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General Chat / Maintenance Cost

« on: May 14, 2008, 03:57:00 pm »

I added 8 planes valued 350M € and my maintenance cost went from 70M € to 90M €. That's an increase of 2.5M€ per plane.

Whatever...

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General Chat / A Cheeky Disquisition on the Revenue Model

« on: May 13, 2008, 11:09:46 pm »

a concorde ticket shouldn't be treated the same way a ticket aboard a conventional jet would be treated

flight time should be in the calculation, this way a Concorde or any other jet would be treated different. much different.

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General Chat / Maintenance Cost

« on: May 13, 2008, 04:23:26 pm »

Maintenance should be the same as fuel costs. We all know that older engines use more fuel than new ones. But AM ignores that. Why? Because it would be too complicated to make this cost variable.

Maintenance cost should be much more simple than it is now. I understand that under the current calculation, displaying that cost is difficult. So what I'm suggesting is reshape the maintenance cost structure and make it more aircraft based. On the same train, introduce discounts if an airline has more planes from the same manufacturer.

Or at least introduce an extra field "current maintenance cost" for each plane.

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General Chat / Maintenance Cost

« on: May 13, 2008, 12:19:35 pm »

The planes are getting older and thus need more maintenance, which results in a higher maintenance cost. But it's the same mechanics working on the planes. Simple as that.

sure it is simple as that, as it is simple that in one year that maintenance cost will grow by 72M € making my maintenance bill 140M €, an increase of 100%! come on, you cannot sell me this stuff.

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General Chat / Maintenance Cost

« on: May 13, 2008, 11:42:16 am »

The minute you buy an extra plane, the overall fee changes. It also changes every day due to the plane getting older.

I understand that, but why make things complicated this way? AM separates the maintenance crew paychecks and maintenance fees for a plane - why? Is there any game play improvement because of this? Why can't this be one fee instead of 2?

Just to make an example:

1/2/1984 Monthly Engineer & Tech Services Salaries €1,797,750
1/2/1984 Monthly Maintenance Fees €70,276,722
1/1/1984 Monthly Engineer & Tech Services Salaries €1,797,750
1/1/1984 Monthly Maintenance Fees €64,553,458

wtf?! salaries the same, maintenance up by 6M €?!

On the other hand, the game features leases. How the hell can I calculate the lease fee that will keep me profitable? Trial and error? For game play sake don't bring micromanagement in a game that does not provide it.

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General Chat / Maintenance Cost

« on: May 13, 2008, 10:46:00 am »

Thats because it is impossible.

sorry to argue, but it would be impossible only if someone was manually setting maintenance fees per plane for every airline. because there is a formula behind, the maintenance fee is very exact and could be calculated in advance.

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General Chat / Maintenance Cost

« on: May 13, 2008, 10:00:24 am »

Maintenance Fees (Monthly): €72.074.472
Fleet size: 49
Fleet value: 1.620.839.243 €
Average fleet value: 33M €
Average fleet age: 1
Average maintenance per plane: 1.470.907 €

The problem is not the "high" maintenance cost, but the fact that I have no overview on plane maintenance other than the total cost, making it impossible to calculate the maintenance cost per plane for 2, 3 or 4 years ahead.

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Bugs / W6 game's frozen at July 20

« on: April 13, 2008, 10:54:01 am »

here it says 3100nm for the a320-200 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airbus_A320#Specifications)