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

[Ilyushin]

Sounds great! I can't wait.

- updates to cabin configuration systems

Does this include the option, for example, to change a 767's cabin from 2-4-2 to 2-3-2 seating layout?

And those added aircraft models, there will be more added, right? Like the Tu-104. I really miss it in JA3.

Thanks Sami.

[Sami]

Specs of the cabin feature is not yet locked but main idea is at least update it so that the true length of the cabin is the deciding factor when checking the max amount of seats for each config. With that I can also introduce seat pitch and other things.

Aircraft data thingy is just starting, I got now a bookshelf full of Jane's books and can dig the data from early models easily too without having to guess from Wiki etc.



btw. just added East German Baade 152 plane to prototypes database ... what a machine...

http://web.archive.org/web/20060129112518/http://www.airspacemag.com/ASM/Mag/Index/1996/FM/rfeg.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWzB83VHgnw

[jimsom]

Wonderful news, all this! Just a question, will 1.3 include the aircraft history function?

[Jps]

AI airlines?! For what?
Are you Sami planning on including them to multiplayer world, or making a single-player version?

[ICEcoldair881]

where did you read AI airlines?

[ekaneti]

""East German Baade 152 ""


Looks like a B-47 bomber.


Why no Connies??

[Talentz]

That looks so cool Sami!


So should we start adding aircraft that were prototypes or concepts as well or wait on that?

There are a number of aircraft that made the prototype phase but no further...


Think I'll go look up some aircraft data later tonight when I get back home



Talentz

[Jps]

where did you read AI airlines?

In Sami's initial post (is there a way to quote a post with link to a closed topic?):

- technical possibility for AI airlines

[Daemus]

In Sami's initial post (is there a way to quote a post with link to a closed topic?):

The best way I know of is to copy and paste the text you want, throw the quote open and close tags around it, then grab the post url and add it behind 'quote' in the open tag with an = symbol in between.

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Change...
[quote]
to...
[quote=http://the-url-goes-here.web/]

The text you quoted goes here. Notice the url is hyperlinked. The forum software will do that automatically as long as the url is valid.

For the post sami made...

Plans are currently for example (but not limited to...) for the following changes:

- changes to airline founding / creation
- technical possibility for AI airlines
- improved aircraft storage system
- changes to slot systems (?)
- changes to pax distribution algorithm (?)
- updates to price management features
- updates to cabin configuration systems
- a heavy data update with historical aircraft, prototype aircraft and cargo in mind (for future versions)
- time permitting an update to the visuals of the game interface
... etc.

To get the url for a specific post and not just the thread, you can right-click the post icon and choose to Copy Link Location (wording may vary based on OS or Web Browser). The post icon is located between the poster's name (on the left) and the post title (above the post text/body). It looks like this:

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[ICEcoldair881]

In Sami's initial post (is there a way to quote a post with link to a closed topic?):

sorry I didn't read that I guess.

[Jps]

sorry I didn't read that I guess.

Or you subconciously thought it was so unbelievable that your brains didn't register it 

[ICEcoldair881]

might very well have been that....actually it must be. AI Airlines? realistic I guess because the world doesn't just start with an endless amount of passengers that want to be flown someplace.. There should be like 3 airlines for each continent (so like one in Mexico/Caribbean, one in the US and one in Canada for North America)...maybe, just maybe.

[JumboShrimp]

might very well have been that....actually it must be. AI Airlines? realistic I guess because the world doesn't just start with an endless amount of passengers that want to be flown someplace.. There should be like 3 airlines for each continent (so like one in Mexico/Caribbean, one in the US and one in Canada for North America)...maybe, just maybe.

I like the idea of AI airlines as well.  But instead of 3 airlines per continent, there should be some 200 - 300 small AI airlines that are designed to fail - eventually (say double their staffing cost to make it happen).  As they fail, their aircraft will recycle into the used aircraft market, so that the world starts out with a good inventory of aircraft that will get released as the real players drive the AI airlines out of business.

[d2031k]

I'm a big fan of the idea I think it would really add an extra dimension to things.  Maybe they could also spawn at unused airports throughout the world too, but I suppose this is quite hard to implement.

https://www.airwaysim.com/forum/index.php/topic,14771.0.html
https://www.airwaysim.com/forum/index.php/topic,675.0.html



EDIT:  I'm also very excited at the prospect of the Comet in the game worlds and the rather intriguing 'changes to airline founding / creation'

[GEnx]

Sami, could you give an update about currencies? I think this will greatly improve the simulation as economy factors would then be (even though slightly) counted in. A UK airline would have a much harder time after the collapse of the pound, for example. This would definitely add some fun to the game as well, in my opinion.

[LOT767]

How bout adding planes planes in the used market people want to buy, the Boeing 737 is supposed to be the most popular airliner in the world. Yet, there is none.......

[cutchie]

There's plenty of them, problem is most of them are too old. The wait for newer versions of popular planes is long, much as it is in the real world.

[Maarten Otto]

In other words, Try something else.

[Ilyushin]

Rest in peace, Sami's computer.

[Men]

My computer is died today too   . But I've fix it already.