sviridovt

1 hour ago, Aurora International LLC said:

No problem, I thought that you needed to approve press releases before the public would be able to see it, so I opted to place it into general discussion.

No, I just require links to be approved before public can see it as it filters a lot of the spam out. There are no special restrictions to post into press releases vs other categories. 

Moved to press releases, please keep press releases in the appropriate section. Thanks!

Moved to press releases, please keep press releases in the appropriate section. Thanks!

2 hours ago, Aurora International LLC said:

Do you have a target date for this feature's release? Also would we be able to follow airlines and see their general activity, and would we be able to see if people are following us?

I don't do target dates, don't have enough free time to reliabily say when stuff will get done. I would expect it to be part of UI redesign which is happening incrementally (starting with dashboard redesign as the first of many). 

That's the idea, the things that would be shown would be (obviously open to suggestions on this) flight changes, aircraft orders, alliance news, terminal construction etc. And yes, the idea is that you'll be able to see who is following you. 

I do intend to expand on competitive outlook in future releases by allowing people to follow airlines as well as having it be integrated into an airline feed accessible on the airline page. Haven't thought about the ability to sort/group it (it's supposed to be sorted by date, though the version that is in prod is glitched. The issue is currently fixed in beta and will be released when the fuel update is released. As of now prod releases are blocked since I'm removing feature flags and other blockers in preparation for full release) 

Is it actually not updating or just the blue box not disappearing? There is a known issue right now where the routes aren't properly marked as updated even though the route itself is in fact updated. 

33 minutes ago, Aurora International LLC said:

For a lot of us, it feels defeating when we build an enormous airlines with domination on extremely large routes, and then have to restart, and then other people take those routes. so I understand why you wouldn’t be open to that, but I think a majority of the sim members would appreciate an endless world.

If I look at the data, worlds tend to get less traffic over time as people lose interest and new people aren't interested in joining a world that's already well under way. This is why I'm making an effort towards faster, shorter term worlds to give people more opportunities to join a fresh world. As I said, not fundamentally opposed to the concept of an endless world, but I haven't seen anything to indicate a significant interest. There will still be longer term worlds, namely Arcade and the upcoming Dynasty worlds (arcade world but with all the realistic restrictions) but at least for the time being, my preference is to move towards more shorter worlds. 

2 hours ago, Sky Global Holdings said:

Overture Specifications:

Cruise speed: Mach 1.7 supersonic, Mach 0.94 subsonic

Range: 4,250nm with full payload

Passengers: 65–80

Exterior Dimensions: Length: 201 feet, Wingspan: 106 feet, Height: 36 feet

Interior Dimensions: 79 feet long, up to 6.5 feet height at aisle

Airframe: composite fuselage, wing, vertical, and horizontal

Wing: gull with digital leading and trailing edge flap control

Flight controls: 4x redundant digital fly-by-wire on 2 LRUs

Powerplant: 4x medium-bypass 100% SAF-compatible turbofan

Airport Community noise: ICAO Chapter 14 / FAA Stage 5

 

does this help with cabin dimensions

 

I'll look into it, I probably won't be adding any new planes until the introduction of Mojave service (which is a service I'm building to crowd source data for the game) (cause get it Mojave desert is where planes are stored when in storage?)

1 hour ago, Aurora International LLC said:

I don’t actually think that the fuel price affects fuel costs in the routes

 

Fuel prices in dashboard are for the new system that's not yet in use (though I'd in use in beta and will be released imminently, I like the balance of the sim with the changes). The new system will not be in use for B IX or Arcade given that it does change the costs a lot, instead we will be starting World D and the new system will be used post resets. 

I might make a small change to allow for better fuel efficiency displays. 

+1 to multi select for scrapping, I do want to discourage flight spamming and having the ability to just put 20 planes on the same schedule encourages that. Further the long term goal would be to punish flight congestion, right now the sim has a solid multiplier based on local departure time, long term airlines flying 20 flights in one slot would have to split all the pax that want to fly in that time slot. 

8 hours ago, Aurora International LLC said:

Also, I think that to lessen the blow of restarting your airline, you should have a starting income of 2bn and immediate aircraft deliveries at 25. Also, a world in which everything moves a bit quicker, such as every 10 minutes a week, would be more fun. To make it easier for people who don't join the fast world the moment it is started, you could maybe delay rankings for 3-5 real-life days until the money shows up on the world rankings.

But at that point what's the challenge of the sim? The mental model of the Sim is to be as realistic as possible, hence wouldn't necessarily be open to those types of changes 

I would also need fuel metrics, cabin dimensions etc. 

11 hours ago, Sky Global Holdings said:

something like a charter service

I do want to add charters, though won't be a thing for a little while 

11 hours ago, Sky Global Holdings said:

and with this could we possibly maybe have the boom supersonic

Not against it though I don't believe enough information is known to be able to model the plane in the sim. 

4 hours ago, Aurora International LLC said:

Yes @sviridovt, being able to transfer our existing airlines with all its routes, money, terminals, aircraft, and employees to a new world would make it much easier to start a new world. 

I mean that would pretty much defeat the purpose of a world reset, the way the sim works right now there isn't a significant challenge once you reach a certain point, while making it difficult for new players to join in. While I'm not opposed in theory to an 'endless' world (and in some way, that is the arcade world) I do need to be mindful of giving people a fair shot. I have noticed that the proportion of people who join the sim when the worlds are more established tend to not stick around. 

