Besides various bugfixes, optimisations and internal changes, this update is primarily about several “meta features” added for the Paine game world specifically, but that are generally useful across all game worlds. This includes changelogs right in the game as well as a game world info popup that shows the exact configuration of any given game world.
In terms of data, this patch brings a large batch of airport updates and finally introduces the long anticipated A321XLR to the game. Thanks a lot to our team of data volunteers for their work on these!
Added
Clicking the version number in the footer opens a popup showing the release notes for that version.
The version number in the footer highlights a version change with a subtle animation.
Clicking the game world name in the footer opens a popup showing the description, properties and relevant configuration settings for this game world.
When opening the “Found enterprise” screen, the game world info popup is shown automatically if no enterprise exists yet and the popup has not been viewed before.
In game worlds that have Aircraft Performance 1.5 enabled, the effective performance model version for a given type is displayed on its profile page. This is because data for the 1.5 formulas is not yet available for all types.
DS: Passenger types now feature preferred arrival times (connections arriving closer to the given time score higher) and arrival time tolerance (connections arriving outside of a request’s tolerance bounds get ignored).
Fixed
Check for existing company name might fail during airline creation.
Aircraft trader would not auto-bid on elligible offers.
Entering some characters into the notes field or in-game messages would cause an error.
DS: Flights could get overbooked after server restart.
DS: Respect connection traffic rights.
Deletion fails when airline is member of an alliance under incorporation.
Large fleet lists load only partially.
Flight pricing tool threw error or only loaded partially.
Data
New aircraft type: Airbus A321XLR
Airport Updates
Phnom Penh/KTI: relocated PNH to KTI. Updated airport location, size, slots, runway lenght and IATA/ICAO codes
Select airport country as default in airport schedule view.
Disable report form on profile pages of official companies.
Fixed
Do not allow to invite alliance founding member without premium status.
Do not display out-of-production types on order book page.
Fix flight time/cruise speed rounding issues when scheduling very short flights.
Optimised loading performance of alliance schedule page.
The in-game description of the EU Treaty only mentioned the 8th freedom, but not the 9th. Adjusted in English and German localisation, other languages to follow.
Data
Individual Travel Requests: Adjusted budget caps of cargo customer types.
Exclusive game worlds: Route restrictions (aka “bar sums”) can be configured to be disabled, enabled or actively enforced (violating flights are deleted). When disabled, the respective matrix on the aircraft type profile page is hidden.
Fixed
Connection Analyzer: Carrier filters would exclude flights of carriers that are both interlining and alliance partners.
DS / Individual Travel Requests: Fix invalid maximum budget variance for standard economy passenger type.
Trying to manually activate a user for a deleted account did not return error message.
DS: Stabilized GDS sort order. Group 1 connections (non-stop) with identical departure times could end up in Group 2 or 3.
Data
Change name of Turkey to Türkiye, use umlauts/eszett in German country names.
Internal
DS: Track additional values in booking request data.
Option to enable “Single Holding Mode”: Players are only allowed to create a single holding once. Holding resets are disabled and if a holding goes bankrupt or is deleted, it is “game over” until the world restarts.
Changed
DS / Individual Travel Requests: Adjust connection culling such that itineraries are generated for travel requests with late arrival times even if there are many direct connections early in the booking window.
Fixed
Pricing tool did not load or update airport pairs with no service profile.