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#43096 AE has reseted;and already some problems...

Posted by Russ on 14 December 2006 - 09:17 PM in Bugs

I like the idea since there was no heads up on the reset as in the past


#42819 Reset Scheduled 11-7-06

Posted by Russ on 08 December 2006 - 05:45 PM in Announcements

What do you mean he doesn't have the time??? It only takes some clicks to reset. If he's got the time to go to the toilet, he's got the time to reset.


Actually, if you have played a few rounds you will recognize that most of the support issues arise shortly after restart. So if they do reset, they have to have time to provide support for the first couple ae years. If RL and the holidays are getting in the way of that, we are better waiting until they can spend a little time to focus on us.


#37796 LF Bug unethical

Posted by Russ on 24 August 2006 - 07:04 PM in Game Discussion (SIM2)

SFO-SAC. The distance is short so it won't make much of a difference. You are already limited by what LF you will get because of the distance involved.


Short or long he/she is still exploiting the LF bug and trying to force it. The ethics of the situation don't change.

And there is no reason the same tactics can't be used on every single route in AE, so don't dismiss it as too small to care about.


#37781 LF Bug unethical

Posted by Russ on 24 August 2006 - 12:31 PM in Game Discussion (SIM2)

Only a matter of time before some one figured this out.

SFO-SAC

$1 route and $200,$300,$400,$500 routes. All aimed at playing the LF bug.

I don't mind $1 routes as a tactical move; but this is not about being aggresive, it is only about manipulating a bug.


#37611 V3 Finance Page

Posted by Russ on 21 August 2006 - 06:20 PM in Announcements

I like the percentage change also


#36587 Next Scheduled Reset

Posted by Russ on 06 August 2006 - 06:39 PM in Announcements

Correct, certain descisionss about V3 are delaying its progress...

Its still very much on the road to completion though... :D


I always thought that v3 was optimistic for this round; a few more months sounds right. I do software development for a living and there just didn't seem to be enough progress for the extent of the changes that you are proposing. The projects always turn out to be a little bigger than originally scoped.

And nobody, but nobody goes on vacation just before go live.;)


#36577 Next Scheduled Reset

Posted by Russ on 06 August 2006 - 05:18 PM in Announcements

I surprised that you could form a complete sentence, much less concern yourself about a reset.

But if said reset if to occur shortly, am I right in assumiing that it will still be v2?


#35524 New Airport Select Tool...

Posted by Russ on 25 June 2006 - 03:32 PM in Game Discussion (SIM2)

Nope, some airports just WONT be profitable to fly to from other countries. Regardless of hub size. This will all be explained in the V3 Manual.


What about hub to hub?


#35517 New Airport Select Tool...

Posted by Russ on 25 June 2006 - 04:31 AM in Game Discussion (SIM2)

No, i mean as perhaps flying to small airports (around 50k) from a hub might not be as lucrative to warrant service, thats all. :P


I would think that those are the exact airports to hub, but only for less than 1000 miles. Although it makes no RL economic sense to hub small cities in CA from your ATL base.


#35150 Can I Have Your Attention Please...

Posted by Russ on 17 June 2006 - 03:48 AM in Announcements

TTC V3 can be downloaded http://www.woodrow.p...lculator_V3.xls

It's not that I disagree that there should be more cities/better data, it's just not at the TOP of the list right now


It's cool. As long as its ON the list


#35126 Can I Have Your Attention Please...

Posted by Russ on 16 June 2006 - 06:49 PM in Announcements

We're wading through a lot of data, mostly the aircraft right now. I think that with improved AC data, the pax loads out of the current cities wouldn't be bad at all, necessarily, so I've been focused of AC data.


Always looking for improvement, although I think that the number of cities ends up being a much more limiting factor than the passenger load. This is a factor of the number of players. More people that you have places to put them.


#35018 Extending Terminals

Posted by Russ on 13 June 2006 - 04:16 PM in Game Discussion (SIM2)

they go to the open market. You can buy them back and then you have the two days to fill, but everytime you expand they will be released


#34984 Public Market Planes

Posted by Russ on 12 June 2006 - 11:25 PM in Game Discussion (SIM2)

Let'stake the 50k per day example and do so calculating..

50 * 24 = 1.200.000

This is your profit per game month. Now say you need to wait three months for the plane to be delivered. That makes the missed profit 3.6 million. If you could have gotten one at 700k over value (making it 20 milion), you missed out on 2.9 milion of profit. Ofcourse, if you can get your planes for a serious discount, this changes the picture, but for a discount of that much, you need to place like 20 or 30 aircraft orders..


And that is part of the point for the larger players. Although the first planes of an order may not take9 months, if you order more than two, they are limited to 2 a day. To take your theoretical 20 aircraft, it will take at least 10 days before you get your next aircraft. So if you can afford it, you buy both on the open market and from the Q.

That said, if I was a smaller player (I was once), and had enough to buy one on the open market, I would buy 2 by either choosing another aircraft almost as good with no order delay, or order my aircraft and take the slight delay.

Last round with unlimited deliveries, there were only a few aircraft in play. This round, there are a lot of Saabs and ATR 72's, and EMB's that didn't get used. I substituted ATR 72's for my Q400's early this game, as long as my routes were about 500 miles or less, there was no noticeable difference. Certainly not enough to make up for the delivery delay.


