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#62099 [Sim2] Reset: Restart on friday

Posted by Elchie on 16 June 2009 - 11:07 PM in Announcements

Looks like a call for removal - cant all be different airlines??? :puzzled:

http://ae.simulation...hp?player=22946

http://ae.simulation...hp?player=22957

http://ae.simulation...hp?player=22969

http://ae.simulation...hp?player=22979


Removed this airlines.


#62119 [Sim2] Reset: Restart on friday

Posted by Elchie on 17 June 2009 - 07:10 AM in Announcements

Don't plan for a schedule right know - just for a solution to the "i create some one ways that doesn't make sense" :P Having an aircraft only serving one ways starting from one airport for example are not really...real :P so only one ways on one aircraft like this:

- FRA - TXL
- FRA - FCO
- FCO - ZRH

If somebody creates one ways like

- FRA - TXL
- TXL - FCO
- FCO - FRA

Thats perfect and appreciated, but one way combinations that doesn't make sense are bad due to the cheating effect (it's not direct cheating, but its not far away)


#62095 [Sim2] Reset: Restart on friday

Posted by Elchie on 16 June 2009 - 10:53 PM in Announcements

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Look At This. Someone Help Me Out.


I think the factors and profits will rise with more players in the game - but I will have a dedicated look tomorrow, its nearly 1:00 am here :P Will send you a message when done.


#62093 [Sim2] Reset: Restart on friday

Posted by Elchie on 16 June 2009 - 10:49 PM in Announcements

Ok will set the route server back to 10 - the problems were not related to ae. Message from data centers support:

"Trey: Yeah, the binary logs filled up all the disk space and killed that mysql cluster"

So it was the system not our database, it should be stable now. Hope so. If not I need many drinks.


#62092 [Sim2] Reset: Restart on friday

Posted by Elchie on 16 June 2009 - 10:46 PM in Announcements

Login/page works again....my nerves - i think I will need a drink too.

Hopefully now it's stable. For test purposes the route server will run now just every 20 minutes (instead of 10) - just for testing, want to see if this was the reason or not.


#62124 [Sim2] Reset: Restart on friday

Posted by Elchie on 17 June 2009 - 07:34 AM in Announcements

So, to sum up

- Incorrect / Impossible one ways will be dealt with
- No more than 1 one way per aircraft on any given route

Correct?


Yes, the second point is in the game since 9 hours :P but based on company, so no more than one one-way per route and airline


#62128 [Sim2] Reset: Restart on friday

Posted by Elchie on 17 June 2009 - 01:12 PM in Announcements

Sorry my fault - stopped time again, set back to 1st January. All profits and expenses from the happened day-switches were reverted, so nobody had a loss/profit due to this.


#62205 [Sim2] Reset: Restart on friday

Posted by Elchie on 18 June 2009 - 05:45 PM in Announcements

Sorry guys *sweating* had to drive to my companys headquarter after 8h-work today - and the visit due to some projects took longer thas planned :P But now game is running again


#62185 [Sim2] Reset: Restart on friday

Posted by Elchie on 18 June 2009 - 10:42 AM in Announcements

Will start 17:00 GMT tonight :P


#62178 [Sim2] Reset: Restart on friday

Posted by Elchie on 18 June 2009 - 08:05 AM in Announcements

Folks, what do you thinking about bringing the restart forward to tonight, 17:00 GMT.

Seems my original estimation was too pessimistic, many users had set up their first routes now. Want to start?


#62131 [Sim2] Reset: Restart on friday

Posted by Elchie on 17 June 2009 - 01:34 PM in Announcements

Finance page works again :P


#62088 [Sim2] Reset: Restart on friday

Posted by Elchie on 16 June 2009 - 10:27 PM in Announcements

Somethings seems to going really wrong today *sigh* I'm in contact with the data center...


#62085 [Sim2] Reset: Restart on friday

Posted by Elchie on 16 June 2009 - 10:18 PM in Announcements

Why do we have to wait till friday for it to start? I already have my routes set up I just want to start expanding and making more money thats what im about.


