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Alliances / Networld now open in W7 and W8

« on: June 11, 2008, 06:52:16 pm »

NetWorld is currently operating in Worlds 7 and 8, and has started recruiting members in both worlds. If you would like to join, please check our forum for open slots and apply there.
Thanks

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General Chat / Boeing 707-320 engines

« on: May 18, 2008, 03:18:49 pm »

The difference was afaik the thrust, similar to today's HGW versions for example, but without added fuel capacity.

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General Chat / SimSig anyone?

« on: May 17, 2008, 08:22:00 pm »

Is anyone around playing SimSig?
If so, what sim are you currently doing?

For those who don't know it: www.simsig.co.uk

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Bugs / Money Loss Again! (W6)

« on: May 17, 2008, 05:36:17 pm »

And you are sure those 15m do not in some way resemble your monthly fixed costs?

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General Chat / Lease to Own

« on: May 17, 2008, 12:12:47 am »

Depends on the leasing airline... Of course you can negotiate a deal like this if both parties can agree on terms. You have to keep in mind there's a minimum price for aircraft purchases...

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General Chat / Anhone played any Final Fantasy games?

« on: May 16, 2008, 11:59:55 pm »

p.s. Yuna in 10 is hawwwwwt!

How can an animated "thing" be hot? *shakes head* Today's youth...

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General Chat / Map Updates?

« on: May 16, 2008, 07:13:50 pm »

*waits for iranair777 to do his standard post on this*

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General Chat / A little idea of whats in development

« on: May 16, 2008, 05:46:13 pm »

Yay

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General Chat / Excel question

« on: May 15, 2008, 09:45:27 pm »

I use it to keep track of my network. Hubs in columns, airports served in rows, and fill the fields with the equipment used. But that's about all Excel can do for me...

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General Chat / it is very tired edit nearly 100 routes daily

« on: May 15, 2008, 09:37:21 pm »

I set the view to display anything below 100%, and I adjust all of them. With 570 routes it's not that much to do. I usually don't go for the highest possible price but make larger steps down when adjusting. Not the best way to have a high DOP, but most routes show only once in 3 days or so... Current LF is 100, and by the time I log in in the morning it's usually down to 96 or something around that.

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General Chat / it is very tired edit nearly 100 routes daily

« on: May 15, 2008, 09:29:02 pm »

Actually (I think I said that before) it's not that hard to keep your LF high. Okay, it isn't for me. I am working 12-14 hours a day, and AM is always running in background. Every 30-60 mins I check and edit 3 or 5 routes (usually it's not more than that). Takes a minute, maybe two. When things are going slow at work, I make additions to my fleet and network. I am actually spending more time on the forum than in the game, my game time each day is around an hour, but, as said, in very tiny bits at a time...

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General Chat / it is very tired edit nearly 100 routes daily

« on: May 15, 2008, 09:02:21 pm »

I personally don't play to be top-notch, I do it to pass some time and enjoy myself while doing someting I'm interested in. As nice as a "sandbox" mode is for learning stuff, real playing should be a challenge, otherwise it will become boring quickly.
I know constantly updating your routes is tedious and takes a lot of time, no question about that. But, as with everything else in life: If you don't invest much time and energy and patience, you won't get far. Cheating in a game is more or less cheating on yourself. And in this case it's also ruining a lot of other peoples game experience. This is not some AI you are playing against, it's people who want to also enjoy playing the game without some crank spoiling it just because he only feels good when he's at number one. IMO that's plain sick and antisocial, sorry...

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General Chat / it is very tired edit nearly 100 routes daily

« on: May 15, 2008, 08:53:31 pm »

(to simulate someone with nothing better to do than sit in front of a computer to update routes every hour--which I also suspect happens).

Actually this is the best and most sophisticated way to maintain a high LF
Nevertheless, scripting such a thing isn't too complicated, you could even make it update the routes irregularly. But why would you want to do that? Where's the fun when everything is automated? You could just go and watch TV or so if you don't like full interaction...

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General Chat / Who knows Japanese???

« on: May 15, 2008, 08:02:17 pm »

I was doing East Asia Studies at university, and although Japanese is hard stuff, it's miles away from Chinese. Actually it takes some time to get used to it, but once you get the grip of how it works, it's fairly straightforward.

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General Chat / The riddle thread - post your riddles here!

« on: May 15, 2008, 08:00:02 pm »

This has been a fun exercise our math teacher gave us once (long ago *sigh*). Either we were a very intelligent class or Einstein is wrong about the 2%, as about one quarter of us had the right solution after 45 minutes.
It's basically a simple table that is the route to success...