Asia Challenge?

[Sami]

So, how about a next mini scenario .. This time Asia?

Would start this saturday, around mid-day / afternoon UTC time.

[NorgeFly]

Yes please

[Caky]

What about Asia + Australia + Oceania? 12-14 years, 25 min gameday. I think it will be more fun to do some LH routes (not only Arabian peninsula - southeast Asia etc.)

[Maarten Otto]

20 minutes per day... Allows for motemin game time. (Up to 2035 or so)

[Sami]

Goes all the way to 2030, and starts from 11-2013. 20 min days for speed freaks (and to keep it reasonable length).

[Maarten Otto]

20 min days for speed freaks (and to keep it reasonable length).

[elleana]

Quick question.. It is now 2015 and a number of popular Airbus and Boeing aircraft are slowly going out of production. The game still has a long way to run, so will new, unheard of aircraft be introduced in the future (dreamed up by sami???) or will we just have to make do with the used market and really old aircraft.

[Sami]

What kind of wishes and/or ideas you'd have for the next game world?    ...let your ideas fly.


(The next long games will start later so this would be a short or "standard" length scenario)

[brique]

What kind of wishes and/or ideas you'd have for the next game world?    ...let your ideas fly.


(The next long games will start later so this would be a short or "standard" length scenario)

here is one that will fly... about three feet before it is shot down in flames.... but... how about a 'what if?' -type scenario?

Jets never happened : Frank Whittle had a bad hair day, missed his train and got flattened by a truck whilst running for a bus instead : the German research never happened, Herman laughed at such a silly notion : 'No propellers? Are you mad?' said he, and sent the foolish scientists off to spend their time doing useful work, like synthesizing aluminium from acorns. The American scientists got out-bid for funds by a team developing water-proof diaper covers : 'This could win the war overnight!' they told the senator in charge of funding during a hot night at Miss Fifi's : and so on....

That's the challenge : Modern day but  props only and bring on the dancing tech-stops...

[[SC] - King Kong]

what about Africa but then with 500% demand so most apts are viable ones

[LotusAirways]

On the topic "What if ideas", continuation:

Demand
- What if the scenario had several oil shocks, pandemics, epidemics, financial crisis, tsunamis, war, and the like; therefore pax demand jumping up and down rapidly.

New planes
- What if aircraft had to be recalled for unespected repairs by the manufacturer. What if new aircraft deliveries were delayed by several years "dreamliner" style.

Image
- What if airlines had crashes Air France style, affecting the company image.

On the topic new challenges:
- Europe & MENA challenge, from the 1970's.

[Alberto]

what about Africa but then with 500% demand so most apts are viable ones

I would vote for this. Most other proposals look more like feature requests.

[LemonButt]

Southern Hemisphere Challenge

North America, Europe, and Asia are where the big bucks are.  Only allow airlines to base in South America, Africa, and Oceania.  They could be allowed to fly anywhere in the world or just the Southern Hemisphere--both options would be interesting.  This means no basing at LHR, ATL, NRT, etc. but you could fly there.  This would require the long haul jet population/numbers to be substantially higher at the start for the used market.

Another idea would be to only allow players to HQ at a level 2 airport.  The could open a second base at a level 3, third base at level 4, and fourth base at level 5.  This means airports like JFK, LHR, etc. would remain open for players to fly into.  The only way it way they could open a base at a major airport would be to open a fourth base, which is expensive, and then they'd be limited to 100 aircraft.  This would imitate the real life progression of airlines in that they started small and grew big (although under different circumstances).

[ARASKA]

Another idea would be to only allow players to HQ at a level 2 airport.  The could open a second base at a level 3, third base at level 4, and fourth base at level 5.  This means airports like JFK, LHR, etc. would remain open for players to fly into.  The only way it way they could open a base at a major airport would be to open a fourth base, which is expensive, and then they'd be limited to 100 aircraft.  This would imitate the real life progression of airlines in that they started small and grew big (although under different circumstances).

I like this idea, but I think it would be tough to base more than 5-10 aircraft at most of the level two airports. With competition added to that, I think it would work better to HQ at level 3 at least.

[dasherhalo]

What about a one off scenario where Boeing and Airbus don't exist? That'd certainly expand some horizons, and perhaps open up people's game play in other scenarios?

[dmoose42]

So basically no long-haul in MT - prior to that there are effective alternatives (DC-10ER, DC-8-63, etc.)...not sure how interesting this would really be.  It might be better to greatly increase the price sensitivity of new planes to demand - so that if you have 5+years of orders, the price will basically double - i think a market solution is better than just excluding certain manufacturers...

[dasherhalo]

It was in reply to a "Challenge" scenario, not MT.

There's been a bit of chatter about AI manufacturers and other left-field ideas in a shorter game: something like this would be interesting.

Not looking to tear the fabric of reality in the MT's though 

[dmoose42]

Sorry - I didn't mean MT the game world, but rather MT as in the era.  If you set up this fantasy world in the 1950's, 60's or 70's you will have a lot of other options besides Boeing and Airbus....options become limited for long-haul once you hit 1990 - just MD-11 just you kill B and A...

dmoose42

[dasherhalo]

Ahhh, gotcha!

Yes - actually, LH in the mini-challenges is pretty much non existent anyway, so it'd be the perfect opportunity to try something left-field