Last week we said we'll deploy two patches and while we were not specific about the timing for Patch #1 - besides saying it will be on edge soon - we're happy to announce that it's now released publicly on the default branch!

This patch includes many bug fixes along with a number of improvements sprinkled about in terms of performance and quality-of-life/UX enhancements. Check out the full patch notes below for a detailed overview!

With a patch comes a live-stream announcement! Be sure to join us for a fire-side chat, to ask questions or to just listen to us ramble!

Live Stream Details

When: Saturday, November 4th @ 2PM EDT // 18:00 GMT // 19:00 CET

Where to Watch

• YouTube
  
• Twitch
  
• Steam - or directly on this page, once the stream begins!

[h3]Steam Deck UI[/h3]
First of all we took a look at the problems making it hard or impossible to play SimAirport on SteamDeck. The major issue was UIs just not fitting on the Screen, specifically two. On the one hand the "quick scenario" UI did not fit at all - while not used a lot on the SteamDeck it is very annoying to fail. On the other hand there's the "Airline Detail View" - the window showing all the information about an airline. It has been an issue even on some Desktop resolution/scale combinations and has been annoyingly going off screen for some time due to the way it is designed.

With this patch both these windows have been fixed or reworked to fit on the screen - the Airline Detail View got a lot more love to be more ... detailed - check below to see what changed!

Another point for a good experience on SteamDeck is the on-screen keyboard. If you want to enter something, name something or search something you need a keyboard - previously it would not come up automatically for a lot of input fields. This is now fixed - the keyboard will come up and you can type away :)

[h3]Airline Details View[/h3]
This window has been behaving naughty to say the least. Frequently it would either start off-screen or - if it was still in view - try to get off in a hurry. It did so due to a mix of its height and window positioning in general. Considering most of you are playing SimAirport on 16:9 or similar landscape aspect ratios the window had to be reworked to make more sense and use the space more sensibly.

Instead of just being one column the new version of the Airline Details View is now split up into two columns. The left side contains the Airline Satisfaction information as well as the Fleet it is using. The right side contains the available contracts section as well as a new list for already accepted contracts made possible by the extra space available due to the extra column. This way you can quickly see - and cancel - contracts by airline. Last but not least below both columns the negotiated deal now has a wider section and two columns of text making it easy to read without having to scroll in most cases.

We've given this window a lot of love but we've also found some further things we can improve about it so be sure to take a look at the next edge updates!

[h3]Honorable Mentions[/h3]



• Picking (using Q by default) on bare concrete now selects foundation.
  
• Improved visuals of luggage cars when driving to/away from baggage depots.
  
• Fix gates wrongly selecting baggage claims that may result in pax not being able to actually get their bags and bags laying around unclaimed.
  
• Rework metal detectors and body scanners. Pax now have to wait for a little after going through a MD or BS and there is a chance Pax have to wait longer (manually being checked) - this chance is lower on body scanners. In addition metal detectors now have a small chance for PAX to have to go through again and re-scan.
  

• Fix assign to dialog opening when changing floor while an object is selected.
  
• Secure area report now shows outside as light green if it is secure.
  
• Add flooring under doors of the starter airport.
  
• Fix metal detectors & body scanners entry delay causing long pause between Pax using it.
  
• Fix work schedule naming dialog showing last entry instead of current name.
  
• Fix clicking on notification sometimes opens the wrong dialog or showing the wrong position.
  
• Fix AI sometimes failing in security and ending up in a loop.
  
• Fix "Assign To" available on ID Check Stand without advanced security unlocked.
  
• Fix security bins sometimes being picked up without one being placed after loading a save.
  
• Fix security bins rendering underneath bag scanners in some configurations.
  
• Fix on screen keyboard not coming up for some inputs on SteamDecks.
  
• Rework new scenario UI to make sure it fits on SteamDecks.
  
• Rework metal detectors and body scanners. Pax now have to wait for a little after going through a MD or BS and there is a chance Pax have to wait longer (manually being checked) - this is lower on body scanners. In addition metal detectors now have a small chance for PAX to have to go through again and re-scan.
  
• Fix script mods failing to load causing the game not to load in some occasions.
  
• Fix removing a gate may cause gate policies to reset.
  
• Rework airline details view. The window now better fits without clipping out of bounds on the top or bottom. In addition it now has a list of accepted flights and the option to cancel them.
  
• Increase escalator speed.
  
• Several minor performance improvements.
  
• Fix ticketing zone validation not correctly detecting missing ticketing desk/kiosk.
  
• Fix move cursor appearing when hovering over flight entry in flight scheduler while the cursor is still over another UI.
  
• Fix "hidden" button on flight scheduler having inconsistent behaviour (now works similar the other filter buttons).
  
• Fix game time/day hover information not taking UI scale into account and possibly overlapping the UI elements.
  
• Fix notifications not scaling correctly in some cases.
  
• Picking (using Q by default) on bare concrete now selects foundation.
  
• Fix missing keybind for zone picking (Ctrl + Q by default).
  
• Fix construction indicator not clearing when upgrading while the upgrade is partially off-screen.
  
• Fix accepting flight from airline jumps the available flights list to the top.
  
• Improve visuals of luggage cars when driving to/away from baggage depots.
  
• Fix gates wrongly selecting baggage claims that may result in pax not being able to actually get their bags and bags laying around unclaimed.
  
• Fix pathfinding issue to prevent reachability problems. NOTE: This may have broken something downstream so please let us know (either here or on discord) about any pathing change that seems wrong or any stuck agents!
  

Hello, SimAirport Community! We're alive!!

As we've talked about on our live streams, Discord, and on the forums -- we're dying to ship an update for SimAirport, we owe you an update. So, that's exactly what we're working on! We wanted to take some time today to let you know that we're alive, that we're working on a few patches, and provide some insight and a brief overview of what's in the pipeline, and what you can expect to see coming to SimAirport in the near future.

[h3]We're Alive![/h3]
First off, we're not dead (and no one is dying - as of writing this)! Stuff happened, much of it relatively unavoidable, which unfortunately resulted in this period of downtime. The good news is that we're back at it now, and a SimAirport update is actively in development -- and we're looking forward to being able to release it to you as soon as it's ready! :)

[h3]Live Stream[/h3]
As per tradition, we'll do a fire-side chat live stream coinciding with the patch releases - we always enjoy these and we love to chat with you all. We'll announce date/time of the live stream at the same time the patch is released, which we anticipate will be very soon!

[h3]What Are We Working On?[/h3]
We're targeting several specific points and we intend to break them up over two upcoming updates/releases

The first update will consist of general improvements, mainly fixes and improvements to things that already exists, including bug fixes and addressing several major pain points. We're aiming to have an edge patch out as soon as the end of this week, with a public release following soon thereafter.

That will then be followed up by a beefier second patch -- which is slated to include a number of actual gameplay enhancements, changes and additions(!!). While we don't have a firm timeline on this larger patch, internally we're hoping to be able to ship it by the end of November, but we'll ship it as soon as we feel it's ready.

Keep an eye on the Edge branch, Discord, and the Steam forums -- you can expect a flurry of activity in the very near future!


Here's a high-level overview of what we're hoping to be bringing you over the coming days and weeks!


[h2]- Patch #1[/h2]

-- Steam Deck UI/UX
Since our input rework several issues and quirks have been noted regarding SA's Steam Deck compatibility - we'll be taking a closer look and resolving these quirks, ensuring that SimAirport can be enjoyed just as well when on the go as it can from your desktop!

-- Logic Quirks & Bug Fixes
We know the game isn't perfect in regards to bugs and this will be a major point for us for this patch. Whatever we find we'll take a look at! We already have a list on our end of things we need to check out but if you have any bug or weird thing be sure to post or bump it in the Bugs Discussion subsection of the Steam Discussions - we'll check and note whatever we haven't taken care of!


[h2]- Patch #2[/h2]
-- The tale of Bridges, Overpasses and Roads
Bridged building and roads going up to floors above the ground floor have been a major ask for a long time. While bridged building has been an option via the Skywalk mod by TBFlash - very well done on that note! - going up with roads is still not possible. This is going to be the main change with this release, and it will allow you to finally build airports with separated - above ground(!) - Departure and Arrival sections, like many (most?) IRL airports use today.

-- Baggage Changes
The baggage system is not a great user experience currently -- it's challenging, sure, but it's also tedious (some might say it's a PITA) -- there are certainly some pain points, to put it lightly. We'll be working to make some major improvements on this front, and we're currently evaluating some concepts & ideas for expanding it a bit, too! Once the aforementioned rework for bridges and roads are done, it should open the door to allowing vehicles into the ground floor of terminals, - which may not sound like a massive change, but it'll allow for a indoor/ground-floor baggage depots, without having to go below ground -- making a 'starter' baggage system a lot cheaper, and simpler, to get up and running!

-- Research / Tech Tree
The tech tree is quite short and often completed rapidly - it simply doesn't add more "late game" gameplay, as it was intended to, and that's something we intend to improve upon. It's also visually quirky, at best, and we'd also like to fix that aspect. With the upcoming second patch, we're going to revamp & augment the current tech tree, with the goal of having it add actual gameplay value for mid-to-late game airports. This may include some changes, not locking some things that currently require research, as well as adding some new features that can be unlocked -- and perhaps an additional twist or two, that we'd like to see how they "feel" during gameplay.

Fear not -- existing saves will not be (forcibly) impacted. We'll implement logic that ensures you can continue your existing airports as you have been, potentially allowing you to "opt in" to the updated version, but certainly such that your existing saves won't be negatively and forcibly impacted.

-- AI
This is such a big and broad topic but it's probably also the general area that we hear the most feedback about; it's a non-trivial "problem", and there are numerous types and variants of AI within SimAirport, but we'll be looking to make some positive strides on several fronts:

Construction & Worker AI is an area we hear about quite a bit -- from acting weird or inefficiently, to to sometimes seeming to completely ignore instructions and priorities. We'll be taking a deep look, making some adjustments and testing them thoroughly, to make sure it's smarter and that workers finish the job and are never slacking around or requiring you to reload the game.

Passenger AI is another area we're going to be taking another look at; we've spoken in-depth about Pax AI, and it truly is a tough cookie overall (for a number of reasons). It's obviously a critically important aspect of the game, though, and it's an aspect that we think we can iterate on and further improvements to -- and that's exactly what we plan to do!

-- Quality of Life Improvements:
We have a number of items from this category on our list and we're going to try to get as many done as possible; we don't want to hold up a larger content patch for these, but we're going to do our best to tackle as many as we can.

-- Performance
We always profile code, but we're going to do a bunch more profiling -- we generally do this every so often but over time, as we've looked through the codebase, we've noticed a few things and there are a few areas that have some low-hanging fruit. We'll do our best to tackle those and, if we're lucky, find some more performance wins along the way, too! :)

[h2]We SimAirport[/h2]
Just to reiterate -- we still absolutely love SimAirport -- we love working on it, playing it, and we adore the SA community. While the time we've had to take away has been difficult, and frankly was suboptimal for us too, the reality is that we truly SimAirport and we're thrilled to be able to jump back into the code to improve the game that we all love to play.

Something you'd like our eyes on? Speak up! Let us know about anything on Discord or over on the Steam Discussions / Forum!

[h3]Thank You!![/h3]
As always, thank you for your patience and continued support -- and a special thanks to the great community members who are always active and willing to helping others. There are far too many to name everyone, apologies in advance to those we'll inevitably miss, but we want to extend an especially large thanks to: Alo, chick1000 and modair -- and many others on the modding side -- for your continued support of SimAirport, and the LVGameDev team as a whole.

We're extremely happy to be able to make this post; and even more enthused for the next one, because it'll mean we've actually released a patch!!

Thank you everyone -- we sincerely couldn't do any of this without you!!

It's summer for us and it's really heating up (and probably starting to really get cold for those of you in the southern hemisphere) -- and with the heat on, it's time for an update to SimAirport!

In this iteration we've taken an even deeper look into Performance and we have some solid gains for you on that front. We have also brought to SimAirport the same Localization system that we've been using for SimCasino, which will make adding & improving translations much simpler for the community. Finally, we'd like to take a short look at our newly-announced upcoming title and talk a bit about how it came to be!

Before we get into the details, we want to make you aware of our upcoming Live-Stream -- planned for this Sunday! We haven't done one in a while but Arthur and Joscha are excited to join you once again to play SimAirport alongside the community and chat with you -- we'll be talking and answering questions about SimAirport and, as usual, it will be a "fire-side chat" style discussion where we'll talk about anything interesting, from gaming & aviation to world news, and anything in between.

We're excited to be back streaming with you and playing SimAirport, so be sure to join us!

Live Stream Details

When:
Sunday, July 3rd @ 11AM PDT // 20:00 CEST

Where to Watch

• YouTube
  
• Twitch
  
• Steam - or directly on this page, once the stream begins!

• Prevent functional object updates from being calculated on threads which could have caused problems. Dev Note: It was probably fine and wouldn't be noticeable but this just makes sure nothing can break while not impacting performance :)
  
• Improved performance of functional object checks.
  
• Check up to 20 objects at once for whether or not they're functional (this will result in faster updates if e.g. the secure area is broken).
  
• Fix PAX being spawned all at once causing a lag spike whenever a bus, LRT or plane unloads.
  
• Various smaller code refactors to improve performance.
  
• Improve runtime of some agent tasks.
  
• Improve performance of updating agent positions (~3.5x faster on our tests, should result in a pretty good improvement overall).
  
• Improve calls on (smart) objects.
  
• Fix some objects/elements using the wrong font possibly causing some objects not to display text on M1 Macs.
  
• Add a system to concurrently update agent movement.
  
• Fix some texts not receiving the right font when switching language.
  
• Add Radial menu for tools and UI (two separate ones); these are mostly for controllers but can be used on desktop to; On desktop they're setup for Mouse Button 4 and 5, if your mouse doesn't have any extra buttons check out the keybindings!
  
• Theme hotkey bindings menu to be in the same look as the rest of the game.
  
• Update steam integration libraries to prevent possible crash on launch and other inconsistencies with Steam.
  
• Update translations from github.
  
• Moved translations to localizor - update about this with a more detailed description to follow soon.
  
• Fix issue where too many characters in one Font may cause an overflow and all further characters to only show up as rectangles.
  
• Fix possible issue where pax don't go home after a flight was unable to land.
  

[h2]An Adventure Like No Other[/h2]

This autumn we'll be releasing a new point and click adventure game set on a creepy ship.

January, 1928. The SS Carolina is lost deep in the ocean. There's a deadly chill outside. The captain is hiding something from you. By night 2 you're attacked and the crew is missing! It's a nightmare!

You play as 2nd Officer Walton. Explore the ship, use items, find the crew, and try to survive! You must get back to land and not let the ship sink.

[h2]Let Us Know What You Think![/h2]

Check out our store page!

Feel free to speculate in the forums what you would like or expect to see in the game, and if you have any interest in testing in the near future.

Please also give us feedback on our screenshots and trailer!

Finally, add this game to your wishlist for future updates!

Celebrating the launch of the Steam Deck, we're happy to bring you today's patch containing improvements to Input handling (including full Controller support!), several performance improvements, and a bunch of general bug fixes, too!

[h2]Input Rework[/h2]
To support all inputs of the Steam Deck and to have support for Controllers we've completely overhauled our input system. Previously we've done most of the input stuff ourselves (we're really the people who'd like to do everything by ourselves) but have now upgraded the whole system to use Rewired - a well-known and highly regarded input system for Unity.

This rework allows us to not only support the Steam Deck better but also allows basically all Controllers, Joysticks, or other Gamepads to be used in SimAirport - the list of supported hardware is indeed rather long. In addition, it does simplify the code for us by a lot and helps us with any new features or additions requiring input.

In addition to what's in this update, we've also got some further improvements planned that didn't make it into this update. For example, having a radial menu (which will be usable from KB/Mouse as well as Controller) makes it simpler to open tools or windows - especially without having to remember the keybindings!


[h2]Performance Upgrades[/h2]
We'll keep this one short as we've already spoken about what exactly changed on our dev-log in the beginning of February; Check it out here: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/598330/view/3118182224262686059

In short, however: We've found a good performance improvement that will have a good impact, especially on bigger airports where a lot of AI agents need to check if objects can be reached.

We have also improved the handling of 'queue overrun' conditions and how the game handles it to keep the airport running well even on high load (e.g. when first loading a massive save) - check the above-mentioned dev-log for more information on that topic, too! :)

Lastly on this topic we've been experimenting with some further changes that may improve performance - we need to test these experiments further to be sure they're actually improvements and more work is needed in general; We'll update you as soon as we have more news on this!

[h2]Final Words[/h2]
As always thank you all for being around! If you have received a Steam Deck be sure to leave some feedback for us on how the controls feel and what games you're playing besides SA :)

If you want to see some of the experiments and/or early previews of stuff we work on be sure to join the Discord server - always happy to talk to ya'll!

All the best wishes and hopes ya'll are safe from the team!

[h3]Full change log[/h3]

• Add a button to teleport apron vehicles to their hangar in case they're completely stuck without a road.
  
• Add detection for whether or not a mouse is connected to hide the virtual cursor on launch (The virtual cursor is the one used when you're controlling the on-screen cursor using a controller).
  
• Add setting for virtual cursor speed.
  
• Add on-screen keyboard component to input fields for use on the steam deck (this can probably be used on other systems too - let me know if you'd like to use an on-screen keyboard anywhere!).
  
• Fix RESET startup option not running correctly sometimes.
  
• Some minor UI improvements.
  
• Update Steam integration.
  
• Fix issue in ModLoader possibly causing some mods to not load correctly on new saves.
  
• Add check to make sure one-way paths cannot be placed on security zones (placement in security zones may cause issues with the zone, you can still place them behind the zone though).
  
• Fix "Show Non-Secure Path" not being removed after closing the selected object dialog.
  
• Fix a possible issue that may cause planes to be missing completely instead of showing UFO sprite.
  
• Fix possible issue where some data is not reset when sectors rebuild causing areas to rarely not show correct status for security availability or reachability.
  
• Rework automatic slowdown - the game was already slowing down when the job queue got overwhelmed but will now do so in a more consistent manner and will show it in the speed display under the clock.
  
• Improve several reachability and object choosing algorithms - this should give a boost across the board but especially for big airports.
  
• Fix some missing mods not correctly listed in the missing mods list.
  
• Fix build menu overlapping bottom menu buttons when UI scale is not 100%.
  
• Fix issue with how the game looks at neighboring cells in several places of code.
  
• Fix issue where agents would rarely overshoot and run out of a secure area re-doing security (this was caused by the above issue).
  
• Add check to make sure pax can walk diagonally and improve flow field generation (basically how agents move around).
  
• Fix old save-fix possibly despawning cars that were on a road ramp up causing pax of a flight to go missing.
  
• Some cleanup of the scene to fix some missing warnings.
  
• Fix possible scaling issue with notifications.
  
• Improve animations of new agent sprites standing at or boarding from the LRT Platform.
  
• Improve default stationary state for new agent sprites.
  
• Fix runway upgrades working while being under construction.
  
• Fix "Fastest" quality setting causing mods to render incorrectly.
  
• Fix mod-loader not taking into account all loaded mods when checking for missing mods causing a lot of mods to show up as missing but installed.
  
• Add early setup for some user settings to make sure they're setup even on the first launch of SA.
  
• Fix some sprites of multi-level objects being rendered on the same/wrong floor due to some missing configuration.
  
• Fix modded sprites being offset by the SpriteManager - now rendered correctly.
  
• Add a fallback in case a floor goes missing (e.g. when a mod is removed) - the game will now use concrete in this case instead of just having no floor and failing to load the save.
  
• Add seeding to agent names so saves now get a different set of names for initial agents.
  
• Fix taxiway not placeable if extrusion is on the spawn road or LRT track.
  
• Fix mods using auto-foundation visible on all levels but the one the object was actually placed on.
  
• Fix some input devices randomly scrolling in dialogs/UIs.
  
  
• Modding: Fix LRT boarding not using all doors on modded LRT trains.
  
• Modding: Use SpriteManager for LRT Tracks allowing LRT Track modding.
  
• Modding: Fix modded sprites pivot calculation.
  
• Modding: Fix mod OnLoad causing an exception stopping the game to load completely.
  
• Modding: Add an exception for .pdb files in scripts folder to help debugging mod code/scripts.
  

To kick February off we'd like to talk about the upcoming SimAirport update - along the lines of a dev-log, so you know what we're currently working on & what you can expect from SimAirport in the near future!

[h2]Steam Deck[/h2]
Valve will soon be launching the 'Steam Deck' and as the release of the hardware nears we've been working on making SimAirport compatible with the new handheld! Luckily SimAirport already runs on Linux, and we have confirmed that both native and Proton options are already able to run on the Steam Deck!

Our initial testing on Steam Deck did reveal several issues and some quirks - from screen resolution to controller bindings & even some audio issues. Several UIs required a bit of reworking while others may just need a small nudge in the right direction. For example, the top UI generally fits, unless the fuel HUD is enabled; to solve this the entire top UI now is able to move to the left and "attach" to the Menu button. This is a general change so you'll benefit even if you're not using the Steam Deck but happen to be playing on a smaller resolution desktop monitor or on a laptop!

Lastly, we're currently working on making sure the Steam Deck controls can be fully utilized in the most optimal way possible. For this we're reworking a good chunk of our input-handling code which will result in a good default experience on the Steam Deck, and it will also enable the use of controllers on other platforms, too! :)

On the whole, we're thrilled to say that SimAirport runs well on the Steam Deck after some tweaks it's fully playable -- including all Workshop content & mods being available on the platform!

[h2]Performance Upgrades[/h2]
We generally strive to find performance improvements whenever possible -- though we're also somewhat limited by a number of factors: architecture & age of the code-base, size/scope of refactoring, compatibility/legacy concerns, engine issues, GPU support, etc. Despite that, we're constantly looking for ways to improve performance -- incremental steps & big leaps alike, and we get especially excited when we're able to find improvements that can positively impact "late-game" & large airport performance.

We're thrilled to say we've found a relatively substantial performance improvement related to the agent (passenger) AI -- specifically in how the AI determines whether or not an object can be reached. Previously this reachability check was unintentionally being run on an overly low-level & granular layer of abstraction; as airports grew in size this became an increasingly costly operation and the result was that performance deteriorated faster than expected or intended as agent (passenger) counts increased. While we've faced these same types of issues in the past, and dealt with them, this one was substantially more hidden due to the 'smaller' role it plays in AI decision-making process -- specifically, the issue was with checking distance to "lifecycle" goal. After the fix, reachability is now checked at a higher level of hierarchical abstraction, and overall performance for larger airports is substantially improved.
TLDR: Bigger airports run better & more performantly, by a pretty good margin. :)

Feedback from players testing out the latest edge versions has been quite positive -- we're hearing frame-rate improvements & decreased CPU load across the board & drastically reduced instances of "overrun"/the game is able to update agent AI without 'falling behind' (i.e. none stopping for calculations) much more consistently, and even at relatively high agent/passenger counts.

[h2]Queue Overruns[/h2]
Queue overruns happen whenever the game is running faster than it is able to handle agent 'AI' jobs/calculations. At some point, these 'jobs' (or sets of calculations) can 'stack up' on the job queue and the queues run "full". When this occurs agents may not correctly update or may stand still waiting for their AI to update, causing them to not be making timely decisions & missing their flight, etc...

This update also includes a change in how the game handles these types of 'overrun' scenarios. While the first part of the update is intended to improve the performance of the AI job itself, reducing the time each job takes (and therefore reducing the potential for overruns), our handling for scenarios where 'overrun' state did happen was not optimal. Previously, SimAirport would rarely slow down because it missed jobs on the job queue -- which was the intended outcome but was not working quite right -- this is now fixed, so now all AI jobs are counted correctly and the game will "slow down" if it detects an overrun condition (allowing game-time to run 'slower' [vs real-time] so that agents are acting/reacting at the correct pace based on the CPU resources/load available).

We've also improved the visual of this slowdown - the game will now show the actual slowdown in the clock as the speed number will be capped; we hope you'll rarely, if ever, actually see this occur -- but the mechanism is there so that the algorithmic complexity is able to scale with the available CPU resources & to do so in such a way that the gameplay itself (ie passenger 'outcomes') is wholly unaffected.

[h2]Final Words[/h2]
If you'd like to help us with this update be sure to check out the edge branch (Instructions on how to switch) - we're always happy to talk on the forums and on Discord about the current cycle, and we're excited to be bringing this update to you in the near future!

Be sure to let us know how you like these more "in-depth" dev-log style of posts between updates -- we love to share what we're doing, and so it's helpful to know if you find the content & details interesting (or would like more/less details, etc).

We'll continue to do our best to listen to your feedback and utilize it to continually improve -- on every front, from gameplay to the content & format of our updates -- we appreciate any/all feedback, and we thank you for joining us on the journey! =)

As always, thank you -- the community -- for all of your help with providing valuable feedback & bug reports, testing on edge, suggestions & ideas, and even just sharing photos/videos/builds. And a special thank you, to those who make mods, too!

Thank you!!

Just shy of 2022 we'd like to present you the December update for 2021 - while it took longer than expected on our end we're happy to release this load of fixes and improvements to you all.

[h2]Patch Notes - Notable additions[/h2]
[h3]Remote Gate Improvements![/h3]

Remote gates have gotten one highly requested feature as well as some general improvements and bug fixes (e.g. not loading a plane if part of the crew is already on the plane while the rest are still on a bus).

