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Bugs / Leased aircraft - Excruciatingly hard to edit/close routes

« on: July 31, 2009, 04:08:22 pm »

I noticed that clicking the info for leased aircraft and seeing the route list, one cannot edit or close routes from this screen.  Instead, I need to go to the very long routes page in order to do any route editing or closing.

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Bugs / Aircraft Range Unit consistency...

« on: July 21, 2009, 07:22:55 pm »

I was taking a look at various aircraft and in the big main list, most of the "typical" range figures are in Statute Miles.  The exception is the A330/340 family to name one, which seems to be in Nautical Miles.

In the select engine page however, everything is written down as Nautical Miles, which is even more confusing.  For example, the longest ranged variant of the A340-300 states "8510nm".  However, no A343 has 8510nm range...but they actually have approx 8510mi in the real-world.

Same goes for the 777-200 with the RR Trents 895s, 8820nm is 772LR territory, but 8820mi would make sense...

etcetc...

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General Chat / [POLL] What do you think of the New Forum?

« on: August 07, 2008, 02:24:15 pm »

As the poll question says...

Edit: Since there was nothing in the title to tell people this is a poll, unlike more civilised forums...whoops, I think I just gave my vote away!

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General Chat / World 10, 7 days on...

« on: August 06, 2008, 03:09:50 pm »

The start of W10 was a very interesting one indeed, especially in North America.

We saw veterans and former #1 players all basing themselves in Chicago O'hare and them moving onto ATL.  These were:
Asylum Freight
Brokerage House
Doraemon Airlines
Europacific Air
Optimum Airlines

Asylum Freight quickly emerged to be the best starter as he built up a significant lead in as #1 in the overall rankings.  However, we also saw the surprise rise of Ostermalm Airlines, who is going all-out chasing down Asylum Freight.  The results of the battle was pure carnage, with peoples' average loadfactors dropping over 10% in a matter of 12 hours.  At time of writing, Europacific hasn't seem to have been online for 24 hours, and his loadfactor has dipped below 60%.

Europe initially saw the rise of Test Airline who bizarrely purchased 100 Vardax Aero-Hotters.  daklines is back to his triangulation strategy in megahubs, while we also see the return of Mo Mo Rabbit Airlines and ALFC.  Dakota Airlines currently leads the field in Europe but the margin is being eroded by Mo Mo Rabbit and ALFC, while at the same time, these two airlines are in the middle of a very bitter battle at CDG.  Load factors have also been hit very badly in the Megahubs of Europe, although Mo Mo Rabbit seems to have found an efficient way of keeping his loads high.

Interesting times ahead.  My mid-term predictions are Asylum for N.America/Overall and ALFC for Europe.

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Bugs / Nice listed as 150k gate rent instead of 200k

« on: August 06, 2008, 12:00:06 pm »

As the title says.  I just ripped off and am taking AirlineMogul to court over the violation of Contract Law!

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Flight Simulators & Online Flying / Just a quick landing at Kai Tak

« on: August 03, 2008, 11:12:46 pm »

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQqSSYJDYns

A mate took the vid of me landing.

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General Chat / An Interesting Observation

« on: July 31, 2008, 02:56:03 pm »

I looked up 3 airlines in Chicago and they have the exact same route structure!  I wonder if a certain premium feature is responsible... :twisted:

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Bugs / Neuhausen Airport, Germany

« on: April 13, 2008, 05:45:48 pm »

Shown as in Africa as per route research.

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General Chat / Why only 6 bases? Why not 25 in AM? :(

« on: January 15, 2008, 10:39:22 pm »

Why are we restricted to only 6 bases per continent?  This is so unrealistic and limits the expansion and game potential for individual airlines so much.

Take a look at the most successful airline in Europe.  They are called "Ryanair" who offers cheap €0.02 routes everywhere they fly!  This airline sees high load factors and is popular with the people.  It is the "peoples airline" because it is so affordable.  They just opened their 25th base (in Birmingham) and have over 100 Boeing 737-800s on order.

If AM is to be "realistic" as people call for greater realism, we should be allowed to have at the bare mininum, 25 bases where we can fly out of.  Even better would be unlimited bases.  The mininum price should also be reduced to €0 with price increments to €0.01.

/end sarcasm.

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General Chat / The Accelerated Price Drop strategy

« on: January 13, 2008, 01:20:23 pm »

For casual players:

When faced with €1 undercut "bug" scenario, undercut in increments of €20 or over instead of €1.


