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Thinking about this, i think we should keep in mind the political situation in Singapore at the time, like how the Peoples' Action Party was slowly gathering power. Why can't they start a PAP Air to consolidate their growing power?
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For New Dehli I think it should be SandAir for when you don't know which airline to fly. (also bad puns) Totally forgot about colour. I'm going to vote plum as well. vvvv Shinarato fucked around with this message at 05:00 on Jul 28, 2014 |
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Juvenalian.Satyr posted:I think for Singapore, ConAir2 is the only real choice. The sequel that never came but has been long awaited. Shinarato posted:For New Dehli I think it should be SandAir for when you don't know which airline to fly. Seconding these, with the caveat that they be violet and plum, respectively.
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The competing airline from New Delhi is Airyan, and they are a medium yellow. The competing airline from Paris is Descart, and they are a medium purple. The competing airline from Singapore is PAP Air, and they are this color blue.  To be clear, it's the blue used in the logo for the People's Action Party.
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Jul 28, 2014 16:54
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I can't believe no one came up with FrogAir yet? Flying in beautiful green planes. 
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Jul 28, 2014 17:07
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New Delhi: Gangair, in Gold. Our planes are as pure as the Ganges! Paris: Voltair (Come on guys, Voltaire is clearly the better pun choice for an airline.) I have no color preference. Singapore: PAP Air, in PAP Blue.
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Jul 28, 2014 17:45
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Voting for Voltair as well. Let's make it blue.
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The Casualty posted:New Delhi: Gangair, in Gold. Our planes are as pure as the Ganges! Voltair is clearly superior, gotta go with this.
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Nietzschean posted:The competing airline from New Delhi is Airyan, and they are a medium yellow. The Casualty posted:Paris: Voltair (Come on guys, Voltaire is clearly the better pun choice for an airline.) My votes!
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Voting: New Delhi as Airyan, in light orange Paris is VoltAir, in blue Singapore is ConAir2, in purple
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I always named my rivals WeCrash, CantFly, and OnFire. I still haven't won. They must have good PR departments to operate under those names.
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I haven't seen it called out in quick skimming through the pages, but SuperSonic is actually a sequel to the original Aerobiz. I have the cartridges for both, still functional. Original was pretty decent. Supersonic is more of the same with extra features added in. My "strategy" was usually doing a 4 player game, sticking the other 3 in the mid east, selling all their planes and slots, killing their spending and just end turning them. While my biz was out to maximize profits. From experience with business, I can say pretty confidently this is the best strategy with them. -When you enter a new region, buy one (AND ONLY ONE) Travel Agency, preferably in your home/hub city. These provide a pretty significant boost to your passenger amounts for the ENTIRE REGION. Not only will you get a boost, but it greatly improves the chance of advertising success. -Amusement businesses are also decently good investments. Amusement Parks, Ski Resorts, and Golf courses will usually increase tourism by double digits. Never get a pleasure boat, it boosts by a medicre single digit amount, only acceptable at places with no tourism at all, it may get you enough of a bump to make a route profitable, but usually no point. -Shuttle service is a good investment for boosting passenger totals, ferry boats are acceptable, commuter airlines I've found not too reliable with their typically high cost. Catering service is a good way to gain an edge if a competitor has an interregional flight in direct competition with yours. -Everything else, ignore like hell unless it's dirt cheap and you have nothing to do with one of your agents (you're either end game, or not playing right if this is the case) Edit: Also, Doug, every scenario calls for Doug. They're basically the only ones to stock decent upkeep planes period, and also about the only ones to keep around good short haul planes and long haul planes. Slickdrac fucked around with this message at 00:50 on Jul 31, 2014 |
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I like to imagine that meticulous efforts to properly match the correct shade of blue is the reason for any and all delays.
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Slickdrac posted:Edit: Also, Doug, every scenario calls for Doug. They're basically the only ones to stock decent upkeep planes period, and also about the only ones to keep around good short haul planes and long haul planes. Except Scenario 3, where Doug completely shits the bed. In 1985 they offer no long-range planes at all and in fact their only plane for sale is the lovely outdated MD80, which is almost entirely outclassed as a short-midrange plane by their competitor's offerings. While they eventually get some pretty respectable super-long-range planes it takes a long time during the crucial early years, and even then you can still get cheaper planes from Airbus or bigger planes from Boeing.
