Hello airport CEO!

Another dev blog served up fresh, one day late due to some technical difficulties... but check it out here: Dev Blog 125: Branch puzzles, "expanding" the studio and localization

Looking forward to an Alpha 30 default deployment later this week!

Best Regards,

Alexander, Fredrik and Olof

Hello airport CEO!

As we're preparing for Alpha 30, i.e. The Soundtrack Update, we're today deploying the last update for Alpha 29 to the default branch. It contains a series of very important bug fixes for various systems but mainly regarding remote stands. It also contains a few new minor features such as three additional aircraft and a subset of general process improvements.

As we're preparing for Alpha 30, currently live on the experimental branch, we've thrown together a contest that lets you have your ultimate airport designing skills featured on the main menu of the game. To learn more, check out this Forum topic!

Here's the full changelog for Alpha 29.12-11:


Improvement

• ACEO-11043] - Contractors will fall back on a random construction order if the nearest one is not reachable
• ACEO-11047] - Vehicles with shipments for delivery sites behind a vehicle checkpoint will attempt to enter via that delivery site's nearest vehicle checkpoint
• ACEO-11057] - Cafe counter tops now colorable
• ACEO-11060] - Reduced path deviation generation for running persons and contractors
• ACEO-11200] - Added two additional liveries to Beechcraft Baron 58
• ACEO-11201] - Secret GA aircraft added (requires paved runway and stand)
• ACEO-11306] - Ensure remote boarding does not start before remote deboarding is completed
• ACEO-11307] - Added red taxiway icon to runway entrances/exits not properly connected to the taxiway system
• ACEO-11313] - Various remote stand stability improvements
• ACEO-11378] - Added "reset ramp agent" button to debug panel to reduce save breaking caused by previous remote stand bugs

New Feature

• ACEO-11006] - Adapt paint brush tool to work with vehicles
• ACEO-11052] - Airbus A321 added for Tulip, SkyFly and Penguin
• ACEO-11199] - Piper Cherokee added

