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[FancyThat]

I've been wondering lately about how route frequency is rated. It doesn't seem to have much to do with the total route frequency and it changes on each route. For example, I currently have a route that runs 32x weekly and the frequency rating is in the green, but with the same airline I have routes that run 49x and 61x weekly that are both in the yellow for frequency. Does the frequency requirement change based on route length, country, demand, etc?

[RubberDuckGaming]

I think it’s probably based on demand but it might also be related to distance as well.

[Esir]

I noticed this too and was curious enough to test it; frequency reputation starts at 7/100 (red) with one weekly frequency, increases steadily with diminishing returns for each additional frequency until 26 or 27 weekly frequencies at 81/100 points (green), then strangely begins to decline back to a low point of 61/100 (yellow) with 54 to 57 weekly frequencies. After that it begins to steadily increase again, eventually with larger increases in frequency reputation rather than diminishing returns, until 76 weekly frequencies, with everything at or above that having a maxed out 100/100 frequency reputation. It isn't tied to demand or distance at all; I tested it on UIO–GYE (162 miles, daily passenger total O&D passenger demand of 2,327 at the time I tested) but consistently on every route I've ran since regardless of distance or passenger demand the frequency reputation has matched the table I made according to the number of weekly frequencies.

 

It's a strange system that I can't really tell the logic behind – one would think that on short routes, busy ones in particular, each additional frequency would be welcome, eventually with diminishing returns but never being seen as somehow too much, short routes with lower demand would be quite happy with two or three daily frequencies timed to allow convenient same-day travel and connections, and frequency would be less important on very long routes where there are only so many viable arrival and departure times anyway but additional frequencies wouldn't necessarily be unwelcome, but instead there's this dip-then-increase pattern independent of demand and distance. I'd love to know why because I have to assume there's either an unintuitive assumption being made about frequency by the developer(s) or a weird bug in the code somewhere.

[FancyThat]

I noticed this too and was curious enough to test it; frequency reputation starts at 7/100 (red) with one weekly frequency, increases steadily with diminishing returns for each additional frequency until 26 or 27 weekly frequencies at 81/100 points (green), then strangely begins to decline back to a low point of 61/100 (yellow) with 54 to 57 weekly frequencies. After that it begins to steadily increase again, eventually with larger increases in frequency reputation rather than diminishing returns, until 76 weekly frequencies, with everything at or above that having a maxed out 100/100 frequency reputation. It isn't tied to demand or distance at all; I tested it on UIO–GYE (162 miles, daily passenger total O&D passenger demand of 2,327 at the time I tested) but consistently on every route I've ran since regardless of distance or passenger demand the frequency reputation has matched the table I made according to the number of weekly frequencies.

 

It's a strange system that I can't really tell the logic behind – one would think that on short routes, busy ones in particular, each additional frequency would be welcome, eventually with diminishing returns but never being seen as somehow too much, short routes with lower demand would be quite happy with two or three daily frequencies timed to allow convenient same-day travel and connections, and frequency would be less important on very long routes where there are only so many viable arrival and departure times anyway but additional frequencies wouldn't necessarily be unwelcome, but instead there's this dip-then-increase pattern independent of demand and distance. I'd love to know why because I have to assume there's either an unintuitive assumption being made about frequency by the developer(s) or a weird bug in the code somewhere.

Yeah, that definitely seems to be whats happening. I tested going from 49x to 50x frequencies and the rating dropped from 64 to 63. Very confusing.

[RJM]

The game wants you to right size the plane for the route. 3 to 6 or over 10 flights a day will keep you in the green. It is something that should be looked at if the game is ever updated. 

[TarquinShrapnel-Carruthers]

The game wants you to right size the plane for the route. 3 to 6 or over 10 flights a day will keep you in the green.

Don't see the logic of that. If two airlines served the same route, and all else were the same, would a passenger rate the one with more flights less well? I don't think so.

 

RJM, on 12 Apr 2023 - 03:40 AM, said:

It is something that should be looked at if the game is ever updated.

That is for sure.