Revamped Routes System

[Unknown98]

ahh okay! will look into that then.

[PolarMonkey]

Yes, those planes fly 2 routes, 3501 (YYZ - HND) & 3502 (HND - YYZ) with PA8701 is one route, 3503 (YYZ - HND) & 3504 (HND - YYZ) with PA4702 is the second.  I deactivated, cancelled, and reactivated those flights, and it is still showing up in the scheduled flights as landing in HND then back at YYZ 2 hours later for both routes.  I looked at some of my other long haul flights and haven't seen anything similar with them.  Another thing I thought was odd with the flights was that the first one doesn't land for about another 44 hours, do it doesn't look like it is even taking off tomorrow, which would go along with your issue with scheduling, thinking that the plane is already occupied tomorrow.

As for my other flights, I think that one is on me.  I forgot to check where my planes were before I deleted my routes and noticed that they were not at the starting airports.  The planes that have already made it back to their start points seem to be scheduled as planned, so I'll have to wait until the morning to check on the others.

I see why this is happening now. The return trip (HND-YYZ) is delayed so much that it should be adding two additional days. However the game isn't set up to handle that, so it only adds the 1 day. I'm trying to fix that now. I noticed, if I change the departure at YYZ so that the route departs today rather than tomorrow, it all works fine. (it's currently 12:47pm at YYZ, so if I change the departure to 13:00, it schedules correctly. But if I leave the departure at 08:00, the game messes up when calculating the additional day)

So... the issue was not that the game was scheduling flights incorrectly. It was actually scheduling them just fine. The issue was the the ETA displayed on the active flights page was not correct. I've fixed that now. See my re-creation of your flight:

Hi again Unk,

I just tried cancelling and reactivating those flights, and I'm still getting the same issue.  Initially it had the flights scheduled for the first leg landing about 23 hours from now, but now the first flight lands in just over 47.  Would you like me to try deleting and remaking the flights to see if that fixes it?

[airlinemanage]

i got these flights not ok, and i cant find route id by cancelling any route in my database. Plus, WUH-CTU WUH-MFM, WUH-CTU are routes tht the a/c flies. Thats wht i mean A-B, A-C

[Unknown98]

Hmm, yeah I'm getting that too now. It is adding +2 days to the departure when it should only be adding +1 day... need to look at that. 

So it's a combination of a display issue on the active flights page and the game adding an additional day in there. In the database the first flight lands in ~47 hours (as displayed), and the second flight lands in ~71 hours or so. But 71 hours is so far in the future, that the active flights page calculation's mess up and do not display it correctly.

[Unknown98]

i got these flights not ok, and i cant find route id by cancelling any route in my database. Plus, WUH-CTU WUH-MFM, WUH-CTU are routes tht the a/c flies. Thats wht i mean A-B, A-C

So each flight is set up as a separate route there. That won't really work right now as the auto-scheduling script has been temporarily disabled. Once you schedule one (say, WUH-CTU) you won't be able to schedule any more until that lands.

[airlinemanage]

yes, you are right, but can you add some constraints, so that an a/c will not fly A-B, A-C when it is at D? It links to serveral problems in my airline, and I am sure they'll all disappear if such constraint is added

[PolarMonkey]

Got another one for you Unk,

I've noticed something odd with some of my routes, not sure if it has been mentioned before. Some of my flights are flying one or more legs, then flying the rest the next day. For example, I have a route that goes YYZ-LAS-YYZ-LAS-YYZ. It flies the first YYZ-LAS fine, then waits 24 hours then flies the other three legs. It shows it both in my scheduled flights and on the airport page for LAS. I have tried cancelling and reactivating the flight and it still shows up like this. I've only noticed two routes like this so far, but I just happened to catch them when I was fixing my other issues and looking to see where my planes needed to be.

I also have the issue with flights not flying. I have several that should have started at 0500 from CDG, but 8/12 did not start, and none of my 4 0500 flights from DME left either.

Edit: I just took a look at about 10 routes and they all seem to have the issue of a 24 hour gap between legs, some even do that more than once (e.g. leg 1 - 24h gap - leg 2 - 24h gap - leg 3 - leg 4...).

[airlinemanage]

PolarMonkey, ur flights are not flying coz unk disabled auto scheduling during route system maintenance.

[Unknown98]

Got another one for you Unk,

I've noticed something odd with some of my routes, not sure if it has been mentioned before. Some of my flights are flying one or more legs, then flying the rest the next day. For example, I have a route that goes YYZ-LAS-YYZ-LAS-YYZ. It flies the first YYZ-LAS fine, then waits 24 hours then flies the other three legs. It shows it both in my scheduled flights and on the airport page for LAS. I have tried cancelling and reactivating the flight and it still shows up like this. I've only noticed two routes like this so far, but I just happened to catch them when I was fixing my other issues and looking to see where my planes needed to be.

I also have the issue with flights not flying. I have several that should have started at 0500 from CDG, but 8/12 did not start, and none of my 4 0500 flights from DME left either.

Edit: I just took a look at about 10 routes and they all seem to have the issue of a 24 hour gap between legs, some even do that more than once (e.g. leg 1 - 24h gap - leg 2 - 24h gap - leg 3 - leg 4...).

Yeah, think it happens when the UTC time has switched over to the next day, but the time at the origin airport has not yet. That was happening to me last night with my test YYZ-HND-YYZ route. It would add an additional 24 hours when it shouldn't have. But now, if I schedule the route, it works fine because YYZ and UTC are the same day now. Need to check that but it's hard because there's only a certain time I can test it.

For now I have removed the time remaining calculations on the active flights page as it was still not working correctly. I've replaced it with the departure and arrival date/time straight out of the database. Green is the local time at the airport, and the time in parenthesis is your local time in the timezone you have set in your account. Hopefully this should help us de-bug.

For now flights will not re-schedule automatically, they'll only schedule when you activate initially. The scheduling script was having issues so it's disabled until I can fix it, otherwise it will just cause problems and schedule flights incorrectly.

[Unknown98]

Okay.. I think I should have solved the problem where it schedules flights 1 day too far in advance.

As far as flights landing multiple times, haven't been able to look at that yet. will try to tomorrow.