Remote bus pickups now have three modes, Pickup & Dropoff, Pickup Only, Dropoff Only. By default the P&D mode will be selected which works the same as the previous implementation where the same stop will be used for both arriving and departing passengers. In addition to the modes you can also assign several bus pickups to the same remote gate.

The Pickup Only mode - as the name states - will be used to load any departing pax onto the bus that would like to get to the aircraft. The Dropoff Only mode will do the reverse, it's used for any arriving pax coming into your airport being dropped off from the aircraft.

In addition, while using the Dropoff Only mode on a remote bus pickup it can be assigned to as many remote gates as you wish meaning you can have a central dropoff area for all arriving passengers.

We've updated our Steam integration in this cycle - while the old version wasn't broken it did start to show it's age (e.g. in the missing mods dialog not correctly showing the status).

Coming with this upgrade we also reworked the missing mods dialog - it will now correctly show status for downloads and, as soon as all mods were downloaded, will ask if you'd like to reload your game right now.

The menu will also include mods besides airlines and aircraft - so any object mod or script mod that may be required for a save.

With this update saves will now store all mods you've been using while playing including any script and object mod besides airlines and aircraft.

This means you can now safely share your games with friends or on the Workshop an other people can correctly load the game with all objects in place - made even easier with the improvements to the missing mods menu mentioned above :)

The update also helps us out - if you run into an issue with this version while using a lot of mods we can debug it with the mods you've been using, so no broken or unusable airports on our end anymore!

Lastly, small but notable, the capacity of dumpsters can now be modded.

We just set live the Hotfix for MacOS not having any text, be sure to let us know if any text issue still remains or rendering is now back :)

The hotfix is live as of now (January 2nd ~21:20 UTC) - you may need to verify your files if you don't see the update yet.

Thanks for being patient with us through this year - we're really happy to get this update out to you!

I'd like to say sorry for the delay though - many of you know we're a small team, sometimes we underestimate what needs to be done for a release and this was definitely the case with the December update. We would've liked to have it out a week ago right around the holidays but pushed it back a week to get some more issues fixed (check the changelog below for all fixes/improvements).

At this point I'd like to mention our discord server - while we're active on most platforms Joscha is usually around to answer questions on discord, if you run into any issue you'd like to discuss or have any questions in general be sure to let us know! Link: https://discord.gg/ShqSSEK

And lastly, we wish everyone a happy new year! May 2022 be a good one!

• Fix moving the ATC Tower may cause no planes to land until reloading a save.
  
• Fix "Show non Secure Path" button on objects that require a secure area but are in an unsecure area. It now actually shows the path correctly :)
  
• Fix runways not being placable close to fences. Fences were already placable close to runways so now both work.
  
• Rework how aircraft sprites are loaded. Previously all aircraft sprites would be loaded at once, they're now loaded only when required. In addition fleets in airline details will use a smaller image instead of the whole aircraft sprite. This should save a lot of VRAM helping systems with iGPUs as well as older GPUs.
  
• Fix road reachability sometimes determining a bus pickup cannot reach the gate while the vehicles are using it without a problem (more technical: The reachability check did not include both directions on the apron side, it now does since vehicles on the apron can drive on the road both ways).
  
• Fix issue where a runway may be removed even through the dismantle project was cancelled.
  
• Fix tasks to dismantle upgrades from runways and baggage hubs when dismantling the base object not saved/lost after reload.
  
• Fix upgrades comming up as "UNKNOWN" and in a bugged state if dismantling the base object and reloading the game.
  
• Fix runways not correctly being detected as usable if it was marked for dismantling, saving the game and reloading the game and cancelling the dismantling again. Previously the game would detect the runway only after another reload, now works correctly.
  
• Fix notification hover text showing the full text of any object previously hovered over if the cursour was moved from said object onto the notification.
  
• Add new notification in case a passenger was not able to board a plane in case they're unable to reach the gate door from the gate agent desk.
  
• Fix "Browse Saves Folder" not actually opening the browser on MacOS.
  
• Fix possible nullref in mod status menu.
  
• Overhaul missing mods/mod status menu. The menu now lists all mods (not just aircrafts and airlines) and the download will now run correctly with updates being shown in the list.
  
• Saves will now store what mods were used at save-time. Sharing a save will now bring up the missing mods screen for all mods correctly and with the overhaul all mods can be downloaded easily.
  
• Fix the naming convention of some languages.
  
• Fix remote bus pickup stating it requires a door on the ground floor while working perfectly fine underground.
  
• Fix PA Amplifiers erroring with "Must be placed in valid electrical zone" in case it's placed facing towards a wall.
  
• Fix aircraft gate flyout menu (the one for reports/overlays) always being disabled.
  
• Fix time slot highlighting in master flight schedule ending after ~50 gates - we did not expect ya'll to have that many gates but it will now scale to the window so I dare you to break it again!
  
• Backported some fonts and the font choosing/updating system from SimCasino - changing language should be a lot more consistent in terms of actually showing the new right font.
  
• Fix crew boarded state not correctly being set on some remote gate flights in case only part of the crew is on board of the plane while another part is waiting in the second bus. Save fix included :).
  
• Fix possible issue with objects failing their functionality checks.
  
• Fix possible issue with apron buses in case a plane doesn't arrive or depart on time.
  
• Fix maintenance panel not correctly working in case a mod needing maintenance is missing.
  
• Fix several issues with maintenance trying to start out of window or without actually needing maintenance.
  
• Fix not being able to change bus pickup assignment if no plane or bus is using the pickup or any assigned gate while a plane was scheduled on any gate.
  
• Improve runway placement tooltip - now only shows the 5 planes with the longest requirement that could use the currently placed runway.
  
• Update steam integration (for stability and workshop compatibility).
  
• Increase max pathfinding length for planes to enable bigger maps (planes could get stuck due to not being able to pathfind on some modded sizes).
  
• Fix maintenance not correctly finishing in some cases.
  
• Add ability to connect bus pickups with the terminal using sidewalk and crosswalks (like remote gates already work).
  
• Add ability to assign more than one bus pickup per gate.
  
• Add ability to select what mode a bus pickup should run in (Pickup & Dropoff (default), Pickup Only, Dropoff Only) - In Dropoff only mode a bus pickup can be assigned to as many gates as you wish.
  
• Fix remote gates in walking mode not working if crosswalk is used as last walking part adjacent to the gate.
  
• Fix objects taken down for maintenance before actually having to be maintained.
  
• Add warning on metal detectors, body scanners and bag scanners in case one of their usage positions is not in a security zone.
  
• Fix reception desk is placeable on walls and outdoors.
  
• Fix maintenance sometimes getting stuck when the task fails due to a nullref exception.
  
• Fix objects may not be correctly staffed if a worker doesn't correctly get to the object.
  
• Increase max flight count per airline (mostly helps with modded airlines).
  
• Fix fuel UI hover showing "Current Reserves" where it should state "Pending Deliveries".
  
• Fix fuel amount could overflow on the valuation UI (the cash calculation was not affected).
  
• Fix wander near object task could choose a position to wander to that would end up in the agent having to re-do security.
  
• Fix wrong detection of when walking through walls is needed - in some rare cases workmen could not path and a construction project might get stuck.
  
• Fix runway tooltip breaks when placing runway lights using instant build while having the game paused.
  
• Enable thirst and hunger for arrival passengers.
  
• Fix gate <=> ticket zone were assigned twice on save load.
  
• Fix pax may run around on the grass when deplaning from a walking remote gate.
  
• Fix hover box sometimes loosing its layout when leaving the hovered object.
  
• Fix missing text on police cars and fire trucks.
  
• Fix "Z fighting" on the flight scheduler, now the time row is always on top.
  
• Improve flight schedule entry UI, the line spacing is smaller and it'll shorten the airline name to better fit in the little space available.
  
• Modding: Fix uploading UI never resetting the tag selection.
  
• Modding: Fix mod airlines and aircrafts sometimes breaking due to bad ID datatype.
  
• Modding: Add ability to view local aircraft and airline mods while offline.
  
• Modding: Make dumpster capacity moddable; attribute "Capacity" was added to the config with type int. The base game one has a default of 10.
  

As some of you may have heard on our recent live streams, we are actively working on an update for SimAirport!!

We've talked about it on our last few streams & we have discussed it quite a bit on Discord (be sure to join!) -- but we wanted to make sure everyone was aware, hence the post today! :)

[h2]Timeline: Holidays 2021[/h2]
The plan for this update is going to primarily be fixes, though (as many of you who know us can likely guess) we'll be doing our best to sneak in some quality-of-life improvements and enhancements as well. :)

Specifically, we'll be addressing several issues that have come up over the last year or so, and adding some better contextual guidance for some of the more advanced things that we've heard struggles with. We've also got some performance improvements lined up, along with some changes that we expect will help new players tremendously while also making life simpler for existing players, too.

We're working on getting this patch out to everyone by the end of December -- right around the holidays -- with edge deploys to begin rolling out in the upcoming days!

Thanks for your patience while we've been working on SimCasino -- we're truly privileged to have such an amazing, dedicated, and awesome community -- working with all of you has and continues to be amazing, and we look forward to continuing to ship new stuff out for SimAirport again very soon!

As always, if you have any questions be sure to let us know, either here, on discord, during a live-stream, or wherever you'd like to contact us!

Thank you!!

[h3]We've posted an interview with composer Jerry Martin in our SimCasino news! Check it out now, and make sure to add the game to your Wishlist if you want to stay up to date![/h3]

[h2]What is SimCasino?[/h2]
A Modern Casino Tycoon Simulation in full 3D glory. Build the casino. Set the odds. Expand into a luxury hotel/casino or go cheap & extract max profits. Keep the vault secure at all times, and beware of criminals & cheaters!!

August, a hot summer month and the host for our latest update! Wrapping up this cycle today we're getting out a lot of fixes, stability, and some quality of live additions while we're also working on SimCasino. If you haven't heard of SimCasino yet be sure to check it out over !

[h2]Developer Live Stream[/h2]We'll be hosting our typical fire-side live-stream next weekend, to answer questions and just have some fun with the community.

When: Friday, 21st of August @ 11AM PDT // 20:00 CEST
Where: YouTube, Twitch, and Steam
The Airport: This Airport on the Workshop :)

Sometimes you may want your terminal to be small and have several gates in front of it - all reachable by walking from the terminal to the gate - just like the low cost airlines often do!

This is now possible! Remote gates can now be switched between the bus mode (having a road in front of them) and walking mode (having a sidewalk in front of them). To switch the mode just click the gate and select the "Switch Mode" button. You'll get different requirements for both and the game only displays the problems for the current mode. Once switched just connect the gate's "terminal side" to a door in the terminal. You can use Sidewalk, Crosswalks, and any modded material that is set up for usage in the secure area (check the Workshop and take a look at the flooring mods).

One building idea from our side: You can put these walking gates just a little further than you'd usually place a terminal gate and add remote bus pickups. This way you can combine remote bus gates and remote walking gates all on one terminal front! Be sure to share a screenshot of your layout with us!

Roads can now be placed underground and can tunnel under existing structures.

Usually, this would be a small point but we wanted to share that this one is a point where you guys changed our minds! When adding a new feature we try to make it some challenge or add some gameplay relevant aspect to it, it should always be a task to work with but we're not always right on making that "task" fun. With underground roads not being able to tunnel under existing structure we hit one of these challenges that just didn't fit. Based on your feedback, in the forums & during live-streams, we went ahead and removed this restriction completely for both roads and road ramps!

We've added some smaller notifications to help you in day to day gameplay or just show you something that may get missed for a veteran player or a new player doesn't know about.

• Transport Capacity: Lets you know when the transport capacity has been reached (and passed) and pax may not be able to get to your airport. Will open the transports and deliveries section when clicked.
  
• Kitche problem: Sometimes we miss an object or don't remember to get stock into the kitchen, this notification will let you know when an order could not be fulfilled. Will go to the kitchen and open the kitchen's overview when clicked.
  

We went ahead and tweaked some of the UI, notably three smaller changes:

• The save game UI will now use your last save name even if you expanded your airport.
  
• Sections on the grants UI now better fit their content mostly removing scrolling on the track list and the track description.
  
• The perfect ops detail overview will give more details on why, when and where a plane was delayed or a passenger missed their flight.
  

We just want to say thank you! Thank you for your commitment to us, our community and for helping us out with feedback and reports.

We're always happy to talk with you - whether it's on the forums, Reddit, Twitter, Discord or on our live streams - you guys are the reason we're where we are today. We'd also like to take a second to get a big thanks out to everyone creating mods in their free time for others to have fun with! We, along with the community, appreciate your efforts tremendously -- we love seeing all the awesome new stuff you guys put out -- thank you!

We hope to chat with you on our next live stream, stay safe and keep on building!

• Add a new mode to the remote gates, they now support Bus and Walk mode.
  
• Add crosswalk to allowed walkable space in the secure area.
  
• Fix several sector reachability <-> error situations that would end up with sectors showing not accessible even though they are.
  
• Remove tunneling restriction when placing roads underneath existing structures.
  
• Add option to ignore admin requirements to the sandbox menu.
  
• Fix instant build not costing money.
  
• Fix zone texts sometimes ending up bigger than expected.
  
• Fix garbage trucks sometimes getting stuck when a trash bag is moved into a container while already on the list of tasks for the truck.
  
• Fix cost display for moving walkways when placing while some material is in storage.
  
• Fix sandbox menu trying to save the size making the text disappear.
  
• Fix nullref that could cause issues related to crosswalks (i.e. having 10 dismantle buttons on the selection dialog).
  
• Expand checks on parking lots to specifically check for spawn/despawn connectivity to prevent stuck cars.
  
• Fix tooltip not disappearing when right-clicking with some tools active.
  
• Fix runways possibly placeable off-grid on some occasions.
  
• Fix road ramp validations - they're now in-line with the road placement restrictions and tunneling works for them too!
  
• Fix issue where a direction change on escalators would mean no pax use them until the sectors are regenerated.
  
• Fix cars sometimes spawning underground leading to stuck cars/nothing spawning.
  
• Limit max interest rate to 50% instead of 500%.
  
• Improve flight crew boarding (they'll try to get to the gate earlier).
  
• Fix stat for lifetime revenue is not correctly calculated for terminals.
  
• Rework grants UI to better show track list and track description without scrolling.
  
• Fix save name showing "land_expansion" when saving after expanding the airport - now shows your last saved name.
  
• Add QuickSelect as default keybind.
  
• Fix pax getting stuck if their flight's gate doesn't exist anymore.
  
• Fix vehicles stopping on road ramps and trying to pick up pax.
  
• Add notification in case a vehicle could not stop and pick up passengers.
  
• Fix standby gates not used in case both gate agent desks are in the same security wing but the origin desk can't reach the standby desk without re-doing security.
  
• Add the ability to add default airlines to existing games.
  
• Fix delays when recalculating a secure area in some cases.
  
• Add notification in case the transport capacity has been reached.
  
• Fix parking vehicles not spawning in rare cases.
  
• Lower minimum schedule time for flights to 45min (Note: Use time wisely, 45 minutes will work for small planes but anything from a 737 up will most likely take longer!).
  
• Fix auto fuel delivery not taking into account pending reserves that should be delivered at the same time.
  
• Fix bankruptcy giving the accomplished achievement instead of the unaccomplished achievement.
  
• Add error message for remote gates placed against a terminal and terminal gates placed into the open field.
  
• Fix remote gate prices (previously all were 20k cost).
  
• Fix issue where cars would not drop off their passengers leading to some pax never showing up for a flight.
  
• Fix parking vehicles never resetting their parking start time leading to extreme profits from parking lots.
  
• When selling a fuel truck fuel is now moved into the system or sold.
  
• Fix position for when an agent ends up on a conveyor transition.
  
• Show green color on flight status pax boarded only when all pax have been scanned, otherwise show orange.
  
• Rework perfect ops details - it now better shows the actual information of interest (for new flights - old flights may not have all details).
  
• Fix ID Check not taking into account downstream objects when dequeuing agents.
  
• Fix text in tutorial stating to assign a queue to an object (you can only assign an object to a queue).
  
• Change stuck message on aircraft in case they're not able to reach the runway (they now state which runway they cannot reach and the direction of takeoff).
  
• Fix some components possibly re-using an old path renderer leading to UI issues (e.g. staff scheduler not opening correctly).
  
• Add minimum runway length to master flight schedule entry (shown on hover under arrival and departure times).
  
• Fix flights shown as delayed when changing gate due to bad ChangeGate flag.
  
• Add no stock warning to the kitchen overview display.
  
• Add notification in case a kitchen cannot fulfill orders (due to no stock or missing objects).
  
• Fix runway upgrades may be placed on level -1 leading to funky rendering.
  
• Fix parking vehicles not despawning when a lot went MIA in some cases.
  
• Fix pax not able to exit conference rooms.
  
• Fix crosswalk cannot be walked on in outside + secure areas when placed directly on the terminal.
  
• Fix buses possibly getting stuck when they stop in a corner road and their position is not actually on the road.
  
• Fix instant build failing to correctly construct runway lights.
  

• Modding: Fix modded objects with newly added AttachToWall property failing to correctly position on the map.
  
• Modding: Fix several nullrefs in case mods are missing.
  
• Modding: Fix security zone not working in case several SmartObject components are on the same placeable config.
  
• Modding: Fix issue when using several security components on one object.
  
• Modding: Add exception handling in case a script mod fails to load with a ReflectionTypeLoadException.
  
• Modding: Fix some possible issues with mod uploading & save game steam_ids to ulong to prevent issues with overflowing ints.
  
• Modding: Fix modded toilets and sinks not satisfying restroom zones.
  
• Modding: Fix materials not showing up if any more than one atlas is used for modded floors.
  
• Modding: Add a configurable mask to bag scanner component.
  
• Modding: Add the ability to use i18n key as mod name.
  
• Modding: Add field on construction materials, it can now be set to be walkable outside in a secure area.
  
• Modding: Fix no error showing up in case an i18n file is failing to load.
  
• Modding: Fix floor mods having lines due to wrong filtering mode.
  
• Modding: Fix modded remote monitoring stations that don't require staff won't work.
  
• Modding: Fix some problems with modded body scanners.
  
• Modding: Fix arcade mods not satisfying requirements for the arcade zone.
  

We're happy to announce our next SimAirport live stream! And a bit of an extra treat today, too! steamhappy

Join us in this latest installment of the "fireside chat" dev live-stream! Get your burning questions answered, provide feedback on SimAirport, discuss ideas directly with the dev team, tell us what issues or quirks you've encountered, even discuss the meaning of life -- or just drop in to say hello! We'll even be talking a bit about our next game, ! steamhappy

Live Stream Details

When:
July 1st @ 11AM PDT // 20:00 CEST

Where to Watch

• YouTube
  
• Twitch
  
• Steam - or directly on this page, once the stream begins!

Welcome to the June 2020 update patch notes! This cycle brings a large selection of quality of life improvements, lots of fixes and behavior improvements, and a few major new features such as parking lots and gate policies. See below for the full details!

[h2]Developer Live Stream[/h2]We'll be hosting our typical fire-side live-stream this weekend, to answer questions and just have some fun with the community.

When: Saturday, 30th of May @ 11AM PDT // 20:00 CEST
Where: YouTube, Twitch, and Steam
The Airport: This Airport on the Workshop :)

Ever wanted to create a massive plot of asphalt with a couple of squigly lines? You can now do so, and even profit from it!

Build modular parking lots around your airport, or even below it underground. Passengers will come in with a car and use the free spots (usually the ones closest to your dropoff) and catch their flights as usual. Later, the cars will be used by arriving passengers to get home -- and they have to pay the fee you've set in order to do so - be careful though, if fees are too high it's likely to discourage the usage of your parking lots!

As gate control received a warm welcome there was also the question for more fine control, gate policies make it possible.

Gate policies replace the gate control system and can either be used as a drop-in replacement with nothing changed, or as a strong fine-tune control mechanism for your specific needs. Custom policies for remote or terminal gates or a specific setup for one terminal - you can choose precisely what the policies do and to which gates they are applied.

Small Tip: Policies can be applied from the gate control in the Operations Control Panel & on the selected-object menu after clicking directly on a gate, too!

All new in-game notifications; keep an eye on the left side of your screen, just under the main menu button, and you'll occasionally see some icons popping up. This is the new notification system -- it will inform you if anything noteworthy happens in your airports, such as a fire breaking out or flights being canceled.

Hovering over the icons will give you additional information, and left-clicking will center the camera to the point-of-interest. Right-click on a notification to dismiss it.

This one was highly requested, you asked for a way to remove airlines, and we went ahead and implemented it for you!
Removing an airline isn't completely possible, there always needs to be at least a reference to it in a save since data for at least 30 days is saved (including flights and airlines), but we now allow you to effectively "perma-hide" airlines from all display locations if desired.

You can now hide any airline in a given save; to do so use the flight scheduler and click "Hide" on the airline you want to no longer see or depend on. Once hidden, the airline will no longer show up unless you enable the "Hidden" filter. Additionally, any hidden airline will be ignored if their definition is missing, meaning no "Missing Mods Detected" dialog if you hide them all!

• Added a "Random" option for sprites and a message for new players to let them know of the option to choose between "legacy" and "new" character sprites.
  
• Added a sandbox menu, in sandbox saves it can be used to toggle real instant build, money (on and off) as well as immediately completing all research with a single click!
  
• Reworked the LRT tracks in regards to pathfinding; agents will strongly try to avoid the LRT tracks and crosswalks can now be placed on the track to give agents a place for them to cross over the tracks.
  

• Fix possible "ghost taxiways" appearing when demolishing an under construction taxiway and add a save fix to remove them on load.
  
• Fix underground fuel tanks can be placed inside foundation.
  
• Fix fuel ports not checking if anything is underneath them (like foundation).
  
• Fix agents possibly getting stuck in unwalkable space in low FPS scenarios.
  
• Fix object selection distance normalization broken for far distanced objects.
  
• Fix circles being shown for pax that have boarded an apron bus.
  
• Fix critical construction bug where piles would not get delivered correctly in some cases.
  
• Some minor code improvements.
  
• Fix luggage task using a luggage car that has been sold.
  
• Fix pax sometimes using wrong security zone ending up in wrong security "wing".
  
• Update loading screen i18n to better show what the game is doing.
  
• Fix outdoor luggage task not correctly saving / loading the amount of bags to transfer.
  
• Fix road rendering above most objects and vehicles on -2.
  
• Fix XL remote gates would not count towards unlocking airlines that require XL gates.
  
• Fix sector accessibility warning behind reception zones.
  
• Fix reception zone not showing error in case the reception desk is missing.
  
• Fix vehicles sometimes using side-roads that don't lead to the target.
  
• Fix possibility for pax to get stuck behind a reception.
  
• Fix pax using id check if the assigned downstream objects are not available.
  
• Fix pax avoiding crosswalks instead of using them in some cases.
  
• Fix LRT/Crosswalks block each other for construction.
  
• Fix emitter reports (environment, info, PA) not updating when rotating the object.
  
• Fix possibility for pax to get stuck on conveyor transitions.
  
• Fix pax appearing on wrong floor when boarding an apron bus underground.
  
• Fix search for languages using accents (i.e. in Spanish searching for "a" will also bring up "" now).
  
• Force construction materials to load earlier to not run into graphics issues in some rare cases.
  
• Disable V2 agent renderer if GPU support is missing, use V1 as default in case only partial support is available & V2 when playing with full support for the needed feature set. Also improves the detection of GPU feature support.
  
• Fix pax trying to choose close objects and possibly just sitting around when having to re-do security.
  
• Fix for construction projects not correctly cancelling and leaving workmen stuck.
  
• Fix edge case de-securing bug in case objects are inside a security zone and the only way to get to the security zone is via de-securing.
  
• Add sandbox menu to configure some stuff in sandbox mode.
  
• Add airline hiding system (will hide in airline list and from the "missing mods" dialog).
  
• Add high penalty to walk over LRT tracks so pax avoid them.
  
• Add the ability to place crosswalks on LRT tracks.
  
• Add check to verify having at least one crosswalk on the LRT track (when trying to dismantle a crosswalk on an LRT track).
  
• Add crosswalk on the LRT track on the starter airport.
  
• Update gate control UI to allow defining Policies and applying Policies to gates.
  
• Update all translation files.
  
• Fix width of clothes display.
  
• Fix several problems regarding the new sidebar in the main menu.
  
• Fix non-build retail objects ordering stock.
  
• Fix LRT station not requiring research to be placed.
  
• Fix transport capacity graph including the LRT when it's researched but no platform was placed yet.
  
• Fix security zones caching the same object multiple times (would mean too high numbers were showing on objects regarding assignments).
  
• Fix loan interest estimate not updating in some cases.
  
• Fix zoom to mouse.
  
• Fix apron buses (the way they detect for when they drive to the gate got a rework, should mean no stuck buses anymore).
  
• Fix remote bus pickups spawning pax on G even when placed underground.
  
• Fix remote bus pickups working with staff doors.
  
• Fix remote bus pickup always shows assign button on G.
  
• Fix agents cannot pass security from one secure area to another secure area.
  
• Fix zoom jumping when scrolling inside UI and then scrolling to zoom.
  
• Fix subsectors not regenerating when placing objects.
  
• Fix scrolling on macOS (and possibly Linux), should feel better now.
  
• Add random option for legacy sprites and sidebar message informing new players of the setting.
  
