THE FIRST RESET WILL BE PERFORMED ON JUNE 28TH! MAKE SURE YOUR NUMBERS ARE UP. Since one of the rules is that no one will be reset within the first year, so there will be no reset on June 22nd.
I see a potential problem already. Whoever is Brussels Airlines, you need to get some routes going. We can't have someone in this game who just joins and then never does anything. It kind of ruins the point. If on June 28th there is anyone in the game with no PAX being carried, then they will be reset along with the next lowest person.
I have noticed a problem with the elimination system. I stated that no airline would be reset within the first twelve RW days, but airlines are joining late, which means they won't have the full year to grow. Here is the new plan. Any airline which joins will have 10-15 days depending on when they joined before they will be eligible to be reset. If an airline joins within three days of a reset, they will have 15 days (they will be immune from the next two), but if they join four days or more before a reset, they will only have immunity for that reset.
In other words, lets say ABC Air joins on June 29th. Since the next reset is July 2nd, and the one after that is July 8th, they will have immunity from both resets. If they join on June 28th, they will only have immunity for the July second reset.
That sounds confusing, but I am just trying to make it fair. Also, I have moved the first reset back to July 2nd, and all airlines that have already joined and any airlines which join between now and June 23rd will be eligible to be reset. This has been added to the OP.
Que the questions and complaints.
RULES
Here is how this world will work:
THE AIRCRAFT OF CHOICE SO FAR IS THE BOEING 737-200 ADV. HGW. IF YOU DON'T LIKE THIS AIRCRAFT, PLEASE VOTE IN THE POLL TO CHANGE IT. THE POLL ENDS THURSDAY.
Anyone will be allowed in the world; there will be no password. This will be a full world and it will last 30 years, starting in 1980 and ending in 2010. There will be five starting aircraft (yet to be determined) and three starting gates, and each player will start with $2,500,000 in cash. Nine hubs, two of which can be foreign.
No one will be reset within the first year. This will allow airlines to get established. I will track the day everyone joins and each airline is reset. No one will be reset within one year of joining the game to help them get established. Anyone who is reset will also be allowed one year before being eligible to be reset again, unless their airline achieves a negative value within the first twelve months.
The worst performing airline will be reset every six months. All airline resets will be done using a formula which will divide total value by hub passengers. This will allow smaller airlines to compete, make it more difficult for larger airlines to build up and then do nothing, and allow startup airlines to have a fighting chance. Here are two examples of the formula:
Airline ABC has hubs at Atlanta (46 million), London Heathrow (66 million), and Tokyo Haneda (64 million), or a total of 176 million passengers. Total value of airline ABC is $10,000,000,000. 10 billion divided by 176 million works out to about $56.82 per passenger.
Airline XYZ has one hub at Cape Town (8 million), so 8 million passengers. Airline XYZ has a total value of $500,000,000. 500 million divided by 8 million is about $62.50 per passenger.
Based on these two airlines, airline ABC would actually be eliminated, as they are financially the weaker airline.
All airlines which have a negative value will also be reset.
Please feel free to chime in with suggestions, and please vote on the aircraft in the aircraft poll.
List of Airlines
I will be maintaining the list of players here. I will post when each airlines is created and where they are at, and when each airline is reset.
July 2nd-AsiaAir reset, hubs in Beijing
