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Game Data / Niederrhein and Dusseldorf-Weeze are the same airport

« on: April 27, 2008, 12:05:23 am »

but in AM they're seperate airports. fyi

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General Chat / Gidday Mates

« on: November 19, 2007, 08:14:55 pm »

How's this one?



Heh heh. I'm just smacktalkin' and mad that you're kicking my butt at SFO.

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Bugs / Negative gate value

« on: November 19, 2007, 05:26:51 am »

Japanese Watermelon thingy as the negative 1 gate in CDG... Intersting.

I don't know what you're talking about. I totally took that picture at CDG. I also have photos of platform 9 3/4 at Charing Cross. Anyone wanna see them?

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Bugs / Re: Negative gate value

« on: November 19, 2007, 04:01:51 am »

View CDG Paris Charles De Gaule 53,756,200 -1 350,000 1,770,940  France  Rent

Seems strange that paris has -1 gate left Strange :-)

Gate -1? Oh, that's a famous gate at CDG. I've been there. Here's a picture I took of Gate -1:

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General Chat / Gates again

« on: November 19, 2007, 03:52:35 am »

Well the problem is that many of us have a job in real life and cant be sitting 24/7 looking at this screen to find a gate.
I know you are working whit the problem, and im happy whit it. But the problem ruin this great game!

I think it's an exaggeration to say that's ruining the game. In fact it would ruin the game if anyone could get a gate at any airport anytime.

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General Chat / Brokerage system

« on: November 18, 2007, 10:00:03 pm »

Ich finde Deutsch gar nicht schwierig zu sein. Ich bin Kalifornier und mir ist Franzoesisch bei Aussprache schlimmer und Spanisch beim intelligenten Schreiben extrem schwierig. Deutsch ist nicht so uebel. Dativ, Akusativ, Nominativ, ja ja, das verwirt, aber so schlimm ist es nicht. Lang lebe FSV Mainz 05!

THAT'S RIGHT! WE KNOW GERMAN AT PEDESTRIAN WINGS. How un-pedestrian  :wink:

Although I understand what you wanted to say it is quiet not perfect. :wink: Funny that you love soccer. Thats not typical for a real american. I guess you have german ancestors or you have spent a long time in Germany at least.

Iss doch 'ne Weltsprache. Mensch!

I don't have a single German ancestor! (Phew.) I've dated two German girls and lived with one here in San Francisco.

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General Chat / Brokerage system

« on: November 18, 2007, 08:54:00 pm »

Thanks. 6th grade and english is your native language? I guess you are around 13 years old? I am 32 and started to learn english when I was 13. So I should have a little more experience than you have :wink: To be honest: I use english many times a day - not only here :wink: but in my job. I could probably describe a whole engine in english but my financial english is pretty poor :cry:

no i'm not that young

im 17 now, but i still didn't understand english grammar since the 6th grade. Imagine that i have learn it so long, but still didn't understand it  

Me too. But I try my best ... sometimes. Have you tried german? Thats my first language but i have heard after chinese it must be the hardest language to learn for a foreigner. I noticed that we do not talk strict to the rules of that language. Best example would be past/present perfect. We use the present perfect more often than we should ... instead of using simple past

Ich finde Deutsch gar nicht schwierig zu sein. Ich bin Kalifornier und mir ist Franzoesisch bei Aussprache schlimmer und Spanisch beim intelligenten Schreiben extrem schwierig. Deutsch ist nicht so uebel. Dativ, Akusativ, Nominativ, ja ja, das verwirt, aber so schlimm ist es nicht. Lang lebe FSV Mainz 05!

THAT'S RIGHT! WE KNOW GERMAN AT PEDESTRIAN WINGS. How un-pedestrian  :wink:

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Bugs / Block time

« on: November 18, 2007, 12:56:06 am »

Another example...

JFK-NAP

Block time with a L-1049 is exactly 12 hours, yet I can only do a 0.5 frequency.

gates full?

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General Chat / Price slashing...Is there really a point to it or...

« on: November 17, 2007, 08:34:04 pm »

I just came across the absolute worst in price slashing, just check out Denver to Sacramento and you'll be able to pick out the totally unnecessary price slash from a mile away.


Everyone on the route is over 200 euros, i can still fill a plane at over 400 euros, so how come this guy can fairly add a route at 19 euros?

Outrageous.

Maybe it's just a promotion. Besides, it's hard for Coloradans to find a few euros lying around, much less 400 euros! I think I have 3 euros tucked in a suitcase from my last vacation...  

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General Chat / I want to buy the AM team a round.

« on: November 16, 2007, 11:48:23 pm »

Stephen's hiding in ireland somewhere, I'm hiding in the states (typically somewhere between the midwest and pennsylvania); the admin team hides anywhere from random places in the states to the UK and a few other places in Europe.

Thanks for the thought though. always a great reason to drink.

Aw drat, that would have been legendary! I could have started a new pilgrimage tradition, in which AM players flock to Dublin bearing gifts.  :cry:

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General Chat / I want to buy the AM team a round.

« on: November 16, 2007, 09:28:39 pm »

Less than half the team is in Ireland and old enough to drink

There's a drinking age in Ireland? You see, this proves that Irish people in San Francisco lie all the time about the "old country."

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General Chat / I want to buy the AM team a round.

« on: November 16, 2007, 09:03:37 pm »

This is AM-related, but pertains to RL:

Next week is the Thanksgiving break in the States. My girlfriend and I (airline: PEDESTRIAN) are flying the new SFO-DUB Aer Lingus route. We're going to be in Dublin this Thursday (22nd Nov). We want to meet the AM team and buy you a round. It would be awesome! And my way of saying thanks for hours of free procrastination. My girlfriend likes the game too and she will join in 1960. Anyway, if you're interested, let's meet up (Temple Bar or thereabouts) next weekend! I'll give you my email and phone number if you reply.

P.S. It will be our first time in Ireland.

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General Chat / Price slashing...Is there really a point to it or...

« on: November 16, 2007, 08:17:49 pm »

can we have an airline mogul game for people over the age of 21? and people for under the age of 21?


people over 21 pay a small fee with their OWN credit card? i.e. $2



it makes no sense for someone to jump onto an 800 euro route and drop it to 50 bucks to get rid of competition
i think stephen has seen our countless plots/rants to get rid of the competition on another forum

21 seems arbitrary. I've had a credit card since I was 16. I can check statements going back ten years to see which girlfriend was the most expensive...

Although I just realized this may be a country specific issue. In some US states you can work at age 16 (or 15 or 14, etc.) and thus you're entitled to all bank services. Maybe in your country it's 21.

Anyway, I digress, yes I think AM should cost something, if that means the layout and fun-factor could improve.

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General Chat / Re: hub effect

« on: November 16, 2007, 07:47:29 pm »

is there a "hub effect" and at what number of flights does it start?

Hub effect is so twentieth century, dude. Oh wait... it's the fifties now. I forgot.

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Bugs / Re: Typos - centralized thread

« on: November 15, 2007, 04:27:08 am »

I'll fix them as I'm made aware of them (or notice them otherwise) if and when i need to work on the affected file, or periodically as a spurt.

so far we have "Transations" twice in the operations department, "Most be a hub..." in create route.

so. post them up, page/typo.  Time for a centralized typo thread.  I'm sure there's a few typos on the main page.

The airport for Cabo San Lucas is misspelled as "Cabos San Lucas."