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General Chat / Re: [Sigh... again...] Is the game offline?
« on: November 01, 2010, 04:25:11 am »General Chat / Re: [Sigh... again...] Is the game offline?
« on: October 31, 2010, 01:06:39 pm »Wasn't the server going to be moved over the the European one eventually anyway? It seems like a problem to be having the data on a different server to the main server, so I think that would be a priority if you were going to switch.
I don't see why there is any reason to switch over to the European server temporarily though. I thought DNS changes usually took a while (a day or so) to process anyway, so I don't think it would work to solve the problem in the short term.
These forums seem kinda slow too. But that might just be me.
[=] Suggestions / Re: Suggestion: select wich aircraft will be available in a private world
« on: October 24, 2010, 01:09:13 am »I think the best way to implement it would be to allow world owners to uncheck companies first, and individual planes by going to a separate page (or perhaps expanding a panel) for that company. I suspect most people would only want to select certain companies. Ideally the list of companies/planes to select would be only those aircraft in the world during the time specified for the game.
General Chat / Re: Any Sense in less than 100% Loadfactor?
« on: October 16, 2010, 02:43:48 pm »General Chat / Re: Show your colors - The Liveries Topic
« on: October 15, 2010, 05:11:57 am »Game Strategy / Re: When are new aircrafts going to come out?
« on: October 14, 2010, 07:19:14 am »http://sixrevisions.com/infographics/performance-comparison-of-major-web-browsers/
In terms of fliers, they don't really care what the plane's stats are - they are more concerned about airline specific seating and scheduling.
General Chat / Re: How is Airline value calculated...?
« on: September 28, 2010, 02:33:48 pm »Regarding calculating the DOC and profits of others, that can be tricky. To get a good DOC estimate, you can try comparing their airline values just before and just after the day change (i.e. on the hour). You subtract the first value from the second to get a rough DOC. Using Excel and copying the table directly out of the game can make that easier. However, you should consider two things.
Firstly, if they happen to be spending/gaining money at that time, you may get an incorrect amount.
Secondly, and more importantly, this does not take into account their monthly costs/gains, like maintenance or leases. This is not so much a problem with the method, but with the use of DOC as a measure of profitability. In the case of someone who is leasing, they have both high monthly costs (when lease revenue is due) and a high DOC. Conversely, someone who is leasing out a number of aircraft has little day to day income, but gets a large amount of money each month.
To overcome this, you could use the above procedure spaced out over a 24 hour period, i.e. gather your data at the same time on two consecutive days. This has the problem that the other airlines may do things which vary their value in the short term. For example, placing an order with a broker temporarily reduces your value, because you give money to the broker, but don't have any physical planes yet. This value will come back when the planes are received, but may cause problems for calculating monthly profit.
An even more complicated approach could work thus: calculate their DOC as above, then calculate their monthly costs by comparing their values on the last day of one month and the first day of the next (remembering to subtract their DOC earnings for that day). Then multiply the DOC by 24 and subtract the monthly costs. This approach involves more work, and requires you to be playing AM as the month changes (which simply may not be possible), so it is by no means perfect.
In the end though, it doesn't really matter what the other players DOCs are. If your aim is to overtake them on the rankings, just try to run your airline as efficiently as possible, and make as much money as you can.
Suggestions / Re: Website Implementation
« on: September 22, 2010, 08:58:07 am »Naturally such an idea would expose AM to many more gamers, however I tend to think the people browsing these kind of flash game sites tend to be looking for a quick and simple game to fight off boredom. AM , by contrast, is fairly complicated, requires registration (bound to turn many casual gamers off...) and is fairly slow initially. I highly doubt that the extra exposure would hurt AM, but I tend to think it wouldn't be too much use either.
General Chat / Re: Android Users - Basic App Test
« on: September 22, 2010, 08:48:08 am »The Purchase Tokens button looks fuzzy in that picture and is a bit too close to the bottom green bar, but other than that, it seems quite good.
[=] Suggestions / Re: Aircraft storage / mothballing unused aircraft
« on: September 22, 2010, 08:40:46 am »The idea for long term storage has been brought up before, and I think it has been fairly well received. I don't think it is too much of a priority, but I don't think it would hurt to have an additional feature to mothball planes. I think that there should be some, albeit considerably reduced, maintenance costs for the aircraft. I would agree with the idea of having a 24 hour period to bring the plane back into service - which would discourage people mothballing planes to avoid a day or two's maintenance costs before they use the planes.
[-] Suggestions / Re: Relief Crews
« on: September 19, 2010, 09:16:14 am »General Chat / Re: Ammap
« on: September 19, 2010, 09:11:12 am »General Chat / Re: Uploading pictures
« on: September 19, 2010, 09:07:25 am »Imageshack allows you to upload without registration, and is a fairly common site for forum image hosting.