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General Chat / Negative hours

« on: September 08, 2013, 07:53:34 pm »

I thought it was worthwhile to bring the discussion in the Maintenance World to the membership at large. Here's what's been posted in the topic so far.

How come some aircraft can fly more than 24 hours? How many people are doing this to cheat?

If you are suspecting people of cheating, please send us a message with the details of the problem.

Thanks!

Hi Matias:

I don't want to be a rat. What I can tell you is, one of the larger airlines creates multiple routes at very low prices.  There is no way that those routes create a profit.  I can confirm this, because when I use the same prices and frequencies, I come up with a loss.  I do know for a fact, that there is a glitch, that allows you to fly more than 24 hours.  I don't know how it work, but it has happened on two of my aircraft.

Thanks

Confirm, there is a possibility to create negative hours. I've noticed this long time ago. I don't do that becouse its cheating. Please check the top airlines.  They buy hundrets of jumbojets and create short routes to small airports for almost nothing with no profit just to kill opponents.  They destroy the idea of game! I'm sure Admin has access to every acount in the game. Please check this out.  BTW Negative hours should be fixed as soon as possible.

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General Chat / Re: There needs to be a better way to simulate route competition

« on: August 28, 2013, 01:07:48 am »

Bump.

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Suggestions / Monthly profit

« on: August 28, 2013, 01:07:06 am »

Now that it's possible to see what a plane's individual monthly maintenance cost is, can the airplane page be modified to show what a plane's total monthly profit is? That way, we can know when a plane is close to needing replacement.

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General Chat / There needs to be a better way to simulate route competition

« on: August 20, 2013, 10:41:33 pm »

I'll preface this post by stating that I don't fault any of the other players in the game because what they're doing is completely legal. They're not doing anything wrong. My blame lays with the game itself.

Airline Mogul - See my airline

That's my airline in the maintenance world. As it stands right now, I have two bases - Chicago and Atlanta. I'm the 18th largest airline in the world and I experience a lot of competition thanks to one particular airline, Cabot Air, though of course I do deal with other competitors at the same time. Once again, the blame for this problem does not lay with the player.

Anyway, my issue is with what happens when I compete. Because Cabot Air is so much larger, the player who runs that airline can afford to take bigger hits. They can dramatically drop their prices well below what would be necessary to restore their route loadfactor to 100%, and I have to drop mine accordingly. This, obviously, is not fair. It's absolutely ridiculous that the game forces me to take a similar hit to my profits as the larger airlines when I am not as well-equipped to handle such a price drop as they are. Furthermore, there have been multiple occasions where I have had to adjust in excess of 50-100 routes at one time. This is a very time-consuming task. Really, the profit calculations need to be adjusted to insulate against these kinds of things. I shouldn't have to adjust 100 different routes every day to get my loadfactor back up to 100%.

As for a solution, I'm not sure how the game could be adjusted to do that. I'm still thinking of a way to best solve that problem. However, it is a problem nonetheless.

On a slightly less important note, does anyone know why my route map won't display? It's something to do with a flight originating from Chicago, because I can neither see the main route map nor the individual Chicago map, but I can view the individual Atlanta map. I'm nowhere near the threshold for the map not displaying, as I'm flying fewer than 200 routes, and usually even the routes that don't display on their own (i.e. the airports that lack an ICAO code) don't cause the main map to refuse to display.

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Game Strategy / How to climb the hill

« on: August 10, 2013, 04:33:55 am »

I have a problem.

Whenever I play AM, I'm always quite successful. My airlines are regularly top 15 in airline value in public worlds but I can never seem to be as successful as the big-time players.

Airline Mogul - See my airline

There's my airline in the maintenance formula test world. What am I doing wrong?

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General Chat / New maintenance

« on: August 09, 2013, 06:59:06 pm »

So, with this new maintenance formula that is being tested in the Public World, what changes can we expect for AM in the future?

Conventional wisdom in the game right now holds that planes costing more than 200M euros or seating more than 300 passengers aren't worth it because the maintenance is too high, and large jet aircraft should be replaced after a year of usage.

