Tobias, the rankings page for me still show the information from when i started. However, on every other page of the game, it shows my actual current value.

Same comment from me too

Yeah thats normal - virtual hosting.

But I added it to my C:windowssystem32driversetchosts file now -this is used first to resolve hosts to IP and then it works normal and I can get on the game page again.

Thanks for the IP.

Tobias - In the past when this issue happened TW / Torquewrench did a boot of the server and this fixed it.

Somebody Took 40million Of My Money While I Was Logged In To My Account
I Was Not Using Used Market I Was Useing Boeings Order Form

Slow down - read the forum before you post - Maestro did make a comment and others have in the last few posts.

Tobias will look into it I am sure

Players - Crying out all the time will not help make AE better, and you all must understand that the game program was the invent and made by one person.

The code may be hard to navigate within - like looking into a haystack trying to locate that missing pin.

If there is any new developer entering into the minefield it does take a while to locate issues - Tobias has stated this countless times.

This T_STRING problem was fixed.

Independent from this buying an aircraft were going to fail if this error were not there due to a problem with the orders of one user. For this the quantity of aircrafts to buy is now double and triple checked and you have to use a combobox for the quantity either.

Sorry for the loss of some aircraft orders, but I have to cleanup the ordertable with millions of wrong entries, it took some hours to work this out. I tried to prevent deleting of correct orders, but I can not guarantee for that.

Bye,
Tobias

Tobias is working double time to right issues - therefore as time progresses he will announce things that are corrected.

To assist - (Bugs) can you please just post your bug concerns once in the (Bug) section and sit back and let Tobias work on it.

Thanks

I had none of my orders delivered this month.

Please rectify

Thanks

ID 13136

Add me to this list of non delivery

I just purchased a 25 gate terminal in Philly and all went OK, took money and gave me the slots with no hitches but cant convert this into a hub, will not show in the make a hub page

it seems there is a new delivery rule.

Enlighten me?

Probably because you started in Europe, you will need to wait 9 months like me ;-)

OK understand - just read the Tobias post within that quote

Elchie
AE Developer




Re: Game reset / Bugs, Features, New rule
Yes,

you can rent as much gates as you want - but you can not open a hub for the specified time (a hub will increase revenues)

The rule is enforced by the game.

a few million in debt now but that's life:p

Teach ya to order meggabucks in frames:p

I have a couple more than need correction in the database:

KWL - Guilin China - Current location is in Western Lybia (25.12N 11.1E)
Should be corrected to: 25.12N 110.02E

GYD - Baku, Azerbaijan - Current location near Spain in the Medeterranian (40.28N 5.1E)
Should be corrected to: 40.28N 50.02E


While the database is being fixed, Annual Pax count on CAN - Guangzhou China should be changed from: 824907 to: 30958467

I have no idea where the current number came from when the data was collected but its way off.

Can be verified by at least 3 sources:
http://en.wikipedia....ational_Airport
http://www.travelchi...hou/airport.htm
http://findarticles....s_/ai_n22714697

Not hard to alter at all and I am sure Tobias will have a look - looks like a typo error on someones past account.....

That's strange; with the exception of Guangzhou (which I had at 23,900,000 (the 2005 value)), all of the above are as they appear above in my copy.

Hi Olly, see I told you all that pain saking hours of data you performed will be used sooner than later, on behalf of all players thanks for all the data you have collected the improvements wouldnt be able to be performed without your valued time.

Good idea, the way I see this being implemented is that the aircraft is standard in the manufacturer page , say A333 at 340 seats. You would then have a combo-box to select a different seating arrangement. this would then give you the configuration you wanted and you would order it.....

I would say this is possible after many months

I have this scheduled to be an added inclusion in the new game, not within sim2, and funny enough I was looking at giving players the choice of accomadating PAX plus Cargo on some long haul flights.

(Example)

A330-300 with 340 seats, you can click to make PAX of 200 with balance in tonnage in Cargo, thus giving you a mixed return in DOP.

(Thats enough of spilling beans for now)

A very big bug... which has lost alot of companies money... is the ORD-ATL route (chicago-atlanta)... the auto price is at 20$ and 0% load factor...

WOW mother duck ...its a bug? or is it too many on the route, what numbers of actual seats are accomadated?

When you work out what my ? is then you have your answer.

I see over 6,000 seats on that route so it should be $20....

But if I had my way I would fly it at $19.99 and knock them all off

I had another thought the other day, and wanted to throw it out there. In the past, it has been suggested that there be more than one league to deal with rapid saturation on routes. Since the game seems to be moving away from its original "free markets" configuration, I thought maybe it's time to have three games:

1. AE 1946
2. Sim2 (free markets version)
2. Sim2 (restricted markets version)

One of the most frustrating aspects of the game has long been that the real competition is really only among a few dozen players (at most). Everyone else's game play can go reasonably well for a while, then it's all over. Say they know they aren't expert enough to try to go out of ORD or LHR from the beginning, so they opt for a second tier hub city. They may control it for a few game years, but once the top five players build up the big cities, the little guy who went to bed with 25% market share in his lone, lowly hub wakes up to find that the top ranked player has built a 60 gate terminal in his city, dropped A380s on regional routes, and taken 45% share. Game over for the B-rate player, his hub city routes are all money losers, and the sim is fun for fewer and fewer people as the game goes. The rate of failing airlines grows exponentially as the game passes 5 years, which is the real reason for resets. We frequently cite saturation as the reason, but saturation is the underlying cause of the real problem: the game is over. People have been obliterated, and the rankings are for all intents and purposes, fixed in stone.