#34945 Public Market Planes

Posted by Russ on 11 June 2006 - 02:57 PM in Game Discussion (SIM2)

It is a matter of opportunity cost. If I can buy a 739 at $5M over and get a DOP of $150K, then I can make that difference back in about 2 real days. Considering that I have planes on order for about the next two weeks (@2 per day), it will be making me money long before I would get it from the manufacturer. Or looking at it another way, I would be leaving money on the table if I didn't buy it on the public market.

I can also use my orders to get different frames like a 757 or 777 which isn't often on the open market.

I agree that about $5M is over list is all I will pay for an airframe.

For many of us, the open market is the only way to expand in excess of 2 planes per day. And as I stated above, the ROI is good, and the opportunity cost justifies it.


#34879 Alaska Pacific Airlines-News

Posted by Russ on 08 June 2006 - 09:40 PM in Airline Press Releases

you have commuting cabbages?


#34834 Fatal Error during aircraft change

Posted by Russ on 08 June 2006 - 12:28 AM in Bugs

I'm starting to think this has become either...a prank, or they have decided to show us they really don't give about bugs as important as this one :D


Well, at least people have stopped complaining about the LF bug :sdrool:


#34833 NW's FAs reject pay cut deal

Posted by Russ on 08 June 2006 - 12:27 AM in Real World Aviation

I call SWA 'Greyhound Airlines', with the way you are treated, you probably should have taken the bus. One experience on them was enough, for me to learn. Plus I have yet to find a route they run, where the competiton doesn't match or beat their prices. After cranking up 32k air miles last year, and 25k the year before, assigned seats, special lines, and free upgrades by far mean more to me than stupid slogans and irritating commericals.


You illustrate my point. If the SWA cost structure is supported by a certain ticket price, than the legacy carriers must reduce their cost structures to match that ticket price. So that is why the legacy carriers are reducing pay, it is one of the few areas they can reduce on the cost side.

I did over 225K last year. I have no problem with SWA on flights less than 2 hours. I don't get food, the upgrade is pretty worthless, and I log in on line 24 hours in advance and get a group A. So for 2hrs or less, I can't see the legacy airlines offering any value add. And I worry about getting stuck on a RJ. Compared to a RJ, the SWA 737 is FC.

I flew mostly coast to coast last year. In that case, I agree with all your reasons.


#34830 NW's FAs reject pay cut deal

Posted by Russ on 07 June 2006 - 10:55 PM in Real World Aviation

They can bash SWA all they want, but for reasons that matter. I prefer a little upscale myself, love those free upgrades to 1st.

But the public has demonstrated that price is more important than anything else. And business travelers will no longer subsidize the rest of the plane.

So unless the legacy airlines find someway of adding value to earn the extra ticket prices, they must find a way to get thier costs in line with the LCC. Right now airline seats are a commodity with very little pricing power. If any airline employee confuses what passengers are willing to pay with what they think they should earn, they are in for a rude awakening.

That said, I do feel for them. I went through the dot com boom and bust and I know how it feels to have your income cut by 30-40%. It truly sux


#34819 NW's FAs reject pay cut deal

Posted by Russ on 07 June 2006 - 08:09 PM in Real World Aviation

are you saying critisism of WN is not justified?


Who are you talking to?


#34818 Route Calculator Problem

Posted by Russ on 07 June 2006 - 08:07 PM in Game Discussion (SIM2)

Think you could help the guy instead of just being rude?


I said please.


#34809 Route Calculator Problem

Posted by Russ on 07 June 2006 - 05:05 PM in Game Discussion (SIM2)

Been here done that. Lock it!

Please read the boards before posting bugs.


#34790 NW's FAs reject pay cut deal

Posted by Russ on 07 June 2006 - 03:29 AM in Real World Aviation

SWA is a rather crappy airline, no noticable change in fares out of Denver when they moved in, and most of the time Frontier and United have better prices than they do with a better product. (not to mention with United I can connect from Colorado Springs where I live into Denver and get pretty much anyware). SWA here is crammed up into crappy Concourse C and is still 4th nearly 5th place in Denver.


Denver already had a LLC in Frontier. Its the Walmart of the airline industry. Bash it if you must but it makes money.


#34777 NW's FAs reject pay cut deal

Posted by Russ on 07 June 2006 - 01:25 AM in Real World Aviation

When will everyone learn that SWA is the standard. If you make more than your counterpart at SWA you won't for long. Hurts but is reality. Deal with it.


#34776 NW's FAs reject pay cut deal

Posted by Russ on 07 June 2006 - 01:23 AM in Real World Aviation

The solution of killing off a legacy is a way to increase ticket prices by reducing competition rather than reducing costs to meet revenues. As long as the LCC's are around, any increase in tickets will not result in an increase in service but will go to servicing legacy costs which have no direct benefit to the flying public. reducing capacity may have been a solution in 1980 but it isn't the solution now.


#34774 NW's FAs reject pay cut deal

Posted by Russ on 07 June 2006 - 01:19 AM in Real World Aviation

Well, look at the king of the LCC's, Southwest, you get what you pay for, no or little food, very few blankets or pillows per flight, cramped seating, and a cattle call boarding style. I am one to think LCCs are part of the problem, not the solution.


Not a big fan of SW or rather a big fan of traveling in style so all you say is true (never had a problem getting blankest/pillows but I digress). The fact is that all the legacies now have that level of service back in peasant and then still lose money.

They are just good at what they do: move people from point A to B. Better than anyone else. You can't convince me that those things you mention cost $100 per flight. But every time SWA goes into a new city the fares come down $100.


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