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Suggestion: Preload some arrivals? #772

Closed soundings closed 7 years ago

soundings commented 7 years ago

To balance arrivals and departures sooner would it be possible to provide an option to run at timewarp 100 with new departures disabled until the first time an arrival switches to our frequency.

eliuuk commented 7 years ago

I don't see how this would exactly work with the 'offset' aspect of arrivals. This would mean that some offsets would need to be edited in order to resolve a few issues with arrivals.

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To balance arrivals and departures sooner would it be possible to provide an option to run at timewarp 100 with new departures disabled until the first time an arrival switches to our frequency.

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erikquinn commented 7 years ago

This would be awesome, but with all the different airports, knowing how long to allow it to simulate into the future isn't really practical. Since the sim has no ability to intelligently deal with the aircraft that are moving before the game would "start", they could end up splattered all over the place, and the player would have airplanes to play with immediately, but they'd kind of be cleaning up the mess. At this stage, I don't think this is something that will get added. Maybe way downstream when we have automated controllers working the traffic outside our airspace, but that's probably years away. :wink:

Closing.

soundings commented 7 years ago

The program need only timewarp - as suggested - until the first time an arrival switches to our frequency.

Arrivals would be in exactly the same position as if the game had been started without timewarp.

I'm not going to play the tagging game with you but I would ask you to consider reopening.

erikquinn commented 7 years ago

@soundings Oh! I must apologize. Full disclosure, I didn't fully re-read the original write-up when looking at this just now. :grimacing: Sorry about that.....

What you're saying is not that we should skip ahead until a bunch of aircraft are in the airspace, you're just saying we should fast forward until the first one enters.

That's a very reasonable and straightforward request, that we can and should absolutely implement. Reopening.

PS: thanks for following up. :+1:

panther2 commented 7 years ago

How would that affect the clock in the upper left corner? This "real-time"-feature would be negated then - or would the time be set at the moment the first arrival occurs?

erikquinn commented 7 years ago

That is a good thing to point out. We can make sure that happens.

erikquinn commented 7 years ago

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Closing this issue.