#Augustus Atoll Runway Length Increase

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sudden wigeon
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aswell remove the annoing trees at the end of the runways

dark heron
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Will send a proper idea proposal later

woeful dove
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skill issue

dark heron
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Yoo, we've got a super reaction, loool

brittle torrent
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demolishing houses for profit

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my beloed

dark heron
dark heron
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My bad, space*

brittle torrent
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where sire

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you want people to live parallel to the runway?

woeful dove
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kai tak:

dark heron
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What about these empty spaces

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If you are sooo desperate about keeping the houses..

brittle torrent
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also i did manage to land an a340 there, asiana 214 style

dark heron
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I've seen multiple people do it, but the idea is how to make it suitable for realistic operations..

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You either extend the runway... or remove the misleading jets on the AI stands and lower the airport's capacity.

sudden wigeon
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yeah

floral basalt
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apparently the spawns weren't configured properly

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the dev who configured the spawn didn't know the E190 didn't quite have the ability to decelerate fast enough

brittle torrent
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let me try the e190

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ive landed the a321 there

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used only half the runway

dark heron
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Which just spawned it

sudden wigeon
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meanwhile the crj-200 durring take off it uses the full runway

dark heron
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I'll send my idea proposal in a few minutes, let me make a proper illustration and a few arguments as to why this should be considered

delicate flame
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ive seen a 737 parked there once

river hull
gritty phoenix
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i agree with this but it should only be elongated slightly

sudden wigeon
dark heron
fading salmon
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A stall speed limit might be better suited

dark heron
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And also sending in the full proposal anytime soon

fading salmon
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Though that will need a remodel of part of the island, changing a number is easier great

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But if someone's willing to do it then why not

dark heron
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If only I could actually help redesign it slightly (not happening lolo)

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I've already got the idea and plan

river hull
dark heron
fading salmon
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By "someone" I mean dev-side

dark heron
gritty phoenix
sudden wigeon
dark heron
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Does anyone need the proposal I just wrote

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Good question

dark heron
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Also I shall probably stop pinging you for each reply, sorry about that.

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I've been wondering about that lately, how exactly do people become contribitors? Do they make (or help making) aircrafts and airports?

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Anyway, I am sending what could be counted as a small extension, but given your mixed opinions about it, devs probably won't be interested in doing an island overhaul.

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It is entirely up to the devs and community, though - I just decided to bring it up, because it bothered me quite a bit.

dark heron
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Yeah, it is not a lot, but enough to let some bigger than the SF34 operate at NTAA

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While also keeping the original shape and some of the houses

sudden wigeon
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And removing the annoying trees

dark heron
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So glad to hear someone shares the same opinion as me, hahah..

crystal tinsel
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the yes

dark heron
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Wait what did I do

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Why did the main message disappear

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For the newcomers:

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Augustus Atoll (NTAA) Airport Runway Extension Proposal.

Augustus Atoll is a quiet, yet touristy place, located in the middle of nowhere. However, its runway is too short to accomodate bigger aircraft, at times even the small ones struggle to stop or lift off in time. Having said that, here is my runway extension proposal and why it should be considered:

1. Runway extension

1.1. NTAA's airport runway should be longer, in order to accomodate bigger turboprop and the smaller regional jets, often having presence on the AI stands. By doing so, houses would have to be demolished or moved, but the airport island and the surrounding empty ones offer plenty of space for doing so, if it is insisted on keeping them. So me and (a part of?) the community would like to bring this up for consideration.

1.2. Why?
a) The runway is very short by default. Its lenght is comparable to airfields.
b) Its capacity is overexaggerated with the current airport size.
c) The majority of aircrafts, spawned at AI stands (CRJ1000, E190 and etc.) have no capabilities to commence safe operations at the airport.
d) If the airport is meant to be used only by turboprop traffic, then remove the misleading aircrafts at the AI stands or reduce its capacity/lower its stall speed requirements.
f) Bigger runway = bigger planes = more tourists = more profit great
e) The airport's capacity is misleading (as well as the already mentioned AI spawned aircraft.

