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General Chat / Re: [w10] the random thoughts while playing thread

« on: August 11, 2008, 09:02:20 pm »

- An airline had to change names due to political correctness.

- Yes, there is someone out there who seems to never sleep.

- An airline ranked #49 carries the 17th most passengers.

- Whenever I see the KFC CV5800, I immediately think of Kentucky Fried Chicken.

- An alliance has been named after a cartoon character and an actress, both from Japan.

- In the said alliance, "Flower Family" is a hilarious pun, pronounced as "Faa Kaa" in Cantonese.  What English word does that resemble?

- Another airline is called "faqU Air"

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General Chat / Re: Beijing 2008

« on: August 08, 2008, 06:29:22 pm »

The opening ceremony was amazing.  Absolutely unreal.

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General Chat / [POLL] What do you think of the New Forum?

« on: August 07, 2008, 02:24:15 pm »

As the poll question says...

Edit: Since there was nothing in the title to tell people this is a poll, unlike more civilised forums...whoops, I think I just gave my vote away!

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General Chat / Changing Starting Hubs

« on: August 06, 2008, 11:39:33 pm »

Close all routes out of that hub, return all gates and close the base.  AM will then give you a new first base for free.

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General Chat / [W10] 48 day delivery on the 735?

« on: August 06, 2008, 10:17:38 pm »

It was definately 24 days earlier in the round.

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General Chat / World 10, 7 days on...

« on: August 06, 2008, 03:09:50 pm »

The start of W10 was a very interesting one indeed, especially in North America.

We saw veterans and former #1 players all basing themselves in Chicago O'hare and them moving onto ATL.  These were:
Asylum Freight
Brokerage House
Doraemon Airlines
Europacific Air
Optimum Airlines

Asylum Freight quickly emerged to be the best starter as he built up a significant lead in as #1 in the overall rankings.  However, we also saw the surprise rise of Ostermalm Airlines, who is going all-out chasing down Asylum Freight.  The results of the battle was pure carnage, with peoples' average loadfactors dropping over 10% in a matter of 12 hours.  At time of writing, Europacific hasn't seem to have been online for 24 hours, and his loadfactor has dipped below 60%.

Europe initially saw the rise of Test Airline who bizarrely purchased 100 Vardax Aero-Hotters.  daklines is back to his triangulation strategy in megahubs, while we also see the return of Mo Mo Rabbit Airlines and ALFC.  Dakota Airlines currently leads the field in Europe but the margin is being eroded by Mo Mo Rabbit and ALFC, while at the same time, these two airlines are in the middle of a very bitter battle at CDG.  Load factors have also been hit very badly in the Megahubs of Europe, although Mo Mo Rabbit seems to have found an efficient way of keeping his loads high.

Interesting times ahead.  My mid-term predictions are Asylum for N.America/Overall and ALFC for Europe.

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Bugs / Nice listed as 150k gate rent instead of 200k

« on: August 06, 2008, 12:00:06 pm »

As the title says.  I just ripped off and am taking AirlineMogul to court over the violation of Contract Law!

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Game Strategy / best regional aircraft?

« on: August 04, 2008, 12:24:44 pm »

A320.  Nice and roomy.

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Flight Simulators & Online Flying / Just a quick landing at Kai Tak

« on: August 03, 2008, 11:12:46 pm »

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQqSSYJDYns

A mate took the vid of me landing.

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General Chat / Your download speed!

« on: August 03, 2008, 12:33:05 pm »

Never expected this.  Doesn't really reflect the "true" speed as websites loaded faster with my old 3mbps line in Hong Kong.

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Game Strategy / [W10] Your Strategy

« on: August 03, 2008, 12:04:12 am »

Bases in 150k airports in the EU. Top 50 spot i hope. Not bad considering i'm going for small airports.

Top 50 is certainly possible and good luck!  I achieved it out of VCE and LYS in W3.

My objective this round is...bases in 150k airports in the EU. Top 50 spot I hope. Not bad considering i'm going for small airports.

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General Chat / An Interesting Observation

« on: August 02, 2008, 09:30:09 am »

I used to use online maps until the premium feature came along.  I shelled out the free credits for it as it saves time and hassle and is the only reason why I came back to AM!

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General Chat / Renting Gates at airports

« on: July 31, 2008, 02:57:30 pm »

Could be that the gate at his hub costs $300,000 while his spokes only cost $50,000.

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General Chat / An Interesting Observation

« on: July 31, 2008, 02:56:03 pm »

I looked up 3 airlines in Chicago and they have the exact same route structure!  I wonder if a certain premium feature is responsible... :twisted:

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Game Strategy / W10 DOP???

« on: July 30, 2008, 08:36:28 pm »

DOP: €13,403

Created just one route for the sake of grabbing route ID #1  Will get the rest up and running closer to start.