Bug

• ACEO-8793] - Terminal doors visible for remote stands
• ACEO-8997] - Insufficient information on why stands without security connection doesn't show up in flight planner
• ACEO-9890] - Uncaught exception in job tasks panel sorting can cause its update sequence to stop funcitoning
• ACEO-10156] - Flight status and weather panel stay open when management panel is opened
• ACEO-10243] - Security areas connect with diagonal neighbors causing two separate security areas to merge, which can cause passenger to get stuck in the wrong terminal
• ACEO-10412] - Queuing persons do not distribute correctly between desks when waiting for static queue entry
• ACEO-10429] - When deserializing empty fuel depot or truck will disable fueling service
• ACEO-10460] - Aircraft sometimes does not leave when all passengers are boarded
• ACEO-10464] - Setting first object name on build adds two extra spaces
• ACEO-10550] - Airport lighting doesn't always turn on or off in time
• ACEO-10566] - Room secure zone status incorrectly determined due to missing calculation method
• ACEO-10687] - Australia regions are incorrect in airport database
• ACEO-10872] - Rare uncaught exception in aircraft taxi causing aircraft to get stuck
• ACEO-10876] - Planes spawned via debug panel can get stuck in bottom left corner (warning message will now appear when trying to spawn unscheduled flights (not recommended!))
• ACEO-10930] - Uncaught exception causes fuel truck to stop refueling
• ACEO-10941] - Fuel depot tank extensions overflow UI
• ACEO-10998] - Persons attempting to distribute evenly across queues do not consider number of static queuers
• ACEO-11015] - Ground equipment overlap stair truck for E170 aircraft
• ACEO-11024] - Very rare out of bounds exception on construction material order system can cause system to stall
• ACEO-11034] - Passengers and employees will run if delayed to a certain flight or job task
• ACEO-11040] - Double CEOs can have been serialized on older saves
• ACEO-11042] - Incorrect delivery site null reference check for delivery vehicles can cause stalling
• ACEO-11049] - Fuel trucks attempting to refuel at an unbuilt fuel depot do not continue to park action instead
• ACEO-11050] - Rare none-existent fuel truck bug can cause parking lot spaces to be incorrectly occupied
• ACEO-11086] - Incorrect default state of construction validation bool causes strange scatter-like construction patterns
• ACEO-11088] - Missing content check on order queue length can cause contractors to stall when constructing
• ACEO-11112] - Exit markings incorrect on A319 and A321
• ACEO-11120] - Contractors incorrectly claim path issue problem when not able to find construction material
• ACEO-11123] - Fight planner auto-planning feature does not respect time separation for remote stands
• ACEO-11128] - Incorrect distance checking variable can cause static queues to stall
• ACEO-11138] - Aviation fuel supply truck does not leave the airport after completing its delivery
• ACEO-11140] - Stand can loose connection to security checkpoint if wall is placed too close to boarding point.
• ACEO-11144] - Incorrect interaction point occupation checking method can cause security checkpoints to deadlock as unstaffed
• ACEO-11150] - Aircraft E170 and E190 startup wait is too long
• ACEO-11154] - Service round and fuel sets as green color in turnaround progress monitor if not requested
• ACEO-11157] - Gate door doesn't set as secure if zone has previously been cleared
• ACEO-11176] - Onboard persons text in vehicle panel displayed for irrelevant vehicles
• ACEO-11195] - Legacy arriving passenger behavior can cause stalling when attempting to leave a secure zone
• ACEO-11196] - Service vehicle overtaking system does not function properly
• ACEO-11235] - Runway connection error displayed if stand doesn't accept commercial or GA
• ACEO-11297] - Rare exception on rescheduling flights can cause planes to not land
• ACEO-11330] - Incorrect distance value check for occupying vehicles at service car stops can cause vehicles to stall
• ACEO-11353] - Uncaught null reference exception in remote stand service car job ordering can cause job task dispatchment to stall
• ACEO-11357] - Vehicles can deadlock when there is no possibility to overtake
• ACEO-11371] - Ramp agents abort service round due to un-safe saftey check
• ACEO-11379] - Rendering issue for MacBooks with Open GL version lower than 4.0
• ACEO-11380] - Gameplay settings panel in main menu does not load correctly
• ACEO-11422] - Incorrect error counter for vehicle overtaking system can cause deadlocks
• ACEO-11442] - Service vehicles can in certain instances deadlock when overtaking
• ACEO-11535] - Missing serialization of attempted target position for fetching security check-points causes persons to ignore certain check-points upon load
• ACEO-11592] - Service vehicles attempting to park at parking objects with already assigned vehicle of same type does not clear their assignment
• ACEO-11593] - Vehicle trailers do no occupy nodes

Hello airport CEOs!

We're back with another dev blog and we've got some exiting deployments in front of us. In short, the last experimental version of Alpha 29 will soon be transitioned over to the default branch as we deploy Alpha 30 and The Soundtrack Update to the experimental branch.

To get the full scoop, read more about it in Dev Blog 124: Preparing for Alpha 30 and a status update on multiple floors

Thanks,

Fredrik, Alexander and Olof - Apoapsis Studios

Hello airport CEO!

Hope you've had a good weekend. We're kicking off the week with a new default deployment which has been soaking on the experimental branch over the weekend. The main fix in this update is a completely new delivery system taking care of the bugs reported for construction material and aviation fuel not being delivered. We've also added a paint brush tool to speed up the beautifying process of your airport and is an initial start on the work of supplying you with new tools to better help you plan and build your airport.

There are also a series of minor bug fixes and an update to the mod kit for the most recently added aircraft!