Due to few things:

- Fairness: I resetted the game at around 21:00 CET (19:00 GMT), in the Asian region it was something around 3:00 in the morning :P We want to be fair, because it was an non-scheduled reset.
- New features/bug fixes: We will resolve as many bugs and implement little features as possible till the restart. So stay tuned :P


#62061 [Sim2] Reset: Restart on friday

Posted by Elchie on 16 June 2009 - 09:32 PM in Announcements

Build in a check that looks at one way freq...

Aircraft 1 fly 1 way from FCO - AMS -> Okay!

Airline tries another with same plane , this time return FCO - AMS -> Okay!

Airline tries with another plane return FCO - AMS -> Okay!
Airline tries with the same plane one way FCO - AMS -> "Sorry , only 1x one way allowed per route"


Good idea, but this solved not the other problem:

Right know - yeah I did this for a test last round - you can take an A380 for example and fly a route like ZRH - CGK (Zurich - Jakarta)

If you choose roundtrip the block time is something about 32:xx hours -> impossible to fly within the current day-based system.

If you know set one-way, you have half block time and can set up the route and add some european routes based on ZRH departures. So for example you can construct:

- ONE-WAY ZRH-CGK
- Round-Trip ZRH-TXL

With this "technique" you can fly an range you were not able to if the aircraft has to come back, in this constellation the aircraft flys to Jakarta and comes back magically without time and cost to ZRH for connecting flights.

But in reallife it would stand in CGK and every one is asking "how to get back to ZRH? Jakarta was just one-way!"

So in this case we need to ensure that you have to fly back somehow from CGK to ZRH, so this route would not be possible. But I wont restrict it to roundtrips, because triangle-flights should be supported like:

(all one-way) ZRH-FCO-TXL-LHR-ZRH

This is a legal leg-planning - the aircraft will reach again at ZRH and can start his route-sequence again :P

Is it clear what I mean? :puzzled:


#62066 [Sim2] Reset: Restart on friday

Posted by Elchie on 16 June 2009 - 09:39 PM in Announcements

Correct, but the difficulty for me the mixed mode with round trips *g* Thats a little bit tricky to code I think. So in general this route should be possible:

- [round] ZRH-TXL
- [one way] TXL-FRA
- [one way] FRA-ZRH
- [round] FRA-LHR


This mixup is a little bit tricky but I will work it out.

And for your suggestion to just put one aircraft one-way on a route, does it include the reversed route? So only one way on one route per airline in total in both directions? Or is a one-way allowed per direction.

So can you make:

- ...some route...
- FCO-AMS (one way)
- AMS-FCO (one way)
- ...

or is just

- ...
- AMS-FCO *or* FCO-AMS (one way)

allowed?


#62058 [Sim2] Reset: Restart on friday

Posted by Elchie on 16 June 2009 - 09:26 PM in Announcements

So decided, will integrate the grounded feature. If you plan strange one-way combinations (starting two or more times from an airport you will reach not often enough or you have one-way routes without a closed connection) your air plane will be grounded and fly nowhere unless you solve the problem.

I think this should prevent such strange things happening right know.


#62054 [Sim2] Reset: Restart on friday

Posted by Elchie on 16 June 2009 - 09:03 PM in Announcements

1:

Used Aircraft, there are airlines right now that have TWO aircraft, let's face the facts here, its easy for any cheater to make a feeder and release that aircraft onto the used market, WHY if the game is paused can players find used aircraft??????

2:

I have just made my Q400 travel so many miles that I am concerned that it may run out of fuel, I have not exactly worked out the exact millage my one and only Q400 is doing but I have used up all my gates at most of my 7 destination just from my ONE aircraft. The one way routes needs to be addressed?????

