Aficianado

Playing as NaviSat Air in R0 - in 2nd place behind Atomic - currently my DOP is as follows:

Slowly gaining on Atomic - any bets on whether I will be able to catch up? lol

IFS quality has a very small effect when competing head-to-head with another airline - if all the other factors (like legroom, frequency, etc) are the same, then passengers will prefer the airline with better IFS. But, as you've observed correctly, it's more profitable in general to have money-making IFS.

Please note that I've taken the liberty of highlighting davedave's earlier post in this thread in order to correct this misconception.

As AE stands and has stood pretty much since it's earliest days, that was what the original developer had intended to do.

While it is true that AE tracks legroom, frequency, quality of IFS, and displays that information to the player, the dev was unable to get it to work.

So the situation in AE is that things such as legroom, frequency of service, and quality of IFS have no bearing on passenger preference.

What logically should be the case isn't operative because coding preferential allocation mechanisms for any game and getting it to work at all, much less right, is notoriously hard.  Just ask any game coding professionals and you will get an earful on all the difficulties and the things they tried and how many man-years they spent and yet failed to get it working even with tremendous financial support and the best people working on it.

What chance do you think poor Yuxi and his small cadre of coders will have given that they don't charge for the game, and the coders are unpaid volunteers?

Penis, Nevada  - because everyone who writes me are constantly reminding me that they are suffering from Penis, NV  (  rofl  )

Well ..  okay, there IS no Penis NV - but there should be! (just for the giggles!)

Which world are you in, Airbus Guy?

LoL, AirBoss777 !

Understood - but then you, personally, - are "seriously addicted"  (says so right there in your post.)

I just figured that there might be players in R0 who have started, played for a while, and then either grew tired of it, or they might have too many irons in the fire, or possibly they might be playing in another world and would like to concentrate their efforts there.

Either way, sooner or later somebody might offer it to me if they know about it.

In case anyone was wondering, NO, I won't cannabilize and sell off the fleet, nor will I declare bankruptcy (unless you are already in the red and there exists no reasonable way to make the airline viable.  

I genuinely want to play in R0, that's all.