It’s been requested on the forum. I think he feels that allowing the player to adjust any activity levels will lower the challenge of the game. Once that happens it ceases being a game and players will lose interest. I thought I had the perfect cheat when I came up with adjusting the “runway length” at some heliports to 1000m. But he made it smarter than that. So no matter what the player does, heliports (even large public civil heliports) are not recognized. You can base there. And when you do, missions will be generated FROM there. The added cruelty is that you will not generate missions between bases even if you cleverly try that as a workaround. It is as if he wants AH2 to be primarily a fixed wing application.
AH2 is a passion project of one dude who created something HE wanted to play. Helicopters are not his thing. If I had his skills I would be equally snobbish the other way and would have created something where paved runways were totally unseen by the game. VA types would complain. And I would tell them to go pack sand.
devs who listen to (some) customers and can compromise their own vision and even sometimes reality (like depiction of fog in weather utility)
devs who follows their vision no matter what
Hard to say who I prefer
Back to the AI pilot experience topic.
In the manual they forget to mention (or I missed it) that once they reach enough experience flying jobs over 40NM they will be promoted to higher rank and their salary will also automatically increase… I will have to keep close eye on their (financial) progress
I have now 3 AI pilots on hire. Also 3 helicopters. Added Robinson R44 to the fleet - better cruise speed, better cargo capacity, better legs.
Realized that commodity market is the way to go. Better money. Plus pilots dont get experience for that kind of flights, so are not promoted to higher ranks and thats why staying on lower salaries. Good for company!
Btw I got promoted to PPL (?) with salary 0 gold! Whats that!?
Wish only they can work more autonomously - buying commodities by them selves.
Purchased used R44. Now we have fleet of 2x R44s and 2x 300CBi. The Robinsons are making the money atm on the commodity markets. Thinking of selling one 300CBi. The second one I will keep as I use it to build up company reputation.
Funny thing happened. I hired another AI Pilot, and sent him to pick up that purchased R44 (other two AI pilots were occupied). Only when he arrived at the airport where the Robinson awaited I realized that he has no type rating for it to fly it back. So he had to travel back, did the type rating at home base and travel again to pick it up
I’m still plugging away at random intervals with AH2-XP. Every week I go in and give my two AI pilots some small trips to keep building their experience levels. With nearly $2.5M of monthly overhead costs I do have to keep the planes moving in a minimal fashion.
Seeing a bill coming due today…I decided to put some money in the kitty…
Fired up the C-17 in VR and picked up a commodity trip from KMER (Atwater, California) over to Las Vegas…
Cloudy day today over California and Arizona. Did a VFR approach to 8R at Las Vegas using the GTN VISUAL approach guidance…(this will not keep you from running into mountains…beware!)
Keeping an eye on the Mudspike Air Cargo balance sheet. Today I figured I should return the fleet to their home - in this case the C-17 was sitting in Las Vegas and I needed to get it back to Portland (PDX). So we put 250,000 lbs. ($14M) of prawns on it (I did not realize prawn fishing was such a huge industry in the deserts of Nevada!) and off we go…
Not doing that bad as I expected. Co. Cash is low as I just bought cargo of perfumes to be delivered by Isabelle in her 412.
Fortunately that Bell412 can earn quickly some gold which can cover the monthly expanses for some months to come
Was thinking along the same lines. There is one Baron B58 for sale in the marketplace and I have one from recent carenado sale in my v-hangar. …I will buy it, fly the transfer to one of my bases …and then I will sell it
Divorce hits hard. Air Hauler 2 has a realistic depiction of life events… I neglected to close my bases back when I quit flying nearly two years ago. Base rentals per month x two-ish years…
I neglected to close my bases back when I quit flying nearly two years ago. Base rentals per month x two-ish years…
