Airline Club

Just thinking what's the next big thing I should be working on. Here are some ideas

1. Second hand aircraft market
2. Mobile web version (current mobile version is not too playable)
3. Space and Beyond!
4. Stock market
5. Something else???

Please vote on top

Honestly the only interesting one on the list for me is stockmarket - but i'd much rather there was more work on the "scale-able" championship points, and adding more links between existing functions (eg when viewing airport, show a clickable list of all your routes from your base there).

The stockmarket will be diabolical if executed badly, has potential to inject huge amount of cash. How would takeovers work?

One of the main things i like about the game is it can survive a few days with minimal maintenance. It's actually an excellent and elegant 'airline management tycoon' game. Would it be possible to have a 'beta test environment' before introducing major changes to live system for next major release?

The mobile version just needs working sliders, then it's playable. Some optimization after that would be nice but just extra.

Voted space and beyond but other options seem fun too!

It would be hilariously disruptive, and probably collapse almost every smaller airline's revenues in the short term, if any of the top 5-6 airlines reset themselves. (The other top airlines would see a big boost from removal of pressure on their big money international routes.)

A non-trivial worry I have about the end-state of the game is that economic profits get competed down to zero, and eventually, even marginal profits get competed down to zero, until many airlines go bankrupt because they invested in big base expansions back when it was worth it to pay those exponentially-increasing costs.

I just see the profit crunch happening everywhere. I can respond to it rationally for a long while, and I'm in no danger of collapse or anything, but I dunno, I think by October or November we'll reach a situation where big airlines can go negative if they aren't tended to regularly.

Ya...I'm also thinking about endgame.. that's  why I brought up the space idea (suggested by my inlaw and nephew)

Another thing that I actually started implementing but never actually completed is costly airport/city projects. I think it could be a fun concept though I haven't found any good way to implement it.

Another thing is a dynamic change of world conditions as many of you have suggested. The way the code currently structured the airport population and charms can indeed change dynamically and generate different result. This can combine with the user project  I mentioned. For example an airline can invest in rapid transit to the airport to increase the population coverage of it. But again those are big changes and I need to make sure they bring a lot of fun values to the game before I go with it


On the other end.i feel like the 2nd hand airplane market is probably a mid size project (probably one weekend ) so I'm going to work on that next

I'm also surprised with the  interest in space and beyond...I thought noone liked it

I think changing conditions as scenarios would work well, but I think changing conditions mid-game would not be very fun. Airlines in this game just do not have a much ability to restructure the parts of themselves already established. What they do have is the ability to adjust their future expansion plans in response to new conditions.

But I agree that the resale market is a much simpler project.

100% Agreed. Very slow change of predictable game condition might work . For example my very very very original thought for this game is one airline can try to develop a mid size city into a major traffic hub. For example if an airport is getting extremely high air traffic in a very small town, that small town will grow to a bigger size the next year....or something along that line

Quote from: AlpineUngulate on September 05, 2018, 10:38:34 pm

A non-trivial worry I have about the end-state of the game is that economic profits get competed down to zero, and eventually, even marginal profits get competed down to zero, until many airlines go bankrupt because they invested in big base expansions back when it was worth it to pay those exponentially-increasing costs.

I just see the profit crunch happening everywhere. I can respond to it rationally for a long while, and I'm in no danger of collapse or anything, but I dunno, I think by October or November we'll reach a situation where big airlines can go negative if they aren't tended to regularly.

I'm actually starting to note this. Most of the routes have an ideal price, but the competition keeps driving it down until it hits zero and goes below margin in highly competitive markets. While massive restructuring is possible, you'd need a large amount of cash in reserve to keep you afloat as you rebuilt and hope that someone didn't target you while you restructured.


I actually thought the second hand airplane market was something of a good humored joke, perpetually bound to be "the upcoming update" week after week, until the login notice was removed recently. I would be rather excited to see this as it being similar to the stock market in being another way for airlines to indirectly interact with one another.

Sorry about the delay of 2nd hand market. I started implementing it tonight and it's a bit ahead of schedule. So it's possible to be released in the next few days

Stay tuned