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General Chat / Concerning €1 Routes

« on: January 13, 2008, 04:22:47 am »

Oh and I'd like to add to that.. new players would be ready to pack their bags and leave if they saw this thread. What if they wanted to find info on this matter? It would be good for nwaboy to edit and tell them instead of a big SHUT THE H*LL UP on the first post.

What if they just came and didnt know anything about it?

New players will not last long in AirlineMogul.  It's just not going to happen.  Why?  Because a new player jumping in has to deal with:

1.  Saturated high-profit routes, that make it hard to break in and make any money.
2.  Price wars driving down some of the aforementioned routes, such that nobody is making any money on them.
3.  The necessary expansion of the larger airlines who, in order to maintain the aforementioned price wars, must then branch out and saturate every other route they can possibly make money on.

This is why we keep resetting the game periodically: games like AirlineMogul must, eventually, reach a static equilibrium, where, eventually, prices reach a stable point.  Unfortunately, as the last turn shows, that equilibrium is, all too often, where nobody's really making any money, because "equilibrium" on so many routes is 0-1 Euro.

Hopping into the forums?  That'll just make it worse.  It gives the sense that the game staff simply doesn't care about resolving the issue, and are actively hostile towards members of the playerbase that bring it up.  No way to get ahead, eventually no way to keep your head above water, a playerbase that's incredibly hostile, and a game staff that's apathetic at best and hostile at worst?  Yeah....those are not the ingredients for a game that will expand.

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General Chat / Concerning €1 Routes

« on: January 13, 2008, 04:03:26 am »

You know, this really was a very poor thread to sticky... when it is a real problem.

Let the calm and polite get locked, and instead sticky the vulgar and rude?  Gimme a break.

This thread was actually created to get rid of the arguing in the forums  

So the mods dont need to deal with the other threads

Stickying the thread is fine.  Stickying a post from another player shouting "shut the hell up" is, well, ridiculous.  I'd probably delete nwaboy's post, and split this into a new stickied thread at dtkc's post.

By stickying nwaboy's flamepost, the game staff is, essentially, saying "*cabbage* you, and the horse you rode in on" to anyone who feels that this is unsportsmanlike behavior.  It's ridiculous and, in the long term, not healthy for the game.  I've watched games equivalent to AirlineMogul's size crash and burn before in a horrible, fiery mess for far, far less imflammitory behavior.

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General Chat / Fleet Uniformity

« on: January 12, 2008, 05:41:32 pm »

As long as you realize that a fleet of planes that small means you won't be in the top players in the game have at it.

Kinda a given, yeah.  

good luck to get rid  of them when you need to

Or not.  

No, seriously, though, I have neither the intention, nor the need to get rid of them.  One of the funny things is I can throw a Colt at high frequency at a bigger airport, fill its seats each flight, and still be able to charge a dirt cheap price, while turning a profit.  I don't care about becoming a bigger airline - I played that game last round, and found nothing but irritation and frustration as I hit every major route in the US that I could, only to have all my good routes destroyed by competition, as people started dropping Sud Est and Super Connies at 6+ frequency, for 1 Euro prices.

To hell with that.  I figured I'd do something completely off the wall this time around, and would instead hit every single route within 557 nm of my own bases, and would fill in all the smaller routes at my Allies bases that they can't/won't take.  Example: one of my allies, Great Leader Airways, only flies Communist routes from his base in NK.  That means he leaves all the South Korean and Japanese bases within range completely alone, which I then can take care of.  TahoeXpress, my other ally, is ignoring the smaller routes out of his west coast cities in North America.  I take care of those.  Great Leader, then, can take care of San Francisco, Berkeley, and other select routes in the People's Republics of California and Massachusetts (hey, I live in California, I can make that joke.   )

I went into this intending to be a small regional carrier, and intending to use one of my favorite Real Life(tm) aircraft, the An-2P - someone used to fly one out of KMYF, where I got my own flight training.  If the FAA weren't being such asshats about them/me (minor medical issues have me temporarily grounded), I'd probably seek to buy one after I finish flight training, and set it up as a water bomber, something we just don't have enough of here in SoCal.  They're great aircraft.

So, yeah, making my own fun this time around.  And, trust me, 209 Antonovs?  I will have every single one of those in use by the end of next week (factoring in the time it'll take me to create all those routes, and my own Real Life(tm) obligations.).

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General Chat / Fleet Uniformity

« on: January 12, 2008, 06:46:11 am »

100 planes that small?  You must have a ton of time on your hands.

I have 100 currently.  I have another 108 on order now.  Yes, I'm a madman.  

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General Chat / Fleet Uniformity

« on: January 12, 2008, 01:18:50 am »

Did I say 100 Antonov An-2P Colts?  My bad...it's now 208 Colts - I just ordered another 108.  

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General Chat / Fleet Uniformity

« on: January 07, 2008, 08:13:43 am »

My current fleet, including the 28 planes I have on order, consists of 100 Antonov An-2P Colts.  Not only does that, far and away, make me the largest operator of the Colt, but also, I believe, that's the largest single-model fleet in the game.