History of you playing AM

[Mastafa]

I decided to create a topic where everyone posts how they got here, etc.

Lets start!


This is how I started:


My best friend, Sean, told me about this game: Airline. (he didn't tell me the website!!!)
So i Googled the query: Airline and registered for all these airline companies:

Game A
Airline Mogul
Game B

But none of them were the one he was talking about/

The next day, he told me the website:

mochigames.com

Well...

I tried all the websites i found...

Game A was too much competition and boring
Game B costs me 4 cents a day

Airline mogul was good.

I joined a public world
Set up one route with my Nord @ 20 frequency (maximum it would go)
Leased to planes
Set them at max frequency,too

and got bored
and went away.

A few MONTHS later, i came back, realizing the whole point of the game (i never bother to read the instructions   )

I came back, set all routes to 1 frequency. BUT

The next day, the world ended

So i joined a private world and started playing the way i am suppose to. With a DOC of only 16M (I thought that was A LOT that time ) i ended 3rd place.

Now, in another world, i have a DOC of 50 Million from 1 base (1 base is the limitation )

The other world i play in has a limit of 20 bases, 5 foreign. I plan a  DOC of at least 150+Million.

And my progress is good. with in a week, i have a DOC of 40 Million and i am first place in the world. (Holiday flight)

Edited by StephenM - To bring post in line with game rules

[Virgin Serbia]

A few years back, i was browsing airliners.net. That was before Airliners.net was sold off to that useless american corporation that runs a.net worse than Mugabe runs a country. I found a link to a game called Game A, or something along those lines. I caught on quickly, and found that HUGE flaw that fares were around %200 higher from ouagadougou than from LHR og ATL. So my airline grew to be among the top ten. Alas, that game was flawed, slow, and offered few editing options so after a few months i forgot all about it.
I went back to browsing a.net, and i found a link to a game called Airline Mogul. At first i thought it was strange and overly complicated. Didn't understand the purpose of those pink colours either. So i began playing and found it very fun. Because of the rather few available worlds (1 when i joined, but vastly improved with a second world after some time) competition was rather hot. I usually started airlines from smaller airports, at one time operating a rather large airline called Virgin Serbia, with hubs in Belgrade and Bordeaux, and a giant fleet of around 50 Constellations operating flights to America.
Then came the option of private worlds. At some point i had enough credits to start a world, so i created a 1 player world. I used the admin functions to give me unlimited cash, and i could try out every single plane without competition. The information i gathered was used to improve my airline in other worlds. And so here i am, now browsing the forums more than actually playing the game. I run a world, resetting inactive airlines and deleting long-inactive-resetted airlines.
I'm just waiting for the next major improvements *cough*maintenance*cough* and then i will jump back into the fray

Edited by StephenM - To bring post in line with game rules

[StephenM]

Sorry to spoil the fun, but the last rule in the forum rules reads:

There should be no discussion about other Airline Games on these forums. This is solely due to the sensitive nature of discussing competitors.

http://stephenm.org/smfforum/index.php?topic=8327.0


Without going into names, I started in mid 2005 playing an airline game and really loved it. It had a few drawbacks and other players saw huge potential for improvement. Two other games appeared and I dived straight into playing them (Both of them have now disappeared unfortunately). I felt that if they could do it, some with relatively little experience may be I can too? And thats where AM came about. I'd go into more detail but I have an exam on Air Law and Regulation in the morning that I should be studying for now instead!

Didn't understand the purpose of those pink colours either.

I'll still argue it was supposed to be a shade of red... 

[Mastafa]

Sorry to spoil the fun, but the last rule in the forum rules reads:

There should be no discussion about other Airline Games on these forums. This is solely due to the sensitive nature of discussing competitors.

http://stephenm.org/smfforum/index.php?topic=8327.0


Without going into names, I started in mid 2005 playing an airline game and really loved it. It had a few drawbacks and other players saw huge potential for improvement. Two other games appeared and I dived straight into playing them (Both of them have now disappeared unfortunately). I felt that if they could do it, some with relatively little experience may be I can too? And thats where AM came about. I'd go into more detail but I have an exam on Air Law and Regulation in the morning that I should be studying for now instead!

Didn't understand the purpose of those pink colours either.

I'll still argue it was supposed to be a shade of red... 

Woooooooooops

[Mastafa]

Well... you did a great job developing this GREATTTTTTTTTTT game!

[Shawa]

Came in at the end of single world era while searching for a certain KOEI Game's clone. Been on an off since then.

[1993matias]

I started in world 9 after playing Game A, and thrived. Then some on-off time, I've had 13 airlines, three in public worlds.

[Mastafa]

It got 40 views, and only 7 replies?

[Shawa]

Sometimes people just lurk.

[Mastafa]

Sometimes people just lurk.

whats lurk?

[Virgin Serbia]

It got 40 views, and only 7 replies?

It shows a view each time someone opens the thread. Everytime you check back, it adds a view. So in other words, if everyone who has so far posted has checked the thread each time someone has posted, we should have around 49 views

[Lord Voldemort]

My friend, nwadeltaboy, introduced it to me.
I was hooked almost right away. My first base was in Cairo, my DOP was $8 Million by the end of the round.
Then I tried a Europe base... and then I really got hooked... $8 Million? Haha, chump change.
I played for a good year, and then I got a little tired.
I just remembered this place again, and I'm hooked yet again.

[Mastafa]

Oh boy, I was expecting at least 10K replies

[ashuji]

Hullo everyone,

Quite a few posts made above are similar to my experiences.I am a newbie with an old ID (39535).

While browsing / searching for business/ strategy/ simulation games I came across AM and a couple of other games. Initially , when I tried AM I got deep into red and lost interest as I couldnt understand what to do and how to proceed. I couldnt find any help / tutorial/ forums etc.

Actually I forgot about it altogether, then again searching for some games recently I came across AM again. The game looked familiar and fortunately I could log in again. I joined late in an ongoing  public world ( which shall be ending very soon), read and asked a lot, and had started having fun. I am ranked 21 st there now, but not actually doing much there as there is less than 1 year left.

I was curious about brokers, so I managed to become a broker in a private world, which is not that exciting due to the limited number of players there. I just want to become a broker in the beginning of a world which is full of players. Guess, I will have to wait for that.

[Mastafa]

Hullo everyone,

Quite a few posts made above are similar to my experiences.I am a newbie with an old ID (39535).

While browsing / searching for business/ strategy/ simulation games I came across AM and a couple of other games. Initially , when I tried AM I got deep into red and lost interest as I couldnt understand what to do and how to proceed. I couldnt find any help / tutorial/ forums etc.

Actually I forgot about it altogether, then again searching for some games recently I came across AM again. The game looked familiar and fortunately I could log in again. I joined late in an ongoing  public world ( which shall be ending very soon), read and asked a lot, and had started having fun. I am ranked 21 st there now, but not actually doing much there as there is less than 1 year left.

I was curious about brokers, so I managed to become a broker in a private world, which is not that exciting due to the limited number of players there. I just want to become a broker in the beginning of a world which is full of players. Guess, I will have to wait for that.

LOL I have ID# 38498