From what I’ve seen in the stream, yes, it said the airport wouldn’t be realistic in the pop-up when unlocking it. If people will actually read it is a different question, though…
The liveries have been added to the list
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Good to know, hope to see the generic airports system to improve in the future. Looking forward to the update, thank you for the team’s work
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hear hear!!! its getting so boring now i want to see excited discussions on the new features not this circle of the same nonsense! it is what it is lets draw a line and move on! its the first iteration of the generic airport im sure it can be tweaked once hours have been put into it
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Okay guys… I think we need to review on what we have in this patch. It is a very big update, and of course I am confused as many people do. I think all the confusions are around the following three things.
Generic Airport (CNN)
I always say this way: I am not a fan of generic airport at the very first minute.
It was predominately about I expected to see a large amount of airports spawning from the world, like the model image - any very small airport with a single runway and around 10 stands, will be using this model. On the day people update the game, get into the game, and found 200+ airports around the world then you click in and found everything to be exactly the same, how confusing it could be (especially those who don’t pay attention to the online community)?
When the suspicion I had first wasn’t coming, and the airport is more like a heavily compromised with little detail matching altogether it might confuse people in another way: What is going on with the [CNN] and the game?
Then there are questions coming:
“Why I cannot unlock CNN from SCL?”
“Seems I have to buy this with GPs (this is mentioned in Phat livestream)?”
“Why the CNN is very different from the real life one, as per the satellite image?”
“Do I unlock the next airport by CNN or SCL?”
“Will we have more stuff like this in the future?”
Don’t take everyone have the info beforehand as something granted. There are many casual players not on this forum or in the discord channel. So I think many arguments here are also somewhat affected by those potential confusions in people’s mind.
Glad devs has realized there something might went wrong. What I encourage devs to do is make CNN more visually distinctive on the map so people is going to know this airport is very different from other playable ones.
New Planes (B757, MD11, ERJ)
I think people who talked about very limited amount of liveries (mostly B757 and MD11 family) were expecting something really like the B747-400 remodel (I was one of them).
Yeah there were so many honorable example of them, like Finnair MD-11, Thai MD-11, JAL MD11, and British B752 - not the old one of course).
We have three families, instead of 1 variant so I think the amount we have in total is impressive, still. Yes, we do need more and there is a long list to go but I feel more people are very happy to allow devs more time to work on it.
Scheduling System
I think it is an instance of misunderstanding. I though the system is more about making planes to the designated stand so ATC can do their job without manual work. While in fact it is more about working around the timetable and it has very little to do with ATC.
In actual, I feel players are more concerned about how to make planes to the right gate, rather than control the timing to its perfect. So yeah people feel confused about this and I am one of them.
There can be more from this but I feel it is a very good starting point. Hope some additional features can be added in the future so everyone can have a powerful tool to play.
I appreciate the devs team for their hard work and I feel it is reasonable to have a situation like this. That is something very common when you deal with clients (players are clients if you view it from the business perspective, they are). Community pressure or even backlash are not rare in this industry and I think everything here are generally healthy according to what I saw in recent years (especially if you have a look at those Japanese Gatcha games, the communities around these games are pretty weird). So exchange ideas, reflect on what was good and what went wrong is something that should be encouraged.
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Officially manipulated into endlessly spending on gacha, blindly following inflation while losing their own opinions—a convenient pawn.
Such environment is su○ks.
Compare that,WOA is difinetely fair.
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It’s pretty close. I like it
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Think your reading a bit too much into the devs words here, just don’t play them.
Am I right in thinking it’s purely cos it’s called CNN, if it was just XXX you’d have no issue?
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This discussion is already over, let us not restart this all over again
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2 big things from reading the past 280 messages i missed.
- There are many positive comments about the almost new update.
- There are many questions and complaints about this next update.
I generally don’t have any complaints, but a hat’s off to the developers, everything is looking good. thanks devs
@admins great job on handling all these comments.
also what the heck got flagged 4 times!!! thats insane!
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Guys just wait until update will come
But we aren’t losing the high detail airports, and if a generic airport end up being popular it will get the high details treatment.
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The amount of complaining some of you do is astounding, it’s a free to play game that has a lot to do and has great graphics. The devs bust their butts to make it a good game but some people are never happy. Shut the hell up already!
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Until finally someone shared the same opinion as me.
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People, the generic airports will never look realistic, that has already been communicated several times. Based on our feedback, the developers will filter out which airports are popular with us players and then these airports will be recreated/redesigned in great detail.
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English only on the forum please
Be thankful it’s a free game, complaints are only going to end up discouraging the developers at some point because anyone would do that if they saw negative comments and complaints, enjoy the game .
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Im kinda wondering if it’s ready for tomorrow
I got a day off and love to spend it enjoying the new update 
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It should be, Charlie seems pretty confident abt that.
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Using generic airports, developers can try out and test real airport functions, and then, once they’re optimized for function and management, implement them in real airports. With the new planning system, I think developers will be able to test real daytimes and daytime patterns, or introduce arrival and departure gates, or even create seasonal flight plans. There are a ton of real airport functions that can be implemented in WOA. So let’s help the developers make this possible. I was naturally very skeptical and confused about the generic airport system at first, but I’ve become well-versed in the subject matter and have discovered that many new and real functions are possible. That’s why we’re helping developers make the impossible possible.
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And apart from that, it’s nice to know that in the future there will be several generic airports that will then be converted into real airports depending on our popularity. Let’s take for example: they create a generic version of Frankfurt Airport. The community is so happy with the generic version of Frankfurt Airport that the developers will then, for our sake, recreate/rework this airport in great detail into the real Frankfurt Airport. A request to the developers: if any of you are reading this, if my knowledge is incorrect, please correct me, but I think my line of thinking is correct.
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