Airline Empires

[tayser]

A free (and very addictive) online browser-based game. Been playing it for 3-4 weeks now, and yeah, can't stop, must make CASH-MONEY.

The aim is pretty simple: build an airline empire. You start with a turbro prop, select a HQ which gives you 5 gates to begin with and start you start flying routes to make cash-money-farking.

You can start hubs which allows you to get connecting traffic from all our routes which fly into the hub (you need to control 5 gates to start a hub - and as you start with 5 at your HQ/first base you can build one pretty soon afterwards).

The time element of the game works on the basis that 1 day = 30 minutes in real world time and there are 24 days in a month (so for every 1 real world day you go through 2 "game" months).

If anyone's interested, I'm happy to start an OzScrapers "alliance" (like a real world airline alliance - your alliance partners give you connecting traffic if you fly into their hubs) and we can rape and pillage the world!!!1!.

A word of advice on the start up base: Australia & New Zealand is saturated (as it's technically beta, they're adding new airports all the time and I'm working on them increasing Australian and New Zealand demand), pick a Chinese or European city: massive demand and very short hops to different airports, so the DHC-7 you start with can make a lot of cash if you pick routes which have no competition. Build a short-haul network in China / Europe first then start building an international network - once you get 10 or so long-haul destinations the cash really starts rolling in.

good start up candidates:

WUH Wuhan
XMN Xiamen
HGH Hangzhou
KMG Kunming
PIK Glasgow Prestwick
CIA Rome Ciampino
BVA Paris Beauvais

you start with $5mil, which is enough to lease a few jets (320s and 734s are the latest short-haul jets in the game) - always lease for 10 years (cheaper monthly rent) and eventually you can buy them which then adds to your airline value & therefore your ranking.

Sign up (free - takes them a day to open your account): http://aetest.simulationcloud.net/newuser.php

When you sign up / login - go for "SIM2-Beta" - it's the Simulator that is constantly being developed. The others are static and no where near as feature rich

Me (imaginative name, I know ): http://aetest.simulationcloud.net/pl...p?player=24639

[Levathian]

I play Airline Manager on facebook

[tayser]

just had a look at that, and on the face of it, it's shite compared to AE - nowhere near as many features.

AE: get on it.

[Levathian]

I've been playing AM since January, and my airline has basically hit the end of the road. I have 520 or so A380s and there is nothing more to aim for

[tayser]

So jump on AE

[crawf]

Haha how cool! *signs up*

[Alphaville]

Tays - if you have an iPhone you'd probably enjoy AirTycoon.

Alot of it is balancing sheets, etc.. but its a lot of fun if you find that kind of strategy interesting.

If anyone hasn't played it, i would HIGHLY recommend you get ahold of the 1990's game TRANSPORT TYCOON.

It's amazing. You can build a transport empire with air, rail, road and sea modes. It's SO addictive and even though its over a decade old, the game play is still high quality.

[exocet]

Originally Posted by Alphaville

Tays - if you have an iPhone you'd probably enjoy AirTycoon.

Alot of it is balancing sheets, etc.. but its a lot of fun if you find that kind of strategy interesting.

If anyone hasn't played it, i would HIGHLY recommend you get ahold of the 1990's game TRANSPORT TYCOON.

It's amazing. You can build a transport empire with air, rail, road and sea modes. It's SO addictive and even though its over a decade old, the game play is still high quality.

Seconded, check out OpenTTD - it includes a lot of improvements over the original.

[L2]

I used to play the Facebook one. It got pretty crap and boring after a while so I stopped using it, even tho my L2 Interpacific AIrlines was successful

It also sucked badly that the timing was, umm, REAL time. If i clicked on to send an A380 on a flight, I'd literally have to wait 18 hours until I could login again and make more money. Useless

So I'll take a look at this one esp the time thing sounds appealing.

[Indictable]

I'm about to sign up to it, it sounds pretty cool. I thought the thread was about airline empires such as Delta or Emirates, this is much better

[tayser]

Orrite, that settles it, AE OzScrapers Alliance here we come.

[Indictable]

I go onto the airlineempires.net site and can't seem to find the actual game link..

[Shumway]

Originally Posted by exocet

Seconded, check out OpenTTD - it includes a lot of improvements over the original.

I loved TT. I had a look at this though, how does it work? Do you need the original game?

Edit: No CD needed, cool

[tayser]

Look under Alliance Options > "OzScrapers Global".

send the request and put your SSC username in the message you send in the request.

Make more cash money farken.

[tayser]

Originally Posted by Indictable

I go onto the airlineempires.net site and can't seem to find the actual game link..

http://aetest.simulationcloud.net <-- bookmark, always select "Sim 2 Beta"

[tayser]

Indictable are you Cantabrian? if you are, you're not going to make money in CHC.

other good first bases:

CCU - Kolkata
ZAG - Zagreb
SGN - Ho Chi Minh
CSX - Changsha <-- highly recommended, right in the centre of the south east corner of China and no-one currently has a hub there.
CGO - Zhengzhou

When you join the alliance, post where you're going to do a hub in here and I'll give you the routes into my hubs...

currently:

MEL - Melbourne
ADL - Adelaide
CKG - Chongqing
DOH - Doha
EDI - Edinburgh
HHN - Frankfurt Hahn
OGG - Kahului
OAK - San Francisco/Oakland
BTR - Baton Rouge
PIT - Pittsburg
UIO - Quito.

[tayser]

Originally Posted by Alphaville

Tays - if you have an iPhone you'd probably enjoy AirTycoon.

Alot of it is balancing sheets, etc.. but its a lot of fun if you find that kind of strategy interesting.

I'll have a look, GET ON AE.

[tayser]

airL2 FTW!

PUS - Busan <-- very good starting city.

[tayser]

who's Ballina International Airways?

LOL.

I actually put a request in to get it added to the airports list... hahahah.

[tayser]

Australian Airways: CKG-KMG is yours, just started MEL-KMG & OAK-KMG and you'll be getting connecting traffic from them now.

Victorian Airways: EDI-BVA is yours, just took my DOH-BVA flights to daily and you'll be getting connecting traffic from that now.