Improvement

• ACEO-10333] - Overhauled airport delivery system
• ACEO-10824] - Added MDK (mod kit) for Q400, E170 and E190
• ACEO-10863] - Default building and demolishing drag and place is now set to "click-hold-release" (previous "click-release-click" can be enabled on via "alternative dragging" toggle in gameplay menu)

New Feature

• ACEO-10819] - Added paint brush mode tool

Bug

• ACEO-10679] - Service truck carts can on rare occasions be left on parking spots
• ACEO-10836] - ATR 42 tail sprite rendering incorrect
• ACEO-10851] - Main menu aircraft missing sprites
• ACEO-10858] - Missing livery on Havana CRJ 700 aircraft
• ACEO-10875] - APU sound effect doesn't properly reduce volume with distance
• ACEO-10889] - Sit position on certain modular sofa piece not correct on load
• ACEO-10895] - Broken livery on Q400 aircraft
• ACEO-10947] - Dash 8 Q400 fuselage sprite flipped
• ACEO-10949] - Havana A320 missing livery
• ACEO-10974] - Typo in cargo scanner (II) description

Hello again airport CEO!

We're back with another stability update, one of the last ones for the Alpha 29 stretch. As announced in yesterday's dev blog we have the soundtrack update coming up next week and will deploy that as Alpha 30, but do not worry as bug fixing and stabilization will continue with more or less daily updates on the experimental branch for Alpha 30 just like it has for Alpha 29!

We expect to have at least one more default branch deployment on Alpha 29 in order to fix the construction material delivery bug (currently being internally tested) before the weekend is here.

Thank you for your patience and assistance in helping out with bug reports!


Improvement

• ACEO-10651] - Runway cannot be opened if ATC tower is not built
• ACEO-10692] - Adjust employee job task object occupation cancellation threshold from 240 to 60 in-game minutes
• ACEO-10694] - Enable job task agents to remember a job task they recently failed to avoid immdeiate claim-fail loops
• ACEO-10698] - Passenger backpacks stowed below tables while seated
• ACEO-10703] - Floodlight poles visible through terrain
• ACEO-10710] - Hedge overlay text removed
• ACEO-10711] - Added slight random rotation on chairs
• ACEO-10712] - Slightly reduced size of medium quality chair sprite smaller
• ACEO-10770] - Consolidated several sprite sheets for aircraft

Bug

• ACEO-9718] - Newly procured service trucks doesn't spawn trailers if they go directly to baggage bay
• ACEO-10421] - Warning lights on stair trucks are flashing when parked
• ACEO-10475] - Current queue point index mismatch can cause static queues to stall
• ACEO-10624] - Baggage left behind on airside bus stop
• ACEO-10668] - Uncaught null reference exception on order validation system can cause construction material not to be delivered
• ACEO-10689] - Invisible service truck can stuck at cargo bay causing baggage loading disruption
• ACEO-10697] - Passenger feet and leg visible on top of food counter top
• ACEO-10701] - Tutorial page not loading when using right tabs
• ACEO-10707] - Jetway not conecting to ATR42
• ACEO-10755] - Selling a vehicle doesn't refresh the vehicle list
• ACEO-10757] - Persons walk with legs below ground after displacement teleportation
• ACEO-10758] - Randomizing value of chair positioning and rotation adjusted
• ACEO-10761] - Food counters misaligned
• ACEO-10772] - Long loading times for environmental objects due to performance bug

Hello airport CEO!

Here's this week's development blog update going through the recent developments of the game and what's up next. Check it out here: Dev Blog 123: The development strategy ahead, new aircraft production and announcing the Airport CEO soundtrack trailer!

We'd like to make special note of the trailer for the upcoming soundtrack update (Alpha 30) featured in the dev blog, to be deployed shortly within late next week! Check it out here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMSEutbUQZE&feature=youtu.be

Fredrik, Olof and Alexander (Apoapsis Studios)

Hi all!

We discovered that some critical bugs had slipped by the experimental testing phase and made it into the new version of the default branch. This patch should fix the two most urgent ones, where the runway is not extendable and arriving flights fail to show up.


Bug

• ACEO-10488 - Plane taking wide turns when park
• ACEO-10576 - Planes stop landing due to uncaught exception
• ACEO-10630 - Unable to extend runway

Good evening airport CEO!