2. Image
Below you can find an example image of the minimum required extension, in order to have bigger aircraft capacity and a wider range of operating aircraft.

visual ruin
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Take it from the devs, not me

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But the AI spawned aircraft not being able to operate safely definitely justifies an extension

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If not simply extending with a pier into the ocean off to the right of the above image

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In a similar fashion to Pembroke

warm zenith
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@viscid shale read if you will

proper urchin
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NO

Simple argument: it's a fucking small airport and it is supposed to be like that

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Not even designed to handle e jets

plush swan
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raise stall speed and/or capacity limit

visual ruin
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that would achieve the opposite of what the suggestion intends

plush swan
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tbf i can't even see the original suggestion

viscid shale
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ok so in makin the airport i:
increased rwy length
lowered cap
lowered stall cap (lower means slower)

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bigger and faster planes were able to take jobs to the previous model which was even smaller and nobody rly complained shurg

thick trail
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Yeah sorry I don't agree with increasing the length of the runway,

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It's meant to be a small airport, I don't think people should be advocating for big aircraft to operate in a small regional airport.

visual ruin
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lowered stall cap again...

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shit

visual ruin
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Although it’s pretty easy to land a plane of that capacity at Augustus

gritty phoenix
visual ruin
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Yea

gritty phoenix
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i was barely able to take off in my a319

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which stalls at 108 knots

visual ruin
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Lowering it any further would straight up make the airport not worth visiting for jobs

gritty phoenix
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yeah but its not really an airport intended for jobs anyway lol

visual ruin
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G.7500 which is at the stall cap
lands with a good bit to spare

gritty phoenix
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now try taking off

visual ruin
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Yea that’s a bit more challenging

gritty phoenix
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youre probably gonna overrun the runway

visual ruin
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Older aircraft really need acceleration buffs

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some are actual slugs

gritty phoenix
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fr

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i dont mind a slower albeit more realistic takeoff but still

oblique steppe
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whar

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the runway already did get extended

crystal tinsel
viscid shale
frozen shell
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737-200 will operate in and out of there without issues

gritty phoenix
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true

visual ruin
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Reckon the problem is more or less with some older planes (G.7500 included) being absolute snails in the acceleration department

dark heron
thick streamBOT
ornate canopy
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never change my beloved short augustus runway 💔

sudden wigeon
ornate canopy
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slight inconvenience

sudden wigeon
ornate canopy
sudden wigeon
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-# not good thing

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anyway

warm zenith
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tbf i’ve landed and taken off at aug with a 737 max 8

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with some room to spare

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so maybe skill issue

brittle torrent
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i need to try more augustus tomfoolery

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tomfoolery airlines new route tomfoolery-augustus yojana

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what aircraft should i try taking off and landing from augustus

dark heron
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Well

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If the majority is for keep it as it is

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Then keep it

dark heron
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And by bigger aircraft I do not mean A340s and 777s..

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I mean ERJ140s and CRJ200s

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Regional jets

dark heron
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OR, if the majority wants to keep the airport as it is right now, then raise the stall speed requirements even more... and make it so only turboprops can "take jobs" (who are capable of operating there - again, not all of them can make it)

sudden wigeon
dark heron
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But the runway length is comparable to an airfield

dark heron
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Btw, now looking at the outdated Fandom abt NTAA - mentions tourism boom, so I don't know how you'll fly all the tourists in and out in PC12s

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Or any other GAs

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And you've got a "big" terminal for that small airport after all

brittle torrent
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"native settlers died, which allowed runway to be built"

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the airport came BEFORE the town

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It is unknown what happened to the native population since, as they had remained uncontacted since their initial discovery. Evidence suggests they either relocated or perished due to natural or external causes. Nevertheless, the lack of permanent settlers enabled a runway to be built on the island in the 1950s. Initially, it was for military purposes, serving as a stopover point to reach other Atolls designated for nuclear testing.

dark heron
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Came before the town as a military stopover

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But when the nuclear program was abolished, the people started to inhabit the atoll

brittle torrent
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the runway mustve had to be shortened

dark heron
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Well

dark heron
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It is all up to the devs then

dark heron
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So I guess this is denied for now, right?

gritty phoenix
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probably

frozen shell
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Augustus has literally always been this short. I flew out of the original airport around 300-400 times. Trust me, it’s just a matter of skill.

