Yeah, if its before the end of march i’ll be more then happy!
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Wait so this means the update is in beta now right?
Hopefully?
Tbf he’s more than a major YouTuber, also well connected with the devs, but agreed
This is good actually. This price is for all 6 stands, so it’s 8k cheaper than buying all 4 currently.
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Thats expensive my Standards.
Nvm your right
Shame they getting rid of S, M, L & X it was so simple and worked. As the saying goes Don’t fix what’s not broken.
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It didn’t work. They needed more detail for things like Bizjets, and it makes it so planes won’t overhang stands anymore.
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I don’t agree with this
More complex airports need this
Look at MSY
IRL some stands can handle M planes but in the game only S planes that’s where the categories help
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Summary courtesy of @TechnocraticAviation
short summary because i cba to make a full document:
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airport selection screen is now a map
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airports now display a lot of info, including stand sizes, number of stands and operating runways
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tab shows you can unlock airports by levelling up or by paying gp (should clarify progression to new players)
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progress rewards and events can be previewed when selecting an airport
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extended info tab for facts about the airport, as well as a better preview of the airport overlooking the area instead of just the terminal or tower
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airplane rewards now show if the plane is only available at the airport or not
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you can customise fleet planes before claiming them
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new package purchases for real money (we dont know what it does)
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new overlaying tabs to show the contract slots and handling crew being used
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filter list for contract cards can be shown and hidden on the top right corner
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player planes are now separated into other players’ planes and personal fleet planes
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tower has options to toggle prioritisation of favourited planes
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tower can now prioritise different sizes in different orders
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delivery controller can land airline contracts, player contracts and fleet contracts with different priorities
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approach and departure controllers can land and takeoff planes with a changeable ratio
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sliders for duration of hire and size of speedup (including for hiring all controllers)
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sizes are changed from SMLX to ABCDEFG (ICAO size system)
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passenger sizes are only up to F (B748, A388), while cargo sizes are up to G (A225)
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stands are indicated by a pin with a circular meter instead of a bounding box
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construction mode shows what stands are blocked by a selected stand
- stand sizes must be purchased in order of size from the smallest (prices of smaller stands are summed up when buying a large size) -
each tier costs 2000 multiplied by their order (e.g. A costs 2000 wollars, B costs 4000 wollars, C costs 6000 wollars, e.t.c)
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SMLX stands cost 50000 wollars in total currently, but ABCDEF stands will cost 42000 wollars, and ABCDEFG will cost 56000 (cargo only)
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ground equipment allows bulk purchases
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slider for assigning handling crew
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contracts show required handlings using numbers instead of plane icons (e.g. 2/10 instead of 2 green planes and 8 grey planes)
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contracts and fleet planes have tabs about different kinds of info; you can see stats of aircraft without having to buy and own the contracts or planes
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when flying fleet planes to playable airports, there is a new UI to ask if you want to establish a connection with another player or send a random player arrival
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claiming contract rewards and upgrading contract are now combined into a single screen, with two options to claim and upgrade or claim and cancel
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3.0 looks very nice overall. Things I would like to see added:
- a toggle at game settings for having the ramp agent always turned on at start. 3.0 is about reducing clicks, there’s no reason we should have to activate ramp agent every single time.
- would love to see an option to “deactivate” some stand sizes. Right now, I only buy the size I want planes to go there. ATC is going to do a big mess with all sizes unlocked.
- wish devs told us beforehand how they plan to handle stand migration. I don’t buy all sizes to better manage where plane lands, and if the prices are going up, I’d like to unlock all sizes before the update.
- we have “prefer favourite airplanes” at the ATC. Would love to also see “ONLY land favorites” aswell, since we can’t ground/suspend contracts. I don’t want to loose my lvl10 AT45 I have from start, but there’s no point landing it at late game, so… favourites-only would give us much more control over the Delivery ATC and what we actually want to land.
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We have the last one
Could you please elaborate?
What I meant is, I’d like the ability for the Delivery ATC and Approach assign/land favourite planes ONLY. Right now, ATC land favourite planes FIRST, but it still assigns and lands non-favourite planes after the favourites…
Right now, I only unlock the X size from a S/M/L/X stand, so there’s no way an S/M/L non-favourite plane can occupy it. That’s about to change.
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I dont rlly like this tbh. What if I want to purchase just one size? why do I have to have all the smaller ones as well?
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At least we should have an option to disable a certain category…
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Because if you can park a 737 you can probably park an E175
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But just the same way you can for example you can buy a stand now to only land M planes, why can’t we for example only buy size D? Why do we need to purchase them all at once?
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