[Other] - Truly randomized contracts

World of Airports Gameplay Suggestions
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:bullseye: What is your suggestion?
Clearly describe your idea or the change you’re proposing.

the system that picks contracts should truly make contract rolling entirely random, not just selecting the leftmost contract from an airline at a certain destination if available

:hammer_and_wrench: How would it work in the game?
Explain how this would be implemented from a gameplay or UI perspective.

when rolling for or generating a contract, the system picks a truly random contract from a destination.

example:

destination: ORD

airline: American Airlines

available aircraft: CRJ2, CRJ7, A319, A320

the current randomizing system would pick the CRJ2, then the CRJ7, and so on. however this new system would pick, for example, the A319, then the CRJ2, then the A320, and finally the CRJ7 when randomized. it wouldn’t be in that exact order, of course, since the first contract picked from that destination could be the CRJ7, the A320, or the CRJ2, basically either of the four available compared to the current “always the leftmost contract picked,” the CRJ2.

:balance_scale: Why is this a good idea?
What improvement would this bring? Better usability, realism, fun factor, accessibility?

it adds realism to all airports since airports like INN wouldn’t be flooded with Austrian Q400s, BRI with Alitalia E170s, and US airports with Delta and United CRJ2s, including Contour E135s. it’d open up airports not just to gazillions of regional jets, but an adequate balance between regional, narrow body aircraft, and wide body aircraft.

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I’ve never understood the current system, because with airlines like lufthansa or united, there can be 10-15 different contracts and nobody will ever roll one that is the largest size. It just won’t happen. And most airlines don’t tend to operate a fleet of A319s, they operate a fleet of A321s. It has always baffled me that they chose this, it feels like a placeholder system more than anything.

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It’s weird also for some reason for a airport for instanbul I get ba 747 f size freighters it’s weird

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:bullseye: What is your suggestion?
making the local, regional, and international contract rolls more random

:hammer_and_wrench: How would it work in the game?
instead of the current system where it picks a random destination, airline, then just picking the first unowned aircraft, it would also pick a random aircraft
Examples at LHR assuming no contracts are owned
current system:
CDG - British Airways - E170
AMS - British Airways - E170
DUB - British Airways - E170
Suggested system:
CDG - British Airways - A20N
AMS - British Airways - E170
DUB - British Airways - A321

:balance_scale: Why is this a good idea?
it would allow for more variety when finding contracts as well as making each player’s experience even more unique instead of each player getting similar experiences with just different destinations

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Yeah, Heathrow sucks for contracts. Keep getting e170s for local, random cargo airlines with 737s for regional and the international are 767 to random Indian/Chinese city or 3 times I’ve had a Virgin A35k for Miami Opa-Locka which is an executive airport and thus doesn’t have international flights :laughing:. Adding to this though, Bari sucks too, keep getting Pakistani airlines A320s as my international contracts.

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Great idea, would love to see it as well. Perhaps the smallest aircraft should have a higher chance than the larger ones, just because of realism (an airline doesn’t usually just launch flights with the largest aircraft they can) and progress speed, but the larger aircraft should still be seen in random contracts.

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I think a lot of airlines already have higher chances of smaller planes just due to more variations of those (especially in local contracts). And many of the planes shown aren’t even used at that airport.

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Exactly, but there should be at least a small chance for the larger ones too. The planes that aren’t used can be good for variability though, so I would keep that the way it is.

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OK, let’s just take Virgin Australia to Darwin since I’m there.

F100 → A320 → B738 → B38M → B77W

Current: Get a bunch of F100s, A few A320s, hardly any B378, etc.

OP: 1/5 chance of getting a B77W

You: I think you’re saying lower the chances of 77W to like 1/10 or something. That might actually be more reasonable there, but I think in other cases it would still give too many smaller planes especially somewhere like LHR. Maybe the size odds should adjust by stands or something.

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Well, kind of. The lower chances of widebodies on routes like this does make sense most of the time, also because those cost more to buy as map contracts so they shouldn’t be accessible too often. I also wouldn’t really differentiate between aircraft types within the same class, so there would be the same number of A320s and 737s in the case you suggested.

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So it turns out there is a very, very slim chance thst it will choose something that is not the smallest aircraft,

I get this from the fact I rolled a local American 738 at MSY when I own nothing else at the destination I got it from

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wait whaaat??? How can some planes be local and some regional for the same airline, same destination and same stand class? That has to be a bug…

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thats what im thinking. if all the previous ones are regionals, it did still pick the cheapest local. That doesnt look intentional tho to have all the embraers and airbuses be regional and boeings local

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The contract generator still seems to be selecting smallest available plane, but as @DenisMartinek correctly points out, all the planes before the B738 are Regional for some reason, so the B738 is actually the smallest Local contract available.

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I didn’t even notice that fact, alright then you are right

My suggestion still stands

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i think this happened since the 738 is local. if you rolled local then that’s the one you got, not the others since they’re regional

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Yeah it’s weird

Also how did my entire suggestion get moved into this thread? I’m so lost as to what happened