Sorry, if I sound harsh, but lets face the facts, right now you can make any aircraft fly that far its a JOKE and with so many routes that they make it will not be long till the game is in another reset state.....Used aircraft, players with Zero Aircraft and others with 2, soon some will have 3 aircraft and we are in puse role.

Getting to become a joke.....:thumbdown:


Hi Janice,

Point 1: I will check how this is possible, but the second aircraft is not a aircraft bought via the used market. Checked the history entrys, every aircraft has only one history-entry right now - a sold and brought aircraft will have at least two entrys (data about the old owner, data about the new one). Thats not the case - but its true, I don't know right now whats going on in this case. There are also no entries in finance-table that the user has bought an ac. So thats definitivly cheating - the user will get banned.

Point 2: I know there are problems with one way. But I see some problems in solving this without a schedule. So in my opinion it should be possible to fly triangles with one-way routes. For example you should be able to plan this flights in sequence:

- FRA-FCO
- FCO-TXL
- TXL-FRA

So this is a closed sequence, should be possible and is ok. Not ok is such an sequence:

- FRA-FCO
- FCO-TXL
- FCO-LHR
- LHR-DUB

Thats not closed, and in this constellation the aircraft has to start two times from FCO, but it will fly only once through Rome. But without a schedule system its difficult to detect illegal one-way-sequences. Know a user creates route per route - single process. So the next problem is: take the legal example from above (FRA/FCO/TXL/FRA). Now the user removes the route FCO-TXL. What will happen now? Should we ground the aircraft and warn the user? Because now it's an illegal constellation.

So I will solve this problem - just give me some ideas. Is ground due to illegal constellation too hard? If not, it will be done very soon!

Bye,

Tobias


#62046 [Sim2] Reset: Restart on friday

Posted by Elchie on 16 June 2009 - 08:32 PM in Announcements

You can login in right now and will get 5 Mio and an ATR72/Saab/Q400. So you can set up your routes now.


#62069 [Sim2] Reset: Restart on friday

Posted by Elchie on 16 June 2009 - 09:43 PM in Announcements

Okidoki :P


#62071 [Sim2] Reset: Restart on friday

Posted by Elchie on 16 June 2009 - 09:54 PM in Announcements

Implementing a "one airplane on one-way per airline only" feature right know, will test it in few minutes and deploy it to the server :P


#62082 [Sim2] Reset: Restart on friday

Posted by Elchie on 16 June 2009 - 10:15 PM in Announcements

Janice: I will change the links on the new server soon, but I have no access to the old one - this is up to miller, asked him via eMail to do this. But he has moved to Toronto (as far as I know), so he has little bit stress :P


#62080 [Sim2] Reset: Restart on friday

Posted by Elchie on 16 June 2009 - 10:14 PM in Announcements

Kicked off the old server. So http://airlineempires.net/sim2 can not connect to database any longer, please use the new one (http://ae.simulationcloud.net)

This is necessary to prevent users to use the old code without new bugfixes/features. I still waiting for miller to set up a forwarding and give his ok to buy a more rememberable domain for sim2. Sorry for this circumstances.


#62076 [Sim2] Reset: Restart on friday

Posted by Elchie on 16 June 2009 - 10:09 PM in Announcements

So included, you can not have than more as one one way trip between two cities. Next up will be the closed routing feature.


#62074 [Sim2] Reset: Restart on friday

Posted by Elchie on 16 June 2009 - 09:59 PM in Announcements

@mdlewry Wait 10 minutes, they will be updated and reach the values seen before, will fix this soon

Remark for myself: 24 hours per day are not enough :P


#62044 [Sim2] Reset: Restart on friday

Posted by Elchie on 16 June 2009 - 08:06 PM in Announcements

Hi folks,

due to some strange database problems I have forced a reset of the sim2.

The game time will start again on Friday, 17:00 GMT. Mention one thing: It was a hard reset, so the prices/load factor right now are very low - they will rise with more players activated, so wait until friday. Before starting the time again, I will force the routeserver to recalculate all routes, so we have correct prices and loads.


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