02-19-2018, 01:38 AM
I do like this new system but it's not really logical if I my say so. It's true that the operating costs should have been higher, I mean on average I earned around 100 to 120 million a day (that's with a fleet of over 100 planes). But having just looked at the new operating costs of my A380 something caught my attention.
On a 15 hour flight, the operating cost is now over 830.000 USD, deducted from the total flight time this gets you at around 55.000 USD per hour. In my experience at different airlines and companies (not operating the A380 but that's not the point) no single airline would operate a plane if the costs were that high per hour. For example and I know this one, the Boeing 747-400 costs around 25.000 USD per hour (that's an average from several companies). If it would cost 30K more to operate an A380 it wouldn't have sold a single copy.
I know that this is a game, and yes operating costs are to low. Well before the update, now they are to high. The new system is fun, but in my opinion it shouldn't be added until the data is correct. I know that you use estimates Unk, but there are several sources that will get you close to the real operating costs of different planes. With the average of those you can make an average for all the planes we use, but as of now it's just unrealistic.
I will try to look for some public sources on the operating costs of different planes, or I could just file this in as a project for college
Don't mean to come over as a know it all dick, but the operating costs formula as it is now isn't correct.
On a 15 hour flight, the operating cost is now over 830.000 USD, deducted from the total flight time this gets you at around 55.000 USD per hour. In my experience at different airlines and companies (not operating the A380 but that's not the point) no single airline would operate a plane if the costs were that high per hour. For example and I know this one, the Boeing 747-400 costs around 25.000 USD per hour (that's an average from several companies). If it would cost 30K more to operate an A380 it wouldn't have sold a single copy.
I know that this is a game, and yes operating costs are to low. Well before the update, now they are to high. The new system is fun, but in my opinion it shouldn't be added until the data is correct. I know that you use estimates Unk, but there are several sources that will get you close to the real operating costs of different planes. With the average of those you can make an average for all the planes we use, but as of now it's just unrealistic.
I will try to look for some public sources on the operating costs of different planes, or I could just file this in as a project for college
Don't mean to come over as a know it all dick, but the operating costs formula as it is now isn't correct.