What is your suggestion?
I suggest creating daily, weekly, and/or monthly missions or challenges which would include handling certain types or varieties of airlines in the World of Airports world.
How would it work in the game?
During each period (daily, weekly, and/or monthly), the developers unveil a challenge to handle certain airplanes in the game. For example, Delta Air Lines celebrated its 100th anniversary in March of this year. A themed challenge could be for a player to handle 100 Delta airplanes during that month (or week). And once all 100 Delta planes of various sizes are handled, the player would receive a reward like 1 gold plane and the ability to use the Delta 100th Anniversary livery on their owned A350-900s for the rest of the month as a badge. Also it’d be nice to have a more permanent reward to collect similar to WOApedia for each challenge, and a leaderboard for the number of challenges completed by players.Another example would be a requirement to handle certain airplanes based on clues like “Handle 10 jumbo jets of this airline to start a Dynasty.” Which would be to handle 10 747s of China Airlines within the time frame of the challenge to receive a gold plane and a badge for completing the challenge.
There could even be a bonus for sharing a screenshot of the player doing the challenge with a certain hashtag on social media like, “Take a screenshot of 3 different airlines’ A388s next to each other one of your airport ramps.”
These are just three examples but the possibilities are endless for the developers to encourage players to do certain things in the game for rewards, and to come back to the game regularly to do those specific challenges. Right now I’m trying to complete WOApedia but I only have event planes left so I check daily to see if any of the event plane liveries are ones that I’m missing, but other than that I don’t have much incentive to try different approaches or visit airports in the game I don’t visit often.
Why is this a good idea?
Features like this encourage players to play the game in ways they don’t normally play it, in order to accomplish goals and receive achievements. Players will be more likely to visit airports like SXM or INN which are usually considered too slow, if there are challenges that can only be completed there. It will also encourage players to visit the game more regularly to see what the next challenge is in order to receive the rewards.
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