10-27-2017, 10:57 AM
(10-16-2017, 03:46 AM)Unknown98 Wrote: Something that may help is when I create the ability to view/edit a route. It'd allow you to view the route in the final step, and all the departure times would be filled out so you could edit them. You'd also be able to change the aircraft assigned to the route. It's just a lot of work to do that which is why I haven't started on it yet.
The possibility of editing a route would be very useful in my opinion, if you have more time to implement this. Otherwise one could settle for a link to the 'detailed' route page with all the flight times.
I would add two more suggestions if I may, for I do think this is a crucial aspect of the game and if the route creation system is too clunky or limited it might deter players from sticking around.
1) In my opinion, a good balance between realism and feasibility is necessary. Given the 'ready times' are not dynamically changeable, the only way to create realistic departure times (so unit times such as 7:10, or 7:15 instead of 7:08) is to add the extra differential in time to each subsequent leg. Perhaps we could force the calculation process to give the nearest subsequent departure time in unit? This would mean that a flight calculated to be ready at 7:08 would then be converted to 7:10 automatically, all numbers either ending in a 0 or 5. I wonder if this would be possible to implement?
2) The second suggestion would be to allow for planes to fly the routes certain 'days' of the week. This is a very important issue given certain routes (such as Buenos Aires to Madrid) are too long for the aircraft to perform the leg each day. Because there is a need for two aircrafts to perform the leg every other day, a very good feature would be to specify which days both aircraft operate the route (Buenos Aires to Madrid). Thus, aircraft A would fly the route Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays and aircraft B would fly the route Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays.