Can i play in the new beginners world?

[dvmaaren]

Hello all,

First of all, let me start by saying I've been playing this game for just over one week and I love it! My question though was if I will be able to join the upcoming beginners world? I have been in the current beginners world since last week and already restarted 3 times, clearly I need more practice.

Can I still join the new one to start from scratch/beginning even though i've been playing just over a week in a beginners world? Or does the beginners world count as a "full world"?

Cheers,
David

[castelino009]

you can play whichever game you wish mate,

good luck , al the best and welcome to AWS. We  are all here to help ypu.

happy flying

VJC

[dvmaaren]

Well since you're here to help. Got any tips for me?

I've read all newbie tips etc on the forums, yet everytime i get to leasing my 5th aircraft i suddenly go deep into losses.. all my routes show an avarge of 20k profit per day (i think it is per day) on the Manage Routes page, yet lease-prices and maintenance overshadow any profit i make.

Firstly, what (jet) aircraft should i start with and when do i expand? I seem to mistime it everytime. And secondly what kind of routes should i fly early game?

thanks!

[L1011fan]

What type of routes are you flying? Are sticking to only 1 or 2 types of aircraft (probably one type is best until you're ready for a 6th aircraft and then again you may just want to stick to same type).  We can probably help you out better if we knew those particulars.

[dvmaaren]

Currently i have one airbus A300, flying bangkok (my base) - Singapore   (50k a day profit). The rest are boeing 727-200 flying short international flights from Bangkok to Hong Kong and Seoul and some domestic flights.

They are all generating profit and at the moment the airline is not in the red, but coming month more leases will be withdrawn (4 months of prepaid lease are over) and I think I will dip into the red again. I have an average load factor of around 90% with kind of low prices because of me wanting to compete for passengers (which is working), yet the Yield figures are all in the orange/yellow...

Do you need more specifics?

[Sanabas]

Doesn't matter that the yield figures aren't green, they never will be for anything other than short routes. If they were going to be green for all routes, then a 5000 nm LH route ticket would cost 25 times as much as a 200 nm flight. The default prices make the 5000 nm flight about 5 times the 200 nm one, which means the LH yield figures will be 20% of the short flight. Doesn't stop them making money.

Discounting your prices simply costs you money. You should click the 'reset all routes to default pricing' box every 24 hours or so.

Sounds like you should be profitable though.

[castelino009]

Keep fleet commonality to 2 (max) until you earn a fair bit.

don't use gas guzzlers- B727, Russian or even 737-classics, L1011 etc.             

Keep routes to minimum, do not  start  a million routes, establish the  existing ones and remember slot costs are much higher & this will destroy you instantly.

keep you airline in the air more and ground less- this does not mean less turnaround , keep them @ 1% (chances of delays).

Have some back up cash for C checks, also choose aircraft's with have at least 7-8 months + of C check done when you lease and D check more than 3-4 yrs.

These are few tips, but don't take it as bible. Many experienced people are struggling in V1.3 (incl me).

Good luck and hope this helps a bit mate. Give us shout- if more help needed

Cheers
VJC

[dvmaaren]

Thanks for all the help guys, I think I've got the basics under control atm, my airline from Bangkok makes about 3-4 mill a week now, allowing me to expand a bit with some airbus planes.