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Quimby IV is now open with new aircraft data

As previously announced, the fourth iteration of our time-limited game world Quimby is open as of today! The configuration is pretty much the same as that of its predecessor: No used aircraft at start, regular slots, multiple holdings and rising demand over time. Since we are still hard at work on some major new features and our recent survey showed that you prefer long running times over short ones, we decided to leave the new Quimby open for 8 months this time. As such it will end on November the 1st. To get started, head over to the new game world right here.

Quimby III has ended - final stats

As planned, the third run of the Quimby game world has come to an end yesterday. At only about three months, it was a rather short one, but it served its purpose very well: It gave you and us great insight into how the then new Dynamic Turnaround feature works in practice.

Quimby, A320NEO and other news

As mentioned before, we held our annual team meeting last week-end and as usual, we discussed a broad array of topics ranging from big stuff like our development roadmap all the way to tiny things like whether we should have a new chat system or not. In this post I want to give you a quick overview of and (where possible) a rough timeline for our plans.

How can we improve AirlineSim?

In about two weeks we will hold our annual AirlineSim team meeting. We'll lock ourselves in a conference room for two days to discuss, plan and schedule the work we want to tackle over the next 6 to 12 months. This year, this planning session will be dominated by a single large feature complex that has been on the drawing board for several years now and will finally get realized this year.

Update 6.3-45

Our first maintenance patch of the year brings two smaller changes that are mostly relevant for Quimby:

This was 2015, see you in 2016

I don't know about you, but to me it feels like this year went by incredibly fast. Then again, a lot of things happened in 2015: We didn't just release one but two major new versions this year, with AirlineSim 6.2 introducing a completely new interface and 6.3 adding Dynamic Turnaround Times. So by all means, 2015 was a meaningful and quite successful year for AirlineSim.