Changelog and Previews comment thread

[Cornishman]

3 fleet limit before (lack of) commonality charges start to accrue is in fact a clever way to limit unchecked growth.

I have (more than once) posted the famous "Chesterton Fence" quote (look it up) as a reply to people who want to do away with something without knowing its utility, without fully considering the consequences of removing it.

And without suggesting any mechanism to replace its function.

Sorry mate - am I missing something here . . .  I have countless times made alternative suggestions. All across the "Features Request" entries you will find countless suggestions and alternatives by so many different people.  Go and read them !  ** Then as Sami says just below this - go to the dedicated thread and read many alternative suggestions there. You cannot just say " And without suggesting any mechanism to replace its function." to pull some punch to your comment as it is most inaccurate.

Even right here in this post up above I make the suggestion that as bases grow in "Infrastructure Level" and "Traffic" Level" then so too how about restricting those bases incrementally with limits first on "small" category and then also on "medium" category planes, so that by the time your LHR / JFK / HND / ORY - etc. become category 7 or 8 then no more than a dozen or two small planes and mediums too.

That way if you develop a base to all extents with everything you can - watch out as they grow, your routes will be cut and you'd face a hell of a time trying to reschedule simply onto large / very large for those routes.

This then opens the whole world to having a few bases - let's say I take JFK and LAX and then 2 or 3 medium / domestic bases and maybe 1 or 2 small backwater bases - and I can operate my 747s and 737s and 777s at the big bases, and then E-jets and Dash 8s at the medium and then a nice variety of little small planes at the backwaters.  Oh yes, and also, I can make use of just 7 Concorde out of JFK to LHR and CDG - coz guess what - I'm no longer tied up in crappy red tape restrictions.

AND - If I choose instead to run an airline from say Kenya or Nigeria or Myanmar or Peru - I can freely select all sorts of variety of planes to bring a whole new vigour to the game.

PLEEEEEEEZE guys, you've had years and years and years of countless GWs all going round in the same old restricted circle.  Give someone else's ideas a go.  Or do you want more and more folk to just give up on the game and just leave?

[Sami]

Please move here for the fleet commonality talk, there's already the basic plan in place based on earlier user request/ideation: https://www.airwaysim.com/forum/index.php/topic,82188.0.html

[LkMsWb]

Question about today's changelog: https://www.airwaysim.com/forum/index.php/topic,58865.msg544726.html#msg544726

The Ilyushin Il-114 updated data will be available on all game worlds where it hasn't launched yet, or just on new game worlds? Thank you!

[Sami]

New games only.

[DanDan]

Any idea when to expect some new features/concepts/... in gameplay?

[Sami]

- Upgrade of forums is planned for tomorrow (postponed from today).

- Next up is the public testing of the new website/systems (week or two, have to pick up the pace since I'm behind my target on this!).

- After that we'll go live with the new website (hopefully not that much to test, since the base system has been live on other projects for some time already).

- Then incremental total and ground-up upgrades of the game interface to mobile-compatible interface with all-new "AirwaySim v.2.0" code base. At the same time some changes to features where ever realistic for the same workload ( = no sense in renewing some features to the new v.2.0 with new code that would be going away soon anyway).

[schro]

After so many years with the old format on mobile... I just had to force desktop mode to make it usable to me.

[Sami]

Oh you old timers 

(btw. I also mentioned in Discord that the colors of this new template at forums would need a bit more contrast in my mind. But I will look into that later, to see if my eyes will get used to this or not - since the previous colorscheme was a bit more colorful)

[Cardinal]

Not sure if this is a bug or just a symptom of ongoing tinkering under the hood, but I keep getting logged out of the game in the middle of doing something. Not just kicked out of the game I'm in but completely logged out. It's happened 3 times in the last couple of hours. I cleared my cache after the first time but it's happened twice since then.

[Sami]

Not sure if this is a bug or just a symptom of ongoing tinkering under the hood, but I keep getting logged out of the game in the middle of doing something. Not just kicked out of the game I'm in but completely logged out. It's happened 3 times in the last couple of hours.

Please do a complete logout on all devices, then log back in. Let me know if that helps. (shouldn't do that of course...)