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Archive for November, 2009

User Advisory Board elections

Monday, November 23rd, 2009

AirlineSim might be a pretty realistic airline simulation, but afterall it is a management game. And games are supposed to be fun. Unfortunately there are always some who take it too seriously and who cause damage to other players for their own benefit. Obviously we are talking about cheaters.

When playing a card game it is easy to define the term “cheating”: Having an ace up your sleeve clearly makes you a cheater. In AirlineSim this is quite a bit more difficult and very much up to personal opinion. Because of this, we cannot let moderators or other team members punish potential cheaters by themselves. There has to be a clearly defined process of filing a complaint, investigating a case, finding an approriate sentence and executing the latter. The community should be involved in this process as a sole team decission will always be biased.

To guarantee the proper employment of such a process we established the socalled User Advisory Board in the German community. Now that the English one has grown to a decent size we also want to introduce the same system here. The first step on the way to a dedicated English-speaking User Advisory Board are the elections to the first five seats on the board. As a player of AirlineSim you should make use of the opportunity to participate in this election to make your voice heard. You can vote for as many of the 13 candidates as you wish HERE.

Have a look at 1.5’s new Flight Planning System

Wednesday, November 18th, 2009

Except for the launch of Croydon it has been rather quiet around here over the last couple of weeks. So lets break the silence! We’ve been working hard on one of AirlineSim 1.5’s biggest new features: The flight planning system! It will completely change the way you do your scheduling in AirlineSim. We have also integrated the first parts of our new design which will be introduced alongside the new milestone. Since a picture says more than a thousand words, find a video of the new feature after the break. Oh, and the guy talking with the funny German accent would be Martin…

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Croydon has started!

Monday, November 9th, 2009

As you can see, Croydon just took to the skies!

We will try to ensure that your holdings and enterprises are screened as fast as possible through the whole day. Please understand that this might not always work depending on the numbers of new players signing up at one time. Thank you for your patience!

Croydon launch: The exact times

Sunday, November 8th, 2009

I know everybody is excited about tomorrow’s launch of our second game world Croydon. So here is the exact time the server will “take off”:

Croydon will launch tomorrow, Monday the 9th of November, at 8:00 AM UTC.

For your convenience: This is exactly 0:00 AM Pacific Standard Time, 3:00 AM Eastern Standard Time, 9:00 AM European Central Time and 4:00 PM in Hong Kong.

On launch the server will show up in the game world list on the right, so you can’t miss it! Have fun playing AirlineSim – the only online airline simulation of its kind!

Launch of Croydon and adjusted testing schedule

Monday, November 2nd, 2009

We had two kinds of questions coming in over the last couple of days: “When will testing begin on Croydon?” and “Why can’t I sign up with the game?”. So we thought about how we could answer both of them and came to a conclusion: The new flight rating system will be the last big addition to 1.3 and we want it to be stable and balanced when it’s rolled out. But at the same time we don’t want our fans to be kept from playing because Nicosia is full. Consequently we decided that we will go ahead with the launch of Croydon based on a proven version of the game — namely 1.3.21b –  that’s already running on Nicosia. The recently announced test with real life data from Nicosia will be postponed until we are actually happy with the flight rating system and until we are confident that we can introduce it on existing servers without causing too many turbulences.

So now you’re probably wondering about a launch date? Well, here it is: Monday, November 9th, 2009. The configuration will be more or less the same as on Nicosia, but will include some data patches concerning airport data and maybe some fixes to the aircraft database.

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