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[Yuxi]

I hope everyone enjoyed the holidays. No, the developers haven't been slacking during the past two weeks. Here are the changes I tested and implemented:

1) Alliance system has been added. Right now it has no effect on loadfactor, that feature has yet to be worked in. For now you can start alliance, join/leave alliances, etc.

2) IATA codes added: Go to the administration page to set your airline's two-letter IATA code.

3) Region filter added on route planning page so you can filter the dropdowns by region.

4) Aircraft is now sorted by type, then hours available by default.

5) Order queue: now shows "next month" only for aircraft that will be delivered next month. Also shows total amount due for next month and for total orderbook.

6) Used market: aircraft that have been on the used market for more than 6 months will be removed at month change. This will help reduce clutter on the market for aircraft that no one wants anyway.

7) Between 0 and 6 out-of-production aircraft will be added to the used market every month. These aircraft are between 5 and 20 years old. These are limited to aircraft operated by major airlines in the past 5-10 years. Thanks to fish10 for researching and collecting data for these old aircraft.

8) Aircraft aging has been re-enabled. To assist in late-game replacements, a new feature enables you to swap entire aircraft (move all routes from aircraft A to aircraft at a time. Unfortunately some additional testing and bugfixes are required so this feature has not been activated yet.

9) Valuation calculation should now include deposits for aircraft orders, so airlines should no longer jump and and down on the rankings page after placing large orders.

Added December 31, 2008:

10a) There are two new columns on the rankings page - number of daily flights and number of passengers carried daily. The pax figure is calculated by multiplying the aircraft seat count by route frequency by loadfactor, so it should be accurate.

10b) The number of destinations are also accurate now and are calculated by directly counting the number of unique cities in routes rather than just counting gates (as some gates may be unused).

10c) I temporarily removed the profit column because it doesn't work and just takes up space.

Added January 1, 2009:

11) Fixed missing link in leaving-alliance page so you can leave an alliance if you're the leader and only remaining airline.

12) Sorting by profit and yield on the routes page now works! New method of getting profit and yield (math done in sql query instead of php to make things much simpler and sortable).

Changeroute.php:
13a) Fixed own logo in table (your own logo didn't show up before because of a bad path)

13b) Added aircraft ID to own table (thanks to fish10 for the suggestion)

13c) Added alliance logo to competitors' list

14) You can now change the price for all your manually priced flights on the same route (i.e. all your manually priced flights PVG-HKG and HKG-PVG). This will save a lot of work for everyone who has a lot of manually priced aircraft on the same route.

This list will be updated as new features / bugfixes come in, so check back often!

Between now and the reset in January is a good time to test these new features in case there are unanticipated problems on the sim2 server.

Enjoy! :sdrool:
David

[Glennos]

Nice work David. Can't wait for the reset in January so I can start playing sim2 again

And nice to see some alliance options so the WAA can once again kick some b u t t

[Maestro69]

Great work David. nice to see these smaller features/ideas/improvements being made to the game

[gba222]

Fantastic news, well done indeed!

Can we expect any hints as to what aircraft will be posted?

[Yuxi]

Fantastic news, well done indeed!

Can we expect any hints as to what aircraft will be posted?

This is the list fish10 sent me:

maker    type    Major Operators in Last 15 years
Aerospatiale-BAC    Concorde    BA, AF
BAC    BAC 1-11    BA, SN, RO
BAE Systems    J-41    BA, UA, US, SA
BAE Systems    ATP    BA, UX, UA
BAE Systems    Avro RJ100    LX, BA
BAE Systems    BAe-146-200    SK
BAE Systems    BAe-146-300    SK
BAE Systems    Avro RJ70    SK
BAE Systems    BAe-146-100    SK, BA
Boeing    727-200    AA, UA, DL, TW
Boeing    737-300    Current
Boeing    737-400    Current
Boeing    737-500    Current
Boeing    747-300    Current
Boeing    767-200    Current
Boeing    767-200ER    Current
Boeing    767-300    Current
Boeing    737-200    DL, AS
Boeing    747-100    JL
Boeing    747-200B    NW, AF, PK
Boeing    747-200C    NW, AF, PK
Boeing    727-100    UA, AA
Bombardier    Shorts 360    AA, US
Douglas    DC-10-15    AM, MX
Douglas    DC-9-30    current
Douglas    DC-9-40    current
Douglas    DC-9-50    current
Douglas    DC-10-10    HA, AA
Douglas    DC-10-40    JL, SU
Douglas    DC-9-10    NW
Douglas    DC-10-30    NW
Douglas    DC-9-20    SK
Fairchild USA    Metro 23    NZ, GQ
Fokker    F-28 Mk3000    AN, SN
Fokker    F-28 Mk1000    AR
Fokker    F-28 Mk2000    BA
Fokker    F-28 Mk4000    BG
Fokker    F-27 Fellowship    KL
Lockheed    L-1011-500    BW, RJ
Lockheed    L-1011-1    DL
Lockheed    L-1011-200    DL
McDonnell Douglas    MD-90-30ER    Current, CZ, BR, DL
McDonnell Douglas    MD-88    Current, DL, IB, AR
McDonnell Douglas    MD-11    Current, FI
McDonnell Douglas    MD-83    Current, JK, AS
McDonnell Douglas    MD-81    Current, SK
McDonnell Douglas    MD-82    Current, SK, AA
McDonnell Douglas    MD-87    Current, SK, JK, AM, IB
Saab    SF-340    Curernt, NW, CO

[Orion1982]

Good improvements all round and thanks to the developers for all their hard work. The alliance structure is a great move if it can be made to work, and the new load factors are far more realistic. All we need now is a/c leasing :-)

[FlyWorld Air]

Brilliant to see the MadDogs in service, well done and thanks for updating!

[travelhouse]

Well some things are needed and good for the game, but some have made it impossible to play:

Have passed my comments in this post.

http://forums.airlin...read.php?t=9034

[drv4truk]

2) IATA codes added: Go to the administration page to set your airline's two-letter IATA code.

6) Used market: aircraft that have been on the used market for more than 6 months will be removed at month change. This will help reduce clutter on the market for aircraft that no one wants anyway.

7) Between 0 and 6 out-of-production aircraft will be added to the used market every month. These aircraft are between 5 and 20 years old. These are limited to aircraft operated by major airlines in the past 5-10 years. Thanks to fish10 for researching and collecting data for these old aircraft.

2) - You may want to change this to a four letter alpha numeric code. With the number of airlines/players currently in the sim, this would lead to a number of duplicates.

6) - Nice. This has been needed for a while now and will help remove the over priced aircraft.

7) - Awesome. This had been requested a long time ago and will be a nice change. :-Clap