the hitbox on the landing strip is kinda odd, not sure why sometimes my planes don't enter into the landing state when entering the runway
Airport Simulator
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Re: Airport Simulator
#92The appeal of ATC-style games is that the entire difficulty curve comes from one mechanic: you're never doing anything hard, you're just doing too many easy things at once. Flight Control nailed that on touch screens. Curious how this one handles the difficulty ramp — more planes, faster planes, or tighter airspace?
thanks for playing! yes, over the first 5min the spawn rate ramps up from ~5s to ~1.5s and the aircraft cap goes from 3 to 12. also wanted to make things more interesting with the takeoff mechanic to add some predictable congestion
Fantastic game! I miss the old iOS version. My suggestions:
The predictable congestion gets a bit tedious and makes the game impossibly difficult quite quickly. It guarantees needing to keep readjusting almost every plane, otherwise a crash happens while trying to select the correct plane to move. It's a great mechanic earlier on and as a tutorial, because collisions happen rarely, but knowing that so many planes spawning or taking off on a calculated crash path when it's already chaotic seems to actually take skill out of the game as it progresses.
Planes that land should turn gray as it's confusing vs. planes taking off (especially consecutive takeoffs).
Volume slider rather than just on/off.
Drawing paths to the landing area should be more forgiving. If there's a short section of weird path at the end, it messes up timing for the planes landing and causes crashes.
Re: Airport Simulator
#93The real simulator feature is discovering how quickly one delayed plane becomes everyone’s problem.
Re: Airport Simulator
#94I think the landing box could be a bit easier to hit
Re: Airport Simulator
#95Very satisfying to play! I made airpordle.com a bit ago when the dle craze happened, where the goal is to guess the airport you are controlling and the ATC score you get allows you to buy hints. https://airpordle.com
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#96Now I see why ATC is such a stressful job!
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#97Play this for a few minutes and you start to realize why sequencing and published flight paths are so important!
Really fun, thank you!
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#98When playing for the first time, a simple pop up tutorial would be nice, explaining what to do. Figuring out how to land and how to drag the planes takes a second, but it is fine. However, I still haven't figured out what to do with starting planes? I can't change their route, so how do I prevent two starting planes from crashing? Edit: I would also add some “crash margin” around the border of the screen. A plane com…
yeah, not being able to vector departing planes is also a pain. Kinda makes sense I guess, but still annoying
Re: Airport Simulator
#99Imagine modified version of this game having local AI voice recognition and you would have to give instructions to the air traffic over "radio" using callsigns and everything. Just like the real tower.
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#100Very fun. My only gripe is that you should be able to overfly taxiing aircraft, without crashing.