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Airline Mogul => Bugs => Topic started by: pp_me on July 16, 2007, 09:45:05 pm

Title: Gates!
Post by: pp_me on July 16, 2007, 09:45:05 pm

Okay in my focus city i bought a extra gate just to have to save trouble ya no!
and it got automatcily returned which made me lose the cash i used to buy it and i no longer have the gate!
i think you should be able to disable this feature!

i wasent sure wether to put this is suggestions or bugs!

Title: Gates!
Post by: MrOrange on July 17, 2007, 04:16:44 am

Well, the feature, by the looks of it, did exactly what it should do: it returned an unused gate. It's created to prevent cheating, like leasing 211 gates at one airport to stop the competition. Even with one gate, it will flag and return them. And if you want to prevent cheating, it's not really gonna help allowing this feature to be disabled at will :)

Title: Gates!
Post by: StephenM on July 17, 2007, 09:02:04 am

As MrOrange said, the feature works prefectly. Send me a PM with the airport you tried to setup a base at. And next time, try and put atleast 1 flight out of there!

Title: Gates!
Post by: pp_me on July 17, 2007, 09:21:52 am

i didnt try get another base with my 1st base i had a extra gate just because when i do more routes i didnt have to go and get another gate if i ran out of slots!

could the feature be made to allow up 2 5 unused gates per airline? or arline for each airport?

Title: Gates!
Post by: pp_me on July 17, 2007, 09:39:16 pm

Okay another prob! i bought 4 gates in romes  Leonardo Da Vinci airport which i did to get another focus city!


now i have 4 gates and if there not all used on a certain time they will be returned and i will be after payin for them!

Title: Gates!
Post by: MrOrange on July 18, 2007, 05:02:28 am

There's really only one solution: Use up 31 slots as fast as you can.

Title: Gates!
Post by: pp_me on July 18, 2007, 04:49:42 pm

I dont have the planes to do that! my agtes have now bein returned and i ahve wasted so far 950000 on returened gates!!!

Title: Gates!
Post by: MrOrange on July 18, 2007, 05:23:38 pm

Oh well, those things happen :) Really, there is no way around this other then not renting the gates.

Title: Gates!
Post by: pp_me on July 18, 2007, 06:07:45 pm

I needed to rent that gates to make a new focus city! :(:(

Title: Gates!
Post by: dktc on July 18, 2007, 06:10:46 pm

I guess the point being is that you have to actually consider your DOP and your fleet before you go rent the gates to create the focus city.

Gates being returned is all part of this game right now. I have wasted more than 950000 on returned gates. I guess when the rules are her, we have to work around them.

Title: Gates!
Post by: pp_me on July 18, 2007, 06:38:45 pm

but there should be some leeway because that is there to stp people buying all the gates in a airport which is understandable
should it not be if u have over 10 gates then this rules involves you?

Title: Gates!
Post by: dktc on July 18, 2007, 06:53:07 pm

say i use 10 different email address and 10 different connections (possible with net-cafe / wireless hotspots) and rent 10*10 gates from an airport with 100 gates....

Title: Gates!
Post by: MrOrange on July 18, 2007, 09:57:16 pm

Yeah, it sounds unlikely, but with exceptions like 10 gates minimum for the system to kick in, you'll get that stuff. So really, you should only rent the gates if you're willing to lose money on them, or have the planes to use up the slots. You could also have decided to create the focus city later on, after you had enough planes to create routes from the city.

And trust me, 950000 is nothing. I've lost over 1 million in one day thanks to returned gates, it happens all the time. Difference being that it doesn't make much of a difference with my budget :wink:

Title: Gates!
Post by: pp_me on July 18, 2007, 10:11:30 pm

its not the money as now im gettin that x2 a hour

its just the inconvience!

Title: Gates!
Post by: dktc on July 19, 2007, 03:52:07 am

Quote from: "MrOrange"

And trust me, 950000 is nothing. I've lost over 1 million in one day thanks to returned gates, it happens all the time. Difference being that it doesn't make much of a difference with my budget :wink:

 :lol: I don't even keep track of the gates that were returned :lol:

@pp_me; trust me, when the gates at your focus cities are being hogged, it would be much more inconvenient.

Title: Gates!
Post by: Air Elbonia on July 19, 2007, 04:25:26 am

Yeah, i don't track what's returned either.

when i sort out the details, i'm likely going to enable a single spare gate at focus cities (19 slots at focus cities).  only for focus cities.

oh. and i know the script, so i know anything unused is removed before you pay the monthly fee for that 'next' month.

Title: Gates!
Post by: dktc on July 19, 2007, 04:33:03 am

Quote from: "Air Elbonia"

oh. and i know the script, so i know anything unused is removed before you pay the monthly fee for that 'next' month.

That being said, 2 months' rent is still wasted... although I want to point out that the rent is wasted anyway if the gate is not used. So, technically, the return gate feature does not affect the amount of money that is wasted.

Title: Gates!
Post by: pp_me on July 19, 2007, 08:51:49 am

if you know the script why cant u make life easy for all of us and allow 2-3 spare gates?

Title: Gates!
Post by: d1-3508 on July 19, 2007, 11:59:54 am

Quote from: "pp_me"

but there should be some leeway because that is there to stp people buying all the gates in a airport which is understandable
should it not be if u have over 10 gates then this rules involves you?

We try to get the airline involved to return them.