May I just point out this would be another step to taking a realistic world to an open world. In all honesty I think alliance terminals are the way forward.
Great point, very much looking forward to that, we can try it like in AE 3.2
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Keelung
on 11 February 2013 - 05:36 PM
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General AE Discussion
May I just point out this would be another step to taking a realistic world to an open world. In all honesty I think alliance terminals are the way forward.
Great point, very much looking forward to that, we can try it like in AE 3.2
Posted by
Keelung
on 11 February 2013 - 04:53 PM
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General AE Discussion
I was wondering if we can change the original settings and build airport terminals in foreign soil since in the real world companies do own airport terminals in foreign countries. One obvious example would be Terminal 7 at JFK which is owned by British Airways, Terminal 1 is also owned by four different foreign carriers - Lufthansa, Air France, Japan Airlines and Korean Air. There are also many more examples but the point is, the restriction that airlines cannot build terminals on foreign soil does not relate to real life, so I think this has to be changed. Hope this would make the game fairer and more realistic.
Posted by
Keelung
on 10 February 2013 - 06:31 PM
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Alliances
Posted by
Keelung
on 09 February 2013 - 10:19 AM
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Suggestions and Feature Requests
I think due to AE's unusually high demand for aircraft, we should have a totally different system of delivery from the current one that is similar to those of real life.
For example, for the Airbus A320 series production line, we can have 20 slots per AE day which amounts to 140 slots per week. Each airline would only be limited to 2 slot per AE day for receiving aircraft, a maximum of 4 per AE week, 12 per AE month and 100 per AE year. This means that when airlines are ordering their aircraft, they can either opt for the system to evenly spread their orders or they can choose the available slots they want. Airlines can factor in when they are able to play the game and the number of aircraft they can possibly handle. This system would ensure that big airlines would not be hogging slots and deter them to receive more aircraft than they can cope as they would be piling up aging unused aircraft. This would also allow players who have the time to be able to grow their airline as fast as possible with their limited time. If airlines choose to defer their aircraft, they would still have to pick slots and their original slots would be opened to others.
would prefer to see unrealistic orders voided. For example in R5, which ends in 2025, one airline has ordered so many A380s that the last delivery is scheduled for 2051. If you make significant changes to the current set up you need to think of the implications.
We should not allow any airlines to pick delivery slots which are after the fixed game-ending year.
Therefore, this system would still be based on the "first come first served" basis, but with a lot more flexibility for airlines to plan ahead which would really bring out the airline "manager" part of the game.
Posted by
Keelung
on 08 February 2013 - 06:55 PM
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Suggestions and Feature Requests
I was wondering if we can actually set up catering companies and maintenance companies through our own airlines like major carriers do in the real world. We will be able to save costs on our catering and maintenance expenses and offer these services to other airlines. I think maintenance should remain flawless (unless we set up a crash system), while airlines can compete in catering services through prices and quality of ingredients used, staff expertise et cetera which would affect the customers' satisfaction of the meal. If airlines set up catering and/or maintenance subsidiaries at airport A, they would only be able to use their own service at A and will have to opt for other companies at other location unless they open one there as well. Slots should be allocated to these services. For example, a catering company can only handle a definite number of first class meals, business class meals and economy respectively, unless it is expanded. Same goes for maintenance services, with a X number of (size) hangers would only be able to handle fixed number of narrow bodies of certain class, fixed number of wide bodies or a mix. Airlines can choose to offer any number of slots to other airlines regardless of whether they can handle their own if they find it financially beneficial to opt for default. These companies can also be sold on the market with prices determined by AE so no airline can cheat in the game. It would also be great if we can sell individual hangers or plants like we do with terminals. These companies, like aircraft, when left idle would lose money (payment of salary and taxes etc.) . It should cost hundreds of millions or even billions so that it would only be financially beneficial in the long run (5~10 years) to allow the market to be regulated not saturated. I guess this addition would make the game a whole lot interesting and realistic!
Posted by
Keelung
on 07 February 2013 - 11:54 AM
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Suggestions and Feature Requests
Posted by
Keelung
on 07 February 2013 - 09:53 AM
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Flight Simulation
I did numerous long-haul flights in FSX, TPE-LAX,TPE-SFO,TPE-EWR, TPE-YVR, TPE-KIX-JFK, TPE-NRT-HNL, TPE-LHR, TPE-FRA, TPE-CDG, TPE-AMS and a lot more that I can't remember on EVA Air and China Airliens. I always do it before sleep, so I could just set it on autopilot and land the next day. Sometimes sh%t happens, things fail and the plane crashes. I don't do it anymore, it's a waste of time and electricity.
