(comments) AirwaySim v.1.3 news, previews & info

[Curse]

yes

[NovemberCharlie]

I see in the attachment in Sami's latest post in the other thread that the "event demand" is higher. Does this mean it's possible for events to not shut down everything but to create a temporary spike in demand (i.e. Olympics)?

One I have seen so far is railway strike, which causes passengers to go to our companies instead

[schro]

Game status bar has now a balloon for count of unread messages in the alliance forum. The Dashboard alliance forum view will be removed (to save space and due some formatting issues).  [pictured below]

:-(

This bugs me nearly enough to open a bug report for stating it is about to happen. If the feature request forum wasn't locked, I would wager money that multiple requests for its return will be clamored for (as that happened last time it was marginalized).

[LemonButt]

* Route planning page has the option to show only your flights, vs. all flights on this route pair.

Can you also make it show routes that have no slots and not scheduled?  I will create groups of routes now that I can buy slots later, but have to keep checking back and forth to ensure I have enough spacing because they won't show up on route planning (creating multiple routes to the same destination without buying slots immediately).

[LemonButt]

:-(

This bugs me nearly enough to open a bug report for stating it is about to happen. If the feature request forum wasn't locked, I would wager money that multiple requests for its return will be clamored for (as that happened last time it was marginalized).

Only the feed went away.  All those messages are just a click away by going to the forum and the number bubble lets you know how many new messages there are.  It's not that big of a change IMO.

[Zombie Slayer]

Oh, I see how it is, Sami. Use a screen shot of PacAir with a staff strike! You could have picked the GW 3 dashboard showing $500bn in cash and 90% load factors! 

[fluffybunny]

Sami,
New feature of adjusting route prices on the route management page is GREAT!!  Good Job!

[Cardinal]

Thank you Thank you Thank you 

[LotusAirways]

Jump to page... great feature!
But it can be even better if "Number of aircraft per page at Scheduling page" has 14 and 21 as an option.

LA

[Cardinal]

Problem with the revamped Manage Routes page:  The "select all" box is gone. 

[Cardinal]

Problem with the revamped Manage Routes page:  The "select all" box is gone. 

Okay, this one's weird. It shows up on my wide-screen monitor but when I drag it to my other monitor, it disappears. It has something to do with how the scaling is handled. Two screen shots attached.

[JumboShrimp]

Regarding expanded aircraft page, definitely very helpful.

Couple of potential enhancements for that page:
- add another category: upcoming aircraft deliveries (new and used subcategories or combined)
- this one may be tricky, but as far as aircraft with losses, it would be great to exclude aircraft that is in C or D check, to see only aircraft that is losing money because of the routes it is flying
- "Aircraft with most revenue" heading is not the most fitting.  Ticket sales are revenue.  It is not exactly profit (since it does not include other costs).  Maybe someone can suggest a slightly better title

[xyeahtony]

the jump to page on the routes page has been extremely helpful, thank you. Keep up the new features, they are helping!

[Elladan]

Price management update is really good and much needed. Could we also have a selection tick boxes on manage routes - destination view screen? That way we could select multiple destinations (groups of flights) and apply price change to all of them simultaneously - that would save a lot of hassle again.

[JumboShrimp]

On Dashboard -> Aircraft News:

it would be useful to swap the columns, to have aircraft orders on the left (since they have more activity) and new aircraft launches on the right.  This way, on mobile devices with narrow screen, where the columns are above each other, Aircraft Orders would be on top.

[LotusAirways]

MY TWO CENTS
On price management. Under ROUTES - Route Management:

- if I press "Manage prices" what I get is the default price
- if I press "Route research" I will get supply and demand; if I then open a second window with "price management", I will get the current price. To get the default price, I need to open a third window by clicking on the route and press default to know. And to get the route image, I need to open a fourth window.

So say I want to fine-tune prices. I need 4 variables to make a decision:
- Supply vs demand
- Current price
- Default price
- Route image

SUGGESTION A
Ideally, if one opens "Route research", the
(1) Route image --both ways-- should be shown next to Airport Slots;
(2) "Price management" should open on the same window, above supply vs demand (called "Estimated daily passenger demand"), like a drop down menu,
(3) "Price management" should show current price --it already does, no changes here-- and "Route pricing - Update route" should show default price.

SUGGESTION B
Ideally, if one opens "Manage prices", the current price is shown. This is maybe not possible to code, as prices can be very different depending on the hours departure-arrival, so perhaps an average?

THE GOAL
Quick-tactical price increase/decrease: use "Manage prices".
Long-term-strategic price increase/decrease: use "Route research".

LA

[Cardinal]

Whatever you just tweaked, Sami, I have noticed that closing routes no longer locks up the entire site for 10-30 seconds, it's now instant. 

[DavidWilson]

On the subject of suggestions on route management I think it would be very helpful to add an additional piece of information to the destination view screen. It would be good if it showed you the total profit/loss of routes to the destination for the last day/7 days. At the moment it shows profit per flight and does give the number of routes but its not always easy to calculate in cases of maintenance or routes that don't fly the full week.

[Curse]

I like the new fuel prediction thing. I'm curious if it's actually useful. Thanks sami!

[Curse]

After a while the new feature seems to be not very useful right now.

The staff predicts basically totally random up and down - extreme increases that were announced as well as extreme decreases haven't occured. After speaking to some other players we all came to the same conclusion:
As it is right now it's as good or bad or useless as it was before. It's still gambling.


To finally make this feature useful the staff should accuratelly tell if the fuel increases the next 12-24 month or if it decreases.

Right now it's "The fuel increases! Or decreases! Or it stays the same!"


Two screenshots showing the extremes in GW#4 the last years. Funny thing is - the fuel price was relatively constant at about $145. Predictions, both from my own airline:



Actual fuel development: