Maintenance

[Carde]

Daily checks could be skipped I think, if you want to risk that. But for the major A/B/C/D checks I think the game will force those upon you. But you would be warned say a month or so ahead of time that a check is coming up.

Yeah I was planning on letting players do the checks before they were due if they wanted to. Depending on the check you perform it would reset the clock. D checks are only what, like every 10 years?

And charging money for changing the cabin layout is something I need to add as well. Just need to come up with a formula to figure out the cost depending on plane size, seat types etc (first class seats are more expensive than economy seats). I also need to edit the used market to have used planes generated with various cabin layouts, currently it's all pure economy.

D checks happen roughly every 6 years and take 2 months to complete hence airlines schedule them years in advance.

C checks every 2 years takes about 1-2 weeks

B check 6-8 months 1-3 days

A check 400-600 hours 200-300 cycles and takes about 10 hours

Above according to lovely wikipedia


Question now is how are you going to translate this to the game in a way that keeps it fun