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General Chat / Who's still playing?

« on: October 05, 2007, 11:19:06 pm »

If things aren't ready for the next round yet, it may be a better idea to keep the current round online until it is if feasible, since there still seem to be battles being fought!

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General Chat / Where is the fastest growing Airline Mogul market?

« on: October 01, 2007, 10:38:27 pm »

Brazil is quite a surprise!  On other matters...

There's so much Hong Kong "Engrish" in the airline list it's hilarious!  From Mo Mo Rabbit to Lanham Place (there's a building called Langham Place in HK) and the various incarnations of Cathay Pacific!

The KMF and HKADB alliance caught my eye as well.


Posted by a Hongkie in the UK.  

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General Chat / AM Manual

« on: September 30, 2007, 03:17:58 pm »

Can anyone tell me what "Alliance routes" are all about when joining an alliance?

It's not in the manual and "Alliance Route" in the forum search brings up 12 pages of garbage!

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General Chat / Discussion: Next Round of AM

« on: September 29, 2007, 11:31:00 pm »

Haha, the battle for Asia must be pretty interesting for these two Hongkongers at the top!  Me being a Hongkonger myself, I wish to fight for the coveted top spot next round, time permitting!

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Game News / Re: 12 More Days

« on: September 27, 2007, 09:49:19 am »

12 more days until the reset occurs and here's what we still need to do to get ready.
1. We need to turn on autoreturn of leases, this will be run at the end of every month and will automatically close and return routes that leased aircraft are on.  I recognize that this will push hotswapping aircraft on routes much higher on my list, and it likely will be done sometime next age.

Does this mean the end of 0 month leases?  If you want to renew leases, does this involve actually taking it out from the market and making routes (that used to exist) again?  It would be easier on airlines (and not the leasers) if there was a "renew lease" function before the plane gets auto-returned.  Also, an auto-message warning us of leases about to expire in our inboxes would be a great help.

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General Chat / Discussion: Next Round of AM

« on: September 23, 2007, 02:15:55 pm »

I have to say that the Tupolev 114 looks like a very interesting plane.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tupolev_Tu-114

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General Chat / I just found these

« on: September 23, 2007, 02:12:59 pm »

Well, the only thing I can see wrong is...how on earth can a guy use so much pink?

In all seriousness, it's great to see how the developers (Air Elbonia being the most visible) working on the game non-stop.  I presume the revamp of the aircraft section is coming *relatively* soon so it would be great to have more sorting options in the future.  What I used to do in a second blue game was creating folders in the aircraft list so I can sort aircraft by the hub they are based in.

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General Chat / Game Rules?

« on: September 22, 2007, 10:39:43 am »

As far as I know from what StephenM said some time ago...

Base - Base: 2x 0.5 maximum.
Base - Any other airport: 1x 0.5 maximum.

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General Chat / Discussion: Next Round of AM

« on: September 22, 2007, 10:32:00 am »

How to make money in AM:  "Mow the lawn"

Although the next round is tentatively 10 game years, I guess the mods can monitor the game situation and come to a decision at around 1963-64 on the actual length of the round.  At the moment, one can expand in AM much faster than the blue site so 10 years might actually be overkill!

I also personally think peoples IDs should be kept as is.  The demand for ID changes seem higher than expected and it would take valuable time away from our developers doing a trivial task when they could be doing something useful like developing this game further (or watching Chelsea killing Arsenal ).

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General Chat / The Race to the Bottom - LF script and price wars...

« on: August 29, 2007, 10:39:50 am »

I'm currently engaged in severe competition with an airline out of the same base.  We use different aircraft but of similar seating capacity, flying the same frequencies.

Dash 8-500 vs CRJ.
717-200BGW vs A319.

What has been happenning for days on end is to see who can reset every competing route faster than the other.  Each reset involves undercutting the opponent by 1 Euro to get an extra 10,000 Euro in DOP, due to the 100% Loadfactor vs 80-something - the difference of 1 Euro in price.

Is this the way the LF script is supposed to work, because this war reminds me of the first Airline sim game I played (colour is dark blue )!

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General Chat / My Airline Does Not Abuse 0.5 Frequency Flights

« on: August 29, 2007, 09:08:53 am »

Well, Stephen said in another thread that in his opinion, 1x 0.5 is allowed, while 2x 0.5 is allowed for Base-to-Base routes.

I have every plan on sticking to the above.

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General Chat / The Use of 0.5 Frequency "Cheat"

« on: August 24, 2007, 07:03:49 am »

Being new here, I've unintentionally placed 1 x 0.5 routes all over the place where it was deemed more profitable than 1 x 1.0.

I hope single 0.5s everywhere is considered "acceptable".

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Bugs / Planes in market disappearing/Early delivery

« on: August 24, 2007, 06:23:25 am »

At around 5-6am BST today, all the planes available for lease and for sale disappeared.

At the same time, my Dash-8s got delivered 10 hours early (only after 15 or so game days after ordering instead of 24).