vague helm
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real

dark heron
frozen shell
vague helm
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imo I think the game needs more short difficult runways for big planes, I love the challenge

frozen shell
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Generally if it can take jobs there, it’s possible to land and take off

dark heron
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You can't land a CRJ1000 there, yet it still has presence on AI stands

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You can't take off either.

frozen shell
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it’s a tiny airport

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It’s supposed to be a tiny airport

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don’t change an airport because you’re trying to use it improperly

gritty phoenix
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fr

dark heron
frozen shell
dark heron
frozen shell
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The runway is slightly longer than it used to be.

dark heron
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As you say, I do not deny any statements.

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Strange how the 737-200 is better performance-wise, compared to the smaller jets in-game. IRL the ERJ-140 and 737-200 have similar (if not almost the same) performance when considering take off distance.

visual ruin
river hull
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well yeah it has a powerful engine

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and the erj and crj are powered by vacuum cleaners and hair dryers

dark heron
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Good point

visual ruin
# river hull well yeah it has a powerful engine

Thrust to weight on the 737 Max 8 is 0.1609 at MTOW

For G650ER it’s 0.163 at MTOW, but the 737 MAX out accelerates the G650ER by a mile ingame

As time has gone on in aero, planes have slowly been getting faster and faster in acceleration, culminating in the 2022 Overture

Many older aircraft are total slugs compared to contemporaries

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Global 7500 has even higher thrust/weight at MTOW

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and it’s even slower than the G650ER in acceleration ingame iirc

dark heron
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True

alpine lotus
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Instead of extending the runway inland

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Why dont we extend the island

sudden wigeon
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-# add uncolideable tourist on that side WHAT

topaz fox
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I'm just thinking about this

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There is this funny place in real life called rarotonga

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The terminal is small af

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But the runway can land 777-300s and 787-9s

topaz fox
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I've been there

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On a 787

sudden wigeon
topaz fox
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Cook islands

sudden wigeon
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anyway

dark heron
dark heron
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Then we get back to "overhaul the island"

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As our fellow developers or someone said^^

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I think extending it inland does not qualify as "overhauling"

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But adding a whole beach (long enough to make the runway usable for unrealistically low-performance regional airlines) is quite a lot of terraforming

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Well again

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All up to the devs and if someone has interest in doing us, the community, a favor

river hull
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why dont we just make the old planes accelerate better

dark heron
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Take the Saab

visual ruin
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I’ve already made a notepad doc with every fighter in the game ranked in acceleration and would happily do the same for everything else

visual ruin
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The Saab SK60B reaches 300 knots nearly 2 seconds faster than the BAC TSR-2

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the Buckeye is barely a second behind the TSR-2

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😭

viscid shale
dark heron
# viscid shale Yea no

Yes, island doesn't need to be expanded at all in my opinion. I think the runway needs to be made just a little longer (no matter inland or by making a pier south of the existing runway), it cannot accomodate the regional traffic I've been seeing at stands (but the runway still allows for some bigger jets to be landed, I have absolutely no idea why. Probably aircraft performance).

dark heron
visual ruin
viscid shale
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Model me a new runway and move the neighborhood it would destroy and maybe I’ll consider it

brittle torrent
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blender

visual ruin
river hull
dark heron
frozen shell
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stop trying to destroy the uniqueness of the airport because you’re personally incapable of landing a big plane there

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if you wanna fly there with a big plane, learn to minmax stall speeds or use something smaller

frozen shell
visual ruin
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But what isnt is stallcapping airports that are easy to land at necotroll

vague helm
viscid shale
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We all just go “airport” and an airport appears fully ready for us to just place down on the map

thick trail
dark heron
thick trail
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It is for the size of the airport

dark heron
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Seems like I've caused a lot of chaos and hassle here, post may be locked. Apologies to all mods and developers for being a naughty player and taking your time for things I should have understood "by default".

dark heron
thick trail
thick trail
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So of course the aircraft that can't land there would be too big

dark heron
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But are shown at AI stands.

thick trail
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It may just be a mistake as one of the devs said earlier.

dark heron
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Alright, I see.

viscid shale
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i have taken off/landed e175s there with no issue and they have enough capacity to take jobs to the airport and spawn there