• Fix bug where shadows would not be removed when all buildings on a floor were removed.
  
• Fix crosswalks not placeable underground and set snapping to 1 for easier placement.
  
• Fix agents de-securing when trying to walk in a sector that is 'unknown' security status.
  
• Add temporary fix for pax freezing when too many workmen try to pathfind (we're working on a long term fix in the upcoming cycle).
  
• Fix LRT not able to spawn staff.
  
• Add new notification system showing small bubbles for various things happening on your airport.
  
• Fix fire trucks sometimes getting stuck in idle (they shouldn't get into that state but did so in some cases).
  
• Fix pax using secure areas between insecure areas, to pass from a secure start to another terminal in case a connecting flight would need them to move out of the secure area.
  

• Modding: PA speakers now use the angles defined in their configuration.
  
• Modding: Fix modded PA amplifiers failing to check for a zone.
  
• Modding: Fix crew chance modifier showing up as high number instead of a percentage.
  
• Modding: Fix aircraft mod edit UI not showing correct values but placeholders when opening the UI for the first time.
  
• Modding: Add POConfig_Crosswalk config - it's a crosswalk eh.
  
• Modding: Fix custom cash registers not working in cafes.
  
• Modding: Fix hangar vehicles spawning on level G even if the hangar is underground.
  
• Modding: Fix retail cash register not working without staff even if it's configured to not need staff.
  
• Modding: Add additional error logging for failed aircraft loading (now actually shows the underlying exception).
  
• Modding: Fix demo spawn aircraft being below the taxiway.
  
• Modding: Add sub-folder loading and enable i18n to use sub-folders as language selection.
  

A little more than a month ago, SimAirport was cleared to land -- today we're bringing you several updates and numerous fixes to improve gameplay & increase overall stability for everyone.

We're also releasing some new features to the 'Edge' branch today -- and we've got more coming to the Edge branch this month, as well. Read below for the full details on these new additions and check out the Official Roadmap to see what else we have in the works!

[h2]Developer Live Stream[/h2]We'll be hosting our typical fire-side live-stream this weekend, to answer questions and just have some fun with the community.

When: Saturday April 4, 2020 @ Noon PT / 21:00 CEST
Where: YouTube, Twitch, and Steam
The Airport: This Airport on the Workshop :)

• Real instant build in sandbox mode.
  
• Notification System to let you know of important things happening on your airport.
  
• Coming soon: Additional 'Gate Control' capabilities to give you precision control!
  

• Update logos.
  
• Update and improve Steam integration code.
  
• Implement new logging system to prevent crashes with the old system.
  
• Rework zoom levels and mipmap level selection (should significantly reduce tearing on textures).
  
• Enable auto saves by default.
  
• Add longer delay and startup argument for switching quality setting (you can now use "quality x" where x is a number from 0=Fastest to 5=Fantastic).
  
• Add manual check for finding the workshop folder, the game will try to find the workshop folder in offline mode and load mods when found.
  
• Modding: Added improved error handling for script mods, an exception in a script mod will now be logged and the mod will be disabled to not cause further harm or FPS issues.
  

• Fix issue where objects would never finish repair if they're down to 0% maintenance.
  
• Fix sort order for underground roads, previously a taxiway on floor G was rendered above a road when viewing floor -1 or -2.
  
• Fix auto removed planned walls setting is not using the correct initial value starting the game.
  
• Fix trucks could get stuck unloading on road ramps in spawn blocked condition.
  
• Fix planes not getting baggage loaded when PA speaker went missing.
  
• Fix name updates overwriting a file in the Steam directory meaning Steam would always find one corrupted file on verification.
  
• Fix recurring fuel order not updating the price basis.
  
• Fix pax sometimes getting stuck when going to a bag scanner that is changing shifts to no workers.
  
• Fix baggage claim only checking against the first pickup for reachability (now checks for all)
  
• Fix several issues for old saves, now even more old saves can be loaded!
  
• Fix time formats and add a new option for the 24 hour clock.
  
• Fix issue where passengers and flight crew may de-secure and cycle security.
  
• Fix pax sometimes using a longer path than expected after using a gate agent desk.
  
• Fix ability to un-assign or remove remote bus stop if flights are scheduled for a gate.
  
• Fix agents getting stuck outside on the apron in some cases.
  
• Fix aircrafts sometimes choosing bad takeoff direction when loading in on a taxiway and choosing a different runway after loading vs before saving.
  
• Fix legacy maintenance objects failing when loading old saves.
  
• Fix auto foundation when placing objects in negative map space (i.e. west of the main road).
  
• Fix notable properties for PA speakers.
  
• Fix fuel UI showing 0% current storage with more than 0% fuel in storage.
  

SimAirport arrives after spending almost 3 years in Early Access! We are very excited to celebrate the transition to full release with you today!

[h2]Developer Live Stream[/h2]
We'll be hosting our typical fire-side live-stream this weekend, to celebrate and answer questions, and just have some fun with the community.

When: Sunday March 1, 2020 @ 10AM PT / 19:00 CET
Where: YouTube, Twitch, and Steam
The Airport: This Airport on the Workshop :)

We're back with another big update to help you continue expanding your airports. As a change of pace, this update even brings the ability to accidentally (or intentionally) burn your airport down, too!

We're gearing up to transition to "full release" status very soon -- so if you're on the fence, this is a great time to dive in! And don't worry, we aren't finished yet! We have more in store for SimAirport and you can expect continued updates into the future. :)

Huge thank you to the community and all of the supporters who continue to make SimAirport's development possible, and who keep it fun for us. Especially those of you playing the Edge branch, reporting bugs & keeping us on our toes, and just generally being engaged and challenging us. We appreciate you all immensely, and we hope to see some of you on the stream this weekend! :)

[h2]Developer Live Stream[/h2]
As always with big updates, we'll do a live stream so come and join us for questions, suggestions or to just say hello!

When: February 15, 2020 @ 11AM PT / 20:00 CET
Where: YouTube, Twitch, and Steam

A chef severely overcooked something, machine failure, a passenger throwing something hot into a trash can or you simply having some fun -- these are all possible ways to have a fire start in your airport!
If a fire breaks out any work will be dropped and all nearby passengers and staff try to run out (avoiding the fire if at all possible) and they won't go back until the fire is extinguished. No need to fear, however! The local fire department is quickly called and will come out to get your airport back up and running.
While on your land fire trucks may park on the public road but can also drive onto the apron side even using taxiways, however they will only park on roads so not to block the air traffic, having a good apron side road system that is connected to the public road system and some staff doors every so often will greatly improve your ability to fight fires!
As fires expand in size they can burn things down to bare concrete, and as the severity of the fire increases the fire department will call for additional trucks.
Fire begins small as simply heat and smoke, but can quickly increase in strength. We chose a moderate rate-of-spread that is rather realistic, based off of the 'fuel' available to it, but not too fast to overwhelm you. We have also added the ability to mod most of the key fire related elements, meaning the community can create mods to change the dynamics of fire-starting, the rate-of-spread, and more!

If you want to play with fire alone you can press either ctrl+4 or F4 and fire will be spawned at your cursor! Have fun burning down your airport! This is the first push towards random events, and if you'd like to have them happen in your save can toggle them in the options!

After completing Research, you can now set gates to close at a specific amount of time before departure. Once a gate is closed it will no longer take in any more passengers, even if the passenger is already in the Gate Desk queue -- the plane will depart. If you're the type of person who wants to run the tightest possible schedule then this may come in handy to get planes out on time, even if at the expense of a few hard feelings from your passengers (and Perfect Ops Bonuses!).

This update contains numerous fixes related to remote gates, as well as the two missing remote gate sizes: Large and Extra Large (XL)!
The bigger brothers of the 'S' remote gate work the same but can accommodate the larger aircraft & allow more concurrent buses to service the gate, providing an extra efficiency boost to your shuttle bus operations. Make sure to always have enough buses on standby!

A highly requested feature, you may configure a delay for tooltips in the settings menu.

Previously passengers would never run outside in a secure area to do stuff, this is to prevent them running around the apron to go from one terminal over to another. This has now changed, from now on pax can go outside into the secure apron side if you lay down some Sidewalk for them, you can use several objects outside and even some mod objects to give your pax a nice outside relaxing area!

• Update translations and added missing keys.
  
• Rebuild base game atlases to 4k and applied compression (lossless) to allow more mods to be used at once.
  
• Add ability for passengers to walk in outdoors secure areas that have sidewalks (i.e. pax will walk outside if it is secure & sidewalk; they'll not leave the sidewalk in outdoor secured areas).
  
• Improved search in flight schedule, you can now search for airline and flight number!
  
• Add on/off toggle for script mods (you can now disable script mods in Settings/ModSettings).
  
• Added auto-foundation on the current level for conveyor transition and stairs/escalators.
  
• Game now saves the immediate fuel on/off state.
  
• Adjusted PA speaker frustration to compensate for more calls; HD amps boosted as well.
  
• Added second taxiway planning color.
  
• Improve performance of flight schedule UI, shouldn't be a hit to FPS anymore.
  

• Fix issue where the LRT may not spawn pax or only few pax and flights leave near empty.
  
• Fix order in which pax are spawned for flights, earlier departures are now spawned with a higher priority (previously was more or less random).
  
• Fix agents sometimes getting stuck on road ramps.
  
• Fix agents sometimes getting stuck on corners in low FPS cases.
  
• Fix ability to completely lock out traffic (if all traffic is blocked for some time workmen will spawn without a bus, car or LRT and supplies spawn at the delivery zone).
  
• Fix aircraft gates cannot be placed on roads even if a road can be placed at the same spot if the aircraft gate was placed first.
  
• Fix issues appearing with auto-foundation and modded Placeable Objects.
  
• Fix airplanes getting stuck in some cases while maintenance is active on a runway.
  
• Fix airplanes not using an available runway while one is under maintenance.
  
• Fix repair projects not considered finished even though all tasks where done.
  
• Fix workmen not unloading the supply truck if the truck is partially stopped on a road ramp.
  
• Fix road ramps sometimes pulling in agents until they're stuck forever.
  
• Fix baggage depot showing too many gates as possible candidates.
  
• Fix placement validation if a second level is only partially used on an object.
  
• Fix runway lights showing up as not build even when they are.
  
• Fix agent colorization bug, agents are now way better saturated.
  
• Fix stairs could be placed up and no foundation would be built if there was any material laid down (i.e. sidewalk).
  
• Fix ticketing desks not operating when there's a connected segment but the desk isn't yet connected to a hub (will fall back to golf carts).
  
• Fix remote bag scanners working while staff is on its way to the monitoring station but not yet looking at their monitor.
  
• Fix grant/objective for airline satisfaction would take all airlines into account (should only calc for the ones that you are working with).
  
• Fix escalator not used/valid when surrounded by security zone.
  
• Fix loading/deserialize issue on some older legacy save game files.
  
• Fix cash registers with one shared queue accepting only 1 passenger for the combined lot.
  
• Fix baggage tutorial not correctly passing step 1.
  
• Fix cafe objects capacity being shared over all objects of the same type.
  
• Fix PA tutorial stating PA must be assigned to gates though it's now outdated.
  
• Fix build menu not sorted when playing on any other language then English.
  
• Fix apron buses sometimes waiting too long instead of driving off.
  
• Fix road nodes not rendering when too many are placed on one floor.
  
• Fix meetings getting cancelled due to late zone validation.
  
• Fix crosswalks penalization, crosswalks are now favored over roads.
  
• Fix planes sometimes ending up with negative pax spawned which lead the game to think it'd have to spawn more pax than needed.
  
• Fix planes may show 100% boarded with some pax not boarded.
  
• Fix conference rooms claimed with too few seats.
  
• Fix cash register not showing up as required in cafes.
  
• Fix airline interest using all airlines, now only shows airlines you serve.
  
• Fix pax satisfaction including slight discomfort, now ignores slight discomforts in overall calculation (should increase rating on all airports slightly).
  
• Fix runway light upgrade can be placed while another light upgrade is already queued.
  
• Fix clothes display C was not working as product display.
  
• Fix buses and LRTs may get stuck on really old saves.
  
• Fix second bus for remote gates sometimes failing to come out and run the task.
  
• Fix missing jewelry display C.
  
• Fix edge scroll options On/Off were reversed.
  
• Fix switching language may leave some objects on the old translation.
  
• Fix current stock jumping to the next line when hovering over an object button in the build menu.
  
• Fix endpoints of some objects (e.g. conveyor transition) could not be placed on belts in some cases.
  
• Fix rare autosave and land expansion failure when the save folder doesn't exist
  
• Fix fuel tanks sometimes not move/sell fuel when dismantled.
  
• Fix pax would get stuck in walls in some cases when trying to get unstuck from a wall.
  
• Fix underground roads can not be placed under placeable objects.
  
• Fix lights on some gates have wrong position/size.
  
• Fix information and environment emitter position issue on right facing objects.
  
• Fix bags not deserializing correctly removing them on save load.
  
• Fix zones outdoors loosing their text when switching to a higher level.
  
• Fix aircraft may get stuck on a remote gate when a bus aborted its deplane task.
  
• Fix maintenance sometimes stuck when partial repairs did not complete.
  
• Fix remote bus pickup sometimes failing to detect doors due to floating point issues.
  
• Fix remote bag scanners showing no staff when scheduled but not currently present.
  
• Fix office zone and store zone could be used with no objects present.
  
• Fix inconsistency when dismantling an upgraded object; upgrades will now dismantle too.
  
• Fix conference room may not display an error when in insecure area but reachable by a reception zone.
  
• Fix pax may get stuck when their fix position task ends up in a position that is not useable for a passenger.
  
• Fix agents may get stuck if they stole an item inside the secure area and then left the secure area, *stealing is actually just a side-effect.
  

• Modding: Added new setting values: Checkbox, Dropdown, Label.
  
• Modding: Added stepping and value format for the slider setting.
  
• Modding: Added sort order for settings.
  
• Modding: Fix creating an airline may overwrite an existing airline if the same random ID was rolled.
  
• Modding: Fix security zones not working with modded Placeable Objects.
  
• Modding: Fix transfer flow animation on baggage depot not using the baggage cars level.
  
• Modding: Fix baggage cars driving into modded baggage depots.
  
• Modding: Added scale and position to digital ad board so custom ad boards can be made, custom ads coming soon.
  
• Modding: Fix OnRoads not working for underground roads.
  
• Modding: Fix slider setting defaulting to show 1 instead of the actual value.
  
• Modding: Implemented new SpritePacker, from now on the new sprite packer is used which can generate more than one atlas!
  
• Modding: Fix missing reference for aircraft modding.
  
• Modding: Fix modded hangars not working on -1 or -2.
  
• Modding: Fix underground roads not checking for OnRoads property.
  
• Modding: Fixed hangar menu to take up to 20 vehicle slots.
  
• Modding: Added ability to save data using OnAirportSaving and OnAirportLoaded, be wise what you save as it is saved in the save and saves may get pretty big!
  
• Modding: Fix construction materials not correctly saving and missing on load.
  
• Modding: Fix construction materials not correctly rendering.
  
• Modding: Fix VDF file failing to load paths on linux that contain windows directory separators.
  
• Modding: Fix issue where the game state is cached and appears to always be on the loading screen.
  
• Modding: Fix ATC Tower component not working with modded ATC Towers.
  
• Modding: Fix staff limit not affecting how many staff one can schedule on an object.
  

We're happy to announce our next live stream!

Join us in this latest installment of the "fire-side chat" style dev live-stream! Get your burning questions answered, provide feedback on the game, discuss ideas directly with the dev team, tell us what issues or quirks you've encountered or are driving you crazy, even discuss the meaning of life -- or just drop in to say hello! steamhappy

This one is going to be special though! As you may have seen on the store page, we're collaborating with Green Gemini for some much-appreciated video content. And, on this upcoming stream, we're going to be live alongside Green, to give you some great content and answer as many questions as we possibly can! We look forward to seeing you then!

Check out Green Gemini on YouTube
Green Gemini's YouTube Channel

Live Stream Details

When:
December 27th @ 11:00 AM Pacific

Where to Watch

• YouTube
  
• Twitch.tv
  
• Steam - or directly on this page, once the stream begins!
  

Friendly reminder that we'll be live-streaming today starting at about 11:30AM Pacific!

Join us in this latest installment of the "fire-side chat" style dev live-stream! Get your burning questions answered, provide feedback on the game, discuss ideas directly with the dev team, tell us what issues or quirks you've encountered or are driving you crazy, even discuss the meaning of life -- or just drop in to say hello! steamhappy

Live Stream Details

When:
November 27th @ 11:30 AM Pacific

Where to Watch

• YouTube
  
• Twitch.tv
  
• Steam - or directly on this page, once the stream begins!
  

Tons of great new features, content, and of course many fixes have arrived -- with the latest SimAirport update which we're releasing now! steamhappy

Developer Live Stream - 11/27/2019 @ 11AM
We will continue the live-streaming tradition to coincide with this big new update -- come and join us next week to ask questions, provide your suggestions, or even just to hang out and talk! :)

When: November 27 @ 11AM Pacific
Where: YouTube, Twitch, and Steam

Remote Gates
Remote gates are a new type of Aircraft Gate that can be located remotely, away from the terminal, and served by buses. Several new objects and vehicles have been added to accommodate the new functionality; here are the details of this new feature:

• To start off you'll need an Apron Bus in a Hangar of your choice (it must be connected to the road or taxiway network still!).
  
• Remote gates can be placed anywhere and do not require the usual terminal door, buses will drive onto it from the taxiway and will drive off using the taxiway or a road on the normally terminal side of the gate.
  
• To transfer passengers you'll need a remote bus pickup, a structure that handles arrival and departure passengers for a remote gate, it'll need a road connection on one side and terminal on the other.
  
• The bus pickup can be used with one or two doors, if you use two you can select which one will be used for arrival and which one for departure passengers.
  


Full Modding Support - Objects, Graphics, and Code!
It took a bit longer than expected, and there will almost surely be some additional APIs requested, but we're extremely excited to be releasing major new modding capabilities which have now tested for quite some time over on the Edge branch.




• 'Placeable Objects' mod support. You can create new in-game objects, add your own graphics, anddo pretty much anything you want -- from simple "copies" of existing objects to objects that create entirely new mechanics.
  
  
• Custom Code mod support. You can now load your own code and take advantage of APIs to run your own logic -- create new mechanics, give yourself unlimited cash, modify existing gameplay, and much more. Tons of possibilities!
  
  
• Graphics / Texture Overrides support. It is now very easy to bring your own graphics and artistic creations directly into the game; you can quite easily replace any existing art to customize your experience.
  
  
• All With Workshop Support! All of the mod functionality, both what was existing and all of the new stuff added in this update, is compatible with the Steam Workshop! You can easily share your own mods with the community, and play mods created by others!
  
  
• Head over to the modding repo on GitHub where you can learn the basics and dive right in. We're always here if you have any questions or requests, too!
  


Multiple Dropoff & Pickup Zones
You can now place up to 3 dropoff and pickup zones; all zones will get their own bus.
This means you can completely separate the two, without buses re-spawning if they only reached one zone. You can even add completely separated terminals with their own pickup/dropoff zones!
Note: Upgraded buses do not spawn two buses per interval anymore! Make sure your transport capacity is high enough with these changes!

Queue Tools: Major UI/UX Improvements

• Draw full queues in one "drag" -- no longer does it restrict you a straight-line per draw!
  
• Queues now show "Head" and "Tail" as well as their length at each piece while drawing, should remove any confusion regarding where the start/end of the queue is.
  
• Shift+Click with the 'Remove Queue' tool now removes the whole queue; no more following piece-by-piece anymore.
  

• Added a hint when hitting the maximum ownable area
  
• Added several missing translations
  
• Improved quick-select to be able to pick in-construction floor.
  
• Added ATC callouts for landing and takeoff.
  
• Added small remote gate and bus pickup.
  
• Added warning for conference room to be behind a reception zone.
  
• Airlines will now have a minimum trust unless their facility needs are not met.
  
• Improved queue tool, you can now drag in any direction while making a new queue or extending an existing one.
  
• Added shift+click on queue removal to remove the whole queue.
  
• Modifications to entertainment/boredom effects for Electronic vending to make it more popular. Default price slightly reduced to also help.
  
• PA Systems no longer need assigning to each gate, and announcements will be made to every speaker. They still require assignment to amplifiers.
  
• Up to 3x dropoff and 3x pickup zones. One bus will be spawned for each of the zones, and pax will be much more intelligent in deciding which to get off that. This includes LRTs. May cause far away LRTs and dropoff zones to become unused. The distance is worked out based on how far away the nearest security zone is.
  
• Upgraded Buses still doubles the capacity to 150, but no longer spawns a second. However, with the higher zone count you'll see up to 6 buses at once!
  
• Improved escape mechanisms so stuck pax are less likely.
  
• Added text to show speed of moving walkways.
  
• Security zone error messages improved.
  
• Limit the maximum number of passenger cars that can be spawned at once to help avoid endless traffic congestion.
  
• Improved purchase chance on all products to increase sales, and balanced the attraction of them better to avoid rushes on candy and book stores.
  
• Trains spawn pax up to twice as fast to improve traffic flow.
  
• Improved pathfinding algorithm accuracy - you should see more pax using crosswalks and avoiding slower obstacles!
  
• Fuel tanker trucks from the outside world are sped up when unloading at fuel depots. They also only spawn the amount of fuel needed for all *connected* fuel tanks.
  
• LRT Station now shows "Requires Ground Floor" as a requirement when placing.
  
• Distance calculations (which should include Dropoff-Terminal distances) take into account moving walkways as being faster or "shorter distance".
  
• Schedule-staff objects stop using staff when they are no longer functioning.
  
• Added an additional tooltip for the remote bag scanner. Advice: they work at their most efficient with up to 5 scanners connected.
  
• Today's & yesterday's earnings
  
• Today's & yesterday's staff expenses at that till
  
• Many timed events end when they are supposed to more accurately. This makes a bigger impact at higher game speeds.
  
• Increased the movement speed of all agents to 1.25x.
  
• Added option to invert the mouse zoom and scroll direction in general settings.
  
• Added new option for edge scrolling "Inbound only", when used, scrolling on the edge will only happen inside the game window, not when on another window
  
• Disable shadow on high zoom level to improve FPS when overlooking a big part of the airport.
  
• Added mipmap levels, this reduces the quality and increases the performance when looking onto your airport from a higher zoom level. We currently enabled up to 5 levels, let us know if you see any issues especially on the highest zoom!
  

• Fixed pax may end up on Fuel Pipes
  
• Fixed and improved deboarding of the LRT, it's still crowded but pax will actually deboard towards the station
  
• Fixed zones on level 2 could be selected from level 3 when no foundation is placed on level 3
  
• Fixed in-construction objects not using the grey scale setting
  
• Fixed maintenance projects would not repair the object when loading from a save
  
• Fixed placeables could be placed on underground roads
  
• Fixed baggage carousels (from above) having wrong connection position for left/right facings
  
• Fixed tutorial window getting stuck in minimized mode when finishing a step of some tutorials
  
• Fixed "Airport Efficiency" grant would not complete in some cases
  
• Fixed "Overloaded Operator" achievement was not achievable with >= 30 days of perfect ops
  
• Fixed resizing a flight in the flight manager from the left would have the arrival jump back to the original value
  
• Fixed baggage carousels not getting a number when constructed
  
• Fixed several spelling mistakes
  
• Fixed pax sometimes trying to wander outside and getting stuck
  
• Fixed slowdown due to queue calculation for some objects placed outdoors
  
• Fixed baggage loading task may not run outdoors when baggage unload would
  
• Fixed foundation placeable near runways while the runway is under construction.
  
• Fixed objects could be placed on baggage carousels on their "other" level.
  
• Fixed crash when expanding airport while construction is going on.
  
• Fixed auto-foundation for conveyors would place concrete over conveyors.
  
• Fixed queue line visualization is visible on all floors.
  
• Fixed security bins would not be correctly sorted on remote bag scanners.
  
• Fixed some placement indicators would not update when not in the current viewable area.
  
• Fixed remote bag scanners would not slow down when too many are assigned to one monitoring station.
  
• Fixed LRT wouldn't allow boarding when another LRT was departing the station while the arriving one was entering it.
  
• Fixed "Scientific Method" achievement would not fire even when everything is researched.
  
• Fixed flight crew walking to the end of the queue instead of directly going to the gate desk.
  
• Fixed several issues with security bins and missed flight pax that may slow down bag scanners.
  
• Fixed an issue where a stuck pax may get stuck forever when the gate he should've used is removed.
  
• Fixed conveyor transition being zoneable in some layouts.
  
• Fixed flights may get stuck when delayed for a long time.
  
• Fixed inside-inside windows would be rated the same as inside-outside windows for environment.
  
• Fixed maintenance would not finish in some cases even when the object is fixed to 100%.
  
• Fixed save dialog hanging when opening with a lot of saves.
  
• Fixed: PA amplifiers would not play sound when placed vertically.
  
• Fixed: Airlines with low first class percent don't care for first class lounges in negotiations and shouldn't ask for it.
  
• Fixed: In the flight scheduler, auto-increase size of flights on hover if they are very small. Allows to drag easier.
  
• Fixed: Text formatting for "Pax Flow" so that it no longer goes outside of its hover box.
  
• Fixed: Aircrafts with high minimum runway requirements might land delayed or with too high separation.
  