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Nietzschean posted:I like to imagine that meticulous efforts to properly match the correct shade of blue is the reason for any and all delays. It's actually remarkably close to the default. It will start soon.
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Gabriel Pope posted:Except Scenario 3, where Doug completely shits the bed. In 1985 they offer no long-range planes at all and in fact their only plane for sale is the lovely outdated MD80, which is almost entirely outclassed as a short-midrange plane by their competitor's offerings. While they eventually get some pretty respectable super-long-range planes it takes a long time during the crucial early years, and even then you can still get cheaper planes from Airbus or bigger planes from Boeing. Oh god, I forgot about scenario 3, yeah, that one is pretty bad for them. Most of my plays are from either Scen 1, where you're working with hopes and dreams of being able to fly anywhere and make enough money, or Scen 4, where it's more of a tactical game of which flights you want to make so you don't hit the 40 flight cap.
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Pregame 1970 - Workers of the World, Take Flight! With the final approvals cleared,we have received our operating budget and possess full license of operation as a provider of class 5 civilian air-transport in all Soviet Republics, and abroad. Due to minor and entirely acceptable delays in processing, some of our competitors have already announced their business plans for our opening quarter.   In Singapore, the People’s Action Party has financed a national airline of their own. They have entered negotiations to open service to China and Egypt, placed modest orders for both Russian and American aircraft, and purchased controlling interests in a major hotel in their home base.   The French open far more aggressively, immediately announcing service to Athens and courting officials in both Moscow and New York on the subject of launching transcontinental routes.  We have initiative over the Indians, so their intentions remain unknown.  How we chose to respond to these advances may well set the tone for the next twenty years of Air Transport. $1.2 Billion has been allocated to our office.   The home sector shall be our first battleground. We begin with extensive travel rights within the USSR, and a tentative opening in Switzerland. The continent is firmly divided by the politics of east and west, but only a handful of cities allow that tension to translate to outright hostility towards our airline. Barring a few exceptions, we should be able to confront Voltair, and any other line which invades our space without excessive difficulty.  Africa’s economies are maturing, and its relations with the west are cooling. Many of its newly-independent nations look on us more fondly than other nations. This should work to our advantage when we begin operations.  The middle east presents similar opportunities, hosting a notable absence of hostilities and some outright friendly territory in Uzbek SSR. As the home sector of Airyan, we should expect strong resistance to any inroads we attempt.  The far east presents a challenge. Of her potential hubs, only the Chinese are favorably inclined to doing business with us, and many of the region’s stronger cities are strongly aligned with our enemies. PAP Air will likely move to take advantage of those lines.  Oceania will be a hard nut to crack. Its hubs universally despise us, and only a handful of its resort-islands will even answer our phone calls.  The best thing America has done for us is not present a competing airline of its own for this round of competition. The French should rush to fill that niche quite soon, but even then will be slightly impeded. It is quite probable that our business plans will write off the region as infeasible, used only as a pass-through to reach other zones.  Zones such as the south, where the Cubans provide a hook by which we may access choice tourist destinations. Aviation technology is also on the verge of allowing direct flights from Europe, opening a host of new possibilities.    We’ve been allocated a fair complement of our nation’s proven models. The Tupolev Design Bureau has refined their core design principles to produce the Tu137, a fast midrange craft with competitive operating costs. It is undersized when compared with western models in its weight class (40 less than a DC9-30, Half the seats of a B727-200), but runs efficiently enough to turn a profit even on its reduced capacity. With its range, the Tu137 can service any city in Europe, reach either potential hub in Africa, and enter the Middle East via Iraq or Iran. The Ilyushin 62M shows marginal improvement over the original IL62, and remains competitive among long range, medium sized jet aircraft. We do not yet have an answer to the high-capacity models beginning to appear from American manufacturers, but such craft are surely under development as we speak. The IL62M can handle transatlantic flights into the Eastern USA, connect us to the Mideast via India, or reach any potential hub in Asia direct from Moscow. Both aircraft also boast a production cost ranging from half, to two-thirds the price of similar American planes.  Our Executives stand ready to cause the cause to every corner of the Earth. Let us all depart, together, for the bright future which Build our plan for 1970 A_Raving_Loon fucked around with this message at 22:28 on Aug 14, 2014 |
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Comrades, an Asian and Southern Strategy seems to be the course of action, since places in the North and West receptive to worldwide socialist revolution are limited. South America and Africa will allow us to spend winters outside of freezing Moscow as we advance decolonialism. Opening up China before this Nixon character visits there will probably give us a jump into one of the few semi-friendly northern regions. The East is Red!
