sviridovt

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. 

Will take a look, the beta database crashed shortly after world initialization but it marked itself as succeeded and from quick browsing the airports seemed to have been added. Will re-run initialization 

Hi folks! 

I have restarted the Sandbox world on the beta server (https://beta.airsim.world), the previous world was closed due to issues. As per usual, the sandbox world is designed for y'all to mess about with and do not offer any guarantee of availability or support. Worlds in beta may be reset or removed without warning. 

Sandbox II 

Hosted on beta server, not available in the 'My Airlines' page, click the Sandbox World link on the forum

Years: 2000-3000

Mode: Sandbox

Restrictions: Political restrictions, but any aircraft may be purchased

Speed: 7 days/ 20 minutes. 

Beta does presently have some unreleased features for the upcoming fuel update, though it does not have the latest database updates as I'm still working on balancing all of this out in a lower environment

Let me know if there are issues. 

Thanks! 

Yes, this is a known issue with older pages requiring way too many database calls. It is an ongoing effort to address these issues (you can see this issue was fixed in route research, my flights page etc.) but some of the less trafficked pages are still a WIP. The goal is to get all of the UI migrated over time. 

Just now, Aurora International LLC said:

It would also be nice to have a feature where you can have an option on the market research page to delete all flights from a route, because otherwise it takes a very long time to manually click on every aircraft operating the route and delete each flight, especially on routes which over 20 planes fly on. It would also be helpful to have a way to remove all flights for just a singular plane. 

That I agree with and would recommend starting a separate thread for. I will need to redesign the scheduler for the maintenance update, one of the things for that update is support for moving schedules over to another aircraft, which requires some kind of a scheduler interface. From my point of view it would make sense to create a common scheduler that can be used both for flight research and moving flights and other usecases such as gate scheduling. 

I don't see something like that being implemented for the potential of abuse. I do want to see a contract type system for airline to airline dealings such as leases (though far down the line), as well as a potential of subsidiaries, codeshares and other such relations in the far future (which itself would need to be carefully managed to avoid abuse) but not direct transfers. 

ah, this is the forum reputation. It has to do with the likes that your posts receive and has no impact on the sim. 

Where are you seeing it? I don't remember adding any reputation view in recent times, or any major changes to the reputation system as a whole. Generally the way it works is that both your airline and your flights have separate reputations (with the combination of the two being used to effect the passengers desire to fly your airline when compared to other airlines on that route) the former of which is the average of all your flight reputations weighed by number of passengers that have flown on a given flight, however neither of those reputations are represented in a binary 0 or 1 which leaves me confused. 

Overall the system is due for an overhaul and that will come either as part of the maintenance update or the demand system redesign as it will definitely be needed for the demand system redesign but haven't yet decided how I want maintenance and reputation to interface. This is largely a technical decision but will impact the timeline of things, hence why I'm inclined to not keep them too inter-twined. 

On 4/2/2024 at 10:23 AM, wizbron said:

@sviridovt This is still happening to me i built terminals at MEX, EWR, and NRT but they aren't transferring

I have found the issue with the remaining failures and redrove all the failed messages. Check now. 

7 hours ago, wizbron said:

Also, how do you connect your alliance

 

What do you mean? Like connect with the forum? 

You can share a gate with your alliance, but you cannot at present lease gates for a price. It is however something to consider as a future feature 

Updated

Hi!

Apologies for the delay, but I have not had the time to look into this. It does appear that there was a miss onboarding that recalculate gates task to celery in the migration, all the recalculations have been back-filled. Let me know if you're still seeing issues. Thanks! 

Good idea for the new scheduler. I'm planning to redesign the scheduler as part of the maintenance update that's on my list next. Have had a lot of work travel and generally work has been busy so very behind on what I have planned.