Museum Bonus for Military/Experimental Vehicles

[rustic yoke]

Currently, many of the military/experimental aircraft that the devs like making (such as the YH-32 and XF5F) aren't being bought or used by the majority of the playerbase, and understandably so. Why put WP or UP into these vehicles when you'd be better served by an airliner or cargo plane? However, some of these military aircraft (like the SR-71) are great money-makers, often making more money than the best cargo planes and airliners. This is mostly due to surveillance, races, and PTS (the last one less so now that it's been nerfed).

However, Derail Valley recently released an update which added the DM1U - a railbus that's weak at hauling, but which can deliver parts to restore player-owned demonstrator locomotives that have various benefits (such as being able to be spawned anywhere and not having to pay emissions fees).

There could be a couple ways to add this bonus. I've included a table with three formulas (a flat 1% bonus, a flat 3% bonus for museum airports like Yoeshaw if the vehicles are kept there, and a price^0.55 bonus) on vehicles of various prices to show how the bonuses could work. This bonus would only apply to charter and cargo flights.

As for exceptions, I'm thinking that surveillance aircraft could be excluded from giving this bonus (as they make too much money too easily), and SSTs and corporate aircraft could be excluded from receiving this bonus (and possibly helis/VTOLs, as well, as they already get enough bonuses as it is). Boats likely also will have to be excluded (definitely from the flat bonuses, but the ^0.55 bonus might work with them).

Museum Bonus for Military/Experimental Vehicles

[mental forge]

this works except for the planes that dont have charter and cargo

[rustic yoke]

I do think that more aircraft should get charter and cargo jobs if it'd be reasonable for them to have such jobs (and I might switch excluding SSTs to just excluding the Hypermach). However, most of the planes which don't get charter and cargo are the military/experimental aircraft.

[lone spoke]

so basically multiplier for low income aircrafts

[mental forge]

yeah, so how would they benefit?

[rustic yoke]

Yeah, pretty much.

I can understand not wanting to add another thing that would complicate balance even more, but if military aircraft are going to continue to be a major focus for the game, I figure that they could at least give something towards the civilian flights that many people like to do.

[mental forge]

YH-32 and XF5F, two aircraft you mentioned, wouldnt benefit if only aircraft with charter and cargo got the bonus

[lone spoke]

I just don't see how stuff like X-15 which literally has no use both IRL and in-game would earn any money rather than just being collector's item which is always was

[rustic yoke]

It wouldn't be a direct benefit - those aircraft would be giving the bonuses to the planes which do those charter/cargo flights.

[mental forge]

ok i admit i kinda skidded the suggestion

youre saying if the aircraft were kept at a airport then aircraft doing charter/cargo would benefit?

[lone spoke]

doesn't make sense but ight

[rustic yoke]

Yes.

So, for instance, if I did some flights in a Cessna 172 and owned a YH-32, I could gain some WP from a flight in that Cessna if I owned the YH-32.

[lone spoke]

recipe for horrible inflation

[mental forge]

but then why would you fly the YH-32

if you dont directly make money from it

only if you just own it

[lone spoke]

imagine someone with 100's of them, or any much more others experimental

and bonus exponentially rising

[mental forge]

this only benefits people who collect the aircraft and not actually fly them

[lone spoke]

also does not motivates people to use them

you still flying anything but them

[mental forge]

yes exactly

[lone spoke]

but idea overall looks interesting

maybe not exactly like that

but there's something

[mental forge]

not to mention the only people who would benefit the most are people who are already mega rich

[lone spoke]

i wish i knew coding i'd added like dunno.... experimental flights jobs actually

[mental forge]

learn

[lone spoke]

like job for X-15

imagine "cross the waypoint on top speed" and the more closer your speed to top speed, the more you get

[lone spoke]

my head will explode

[rustic yoke]

but then why would you fly (x military aircraft)

also does not motivates people to use them

recipe for horrible inflation

Yeah, those are all large problems that would be caused by this.

Perhaps instead of a consistent bonus, it could be an occassional museum job event that you get or something? That way, you could still fly in the military aircraft for various things, but they would occassionally benefit the civilian planes?

[lone spoke]

hm

i have slightly different idea

[rustic yoke]

Go ahead.

[lone spoke]

transport museum plane?

like special job for those experimental planes

it's still same cargo job, but you uh... plane itself is the cargo yk

[rustic yoke]

OOOHHH I like that idea.

[mental forge]

isnt the standard white rarity transport job just "transport your plane to x"

they dont actually say if youre carrying anything

[lone spoke]

so you like moving experimental plane to the museum or airshow stand

[mental forge]

either way yeah i like this

[lone spoke]

well i don't think X-15 has this for example

and even if it does payment is like 1k cuz there's 1 capacity

[mental forge]

yeah

[rustic yoke]

Yeah, that could be a great job event for those planes that don't get transport jobs or surveillance or whatever.

[mental forge]

planes with 1 capacity arent even meant to have those jobs that a bug

[lone spoke]

Exactly

[rustic yoke]

Perhaps the museum jobs could be a 2.25x multiplier on top of the regular formula, like corporate jobs? Since most experimental/military aircraft don't have high capacities, it wouldn't be that broken, IMO.

[limber breach]

experimental flight profile jobs

[dense crypt]

Why not just add testing jobs where u just test the plane like do a loop de loop or something or go to mach 3