Involontary return of gates

[Scandalian Airlines]

I think that many with me has had emails about returning so called unused gates.
Ok, I think this is fine as those will be available to the market, but when you take gates that I need for my base then something must b wrong. In the manual it says I need 4 gates to open a base, so I rent 4, and it might take a while to use up all slots. But what I find strange is that you (admins) can remove gates that are rented to meet the minimum requirement of 4 for a base? So now I have 3 gates at 2 of my bases...

So how many gates do I need to creat a base? 1,2,3 or 4?

[CornField]

You need 4 to create a base.

But if you don't use 31 slots by month change you will get the automated warning message(the game does it automatically).

If at the end of the second month, you still haven't used 31 slots(3 complete gates, plus one slot to hold the fourth) the unused ones are returned automatically.  The admins didn't do it, the game did.

[Daniel Doorgakant]

CornField is correct,

You need to occupy your gates. And its nice to see how people think that Admins intervene  :wink: We're a nice bunch... really.

[dktc]

And note, you need 4 to create the base but you don't need all four to keep your base.

[Scandalian Airlines]

you will get the automated warning message(the game does it automatically).

No warning, just a message that they were removed

The admins didn't do it, the game did.

And its nice to see how people think that Admins intervene Wink

Well, I'd consider Stephen to be an admin, and he made the game so even if it is automated it's still an admin thing, not like Krusty The Clown "Don't blame me! I didn't do it!" just different kind of admins

We're a nice bunch... really.

Really?

[Blue Sky Mine]

Well, if you don't need the gates, you can be happy with the removal!

[Scandalian Airlines]

Well, if you don't need the gates, you can be happy with the removal!

Correct, but what if I have 97% usage on 3 gates, and the 4th one disappears and when I get back online there are no gates available, then that has basically killed my chance of expanding the network from that base. And if I pay a lot of money to create a base I at least want a guaranteed number of slots, and since 4 gates is what it takes, 4 gates is what I should be guaranteed.