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I read the entire update aloud to myself in a bad Russian accent. I believe our first order of business is buying a dacha in Crimea and a ZIL to transport us about. As for business plans, we should expand into Switzerland and focus on facilitating transit between the best available European cities. We should also seek to improve Sino-Soviet relationships by expanding to Beijing and Shanghai when feasible. eta: Also, if double chin there isn't an Oleg then I don't know who is.
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gently caress it, let's go to London, and then New York.
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Defer to the CEO for this, and all future updates.
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Hedera Helix posted:Defer to the CEO for this, and all future updates. Echo this. I want to see us win, not goony circle-jerking.
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I can sign onto that so long as we still get dachas and limos. Oooh, and caviar.
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Set up as many flights between regions as possible. The trans-regional flights are the biggest earners as you might've seen from the previous game. Getting our foot in that door early will help ensure we've got a good and steady cash flow to fill in the local flights later. Success will be built on a large, stable foundation crossing the globe.
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No boats ever. Also, as for actual useful advice, obtain the City Hotel in Moscow. Can't go wrong with a homebase hotel.
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I say leave it to the CEO, with occasional planning sessions (once every year or two) to give the board something to vote on. Maybe have 3-4 viable (or fun) options that we can choose from.
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Aug 15, 2014 03:14
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gently caress it, Buy a boat in New York
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Aug 15, 2014 03:35
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Anything but boats!! But anyway, Plan habeusdorkus seems sound to me. Also throw as much money at it as possible.
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International routes as soon as possible! Ideally we will connect to Asia and South America at our earliest opportunity, but realistically we should be able to go to Africa and the Middle East like right now.
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Focus on inter-regional routes, specifically Africa, the Middle East, and South America.
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Move rapidly to service the international Soviet sphere of influence- we can't have international socialism without international flights!
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The Party Committee does not wish to be bothered with petty day to day decisions - that is why we awarded the Glorious Airtransbureau TrotSky to you. Come to us when you have to choose between multiple equally good options, otherwise we trust your good judgment. And the political officer watching you, of course. Comrade.
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Bidding for slots will take a long time in most of the Western countries. We will have to plan for the future. Let's Buy slots in New York, Beijing, and East Berlin. We also need to get a revenue stream, let's open two European routes of the CEO's choosing. Use any remaining free time to purchase a couple more IL-62M for our future intercontinental routes. Stretch goal: Hubs in Beijing and NYC, routes from Moscow to Cairo and Tehran.
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We must keep the competition out of North America, it is ours by right. TrotSky has always had a hub in North America so it stands to reason that we are the primary airline for the continent. Send our agent with the moustache, Davidov to the most Soviet of the north american hubs, which we of course always have been a part of, to get many many slots.
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OP, you mind if I do some short mechanics vids to show the effect of doing certain things on the number of passengers/fares? Mostly so everyone can see just how bad an idea boats are (and how good travel agencies are!)
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Go for it.
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The Politburo Apparatchik should lend its support by providing a Travel Facilitation Division in Moscow (buy a travel agency). I stand in agreement with the other Comrade Members that the Soviet's interests are best served by establishing inter-regional hubs as soon as possible. The Politburo should accompany these efforts to ensure that Western propaganda does not tarnish the People's reputation, and to promote travel by the proletariat on TrotSky (get a travel agency in whatever city we establish our hub for the region). The precise regional order, and choice of regional hubs, I say leave to the sound discretion of the Comrade Director.
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Do not buy any boats.
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I concur that boats are for Capitalist Running Dogs and should not be a part of the glorious socialist revolution in air travel.
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The Motherland benefits from spreading her glorious ideals to all corners of the world, thus Gaining footholds in as many regions as possible would seem to be the most beneficial option. Also, I would like to support the NO BOATS EVER movement, because a boat killed my dog, and this is a game about airplanes!
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