the start of the new month, am I losing one of my rented gates? If so, what happens to routes served by it?  Will they just automagically move to my terminal gates?

- The 5 gates I constructed -- they're mine, right? No one can rent them or take them from me, and I pay no rent on them (just maintenance), right?

Thanks!
IonWorks
AirlineID: 6654

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General Chat / The game's clock slipped an hour

« on: October 29, 2007, 07:50:08 pm »

Yesterday afternoon (Sunday) on the U.S. east coast, the game was unavailable for a period of time. As a result, it appears the game lost an hour, and now restarts each month at 6:08pm eastern US time (12:08am Central European Time).   Prior to yesterday, the game was restarting each month at 5:08 EDT / 11:08pm CET.

Will this be the new framework for time going forward, or are there plans to move things back the way they were before yesterday's blip?

[Edit: Apologies for western Hemisphere bias evident in this post ]

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General Chat / What happens to us on Jan 1 1960?

« on: October 28, 2007, 09:19:52 pm »

Hiya,

Can't find this anywhere (and the Wiki is down) so thought I'd ask here:

When the game "age" ends on Dec 24, 1959, what happens to us?  Is the game completely reset to 0? If so, do we get to pick new home bases? If not, what carries over to the next age?

Thanks,
David
IonWorks, AirlineID: 6654

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Bugs / monthly lease costs not calc'ing correctly

« on: October 25, 2007, 04:15:40 pm »

AirlineID: 6654

Finance details seem to indicate my monthly equipment leasing costs are 1.8mm

When I add it up, my cost should be 1.2mm

I suspect this bug is related to the previous bug I filed under the thread "Leasing gone terribly awry!".

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Bugs / Leasing gone terribly awry!

« on: October 24, 2007, 10:24:39 pm »

(1) I am AirlineID: 6654

(2) I leased aircraft #6620, #6621, and #5541 from a broker for a term of 121 months
 
(3) The game offered the equipment to me at the negotiated price, X

Bug#1
(4) After completing the brokering, the INFO window for each aircraft showed a monthly leasing cost of X*2

Bug#2
(5) Then much to my surprise, the game sent me three messages indicating aircraft #6620's lease had expired, and was returned to the broker. 5 routes serviced by #6620 were shut down.