Posted by
Keelung
on 06 February 2013 - 07:29 PM
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General AE Discussion
World O1, Air Formosa
Somehow I was logged as a hacker while I was trying to install winglets on my new Airbus....interesting.
Posted by
Keelung
on 03 February 2013 - 05:59 PM
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Southeast Asia / Australia
Posted by
Keelung
on 30 January 2013 - 02:17 PM
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Suggestions and Feature Requests
Thank You!
Posted by
Keelung
on 29 January 2013 - 07:03 AM
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Suggestions and Feature Requests
I do use GC maps though, but its rather inconvenient as I would mostly view My routes page and not the alliance map. Just wondering if we can turn it off for good and not affect the other functions.
Posted by
Keelung
on 28 January 2013 - 07:04 PM
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Suggestions and Feature Requests
When our airlines get big with a lot of routes, it will be a nightmare to open the Airline Summary page as the computer will be lagging just trying to compute and pin-point the routes on Google Maps provided. I don't think it makes sense to have Google Maps in the Airline Summary page as we already have them on the My Routes page and Alliance Routes page where in both cases there will be no problem loading. Maybe being a "summary" of the airline, players would want to have that Google Maps beside just for the feel of it, but is it possible if we could have a function in the settings where we can choose to switch it off. It is getting seriously annoying when I'm trying to view the average age of aircraft as it is not clear enough in the Aircraft page and loading the Airline Summary page would just cause my browser to crash. Thank you!
Posted by
Keelung
on 28 January 2013 - 05:14 PM
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Logo / Livery Requests
Forget whatever I posted before. Just build upon your own imagination! Thank You!
Posted by
Keelung
on 26 January 2013 - 07:35 AM
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Logo / Livery Requests
Maybe I'm too elaborate. Just take inspirations from my idea. Thank you!
Posted by
Keelung
on 25 January 2013 - 02:05 PM
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General AE Discussion
Posted by
Keelung
on 23 January 2013 - 06:21 PM
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General AE Discussion
Bugs, as I have thought so. Everyone's getting a lot of them lately...
Well on my second note, just trying to make suggestions to make the game more realistic and better, however, the game is already an AWESOME game.
Thank you Airline Empires team!
Posted by
Keelung
on 23 January 2013 - 06:18 PM
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Logo / Livery Requests
Posted by
Keelung
on 23 January 2013 - 03:08 PM
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General AE Discussion
I was recently trying to order 65 new A319-100LR to replace my aging fleet and as usual the winglets option was set on "Yes" which I would not change sensibly as winglets would save fuel. However once I confirmed the purchase the new page would show "This aircraft cant have winglets installed at this time!" and I can't make the purchase. As I have ordered A319-100LRs' before with winglets, I was wondering if this problem has to do with the Airbus A320 series getting the new "Sharklets" installed and the data on the new fuel savings are unknown. Also, is it due to the fact that up till now only A320-200s have Sharklets installed like the once on AirAsia's and the ones for A319s are still undergoing tests? Or maybe is it just because there is a bug?
On the side note, is it possible that we could order airplanes of the same series together? For example I would like to order A318s, A319s and A320 at the same time, and airlines can schedule the delivery of airplanes themselves so they can be able to receive planes of different types of the same series in interlocking order however they like. I know that this might complicate the purchase of airplanes all together on the discounts we get, but it would surely be helpful for airlines as they might need different types of aircraft of the same series at the same time, just like any airline in the real world would. I guest this would make the game more realistic, and if the management can pull this off, a big THANK YOU to you!.
Air Formosa, O1
Posted by
Keelung
on 19 January 2013 - 09:05 AM
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General AE Discussion
1)504 Gateway Time-out
2) 1655, GMT+8
3) http://ae31.airline-...om/aircraft.php
4) I was trying to access the aircraft page to adjust some aircraft routing.
5) The problem has been reoccurring for 10 minutes after constant refreshing and reaccessing of the page.
6) O1 World, Air Formosa, Keelung