We're here again with a mid-weekend release bringing several important bug fixes, general simulation process improvements and a few new minor features. We'll give you a proper update on the development road ahead and what the current strategy is but you can expect additional and frequent updates on the default branch ahead.

Here's the full change log between this version and the previous default version:


Improvement

• ACEO-4465] - Added clear all notifications button
• ACEO-7087] - Notify player of not being allowed to construct separate service vehicle areas when two different vehicle check-points cannot be reached by each-other
• ACEO-10072] - Adapted ATC rules to ensure that the latest commercial flight get landing priority over new commercial flights and GA
• ACEO-10330] - Enable job task agents to discover, and break current activity, if a new job task has been assigned to them while moving about the airport
• ACEO-10336] - Enable ramp agents and service cars waiting for transfer action completion to abort if stalled
• ACEO-10426] - Improved graphics for modular sofa
• ACEO-10469] - Improved placement of stand equipment
• ACEO-10473] - Re-implemented shopping bag with matching business colors
• ACEO-10478] - Enable the "airport closed" as notification persistent

New Feature

• ACEO-10361] - Added draggable counter top
• ACEO-10362] - Added small food room cashier counter
• ACEO-10363] - Added food and beverage counters
• ACEO-10424] - Added hedges

Bug

• ACEO-8562] - When enable refueling, an error message is displayed even if the criteria are met
• ACEO-8614] - Fuel truck refill from depot is slow
• ACEO-9435] - Aircraft taxiway occupation waiting is excessive causing delays
• ACEO-10078] - Rare issue can cause aircraft to get stuck during pushback process due to serialization bug
• ACEO-10091] - Uncaught exception halts deboarding of passengers
• ACEO-10122] - On/off icon appears briefly in lower world corner
• ACEO-10183] - Incorrect destroy method for removed agents can cause baggage loading and unloading issues
• ACEO-10235] - Contractor bus dispatchment can get stuck in a loop when contractors try to leave a world via secondly built contractor offload site
• ACEO-10241] - Persons attempt to interact with closed rooms
• ACEO-10257] - Pushback trucks can sometimes not be correctly dispatched
• ACEO-10315] - Uncaught rare exception in ATC when spawning flights can cause flight arrival to stall
• ACEO-10320] - Incorrect distance measurement and uncaught null reference exception on stand model door finder can cause completed boardings not to depart
• ACEO-10332] - Uncaught null reference exception when attempting to fetch secutiy check-point for a flight that does not exist can stall passenger
• ACEO-10337] - Person "walk around" behavior can in certain cases cause serious performance degradation
• ACEO-10342] - Environment ground textures do not blend correctly
• ACEO-10346] - Unloading baggage count gets set as zero when service truck park
• ACEO-10348] - Uncaught exception in service vehicle flight status check can cause vehicle movement to stall
• ACEO-10351] - Flight planner scheduled day 1 causes exception with DateTime counting
• ACEO-10399] - Uncaught exception in baggage simulation causes remote boarding to stop
• ACEO-10413] - Terminal ambiance sound not playing correctly
• ACEO-10414] - Takeoff ambiance sound cuts abruptly when aircraft is removed
• ACEO-10415] - Aircraft does not spoil up engines when entering runway
• ACEO-10422] - Texture-less CEO spawned on first load of new airport
• ACEO-10439] - Job task system does not properly distribute job tasks to most suitable agents
• ACEO-10441] - Small boarding desk and small cafe cashier gets changed to larger versions when saving and reloading
• ACEO-10449] - Incorrect variable usage in job task dispatch system can cause all airport work to halt
• ACEO-10456] - Sidewalk hedge lit when placed outside during night
• ACEO-10471] - Janitors and service technicians do not select job task based on distance efficiently

Hello airport CEO!

We're back with another stability update. This one continues to target issues with remote stands, some minor performance improvements, stability fixes for the delivery system and initial fixes to reports of stalled persons.