Obviously neither of those are true in the real world. Airlines fly large planes just fine for more than just a year at a time. How will the new maintenance formula affect things? Can I finally take the step up to buying 747s? This is especially important for early 2000s games since IMHO the best long-haul option is the 7672ER (since it fits within the parameters above) and that one is no longer manufactured after the mid-2000s.

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Game Data / Re: Having some gate issues

« on: October 22, 2012, 09:12:45 pm »

The problem seems to have resolved itself somehow. I don't know how, but the number on the site and the number in my spreadsheet match each other.

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Game Data / Re: Having some gate issues

« on: October 19, 2012, 04:24:23 am »

No, that's not it either. http://www.airlinemogul.com/airlinemogul/view_airport.php?id=1276

British Air Services    4    54.31%    1    40%

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Game Data / Re: Having some gate issues

« on: October 19, 2012, 02:57:23 am »

No, Istanbul is 250,000. http://www.airlinemogul.com/airlinemogul/view_airport.php?id=214

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Game Data / Having some gate issues

« on: October 18, 2012, 09:11:41 pm »

I'm in Public World 2444.

Airline Mogul - See my airline

I keep a detailed record of my purchased gates in an Excel spreadsheet.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AuDNbUE0EKNHdDlpVXMxSjd1UkV4dGEwcmlUZDV1Q0E#gid=0

I'm running into a problem. According to that spreadsheet, my monthly gates cost should be 70,612,500. However, in the game, it comes out to 70,662,500. I don't know where the 50,000 discrepancy came from. Is there anyone who might be willing to give my spreadsheet a look over to see what I've done wrong? The spreadsheet does track total number of routes so I know I'm not missing a 50,000 gate somewhere. I just can't figure it out.

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General Chat / Re: Early game gate rentals

« on: September 20, 2012, 03:14:06 am »

I'm saying "I should" as in "it should be an option."

I'm aware of the multiple route fix but that shouldn't be necessary.

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General Chat / Early game gate rentals

« on: September 18, 2012, 09:49:19 pm »

Can you please change how gate rentals in the pre-game period work? I just joined the newest public world. I'm based at London Heathrow and I've bought gates at    Biggin Hill, London City, London Gatwick, London Luton, London Stansted and Manchester. Altogether, flights from Heathrow to those airports take a combined four hours. That means my plane is sitting idle for 20 hours out of the day because the absolutely ridiculous rental system means I can't buy any more gates since I won't earn any money for the 24 hours until the game starts. I should be able to buy more gates in the pre-game period so I can fill my plane's time.

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Game Strategy / Re: A380

« on: September 08, 2012, 05:05:31 am »

The simplest rule to go by is don't buy planes that seat more than 300 people.

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Game Data / Re: A couple of Middle East issues

« on: August 27, 2012, 12:52:44 am »

Sorry for the bump, but I've noticed this error in Asia as well.

IATA    Airport Name    Gates    Cost
LGK    Langkawi International    25    €50,000
ICAO    Passengers    Cargo    Country
WMKL    1,122,911    524    Malaysia

IATA    Airport Name    Gates    Cost
MMY    Miyako    82    €100,000
ICAO    Passengers    Cargo    Country
ROMY    1,082,428    10,262    Japan

Langkawi International's gates should cost 100,000 each.

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Bugs / [NaB] Game map errors

« on: July 01, 2012, 08:47:48 am »

I'm in Public World 2335 and the map is not correct for the year of the game. It's in 1997 and the map still depicts a Cold War Eurasia with a unified Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia. Strangely enough, Germany is also unified.

http://www.airlinemogul.com/airlinemogul/view_airport.php?id=517

Also, there's only one Russian airport, though considering the game world is Asia-Australasia-Middle East, there should be a lot of Russian airports. GCM shows the sole Russian airport as somewhere near Indonesia.

http://www.airlinemogul.com/airlinemogul/view_airport.php?id=3350