• Fixed: Foundation could be placed over outside objects without removing them first.
  
• Fixed: Storage shelf's would show an error when placed in deliveries.
  
• Fixed: Fading between standby and normal gates.
  
• Fixed: LRT only picks up pax in some configurations.
  
• Fixed: Using the clone tool you could create some objects without foundation on another floor.
  
• Fixed: Gate stairs where not placeable when a road was placed first.
  
• Fixed: Pax would try to use LRT stations that where not finished building.
  
• Fixed: Pax sometimes leave the secure zone and have to go through security again.
  
• Fix uncommon error in clean floors janitor tasks
  
• Fix conveyor sometimes not invoking auto-foundation properly
  
• Fix road ramps errantly able to be placed near taxiways in certain configurations
  
• Fix road project construction indicators not persisting after loading save game
  
• Fix null reference issue inside certain repair object tasks
  
• Fix runway lights not correctly aligning/placing
  
• Fix quick-select usage on floor transition objects
  
• Fix dismantle runway not working when runway is being repaired
  
• Fix transport capacity graph quirks & handling of EAM wrap-around flight pax
  
• Fix issue with busses and trains not spawning pax in rare airport situations.
  
• Fixes for moving flight entries in the manager. Now the left-half of the flight cannot be moved, it must be picked up from the right side where the PM time-slot is. Note: it can still be dragged to extend or reduce the time.
  
• Building an escalator or staircase into a security zone should not cause problems with access anymore.
  
• Planes shouldn't get stuck in certain large, complex one way taxi systems.
  
• Food displays and cash registers no longer function in non-functioning zones.
  
• Fix a rounding issue with the airline satisfaction grant objective.
  
• Pax can no longer use auto-kiosks if they have a bag to check.
  
• Fix passengers leaving behind trays at the bag scanners, causing them to get stuck.
  
• Fix meetings may get stuck when no host is available.
  
• Fix an issue of the auto-hiring system adding and removing staff rapidly in rare cases.
  
• Fix bag count is wrong when saving/loading mid-unload.
  
• Fixed dumpsters not saving their trash amount.
  
• Fixed zone toggle not toggling the base pattern of zones.
  
• Fixed tutorial saves were the tutorial was finished.
  
• Fixed agents sometimes getting stuck when leaving a gate and saving/reloading in a specific moment.
  
• Fixed outdoor objects not de-zoning when placed.
  
• Fix maintenance objects using only the global schedule and not checking for their object settings (anytime etc.).
  
• Fix issue were pax would target a bad position after loading a game (e. g. when on a moving walkway).
  
• Fixed bag booster placement on right facing baggage hubs.
  
• Fixed major slowdown when rebuilding the security status after construction or a direction change on a moving walkway or escalator.
  
• Major fixes to the reachability checks, sectors should now correctly show when they're not accessible or cannot be exited at all. Let us know if you find anything wrong!
  
• Fix baggage hub upgrades can be placed on any floor.
  
• Fix conference rooms falsely showing missing conference table error when any other error was occurring to the room.
  

Five by five, loud and clear -- yes, we are still here!! steamhappy

We want to provide everyone with a brief update -- it's been a while since we provided an official update and although we've had a few live streams & are easily accessible via our various channels, we're still long overdue for an official status report! :)

We've definitely been quieter on the public announcements front, and our overall development pace has slowed compared to what we previously had been able to maintain, but we want you to make no mistake about it -- we're still here every day, working extremely hard, and there's still a tremendous amount going on -- both behind the scenes and in the code, as evidenced by the latest Edge branch updates.

For those of you who haven't had a chance to check out Edge lately or if you've missed any of the live streams, here's what's been going on!

Dev Cycle Status - On 'Edge' Right Now

• FULL MOD SUPPORT! Custom code, custom graphics -- the sky is truly the limit. We're just now beginning to see some of the stuff that we expect modders to be able to create; we expect to see awesome stuff as the API continues to mature.
  
  
• Remote Gates. One of the top most-requested features, your ability to expand operations grows dramatically with this new mechanic.
  
  
• Multiple Pickup/Dropoff Zones. Another one that was highly-requested by players -- it required some new Pax AI 'smarts' but opens up new possibilities & some new transport-related challenges, too.
  
  
• Game Speed & Balance Improvements. Agents now move faster and 'timings' have been adjusted, which is especially impactful when playing at high speeds or with lots of passengers.
  
  
• And More, Including... Individualized cash register reporting; Pathfinding improvements; Dynamic air-traffic control audio; and hundreds of bug-fixes, balance adjustments, and general quality-of-life improvements.
  

SimAirport - Release & Support

• At least TWO 'Default' patches before exiting Early Access
  
• Transition to 'Full Release' by end-of-year 2019
  
• Continued SimAirport support -- bug-fixes and content -- into 2020+
  

Coming Soon from LVGameDev

• Dev Therapy, a short series of 'behind-the-scenes' dev-blogs
  
• All-new title from the team slated for release in 2020!
  

Save 50% on SimAirport during this week's Midweek Madness*!

*Offer ends Friday at 10AM Pacific Time

Grow your airline relationships, negotiate deals, lease office and lounge space, and try to grow your airport empire. Beginning today, you can even turn your airport into a 24/7 international powerhouse -- new high-efficiency worker scheduling capabilities, janitor patrols, you can even negotiate and schedule highly-requested 'EAM' flights!

Brand new mechanics add even more depth along with numerous QOL and UI/UX improvements, TONS of content, numerous bugfixes, and a little bit of everything in between. Dive in and let us know what you think!

Developer Live Stream - July 2 @ Noon PDT
We'll be hanging out and live-streaming on Tuesday -- stop by and say hi!

When: Tuesday, July 2nd @ Noon PDT
Where: On Steam, YouTube, and Twitch!

Key Highlights

• New Tutorial Added: 'Airline Needs and Negotiations'
  
• New 'room value' mechanic added to Negotiatiable Zones, based on: size, open space, window view, ease of access, and environment (click negotiable zone to view)
  
• Airline Needs: Trust, Communication, Service Reliability, Passenger Satisfaction, Fuel Satisfaction, Facilities Quality
  
  New 'Sales Rep' Staff Type!
  Sales reps (and administrators) can be assigned to airlines; both improve communication with airlines, raise interest, and are a catalyst for fruitful negotiations!
  
  New 'Conference Room' Zone!
  Host meetings with the Airline Executives in conference rooms to further improve communication and overall airline relations. Leased conference rooms will host daily meetings.
  
  Negotiation Mechanics
  
• Negotiables include: Cafes, Cafe Profit Share, Stores, Store Profit Share, Fuel Satisfaction, Conference Rooms, Guaranteed % of Pax per Flight
  
• When offices are leased, airline executives will use them along with your facilities, providing additional profit potential
  
• Sales Reps are less expensive than administrators, but admins have negotiation abilities & skills that can have a bigger impact on your bottom line. Use both to nurture relationships most efficiently
  
• Take multiple rounds to negotiate, and see how offers progress via the negotiation history tab
  
  Airline Executives
  
• New 'Reception' zone & Reception Desk object. Reception desk must be staffed by a security guard & creates a secure area behind it
  
• All executives must use a reception desk to access the secure sector and cannot use regular security zones
  
• Facilities beyond a reception zone cannot be used by passengers
  
• Executive facilities, such as airline-offices and conference rooms, must be built in a secure sector
  

Hope everyone had a great month and is as excited as we are for the summer to really be getting under way! We wanted to take a moment tonight to provide you with a few updates, and to let you know about an upcoming dev live-stream this weekend which you're all invited to attend! :)

Dev Live Stream: Sunday, June 2 @ 11AM Pacific
Join us here on Steam, over on YouTube, or on Twitch this coming Sunday for an afternoon of gameplay, chatter, and gameplay discussion! Hope to see you there!

The 2019 SimAirport Survey
The results are in and the response has been really impressive; we thank those of you who took the time to provide your thoughts, it was very helpful and the overall turnout surpassed our expectations by far. We'll be talking more about it during the live stream this coming weekend!

The Lifecycle of SimAirport
Don't worry -- we aren't finished quite yet!! The game has come a very long way already, and while we really aren't finished yet, we have started to plan for the transition to full release.

You don't have to worry though, that will not mean the end of Edge and it won't mean the end of patches -- there are still a number of things we want to get implemented, even if some of them are delivered via post-release patches. The roadmap breaks it out pretty well, and we'll be talking more about the transition on the live-stream, too!

Summary - SimAirport Release Transition

• SimAirport will transition to full release by end Q3 2019.
  
• Expect the price to increase upon release.
  
• Default & Edge patches will continue -- this will NOT be the end of patches!
  

• Airline Relationships
  Nurture the relationship with rich negotiation mechanics, desire for leased offices, lounges and other facilities, new conference rooms & sales rep staff, and more.
  
  
• Timelapse Video Capture
  Smooth capture features tailor-made for sharing your creations.
  
  
• Old Passenger Sprites Re-Implemented!
  Ask nicely and thou shall receive! Switch between the new & the old sprites any time at the flip of a switch! They're both great, but the old sprites are awfully cute we admit! =D
  
  
• Government Grants System
  If you need a little 'push' to help get your airport going in the right direction, these government grants are just what you were missing. Kicks the gameplay up a notch. Oh yeah, allows you to earn EAM Flights too!!
  
  
• Steam Achievements
  If you think you've been there or done that -- then try these on for size! A total of 15 new Steam Achievements to earn, running the gamut from beginner to hardcore difficulty, there's something for everyone.
  
  
• Janitor Area Patrols & Scheduling
  Tired of having your janitors roam the airport inefficiently when the trash leaves it proverbial calling card? This is the answer, and it'll save money on staff wages, too!
  

Are you ready? Today we bring you SimAirport latest update -- featuring new 'Scenario Mode' gameplay, multiple new features including one-way passenger routing objects to play with, upgraded security process realism, and a metric ton of quality-of-life refinements and bug-fixes.

We've got a few other things for you, too -- let's dive in!

Developer Live Stream - April 20 @ Noon PDT
We had so much fun with the live stream that we're going to try our best to make it a much more regular occurrence! We'll be live-streaming tomorrow -- stop by and say hi!

When: Saturday, April 20th @ Noon PDT
Where: On Steam, YouTube, and Twitch!

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• Scenario Mode & Scenario Editor
  
  
  
  • Create scenarios & play them
    
  • Workshop support for sharing & playing contributed scenarios
    
  
  
  
• Adds 'One-Way Path' Placeable Object
  
  
  
  • Yep, not kidding! :) Finally, the 'one way door' type object!
    
  
  
  
• Improved Security Process Overhaul
  
  
  

  IMPORTANT COMPATIBILITY NOTE: This change is fully compatible, but you will want to re-arrange your security to best suit the new more realistic passenger flow! :)

  
  
  • More robust AI-driven pax behavior & distribution at security
    
  • Pax now do: ID Check, 'drop' at bag scanner, then metal detector/body scanner, then 'grab' at bag scanner
    
  • Improves responsiveness to staffing changes & slower queues in security zone
    
  • Improves throughput for security objects
    
  • Optimizes performance and multi-core usage for security related behaviors
    
  
  
  
• Adds 'Quick Select' Build Feature
  
  
  
  • Default is 'Q' key. May require manual key assignment if you have custom keybindings.
    
  • Hold & release 'Q' when hovering an object to quick-select object for placement
    
  • Hold & release 'Q' when hovering a floor to quick-select it; if hovering no floor Foundation tool will be selected
    
  • Hold & release 'SHIFT+Q' when hovering a zone to quick-select that zone type
    
  
  
  
• Construction Tools & 'Auto Foundation' Features
  
  
  
  • Adds 'auto foundation' on multi-floor objects, satisfies 'existing foundation' requirement
    
  • Logic & visual improvements to underground road drawing
    
  • Aircraft Gates allow roads under but them only sides/edges
    
  • Dismantle - remove objects but not flooring; also removes utilities
    
  • Demolish - remove foundations, sidewalk/ramp, roads, taxiways, runways
    
  • Adds new 'Concrete' floor type to remove indoor flooring back to concrete
    
  
  
  
  GENERAL & GAMEPLAY
  
  
  
  • Clone tool now selectively removes zones as needed on placement
    
  • Update all localization strings to/from github repo
    
  • Error handling adjustments / improvements
    
  • Minor changes to the way build version data is handled to aid with retroactive save analysis & debugging
    
  • Clean up repair project cancellation routines
    
  • Add keybind action for hiding UI (no key assigned by default)
    
  • Boost effect intensity and distance on many decor objects
    
  • Increase number of tasks issued for dismantle jobs for faster projects
    
  • Increase throughput of coffee & drink retail objects
    
  • Hangar vehicles now prefer to traverse on roads vs taxiways
    
  • Hangar vehicles can transition directly from roads when driving to gates
    
  • Environment report distinguishes minor differences better via non-linear colors
    
  • Tweaks & balance adjustments to multiple decor & retail kiosk objects
    
  • Flight Crew now report to GAD & board flight even if desk is unstaffed
    
  • Slight balance tweaks to boredom need attenuation
    
  • Increased speed that bags become available on baggage carousel
    
  • Clone tool now ignores objects it can't handle instead of invalidating drag
    
  • Slight increase to info object effects / advertisement
    
  • Add 'auto-hire' feature to Staff UI, off by default
    
  • Mega Rich achievement disabled in Tutorial and requirement increased by x10
    
  • Add 'resize' capability to main build menu
    
  • Optimizes assignment mode UI
    
  • Optimize passenger AI routines a bit (CPU)
    
  
  
  BUG FIXES
  
  
  
  • Fix pax AI's LCDistance heuristic not handling security exits properly
    
  • Fix rare stuck workers when project canceled with deliveries zone full
    
  • Fix ATMs not used after deserialization
    
  • Fix a subset of agents stuck that occurs near walkways & escalators/stairs
    
  • Fix staff management overhead mis-categorized as taxes
    
  • Fix sector partitioning bug that confused pax AI on some layouts with one-ways
    
  • Fix for legacy saves with runway stuck in construction when bordering land perimeter
    
  • Fix duplicate hover handling of in-progress object construction
    
  • Fix subset of supply piles from cancelled repair projects not being freed & returned
    
  • Fix reward not being correctly deserialized in scenario mode
    
  • Fix aircraft stuck after deserialize if their gate gets destroyed
    
  • Fix scroll speed on scenario objectives UI
    
  • Fix Bonus UI inaccuracies on # missed-flight pax & delayed flights
    
  • Fix delayed/canceled flight counts being delayed in scenario mode
    
  • Fix cache bug that lead to problems when installing mods
    
  • Fix pax going to Idle/wander when they should be selecting an object
    
  • Fix gate-distance being too heavily weighted in passenger AI heuristics
    
  • Fix Gate Desk not being selected if passenger is too bored
    
  • Fix stuck luggage vehicles which in turn could cause stuck aircraft
    
  • Fix aircraft gate validation incorrectly interpreting one-ways as inverted resulting in inaccurate validation warnings
    
  • Fix environment need increasing when if cell has green env. rating
    
  • Fix bug that lead to Bars and Coffees to affect hunger instead of thirst
    
  • Fix ghost details entry was sometimes visible in perfect ops bonus UI
    
  • Fix bug with queue distribution specific to Gate Agent Desk objects
    
  • Fix unable to return supply pile to storage when dropped off map
    
  • Fix achievement identifier mismatch on tutorial completion
    
  • Fix store browsing not providing any satisfaction
    
  • Fix able to build 'overhang' structures via clone tool bug
    
  • Fix retail object selection causing error/unsatisfied pax
    
  • Fix food display usage task save/load related bug
    
  • Fix unintended interaction with underground & ground floor sprites
    
  • Fix toilets display render order
    
  • Fix bag carousel luggage animation offset slightly
    
  • Fix retail / goods deliveries not being carried to final destination
    
  • Fix maint. duration slider allowing inputs over 24 hours
    
  • Fix Runway/Gate directional reachability when roads/ramps are used
    
  • Fix pax sometimes being inexplicably transfixed on objects
    
  • Fix multiple object-agent interaction bugs, cleaned up legacy code
    
  • Fix agents getting stuck in cafe after deserialization
    
  • Fix repair projects not releasing supply piles to storage (includes save fixing code)
    
  • Fix agents not reporting to GAD unless it is staffed
    
  • Fix bug that could cause incorrect retail supply deliveries
    
  • Fix staff schedule bug that caused over-removal of schedules
    
  • Fix 'Browse Saves Folder' not working on Linux
    
  • Fix task cancelation bug that could result in undefined state
    
  • Fix construction task enqueue/priority issue
    
  • Fix several taxiway light / light related visibility bugs
    
  • Fix underground opacity preference slider
    
  • Fix depth/sorting for Escalators when placed next to each other
    
  • Fix existing un-removed retail supply piles
    
  • Fix depth/sorting for fuel tank vs road ramp
    
  • Fix bug allowing duplicate retail inventory orders
    
  • Fix old/legacy save fuel truck issue, may require manual 'jumpstart'
    
  • Fix hangar vehicle bug that could cause some tasks to not complete, sometimes requiring 'force departure'
    
  • Fix several construction project related deserialize errors
    
  • Fix retail delivery not occurring in certain situations
    
  • Fix Perfect Ops Bonus UI, 'day 0' erroneously displayed & arrow should open 'details'
    
  • Fix Small Gate Stairs sorting order versus passengers
    
  • Fix land expansion needs to check for administrator present, not fired & has office
    
  • Fix bug that allowed more than 1 dismantle project in a given cell
    
  • Fix incorrectly being charged more than once for administrator wages
    
  • Fix Gate Agent Desk usage position inconsistency, now in 'front' of desk
    
  • Fix bug that allowed two admins of same type to be hired
    
  • Fix sector partitioning issue with road ramps causing undefined pax behavior
    
  • Fix dismantle of placeables located on map boundary to become stuck
    
  • Fix camera & save-game preview image related bug
    
  • Fix agent appearance hideLegs routine not working properly
    
  • Fix several staff scheduling related bugs
    
  • Fix screen resolutions sometimes appearing more than once
    
  • Fix cafe wait time heuristic, several adjustments and improvements
    
  • Fix Chef not leaving airport due to staff scheduling bug
    
  • Fix objects/roads able to be build on top of LRT track
    
  • Fix path planning/following related issues with Road Ramps
    
  • Fix multiple issues related to starting funds & funds tracking with scenario editor
    
  
  

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HUGE. Seriously, this patch release is massive in both scope and volume -- it covers an extremely wide coverage area that touches on so many vastly distinct aspects. There's truly a bit of everything; lots of all-new features & objects, new systems, tons of refinements, and an absolute plethora of fixes.

Usually we'd have a bit more substantial message alongside the notes, but this one really speaks for itself so we're going to be extremely brief. Plus we'll have plenty to say over on the live stream anyways!

Dev Live Stream Tonight!
We'll be live-streaming for the next few hours tonight -- we'd love for you to join us! Ask us your burning questions, provide gameplay feedback, laugh at our airport construction skills, or just hang out and have a good time!

Live stream has ended for tonight -- we'll be back & streaming again tomorrow though and will update this post accordingly!

• Here on Steam
  
• via YouTube
  
• via Twitch
  

Happy Birthday! SimAirport turned 2 years old today and to celebrate we are doing something a little bit different this time around. Instead of an update video, this time we're going to be PLAYING it with you LIVE!

This Saturday -- March 9, 2019 -- Celebrate with us!
You're all invited to the celebration! The patch will go live on Saturday, March 9th at 10PM US Pacific. The developers themselves will then be live-streaming, taking your questions, and discussing your feedback & ideas late into the night!

We'd love for you to join the celebration -- we'll be talking about all kinds of things, and we'll be happy to answer any questions you might have about the game and what is to come in the future.

• When?
  Saturday March 9th, 2019 at 10PM US Pacific.
  If you're across the pond from us, that's 07:00 CET (GMT-1) on Sunday morning!
  
  
• What?
  
  
  
  • Developer Live Stream
    Interact directly with the devs, ask questions, learn about the game, provide feedback, and share your ideas. We'll be talking all things SimAirport!
    
    
  • Default Patch Release!
    The latest update will go live when we begin streaming on Saturday!
    
  
  
  
• Where?
  We'll be streaming directly to the store page here on Steam and simul-casting to YouTube. We'll be playing late into the night, so stop by and join us for some fun!!
  
  Links to the streams will be posted with the patch notes, on the forum, and this post will be updated to include them.
  

Happy Holidays from the LVGameDev team!

We're just shy of two years into Early Access as this year comes to a close and we begin to look towards 2019 and what it has in store for SimAirport. We're incredibly excited about the contents of the next default patch, and we really couldn't be happier with the state of affairs right now -- gameplay has evolved tremendously, even just this past year, and we're extremely well-positioned to really start pushing content out & hitting home on quality-of-life desires.

Upcoming Patch - Highlights & Status Update
The next cycle is well under way, and it's already shaping up to be an awesome one -- it's absolutely packed full of new content and several incredibly impactful new gameplay systems. Substantial improvement to the continued desire for 'depth', numerous new objects, and a renewed attention to visual fidelity all combine to make the upcoming release one of the most anticipated since the Multiple Floors update went live just under a year ago!

Here are just some of the highlights:

Tutorial - Several of them!
Long requested and finally delivered -- multiple tutorials to help players of all skill & experience levels. New players can start with the basic tutorial while those who have the basics down can play through more advanced tutorials to help master game concepts such as Baggage Systems and multi-floor construction.

Staff Scheduling
No longer will your staff be working 24-hours shifts, unless you want them to! Staff up to handle the travel rush & scale back during the sleepy overnight hours. Airport operations efficiency taken to a whole new level.

Complete Overhaul of Cafe/Retail & New 'Shops' Zone
Long needed & finally delivered. No longer will your retail workers be running confusingly between the kitchen and the cafes -- now your Chefs will work the kitchens & do their best to keep food flowing to their respective retail establishments. Pax are smarter too, with quicker & more realistic interactions that won't bog down your airport. True retail corridors are now possible; a wide array of new shop related objects & new sellable merchandise options will keep pax happier & increase your profits.

Clone Tool
Yep! Restroom placement just got a whole lot less tedious, and it's a very welcome change. Copy an area, rotate the entire thing, and 'paste' it with the new Clone Tool. Previously-annoying placements instantly become satisfying again!

Enhanced Visual Fidelity - Renewed Focus
While we've never focused heavily on graphics it's become more clear, especially as gameplay quality & depth has improved so substantially, that the game visuals have started to become the weakest link. Our focus remains gameplay, but the visuals must not be allowed to detract from the overall experience. We've already upgraded flooring textures, redone several sprites, and we're almost finished with completely revamped aircraft/airline sprites as well. You can also expect some technical art improvements -- namely anti-aliasing and color grading improvements -- to be coming, too!

Tonight we are deploying a small set of fixes for some of the more common and severe issues that have been brought to our attention on the Default branch over the last couple of weeks. Still a ton more coming this cycle, this is more of a 'hotfix' of sorts, for general airworthiness improvements -- but we wanted to go ahead and get these fixes out to default sooner than later.

We'll have more for you soon -- and, as always, if you have any questions or feedback for us we'd love to hear it via any of our channels! Post on the forum, over on our subreddit, or even tweet at us if you prefer! :)

Thanks everyone!


Patch Notes - November 16, 2018

• Increase max zoom distance slightly for any given map size
  
• Fix cancelling a piece-wise construction project could sometimes cause stuck workers
  
• Fix luggage task enqueue checking directional reachability instead of bidirectional
  
• Fix workers getting stuck trying to get to suspended-in-air supply piles
  
• Fix workers sometimes not falling into 'get unstuck' routine due to being 'sent home' too quickly
  
• Fix object warnings flashing too rapidly
  
• Fix sector generation thread safety lock-run, was allowing >1 re-generations at once which rarely caused corrupted sector state (stuck & clumping pax, strange behaviors, etc)
  
• Fix sector data pooling bug that caused RAM usage to continually increase
  
• Fix road reachability bug when road targets are shared by >1 object
  
• Fix lighting 'flash' each day at 20:00
  
• Fix road reachability matrix & caching when using one-way taxiways, optimizes same
  
• Fix several minor null references
  
• Fix rain appearing off screen when zoomed out
  
• Fix several needless RAM allocations within Pax AI routines
  
• Optimize nearest zone lookups
  
• Find nearest walkable area routine now runs on background thread
  
• Find nearest zone lookups now more accurately account for floor delta
  
• Revise thread-based state refresh systems into a shared state manager
  

Massive performance gains and a ton more all arrive tonight on the default branch! We are extremely excited to release the update to you tonight as we close out this long cycle. We hope you find the wait to have been well worth it -- improvements abound with nearly every aspect of the gameplay receiving attention along with the true focus, the main event of the cycle, being the long awaited performance optimizations. See below for the full change logs. :)

Update Video
Check out the latest video: SimAirport - October 2018 Update Video

What's Next?
We will be getting back to more rapid cycles now that we have taken care of the key foundational concerns that had hampered performance. We still have more performance gains ahead, and we'll continue to make incremental strides, but we're really ready to knock out some new content and additional gameplay systems!

Next cycle you will be seeing: Tutorial, Cafe / Retail Overhaul, and Staff Scheduling. As usual we'll slide in a few features, QoL improvements, and fixes too -- but the focus will primarily be on these three areas. You'll be seeing the tutorial hit edge this coming week even! :)

Don't forget the Official SimAirport Roadmap to see the whole picture of what to expect!