More stability updates will be continually deployed to the default branch in the near future and we're as of right now running daily updates to the experimental branch focusing mainly on bug fixes. We'll get more into our current development strategy and what's next to come in next week's development blog!

Here's the change log for this version:


New Feature

• ACEO-10039] - Added modular sofas

Bug

• ACEO-9370] - Heavy performance degradation on nearest node call for baggage reaching end of line
• ACEO-10135] - Airside shuttle buses can get stuck in a loop if containing onboard passengers for a job where a flight has already departed
• ACEO-10147] - REIL-lights can overlap runway entrances
• ACEO-10185] - Prefab issue casues remote stand bus stop not to be automatically zoned as secure
• ACEO-10191] - Airside shuttle bus can in certain cases deboard everyone but one passenger onboard
• ACEO-10193] - Mirrored Nordic logo on BAe 146
• ACEO-10205] - Stand display does not indicate whether a stand is connected to a runway or not
• ACEO-10220] - Uncaught null reference exception can cause ramp agents to stall at remote stands
• ACEO-10231] - Delivery system can in rare instances not initiate deliveries correctly (fuel, construction material)
• ACEO-10249] - Internal pausing method for agents boarding vehicles do not update rendering and position correctly causing lower corner flashing
• ACEO-10253] - Job task for shuttling ramp agents from remote stands only verify via stand and job task type (and not flight) which can cause stranded ramp agents
• ACEO-10270] - Uncaught exception in movement system can cause all persons in an airport to randomly stall
• ACEO-10288] - Car service stop is not zoned as staff by default

Hello airport CEOs!

We're back with another default deployment thanks to the continued bug reports. This update mainly target the many issues reported regarding remote stands, and a few other minor issues related to other complex processes.

We'll continue to keep the pace on default updates for Alpha 29 as out target is to fully stabilize this version of the game, while we've also branched off and are working on new, larger, features in separate environments.

This update also features a brand new aircraft, can you guess which?



Here's the full change log for Alpha 29.9-4:


Improvement

• ACEO-10014] - Room now repeats placement after build
• ACEO-10031] - Disabled building buttons if a certain service (baggage, food, shop) is not procured
• ACEO-10038] - Updated wall and window texture
• ACEO-10049] - Minor performance and stability improvements to couroutine execution
• ACEO-10089] - Added season color variations to trees

New Feature

• ACEO-10104] - Embraer 170 implemented for airlines Allure, Air Strada, SkyFly, Zoom and Wildcat Air

Bug

• ACEO-8588] - Persons interacting with a disk placed one tile from a wall end up walking through that wall and getting displaced
• ACEO-9769] - Specific scanner does not set correct icon until after it has been placed
• ACEO-9866] - Airside shuttle bus and service car incorrectly returns assigned job task if work is disrupted while carrying onboard persons
• ACEO-9997] - Passengers get de-serialized and activated on bottom corner if saved while being transited in a vehicle (such as airside shuttle bus or service car)
• ACEO-10005] - Reroute 50 bags does not complete in tutorial
• ACEO-10015] - Vehicles shuttling onboard persons will immediately abort a job task and seek to deboard those persons if a path-finding request fails
• ACEO-10016] - Rock shadow too far away from object
• ACEO-10018] - Asset type text incorrect on bag tag
• ACEO-10035] - Flight auto planner can stop working
• ACEO-10037] - Missing back staff border extension on shop and café counter
• ACEO-10040] - Person cars are not spawned for passenger drop-off (only buses)
• ACEO-10042] - Detached flaps on ATR
• ACEO-10048] - Interaction item point occupation does not work properly when deserializing causing persons to override each-other
• ACEO-10071] - HR Director applicants do not regenerate after being rejected
• ACEO-10095] - Baggage loading can get stuck if both unloading and loading service truck enter stand at the same time
• ACEO-10098] - Faulty airside shuttle bus activity determination can cause roaming loop
• ACEO-10099] - When writing save game name, keys strokes can trigger game shortcuts