How are the generic airports designed by location?

[sladebuck]

I am guessing when the updates on generic airports are being release, are we able to choose the airport size due its location? Or will the players can choose the size small, medium, Large and Extra large?

can we add up to 4 runways?

[LucaM]

It was confirmed that we won’t be choosing the airport’s location and size, the devs will choose where in the world to place the model. For the first one they chose themselves, eventually they would like to base it on a community vote.
Actually, I went back searching for a topic where I remember this was discussed, only to find out you were the one asking about this and were already given an answer…

Large/Med/small airports

Hello, the Airport will be placed by the DevOps team, the Idea is that the players vote where the next one should go. At this moment there is too much manuall work so it cant be placed by players them self. The Size will corespond to the real airport at that location.

[sladebuck]

Sorry, my bad. It just that when I was reading the developers site on the first generic airport base on CNN, that’s going to be the first ever!

I was referring to future generic airports after a vote takes place, then the developers will build a second generic airport and so on and eventually, more airports will be in place to make it more realistic.

Is that correct?

[sladebuck]

Thanks for the clarification.

[StJohnsplanespotter]

What now? What you mean we could place where airports where we want?

[Hirohitoswaifu]

I believe that is the case yes. Dev’s can add airports for players much quicker then with the generic ones, which means they can focus on properly building real ones in the future.

[David]

It’s all very confusing. I think the wopa team isn’t explaining this enough to us. There are some people in the community who still can’t figure out what this generic airport function means or how it’s implemented in the game. It would be nice and really beneficial if the team could explain this to us again and let us know what the current status is.

[Hirohitoswaifu]

It’s been explained well enough for me. As per my comment above, the airports will be a group of designed by devs, generic assets which they will place together to form the requested airport. This will be sized depending on the airport they’re adding with runways, taxiways and gates. It’s not going to look like the airport, say Frankfurt, but it will have a similar sized terminal and likely 3-4 runways. Makes it much quicker for them to get airports out that will satisfy players who want something local to them, whilst making it easier for the developers to produce the proper accurate airports. If any of this is lost in translation I apologise .