Thank You!
We want to extend a special thank you to the players on edge & experimental who have been instrumental to making this cycle a successful one. This was the longest cycle to date, and definitely one of the most challenging; we really appreciate the continued testing, bug reporting, and the overall patience that the community as a whole has & continues to extend to us. Your collective support continues to be incredible and is truly second to none. Thank you!!!

NOTABLE ITEMS

• Performance - Many Overhauls & Optimizations
  
  
  
  • Rendering systems & key data-structures completely revised
    
  • New Pax / Agent Sprites via fast agent display code
    
  • Tile draw & refresh routines refactored
    
  • Background thread controller and runners re-architected
    
  • Baggage System and luggage simulation & rendering overhaul
    
  • Overhauled all Sector generation, construction, and reachability matrix code
    
  • Substantially improved object pooling efficiency
    
  • Road graph, vehicle reachability/distance generation overhauled
    
  • Pax 'AI context' removed from saves, reduces RAM & save file sizes
    
  • Numerous existing UIs optimized & improved for efficiency
    
  
  
  
• A Real Main Menu!
  
  
  
  • Can start new game with custom set of airlines (and disable the defaults)
    
  • Steam Workshop UIs substantially overhauled & improved
    
  • Adds a Steam Workshop 'Browse' view with 1-click "Play" on Airports & better UX
    
  • Adds full featured Airline mod creation & editing tool
    
  • Adds a new in-game 'Mod Status' screen to display mods in the save and provide download/update functions
    
  
  
  
• Land Expansions in ANY Direction!
  
  
• Fuel System Improvements
  
  
  
  • Adds new Refuel Station which Fuel Trucks use to get refilled before returning to hangar
    
  • Recurring Order now a toggle, orders amount needed to fill tanks each night
    
  • Spot Order now separate UI, allows optional immediate-delivery
    
  • Fuel trucks will top-off from the fuel port after aircraft refueling at gates with a port
    
  • Usability & aesthetic improvements to Fuel UIs
    
  
  
  
• MORE HIGHLIGHTS
  
  
  
  
  • Financial: Bank Loan Systems
    
    
    
    • Loans always available via pre-application; rates vary on credit/amount
      
    • New Credit Reporting research and new Credit Report UI (Finance Hub)
      
    • New "Perfect Ops Bonus" UI (Finance Hub) breakdown on why/not receiving "100% bonus"
      
    
    
    
  • New 'Pax Flows' overlay
    
    
    
    • Activate from the right side of main UI/HUD toolbar
      
    • Multiple modes to analyze & slice/dice the pax data - press TAB to switch modes when active
      
    • View Satisfaction, Time-in-Airport, Arrival/Departure, and more!
      
    
    
    
  • New 'Pax Hub' Reporting UIs
    
    
    
    • Access via clicking Pax Satisfaction on top HUD
      
    • "Passenger Needs" displays breakdown of needs by satisfaction level
      
    • "Pax Timings" displays total time spent by passengers in your airport; allows for viewing today or yesterday, aggregate & filtered by flight. Only shown per gameplay-session (not serialized/saved).
      
    
    
    
  • 'Departure/Arrival Runways' Display Tool
    
    
    
    • Activate via 'Show Departure/Arrival Runways' button of Gate menus
      
    • Displays runway candidates based on selection chances for that gate
      
    • Hover a runway to view detailed heuristics for that runway-gate combo
      
    
    
    
  
  

• Adds several new planning mode options & colors
  
• Tuning adjustments to fuel system & fuel market
  
• All luggage on conveyors is now fully representative of checked/deplaned luggage
  
• Bag hubs now have a maximum number of bags sorted per game-minute
  
• Hangar Vehicles (bag & fuel) now eligible for tasks while returning to hangars
  
• Objects now 'in inventory' when in Supply Pile & not already allocated
  
• Aircraft request refuel & bag load/unload much earlier
  
• Aircraft will now be in 'Initial Approach' until landing is imminent
  
• One-way taxiways can no longer allowed on gate-adjacent taxiways (caused no-paths)
  
• Baggage claim zones now allowed in secure & non-secure areas
  
• Hunger object tweaks; cafes decreased, most kiosks increased; bar slightly decreased in attractiveness/fulfillment
  
• Fuel Tank tweaks: capacity + cost + build time (balances small vs large tank)
  
• Tweaks to sector division to better accommodate pathfinding to/from LRT
  
• Runway numbering scheme improved for accuracy & realism
  
• Loan payments taken from balance regardless of available cash (can bankrupt you)
  
• Removed Ramp Agent from Staff Hire UI
  
• Increase queue entry speed for improved efficiency
  
• Now begin with same airlines/mods as previous airport after selling your airport
  
• Improve responsiveness of pax LRT boarding behavior
  
• Reduce max pax wait time on luggage to 4.5hrs
  
• Reduce vehicle road occupancy node requirements for tighter fit
  
• Adds hangar vehicle true distance heuristics, used for some task assignments
  
• Allow slightly larger airport sizes via slight increase to land expansion max size
  
• Revises 'reachability' systems to be more robust and performant
  
• Pax spawn tweak: now fully spawned for flight by earlier of 3hrs before arrival OR 2hrs before departure
  
• Improved workmen task immediate-chaining for more efficient construction
  
• Adds new 'Booster Panel' upgrade for Baggage Hub; provides increased throughput (requires research, max 2/hub)
  
• Improved runway selection heuristics; now incorporates actual distance directly
  

• Improved latency when under high load (i.e. 10x game speed)
  
• Revised idle behaviors and their invocation conditions
  
• Decreases fancy chair rest need effects to be more in line with regular seating
  
• Passengers now generally avoid walking on roads & prefer sidewalks when possible
  
• Crew: spawn 3hrs pre-departure with lounge, 2hrs without
  
• Crew: boarding desire now based off inbound flight's arrival time instead of departure time
  
• Pax leaving via LRT no longer first walk to right-side of the road first
  
• Arrival pax now less attracted to non-LC needs
  
• Pax now consider LRT vs Pickups via AI; can change mind & self-balance
  
• Logic adjustments to handle seeking zones in secure/non-secure areas
  
• Pax trash bin selection now chooses best bin without randomness
  

• Adds Czech language pack (HUGE thank you @max.vanca)
  
• Updates all translations to & from the repo on Github
  
• Object placement now waits until mouse-up before creating next object
  
• Slows down required double-click speed on the clock, to open Lifetime Stats
  
• Warns when no valid maintenance zone exists & small objects require repair
  
• Pax satisfaction (top HUD) hover changed: "X passengers very un-satisfied"
  
• Improvements to Pax hover display visual
  
• Airline Index UI filtering now filters the Airline detail/contracts listing display too
  
• Revises passenger need & lifecycle config
  
• Environment & Info reports now show primary objects in bright pink
  
• 'Highlight Passengers' is now regardless of floor (transparency based on floor delta)
  
• Force Departure button now prompts for confirmation
  
• Revise Flight Status UI, dramatically improves UI's performance impact
  
• Immediate validation refresh for target/source objects upon assignment change
  
• Add 'underground transparency' setting to preferences (gameplay tab)
  
• Upgrade text render library to latest version
  
• Overhauled internal translation file tools allowing faster future updates
  
• Adds padding to right side of flight scheduler, improves PM flight UX
  
• Adds '# Flights Scheduled' column to the Airlines index UI
  
• Agent sprites updated and movement animations added
  
• Add tooltips to conveyor ports to prompt & provide context for right-click port changing
  
• Revised reports & overlays code
  
• Adds a hotkey to compile hardware summary to assist in debugging
  
• Aircraft mod editor displays fuel capacity in liters instead of milliliters
  
• Improved ESC handling for consistency & compatibility with confirm / modal dialogs
  
• Flight Schedule UI: viewport size, allow scroll during hover, etc
  
• Tooltip placement changed to be less likely to obscure mouse/cursor position
  
• Fuel UI spacing, word wrap, and misc. text formatting issues
  

• Fix aircraft sometimes showing "NaN Boarded"
  
• Fix pax sometimes getting stuck at GADs during boarding when no queue was assigned
  
• Fix aircraft being unable to pushback & depart when aircraft gate was at 0% maintenance
  
• Fix runways not exempt from proximity checks when they're under construction
  
• Fix stuck passenger when only exit from security zone is escalator
  
• Fix stuck vehicle and/or janitor caused by trash bags that made it ever-so-slightly off map (garbage zone on map edge)
  
• Fix dismantling roads not completing until reload game
  
• Fix hover box sometimes not working on newly placed objects
  
• Fix buttons missing on some selected dialogs (assignment, etc)
  
• Fix placement indicator ruler/measurement text sorting
  
• Fix vehicle selection dialog showing 'Fire' button
  
• Fix Aircraft showing 'Break Deadlock' button which is no longer needed
  
• Fix janitors/garbage trucks getting stuck periodically until reload
  
• Fix to discourage agents sometimes walking through objects
  
• Fix placement indicator text sorting, improves sizing when zoomed out
  
• Fix custom aircraft sometimes requesting very low amounts of fuel
  
• Fix "Follow Mode" not disabling when changing object context
  
• Fix garbage truck doing 2 tasks/dumpster even if they're empty
  
• Fix pax wandering near Gate Agent Desks with queues that cannot service the agent type
  
• Fix research UI sometimes being incorrect after loading until un-pause
  
• Fix large object repair projects ordering excessive number of supply piles
  
• Fix workmen stuck due to bad target selection over right boundary of map
  
• Fix staff getting stuck & appearing on all above-ground floors when they become marooned on a demolished upper floor
  
• Fix dismantle Dumpster null reference
  
• Fix passenger stuck on walkway start to nonsecure destination when end of walkway is surrounded by security zone
  
• Fix toolbox handling and visual representation
  
• Fix network-capable gates from requesting indoor luggage due to congestion
  
• Fix aircraft turning around on runway too eagerly
  
• Fix pax AI lifecycle proximity heuristic considering only a single goal target (ex: GAD) when multiple exist
  
• Fix multiple Foundation tool pricing & allocation related issues
  
• Fix Pax AI background thread stop routine for cleaner exit
  
• Fix runway selection on map layouts with extensive one-way taxiway usage
  
• Fix idle tasks sometimes allowing pax to sneak thru security
  
• Fix crew repeating security in some scenarios
  
• Fix invocation order of pax AI when no sector exists, avoiding stuck
  
• Fix multiple pax behavior/display issues when using Info objects
  
• Fix Flight Crew not using security when GAD queues restricted to First/Coach
  
• Fix luggage load/unload bug that could cause task to fail, golf cart to be orphaned
  
• Fix fallback 'leave on foot' to be AI selection based based on global timeouts
  
• Fix zone tooltips using up too much screen real estate
  
• Fix pax unable to finish security when ID Check positioned on security zone border
  
• Fix saves w/ LRT not used when placed on wrong floor due another (resolved) bug
  
• Fix rare aircraft taxi clearance failure resulting in stuck aircraft due to thread-safety
  
• Fix fuel port save/load related bug, could cause non-clean exit
  
• Fix & improve runtime font switching (non English language fonts) to be more scalable and less bug-prone
  
• Fix having LC needs unintentionally contribute to satisfaction scores
  
• Fix several janitor & trash related task bugs
  
• Fix refuel task distance heuristic using aircraft position vs gate position
  
• Fix numerous clipping / sorting issues when pax using small objects
  
• Fix error in Wander behavior that could cause undesired pax actions
  
• Fix sprites being unnecessarily reloaded into RAM between game loads
  
• Fix spacial lookup rebuild causing large RAM allocation/churn every frame
  
• Fix road placement guide sprite mis-config that caused visual artifacts
  
• Fix airport value modifier, don't include cash when evaluating EV
  
• Fix conveyor transition placement validations, allow use on H2H
  
• Fix conveyor functional validations, only allow H2H when using 2-way conveyors (warning shown if invalid connections exist)
  
• Fix Airline resolution during loading; always uses local version if two copies exist (order: SteamID, GUID, then name)
  
• Fix numerous mod & workshop related bugs
  
• Fix multiple issues with secure area & reachability lookup inconsistencies which were causing stuck & lost/bad pax behaviors
  
• Fix aircraft not re-selecting departure runway when chosen runway is is unreachable
  
• Fix object warning incorrectly showing up underground for outdoor objects
  
• Fix Supply Truck hover display of supply piles onboard
  
• Fix flight bag carousel selection, filter to pax-reachable carousels (same wing, or non-secure)
  
• Fix stuck vehicle condition when roads completely diverge at the spawn point
  
• Fix foundation wall incorrectly clear-able when on map boundary
  
• Fix multiple hangar vehicle reachability matrix bugs
  
• Fix luggage vehicle distance checks using aircraft position instead of gate position
  

Long time, no see! We are getting anxious (and excited) for the next patch to hit Default, and we thought you might be too! With October rapidly approaching we wanted to take a few minutes to provide you with a brief progress report to update you on the status of the current, and massive, dev cycle -- and provide you with an idea of what you can expect from the upcoming patch, and our plans for the next few updates.

Current Cycle
Wow! This cycle has been a long one, the last Default patch was in June, but it's for good reason and we believe the the improvements will have been very well worth the wait! A lot has changed, a whole lot -- here are just a few things that are currently on Edge branch, which will be making their way to the Experimental branch next week, and finally to Default in October. Here are a few highlights:

• BIG Performance Gains
  Edge players are reporting massively improved performance.
  
  
• Luggage Tracking & Mechanics
  Change port types on Hubs, upgrade hubs, and watch each individual piece of luggage during its journey.
  
  
• New Pax Graphics
  Rich new animated agent graphics for a more immersive & less cartoony experience.
  
  
• More Data & Reports - Needs & Timings reports, Perfect Ops breakdown, 6+ new pax/agent overlays, and numerous reporting & data improvements.
  
  
• Bank Loan Overhaul - Completely updated bank loan system with credit ratings, bigger loans, and larger interest ranges for a more realistic fiscal premise.
  
  
• Expand in ALL Directions - By popular demand, you can now buy more land in any direction! Even across the street!
  
  
• A Real Main Menu
  No longer will you be dumped into a default airport when you open the game!
  
  
• Construction Improvements
  Better supply pile positioning, fast inventorying of dismantled objects, lower performance impact.
  
  
• Pax AI Update
  Smarter pax, more maintainable code, and better performing AI.
  
  
• MANY BUG FIXES and LOTS MORE
  Of course we fixed a ton of existing bugs, along with the new ones created along the way. Lots more, too! Check out the Edge change log if you want to see what else we've got for you in the upcoming October patch, or check back here when in drops in a few weeks!
  

• Tutorial. Finished! Will hit Edge same day the October patch ships!
  
• Staff Scheduling. Under way! Hits Edge the first few weeks of cycle.
  
• Cafe Overhaul. Under way! Hits Edge the first few weeks of cycle.
  

Today is the longest day of the year and we wanted to get a jump on it with a small cleanup patch! The small update being released today makes a few improvements and addresses several notable issues that came to our attention shortly after the June 2018 patch went live.

There won't be an update video since this is a small update following the prior release, however we are going to be trying something new over the next few weeks - we will be doing a bit of live streaming directly from the Steam Store page. We don't have dates/times set in stone yet, but we'll announce it on the forum and on our Twitter as soon as we do! We're still new to the video updates, much less live streams and while developer live-streaming may not be the most entertaining we will certainly try our best to make it a fun experience for everyone that stops by! :)

Thank you to the entire community for your unwavering support and for the awesome level of engagement we see on a daily basis! We hope you all have a fantastic summer!

CHANGE LOG - June 2018 Cleanup Update

• Fixes multiple bugs that caused object selection hover to alternate rapidly
  
• Fixes vehicles potentially being duplicated in spawn queue when loading saves, could cause stuck vehicles and other undefined behavior
  
• Fixes Pax AI utility heuristic giving too much value to low usefulness objects
  
• Fixes poor object selection / distribution for Pax selecting scanners within a security zone
  
• Fixes startup splash screen aspect ratio and adds LVGameDev logo
  
• Fixes mouse pointer 'hot zone' position being wrong when switching from Windowed to Full Screen mode when using a resolution that doesn't match the native resolution's aspect ratio
  
• Fixes stuck aircraft condition when loading game with aircraft very near destination gate
  
• Fixes a reservation check that could prevent runway maintenance from taking place
  
• Taxiway 10-tile border now properly respects 'exempt' objects that are under construction
  
• Ensures graphics settings window always remains centered in the viewable area, always
  
• Demolish action now always placed last on selected object dialogs
  
• Idle janitors now help load garbage when idle in garbage zone (even when >15 tiles away)
  
• Fixes functional warnings sometimes not updating properly for object presence checks that require road-connectivity, some specific build orders were avoiding cache/re-check logic
  
• Graphics setting tweaks for less pixelated visuals
  
• Disables the 'stuck' message for aircraft that are waiting at the gate for a reasonable path
  
• Removes the 'Pax Timings' button from Aircraft dialog (functionality was removed)
  
• Improvements to agent spacial refresh rate and timing
  

The Default update is here and this one has in many ways been a long time coming! Aircraft pathfinding, once an ongoing cause of frustration, will no longer cause problems for any of your airports! Accompanying this major milestone are numerous additions and improvements including a new 'Sell Airport' mechanic, connecting flight passengers, AI improvements, and the addition of the Russian language pack. There are a handful of new objects and multiple balance-related changes including several research additions & removals, plus more than 50 bug fixes too!

Update Video
Watch the SimAirport Update Video - June 2018 Edition for some hands-on insight into the update. You'll also be able to learn more about how the aircraft pathfinding works under the hood and how to use that to your advantage, some initial thoughts on retail/cafes, and what we're planning in the future including further insight and an update on our progress with the latest performance improvements which are coming to Edge soon!

What's Next?
Check out the SimAirport Roadmap any time for the latest updated information about what's coming, and be sure to vote on your favorite items & make comments to provide ideas or details about what you'd like to see in the future! As a high-level summary, we think these three key aspects need the most immediate attention right now -- and numerous system improvements & additions, which we'll then be coming back to, after we get these three addressed:

We are thrilled to bring MULTIPLE FLOORS to you on the general release default branch! Building an airport across 5 different floors is truly a game changer and it brings a completely new & unique gameplay experience to SimAirport.

MULTIPLE FLOORS!!! Escalators, Stairs, Moving Walkways, and more!
This single update, known as the Multi-Floors Update, quite literally contains a higher number of features & additions from the "big stuff" category than any update that we've released prior.

Moving walkways are consistently a top request and while it wasn't an easy one to implement, that is indeed what we've done. The ability to build vertically -- to take your airport from the world of constrained simulators, and to instead step into the realm of real-world possibilities -- that has easily been the most desired feature, and one that we've been vocal in our desire to tackle. That's precisely what we've done and we're excited to bring it to you. Tonight we invite you to the next level.

Build your airport with real-world possibilities and reach new heights!

What's Next?
Of course the first question that we hear after releasing any update, including huge updates, is what will be next! It's a great question and it is one that we are excited to answer. We're especially excited to continue our ongoing collaboration with you, the community, and in order to better facilitate that ongoing collaboration we're rolling out a few more new things to make things easier going forward.

• SimAirport Survey - 2018 Edition
  If you've been with us since release you may recall that we ran a survey early last year to better understand the community and get a feel for what everyone was looking for out of the experience that is SimAirport. It's back! Similar to the first but updated for relevance. Your feedback is what allows SimAirport to flourish, so please consider taking a few moments to complete the survey. By doing so you'll be playing an integral role guiding the future of SimAirport's development.
  
  Take the SimAirport 2018 Survey Now >>
  
  
• SimAirport Roadmap - Updated & Interactive for 2018
  We have historically released a new roadmap every few months, but the document often is quickly and it really doesn't contain everything that we're thinking about or that's on our proverbial 'primary radar'. Tonight, we're including an extra fix -- we're fixing the Roadmap itself!
  
  Official SimAirport Roadmap >>
  
  We will continually keep this roadmap updated, in 2018 and beyond, and we invite you not only to take a look -- but to actively participate as well! You can check out each card, vote on them, read & post comments with your ideas & details, and really get hands-on with the future of SimAirport's development process.
  
  
• Update Video
  We just barely had enough time to squeeze the video in this month while sticking to the deployment schedules, burning through bug fixes, preparing the roadmap, attending to our personal schedules (and getting taxes done!) -- it's been a whirlwind as we work to wrap up this monster update. Unfortunately Rob was tied up on the day of video capture, which means that you're stuck with Arthur -- who's been known to be a bit wordy & opinionated -- but the show must go on! Hope you enjoy, and Rob apologizes in advance for not being available to control Arthur's rambling!
  
  Multi-Floors Update Video, for April 2018 >>
  
  
• Existing Saves & Backwards Compatibility
  This update IS backwards compatible though there are a few things to note when bringing an existing save into this patch. Additional details can be found below, and in the full change log as well.
  
  
  
  
  • Gates (XL and L) now require second floor doors; gates from existing saves will work on the first floor however, and can also be one-time transitioned to being second-floor.
    
    
  • Baggage System has changed substantially in the latest version. When loading an existing save, all baggage-related conveyors & objects will be removed upon initial load. For baggage guidance we recommend A-Train's fantastic baggage video. Thank you @A-Train for being such an asset in the community!
    
    
  • Fuel Pipelines have changed only slightly but will also be removed upon loading existing saves. Pipelines now require floor -1.
    
  
  

Multiple Floors - Core Details



• Adds floor selector on right side of main HUD UI
  
• Default hotkeys are page up/down keys - can change in preferences
  
• Adds new floor transition objects: Escalators & Stairs
  
• Small Aircraft Gate requires a ground-floor door; can also purchase 'Stairs' gate upgrade to make it 2nd-floor accessible instead
  
• Large and XL Gates require 2nd floor door for the jet bridge
  
• Baggage Carousels requires connection from "below" ("same level" and "above" varieties to come soon)
  
• Preliminary luggage movement visuals have been re-added
  
  Note About L/XL Aircraft Gates in Existing Saves
  ALL gates in existing saves will continue to work on the Ground floor. You can make a one-time transition on Large & XL gates from existing saves by selecting the gate and clicking "Set to 2nd Floor". New LG/XL gates built will always require second floor doors and cannot be changed. Small gates require a first floor door (and second floor door when stairs upgrade is present).
  
  
  




Utility Network Changes



• Conveyors and baggage objects (except Baggage Depot) require indoor areas
  
• Draw validations reduced for conveyors; 3-way intersections allowed
  
• Conveyor segments limited to 1 "consumer" per segment; connections must still pass through a hub
  
• Adds Conveyor Transition objects which allow conveyors to move between floors
  
• Conveyors are considered as non-walkable tiles
  
• Fuel pipes now require outdoor areas; fuel pipes are limited to being on Floor -1
  
• Note: Existing saves will have all baggage & fuel related objects removed upon initial load
  
  



Moving Walkways



• Use the moving walkway tool to draw & extend walkways (similar to runways)
  
• Select a walkway and click "switch directions" to invert walkway movement direction
  
  



Bonus Money for 100% Boarded and 100% On-Time Flights



• Bonus begins at $200/flight and can reach $2k/flight max
  
• Max bonus is reached after 15 consecutive "100%" days
  
• Any delayed or cancelled flights, or any pax missed flights, causes bonus to reset
  
• Calculated & credited in the early AM each day, for the prior day; completely tax free!
  
  



Translation Support



• Full in-game translation & localization support
  
• Four complete language packs included
  
• Chinese, German, Dutch, and French
  
• Change languages via: Options -> Gameplay -> Language, then restart SimAirport
  
• Public repository for adding new language packs & submitting improvements
  

Gameplay Balance

• Increases initial starting funds -- starter airport +$200k, from scratch +$250k
  
• First $10k of daily net profit is now exempt from income tax
  
• Reduces the base tax rate on property/land value
  
• Reduces and adjusts prices for Administrators
  
• Reduces hourly costs on multiple objects
  
• Reduces kiosk worker hourly costs
  
• Airport Pricing no longer requires research
  
• Adds estimated taxes to cashflow estimates on top HUD money hover
  
• Adds 'Airport Valuation' report to Finance Hub, display only (future uses: taxes, sell airport, etc)
  
• PA Speakers now substantially more effective at getting passenger attention
  
  Passenger AI
  
• Major passenger distance heuristic improvements
  
• Improves Utilization and awareness of garbage bins vs dropping litter
  
• Overall passenger object/action selection quality dramatically improved
  
• Information need no longer impacts Pax desire to get tickets, now primarily impacts pax post-security
  
• Tweaked passenger departure attenuation, resulting in more urgent desire to handle departure-related needs
  
• No longer consider objects that could get them stuck or that have no exit path
  
• Less likely to leave a secure area to use a non-secure object when otherwise “starved” for something to do
  
• Pax AI Report improved: while active, hover gates or aircraft to highlight the pax for that aircraft/gate (very helpful!)
  
