[UI/Multiplayer] - The Most Important issue with Player connections

Feature requests Gameplay
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  1. Blocked Stands - Especially for smaller Airports.
  2. Inactive contracts. We need some way to detect them.

First of all, i want to share my discussion in the General discussion area. I also created this Feature requests Here, because a Lot Players have told me to do. Here you can See the other discussion:

What is your suggestion?

My Suggestion: There are two major Problems, in my opinion, wich would be very important that Something Changes there.
If i send a aircraft to another Player, i Always have to wait, until my contracts gets accepted. Even when i renew my contracts after 10x handeled, i need to let it Land and let it wait until its getting accepted. Even the Tower Manager will do that. That way, when i have for example 200 own Planes to Land, i cant use the Tower Manager, because otherwise my Stands will get blocked before i am even finished with other Planes.
Thats even a bigger Problem for smaller Airports Like INN, BRI, SXM. But even for IAD its a big Problem, because when i have like 10 big planes waiting, i have to run my airport on low capacity.

The other Problem: We need any way to detect, for how long a contract is not active. We have a timer, for how long a plane is waiting for acceptance, but we dont have anything to see, If a plane isnt coming back for months or even years.

How would it work in the game?

How could all that be changed in the Game?
The timer for unused connections is just a small feature, very important but very small one. Just do it Like the other timer for pending requests.
Otherwise you can just add a “Last time handeled” to the contracts. With a Date.
Maybe with a feature to sort them in the fleet manager.

The other problem, blocked stands, is a bit more difficult.
We already have that fleet Manager, where we buy and sell planes. For now, we have two ways, where we can send an aircraft to someone. At the airport, klicking on the aircraft or in the fleet manager. But the aircraft have to be at a stand and will block it, until its accepted.
You could move that, only to the fleet manager. Then you can change it, that the aircraft dont have to land, to be assigned to a contract or sent somewhere. Simply just dont let aircrafts land, wich do not have an active and working contract.
The contracts would be assigned in that fleet manager before landing. That way, no aircraft will ever block a stand again.

Even for renewals, that would work.
When an aircraft came back from a finished connection, 10/10 completed, ready to collect silverplanes/XP, just dont let it land. Just let it appear in your fleet manager, let the Player collect their rewards in there and ask in that fleet manager, If the Player wants to renew or cancle the contract. Exactly like the Game does, while the aircraft is at the stand, just without being landet. In the fleet manager, it can get this red dot, wich tells, there is an aircraft wich needs attention. Like it do now, when such a finished airplane is landet.

Why is that a good idea?

Well, i know a lot Players, including me, who really want to play at smaller airports with limited stands, without the need to Play attention to every single aircraft, to dont accidently let any aircraft land, wich is 10/10 in its contracts. So we cant even use the delivery manager, because he dont care.
So we really need a other way to send our planes. Just without letting them block the airport.

So thats it, please Tell me your opinion about there two problems.
Thx :blush:

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As I understand it, it is a future feature that you can move your described “inactive” aircraft at the airport and move them to another gate (for example, if a C aircraft is placed at an F gate) and it should also be possible to move the aircraft to the hangar when it is going for maintenance or when it is waiting for confirmation of the contract. At least that’s how I understood the “hangar feature”. That would solve the problems I mentioned. I can imagine that we’ll get something like that this year.
But the timer would be really great. I wouldn’t have to buy additional contracts every 2 days :squinting_face_with_tongue:

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That is not what i mean. In dont want to move my airplane. So i mean it would be nice If you can move your Planes around, but i mean, that a stand is Not useless blocked for No reason, Like it is now when a plane is waiting vor acceptence.
Even on a small Airport Like INN, where should you move your 764 while waiting for it being accepted. There is no other stand.

I want the waiting Planes being moved to a fleet Manager. Like all Planes, wich are Not landet at the Airport.
And i want that they can only Land, when they have a active contract.

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I know what you mean… there is still the logical flaw in the game that passengers and baggage are boarding at the other airport but not deboarding at your own airport with a 10/10 contract. If this were to be changed, the plane would definitely have to land.

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Maybe they can change it, that the plane have to land once, when you sell it.
But when you just redirect it to another Player or even renew the old contract, it would have to land then anyways.

So If thats an important issue, then my Idea would be, Just let it Land, after you sold it. So you have to land IT and handle it once, for deboarding etc.

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I like the idea of having a completed contract plane land to complete the contract, but push away from the gate while the new contract is pending. It could be very much like a large maintenance where the plane is sent off to maintenance. A pending contract plane could be sent off to wait at the hangers until the contract is accepted. Then the plane would enter the landing process again.

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Yess, thats a good one as Well. But i think its better when you dont need to Land and Push it, when its Just a reneval. But of course, that Idea would be great for a new contract.

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