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so other than e175 too

floral basalt
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i believe E190s still spawn there

viscid shale
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true

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that might be in the corporate spawn cuz idk any lore airline that operates e190s to augustus

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and those spawns will be redone in the coming month

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e190 is one of those that has enough capacity to spawn there as AI but too high of a stall speed to take jobs there

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so nothing i can do about that one without excluding other aircraft that should be spawning there

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as it's detirmined by capacity

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even so, e190 is borderline and could probably still operate there as its stall speed is abt 4 knots over the cap

alpine lotus
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Because again

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It physically can’t land there

viscid shale
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um

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you might have to get better at the game

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I BET you 100 THOUSAND WP i can land a e190 there

brittle torrent
plush swan
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i bet you -5 million WP that i can land the an-225 there

dark heron
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Btw the E190 is a fairly new (updated) aircraft, so it could have enough performance. The real question is if you can managr to land there and then takeoff.

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The only jet suitable of operating there so far is the BAe 146-100

plush swan
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ima try in my E190

plush swan
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very hard landing, but I managed it

brittle torrent
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because ive fucking done it

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i have an a321 parked there that i can land

plush swan
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damn nice

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ima try tho

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-200 or neo btw?

dark heron
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Newer and updated aircraft have better performance^

plush swan
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A321neo, with adv customisation to reduce stall speed

brittle torrent
plush swan
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-200 (-100, technically) was even easier

brittle torrent
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ima try some larger narrowbodies

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ill probably do the 757

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tbh

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and then ill try e195-e2 prob

plush swan
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they need a way to sort database by stall speed

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so i can find a widebody with a really low stall speed

brittle torrent
plush swan
brittle torrent
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ive found

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757s can indeed land here

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however i did pull an asiana 214 on approach

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the a321 has a higher stall speed than this

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therefore we can probably assume that the limit is 135

brittle torrent
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ill try the 757-300 (stall speed 139)

plush swan
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i'll try with the 767-200ER

brittle torrent
plush swan
brittle torrent
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augustus atoll is about to get cooked

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side note: 777-9 and a340-600 can not takeoff from there, you overrun

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so thats like a limit

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havent tried landing though

plush swan
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not quite

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stayed within the fence but went off the runway

brittle torrent
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maybe the cap is narrowbodies

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im coming now

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another thing that has to be considered is taking off

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because the takeoff roll usually takes longer than the landing

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ok the 757-300 is a tragedy

dark heron
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Okay, so,

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I am talking about the regional jets

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Some of them haven't been updated in a while and have worse performance

river hull
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shouldnt the suggestion be about improving their performance then

dark heron
dark heron
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ERJ-140 struggles

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I did not slam it, but touched down literally at the runway threshold marking

visual ruin
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or like 115 idk

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It was 111 but you said it got changed right

viscid shale
alpine lotus
viscid shale
alpine lotus
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Sure you could probably land it but how much runway would be left

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How many go arounds would need to be made

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If things didnt line up

viscid shale
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again, sort of the point of the entire airport

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its meant to be hard to land at

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"oops i made a hard to land at airport" like no i intentionally only lengthened it by like 200 ft

alpine lotus
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Which is why lorewise it doesn’t work for the e190

viscid shale
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yea i dont make airports with airline lore in mind sorry man

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looks like you gotta pull your pants up and deal with it for now

alpine lotus
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We have been for a while Skrolled

viscid shale
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a whole like 3 weeks

alpine lotus
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Which is why no lore airline flies the e190 to augustus

viscid shale
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ok

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augustus wont sink into the ocean in the absence of an e190

alpine lotus
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We’re still talking about that ai e190 spawn right zazu

viscid shale
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its meant for e175 max anyways, e190 spawning at non-lore spawn is just a side effect that i cant get rid of without excluding planes that should be there like the bae 146-100

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so we're gonna strap on our big boy boots and deal with it until a corporate lore airline takes those spawns

