SOCAL Approach From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Posted (13 years 4 months 1 week 2 days 13 hours ago) and read 3635 times:
Hi All,
I was just wondering if anyone here has been playing "Airport Inc." yet. I'd be interested in reading what other diehard aviation enthusiasts have to say about it. Its available only in Europe right now, but I'm looking forward to its US release next month!
Aa737 From United States of America, joined Oct 1999, 849 posts, RR: 0 Reply 3, posted (13 years 4 months 1 week 15 hours ago) and read 3374 times:
I have had Airport Incm for about a week now. It's like a sim city for airports. You get to build terminals, runways, taxiways, a/c stands, etc.
One cool thing is that as you go farther into time, the a/c types that come to your airport are realistic to that time period. You also have to plan out your taxiways other wise there are trafiic jams with the planes.
I personally find I have to keep the game speed very low other wise I get too many messages at once and my terminals need additional check in desks or other stuff like that really quickly.
Where ever I place my hotel, i always get complaint messages that it is too empty and too close to the flight path.
I pesonally like the game (especially the price of only £25 rather then the normal £30 or £35 ). There are a few improvements I could think to make, but over all it was worth it. I think any one interested in aviaiton would like it.
American_4275 From United States of America, joined Aug 1999, 1076 posts, RR: 0 Reply 4, posted (13 years 4 months 1 week 8 hours ago) and read 3359 times:
Hey,
I saw the previews and i can already tell i want it! I can't wait till it comes to the US. I may be wrong, but i think somewhere it said they are changing the name of it for the US version. Kind of strange. I might have just read wrong.
David L From United Kingdom, joined May 1999, 9242 posts, RR: 42 Reply 5, posted (13 years 4 months 6 days 5 hours ago) and read 3353 times:
I'd never heard of it but I bought a copy this very afternoon. So far I've only got part way through the tutorial as Windows decided, as it often does, that I'd suddenly prefer to see some other program that was running and it bombed out. Looks OK though.
Sonic From Lithuania, joined Jan 2000, 1670 posts, RR: 1 Reply 6, posted (13 years 4 months 5 days 15 hours ago) and read 3348 times:
I got some questions about it:
1. Can you buy planes and start airline in the game?
2. If yes, is in the game real time mode? (You can start in 1910, buy first planes, later buy DC-3, later -- B707 and so on, or you can buy all planes at one time?)
3. There are financial mode? (or you must build airports in "sandbox" mode)
Pilot1113 From United States of America, joined Aug 1999, 2333 posts, RR: 13 Reply 7, posted (13 years 4 months 5 days 9 hours ago) and read 3347 times:
Sonic--
Basically all you do in this game is design and maintain an airport. You're an airport manager in this game. The airlines (randomly chosen by the game) decide what to fly in there.
Pilot1113 From United States of America, joined Aug 1999, 2333 posts, RR: 13 Reply 8, posted (13 years 4 months 5 days 9 hours ago) and read 3335 times:
Does anyone have any hints as to how to best design your airport?
Do things have to go in special places, in order to maximize their efficiency?
When do you get upgrades? How do you get upgrades? I just seem to get them at random times.
USAirways737 From United States of America, joined Jan 2000, 1026 posts, RR: 1 Reply 10, posted (13 years 4 months 3 days 8 hours ago) and read 3331 times:
Is there one of those where you build your own airline?
SOCAL Approach From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 11, posted (13 years 4 months 3 days 7 hours ago) and read 3348 times:
There are a few airline type games out there, although most are old and not all that great. You can check under "Airline Simulations" at my website for a list of links and info on such games. eFZed (down in OZ) has been working on a promising, new airline sim game, but they keep postponing it and won't release any info about it. (How much is $85 Aus in U.S. $?)
http://www.ags.uci.edu/~tmheaney/SNA/
I'm supporting Krisalis's Airport Inc. in the hopes of nurturing a market for aviation-related games. Maybe Krisalis or someone else will build an Airline business sim that will be the aviation counter to Railroad Tycoon (1 and 2).
USAirways737 From United States of America, joined Jan 2000, 1026 posts, RR: 1 Reply 12, posted (13 years 4 months 3 days 5 hours ago) and read 3341 times:
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