we're at 320 results and counting. after talking to rick a bit, it looks like we'll be closing the survey on Thursday and releasing some of the data (most whatever you want to know from it) mayhap thursday/friday.
Membership admins we're waiting on a backend piece to be put in place to help reduce some overhead. we're hoping to have it together shortly (it's involved in the next step towards multi-worlds).
Multi-worlds we're working on as fast as we can. There's about 5 steps total for a rather complete version to be out. We've got to do a backend modification first (at present users and airlines are stored in the same table... we need to split 'em up for this to work at all) which involves updating, bug-testing, and successfully not screwing up 26 files. odds are we'll update it, bugtest it, miss a few. then fix it all.
the step after that is renaming a lot of things, updating most every file in the game. this'll be long, and again, probably hair-raising in the bugs it causes. we're going to likely make the private testing server at least temporarily public for assistance in finding these bugs. there's just so many updates to make that it's inevitably going to have bugs.
After that it gets easy. we need to split up the registration process from the joining of a world, create a script to automatically detect when to auto-generate worlds (yes. yes we can be this lazy. believe you me we want to be this hands-off of the game's progression). after that finalize the credit system and establish the joined world cap. but at this point you're all dancing and singing joyous songs because of the new variety in worlds and the availability of multiple eras. oh. and last but not least, the premium system affect, winning bonus effect, and the ability to generate private worlds.
Auto-price. it won't be auto-exact, i know that much. Advisor range (+-~x%) is the form I'd envision as being feasibly realistic. this is lower priority then a few things. at some point i'd love to have advisors for most every thing in some respect. general open automatic advice on things in some respect. This is definitely after hotswap aircraft (in process) and mass edit routes (depending on where we're at in multiworlds when i finish hotswap, it's next.)
chinese forums? they're staying. I'm hoping we can add Spanish forums soon as well, but i've got to talk it out with Stephen. Rick i believe has said he both speaks Spanish pretty well and would be willing to staff it. depends who else we'd get on board for that. Possibly Portuguese as well. I know one of the complaints in the survey was that we don't serve the spanish/portuguese speaking players as well as the english speaking players.
Ac Data Officer, no comment.
