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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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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 / Critique of new features

« on: October 04, 2008, 05:17:21 pm »

I am not sure if i like the new AM. Here are my reasons :
- Too many graphics. I like simple websites, like the one you had before.
- A lot more pictures , it's fine and dandy but what will be the impact of this to the server load?
- Aircraft list lacks age column. This is a major drawback. I use this feature a lot to replace aging aircraft , now i have to click on the individual aircraft to find out the age.
- I like pull down menus vs. the submenu system adopted on this release.

I am still looking at more stuff and will add more things here.. My biggest issue is the website being too crowded.

Seattlepilot

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Game Strategy / Mx cost per plane

« on: October 04, 2008, 04:13:58 am »

I see people talkingabout mx cost all the time. I can only see the cost as a lump sum monthly figure. Is there a way to get it per airplane?

Thanks..

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Bugs / [Not a bug]Logic behind tagged gates..

« on: September 29, 2008, 05:03:15 am »

I think there is some flaw in he logic of tagged gates.Let me explain the situation with a simple example.

- 1st of May: Utilization is 100% so i decide to build two gates.
- During the entire month of may i expand but not fast enough so the gates get tagged with 1.
- 2nd of June: Once again the utilization is 100% so i expand further more.
- Last part of June : I expand the terminal by another gate. With the expansion the utilization goes down to , say 93%. But the tag stays.
- 1st of July : One gate that i was still renting gets returned back to the airport authority.

To me it looks like a bug.. What does everyone else think?

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Bugs / Aircraft Market vs. Aircraft Market (Used)

« on: September 28, 2008, 06:02:11 am »

I just stumbled across to this following URL when i decided to pull an aircraft from a lease.
http://www.airlinemogul.com/airlinemogul/aircraft_market.php

This page shows 'great deals' on the aircraft for sale and lease.

You would think that you should get this page by clicking on the Aircraft Market link, but i get only used aircraft link when i do this.

The url for this is
http://www.airlinemogul.com/airlinemogul/used_ac.php

Correct me if i am wrong but it's not possible to go to the section without clicking 'home' tab after an aircraft is pulled from lease or sale.

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Game Strategy / To replace or not to replace... leased aircraft that is....

« on: September 22, 2008, 11:56:20 pm »

Here is the dilemma: I can pay $2000000 / month for an aircraft that produces 500K profit and keep adding 10 of these in a single month or just wait and buy a single aircraft a month , hoping that curbed growth will let me get rid of this expense.
Sounds good to replace 2mil/month with a used aircraft that can be purchased for 11mil. But i don't see this being reflected on the finance section.
Your thoughts?

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Bugs / Some errors about Turkey, Armenia, Azarbaijan

« on: September 22, 2008, 09:19:30 pm »

- There are two different Tokat airports. There are two different IATA codes with same ICAO codes.
- Country is classified as a Middle Eastern country even though aviation wise is part of Europe.
- The same thing applies to Armenia and Azarbaijan as well.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_Aviation_Authorities#Non-EU_members

- There is no reference to Northern Cypriot airports.

I don't care what your political views are if the country belongs to JAA as a non-EU member, I think that should be taken as a reference.

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Game Strategy / How to make the long haul work?

« on: September 22, 2008, 03:06:32 pm »

I have experimented with running long haul service between two major cities about 5000 miles apart. With A330-200 i had to lower the prices to a very low level to make a decent DOP. Even with that i wasn't able to produce 12,000,000 /month lease work.
Are there any tricks to make the long haul work with leases? My strategy has always been to get bunch of aircraft on lease and then get rid of them once the routes are profitable by replacing them ..

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Game Strategy / DOP and leasing cost?

« on: September 22, 2008, 04:09:54 am »

Does DOP factor in the lease payments on an aircraft?
Say a plane is making 100,000 / day profit buy my monthly lease is 4,000,000. I just want to find out if i am making any money or not..

Tks