Demand dropping

[Dokhu]

Hello.

I've been checking the MDE-GRU-MDE route. After sending all my fleet several consecutive times I see that the demand decreases dramatically and I think this is bad thing because you can not use many aircraft for short routes because the demand drops more quickly and it is normal to have
 severeal daily flights as BOG-MEX in real life with ten daily flights. Besides a big aircraft is quite difficult to fill and if the demand drops they will be on the tarmac.

How much is the passenger limit per week?

Thank you.

[skifans]

There is no passenger limit, what I believe is happening is that you are effectively competing with your self. By sending out lots of your planes then there are less passengers to travel on the remaining ones. I don't believe there is a "hard" limit, you will be able to make more flights with smaller aircraft then bigger one and the more demand the more times you can run a flight. Personally I think that this is an excent addition which sets the game apart, a weekly flight may be a reasonable and profitable endever but there might not be enough passengers for an hourly. Personaly I think the current fall in the passengers is reasonable but maybe in due course this feature should be better explained on the guide?

[Unknown98]

So currently this is how the competition portion of the demand formula is calculated:

Competition Factor: 1 - [ Pax transported in the last week / ( Base pax * 14 ) ]
Actual Pax Lost: [ ( Base pax * Competition factor ) - Base pax ] * 0.60

And those calculations are repeated for each class of passengers.

So lets look at economy passengers for MDE-GRU:

Competition Factor: 1 - [ 2630 / ( 279 * 14 ) ] = 0.326676907322069
Actual Pax Lost: [ ( 279 * 0.326676907322069) - 279 ] * 0.60 = -113

So of the available 279 economy passengers, due to weekly transported passengers of 2,630, the demand has decreased by 113 passengers, for a new total of 166 available passengers. And of course that will continue decreasing as more flights are flown.


So doing some simple math, 2,600 transported passengers have caused demand to drop 40.5%. That may be too much of a penalty, or it may not be, I'm not sure. It does seem a bit on the high side. I'm open to changing the formula if it needs to be changed, but I think we should have a discussion about it first to make sure we make educated changes to the formula based off of facts. It's difficult to replicate real life demand 100% accurately as there are many external factors that influence demand that simply cannot be simulated.