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This is not a BUG, it is 2 feature requests regarding USABILITY:)

I am writing this from my experience as usability focussed web designer.
As far as I can judge my recommendations are easy to implement and do not interfere with anything else in the overall wonderful Sim.

*lines in silver are completed (may not be deployed immediately, but they are ready)*

1) in resroute.php (= New route select cities):
I recommend to add the number of free slots in the listbox:
<SELECT NAME="airport1" id="airport1">
<OPTION>--Select a City--</OPTION>
<OPTION VALUE='TXL'>Berlin-Tegel [TXL] (2)</OPTION>
<OPTION VALUE='BRE'>Bremen [BRE] (3)</OPTION>
<OPTION VALUE='DUS'>Dusseldorf [DUS] (0)</OPTION>
</SELECT>

This will help setting up routes and you do not have to see this airport where there are no gates available again and again...
At this point I want to thank you for the filter fields!:eureka:


2) in routes.php:
  • Remove the column "Route ID". It does not make any sense to the user - the user interaction ("Edit"-Link) is done by the last column.
  • Remove the column "Aircraft ID" and move the link to the "Aircraft"-column. This way it is not doubled and no space wasted. Maybe add it to aircraft name (e.g. A319-100 (1342)) to allow sorting the list by aircraft
  • Add a column "distance", or (even better but maybe harder to implement) "block time". That would be great and is really useful information.
  • Sorting the list by the columns "Yield" or "Profit" does not work as expected - should be working, if it still doesn't, let me know.
  • (Yield is, as far as I read, a relative value and as such should not contain a $, but a % (or nothing). This might be wrong, I am not into finance)


EDIT:
3) in rentgate.php:
Show available gates as available/total, e.g. "5/90" (maybe hard to implement: include self-built terminals), just useful to see how "big" an airport is in AE. This saves a click on the airportinfo.

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Not sure if we make it till the reset, but these change can be implemented while the game is running :)

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Not sure if we make it till the reset, but these change can be implemented while the game is running :)

That was what i thought, too. Thanks for considering it!

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Would also be very useful in rentgate.php to see your total gates at a given airport and total available slots at that airport on that page.
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I will be working on these changes over the next few days :)

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Would also be very useful in rentgate.php to see your total gates at a given airport and total available slots at that airport on that page.


Done. I also added runway information to rentgate.php since it's much more relevant this round. Btw do you think the table is too cluttered now?

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Done. I also added runway information to rentgate.php since it's much more relevant this round. Btw do you think the table is too cluttered now?


Looks okay to me. I would just add "Length" to the Runway column to make sure everyone is clear on what that means :)
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I'm not seeing anything different on the rentgate.php screens. It goes to the region, example:

http://www.airlineem...e.php?region=as

and the table is exactly like it was before. What am I missing here? The only way I'm finding runway info right now is to click on the airport info screen.
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I'm not seeing anything different on the rentgate.php screens. It goes to the region, example:

http://www.airlineem...e.php?region=as

and the table is exactly like it was before. What am I missing here? The only way I'm finding runway info right now is to click on the airport info screen.


I had to roll back rentgate.php to the old version temporarily because big cities disappeared with the new one. (see http://forums.airlin...11&postcount=16)

I'll put the new one back up once the problem is fixed.

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Ok, missing big airports is now fixed. But now we have duplicate large airports...this will take me a while to figure out. At least 2 is better than none, right? :)

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Great job! Oh, while you're cleaning things, SEL and OSA need deleted these are really duplicates of GMP and ITM that were in the old version when the new cities were imported. They don't have a runway right now so you won't be hurting anyone by deleting them.

SEL is now used at the generic IATA for all Seoul metropolitan airports and OSA same for Osaka. The specific codes are GMP for Gimpo and ICN for Incheon in Seoul and then ITM for Itame and KIX for Kansai in Osaka. All of those are in the game so the old duplicates aren't needed.
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This round is going Well so far, keep up the good work;)

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Great job! Oh, while you're cleaning things, SEL and OSA need deleted these are really duplicates of GMP and ITM that were in the old version when the new cities were imported. They don't have a runway right now so you won't be hurting anyone by deleting them.

SEL is now used at the generic IATA for all Seoul metropolitan airports and OSA same for Osaka. The specific codes are GMP for Gimpo and ICN for Incheon in Seoul and then ITM for Itame and KIX for Kansai in Osaka. All of those are in the game so the old duplicates aren't needed.


I don't have access to the database, so I'll ask Tobias to do that. Thanks for bringing it up :)

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A few of us have been waiting to see ISP added for a long time. :shappy:

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A few of us have been waiting to see ISP added for a long time. :shappy:


:eureka: As long as Tobias agreed to add them in some timeframe after submitted, I'd be glad to take requests for adds for reasonable airports. I'd do the homework to find runway, annual pax, coordinates, etc to integrate into the game but I don't see much point if they're only going to get stored in a database that isn't actually added to the game.

I do say "reasonable" airports... you know, ones that are capable of producing profits from the bigger airports in the game... I'm sure ISP would probably be ok but we probably don't need things like Hays, Kansas just because someone lives there and thinks it'd be cool to have a money losing flight from it... :-1Eye
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The duplicate airports problem has been fixed (I think). Do let me know if there are any more problems with the gate rental list. :)

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This is on "in progress". I do not want to rush... Just wanted to ask if the route distance could be displayed in the routes page?

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This is on "in progress". I do not want to rush... Just wanted to ask if the route distance could be displayed in the routes page?


Distance or block time? I dunno which would be more useful.

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Thanks for your reply. :shappy:
I would find the distance on the routes page (routes.php) more useful as this is important to judge your yield. A lower yield is OK for a farer distance.
Block time is a nice info that could go the "edit route" (changeroute.php) page.
On aircraftinfo.php block time, distance (and yield) would be handy.

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Wow! You are great! Thanks, I just found distance on the routes.php ;)




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