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Time is harder and harder to find for the Ae project, and I'm considering opening the project to some of the programmers who play the game in a limited open-source way. Due to the competition and some academic interest in Airline Empires, I can't open it totally to open source, but I am interested in hearing suggestions about perhaps working in a project management environment where the source code can still be protected.
Either PM me, email me, or post if you're qualified with PHP, MySQL, or sight design in large projects and we'll see if we can't get more of a community started to speed up and improve programming for the game.
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Posted 14 October 2004 - 02:57 AM
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Posted 16 October 2004 - 02:07 PM
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I like the idea of opening the game up to allow otyhers to help program, however I dont think moving to fully open source is a good idea. I think all that will happen is others will create their own version of Airline Empires, each one progressing along its own development tree (aka Mozilla/Netscape/Firefox/Firefly etc etc)
What you need to do is get a project leader (perhaps yourself?) then anyone interested in adding a feature should contact you and request the job. That way you can ensure two people arent both implementing the same features...
For example I want to modify the "Distance Calculator" so it also shows what airlines are flying that route. I could request the job, then you could send me the required files and tell me the database structure etc. Once ive implemented it I can then send the files back to you, and you can merge them into the project, trying not to overwrite anything anyone else has changed etc....
What you need to do is get a project leader (perhaps yourself?) then anyone interested in adding a feature should contact you and request the job. That way you can ensure two people arent both implementing the same features...
For example I want to modify the "Distance Calculator" so it also shows what airlines are flying that route. I could request the job, then you could send me the required files and tell me the database structure etc. Once ive implemented it I can then send the files back to you, and you can merge them into the project, trying not to overwrite anything anyone else has changed etc....
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Posted 16 October 2004 - 02:45 PM
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check your u2u
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Posted 19 October 2004 - 12:30 AM
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I like the idea, too. Also php lends itself very well to this kind of deal, as all of the scripts should work independent of each other, with the only commonality being the database. Anyway, I'd love to take a crack at the stock market 
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Posted 23 October 2004 - 09:23 PM
would it be posible for someone to add new cities and/or aircraft till the game is fully reset?
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Posted 23 October 2004 - 11:54 PM
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I've got a few hours, and am going to try to add a few more cities. It takes time because I have to find the cities already used and compare them, so I'll be adding a few at a time.
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Posted 24 October 2004 - 06:21 PM
Just a little question. How much time does it take to add new aircraft models, if its even possible.
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Posted 27 October 2004 - 02:21 AM
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Miller, I'd gladly help with the devolpment of this. I'd be interested in cities and aircraft at first, but could do more complex things.
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Posted 27 October 2004 - 02:07 PM
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Id love to help, i can code in php and mysql, ive been coding for about 3 years now.
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Posted 28 October 2004 - 02:14 PM
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Ah, didn't see this.
I'd be happy to help - I've been coding in php for almost 4 years but only complexish htings for the past 2.5 to 3 years.
I'm pretty good with mysql, php and data management and have done quite a few projects over the years - the most recent being a forum, my own version of great circle mapper and a whole school report authoring system allowing teachers to write school reports from home and admins to manage the database as well as batch export the reports to Word documents.
Lol I don't think that'd be needed for AE but might as well include the info.
I'm also having a go at writing my own php airline game just for fun and it's coming along pretty well.
I know evero's already offered but I'd also love to have a crack at the stock market
I'd be happy to help - I've been coding in php for almost 4 years but only complexish htings for the past 2.5 to 3 years.
I'm pretty good with mysql, php and data management and have done quite a few projects over the years - the most recent being a forum, my own version of great circle mapper and a whole school report authoring system allowing teachers to write school reports from home and admins to manage the database as well as batch export the reports to Word documents.
Lol I don't think that'd be needed for AE but might as well include the info.
I'm also having a go at writing my own php airline game just for fun and it's coming along pretty well.
I know evero's already offered but I'd also love to have a crack at the stock market
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Posted 31 October 2005 - 04:47 PM
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Originally posted by TorqueWrench
Check your U2U...
this topic was about a year ago.....
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Posted 31 October 2005 - 05:16 PM
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Better late than never lol.
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Posted 31 October 2005 - 06:04 PM
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Originally posted by Nathaniel
Originally posted by TorqueWrench
Check your U2U...
this topic was about a year ago.....
Thanks for the comment...
but i've only recently found this website... What? because miller asked this question 12 months ago makes it less valid?
I see alot of people making requests for features and they get the same answer... "It is planned but miller has a lot of work".
Which is perfectly true... miller does have a killer work load. I cant even begin to imagine the complexity of the back end scripts that he has running. Or the size of the database.
I'm just offering to lift some of this work load...
Maybe i shouldn't have bothered because as you so plainly put it "This topic was over a year ago...."
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Posted 31 October 2005 - 06:35 PM
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just saying nothing happened out of it so...
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Posted 31 October 2005 - 07:22 PM
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And 2 people on this thread have their own airline sims.
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Posted 31 October 2005 - 08:44 PM
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mainly the won who recently posted.
not to mention the one above, so that's three
not to mention the one above, so that's three
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Posted 31 October 2005 - 09:54 PM
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not giving out any names.. but after a public bashing this person decided to not advertise his in AE anymore unlike someone else
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Posted 31 October 2005 - 10:01 PM
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I'm getting confused here 
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