To all airlines thinking about quiting...
Posted: Mon Dec 14, 2009 9:14 pm
offer has ended
Virtual Airline Manager
https://forum.fsairlines.net/
how exactly are you offering that?? you mean for pilots that want to fly LESS than 4 times / week right?? Better clarify that statement here before you have a thousand PM's asking the same questions.flightsimer wrote: *you will be able to continue for free
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see the latest posts from Konny on the forum and the poll on the website. the new-"new account" system as of now is no longer having each player paying for themself but instead the CEO paying to run the VA and the pilots flying for free unlimited amount of flights unless they go to the medium or upper level account which they will have to pay for.Brian Peace wrote:how exactly are you offering that?? you mean for pilots that want to fly LESS than 4 times / week right?? Better clarify that statement here before you have a thousand PM's asking the same questions.flightsimer wrote: *you will be able to continue for free
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cheers
I think you are exaggerating this a bit too much. The point is...for the last 5 years Konny, Joe and me paid for your airlines (it's around a 1000$ or more? + a loooot of work) ... from now on everyone is going to pay for his own airline. I think that sounds fair doesn't it?vaccaro wrote:I have quit but do not want to join any existing airine to fly. While I had Air Mermaid I already was a member of another group which allowed me to fly under any callsign, any a/c and any livery with similar features. The FSA for me was only for keeping a database of routes and a basic FDR.
The reason I have quit not because of the paid (whatever you wanna name it gold, bronze, stone, etc.) membership thingy, and I am quite sure those who might quit FSA are the guys who can afford the price but don't want to pay for something they already had free of charge.
The problem is, the developers instead of offering free and paid services with different aspects (for example, a paid member could have had the financial status, gates and such as well as a FDR, while a free user might have had only the FDR part) they tried to force everyone to pay to have an airline.
It is like kidnapping. Pay xxxx eur otherwise we won't give your airline back.
Until yesterday (before I saw the poll) I was ready to pay but I preffered to leave.
To cut it short, I think most serious users wouldn't want to join an existing airline while all you might get some non serious kids who only want to spend their free time playing an airline game.
PS.
If my words offend any person please feel free to remove my forum account as well.
Merry Xmas again
I'm sorry that we have been free of charge for the last 5 yearsI am quite sure those who might quit FSA are the guys who can afford the price but don't want to pay for something they already had free of charge.
Please check your PM boxflightsimer wrote: ...
SARMedic177 wrote:I'm with the last comment. Especialy about access to aircraft. as a CEO you should have access to every thing but then your pilots should have acess to all aircraft in the VA's Fleet.
Secondly..if i was going to pay for the Platinum Account...where do I do it? i can't find anything at this time to tell me where. Will this be ready for pilots to take advantage of the early subscribers reduction benefit as detailed on the web site? If not it is a bit of a stick and carrot.
Chris
alasizon wrote:There will be a 14 day trial so you can decide if you would like to upgrade to premium. Starting January 1st, there will be a link to PayPal where you can go and set up and purchase a subscription.abarter wrote:Did I miss something? I want to sign up for a Premium Account but I cannot find how to sign up anywhere on the site. Jan 1 is two days away and I fear I may have missed the sign up information. I don't want to have my VA on hold. That would ruin my nice long weekend of planned flying.
CEOs do currently have access to special use aircraft, all you have to do is submit a support ticket with the following information to request that you can purchase those aircraft.Will Platinum account CEOs be allowed access to 'special use' aircraft? After paying 30 Euro (or 27 Euro with a discount) a year to run an airline, the least I expect is access to all the planes. This will be key to whether I pay to continue. In the current rules, a non-paying pilot of a large airline could fly a plane that a paying CEO of a small airline cannot use. I'm not trying to stir anything up here - I'm just asking a fair question and making a valid point.
Also note, it is not needed that it be the CEO who pays the Platinum account, its only needed that there is one per VA.CAPFlyer wrote:As part of recent changes to the FSAirlines database, we are now able to restrict sales of aircraft in a much more meaningful way. Because of this, we can now accept additions of aircraft currently in the prototype and testing phase to have their information in (so we don't have 100 people trying to add it every week like we did with the A380), to specify aircraft for private sales only (like Warbirds), and to allow for "special" aircraft which we wish to allow, but restrict how many any VA can have.
As such, we can now, on a limited bases, accept aircraft like the A300-600ST "Beluga" and the AN-225. Purchases of these aircraft will be by request only, and no more than the real world availability will be allowed for any VA (i.e. no VA can have more than 1 AN-225 or 5 A300-600ST's).
HOWEVER the previous restrictions that aircraft being added must have civilian airworthiness still applies. We will not be allowing any more military-only aircraft onto the network.
If you wish to purchase any of these "Special" types of aircraft, simply submit a support ticket with the number you wish to purchase and an admin will add them to a private sale to your company.
Unless the rules have changed again recently (within the last couple of weeks), only airlines with 5 or more pilots are allowed to buy 'special use' aircraft. I discovered this when I tried to buy an Airbus Beluga exactly how you suggested, with a support ticket. If I'm going to pay to continue to use fsairlines I need access to all available planes.CEOs do currently have access to special use aircraft, all you have to do is submit a support ticket with the following information to request that you can purchase those aircraft.
especially since they are now paying real money for this service...CAPFlyer wrote:We have not discussed it yet, but I don't see why we can't remove the restriction on size, but we will not remove the restriction on quantities.