Start-up settings feedback

[Sami]

Feel free to drop in feedback about the startup settings of this game world

Changes to previous include for example:

• Limited aircraft selection in used aircraft inventory. ("Special rule: Startup selection of aircraft is limited. Only DC-3, Li-2 and C-46 aircraft are available at the start.")
  
• AI brokers have orders for new planes.
  
• Minor changes to slot costs and other cost structure etc. to curb the initial growth a bit.
  

With the new admin tools for game management I am able to do more tweaks, and now it's also easier to build in new features there.

[Mike Swaledale]

Only DC3's/Li2's and C46s?

No DC4, No DH84/86?

All aircraft over-valued?

[Cardinal]

I'd have been okay with it had all the C-46 not immediately disappeared and gone back into storage on day 2. I did all my research based on the C-46 and there's nothing but DC-2/3 and Li-2 available now, with over 700 C-46 back in storage.

[Sami]

I'd have been okay with it had all the C-46 not immediately disappeared and gone back into storage on day 2.

Not very normal (if we had those in market and they were taken back?), gotta check that tomorrow.

[KingAirways]

I like it.

That said some maybe bugs found:
C-46 has 26 PAX as config but this is not a player choosable number of pax. It goes up to 36 PAX, however.
DC-3 has 26 PAX as config, but this is not player choosable number of pax. It goes up only to 31 PAX instead of the displayed 32 PAX, however.

Either the C-46 offers more space, than it should be labelled as business, or it seems off between the two for me.

What I miss is a display of how many aircraft can be put outside of bases and ongoing orders from the AWS Leasing Brokers for better aircraft.


In general I'd like to have a better calculation tool for distances. Comet 3 for example seems like it's the first usable US-continental aircraft, but if you actually take PAX with you, it isn't anymore. The weight-distance-curve is, at least for me without being from the aircraft industry, not a reliable and useful tool. The route planning on the other hand would be a qiuck and dirty tool for that, but it doesn't allow for not-available/released aircraft.

[saetta]

I love this 'New" start it imposes strategy over luck. No more midnight DC 6 catches.
Thank you Sami
P.S i left i more detailed assesment in the wrong portal

[saetta]

Ok I will be me more specific, by allowing only 3 types of a/c for the fist year, a more even playing field was established.
1 -The "panic"buying was virtually eliminated...a syndrome in which you bought a plane that really was not what you really wanted, but was available, now we have time to study what we really need an order it with tranquility..
2- initial strategy is now more valuable then initial luck.
Therefore i am enjoying the game much more
Thank you

[KingAirways]

I think it involves still lots of luck with the drops of the DC-6(B), B377 and Constellations. In my opinion the setting would profit from non-available used aircraft of this kind but an increased production line, so more players are able to order those and get them not in the too distant future.

[Sami]

C-46 has 26 PAX as config but this is not a player choosable number of pax. It goes up to 36 PAX, however.
DC-3 has 26 PAX as config, but this is not player choosable number of pax. It goes up only to 31 PAX instead of the displayed 32 PAX, however.

There was a small rounding error in the new admin system which caused this, it's now adjusted (for any new games).

[saetta]

king is partially correct, we are again desperately bone dry in the used wanted planes, and playing the Russian roulette of trying to catch a decent DC 6 or Connie in the used market. All of this stifles most strategies.
 Yes i know it is the same for all, but in my opinion it imposes a brake on creativity. Some of this might be necessary to control growth , but is a bit over the top. i have been only able to get one decent airplane off the market in a year, so what i thought was fixed to improve the game, was only partially so
Cheers