Different Starting Airports

[karmic mortar]

Alr hear me out, this would make it so less people would stay within Oconia, and increase traffic in other parts of the map.

This would also most likely require Single and Multi Engine licenses to be in different areas (like at multiple airports)

Currently, you spawn at Hampten, what if you spawned in idk, Avalon? I’d imagine Yoeshaw would be a good fit, and you’d have to fly to Worton or Bokingham.

In Kyokkou, start out in Kashio, then fly to Radang?

Tselinoyarsk fly from Rishkorosh to Leovetsk

License locations on each continent can be decided or smth, the above are just suggestions.

Thank you for coming to my Ted talk

Oh yeah to select one to start out with (and you can’t change it) it could be random? But there could be a menu at the start that lets you chose where to spawn, but I think it’s better if it’s random

[glossy meteor]

Not a bad idea

Quite cool

[karmic mortar]

This is why I asked mapper for the map

[stuck swift]

floating point

[manic sphinx]

I fly in the middle so my plane doesnt die from floating point

[karmic mortar]

Nuh uh!! Let the ultralights become a pile of triangles

[manic sphinx]

floating point is not good for pictures

[stuck swift]

The benefit of starting in Oconia is that new players don’t start out with floating point

[fickle topaz]

Thats one problem, another one is that oconia has simply the highest density of airports

[stuck swift]

Leaves a really bad first impression

[manic sphinx]

(They dont find out until later)

[karmic mortar]

Well central Avalon has a pretty high airport density as well

[fickle topaz]

Also would require dealerships to be spread out

[karmic mortar]

Which in my opinion is pretty good

Yk

Encourages flying as well

[fickle topaz]

Currently beginner dealers are concentrated

[karmic mortar]

Yea very concentrated

[manic sphinx]

But then I have to fly ultralights to ever airport so I can just teleport everywhere

[karmic mortar]

Which is why most players still stay in the central area

Oconia

[glossy meteor]

true

what about different routes around oconia?

clarence to the one ag airfield

[karmic mortar]

The thing about Avalon is that since summer 2023 there’s been a shit ton of tiny airfields scattered around the continent

[manic sphinx]

You forgor that devs hate GA stuff

[fickle topaz]

erm how?

[karmic mortar]

Well I mean, no need to add more

[fickle topaz]

Most recent job types were GA related. Many additions are GA

[manic sphinx]

[compact flower]

Hmm how about the ultralights and single engines are in Oconia. but the other licenses that are in Oconia be moved to different continents?

That'll allow for the good first impression, but also encourage players to not be mainly based in Oconia all the time.

[celest spire]

you know what else gives a bad first impression?

No starting airports to choose from

there is only one starting airport

that has old aah plane models, old aah infrastructure, old aah scenery, but thats off topic

[stuck swift]

Which is worse

Someone playing for the first time and thinking the game has a really buggy control system

[celest spire]

there is no airports to choose from

[stuck swift]

Or a person playing for the first time and going, hmmmm I wish I could have started at that part of the map

[celest spire]

well, maybe a different oconian airfield could work

milsho to gaston for example

[fickle topaz]

Also, another thing, trainings and exams

[celest spire]

or augustus to lyn municipal

[fickle topaz]

Jet and up would be fine, but all the others would need to be flexible

[celest spire]

if aug to lyn municipal, then SE can be lyn to ardmore or something

imo tutorial doesn’t have to be an A to B flight

A circle around an archipelago could be enough

around Lynwood for example

[celest spire]

But what if they add a disclaimer?

[glossy meteor]

people won’t read it

Be realistic here

Hear me out instead of avalon

o c o n i a

Like harden or any

[celest spire]

[karmic mortar]

I included the weird license stuff in the suggestion

[celest spire]

thats their problem

[karmic mortar]

Yea

[celest spire]

some of them dont read tutorial

and then quit because they cant start the engine

[karmic mortar]

To encourage them to pic non Oconian airports, only in the tutorial when it’s too late to re pick an airport give them the disclaimer

[celest spire]

i think that adding a text saying You can experience troubles controlling an aircraft in this airport is enough

[glossy meteor]

Just do like

Harden and Clarence

Not that difficult

[celest spire]

Harden is an international airport

Maybe something like New Englandtown

or Ardmore

or maybe Lynwood Municipal

maybe even Augustus atoll

[karmic mortar]

If floating point is an issue just make the players start at like, Amaras and make them fly to like

Porto Menenzes

[glossy meteor]

There’s not many airports with smaller ones near it

Harden and Clarence are like the two

[celest spire]

they can change the tutorial

so, instead of flying from A to B, new players will have to fly around the island

and land at the same airport

[glossy meteor]

Eh