  Quality of Life / UI / UX
  
• Build Menu searches both name and description, uses localized/translated version
  
• Adds gate size filter to the Airlines UI
  
• Adds 'See Interested Pax' button to smart objects, shows which pax considering the object & how strongly
  
• Adds user setting for disabling shadows & ambient occlusion (Graphics tab)
  
• Adds setting for disabling day/night cycle (Graphics tab; time still moves without getting dark)
  
• Adds user setting for Zone alpha transparency (Gameplay tab)
  
• Zone Toggle preference/hotkey now only toggles zone text
  
• Adds 'Kiosk Scheduling' button to retail kiosk objects & adds a 'selected object' highlight to the scheduling UI
  
• Improves the scaling of assignable object dialogs to reduce overlapping bounds
  
• Selecting Fuel Pipe will now change the view to -1 (the only valid level for fuel pipes)
  
• Secure area reporting now differentiates between 'Secure' (behind a security zone) and 'Protected' (unreachable by insecure)
  
• Hides the Flight Crew checkbox when queue is assigned to a “Not Applicable” object (e.g. Ticketing Desk or Gate Agent Desk)
  
• Adds a yellow highlight & active notification to aircraft with delayed departure due to late flight crew boarding
  
• Added tooltips for Dirty Floors, Garbage Bags, Baggage Car/Hangar Vehicles
  
  Misc. Changes & Improvements
  
• Zones now periodically re-validate while game is paused
  
• Door placement is now blocked by pending construction
  
• Passengers now must always have some route to leave the airport -- including prior to finishing security (which must be a fully non-secure when pre-security)
  
• Construction workers now escort stuck pax out automatically; pax in "leave airport" state are eligible for escort (ie arrival pax & missed-flight departure pax); workers take 1 pax at a time
  
• Construction now requires explicit removal of foliage/decor objects, no longer cleared automatically
  
• Removes separation forces from laborer to improve their reliability when doing low-distance tasks
  
• Gate to Ticketing Zone assignments are now be applicable on both ticketing desks and kiosks
  
• Aircraft can now choose new departure runway if the original becomes inactive due to maintenance
  
• Visual improvements for the base grass underlay
  
• Roads now form a sector, improves pickup & dropoff pathing/behaviors
  
• Large & Specialty hubs have been removed in favor of Small hub (continue to function when placed in existing saves)
  
• PAPIs now limited to 2 per runway
  
• Minor wording changes/adjustments on New Game UI screen for UX purposes
  
• Updates taxiway, gate, ramp, and fuel port sprites for a bit better aesthetic 'fit'
  
• Adds taxiway-to-gate easement sprite for visual improvement, updated fuel port sprite to match
  
• Adds small angular sway to the luggage vehicle trailer
  
• Improved positioning for luggage vehicle during loading/unloading aircraft
  
  Optimizations
  
• Construction map invalidation, path cache re-generation, improves RAM usage & churn
  
• Airline detail UI
  
• Window environment calculations
  
• Shadow geometry calculations
  
• Passenger crowd audio initialization
  
• Road rendering
  
• Baggage network state refresh calculations
  
• Grid line rendering when drawing Roads and Taxiways
  
• Removes multiple legacy assets to reduce total RAM & vRAM usage
  

• Fixes administrator wages not being included in top HUD Estimated Cashflow hover
  
• Fixes a bug that allowed bypassing research requirements for OpsCP
  
• Fixes bug with sector visual warnings that caused them to not be hidden for fully-isolated sectors
  
• Fixes leftover bags on carousel if dismantled while running
  
• Fixes a bug with Aircraft Gate hovers; always shows flight vs schedule times and asterisks indicate it differs (player changed schedule)
  
• Fixes aircraft stuck upon deserialization in a particular state of Takeoff
  
• Fixes “Repair Now” maintenance projects should always run through to completion, regardless of the maintenance window
  
• Fixes depth sorting for benches
  
• Fixes aircraft sometimes taking off in the wrong direction / facing
  
• Fixes financial report categorization for several hourly expenses
  
• Fixes bug preventing runway extension projects cancelation post-deserialization
  
• Fixes staff appearing under ticketing desk “back” facing
  
• Fixes Runway ILS object properties so that other objects can't be built on top of the ILS
  
• Fixes agents arriving so early they remain unmotivated to proceed through the airport
  
• Fixes a bug that caused task starvation (workers not building things), caused by maintenance tasks requested outside of the maintenance window
  
• Fixes a golf cart related pathfollowing bug
  
• Fixes a bug that caused stuck passengers on specific layouts with walls near LRT platform road frontage
  
• Fixes agent visibility issue during deplaning process
  
• Fixes an issue when retail delivery box ends up on a wall or has a no-path condition
  
• Fixes vendor worker sometimes being double-flipped on the X axis when working at kiosks with certain facings
  
• Fixes issue that could cause stuck janitors due to unexpected state transition during game load
  
• Fixes agents sometimes going around behind body scanners to use them
  
• Fixes sound settings in user preferences
  
• Fixes a wall avoidance bug that could cause agents in narrow corridors to “cut corners”
  
• Fixes wall-inset for some objects that only use two sprite rotations (garbage bin, etc)
  
• Fixes one-way road arrow sort orders that could sometimes be wrong
  
• Fixes usage markers not being removed properly on some objects (inaccurate "Blocks nearby object")
  
• Fixes placement of retail inventory box sometimes being outdoors
  
• Fixes a bug when cancelling a retail kiosk project when the workers have already spawned
  
• Fixes News Vending worker appearance being being outdoors vs indoors lighting
  
• Fixes Planning buttons all showing up as white
  
• Fixes a bug with stuck maintenance projects (those committed to serialization)
  
• Fixes Gate Desk to Gate assignment, works in both directions
  
• Fixes bug that sometimes caused maintenance to not be performed as expected
  
• Fixes an error when creating a zone when editing assignments is active
  
• Fixes a bug preventing demolish road/taxiway tasks from starting
  
• Fixes Administrators not showing up in Manage Staff
  
• Fixes a demolish road bug that could result in invalid state, duplicate projects, and airport operational side effects
  
• Fixes Fuel Delivery Truck stuck at spawn in a lane that doesn’t connect to target
  
• Fixes Foundation not drawing walls at map boundary
  
• Fixes numerous road related issues -- graph generation, invalidation, traversal/recovery, serialization -- improves vehicle reliability
  
• Fixes Clear tool not running can-be-dismantled validations
  
• Fixes fuel HUD being 1 game minute behind the true market price
  
• Fixes a small memory leak on save/load game UI
  
• Fixes airline details fleet pane scroll reset bug when switching between airlines
  
• Fixes a bug with the 'corrupt save' dialog triggering when it shouldn't
  
• Fixes a bug that allowed clicks to sometimes 'bleed thru' on selected object UI buttons
  
• Fixes a race condition in vehicle map invalidation that could cause stuck vehicles
  
• Fixes agents stuck on no-path to baggage for long periods of time without giving up
  
• Fixes bug with aircraft pax timings report that caused report to get stuck and stay open
  
• Fixes placement validation bug that allowed some objects to be placeable on foliage/decor objects
  
• Fixes several vehicle sort order & occlusion issues when behind large objects
  
• Fixes money description being empty for retail (Cafe) food income
  

SimAirport's birthday is/was today! March 6th! Happy Birthday!! :)

At this time last year we were nervous & flooded with emotions, the hours & days leading up to the release were tense & challenging, thrilling even, though absolutely nerve wracking to say the least. Release day, and the time that followed, would prove to be an incredibly unique experience for us -- one filled with a wide array of emotions, numerous challenges to face, and plenty of mountains to climb.

We worked hard through those first few days, finding bugs and sorting through the chaos -- often working through the night to ship another set of fixes. All told, we shipped 20 patches in the first seven days -- all while riding the emotional waves. It was truly unlike anything we'd experienced in our careers -- there's just something different about building a game that draws you in closer than in any other part of our careers prior.

While there are definitely things that we would do differently if we could, we're thrilled with the progress that was made in this first year. We consider ourselves to be incredibly fortunate for the support that many of you extended & continue to extend to us.

SimAirport's community, the level of engagement, the interest and intellectual discussions that we are so lucky to be able to spectate & engage with, on a daily basis -- it's incredibly humbling and is beyond anything we imagined or had hoped for. For that, we cannot thank you enough -- for sharing your time and your insights with us, and the community as a whole; for your support of not only SimAirport but also of us, the developers. We thank you, and we look forward to continuing to work with you as SimAirport continues to evolve into 2018.

What was accomplished?
SimAirport was a very different game one year ago and it continues to rapidly evolve -- we're incredibly excited to continue sharing that journey with you -- but we'd like to take a few minutes to reflect back on the first year to see what we've managed to achieve so far. Here are just a few highlights (more here too, though slightly dated), including some of our personal favorites, and a few charts to give some perspective on our development paradigm.

• Continuous, Consistent, Unrelenting Development
  Let's visualize it: SimAirport Patch Releases by Day which also included patches on 218 days of the 365 days in the year!
  
  
• Multiple Floors
  We'd never have imagined it'd be in already (edge only, so far)
  
  
• Localization Support
  Chinese, German, and more (edge only, so far)
  
  
• Completely Revamped UI
  Modernized and entirely redesigned UI for a this-century feel
  
  
• Systems
  Fuel Systems, Baggage Systems, Upkeep Systems, PA Systems, Vendor Scheduling, etc.
  
  
• Everything's Bigger
  Larger maps (up to 20X+), larger runways, gates, and terminals, and more.
  
  
• Aircraft & Airline Mods, Workshop Support
  Easily share your experience with the community
  
  
• Numerous Reports & Heatmaps
  Night and day difference in management-oriented features since launch
  
  
• Weather, Retail, Objects, Lighting, and More
  Plenty of refinements, too.
  

• In-Game Tutorial
  After a year, it's due time that we explained how to play instead of having to rely on YouTube! :)
  
  
• Performance
  We'd like to see ~10k pax. No promises, but we know we can do much better than right now & we're certainly up for the challenge.
  
  
• Gameplay Balance
  Should be a solid, ever-increasing progression ramp and not a single hurdle.
  
  
• General Gameplay Polish
  Refine the user experience, fix the 'small stuff', finish the half-finished, update and improve tooltips, etc.
  
  
• Smaller Additions
  Especially items that we have systems in place for already. EAM flights, passenger connecting flights, one-way doors, pricing imrpovements, deals/negotiations, etc.
  
  
• Cafes & Duty Free/Shopping
  Fix and/or decide on the destiny of Cafes as the workings currently stand, re-implement new or fix existing to function better. Implement Duty Free and general shopping. Improve Passenger AI to utilize them appropriately.
  
  
• AI & Behavior Refinement
  Shore up any recurring issues and rare problems, begin considering and initial implementations for random events.
  
  
• New Gameplay Mechanics
  Government lobbying & grants; airline partners/relationships & negotiations; parking; transit additions/upgrades; scheduling; etc.
  

Tonight we’re releasing an Edge update which accomplishes a major milestone: game localization and translations. We also want to take a few minutes to provide a brief status update on our progress so far this cycle, and let you know where we stand on this cycle overall.

Progress Report
We’ve been quieter than normal lately, as you have probably noticed - for the first time since release we’ve been able to slow down a bit and really dig into some larger scale undertakings. Towards the end of 2017, the holidays and a few positive personal events took place, but as of the last few weeks we’ve been back to work as usual.

We’ve continued to be a bit quieter still, but it’s for a very good reason! We have been working very hard, staying very focused, and we're on track to hit the two major milestones we have set out for to begin the year -- localization and multiple floors!

It's our intention and expectation that we will hit both milestones this cycle; we're very much on track to do so. That said, we do also expect that the cycle will be running a longer than normal, most likely about two months in total -- this will allow ample time for bugs to be found & fixes and for any mechanic adjustments and balance changes which we anticipate will be needed due to the extra dimension.

Localization & Translations
The latest Edge update, released tonight, contains the functionality to support game localization and language translation throughout the game. The initial release also includes the complete German Language Pack, and we will be adding additional language packs throughout the next few as, as each is finished. Additionally, support for community-created language dictionaries has been added and we’ll be providing additional information on that in the very near future as well. For now we’d mainly like to focus on collecting your feedback on the German translation quality, and find any bugs or missing/non-translated text that we may have missed!

Head on over to the Edge forum for full details!

Multiple Floors
We continue to get closer with each day's worth of code -- we're quite close to having it ready for initial release on Edge. We expect it to arrive most likely some time next week and, once released, we'll then be spending the following weeks on fixes, tweaks/mechanic adjustments and, if time allows, potentially adding in a few additional enhancements that most likely won't make it in initially (elevators, 2+ floor w/ single escalators, etc).

We're incredibly excited for the future of SimAirport -- we're already off to a great start this year -- but we'll be taking SimAirport to the next level in 2018.

Hope everyone had a wonderful holiday! We are releasing a small update tonight to address a handful of issues that surfaced from the main December Holiday Update that went up last week.

This small patch includes an important performance fix due to an oversight on our part, a few minor usability improvements that caused some confusion, and it addresses several smaller issues that were brought to our attention as well.

We hope you all enjoy the remainder of your holiday celebrations -- we'll see you back here in 2018 with even more as we gear up and get under way for the next cycle!

CHANGE LOG

• Disables a verbose agent debug log that was accidentally left on (could cause RAM over-usage/churn, and potentially crashes)
  
• Fixes aircraft rotation on vertical runway takeoff directions
  
• Fixes aircraft not rotating upon initially entering the runway
  
• Fixes flight crew & first class not using correct security wing on some advanced layouts (multi-wing w/ lounge separating 2+ wings)
  
• Fixes in-game preview image for Airport Sharing via Steam Workshop
  
• Minor UI adjustments on Staff Hub hiring screen, for improved usability and context
  
• Fixes a bug that prevented cancellation of dismantle object projects
  
• Fixes Toolbox Locker counts being wrong (e.g. preventing dismantle)
  
• Fixes Maintenance Operations showing incorrect default thresholds prior to unlocking required research
  
• Fixes duplicated repair projects being created under special circumstances during saved game loads (caused "re-repair")
  
• Fixes bug that caused Small Bar sprites to show partial bits of other sprites
  
• Makes ATC Tower turn transparent when hovering over tiles it occludes
  

It's that time of the year, and we have presents for you! Tonight we're rolling out the December 2017 update for SimAirport, and with it comes an entirely reimagined UI, multiple noteworthy content & feature additions, Aircraft mod support, tons of systems improvements and enhancements, and plenty of bug fixes too! We're excited to roll this one out to you tonight, and we hope you enjoy the new features & improved visuals that SimAirport will be sporting as our airports prepare to ring in the New Year!

December 2017 Update Video
In keeping with our new tradition, check out the SimAirport December 2017 Update Video that accompanies the patch! Check it out, let us know what you think, and we'll continue to do our best to improve each month, even as we work to overcome any remaining stage fright! =) We actually had a good bit more content for the video this month, but due to time constraints during editing we weren't able to get quite as much in as we had hoped for -- as always, we'll continue to do our best to improve on this front as well.

See the SimAirport December 2017 Update Video, on YouTube

Milestones & Overall Progress - Whats Next?
Before we get to the patch notes we wanted to briefly touch on our overall progress and what you can expect to see from the next few updates as we prepare to head into 2018. We worked extremely hard to deliver to you an ever improving and consistently evolving gameplay experience -- throughout the course of 2017. In many ways, we hope you feel that we've done a good job at living up to that goal, to this point at least.

That said, there are still tons more things that we know you want to see implemented -- and that we want to get implemented -- and, equally important, there are still a few items from the most recent Roadmap that we have not yet delivered to you. Most notably, Multiple Floors & Translations -- and so that's precisely what you can expect to see from in the next cycle as we head into 2018. Due to the size of the additions, as well as the holiday, it's likely that the next cycle may run a bit longer than usual by the time we get both of those features fully tested & stable -- but that's exactly what we plan to do, we'll be directing our focus towards those items.

There's more!
That's not all! We still have a lot more planned, even beyond those two major additions. We have a long list, but some noteworthy mentions include: random events, passenger & crew AI, lounge improvements/depth, luggage system re-revamp, general aviation, and a whole lot more.

We're tentatively planning to put out another survey in Q1 2018, and additionally to release another updated updated not long after -- so that we can make sure we're in tune with what you want to see, and in turn provide you with a more concrete picture of what to expect from SimAirport in 2018!

Thank You & Happy Holidays!
Finally, we'd like thank you all for your continued support -- for supporting not only SimAirport, but also for supporting us, the dev team, and for supporting one another in the community. We wouldn't be here without that support, and we sincerely cannot thank you enough.

Happy Holidays from the SimAirport Dev Team!


NOTABLE CHANGES

• Airline Mods & Steam Workshop Support, Improvements
  
  
  
  • Adds ability to have custom Aircraft mods so you can create your own aircraft models
    
  • Ability to Create and edit Aircraft entirely in-game, using a new editor tool
    
  • Includes full Steam Workshop support for Aircraft Mods
    
  • Aircraft Mod schema & how-to available here
    
  • Adds a mod demo airport and a "Demo Spawn" button for Aircraft & Airline mods, lets you quickly preview new aircraft & airline sprites
    
  • All Workshop UIs improved and streamlined, generally more consistent throughout
    
  • Adds 'Auto-Resolve' functionality; when opening a save that used mods the game will now prompt to automatically download those mods for you
    
  
  
  
  
• Adds new: First Class Lounge and Flight Crew Lounge
  
  
  
  • Passengers & crew prefer to wait in these areas when applicable
    
  • Passengers and crew may arrive to your airport a bit earlier when your airport has this amenity
    
  • Further lounge related features will be expanded upon in future updates (quality, airline-specific / dedicated, food services, etc)
    
  
  
  
• User Interface Revamp
  
  
  
  • All UIs have been revamped and streamline, both visually and organizationally
    
  • Build menu reorganized substantially for a more organnized and hierarchical feel
    
  • Adds new in-game cursors
    
  • Combined Airline screen and Schedule screen into a single Flight Management screen; can resize/minimize the top & bottom as needed
    
  • Reorganizes things more functionally; adds new Staff Hub & Finance Hub
    
  • Heatmap reports moved to bottom right of main UI HUD; they now update live and can be used even while building your airport
    
  • Game loading interstitial screen updated
    
  • Tons of general UI fixes & improvements; cursor/resize/drag improvements, schedule drag improvements, research-locked visual improvements, etc.
    
  
  
  
• Adds Kiosk Scheduling to the Staff Hub
  
  
  
  • Allows you to set how many workers are staffing each retail 'kiosk' at each hour of the day
    
  • Kiosk hourly costs are now based on worker count for the hour; kiosk objects have different max worker counts
    
  • Right click on any row to 'Apply to All' of the same type, or to copy/paste schedules between objects
    
  • Kiosk workers arrive and leave the airport by vehicle; they are not (yet) required to go through security
    
  • Object listing in the schedule UI is by "sector grouping"; highlighting a row in the UI will put a blue game-world highlight on the object being hovering
    
  • Scheduling UI will be receiving further improvements in future updates
    
  
  
  
  
• Adds Maintenance Systems
  
  
  
  • Objects will deteriorate over time with continued usage
    
  • Objects at 0% condition, or under active repair, will not be usable
    
  • Daily maintenance window, configurable in Ops Control Panel
    
  • Neglect will cost more (time & material costs) than regular periodic maintenance
    
  • Adds research for more advanced configuration ability
    
  • Active on all runways, gates, restroom objects, and security objects to begin
    
  
  
  New Objects
  
  
  
  • Sushi Kiosk, retail
    
  • Pizza Joint, retail
    
  • Apparel Stand, retail
    
  • Bar - Large, retail; will receive future improvements, wanted to get it out since we've had the art ready for a long time!
    
  • Phone Charging Station
    
  • Handful of new misc. decor objects including several varieties of Coffee Table objects
    
  
  
  
• Numerous RAM & CPU Optimizations
  
  
  
  • Notable areas include...
    
  • Zone drawing performance improvements, significant improvements (RAM & CPU)
    
  • Flight validations
    
  • Standby gates/gate change logic checks
    
  • Aircraft pathfinding
    
  • Rendering and draw calls
    
  • Road/taxiway “graph” representations and pathfinding
    
  • Construction indicators
    
  
  

• GAMEPLAY IMPROVEMENTS & CHANGES
  
  
  
  • Revises staff distribution algorithm for smarter, holistic rebalancing (instead of arbitrary staff moving to higher priority objects)
    
  • Adds two new hotkey options, with defaults; Staff Hub (default: H) and Ops Control Panel (default: O)
    
  • Retail object monetary cost range effect on AI shifted down substantially; may require you to increase prices, likely requires further tuning
    
  • Optimizes memory allocation of passenger object selection
    
  • Runways can now be built nearer to Fences
    
  • Foliage objects (decorative trees/plants) will no longer produce a trash bag when dismantled
    
  • Vehicles will no longer complain “Stuck!” for 15 minutes if deserialized after having moved Dropoffs zone
    
  • Runway numbering scheme updated (a) 0 padded, (b) lower number always listed first on the name, (c) 10° offsets with more than 3 parallel runways (distinct names, was multiple sharing ’C’ suffixes)
    
  • Passengers & flight crew will no longer skip security when no bag scanners, metal detectors, or body scanners are active
    
  • Removes Gate <=> Ticketing Desk assignments and replaces them with Gate <=> Ticketing Zone assignments. Existing saves require re-assign, research still required.
    
  • Tweaks to money costs (negative utility), will impact various retail objects
    
  • Revise the money transaction display(s) to show the most recent 15 minutes of transactions; additionally performing intra-frame grouping of like-category transaction
    
  • Property taxes will now be applied before income tax calculation
    
  • Bank loan transactions are now excluded from income tax calculation
    
  • Fuel sell price spread increased to $0.15 (was $0.05)
    
  • Fuel off-site pending quantity is now limited to on-site capacity (i.e. requires infrastructure vs. just trading futures w/out ability to take delivery)
    
  • Fuel recurring quantity is now limited to on-site capacity, per day max
    
  • Aircraft will now select a departure runway prior to undocking from gate
    
  • Makes windows that overlook the outdoors have a positive environment effect
    
  • Adds 'Pax Timings Breakdown' button & display to Aircraft menu, shows categorical breakdown of where departing pax (for that flight) spent their time. Data is not serialized/saved, and is only computed while the aircraft is spawned. Will be improved upon further in the future.
    
  • Adds a visual helper upon selecting stuck aircraft which shows their current target and potential blockers (e.g. blocked by one-way taxiway markings, dead-ends, etc)
    
  • Functional warning icons are now centered on the object instead of positioned at corners
    
  • Encourages flight crew to substantially prioritize boarding; can now pursue the Gate Desk much earlier
    
  • Adds a Passenger AI 'debug report', bottom right icon on reports HUD.
    
  • Passengers now split between LRT and ground pickup based on your scheduled intervals; also will now only choose LRT if a train arrives within the next 2 hours
    
  • Passenger AI tweaks & improvements; no longer pursue negative-value objects, distance toned down, etc
    
  • Agents now use correct lighting when walking indoors vs outdoors
    
  • All new 'Career Mode' games will now begin with the Medium map size
    
  • Adjustments to Pax AI -- should result in more nimble & higher-awareness decision-making ability
    
  • Adds an auto-unstuck feature allowing passengers to get “out” automatically if new construction or zoning prohibits access to where they’re currently positioned. This can include temporarily walking through staff-only doors and lounges but does not include walking through walls.
    
  • Adds environment effects to a number of additional objects that didn't have them previously
    
  • ”Abort & Reconsider” will now also give passengers 15 minutes to ignore staff only doors (e.g. for cases where they accidentally got stuck)
    
  • Adds an additional heuristic to object selection that should result in better coordination and queue distribution
    
  • Prevents pax from using assigned security objects if they don’t fall within the same zone
    
  • Adds a tooltip displaying the assignment status of security objects, including a warning if they’re not in the same zone
    
  • Passengers in pickups zone will mostly idle in place instead of wandering, mainly for performance
    
  • Updated aircraft tooltip to show flight crew boarding status as a separate item
    
  • Edge scrolling will now activate after 2 seconds when otherwise in hit box region but blocked by UI elements
    
  • Adds a button to the object context menu that displays possible non-secure-only paths, to help troubleshoot when “Requires secure area” warnings are active on Runways, Aircraft Gates, Hangars, and Baggage Depots
    
  
  

• BUG FIXES
  
  
  
  • Adds a pathfinding fix for destination sectors surrounded by a single security zone
    
  • Small edge-scroll / WASD camera pan fix
    
  • Fixes agents sometimes appearing under chairs while seated
    
  • Fixes an issue that could allow passengers to skip through walls at high game speed and/or low FPS
    
  • Fixes an issue that could result in aircraft getting stuck on taxiway in certain conditions with presence of one-way markings
    
  • Workmen will be less likely to walk on or through walls
    
  • Fixed a bug that allowed zones to be functional without any entrance/exits
    
  • Fixes a sector generation bug that could rarely result in incorrect “everything is non-secure” warnings and havoc with stuck agents
    
  • Revises text formatting of sectors report
    
  • Fixes coach pax should not be allowed to use objects that require traversal past first class lounges
    
  • Fixes “Break Deadlock” on aircraft not always ignoring one-way taxiway markings (e.g. after having been edited)
    
  • Fixes a bug allowing assignable security objects when completing Advanced Ticketing Research (should be Advanced Security)
    
  • Makes the one-way taxiway markings never occluded while in edit mode (was resulting in sometimes hard-to-decipher stuck aircraft)
    
  • Fixes passenger sometimes getting through staff only doors
    
  • Fixes functionality warnings sometimes not preventing object usage
    
  • Fixes an issue preventing dismantle of roads/taxiways caused by abandoned reservations
    
  • Fixes stuck aircraft if gate destroyed (a) after undocking and (b) before takeoff, then reloading game
    
  • Fixes an issue that could allow aircraft to skip gate reservation upon game load, which could result in multiple aircraft using the same gate
    
  • Fixes a bug that could result in stuck retail workers if a retail inventory task fails due to dismantled object targets
    
  • Fixes passengers sometimes hopping through walls when their target object is adjacent to walls
    
  • Fixes sector bug when clearing Fences
    
  • Fixes flight crews not being completely disallowed from staff-only doors
    
  • Fixes aircraft taking off from middle of runway
    
  • Fixes aircraft taking off with improper alignment
    
  • Fixes a bug that would have caused trash drops to be lower than expected
    
  • Fixes retail worker carrying food box offset
    
  • Fixes null reference when flight crew use seating
    
  • Fixes boredom getting too high too easily
    
  • Fixes remote bag scanners should only be assigned to at most one monitoring station (could result in erroneous warning if assigned to multiple then unassigned)
    
  • Fixes a crash/freeze that could happen on very specific map layouts during runtime and load game
    
  • Fixes a bug causing passengers to randomly have no objects in scope resulting in idle/wander behaviors (e.g. at drop-offs)
    
  • Fixes a rare bug that caused all pax to stop moving, caused by a task manager exception
    
  • Optimizes memory and CPU overhead on very large Cafes
    
  • Fixes a reservation integrity issue that caused aircraft to get stuck on pushback
    
  • Fixes a stuck aircraft bug when trying to reserve a runway that hasn’t been selected
    
  • Fixes aircraft stuck during pullback from gate related to intersecting runways. Runway endpoints must now have at least 1 adjacent taxiway node (that is not also a runway) — temporary validation until more refined takeoff behaviors are ready.
    
