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Suggestions / More consistency in "States" in gate rentals

« on: January 12, 2012, 07:30:31 pm »

Right now, when going to the "Rent gate" screen and displaying all the airports in a certain region, it is very inconsistent as far as what countries have their political subdivisions represented (whether they're states, provinces, etc.).  You'll see the state an airport is in in Australia, the US, and Germany (all of which term their political subdivisions states), but not for Mexico (also called "states") or even Canada (provinces).

It would be very helpful if this information was included, so I can easily pick out the airports that are just in, say, Ontario.

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Bugs / Re: Scrapped aircraft and aircraft rankings

« on: January 03, 2012, 02:18:24 am »

Why would they not be deleted outright right away?  It seems to me that being "scrapped" means they are literally torn apart for their raw materials and parts, so they no longer exist as complete aircraft anyway.

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Suggestions / Re: 787, a350 etc..

« on: January 02, 2012, 01:31:59 am »

Then I guess it has yet to be added/released for use. I'll leave this to you stephen

Obviously; thus, the OP's suggestion.

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Suggestions / Re: 787, a350 etc..

« on: December 31, 2011, 06:12:27 pm »

I think his point is that if you look in the "View All Aircraft" list, which also includes aircraft scheduled to become available in the future in a particular world, it's not in there either.

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Game Strategy / Re: Trying to factor maintenance costs into this decision

« on: December 30, 2011, 12:16:37 am »

Like I said, I basically know the break-even point for the aircraft choice without factoring in maintenance; I'm just wondering if anyone's got hard numbers.  I've started a spreadsheet, trying to figure out a best-fit curve for maintenance cost per (total initial purchase price of fleet * average of fleet) so I can project maintenance costs going forward.  I was just wondering if anyone already had their own attempts to calculate this that could be used for comparison.

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Game Strategy / Trying to factor maintenance costs into this decision

« on: December 29, 2011, 08:25:47 pm »

I've found that on certain low-income routes, if I use a CW-20 instead of a DC-3 (despite the larger capacity depressing the prices, I can still get a higher DOC on these routes with a CW-20) I will make up the difference in the initial purchase price after about 3 1/2 years.  What I'm not so sure on is how much the increased maintenance costs of the CW-20, both because of its base value and because of the 3 1/2 year minimum before I turn a profit with it before factoring in maintenance costs, affects this.

Is there a way to know this beforehand to factor it in, or do I just have to gather data empirically over time to make my own calculations?

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Suggestions / Re: Sortable aircraft search results

« on: December 12, 2011, 07:37:31 pm »

Would the images not be loaded unless and until the user chooses to expand the listing?

Most of the time my only available Internet connection is dialup, and it'd be annoying if those images go ahead and load whether I actually choose to display them or not.

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Suggestions / Re: Sortable aircraft search results

« on: December 07, 2011, 08:42:29 pm »

How?  Because I've tried many times to find a way, and I can't.

Be aware that I'm referring to sorting the list of results you get after you put in your search parameters.  Your search parameters will narrow down the results you get (e.g. you can get a list of all aircraft with pax capacity between X and Y), but you're still stuck viewing them in price order.

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Suggestions / Sortable aircraft search results

« on: December 07, 2011, 06:35:29 pm »

When using the aircraft search, with whatever parameters are selected, results are sorted by price.  It'd be nice to be able to sort the list by the other information listed (pax capacity, fuel usage, range, etc.) to be more easily able to compare aircraft that are similar in one regard with one another.

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General Chat / Who plays Guitar Hero?

« on: May 15, 2008, 05:52:19 pm »

These games have to be one of the most ridiculous things ever...

Time spent playing the video game could be time spent instead learning how to actually play the instrument...