Airline Empires - Airline and Aviation Articles, Airline Simulation

Chat Transcript

Page 3 of 3

[19:54] <+drv4truk> Bug reporting - Are bugs been reported as they should or are people skipping it because of having to register?

[19:55] <@Tump> are you looking for purely airline history / industry articles etc. or also still on pilot stories you once asked for and what are the criteria for those?

[19:55] <@AeProjectManage> I'm still learning that new bug reporting software. I thought I set the preferences to not require registering, but apparently I have to do something more

[[19:56] <@AeProjectManage> For those of you who have registered for it, please use it. Its so much easier on my unorganized brain

[19:59] <@Tump> a few gates in the current version seem to be a bit 'weird' for example AMS, i have noticed that average loadfactors and ticketprice (and thus the profits) are lower than a lot of smaller airports in europe, for example BRU, ZRH and MUC 'perform' much and much better than AMS, while AMS is twice as big as those airports.

[20:00] <@AeProjectManage> It all depends on the individual routes.

[20:00] <@Tump> and yeah still my article question hehe :)

[[20:00] <@Tump> well, really AMS is really performing really poor

[20:00] <@AeProjectManage> let me look real quick at the value. What were the other cities?

[20:01] <+Bluewings> MCO, LAS grossly overperforms

[20:03] <@AeProjectManage> but they are leisure markets, and I get your point

[20:19] <@AeProjectManage> the cost is going to be low, probably around $3 a month, but you pay for the whole game

[20:19] <+WSHNationals> could you pay upfront for a year or something?

[20:19] <+StephenM> What kind of methods of payment?

[20:19] <@AeProjectManage> so a 3 month game would be like $10 bucks

[20:19] <@Maestro69> yeah, what methods of payments....

[[20:20] <@AeProjectManage> Paypal will be the most likely choice for a pay client, and its veery easy

[[20:21] <@AeProjectManage> the main reason for the premium version is to rid us of feeder airlines

[20:22] <@AeProjectManage> There will still be some, but at least I'll get 10 bucks out of it ;)

[[20:22] <@AeProjectManage> there'll be no need for a paypal account. It will take credit cards

[20:23] <@AeProjectManage> Actually, there are some talks about taking this into an academic setting, although we have many issues to iron out first.

[20:23] <@AeProjectManage> Interestingly enough, I was contacted by Lufthansa (sp) about instructing for their management sim, but the whole Germany thing threw me off.

[20:24] <+clegallez> couldnt we advertise the game on other websites? surely some people will be attracted (if we advertise in the right website)

[20:24] <@AeProjectManage> good question clegallez

[20:24] <@AeProjectManage> I'm very proud that AE has become what it has without advertising.

[[20:25] <@AeProjectManage> Word of mouth is by far the best advertising, and its worked well so far.

[20:25] <@AeProjectManage> I'm not against it and will probably advertise in the future, but I don't want to offer the game to so many people if it has so many problems

[20:25] <@AeProjectManage> besides, that means less competition for you ;)

[20:25] <@Tump> yeah :)

[20:25] <+clegallez> well i guess we should stick to "no advertising" unless we are desperate for it

[20:26] <@AeProjectManage> I've seriously considered it, clegallez.

[20:26] <@AeProjectManage> Especially with the new site

[20:26] <+WSHNationals> what about the lifetime membership?

[20:27] <@AeProjectManage> Hadn't considered it WSH. I'll talk with torque this weekend about that

[20:28] <+WSHNationals> whens a guess for the pay version date...?

[20:28] <@AeProjectManage> WSH - I honestly don't konw

[20:29] <@AeProjectManage> we've just picked up game development in earnest after the new site was brought up

[20:31] <@AeProjectManage> it will be reset before the summer. I'd like to start a second free game, but I'm not sure if we have the resources for it.

Thanks for reading the Highlights of the #ae irc chat log, if you are interested in joining irc download mirc from www.mirc.com and join #airlineempires on the quake net servers, if you would prefer not to download a client click here Chat logged by FlyNCL

Related Items:

Nothing related

<< Start < Previous 1 2 3 Next > End >>

[ Back ]