  • Fixes agents getting temporarily stuck in various places due to perfectly opposite steering forces canceling out
    
  • Fixes aircraft sometimes landing backwards
    
  • Fixes UI scaling - window position, drag bounds, etc. Also resolves UI scale-related issues on schedule & runway UIs
    
  • Optimizes the opening of Save/Load menus; makes 'Save Game' menu text input filter/search the saved game list.
    
  • Fixes a (potentially large) memory leak with sector generation/re-generation
    
  • Fixes passengers not in (new) pickups zone if it’s moved
    
  • Fixes land expansion hitbox indicator sprites (border) being trivially incorrect
    
  • Fixes one case where passengers could walk through walls when traversing through queues
    
  • Fixes flight crew heading to Dropoffs zone when spawning from light rail train
    
  • Fixes some baggage sprites invisible after reload
    
  • Agents will no longer walk through prohibited lounges (bug existed in certain airport layouts)
    
  • Makes Information and Environment overlay updates use background threads when updating internal data representation
    
  • Adds ‘stuck’ thought bubble to aircraft when no path to target (e.g. blocked by one way taxiway markings)
    
  • Updates the gate validation to check if no runways are set to accept arrivals or departures
    
  
  

Tonight brings the next default branch patch which contains a large & varied array of additions, improvements, bug fixes, and general quality-of-life enhancements. The full changelog can be found below, and we're also trying something new this time around -- for the first time, we've put together an update video to accompany the release.

The update video is a bit longer than we had initially anticipated, and it's our first time doing something like this (go easy on us, we'll get better at it!) so it's not perfect, but we hope it's something you enjoy & find insightful. Let us know your thoughts on it! It's something we definitely enjoyed doing and we'd like to continue doing them for each of the monthly updates going forward, especially if it is something that you all enjoy. If there's anything specific you'd like to hear us talk about just let us know and we'll definitely try our best to work it into the next video!

We'll be kicking off the next cycle this coming week, we've got a lot of great stuff coming this round and as usual we'll be shipping it to the Edge branch incrementally as soon as things ready for you.

Thank you for your continued support -- we hope you're all enjoying SimAirport so far, there's still a lot more to come and we hope you're as excited about the future as we are! Thank you!

View November 2017 Update Video on YouTube

NOTABLE CHANGES

• Flight Crews
  
  
  
  • Crews will sometimes deplane and then be replaced by a new team of pilots & flight attendants.
  • Flight crews must be onboard for the aircraft to begin boarding.
    
  • Crews are required to go through security.
    
  • Chance of crew change is based on aircraft type & size.
    
  
  
  
• Allows queues to be designated as multiple types
  
  
  
  • Adds new 'Flight Crew' type, in addition to the existing Coach & First Class types.
    
  • Dequeues will still happen from the queue with the highest priority designated type (i.e. FlightCrew > FirstClass > Coach), and then (in case of ties) by wait time.
    
  
  
  
• Intersecting Runways
  
  
  
  • Runways are now drawn with the new Runway drawing tool
    
  • Runways can now be arbitrary length in either asphalt or concrete
    
  • Runways can intersect perpendicularly (requires research)
    
  
  
  
• Security Flow & Remote Bag Scanners
  
  
  
  • New Remote Bag Scanners can be assigned to new monitoring stations, which can be operated by a single security staff member (more than 5 assigned at once results in slower bag scanner usage)
    
  • Security objects can now be assigned to one another, allowing you to to specify precise security flow & custom configurations
    
  
  
  
• Misc.
  
  
  
  • Substantially improves overall performance while construction projects are active
    
  • Fixes Foundation tool ("double walls" and other quirks)
    
  • Adds new "Staff Only Door" object
    
  • Adds a number of various "Fancy Chairs"'" and similar seating objects
    
  • Adds One-Way Taxiway tool, can set Taxiways as one-ways for improved tarmac traffic management
    
  • Adds property & income taxes, several related research items
    
  • Many retail objects now allow their prices to be set (e.g. vending machines, retail kiosks, etc)
    
  • The base layer of the tile map has had its texture updated
    
  • Passenger AI object selection/re-selection substantially improved
    
  • Adds default lighting to all aircraft gates
    
  
  

• Minor price & construction time adjustments to several raw materials
  
• Adjustments to passenger AI heuristics and behavior based on player feedback
  
• Fuel & LRT financials recategorized more appropriately
  
• Personal passenger vehicles (including taxicabs) chance has been increased
  
• Refuel request chance has been increased
  
• Dirty floor chance has been increased
  
• Retail objects (food/cafes) will now start out with empty inventory. When dismantled, available inventory will be sold at cost.
  
• Adds a variable for tracking average basis (paid amount) on fuel purchases. This is a weighted moving average so will be inaccurate at first if you own any fuel already.
  
• Replaces “Send Home” with “Abort & Reconsider”
  
• Triples the maximum keyboard scroll speed
  
• Multiple new research items (construction foreman, bank loans, tax-related)
  
• Larger default map size
  
• Reduces deplaning duration
  
• Revises alignment on Office Desk & Ticketing Desk with respect to chairs
  
• Research progress now shows time remaining
  
• Queues will now display a pendant instead of coloring the graphics
  
• Fuel deliveries will now occur at 11PM
  
• Taxes will now be deducted at the end of current day instead of the following day
  
• Land expansion parcel availability is now by total airport area instead of a fixed number of allowed expansions
  
• Land expansion parcel cost significantly increased
  
• Adds additional validations for detecting airport problems; revises wording
  
• P&L report now includes a ‘net’ line item column that matches the totals found on cashflow chart
  
• Passengers will no longer wait to cross the tracks when LRT trains are inbound
  
• Deactivates a routine that would auto-dismantle decorative objects (trees, bushes, statues) when doing any construction over their tiles
  
• Fixes some takeoff-related aircraft sound effects cutting out prematurely
  
• Removes animation for underground utility endpoints
  
• Cancels flights that still haven’t landed within 20 minutes of their scheduled departure time, to complement the existing “within 90 minutes of scheduled arrival” validation
  
• Fuel market price now slightly less volatile
  
• UI-related
  
  
  
  • Placement indicator fixes and optimizations (e.g. the dimensions text being occluded by main text)
    
  • In-game windows will now retain their size and position between game sessions
    
  • Adds a ‘Delete Save’ button to the Load Game menu
    
  • Operations Menu is now a resizable window
    
  • Adds a fuel HUD that can be optionally enabled; includes yesterday's demand + forecast for tomorrow
    
  • Adds a configurable hotkey for enabling the Planning Mode layer (default "L")
    
  • Various button icons updated
    
  • Adds dock icon notifier to top Weather UI, alerts when all runways are closed due to weather
    
  • Transit capacity report now includes 2 additional series for demand broken down by departure/arrival status
    
  • Human-readable task description for hangar vehicle tooltips
    
  • Adds 'Autofocus Build Menus' Preference (page 2), off by default. When on, opening a build menu will auto-focus the search field.
    
  
  

• Reduces periodic GC from the functional object manager
  
• Various minor UI bug fixes and improvements
  
• Fixes an uncommon but reproducible crash that happened at midnight
  
• Various edge scrolling issues resolved; expands hitbox area & exempts navbars
  
• Fixes "resume game speed" not working when autosave invokes while paused
  
• Graphics Setting improvements; should resolve any quirks on both OSX & Windows and generally be more reliable and better able to detect native resolution
  
• Toilet Stall ‘abort’ issue fixed; could cause stuck passengers and similar issues
  
• Ensures that when objects are marked for dismantle any agents will stop using it
  
• Various optimizations to the abstract road graph cache and enables threaded vehicle pathfinding
  
• Fixes a bug that could result in operations/transit services failing to spawn when running at very low frame rates
  
• Fixes a bug that would prevent deserialized demolish conveyor tasks from completing successfully
  
• Various performance optimizations (object pooling, functionality validation, map cache)
  
• Demolishing fuel pipes will now update neighboring sprites
  
• Fixes outdoor baggage claim resulting in stuck passengers and workmen tasks
  
• Fixes a race condition that often resulted in pax using garbage bins twice per ‘hasTrash’ invoke
  
• Fixes agents sometimes not facing the correct direction
  
• Fixes ’NaN’ passenger satisfaction bug
  
• Fixes a bug that could rarely cause passengers to partially oscillating between object targets when too many attractive options are present
  
• Standby gates
  
  
  
  • Bug fix: sometimes failing to invoke when it otherwise could
    
  • Bug fix: sometimes invoking when it otherwise shouldn't (e.g. wait for busy runways; layovers past end of allowed standby period)
    
  
  
• Fixes P&L report (should be limited to most recent 30 days)
  
• Fixes cashflow report (datapoints not grid-aligned)
  
• Fixes an issue that could result in vehicles spawning even if spawn nodes were occupied
  
• Fixes an issue that could result in stuck agent if despawned and pooled closely after deserialization and then immediately reused
  
• Fixes a deadlock when sharing a queue between 2 or more Gate Agent Desks assigned to different gates (now prohibited)
  
• Fixes fences not added when reloading a game more than once during land expansion
  
• Game loading (including land expansions) will now attempt to free up additional RAM as well as include detailed logging information
  
• Fixes a stuck baggage cart, mid-turn, by fuzzy resolving its start node if it’s mildly “off road”
  
• Fixes a bug that would allow pax to use any ticketing desk (when assigned desks are present) after editing a flight’s schedule
  
• Fixes a chance that agents could be pushed past staff-only doors by separation forces of nearby neighbors
  
• Fixes a runway validation that could incorrectly allow ‘off map’ runway drawing
  
• Optimizes rendering of queues & fixes minor view-state bugs
  
• Fixes a bug that could result in player preferences not being committed
  
• Fixes a thread related race condition during map invalidation
  
• Fixes aircraft spawn/despawn points not far enough off the map
  
• Fixes grass underlay size
  
• Fixes the marquee sound not stopped when resizing flight layover
  
• Fixes an object pooling bug on food items which would eventually result in abandoned preparation task chains and idle staff
  
• Fixes object pooling bug on passengers (various behavioral and needs-related bugs)
  
• Fixes agents scooting into chairs that are flagged as not moveable
  
• Several minor aircraft pathfinding related performance improvements
  
• Fixes underground endpoint arrows not disappearing after aborted object placement
  
• Fixes a sprite flipping aircraft during takeoff
  
• Fixes an issue that would result in fuel resale to airline failing to generate an income transaction if the truck already had enough on board
  
• Fixes a bug that could be exploited to sell fuel at a higher price than demand warranted
  
• Fixes an issue that could temporarily cause agent hit boxes to not work (related to queue drawing)
  
• Fixes income from airline refuel requests not working recently
  
• Fixes an issue that would prevent aircraft undocking from the gate
  
• Fixes baggage disappearing from carousel after deserialization
  
• Adds a new command line option that can be used to assist in portability of saved games across different platform library runtime versions
  

Just wanted to wish everyone a Happy Halloween from the entire dev team!

Here's a little festive display of the passion that we have for SimAirport: https://twitter.com/SimAirport/status/925530976586842113

Wanted to also provide you all with a quick update on where we're at, especially since things have been quieter than usual over the last few days. Things were slow for us this weekend and during the early part of the week as we took a little bit of personal time to get caught up on general personal responsibilities. Robert was in the midst of moving and he's just now beginning to get settled in at his new digs. I spent much of the weekend catching up on my "husband chores" list, which had grown nearly as long as the suggestions thread -- so I was finally able to spend some time helping my wife get ready for our first daughter, who we're expecting to arrive 2 months from now (hoping for an on-time arrival)!

We're just getting back into the swing of things -- we've got a handful of small bugfixes ready, and some small additions/tweaks, though there are still two outstanding/un-fixed bugs remaining that we'd like to get resolved. Once we're able to track those down (possibly tonight, more likely tomorrow) then we'll be shipping the next Edge/Experimental update. And then, once we're confident that things are smooth & stable, we plan to deploy the Default patch and then we'll be pretty much immediately beginning the next patch cycle.

We're very much ready for the next cycle in fact -- we've got several things ready, or just about ready, and you can expect to be seeing the first of those things on Edge probably within ~24 hours or so of the Default patch going live (which we're hoping will be this week). Just to give you an idea of some of the things that we've got very nearly ready for the next cycle, it includes:

• General Aviation
  
• Passenger "Personalities"
  
• Upkeep / Maintenance (concrete vs asphalt, it's going to matter soon!)
  
• New UI (around 50% implemented right now and looks great; more info & previews will come very, very soon!)
  

• First Class Lounges
  
• Crew Lounges
  
• Moving Walkways
  
• Initial 'Staff Scheduling' concepts
  

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We're rolling out the default update tonight, this time around we've got a number of additions -- including the Fuel System & Marketplace -- and numerous important enhancements and a bunch of bug fixes, too. We're very happy to announce that tonight's update also officially brings Linux support to SimAirport!

It's been a great month for us, and along with the additions & fixes there have been a ton of enhancements that we expect will have quite a positive impact on gameplay. Altogether, the gameplay experience is now getting to a level that allows us to more freely put our efforts into the advanced, deep-gameplay features that we all want to see -- that we've started calling out in the SimAirport Late 2017 Roadmap -- and that be "layering on" from here. It's incredibly exciting for us, it means we get to focus more of our time on the "fun stuff" -- features, content, and even more robust simulation elements (multiple floors, anyone?), and it means we get to deliver these fun things to you, and that's what we really enjoy doing! =)

We'll soon be kicking off the next cycle on Edge, as most of you probably know (and if you aren't familiar with Edge, come check it out & say Hi! Updates are released almost every day during the cycle!). We're really excited for the next couple of rounds, there's a lot planned and we think you're going to really enjoy what you'll be seeing.

Lastly, we'd like to give a thank you to those of you who are in the forums helping us & others, and especially to those of you who hang out with us in the Edge forums every day! Thank you for your unwavering support & for your continued feedback. We really couldn't do it without you, and we really appreciate your help & guidance. Keep it coming -- feedback, reports, and saves -- and we'll continue to keep the updates flowing!

We're truly excited about what's to come, and we hope you are too! We'll see you all on the forums where we will be kicking off the next round soon.

Thank you everyone!


NOTABLE CHANGES

• Full Linux Support
  
  
  
  • New 32/64-bit Linux builds added
    
  
  
  
• Fuel System
  
  
  
  • Buy and sell jet fuel in the exchange with dynamic market price model
    
  • New infrastructure including fuel depot, fuel tanks, underground pipes, and output port gate upgrades
    
  • Manage refuel services successfully to attract greater airline interest
    
  • See details: Fuel Systems Setup Guide
    
  
  
  
• Public Address System
  
  
  
  • Announces boarding & last-minute departure warnings to affected passengers, encouraging more complete boarding of flights
    
  • New infrastructure including PA speakers, amplifier, electrical zone, and CTO
    
  
  
  
• Assignable Ticketing Desks
  
  
  
  • This can help steer passengers to deposit their baggage at the correct desks so it ends up at the right Baggage Depot, or to facilitate other more advanced airport configurations.
    
  
  
  
• Misc.
  
  
  
  • Smarter Janitors: they now optimize spatial locality of jobs over all else (i.e. cleaning the immediate area first)
    
  • Queue Improvements: much better throughput, minimized gaps, and increased robustness in the face of integrity errors
    
  • Queue Edit Tools: revamped with drag & drop multi-tile drawing, consistent with other build tools
    
  
  

• Major performance improvements in the render pipeline, including multiple lighting/shader optimizations
  
• Adds a new research option for expanded capacity LRT trains
  
• New objects:
  
  
  
  • Toilet Stall has replaced Toilet
    
  • Outdoor Pole Light & Outdoor Flood Light
    
  • News Stand
    
  • Decor Statue A & B
    
  
  
• Enables a few new audio sources
  
• Several minor balance adjustments for Passenger AI & objects
  
• Improves the distance heuristic used for assigning outdoor baggage tasks which should result in increased efficiency
  
• Removes an unnecessary heuristic applied to selecting metal detector vs body scanners
  
• Body Scanner now takes less time for pax to use (whom also now lift their arms up briefly during scanning)
  
• Misc. icon sprites updated; fixes ‘Show Wires’ not disabling object placement controller if active
  
• Various Aircraft pathfinding changes & improvements
  
• Adds new ‘Ramp Agent’ contractor; hire a Ramp Agent temporarily to get rid of stuck aircraft
  
• Runway selection now based on a hybrid heuristic; factors in runway ‘occupancy’, favors smallest suitable, nearest distance from gate
  
• Default airlines have had their core ‘Concerns’ updated to include minor interest in refuel services
  
• Objects with transactional income (e.g. vending machines et al) will now show their pending batched income by day instead of hour
  
• Staff dialog now shows “busy” count too
  
• Minor tweaks to Electronics Vending, ATM
  
• Numerous minor user interface changes (tooltips, scrollbars, verbiage, icons, etc)
  
  
  
  • Flight Schedule UI now allows column resize & right-click header to hide/show columns
    
  • UI Zone Notifier now includes a check for garbage zone capacity, is silenced for the first 30s of gameplay
    
  
  

• Fixes a crash caused by a certain threaded job
  
• Fixes “DLL not found” startup crash (when path contained non-standard characters)
  
• Fixes an issue that could have caused application to hang on exit
  
• Audio optimizations & culling; fixes audio stutter issue on large/dense maps
  
• Fixes an issue with a subset of pax stuck after deserialization
  
• Fixes a cascading movement failure
  
• Fixes Small Aircraft Gate stairs not being flush with side of aircraft
  
• Fixes Small Aircraft Gate stairs in wrong position when deserialized into docked state
  
• Fixes movement contention (wiggle) with passengers wandering while waiting to get picked up
  
• Reduces the amount of trash passengers leave around — the probability is now simulated correctly with respect to game time
  
• Planning mode now always above all other layers, including bugfix when above wall-occlusion masks
  
• The gender constraint applied to Male/Female restroom zones is now active for all object types (was previously only sinks, toilets, urinals)
  
• Fixes LRT Platform limit 1 validation
  
• Fixes a bug that could result in incorrect agent sorting order if Y-axis delta is very small
  
• Fixes multiple bugs related to agent culling at low zoom
  
• Outdoor-only foliage objects are now blocked by roads
  
• Fixes the scrollbar on Operations Menu: Runways
  
• Fixes a bug preventing placement of certain above-ground objects over conveyor belts
  
• Fixes a placement validation erroneously applied to underground objects (usage markers walkability)
  
• Above-ground ‘Demolish’ tool no longer demolishes underground utilities
  
• Fixes a bug that caused Janitors to double-charge their hourly rates
  
• Fixes a bug when trying to create a food order for an out of stock kitchen
  
• Fixes SaveMenu + FuelMenu from blocking hotkeys — is now only enabled specifically when input fields are focused
  
• Fixes a bug that caused passengers to sometimes be too happy with their current activity leading to missed flights
  
• Fixes memory leak related to luggage loading & unloading
  
• Fixes depth sorting/visual for several of the Retail/Food Kiosks
  
• Fixes a shader related bug that may have rarely caused some graphical anomalies
  
• Prep carts can no longer be placed on top of other objects or outdoors
  
• Fixes runway lights not turning on/off as intended
  
• Fixes an issue causing Garbage Trucks to get stuck
  
• Various aircraft visual fixes including sorting order, lights, shadow, and rotation-related quirks
  
• Fixes a bug in old save-fixing code (auto-dismantle objects with invalid placement) to prevent multiple construction projects being enqueued for the same object
  
• Fixes an issue that caused aircraft to get ‘blocked’ for a short time when near a gate that another aircraft recently docked at
  
• Numerous minor performance optimizations
  

SimAirport launched 6 months ago yesterday -- it's been an awesome ride so far, and we've got a great update for you tonight -- and we have a lot more in store for you still, too!

Just to give you an idea, and even though this patch took a bit longer than usual, this patch contains just under 500 "code commits", or individual sets of changes -- just in this patch alone! In total, we've shipped several hundred builds to you. On top of that, we've had hundreds of interactions with many of you directly, here in the forums & across many of our different channels. The community that has formed around the game is second to none, and we're sincerely grateful for the opportunity you've given us -- and for your continued support & feedback.

Most importantly, the game itself has improved dramatically -- hundreds of bugs have been fixed, numerous new features have been added, performance has improved by orders of magnitude, and overall we've implemented hundreds of things based off of player requests and your direct feedback.

The evolution you've seen so far -- just over this first short 6-month period of time -- we've come a long way. But we've got a lot more in store for you, and we're still here working hard every day, listening closely to your feedback, and iterating based off of it.

We're still incredibly excited for the future of SimAirport, and there's a lot more coming (we're already super excited about the next patch cycle's progress, soon to be on Edge branch!!).

If you haven't already, be sure to check out the most recent SimAirport 2017 Roadmap, and if you aren't participating in the forums yet there's no better time than now, and we'd absolutely encourage you to jump in!

Once again, thank you! We thank you for your continued patience, your support, and your participation and feedback. We truly do have a lot more planned -- and, as usual, we'll have more for you very soon! =)

And now, here's what you can expect from tonight's patch:


NOTABLE CHANGES & ADDITIONS

• Adds Airline Mods -- Custom Airlines
  
  
  
  • Create and play with custom airlines and custom art. Includes full Workshop support. See how-to / schema info for details.
    
  • Working examples of more complex JSON setups, PDF templates, and more are available via the 'How To' topic
    
  • Thank you @Plotz for the PDF templates!
    
  
  
  
• Adds Runway Operations Control Panel
  
  
  
  • Adds 'Runways' tab to the Ops Control Panel; allows you to set runways to allow only Departures, only Arrivals, or both.
    
  • Requires researching the new 'Aviation Operations' item
    
  • Adds 'Crosswind Maximums', makes various runway upgrades impact the maximum thresholds
    
  • Numerous changes to Runway selection, including smarter distance & size-based priorities
    
  
  
  
• Adds Small Aircraft Gate
  
  
  
  • Has stairs and no jet bridge
    
  • Aircraft adjustments to appropriate gate sizes
    
  • Adjusted prices and material requirements for Small, Large, XL Gates
    
  • Default map now comes with a Small gate
    
  
  
  
• Revised Passenger Satisfaction
  
  
  
  • Changes to top UI and hover, now shows trend direction & intensity
    
  • First class pax now have an increased impact on overall satisfaction score
    
  • Satisfaction now less volatile, will be a bit more challenging in general
    
  • Tweaks to initial spawn values, object/action interaction modifiers, need rating weights
    
  • Needs used only for driving AI no longer directly factored into rating
    
  • Note: When loading a older version save, the satisfaction rating may temporarily be skewed. Old saves are compatible however it may jump up or down for the first few minutes after loading -- after a few minutes it'll be using the new algorithm entirely & behaving the same as it would on a newly-created save.
    
  • As always, please let us know your thoughts & feedback. Too difficult, too easy? Too fast or too slow? Let us know, we're listening!
    
  
  
  
• Performance Improvements
  Numerous performance improvements! We've optimized numerous aspects, with a focus on movement and agent rendering: threading adjustments that will allow us to better utilize multi-core processors and parallelize computationally-intensive work; other various startup and runtime optimizations, including memory/RAM optimizations; multiples rendering pipeline optimizations and improvements.
  
  
  
• Misc. Additions & Improvements
  
  
  
  • Adds configurable key bindings settings to Preferences (page 2)
    
  • Added 'Ramp' outdoor tile, can be used for aesthetic purposes around your tarmac area (via request on Reddit)
    
  • Separates 'Break Deadlock' and 'Force Departure' buttons on Aircraft menu
    
  • Adds additional columns to Flight Status UI; column visibility can now be toggled via the "I" button, top left of the flight status screen
    
  • Adds a button to “Show All Queue Assignments”
    
  • Passenger object/action selection improvements -- should improve passenger distribution & object selection variation. May increase missed flights a bit, likely needs some further tweaking, is hopefully a solid improvement to pax behavior in general.
    
