Airline Mogul => Game News => Topic started by: Air Elbonia on October 11, 2007, 01:03:58 am
Title: 19X0's
Post by: Air Elbonia on October 11, 2007, 01:03:58 am
(I'm still waiting on Stephen to confirm the next game's start date; the poll is putting 1950s ahead by about 5-7 votes.)
New Features:
Updated loadfactor script; including the addition of the sales of food/drink (settable in your admin page), alliance codeshare effect, a few new modifications to demand, a general downturn in demand by a little bit, as well as a moderate drop in the impact of competition on demand.
Autoreturn of leases is live and appears mostly bug free: You will recieve warning messages (as a lessee) when a lease is going to expire in 3 months, 1 month, and when the aircraft is returned, all routes it was on will automatically be closed (but you'll be told the IATA codes of the route that closed in the message). There will be no penalty for premature cancellations, this will be implemented when leasing is flushed out a little bit.. Aircraft will only be returned at the end of the month, not mid-month. Lessors will be informed when an aircraft is automatically returned.
A lot of tiny, mostly unnoticable backend changes to airports. Let me know if anything related to an airport is weird, bugged, or otherwise defunct.
The Used market has been broken up and paginated.
You will all be allowed to choose the start continent of your choice, regardless of last age's start continent.
A cap of rented gates at an airport has been implemented, you may each rent up to 25 gates at any airport. To get beyond 25 gates at an airport, you need to build a terminal. You still need to have that airport as a focus city to build a terminal there. If you close a focus city, your terminal will be reduced to 25 gates if it has over 25 gates built. (you will be paid double the monthly cost for the airport for each gate sold).
The 8 largest airports in game have been bumped up to a 350 gate, 350,000 level, many airports were adjusted to their proper gate/cost levels.
The creation of a period where players can log in before the days start ticking, this will be about 24 hours long, to allow most players an equal footing in the game.
Significant additions to aircraft database (if you haven't noticed), as well as some good growth in airport quantities (5 shy of 1800 the last time i checked).
I'll leave stephen to fill in the rest of his additions. I've got a few tiny modifications left, but while i'm waiting for the results of a change i thought i'd post this. It's looking very good for a reopening of the game within a few hours (unless stephen fell asleep at the keyboard).
Title: 19X0's
Post by: papidis on October 11, 2007, 03:23:38 am
Just can't wait......oh man....!!!!
Title: 19X0's
Post by: Jps on October 11, 2007, 03:25:45 am
*Claps* Nice work!
Title: Re: 19X0's
Post by: pseudoswede on October 11, 2007, 03:26:14 am
Quote from: "Air Elbonia"
There will be no penalty for premature cancellations, this will be implemented when leasing is flushed out a little bit..
So even if the lease contract states, say, 12 months, I can return the plane earlier without penalty? Never really dealt with that this past age.
If the answer is yes...
Quote
Aircraft will only be returned at the end of the month, not mid-month. Lessors will be informed when an aircraft is automatically returned.
As a lessor, if someone decides at mid-month to return the aircraft, will I be notified then, or only when the airplane is returned at the end of the month?
As a lessee, if I decide to return the aircraft at mid-month, can I change my mind before the end of the month and keep the plane so long as I have time left on the lease?
Title: 19X0's
Post by: Jps on October 11, 2007, 03:34:39 am
Also what if you put 0 months? It's going to be hard putting 12 on each plane..
Title: 19X0's
Post by: pseudoswede on October 11, 2007, 03:42:48 am
Quote from: "Jps"
Also what if you put 0 months? It's going to be hard putting 12 on each plane..
There is no such thing as 0 months anymore. That's why you saw most everyone leasing with 1 month in the contract field.
Title: Re: 19X0's
Post by: Air Elbonia on October 11, 2007, 04:51:59 am
Quote from: "pseudoswede"
Quote from: "Air Elbonia"
There will be no penalty for premature cancellations, this will be implemented when leasing is flushed out a little bit..
So even if the lease contract states, say, 12 months, I can return the plane earlier without penalty? Never really dealt with that this past age.
If the answer is yes...
Quote
Aircraft will only be returned at the end of the month, not mid-month. Lessors will be informed when an aircraft is automatically returned.
As a lessor, if someone decides at mid-month to return the aircraft, will I be notified then, or only when the airplane is returned at the end of the month?
As a lessee, if I decide to return the aircraft at mid-month, can I change my mind before the end of the month and keep the plane so long as I have time left on the lease?
mid-month, i need to double check. i should be adding (if there isn't one already) a notification of a lease return.
Lessee, you decide to return it, it's returned immediately. automatic leases are at the end of the month (in other words, if you lease on the 2nd or the 23rd, it doesn't matter, they're returned at the same time).
and no more 0 month leases, 1 month minimum. (which is likely anywhere from 1 month 1 day to 1 month 23 days).