The recently started Otto II game world comes with all aircraft types available, even some very old ones. And as quite a few players had to find out the hard way, some of those types are still missing correct cargo capacity data required in game worlds running with Dynamic Turnaround …

First the important bits: Today we have launched the second incarnation of our temporary game world Otto. It will run until mid-November and the special configuration looks like this:

• All aircraft types can be ordered, even out-of-production ones.
• At the beginning there are no used aircraft.
• Multiple holdings are allowed …

Today is the day: After we postponed the introduction of hard slot blocking rules last month, they get rolled out to all game worlds today. More precisely, these are the relevant changes introduced by today's patch:

1. The hard slot blocking rules are applied during flight instancing. Whenever the system encounters …

This is just a quick update to let you know that the hard enforcement of the new slot blocking rules has been postponed to the end of February. A soft enforcement has been in place ever since the launch of Quimby, so adjusting existing flights or planning new ones is …

And just like that, another year draws to a close. As every year, we will take a few days off of work to spend some time with family and friends. We will keep an eye on our servers though and we'll try to make sure that things continue to run …