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which im making one its in the oven ong

alpine lotus
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Or we can just remove that spawn since again lore management would strike down any idea of using an e190 to augustus

viscid shale
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yea lemme go remove a spawn from my airport just because someone would be mad at an e190 spawning there

visual ruin
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that was the plane at the stall cap

alpine lotus
visual ruin
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Ah

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Fair

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e190 would surely overrun

viscid shale
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ALRIGHT i did research and yea there are actually 3 airlines that i know of that operate e190s and have a possibility of having them spawn there

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didnt know you were talking about a lore spawn yo my bad g

visual ruin
viscid shale
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ima look into translating stall cap into lore spawns too

dark heron
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Yeah, well, the ERJ140 with its stall speed of 107 still can't make it

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Either skill issue or performance issue

dark heron
dark heron
viscid shale
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ive floated like a quarter of the runway and still stuck it before man

dark heron
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With the 140?

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Nah, it probably is a huge skill issue of mine then

viscid shale
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do you lag usually?

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when im lagging it takes longer to do everything including stop

dark heron
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Yet I still land with stall speed, let the nose gear literally slam into the runway and use the runway threshold as my aiming point.

dark heron
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Solid ~60 fps, I've got decent PC specs and a good wifi connection.

viscid shale
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sometimes its just the server being stressed and theres nothing you can do about it

dark heron
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Possible

viscid shale
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for example we didnt add any new scenery for like a year-ish until roblox recently improved their servers cuz they just couldnt handle more

dark heron
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Understandable

viscid shale
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and they still get pretty high loads when the servers full for example

dark heron
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I had it tested in a server with fewer people, same result. It's probably me not doing something as it should be

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And with that proposal what I wanted is just extending the runway a little to be suitable for the regional jets. I really like the charm of the airport, its lore and etc. and I'd love to keep it this way

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Just enough so the ERJ140s and CRJ200s could operate there as intended

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But now that I know that everything is modelled in Blender, I am sorry for taking your time

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Thought that at least the houses and clutter assets were CSG

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But if the airport was never meant to be for such "big" regional aircraft, then I am fine with it.

viscid shale
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and tbh the erj family might be too underpowered rn but im remodeling them rn anyways so itll get figured out eventually

dark heron
viscid shale
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a WHILE ago

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they actually were mesh as early as like 2022

dark heron
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Augustus had the old CSG runway before its update.

viscid shale
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modular pieces but each one a mesh

dark heron
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One question about that

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Will you be keeping the standard livery UVs or you'll be introducing the advanced ones, where it has to be split to 3?

viscid shale
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uhh idk gen2 UVs are kinda set to go away once roblox improves their textures, plus theyre harder for the user and like 5x harder for the dev lol

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but probably

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im rly rly hoping by some miracle they do fix their textures before im done with it

dark heron
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I see.

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Thank you for your patience and also for taking the time to discuss these things with us

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Also glad to hear that we're expecting an ERJ family remodel anytime soon.

alpine lotus
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I cant say anything for the devs but for the user experience its just confusing

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Not hard

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For the average user its just that

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Confusing at first

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Second nature when they get used to it

thick trail
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I think if we find an airport in Aero that is a similar size to Augustus, and is also based on an IRL airport, we can basically use the IRL airport's information to figure out what can actually land in Augustus.

viscid shale
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Um

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I set the spawns

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I can say with confidence that it’s based on capacity of the plane and not what operates there

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We choose capacity and we choose airlines

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And that’s all we can directly control

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Meaning if a gate is set to a capacity of 32 to allow for a bae 146-100, but an airline that operates an e190 is selected for that gate as well, an e190 has a possibility of spawning

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There’s actually something in lore resources thread or smth about it

visual ruin
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80 cap 110 stall lmfao

viscid shale
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I should say that’s for lore spawns

visual ruin
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Ah

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So gates have their own capacity?

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Like for spawns

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Or is it based on overall cap

viscid shale
visual ruin
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Neat

ornate canopy
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this suggestion is bad

dark heron
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Personal opinion Dunno

crystal tinsel
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We need longer runway

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How do you expect these resorts to make money off of tourists

thick trail
crystal tinsel
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To explore the island

brittle torrent
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there are 3

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not connected

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technically 4 islands but 2 of them are bridge

crystal tinsel
thick trail
crystal tinsel
crystal tinsel
dark heron
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Fair enough

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Money is only coming from tourist tax [if applicable] and ship parking & services.