Greatest Games

I thought we could start a thread sharing some of our greatest games.

My best to date - Playing on Hard Difficulty Level with my version of Delta Airlines. 4 of the computer airlines went bankrupt, but I managed to buy out the other 7 in 30 years with a value of $125 billion.

drgreenhouse wrote:I thought we could start a thread sharing some of our greatest games.

My best to date - Playing on Hard Difficulty Level with my version of Delta Airlines. 4 of the computer airlines went bankrupt, but I managed to buy out the other 7 in 30 years with a value of $125 billion.

Nice...What did your fleet consist of?

Oliver Cooksey wrote:

drgreenhouse wrote:I thought we could start a thread sharing some of our greatest games.

My best to date - Playing on Hard Difficulty Level with my version of Delta Airlines. 4 of the computer airlines went bankrupt, but I managed to buy out the other 7 in 30 years with a value of $125 billion.

Nice...What did your fleet consist of?

For long distance routes - I used the Boeing 787-8 to start a route- After visiting their plant in Everett, Washington, I realized how effective the plane was for long-distance travel between medium size cities.

For shorter routes, I would start either with CRJ-700s or A-318-100s - Best bang for the buck. After starting routes, I'd add either larger planes or more planes on a route.

For freight, I'd use either A300-600F or the B767-300F

Once I got much larger than the other airlines, I started competing with them directly on their most profitable routes, undercutting them to steal business.

drgreenhouse wrote:

Oliver Cooksey wrote:

drgreenhouse wrote:I thought we could start a thread sharing some of our greatest games.

My best to date - Playing on Hard Difficulty Level with my version of Delta Airlines. 4 of the computer airlines went bankrupt, but I managed to buy out the other 7 in 30 years with a value of $125 billion.

Nice...What did your fleet consist of?

For long distance routes - I used the Boeing 787-8 to start a route- After visiting their plant in Everett, Washington, I realized how effective the plane was for long-distance travel between medium size cities.

For shorter routes, I would start either with CRJ-700s or A-318-100s - Best bang for the buck. After starting routes, I'd add either larger planes or more planes on a route.

For freight, I'd use either A300-600F or the B767-300F

Once I got much larger than the other airlines, I started competing with them directly on their most profitable routes, undercutting them to steal business.

Basicly the same strategy as me. I use a318 on short routes and upgrade them to A319,20 then 21. Later on I start routes with a319 as my marketing is normally high enough then.

Why do you bother with freight? You get a better return on investment on passenger lines, and there's no shortage of routes to open.

My greatest game is still running!!!
1200 routes
1500 planes
110 cargo routes
150 cargo planes
600 billion value
£450 billion
£10 billion cash flow

Beat that!!!!!!!!!

I've been going the other direction, after having some massive fleets with big, glamorous, globe-encircling routes. I think actually the game can be won much faster using small jets. It's actually remarkably easy.

With the difficulty set to "hard" and with 5 competitors, using only E-195s, it took about 4 years on my first try. On lower difficulty settings, I've done it in 2. Because you can lease a E-195 for only about $4500K, you can add lots of routes really quickly. You can really wipe out the competition by running many small flights. In 2015.11, I was around 2M passengers on 96 routes while all five competitors were bunched at the bottom of the graph. (is there a way to see # of passengers for our competitors? I can't find it.) As for cash flow: they were at $5000-7000K in the last month, I was at $133000K. It's really amazing how profitable those little routes are.

It's kind of a fun exercise and the flexibility is nice. I can really easily move planes from one route to another to maximize occupancy. The only annoying part is the inability to open a hub without a route first flying there. Why? That's a completely artificial restriction that should be scrapped.

My most profitable route is Los angles to Zurich