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Bugs / [FIXED] Bugs with lease termination

« on: November 11, 2008, 06:50:46 pm »

When a lease ends (not when i terminate it but when it comes to the end of lease period) the aircraft is returned to the owner. The routes i have on those airplanes get dropped. However, these gates don't show up when i do the 'gate search'.

Seattlepilot..

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Game Strategy / Re: Charging for drinks etc.

« on: October 17, 2008, 03:05:41 pm »

I used to work for CHQ

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General Chat / Re: Hotswap??

« on: October 15, 2008, 01:57:24 pm »

I am in W10. I live in Renton.. Bremerton is nice, we go there all the time for $100 fish and chips

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General Chat / Re: Hotswap??

« on: October 14, 2008, 11:18:26 am »

Sorry... but what you do mean by analyzer? Do we need to do a marketing research on it? Probably not. A feasibility study? Don't think so. Effect on finances for AM? hmm... new idea :S  Anyway... those are wild guesses, so please enlight us.

Wow.. You know, these kind of smart ass remarks towards people that are trying to help doesn't help. In real IT world, even for non revenue generating projects like AM you never start coding. You need someone to analyze the code.
I hope you know that much about coding..

Get off your high horse and accept some ideas, critisism and produce something that is going to really help people. We are the customer.. We are in desperate need of hot swap.

Once again, priority of hot swap should be #1. Putting the code together to convert aircraft age from a single digit to a decimal one should never be worked on.

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General Chat / Re: Hotswap??

« on: October 14, 2008, 02:38:59 am »

do you  have any analyzers on this ? developing it is probably 30% of the work.

Also , you don't have to do the entire hot swap all at once.

To give you an idea :
- Phase one : Hotswap with identical airplanes (Say A319 with same config to another A319)
- Phase two : Hotswap with downward compatible airplanes (A320 cna always replace a B737-500 but not always the other way around)
- Phase three : Hotwaps with different type of airplanes (Replace a321 route with B777)

I know that there are many more things to consider when doing a hotswap, but even an implementation like the phase one will save everyone a lot of time.

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General Chat / Re: Critique of new features

« on: October 11, 2008, 11:22:13 am »

Stephen,
appreciate the icons but how crutial are they? Once again you, as a design team not personally,are ignoring some very important requests. Your priorities are pretty much backwards. People have been asking for more information on the listing pages. These valuable information are hidden in the '+' areas or by clicking on the aircraft.

To give you an idea, i still cannot see what aircraft is assigned with a fleet management label by looking at 'view aircraft'. You need to put more and valuable information on the opening page.

I will voice the same opinion that i did after the release of this new version,the website is too crowded. You decided to add 'fancy' features by adding more irrelevant data to the left and to the right of the screen.
On view aircraft , do i really need to see 'purchase tokens' window?

Here's a very important statistics for you: when i open the 'view aircraft' screen , the area that i see the information that i want to see , where the aircraft are listed, is occupying 17% of the screen. Yep, only 17% is the information that is being displayed is valuable to me.

Take a look at the Purchase Aircraft area on the same screen. Becuase of the drop down screens you have a large area dedicated to the right side.. It's eating away so much real estate, it's unbelivable..

Lastly, the problems that you are running into are because of bad management of this project.I know we discussed this before, but you have to have some kind of a planning, oversight, project management about these.

When you have a major issue like hot swapping aircraft where it's going to make things easier for 13K+ users , you cannot deal with small stuff..

I got critisized before for being too harsh on you and i have offered my help. It's been a week and noone contacted me from your management team. My offer is still valid..

Lastly, where are most of the 'team' located? If they are concentrated to a certain time zone, then you should consider having multiple teams from different parts of the world so that you can make this 'volunteer' project and on going 24 hr long development.

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General Chat / Re: Critique of new features

« on: October 06, 2008, 10:07:48 am »

There is little to no business intelligence about how my airline is doing. One of the flaws i see is the mx. cost on the initial screen.
I can collect all my 'upgrade screw ups' list in a single thread and make a big list, but i think the #1 issue is the lost functionality from previous version. You should have that as the highes priority before you address enhancement requests.

