OFFICAL Gate Problems (all gone) thread

Dora · **on:** August 03, 2007, 04:05:24 pm

Gates in Rome Leonardo Da Vinci Airport - FCO may be too little
Someone bought all gates left...again

may be we can have a forum section for gate buy out reports...

MrOrange · **Reply #1 on:** August 03, 2007, 08:07:08 pm

These situations will be dealt with automatically, even though that may take up to two days IIRC. Any unused gates will be returned automatically at the end of the month.

:Duncan · **Reply #2 on:** August 04, 2007, 06:19:23 pm

And also, I don't think he is using Athens alot as well... :?

Such a great way for shut people away from 'his' airport

MrOrange · **Reply #3 on:** August 04, 2007, 08:29:04 pm

As said, the situation would either resolve itself because gates are returned, or the guy managing the airline will notice people start to hate him for using more gates than nessecary, and he'll return the gates. Still, I'd say situation 1 is the most likely.

d1-3508 · **Reply #4 on:** August 04, 2007, 11:27:29 pm

Or we'll delete him (but that's if all these gates aren't returned.)

Denny-Fly · **Reply #5 on:** August 05, 2007, 03:44:42 pm

The same Problem, I have post it in Bugs:

http://www.stephenm.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1256

Pod1967 · **Reply #6 on:** August 07, 2007, 06:21:01 pm

It the same guy. I woke up this morning to discover he had put about 5 aircraft on one route operating at a frequency of 67.5 and his ticket price at 1euro.
Really pissed me off, then when I realised he had done the same at Frankfurt pissed me off even more.
Some people need to play the game abit better and operate more of how a real world airline would operate.

d1-3508 · **Reply #7 on:** August 08, 2007, 07:08:19 am

I've decided to make it all one thread, and move it into bugs.

Air Elbonia · **Reply #8 on:** August 08, 2007, 02:14:43 pm

Again, we're relatively open to suggestions as to what better to do (code-side) to prevent this, but none will likely be perfect or without unforeseen consequences.

Denny-Fly · **Reply #9 on:** August 08, 2007, 04:45:35 pm

Maybe you can make that the highest Gates for Rent is 5!
And when you dont need the gates, you cant rent more!
Ich have 4 gates left, you can rent 1 more, and you have 5 left.
So you can not have so much gates than kapellen airservice, because they dont need them *LOL
Sorry for my englisch

StephenM · **Reply #10 on:** August 08, 2007, 04:55:31 pm

How about another method, with any airline that has more than 40 gates an airport their cost goes up per gate to rent. So lets say the price took a very high increase, 10% increase per gate. So your 41st gate would be €330,000.00, 42nd €363,000.00 going up to 50th €778,122.74 and finally if you can afford it, your 100th gate would cost €91,344,491.86.
So if you have 100 gates an airport whos base cost is €300,000 your monthly charge for the gates would come to €1,013,489,410.49 I dont think many airlines would be able to afford that.

dktc · **Reply #11 on:** August 09, 2007, 12:31:41 am

Quote from: "StephenM"

How about another method, with any airline that has more than 40 gates an airport their cost goes up per gate to rent. So lets say the price took a very high increase, 10% increase per gate. So your 41st gate would be €330,000.00, 42nd €363,000.00 going up to 50th €778,122.74 and finally if you can afford it, your 100th gate would cost €91,344,491.86.
So if you have 100 gates an airport whos base cost is €300,000 your monthly charge for the gates would come to €1,013,489,410.49 I dont think many airlines would be able to afford that.

Which the foreseeable consequence is that large airlines wouldn't work because gates are so so expensive. I prefer checking everytime you rent the gates like Denny-Fly suggests.

As for gates being tied down by routes... there is nothing that one could do except tie the gates down first

MrOrange · **Reply #12 on:** August 09, 2007, 07:57:43 am

I only like StephenM's method if it will apply to unused gates

Otherwise, it'd be impossible to run a big airline.

Pod1967 · **Reply #13 on:** August 09, 2007, 08:49:00 am

I reckon you should limit the amount of aircraft on one route per airline to say 3 or so.
That way people like Kapellen can't stick about 8 aircraft on the one route and buy all the gates, filling their slots.

Pod1967 · **Reply #14 on:** August 09, 2007, 12:20:33 pm

I just sent a message to Kappelen asking if he could take one of the 6 aircraft off his Rome-Pisa route and return a gate.
Doubt he will do it but worth a try.
If he doesn't then I'm either changing base or quitting the game til the next time round.