On the flip side, the problem with the restricted game is that the top players will get frustrated. Once they establish their two hubs per continent or whatever the rule is, the game is done, it's just running to a conclusion that was establish early on. And every round will play out very similarly.

By splitting Sim2 into two versions, players can opt for the hotly competitive open markets version, or the restricted version where you can't expand as much, but the enjoyment will be much longer lasting for the casual player. People in the open market will battle as always for supremacy, and people in the restricted version will vie to carve out their niches.

The arguments for both free market and restricted versions are strong. Why not offer both? As a by-product of bifurcating the game, we'll also enjoy less saturation on routes. That leaves just one problem - the ability of the server to handle three games. No problem, just limit each player to one version at a time.

While your suggestion commands some thought, the game is being altered in many ways, thus keeping its original AE format, after this next reset we will evalulate the games and one thing I can assure you that we all want to keep players interested more than just a few days.

I know why plane swap on current routes was removed, but is it possible to restore the feature in such a way that it works properly? Swap was a very useful tool for helping you maximize the hours on your planes. When you chose it, it would show you which ones could be zeroed out with the change. By doing this, you could sometimes recapture all those 1s, 2s and 3s remaining on planes, and consolidate them into one totally freed up plane. I realize there used to be the issue where the operating cost was halved on the swapped onto plane, and I guess there were some other issues (that I don't understand.) It just seems to me that a very valuable tool was removed instead of being fixed, and perhaps this wasn't the best way about it.

Plane swap is a bug and avenue for cheaters to make good and a lot took advantage from it.

If you are not sure why it was removed (I will detail it later for all to make comments on) but now that we have only disabled it for the next round, I like many other would like to see just how players react and from looking at some, it will make players work hard and honestly to make good returns.

Therefore, let's just see this next reset to see effects.

I would like to see aircraft aging reintroduced like we had it years ago.

Plane should age and their value should decrease, this helps the flow of older aircraft through to players who can not afford new ones.

Also fuel flow should increase with age making them less economical.

If I may come into answer this:

Some time back when TW was active, this I asked for to be made active again, however TW stated that due to a hacking of a script which also corrupted the ordering system this whole script would require a re-vamp rewrite.

But (Things to Look at and do) is made of this as its important (Why)?

A: The age of aircraft be it new (0 Yrs) except for the 2 given AC and each year they reduce in value, (Year by Year) this isnt happening now and again reflects on your true value, plus as before the older the AC the less effecient they become and used more fuel which cut into the balance sheet so players traded/sold/mothballed or sold to (Chicken:p) old desert bound AC.

If we are going to have a top ten ranking of true value this must be looked at, therefore Tobias may be able on the side of this after reset, look at the damage and duly advise us :eureka:

I have to agree with Glarus on this. The bug in the swap should have been fixed. There have been a couple of times now since it was removed that I wanted to change the size of aircraft on a route and had to close them out and restart them. This is a very convenient feature, it really should get looked at and fixed.

Agree, the bug should of been fixed 2 real years ago, but isnt so to stop unfair advantage by a select few its best to have all on an even keel.

Once the other bugs are attended to, Tobias and his team will consider if it can be revamped to make changing one AC to another more real, with no advancement in DOP as a result of the existing.

Sim1 is under Miller's direction right now, plus I think Miller would be interested in some of the data changes to sim2 at the reset, to this I wouldnt think sim1 will reset tomorrow.

Couple ideas/suggestions I have for the mothball page.

1) the ability to select multiple aircraft at once. IE, im trying to dispose of about 50 707's, hard to do right now because I can only go one at a time.

2) the ability to mothball directly from the aircraft page. IE, click on the specific aircraft and under the new route and sale links, add a mothball link.

Having had this implimeted within sim2 one assumes your refering to sim1, Miller has only access to sim1 and therefore you may want to PM miller direct on this.

99.9% of the forum topics right now relate to sim2:)

Actually, I would like to take this a small step further

Right now you can mothball multiple aircraft which is good but I still miss an aoption to mothball all at once.

Even better still I would like the option to "Mothball all unused aircraft" That way I can quickly get rid of all my unused and unwanted frames.

On top of that would be an even beter option to "Sell all selected to bank"

Let's see what Tobias comes up with at the reset, the guy has been working 24/7 on improvements and more

Okay I had a question, I live in the US and will be finished with high school in 2 years an I am dying to become and airline pilot , and I was wondering were to start, I tried the AOPA and other buts, and I am confused. I trying to look for a scholarship or something I just don't where to go or where to start, your help would be greatly appreciated :shappy:,
Thanks!

There was a player some time back called (Salomon) PM him he pops in now and again, he has a scholorship and is near his end and getting his wings.

Salomon
Senior Member

Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: YQB

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I realize miller has to do the sim2 reset first, so i'll wait till that's done before I jump back on this topic.

Miller isnt involved right now on sim2 Tobias and I have made thses changes - however if there is an issue with sim1, I will ask Courtney to consider a reset providing this is warrented.

Well, I just had a look and there are no gates anywhere, well 250 odd at ORD but if you can't fly anywhere form there then it's pointless.

Not that I will be playing sim 1 but just to add my thoughts

Point taken, like you I am so time taken within sim2 that I have not looked at sim1 for a while - Now noted and will talk to Courtney over weekend.

I want to join the Air force, learn everything their and continue onto the Airlines after that. when i retire I want to become an Air Traffic Controller;)

Funny - let you in a little secret, my son was going to be exactly the ideas you said above.

Now he is attending Uni - Flyboy has flown out the window - IT Security is in line now, after that wants to become a journalist.

Not sure how old you are Jet, but come back to the forums in 5-years time and let's see where you end up.

I like that -:Thumbs: