If I want to buy a gate from someone, and in the gates page it says -1 at this perticulate city, does it then say 0 gates when one gate is returned, so that I can't get the gate I have paid for?

Cheers
Kenneth

I think that would be a correct assumption. I'd assume that the logic would be to increase the gate count when a gate is returned by the number of gates returned. That would mean increase a -1 by 1 and it ends up at 0. I'd probably refrain from doing the trade, or you both might end up down a gate.

I noticed the negative gate count for available gates at SAN.

It's not releated to the discussion above. I'm not sure how it happens. The previous discussion was about negative gate counts in a user's gate list. This might be a bug that could be due to something new the developers implemented.

Again, I've sent a pm willing to help, but I haven't heard anything back.

Thats the fastest you can do? It can be done in less than half the time by hand.

EDIT: I agree with PSA- Testing is no excuse. You have now screwed up the game for the rest of us. Messing with the game, (doesn't matter which side of the server the code is on) should NOT be tolerated.

I won't tell Miller or TW what to do, but in their situation, I'd do a complete ban.

Thats a possibility, but you're already logged in, that's the time consuming part, it takes about 3 seconds to log each player in....

As for the rest, yeah, whatever, like I said, don't really care....i forget how computer inept some people may be...there was no messing with the game logic.....

I would hope that TestaJ and any associates that have been playing with the database would be treated fairly. The same way Nathaniel was treated. Complete Ban. Testing is no excuse.

okay...second time....there was no messing, playing, screwing around with, or any term you want to use with the programming/database of the AE application.

Hey, I don't really care what happens. If I get to play again, I do, if not, I don't. I've offered help to the AE programmers because it appears they need it. The flaws that create these so called "bugs" are very simple to get rid of.

Actually...its impossible to mess with the games programming without access to the server...or, I suppose you could hack into the server and get access, but thats way beyond my knowledge.

There was no messing with any programming AE has. I wrote a completely independant application to help manage my airline (and this person mentioned at the start of this thread was helping my by giving me ideas). The purpose of this second application was to make our jobs a little easier. Actually, the thing that got it started was we both wanted a way to store our daily statistics for each airplane and route. With this information, we could look back and see what our routes had done historically. Also, we could tag different routes as "favorites" so that if we had to remove the airplane to place on a more profitable route, we would have this information for when we got more airplanes.

Its a pretty simple idea that would make life easier. Its functionality that I hope gets included in future releases.

Another functionality I was working on had to do with buying and selling gates with other players. Currently is a dangerous task trading gates. You release the gates and someone who is monitoring the gate page may very well be there to snatch it before the trader gets it. The process I was working on basically logged in player 1, released the gate, logged in player 2 and purchased the gate. All within about 13 seconds.

I'm hoping this kind of transfer is possible in version 3.

Oh yeah, this application was very much so in a test phase. I was hoping to have it readily available for all sometime soon. However, progress has slowed....being that I chose to be an idiot at some time and do something dumb.....

Nope, not munich.

Hey, I understand now, thats why I've posted about it in a couple of places and I'm talking to the mods.

I dont want to go to in depth because of stuff previously mentioned. The was no malicious intent. The gate thing at LGA was my fault because I didn't properly code a section in what I was working on....it was oversight....its the same reason someone else is able to do the same to Munich..the process designed in AE is somewhat flawed.

I'd be interested if you could find people with negative gates at MUC....

oh yeah, to answer Maestros q's:

1) Is there any historic games available?
2) I'll send you a PM about how this happened if you want. I didn't try anything illegal or cheating with this. It was an absolute accident and caused by a little sloppiness and laziness in programming...

Actually, its not his fault. Its mine. He was advising on a project I was working on. If this is his account, its entirely my fault.

I've been in discussion with the moderators about the subject and action is being taken to correct it.

Mods: Please do not disable the account to this airline. It is not his fault. It is ENTIRELY my doing. I'm more than happy to explain how this occurred if someone wants to hear it.

Hey All,

I'm trying to write a excel sheet to aid in keeping track of aircraft brokering deals. Does anyone off the top of their head know the discount rates for bulk purchases of aircraft? Or the formula used to calculate the new rate?

Thanks!

I was just looking thru the aircraft for some comparison and I've got a question.

Would you all agree with the following statement:

For Regional Jets of 70+ seats by the Embraer, but for 50 seats by the Canadair.

It looks like the Canadair 50 seaters are cheaper to run hourly and have longer range. The opposite appears true when you get to the 70+ seat versions.

Agree or disagree?