Introduce a feature that allows players to sell aircraft from their own fleet for Silver Planes (SP) or Gold Planes (GP) once the aircraft has completed a specified number of Large Maintenance cycles (e.g., after the 2nd or 3rd Large Maintenance).
This gives aging aircraft a meaningful end-of-life stage and provides players with a potentially lucritive way to recover value.
How would it work in the game?
After completing the designated Large Maintenance threshold (LM2 or LM3), a “Sell Aircraft” option becomes available in the aircraft details menu.
Players can choose to sell the aircraft for either SP or GP, with values based on factors such as:
Aircraft model and size
Maintenance history
Original cost or tier
A confirmation pop-up ensures planes are not sold accidentally.
Why is this a good idea?
Fleet Management (Player Perspective)
Gives players a strategic way to retire aircraft that have become less efficient after multiple maintenance cycles.
Reduces clutter in large fleets by allowing removal of outdated or heavily-used planes.
Provides an additional method to recover value and potentially find ways to reinvest in newer, more efficient aircraft.
Adds depth to fleet lifecycle planning and long-term strategy.
Developer Perspective
Could helps reduce server-side clutter or storage space taken up by outdated or inactive aircraft from long-term players’ accounts.
Frees up database space, potentially improving query performance and overall server efficiency.
Can improve long-term scalability and stability to help run the game smoother on mobile devices
Fair point..
A potential new opportunity to earn GP helps newer players or F2P Players feel like they could potentially do a lot more.
Buying permanent crew / More planes and a lot more.
But I do understand if the devs prefer to implement the same with Silver Planes instead
I am hoping for a potentially necessity to sell planes and actually make it worth it
Yeah, I also thought about new players, but the thing is that by the time you get any plane up to multiple maintenance cycle, you’re gonna progress quite far. And for newer players it might also just be enough to get silver planes because at early stages, it’s difficult to even get the necessary SPs to buy GPs. Either way there needs to be some sort of cap on any way of obtaining GPs. After all, the game is free with no ads, and the devs need to make money somehow. I assume in-app purchases are the biggest part of that, and making GPs more accessible (and therefore common) would most likely take at least some of those purchases away.
This actually used to be in the game back in 1.0, you could sell planes for SP after they flew a certain amount of Nautical Miles (back then SP was way harder to get, it was roughly 1GP=100SP).
It would be really cool if they brought this back though!
I totally understand why economic wise why selling our planes for GP may not be the most viable option.
My suggestion is made with the hope to make selling planes a compulsion and rewarding players for doing so.
Players holding onto planes for so long leads to duplicate call-signs, and it’s taxing on the server to store the information across all users on the server which cost resources. The resources and the cost needed to store this data is only going to increase..
If forcing players to sell planes and reward them with 150-500 SP based on the plane class, helps reduce the load on the server, I think it’s a win-win
It is just my thought, the devs might choose to disagree with me, and I am ok with that too..
I remember those times. SP used to be the main free currency for everything (except buying wollars) and GP used to be paid only. 1 GP converted to 100SP and I don’t think there was a way to convert it back. As for the proposal, I don’t think it’s a bad idea to get a reasonable amount of SP from it since there’s already a hard cap on free GP (17 per week for 20500SP) and it wouldn’t change anything for most experienced players who already earn enough SP weekly.
The idea behind this suggestion is to incentivise the selling of planes.
The developers mentioned that there might potentially be an increase in the “ technical assistance “ required for older fleet planes. If players decide to sell their planes so that they do not have to undergo too many technical assistances to slow them down then selling their fleet plane is the only option. I am suggesting a way to incentivise the selling of fleet planes.
If for any reason the rewards that you might receive isn’t worth selling for, like in 1.5 you can decide not to sell it, and continue to contract it as usual.
What is your suggestion?
How would it work in the game?
Why is this a good idea?
