01-18-2019, 05:11 PM
I feel like political restrictions will fix some of these issues - I am actually starting to work on implementing the restrictions today.
The reason for the base price (and the subsequent 3x limit) is to set a threshold for realistic, expected pricing. Without that what is to stop people from charging $30,000 one way for economy on a route with no competition? Or what is to stop two airlines from colluding with each other to fix the prices? (that is an illegal practice, at least in the US).
Sure there may be no competition on a certain route but at a certain point people are simply not willing to pay and will find other means to get to their destination. So that is the reason for the base price. There needs to be some way to determine the absolute maximum a passenger is willing to spend on any given route. Some time ago, before the max price was put into effect, on some high demand routes, you could set a ticket price of $1 million and you would still get 1-2 passengers.
Comparing quality of service between airlines serving a route is not yet worked into the demand formula but it will be eventually. Likely one of the first things I will work on post-reset.
The reason for the base price (and the subsequent 3x limit) is to set a threshold for realistic, expected pricing. Without that what is to stop people from charging $30,000 one way for economy on a route with no competition? Or what is to stop two airlines from colluding with each other to fix the prices? (that is an illegal practice, at least in the US).
Sure there may be no competition on a certain route but at a certain point people are simply not willing to pay and will find other means to get to their destination. So that is the reason for the base price. There needs to be some way to determine the absolute maximum a passenger is willing to spend on any given route. Some time ago, before the max price was put into effect, on some high demand routes, you could set a ticket price of $1 million and you would still get 1-2 passengers.
Comparing quality of service between airlines serving a route is not yet worked into the demand formula but it will be eventually. Likely one of the first things I will work on post-reset.
I am the developer of Airline Enterprise