Next scenario starts this Sunday, 14th November

[Filippo]

2 open slots a day

there are 17000 members, and with this third game open only 1500 spaces!

[Jona L.]

This pops up in my mind so far:

-Airbus A300
-Airbus A319
-Airbus A320
-Airbus A321-100
-Airbus A330
-Airbus A340

-Boeing 717
-Boeing 737 (all versions, classic in the 80's, NG in the 90's)
-Boeing 747-400
-Boeing 757-200/300
-Boeing 767-200(ER)/300(ER)/400ER
-Boeing 777-200(ER)/300

-McDonnell Douglas MD-80 (all versions)
-McDonnell Douglas MD-90
-McDonnell Douglas MD-11

.. etc.

B764 comes 2001(+/-; launch is 1998 [also +/-]), so I guess not in here....
B747 classics (100-300) will be also there (maybe only used, but definitely there!)
B727 might have some rests on used market...

If we are all lucky, there might also be some Concords left I love these birds...

Jona L.

[Jps]

Currently there are 7 open slots in MT3... 

[Sigma]

2 open slots a day

there are 17000 members, and with this third game open only 1500 spaces!

No, there has been 17,000 members.  Not presently are.  Over the course of several years many people come and go.

I'm quite certain that sami knows precisely how many currently paying players he's got.  And he's not in the business of turning paying customers away.  But if he wants to be due to resource constraints, that's his business.  Remember, every game-world created means more time that sami has to do deal with managing each world dealing with PMs, complaints, bug issues, etc; and less time upgrading the game.  And as someone waiting for long-awaited updates to AWS, I, for one, would prefer he spends more time working on the software and less time managing the individual worlds.

[Sami]

Yes, partly agree with the previous poster on the time usage. Dealing with active game worlds does take the majority of my time and development time hasn't been that big lately..

The 17k membercount is not the number of players. Big share of those have never even tried the demo, and big majority of those who have tried the demo have only played it for some minutes and found this is not their thing. With present efforts the 1000-1500 active airlines (not players) seems to be the steady number.