Slots

[Unknown98]

Made some slight changes to the code but I don't think it fixed it. Keep an eye on utilization over the next 24 hour period and let me know.

[fsclips]

Hi guys.

I have to say I struggle a bit with this slot system.

When an airline operates a flight to an airport they need a landing slot and a take-off slot. So, if I operate a flight once a day I will need two slots for that airport, twice a day 4 slots, etc..

I currently fly twice a day to KEF. I have a dedicated gate and according to the game I am using 6 slots.
I fly three times a day to LHR. I should require 6 slots, but according to the game I need 10.
I also fly three times a day to AMS and here I need 9 slots.

This makes no sense to me and also is inconsistent.
Every flight is operated by one aircraft and at each airport I have a dedicated gate.

What am I missing here?

Thanks.

stefan

[Dokhu]

I have this and it is outrageously far away from what I have.

[Unknown98]

Just going to disable slots for now so it stops causing confusion until I can fix them so they work correctly and/or come up with an entirely new system.

[fsclips]

Hi there  
Thanks for the quick response. 

I bet it is just a small error somewhere in the coding (it usually is). 

I am glad to see that you try to add new features.  Please don't be discouraged if something doesn't work straight away.

Keep up the great work. 

All the best  
Stefan

[Unknown98]

I just made some alterations to the code and the way that it handles slot assignment. From my small testing this afternoon it seems to work correctly, but that being said it also seemed to work correctly last time as well. The new code is live now so just to explain how it works again:

Upon landing the aircraft uses up one slot. It is just a counter, +1 every time a plane lands at one of your airports. Then at midnight UTC the counter is reset and it all starts over again.

Only landings use up a slot, not takeoffs. So if you land 3 times a day at ATL, your slot usage at ATL should read (3) in the parenthesis. As long as all 3 landings are in the same UTC day. So if you are seeing numbers that are higher than they should be let me know.

[palmertae]

I just made some alterations to the code and the way that it handles slot assignment. From my small testing this afternoon it seems to work correctly, but that being said it also seemed to work correctly last time as well. The new code is live now so just to explain how it works again:

Upon landing the aircraft uses up one slot. It is just a counter, +1 every time a plane lands at one of your airports. Then at midnight UTC the counter is reset and it all starts over again.

Only landings use up a slot, not takeoffs. So if you land 3 times a day at ATL, your slot usage at ATL should read (3) in the parenthesis. As long as all 3 landings are in the same UTC day. So if you are seeing numbers that are higher than they should be let me know.

I think it's still broken. I operate 1 daily flight to LAX (POS-LAX-POS), but it still reads as "(2)" in the parenthesis. Same for JAX, MEX and others

[Carde]

Yeah it is still borked, sill getting 200% on slots I fly only daily to with 1 plane.

[Unknown98]

Yeah I don't know then. It's like it's adding +2 instead of +1 but only in some cases.

[palmertae]

Yeah I don't know then. It's like it's adding +2 instead of +1 but only in some cases.

idk, since the game schedules 2 days in advance, is it possible it's counting both scheduled days?