[Reverted] Multiple Routes with 1 Aircraft

[ALT2870]

I like the sounds of scheduling a route for a specific day of the week. If you are into realism like me you can have planes fly different routes so they aren't flying the same route over and over again.

[Sora]

I'm with ALT on this one. (Wait, who said that? ) Personally, scheduling realistic routes and one single aircraft also flying different routes during a week is one of the most fun aspects in the game. Just like giving them realistic registrations.

[ALT2870]

I'm with ALT on this one. (Wait, who said that? ) Personally, scheduling realistic routes and one single aircraft also flying different routes during a week is one of the most fun aspects in the game. Just like giving them realistic registrations.

That's now the third time? Are you sure you aren't sick?

[Unknown98]

I can look into it then. It shouldn’t be that hard to add.

[Sora]

That's now the third time? Are you sure you aren't sick?

You're keeping a list? Nah, aside from my back problems since the beginning of August, I'm pretty fine, I guess. And I'm the last person to not agree with someone, if we share the same opinion, just because we might have had some issues in the past. That'd be kindergarten stuff and I'm too old for that.

Make it happen, Unk, and thank you once more.

ADDITIONAL INFO (IMPORTANT): Okay, so this obviously doesn't work correctly at the moment, at least for me. Three aircraft did return from their European legs and should have been scheduled for flights to the US today, but the game did assign them their European flights again (which don't happen until tomorrow). I've attached two images of the flights in question below. There was a gap of at least two hours from the end of a turn-around to the start of the next flight, but the game probably said "Screw it, you're flying to Europe again!"

       

[Unknown98]

Strangely enough that's a good thing that it didn't work, it means I know why it's not working and can look into fixing it now.

If it had worked, I'd be completely lost lol. I just need to add a condition that compares initial departure to current time at the origin airport for each route. That way it will schedule the route that is set to take off next rather than going back to the first one.

[Aeal]

Yeah because I have a aircraft landing from Shanghai 15:29 and is ready at 16:46 and instead of it waiting till the next day to depart again I scheduled a flight to Boston at 17:05 which will be back in time before the flight departs to Shanghai again but the flight to Boston never happens. The schedule for Shanghai tomorrow at 15:15 evening gets scheduled instead of Boston

[Unknown98]

Okay I have applied a patch that I believe has fixed the issue, so the system will now schedule routes in the correct order depending on departure times. Let me know how it goes. The game will still only schedule 1 route at a time, even if the two routes don't overlap. So if you currently have flights scheduled for an aircraft you'll have to either cancel those or wait for them to finish before the game will check through your routes again.

Also fixed a small issue where the Ready At time displayed in the route management page was not calculating correctly for route with only 1 stop.

[Sora]

Glad to be of help, Unk. Thanks once again and I'll keep you updated on the issue. If there's still an issue, that is.

[Unknown98]

Alright so we're still having issues with this multi routes thing. (For once even I am also seeing the issues with my own airline, lol)

For now I will have to revert back to the old system while I try to re-write the code to enable muti-route support.

Keep in mind you can still use a form of multi-routes even with the old system, as long as each route starts from a different airport. For example you cannot do:

LAX-HND-LAX
LAX-KIX-LAX

But you CAN do:

HND-LAX-KIX
KIX-LAX-HND

Same routes but in a different order. Get creative with it and you can probably make some things work.