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General Chat / Re: Critique of new features

« on: October 06, 2008, 10:04:58 am »

One resonalbly large thing (well to me it is):
You still dont have the edit I sugested for create route:
Departure Airport:
(drop down menue)
Arrival airport:
Continent:
(drop down menue)
Country:
(drop down menue)
Airport:
(drop down menue)

But still, very cool

There are many airports that i fly into that i don't know which country they belong to. Also, coders correct me if i am wrong but this feature will tax the server doing 4 queries instead of 3.

Server is slower and 'prettiness' was chosen over functionality of the site.
As a mechanic i know would say (about a new paint job on a plane) this is the same whore with a new dress 

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General Chat / Re: Critique of new features

« on: October 05, 2008, 10:51:27 am »

Stephen,
fair enough on that.. But , taking already implemented functionality away is a big no no even when you are working a homework.
Would it be hard for you guys to create a subdomain where some invitees would beta test a private world for you?
Also, the 'spirit' of the upgrade sacrifices functionality and easy of use for better looks.
I would never implement pictures and new site all in one release. If you need some help with addressing these issues i am here to help.
If you don't have time , ask for more people.. Ask for more people to delegate some of the work you do..

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General Chat / Re: Critique of new features

« on: October 05, 2008, 10:22:18 am »

MrOrange,
what do you want me to do, code it for you?
You keep addressing my critisism instead of addressing the issues i have reported. There is no need to get offended on these issues. You can design a very good looking site with lost functionality and that is a step backwwards, not forward.

I haven't seen anything from you saying 'Thanks for the bugs'. I haven't seen you asking for some extra help which i wouldn't mind providing if you were looking for some help with release management.

You addressed having competitors. You didn't address how many people have beta tested this applciation.
If this is a beta test, then why we are doing it publicly.
Did we stop the clock on the sim?
Why i feel like i am playing the real game when you claim this is a beta test? Show me an IT project where testing is done on the production side.
Did we take the before image of the game so that we can resume the sim from the time it started?

I am sorry, you have dropped the ball on this.

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Game Strategy / Re: Charging for drinks etc.

« on: October 05, 2008, 09:00:38 am »

does charging for drinks or food cause you to have to lower fares to stay competitive (keeping a heavy load factor)?

Ahhh  Chautauqua

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General Chat / Re: Critique of new features

« on: October 05, 2008, 08:04:12 am »

BBAir,
.. I am pretty amazed to see all these flaws on a supposedly 'upgrade'. Do you all work for Microsoft or something?

Here comes another bug :
- Aircraft Fleet summary shows 16 B735 aircraft.
- When I click on B735 , i see 11 of them.
- I own 9 and have 2 leased. So I guess 11 is correct, but why I see 16 B735 on the summary i don't know.

Here's another issue i have with this upgrade, everything should have been announced before. You don't release an upgrade without announcing the enhancement in an environment where you virtually don't have any competitors. Instead, the coders/administrators were tight lipped about this..

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General Chat / Good looking website, but i cannot see the fleet type

« on: October 05, 2008, 06:43:37 am »

It's another move back to stone age.. I don't care how good looking the new version is, the Aircraft -> View Aircraft does not list the fleet type any more!!!
How am I supposed to assign a fleet type to a newly purchased aircraft when I cannot see what airplane has a fleet type assigned to it..

I am really starting to question the 'upgrade'.. This is nothing but a downgrade as far as functionality is concerned.

Next time please invite 10-30 volunteers to do the beta testing for you before you release a new code.

Please..

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Game Strategy / Getting tired of 'big guys'

« on: October 05, 2008, 06:26:48 am »

I have been playing AM for at least 10 hrs / day for last 10 days. Despite the commitment to the game, i cannot catch up with the 'big guys'.. I lease 10 airplanes to support the growth and then when i want to replace them with bought ones, big guys come and buy more planes.
Broker is slow to approve the orders i place.

I never have enough $$$ to buy 100 A319s like some of my competitors do..

What's the solution?

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General Chat / Re: Critique of new features

« on: October 05, 2008, 04:45:34 am »

Aircraft return bug:
 When I return a leased aircraft only the first route is displayed as closed. It should be the entire route system that gets cancelled.