It’s summer here in Germany, and while I won’t be going on a big trip this year, I’ve promised myself two uninterrupted weeks of quality family time. With that in mind, please bear with me if responses to non-urgent support queries take a little longer than usual. I’ll still be keeping an eye on things and making sure the servers continue ticking along while I’m away. I’ll also briefly step back in to launch a new round of Quimby during the week starting 11th August.
To make things a little bit easier, I’ve implemented a change today that I’ve been pondering for a long time: I have disabled the mandatory screening of small company logos. For years now we’ve frequently received complaints that the process of screening logos takes too long, especially in cases where the first two moderators disagree, so that a third one has to break the tie. As with many things in and around AirlineSim, this cumbersome process stems from a time when the game and its community were much smaller and there was a stronger desire to keep things „realistic“. As such, the motivation behind this process was not just one of preventing copyright infringements (still a valid concern which I plan to address differently in the future) but also of maintaining a certain level of „aesthetic quality“. By its very nature, this is highly subjective and not something a highly time-constrained developer (yours truly) and an always-too-small team of volunteers should be spending their valuable time on.
Obviously, you can and should report any logo that violates our community standards or infringes on a third party’s copyrights. Just as with violations of the naming or other rules, you can do so using the „report company“ form on an airline’s profile page.
And with that: Have fun and keep it tasteful!
Martin