It's the part of the next major feature. That's all I can say, unfortunately I do not have the time to dedicate to the sim like I have in years past hence not in a position to commit to any kinds of timelines. 

The BBJ doesn't carry commercial passengers though? 

I am generally against having fictional planes, ok with having future planes (even if not all the details are known) but fictional planes seems like too much a departure from realism that I'm aiming for. 

2 hours ago, Sky Global Holdings said:

Do you have a timetable for cargo and subsidiaries?

Not at present, right now I'm focusing on the long term goal of having a new demand model as a major thing for this year and don't have much planned out beyond that. 

1 hour ago, Aurora International LLC said:

 

I was thinking we could do something along the lines where airlines can donate a set amount of money per day to an alliance bank account, which managers can use to build terminals, or other things not currently in the sim such as upgrading terminal capacity and experiences, having hotels for the airlines in the alliance, etc.

That could be interesting to have 'communal' alliance stuff and I have thought about that, probably would be added as part of contractual obligations stuff I have planned though have not finalized the priorities there 

3 hours ago, Aurora International LLC said:

Yeah, it's resolved now. I am thrilled that I got to know about this world because the 2,000,000,000 starting money and instant delivery of 25 planes make it much easier to start making more money than in say Arcade I. I also noticed that unlike in Arcade I when you schedule flights, you don't need to wait and constantly reload the page to see the amount of passengers boarding the flight. Maybe this is because the world is pretty much empty, but it is great nonetheless. Thanks!

Yeah, the update demand task is pretty fast when there aren't a lot of flights but grows linearly as more flights are added. This is largely the consequence of the tech stack and partially how it's written (although I have changed some constants over the years, the demand model has largely not changed since the original release). The new model will use a new service optimized for speed as well as a graph based approach, this should hopefully both improve performance as well as allow us to re-enable connecting flights which had to be disabled as it put too much strain on the database.

I would caution against using this world as your 'primary' world however, I do not give any guarantees that it wouldn't be reset without warnings as it is still a development environment. It does get used for testing which may mess with the world and generally does not have any gating from deploying the latest build (I do have plans to migrate the pipeline to full CD/automatic deployments long term even for prod as I already utilize a lot of feature flagging to gate new features as well as allow for an easy on off switch if something goes wrong, but there is a reason why I haven't yet done this for prod which is that I don't believe I have quite the test infra in place for that yet). 

Should be fixed now @Aurora International LLC. Looks like it was over-batching. Interesting that this has never crashed the database before when I run the same code as a manual script but crashes within a task. Guess there is extra overhead? Not too sure, either way I have reduced the batch sizes and it seemed to have resolved the issue. 

5 hours ago, Sky Global Holdings said:

@sviridovtI am wondering if this could be implemented in Arcade III

Cargo is a long term goal, with the biggest barrier so far being data. This is also the case for the new demand model as well since I don't have a data editor anymore :( and I would rather work on getting new features out given my limited time.

I'll take a look at it, truthfully haven't looked at that page yet. 

It's a database thing. I do have a plan to get a new data management system (what I termed Mojave service) up in the near future, which will be a better system for database management and would allow y'all to suggest aircraft in a better way than a forum post (adding planes to the database right now is a huge hassle). This would allow all data to be added to the sim (aircraft, airports, political restrictions, etc.) much easier and would even allow y'all to make suggestions in the system itself that I could then just review and accept rather than having to manually add stuff in. Until then not really doing any data edits. 

5 hours ago, Sky Global Holdings said:

I think this could work for alliances

Even then the potential for abuse is too great. I do see a future where you could create a subsidiary (with your parent airlines money) and then balances can be transferred back and forth. 

On the whole, I do have a plan to take the sim in a slightly different direction I want to try out, with more worlds but shorter with longer term worlds being arcade style 7 days per turn worlds. So what will probably happen, or at least my thinking is (and I do want to come up with some catchy names for these): 

World A: 1935-1960

World B: 1950-1980

World C: 1975-2000

World D: 2000-2025

And then the longer term worlds to be the 7 days per turn worlds, namely: 

Arcade World, 2000-...

Dynasty World 1935-2025 (new mode to have 7 days per turn with all the realism restrictions in place) 

The thinking here is that I do notice that people tend to stick around more when they join an earlier world (which makes sense), so having more shorter worlds gives people more opportunities to start in a fresh world. I also plan on resetting worlds slightly earlier, so B X will start probably about when B IX is 75-80% of the way through. This way hopefully there are more opportunities to 'start fresh' 

None of this is coming tomorrow persay, especially for Dynasty mode I do want to add some fleet management stuff that will be coming as part of the maintenance update (though a lot of those features will be added before the official updates, I really like the dashboard release model where it's an opt-in type thing which was helpful to me in getting feedback) so the Dynasty mode will be added before the update. Ideally I would like Dynasty mode to launch when Arcade is about halfway through. 

I would also need to add more planes in the 1930-1950 years, which at present there aren't that many. 

Looks like my world initialization script is a bit too much for an async task to handle so I need to split the gates into smaller batches. Will fix after work.