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It certainly isn't the worst thing (I wouldn't be running DC-10s at all if the game had a more robust way of modeling payload-range where takeoff distance was another variable instead of a fixed number, but with the takeoff performance as it is in-game there isn't an L-1o11 model that meets my needs), but the hardest part of correcting it is just finding a free use photo of an actual -15.

I would have assumed this would go in the issue tracker but when I did a cursory check to see if it had been brought up before, another poster discussing aircraft images was directed to this forum instead and there's at least one other thread in this forum dealing with aircraft images.

"The moderators do not and will not do anything so you should simply not care" is, to be honest, a very bad take when this particular scheme of trading aircraft between two airlines in the same world controlled by the same player is very explicitly against the rules of the game. Maybe someone should care about that?

Solution: don't care, AE has had exploits and spamlines for a decade, admins don't bat an eye

Aircraft don't go on the market immediately after being sold AFAIK; there's a lag time before they show up there, so the gap between the sale and the purchase by the user's other airline I don't think is evidence against the conclusion here.

The apparent fall-off of reputation between 27ish and 56ish is certainly counterintuitive but I am not sure whether it is a display issue or has a real effect. I tend to the latter but am not convinced.

 

Time on route seems important.

 

Marketing is good but only needed to be used late on.

It does at least visually impact overall reputation; I tested it just now to verify since I thought I'd seen it do so in the past and route with six daily (42x weekly) flights and an overall reputation of 80/74/70 in F/J/Y went down to 78/72/68 with an additional seven weekly frequencies added.

It doesn't boost your route reputation exactly, what it does do as far as I know is (I would assume just as a function of increasing your overall reputation) makes it so that the "time flown" component of your route reputation fills out quicker; with a high enough overall reputation it will be maxed out as soon as you start flying a route. Whether or not it's worth it... I don't know? It depends on what you care about for your airline I guess. Marketing can definitely provide a huge boost to reputation so if you're interested in increasing that rather than your ranking (which AFAIK is based solely on valuation) it's probably worthwhile.