Quick Flights

[skifans]

Amazing, looks realy good unk.

[POTKC]

That looks absolutely wonderful. I can't wait for the beta!

[POTKC]

Hey look, another spambot

[ryanfairellis97]

I wondered what that was

[Ryan97]

When you are able to plan routes and schedule flights, will thopen take off automatically or would the have to be done manually?

[Frenchie]

I'm almost certain it will be manual.

Basically you will be able to have a specific scheduled flight, and by clicking fly, once the scheduled departure time is reached it will then take off. As such, it allows to manage your time and gate schedule without having to 'quick fly' at the right time.

[Ryan97]

Ah okay. I was going to say i like to fly my aircraft to a schedule everyday like a regular airline, but i thought automatic would take all the fun out of the game.

[Unknown98]

I could do it either way, really. Initially when I tried to create routes I was making it more complicated than it needed to be. Now I have a much better idea of how I can get them working in the back-end.

Some people like the auto-takeoff gameplay that other games use, and some people like the individual takeoff that CA used. I don't think we will ever get everyone to agree on which is better. So the idea was to combine the two, sort of, and allow the creation of routes, and then instead of a "launch flight" button there would be a "launch route" button. So you could set up something like LHR->CDG->LHR->MAD->LHR, assign that route to one of your planes, and then click "launch route" and the plane would fly that route in it's entirety. There would be length limits to routes to prevent people from setting up a week's worth of flights.

[Ryan97]

Ah okay that's sounds good. So for example I could fly LHR-HKG-SYD without having to worry about taking it off at HKG?

[POTKC]

...fly LHR-HKG-SYD...

Emulating BAW27, are we?