For hardcore players:

Recently, I tinkered around with €1 fares because I was bored - but I learnt something significant from it.  The base demand for passengers between 2 airports actually increases the lower the prices go.  So despite the €1 undercutting, an equilibrium will eventually be reached.  So to reduce the effort resetting the same routes over and over again, start undercutting by €20 or more so that the equilibrium is reached quickly, instead of painfully €1 by €1.

Since an equilibrium price exists where everyone can have 100% LF, I consider the €1 price elasticity "bug" to actually not exist.

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General Chat / Rankings by Base Airport so far

« on: December 29, 2007, 05:52:59 pm »

With the game well underway, let's see how people have managed to start, relative to their airport sizes!

Over 50 million passengers a year:
1. Europacific Air - Chicago O'Hare/76,766,776 pax - €73,620,697
2. Daklines - London Heathrow/67,344,000 pax - €55,705,919
3. DeathStarX - Chicago O'Hare/76,766,776 pax - €53,854,389

30-50 million passengers a year:
1. Planet Express Airways - Las Vegas/44,280,190 pax - €33,662,759
2. Bʀɩτιsʜ Aɩʀωɑys - London Gatwick/32,963,000 pax - €29,840,538
3. Air Elbonia - Minneapolis/37,563,664 pax - €28,876,121

Under 30 million passengers a year:
1. ARIA Company - Dusseldorf/15,510,990 pax - €31,301,471
2. Royal British Airways - Manchester/22,083,000 pax - €28,681,680
3. Sl1p Air - Munich/28,619,427 pax - €28,232,432

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General Chat / While we wait for the reset, testing continues!

« on: December 18, 2007, 05:41:30 pm »

I was testing modified scripts in a mirror version of AirlineMogul.  This mirror version would of course become one of the multiworlds in the future!

You can see we were having some fun!


The AM team is hard at work to bring forward new features and to stay ahead of the competition.  May the future of AM be bright!

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General Chat / What year do you want the next round to be?

« on: December 17, 2007, 07:22:56 pm »

With the game being pretty gridlocked right now, I am already thinking of the next reset which seems to be ages away.

But anyway, if the game were to reset a week, what era would you want the next round to start?

Off the top of my head, typical aircraft available are:

1930s:
Regionals: Ford Trimotor
Longhaul: The Pan Am Clippers?

1960s:
Regionals: Comet/727/Tu134/BAC1-11
Longhauls: B707/DC-8/VC-10/IL-62
Max Range: VC-10, 5,850miles/9,360km

1970s:
Regionals: DC-9/B737/Fokker
Longhauls: B747/DC-10/L-1011
Max Range: 747SP 6,650nm/7,650miles/12,325km

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General Chat / BROKERS - Advice to airlines using them.

« on: December 15, 2007, 02:00:38 am »

Disclaimer: This post is written as my contribution as a part of the AirlineMogul team.  Many online games have their own staff who post tips/strategies on their own forums, in order to provide a high level of customer service.  This is one of them.  I shall not be liable for any possible inaccuracies in this post, or any financial loss that may be incurred as a result of this post.



There are 4 official brokers in AirlineMogul, and many more "unofficial" ones.


Fact 1: The unofficial brokers are more expensive than the official brokers.

Fact 2: The unofficial brokers order planes from the official brokers.

Fact 3: Combining the above 2 facts means an unofficial broker is simply a middleman who charges commission.


Fact 4: It is possible to order planes through the official @ -10%. (*edited by dktc*)

Fact 5: *an official broker* offers 7%* off, which is still cheaper than the typical 5% discount you get from unofficial brokers.

Fact 6: Unofficial brokers become useful when order books for the official brokers are full.





So for the best deals, use the official brokers!



*deleted by dktc*

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General Chat / How nice the community is here!

« on: December 08, 2007, 11:05:14 pm »

Just a general comment that I find the community in AM and the forums to be far nicer than any other MMOG/online games that I've played:

1. I'm feeling rather irritated right now, having quit another MMOG (the Warbook app on Facebook) due to the high levels of immaturity and lack of brains/logic of a significant minority of players.

2. I play another MMOG called "Darkthrone" which the forums are full of immaturity and (f)lamers.  At lease I seem to be able to "opt-out" which is very lucky.

3. The MSN Gaming Zone when it existed also had its fair share of immature people to make the experience bad enough.

4. The "blue" game had it's share of flamers and unpleasantaries.

5. The "blue and white" game had an admin who allegedly cheated and who never cracked down on multiple 1x flights (similar problem to the current AM script).



So, very well done on the AM community for keeping the place almost flame-free and rude name-calling!  It's actually a little bit boring being a moderator in such a civilised forum, and may it stay that way!