  • Adds aviation-style wind heading & velocity to the top UI weather hover
    
  • Left control key now displays crosshairs when using build tools
    
  
  
  
• Staff Job Selection Revised to be more efficient. Includes fixes for a few staff-related bugs when more than enough staff are present (wander, stacking, fanning out evenly). Known: Janitors still need to be smarter.
  
  

• Queues set to 'First Class Only' tinted a faint blue, helps distinguish them visually
  
• Further adjustments to improve boarding rates, early boarding, boarding time awareness
  
• Several queue adjustments, including a change aimed at improving the 'slow queue join' issue
  
• Changes to default Airlines: interest rating sensitivity, interest percentage component adjustments, and sizable changes to Airline pricing sensitivity (now more price-sensitive, especially at the high end of the spectrum)
  NOTE: This change may result in reneged offers when initially loading any existing saves!
  
• Zones that require non-secure area will now fail to meet requirements
  
• Relaxes pathfinding constraints when starting on security exit/dividers — should reduce number of MM370 warnings
  
• Passengers will no longer spawn for flights that are accepted but not yet scheduled
  
• Adds some additional zoom-based culling, including hiding of construction indicators at higher zooms
  
• Small adjustment to make passengers more likely to line up at Gate Agent Desks during pre-boarding
  
• Updates Baggage Depot description and tooltip
  
• Aircraft Gate hover info are now less verbose unless zoomed in
  
• Electronics vending machine tweaks
  
• Changed worker task assignments to prevent excessive 'task swapping' and retain priority properly
  
• Adds ability to cancel queued but not-yet-started research
  
• Updates descriptions on ILS/PAPI regarding maximum crosswind tolerance
  
• Further tweaks to Passenger action/object selection; should be more attracted to gate area pre-boarding, less likely to miss their flight during boarding, and a bit more 'decisive'
  
• Crosswind maximums adjusted: 12KT default; 15KT with PAPI upgrade; 20KT with ILS upgrade
  
• Realtime Flight Status now shows # of ticketed Pax and # boarded pax; can be toggled on/off via the column settings on the UI
  
• Aircraft will now prefer the smallest suitable runway that is available, and will select the nearest to their gate if multiple of that size are available when needed
  

• Improves the movement code to now anticipate collisions with walls, mitigating an issue where agents could become stuck behind a sheer wall after getting pushed too far off path by other agents. In certain cases, this could also result in stuck aircraft (if waiting for stuck agent).
  
• Fixes a few internal errors producing integrity check warnings
  
• Fixes construction sometimes failing to complete based on erroneous ‘path available’ validation
  
• Fixes an issue that could result in large swaths of passengers not moving because of a failed background job enqueue when engine is under extreme load
  
• Fixed a bug on Flight Scheduler that showed an incorrect gate size requirement
  
• Fixes LRT drop-offs, should always avoid Drop-offs zone
  
• Fixes a bug that caused saves (and Land Expansion) to fail when a Small Aircraft Gate was present on the map
  
• Fixes water emission position offset on sinks
  
• Fixes an issue with agent appearance position offset not getting reset after using chairs
  
• Fixes an issue with janitor serialization that could result in stuck after load game
  
• Fixes an issue with pax not leaving after missed flight
  
• Fixes an issue with passengers sometimes taking shortcuts through non-secure areas to reach a destination in their same sector (high chance of resetting their security status)
  
• Fixes inconsistent mouse position / 'offset' when placing objects
  
• Fixes an issue that could result in stuck aircraft if indoor luggage and no baggage claim zone
  
• Reliability improvements to task assignment/manager for employee agents
  
• Improvements to janitor clean floor task to be more resilient
  
• Resolves an issue that could cause passengers to occasionally walk through walls
  
• Fixes an issue that could result in queues becoming deadlocked (e.g. if placed on the edge of a sector or zone boundary)
  
• Fixes a 'Move To Object' failure abort condition
  
• Fixes a vehicle risk condition that could sometimes occur on parallel, half-offset roads
  
• Vehicles should no longer drive on pending construction roads
  
• Fixes indoor flooring, no longer removes walls (just excludes those positions now)
  

• Adds a new Command Line option ("RESET") / advanced option (or 'Safe Mode'), which forces the game to forget all settings, preferences & graphics configurations
  
• Updated code base to the latest engine version
  
• Multi-core/multi-thread code runner updates, now using higher performance sync structures
  
• Optimization to saving/loading game; reduces risk of 'Out Of Memory' crash and truncated output/corruption
  

A bit earlier than normal this month, tonight we're releasing a patch to the default / general release branch. Conveyor Systems have received some updates based on your feedback, several quality-of-life enhancements, and numerous bug fixes and improvements throughout.

If you missed it, we just recently released the updated SimAirport 2017 Roadmap -- be sure to check it out if you haven't already!

We've already been working on the next stuff and, as usual, we'll be back with more on the Experimental/Edge branches just as soon as we have it ready for you!

Thanks everyone!

Patch Notes for July 18, 2017

• Conveyor System Changes -- By popular demand!
  
  
  
  • Conveyors inbound to a hub (blue, labeled with an "H") can now have 3-way intersections
    
  • Conveyor sections with a 3-way intersection will only be allowed to connect to other "to hub"/blue sections
    
  • The pink ("R") side of the network is unchanged, does not allow intersections
    
  
  
  
• Adds a separate setting for keyboard pan speed
  
• Adds the 4th facing for Bag Scanner!
  
• Revises the flight status window; optimized, resizable, and condensed
  
• LRT Platform can now be dismantled and repositioned
  
• Several queue tweaks including improvements to prevent stacking
  
• Revise the custom gate name UI to now support unlimited number of gates
  
• Adds a 'Important Zone Problems' notification/alert icon to the Zones UI button (missing deliveries zone, zone full, etc)
  
• Updates the capacity/demand graph, now incorporates arriving passenger demand (leaving airport) & ignores unscheduled flights
  
• Fixes an issue with vehicles sometimes becoming stuck
  
• Fixes an issue with construction indicator appearing under walls
  
• Several Queue related tweaks to reduce issues with passengers entering too slowly or 'clumping'
  
• Fixes the “# Bags Loaded” (outdoor luggage) always showing 0
  
• Drawing walls/fences over defined queues is now prohibited
  
• Fixes an issue that could cause stuck aircraft adjacent to runway
  
• Adds a tooltip warning that runway lights do not carry over when upgrading runways
  
• Adds hover tooltip to Supply Trucks to better communicate their current status
  
• Fixes passengers initial movement target when closing in on an object — prevents overshoot and/or backtracking
  
• Fixes light rail train 30 minute interval setting (will always spawn vs. checking for overrun)
  
• Fixes the estimated transit capacity series on Capacity Graph, was 4x too high
  
• Expands the collection of flight data metrics (e.g. actual arrival time, time spent doing X, Y, or Z) in anticipation of future reporting tools
  
• Several timing & aesthetic improvements to bars & food-serving kiosk objects
  
• Fixes CFO/COO/Janitor not being included in hourly wages
  
• Fixes gate agent desk getting outdoor material on default map
  
• Changes the secure areas report to show sector-like wings vs just “secure vs nonsecure”
  
• Fixes a few conveyor/object placement validation bugs
  
• Early Access dialog will now link to the appropriate Bug Report forum based on client version/branch
  
• Slight visual fix for Passengers when entering defined queues
  
• Fountains can be placed outside now
  
• Removes the “Break Deadlock” button from vehicles (remains on Aircraft for now)
  
• Aircraft pathfinding updates & upgrades
  
• Fixes the UI money hover not limiting the number of recent transactions displayed
  
• Fixes a sprite error on very large land expansion area indicators
  
• Resolves the issue with road construction sometimes not completing
  
• Fixes one issue with sectors job sometimes not completing successfully that could result in an inconsistent map state that shows everything non-secure, all zones failing validations, etc.
  
• Slightly optimizes sector generation
  
• Fixes recent transactions not limiting properly in the top UI hover
  
• Fixes an issue that could cause projects to re-allocate supplies incorrectly
  
• Fixes an issue that rarely prevented sector generation from finishing
  
• Fixes several thread-safety related issues
  
• Fixes the issue that caused sectors to generate incorrectly in some cases; this sometimes resulted in secure areas being incorrect, bad paths/through walls, etc
  
• Makes the 'dock notification' icons more obvious
  
• Fixes a bug that allowed objects to be placed on top of queues
  
• Fixes a bug that prevented graphs from updating properly when game was paused
  
• Fixed a bug that could occur when loading a save with a recently-spawned aircraft on final
  
• Fixed an issue that caused staff task priorities to not always be observed
  
• Fixes a queue heuristics bug that could result in 'looping' with some setups/layouts
  
• Queue entry now faster, more direct, less 'jitter' before entering
  
• Through-queue movement speed slowed down slightly
  
• Passenger reaction time increased while in queues, reduces gaps
  
• Conveyor endpoints now displayed prior to selecting conveyor tool
  
• Changed underground view so that only the utility objects will be hovered/selectable
  
• Audio updates, some new effects, updates to existing; feedback appreciated!
  
• Profit & Loss report now categorized; old data will be in 'Undefined' category, new data will categorize properly
  
• Several minor performance related changes, memory usage improvements
  
• Minor Aircraft pathfinding tweaks, should avoid runways a bit more aggressively
  
• Minor tweaks to 'Bird In Hand' heuristics, intended to reduce "looping" issues
  

SimAirport launched about 130 days ago, roughly 4 months, and we hope you agree with us that the game has come an incredible distance in just that short amount of time. We originally released a roadmap a bit after release, and since then we’ve been able to cross off the majority of the items listed; it’s now time to give you a glimpse into the future, and to share with you what our plans are for the coming patches.

Much more is planned and we definitely do not intend to slow down anytime soon -- in fact we’re really just now hitting our stride, there’s a whole lot more coming.

We’ve been clear about our goal since day one -- creating the best management-style tycoon game possible -- we’ve been active within the community and we cannot thank you enough for being there with us every step of the way, helping us strive towards achieving the stated goal.

Creating the Updated Roadmap
We asked you, the community, to voice your opinions and provide your feedback via the SimAirport survey a while back. The results, and the turnout, were overwhelmingly helpful for us and the end result is that your collective desires are directly incorporated in our future plans, the culmination of which is this updated SimAirport Roadmap. The survey was a critical piece of the puzzle for us and has been instrumental in helping to craft this updated Roadmap -- we plan to continue updating the Roadmap every few months and we intend to continue to survey the community to help us ensure that we stay in tune with you, the players, and what you want to see in SimAirport’s future.

What Does it Cover? When will we see these things?!
Our tentative goal is to have everything below completed by the end of 2017! As most of you know, we like to release early & often -- we won’t be tackling the following items in any specific order, but we will be working on them all, and we will do our best to get them out to you as quickly as we can, on time, and without major bugs.

Game development is full of unknowns, and we can’t promise this all in 2017 for certain -- but we CAN promise that we’ll do everything we can to deliver it this year. This list is not all-encompassing either; there are times when we may deviate to address a specific issue or game mechanic, jump on a new idea, or decide not to pursue a feature. These changes typically come from your feedback, but in general we’ll strive to complete the roadmap during the remainder of 2017 -- and then we’ll probably be about ready to release another roadmap update! :-)

Thank You!
We look forward to continuing to work with you as the game blossoms into an even more engaging, fun, and challenging experience over the coming months and years.


SimAirport Roadmap - Remainder of 2017

• Performance
  
  
  
  • More passengers, at better frame rates
    
  • Improved Multi-Core CPU Utilization
    
  • No construction slowdowns
    
  • No UI slowdowns
    
  
  
  
• Systems
  
  
  
  • Multiple Floors. The big one! We’re doing it!
    
  • Smarter Paths; Moving walkways, staff doors, 1-ways, better paths
    
  • Maintenance & Repair; runway surface types, object & vehicle fatigue
    
  • Staff Intelligence; Scheduling, AI, Assignments, and Prioritization
    
  • Fuel Utilities Network; fuel pipelines, refueling trucks
    
  • Upgraded ‘Information’ System; public address system & impacts
    
  
  
  
• Player Experience
  
  
  
  • UI Improvements, more in-game alerts & guidance
    
  • Game Localization, Translations
    
  • Linux support
    
  • Audio updates & immersion improvements
    
  
  
  
• Early 2018 -- Major Planned Features
  
  
  
  • Events & Challenges: security checks, threats; weather impacts; go-arounds, incidents, and emergencies
    
  • Gameplay Progression Assessment & Re-Balance
    
  • Airlines that require services, offices, lounges
    
  • Making First Class mean something, require things, have impact
    
  • And More... this is merely a sampling of the what's on our radar!
    
    
    
    
    
    
    

Just a quick patch today with the goal of fixing a few lingering issues from the major patch released on June 21. We'll now be getting back to work on the Experimental & Edge branches as we get the next round of major updates fully under way. Thanks everyone -- we'll be back with more soon!

Patch Notes for June 26, 3:36PM

• Adds 'Flight Scheduling Queue'; Newly accepted flight contracts now go into your scheduling queue for scheduling
  
• Adds lettering to the underground endpoints for easier recognition
  
• Right click now cancels active drag for most build tools
  
• Fixes an issue that could cause luggage golf carts to get stuck
  
• Fixes an issues that caused outdoor baggage vehicles to not complete their tasks
  
• Fixes an issue that caused passengers to get stuck at some single-passenger objects (cafe chairs)
  
• Fixes an uncommon queue-related stuck passenger bug
  
• Fixes assignments sometimes not getting saved
  
• Adds a fix for pax stuck when target position in queue is different sector or security status
  
• Fixes an issue that could cause pax to wait at the wrong baggage carousel
  
• Aircraft using a fallback gate will now use the smallest fallback available that can accommodate them
  
• Numerous small fixes & small UI improvements
  

Tonight we have a major patch with some big things ready for you! Big things, such as larger runways, land expansions for larger maps, light rail platform, conveyor utility updates, and much more. SimAirport launched into Early Access just 108 days ago and, though it seems like just yesterday, we've been quite busy and the game has come a tremendous distance already. Tonight we're thrilled to close out this round of updates with a general release default patch and take yet another giant leap forward. This one is a jumbo!

What's Next?
As usual, we'll soon be kicking off the next round of updates -- this time around we'll be pushing updates to the 'Edge' branch, and from there we'll move them over to the Experimental branch roughly once a week or so. We are also putting the finishing touches on an updated Roadmap now that we've addressed many of the things that were on the original Early Roadmap, and drawing heavily from the results of the survey that we put out last month. We'll be posting the updated roadmap here when it's ready and we plan to release that within next 1-2 weeks!

SAVE GAME COMPATIBILITY
Unfortunately existing saves are NOT compatible with this update. If you do have any saves that you'd like to continue your progress on, we have created a new 'Archived' branch which you can use -- this branch has the same game version as the Default (general release) branch did as of the May 20th update. You can use this branch to continue playing these old saves without issue, however you will not benefit from any of the bugfixes or additions contained in this patch. The archival branch is named "archived_may20_2017".

About Incompatible Saves
We do absolutely everything we can to avoid having to invalidate old saves and to ensure full backwards-compatibility; indeed, we have not had to invalidate saves at all since the week of the original release (~145 builds ago!). In some cases it's incredibly difficult, if even possible, for us to maintain full backwards-compatibility -- this patch is unfortunately one such case. We will continue to do our absolute best to avoid breaking old saves and we apologize in advance for the annoyance & frustration that this causes.

We know how critically important it is for existing saves to continue working and we'll do our very best to avoid this situation for all future patches -- indeed, we have evaluated the code and we do not expect this to happen again moving forward.

Thank You!
We want to thank those of you who participated in the SimAirport Survey that we put out with the May 2017 patch. We had an absolutely fantastic response to the survey, and the results have already proved to be incredibly useful as a tool to help guide our development efforts. We want to extend a huge thank you to everyone that participated -- your feedback is, has been, and will continue to be critically important to ensuring that SimAirport is able to become the best tycoon-style management game ever created.

We also want to thank those of you in the community who played a direct role in shaping this patch, via your engagement with both the game and with us, playing consistently, and providing valuable feedback on the often-nightly updates that were released to the Edge & Experimental branches over the last 30 days. Without your help we seriously could not put together anything resembling the list below -- your participation is a critical component to the success of SimAirport. We sincerely thank you, and we look forward to working with you all during the next round of updates! =)

June 21, 2017 Patch Notes

• MAJOR ADDITIONS
  
  
  
  • Larger Runways, Runway Size Upgrades
    You can now build runways in three sizes, with the largest size being 260% larger than the runway was previously! Aircraft now have runway size restrictions, hovering over the aircraft in the Airline menus displays which minimum runway size is required for each aircraft type. Runway upgrades now also allow you to upgrade existing runways to increase their size; access this via the Runway Upgrades menu.
    
    
  • Land Expansion Purchases
    After researching Land Expansion you'll be able to buy additional land adjacent (in the 'north' and 'east' directions only) to your airport in order to further expand your airport operations.
    
    
  • Standby Gates
    Allows you to define gate failover options that will be used in the event that a flight’s original gate is not available at the scheduled arrival time. If necessary, passengers will backtrack to a different wing of the airport to reach the new gate agent desk(s). Used via the Master Flight Scheduler. Requires research to unlock.
    
    
  • Conveyor Utility Network Revamp
    The luggage systems have been revamped and are now designed to give you more choices while also presenting more of a challenge in terms of design, layout, and expansion. Further enhancements and upgrades will be coming to the system in the future. Notable aspects of the new systems include:
    
    
    
    • Conveyors now must be direct object-to-object links, without intersecting other segments
      
    • Special 'Hub' objects must be used for interconnectivity between objects (3 new hub objects in this release)
      
    • Outdoor routing stations are now called 'Depots'
      
    • Aircraft Gates must be assigned to one or more 'Baggage Depots'; this controls where luggage gets sent for flights at that gate
      
    • Multiple hubs may be interconnected to form larger systems; hub-to-hub connections are always automatically a "2-way connection" (despite the visual arrows/colors implying otherwise). Hub-to-Hub connections should be made via either PINK-to-PINK or BLUE-to-BLUE
      
    • Baggage system performance substantially improved; note that individual baggage is not currently being displayed
      
    
    
    
  • Disjoint Taxiway Network Support
    Instead of everything being required to be connected to one 'network', multiple separated networks will now work. Adds additional “road island” cache and improved heuristics for aircraft spawning, gate/runway functional checks, and baggage car job reservation.
    
    
  • Light Rail Transit Station
    The Light Rail Platform has been added along with the associated research to unlock it. The Light Rail will allow you to increase your airport's total ground transit capacity, which in turn allows you to serve more passengers & flights each day. Use this in conjunction with the new Operations Control Panel and the new Transit Capacity Graph reports to perfect your ground transit operations.
    
    
  • Weather Effects and Weather Patterns
    Weather effects have been updated, optimized, and re-enabled! Weather Patterns have been implemented and provide for more realistic, predictable & forecastable weather patterns. Further improvements are planned for the future including deeper integration into the gameplay experience. A new Weather Forecast graph is available via clicking the top Weather icon on the top main UI.
    
    
  • Queueing Improvements
    The passenger queueing systems have been updated; they function quite similar to before, but contain several improvements, bug-fixes, gameplay/behavioral improvements, and performance improvements. This includes faster through-queue movement, passengers always using queues even when no line, more consistent timings, and several other minor improvements.
    
    
  • New Objects and Building Materials
    
    
    
    • About 20 new decorative flooring options and styles
      
    • Handful of new Hunger-satisfying kiosks and fast-food objects
      
    • Additional New Bench / Seating options and size combos
      
    • Two new Fountains, decor objects that improve environment scores
      
    
    
    
  • New Graphs & Operations Control Panel
    
    
    
    • Operations Control Panel -- edit bus, garbage, retail, and light rail service intervals
      
    • Ground Transport Demand/Capacity Report -- better understand your ground transport demand & actual capacity
      
    • Daily Cashflows Graph -- understand your airport's income and expenses with this 30-day graph
      
    • Weather Forecast -- available via clicking the top 'Weather' icon in the UI
      
    
    
    
  • And more...
    
    
    
    • Adds custom gate names
      
    • UI Categories Tabs added to build menus
      
    • Adds support for multiple pages of game preferences
      
    • Adds a game setting for displaying time in 12 or 24 hour formats
      
    • Adds a game setting for inverted click-and-drag camera panning
      
    • Adds Steam Trading Cards, Profile Backgrounds, Badges, and Emoticons
      
    
    
  
  
  
• GAMEPLAY CHANGES
  
  
  
  • Increases the weight & importance of Terminal Usage Fee as it relates to Airline satisfaction
    
  • Garbage bins are now used throughout the airport / more important to passengers
    
  • Blank Slate starting balance increased by $250,000
    
  • Security Exit is no longer blocked by Outdoors or Walls, can now be placed on walls (similar to door placement)
    
  • Raw material refund amounts changed to 90% of cost (was 50%)
    
  • Dismantling large objects results in 50% of materials being recovered (was 100%)
    
  • Tweaked the environmental effects of some existing decor objects
    
  • Master flight scheduler time header row is now fixed position at the top when scrolling vertically
    
  • Wind tweaks: prevailing weighted more strongly & direction changes slowed
    
  • Garbage cans can now be placed indoors or outdoors
    
  • Conveyor material price reduced by ~50% and max stack size increased
    
  • Janitors will now prioritize emptying garbage bins over cleaning floors or removing garbage bags
    
  • Windows must now be placed on existing walls; tool description updated
    
  • Adds a placement indicator to the queue drawing tool
    
  • Supply Trucks will now spawn (assuming any piles are pending delivery) even if Deliveries zone is removed or at full capacity, for better visibility into idle workers waiting on that truck’s supplies
    
  • Supplies pending delivery from canceled construction projects will now sometimes be reallocated to new projects (terrain only)
    
  • Improves flight distribution when spawning departing pax
    
  • Spawn nodes now have edges to all orthogonal neighbors; prevents vehicles getting stuck trying to make a hard left at the top of the map
    
  • Storage shelves and dumpsters will be prioritized over ground spots
    
  • Reduced the hitbox size on trash bags, making it easier to see garbage zone capacity when full
    
  • Retail workers will now handle restocking kitchens; prevents delivery truck from blocking traffic longer than necessary
    
  • Added substantial code to Aircraft to make them much more robust & resilient; helps to prevent them getting stuck and becoming permanent airport decor. They should now look for backup solutions and re-attempt to find paths to the gate/runway if none exist on its first few attempts. Dismantle validations have been relaxed slightly now that aircraft can recover more reliably.
    
  • Adds "Transit Capacity" to the top UI "Passenger" hover, to better convey your total available throughput potential
    
  • Adds Minimum Runway Size restrictions to aircraft
    
  • Adjusted several early-game airlines to provide for more small aircraft flights
    
  • Construction Workers now always prioritize indoor luggage tasks higher than construction tasks
    
  • Baggage Cars that are idle & nearby now pick tasks up before cars that are further away
    
  • Bus, Retail, and Light Rail services now cost a fixed fee per spawn, as an inhibitor to scheduling them as frequently as possible / partially tuning late-stage gameplay
    
  • Moves B767 to Large Gate
    
  
  
  
• BUG FIXES
  
  
  
  • Resolves multiple crash causes and thread safety issues
    
  • Addressed several memory leaks
    
  • Fix a bug allowing purchase of hangar vehicles with insufficient funds in Career mode
    
  • Fix the airport entrance sprite disappearing after completing road tech option
    
  • Adds a few fixes related to hidden zone overlays, e.g. when starting draw mode
    
  • Numerous Gate Docking fixes, timings tweaks, deserialization fixes, and stuck fixes
    
  • Adding or modifying a flight will apply to the following day, whereas an offer cancelation will sometimes also apply to the current day if the arrival time is sufficiently far away
    
  • Prevents assignment to invalid gate (i.e. pending construction or dismantle) when accepting offers and editing schedule
    
  • Prevents dismantle of gate when it has flights pending arrival — these must be moved, canceled, or allowed to run their course.
    
  • Fixes a bug that showed completed Research items as disabled when running out of money
    
  • Fixes an issue with some construction indicators erroneously excluding zone drawing
    
  • Fixes text placement of zone/sectors (centered in largest rectangle)
    
  • Fixes Decorative Tree — should block object placement, and allow flooring changes w/o removal
    
  • Fixes a bug that could result in manually unloaded baggage being unreachable (adjacent security zone)
    
  • Fixes a leftover shadow bug when removing walls
    
  • Fixes the delay in updating wall sprites when ‘attach to wall’ object nearby
    
  • Fixes an issue that sometimes prevented “selected object dialog” buttons from being clicked
    
  • Fixes a bug that sometimes caused fired workers to be stuck
    
  • Fixes an exception when moving a flight with the cancellation dialog still open
    
  • Prevents vehicle passenger spawning while the game is paused
    
  • Greater contrast to primary scroll bar handles
    
  • Urinals changed to only be functional in male restrooms
    
  • Fixes a bug that could cause premature cancelation of flights
    
  • Fixes passenger bug, sometimes caused walking outside or through secure areas when crossing “U”-shaped sectors
    
  • Fixes a bug that caused passengers to sometimes get stuck at a wall after being 'pushed' off-course by other agents
    
  • Fixes some objects not repositioning properly after a nearby wall is built
    
  • Fixes the implementation of zone minimum dimension requirement/validation
    
  • Fixes a MM370 bug when pathfinding to garbage bins of certain rotation next to a wall
    
  • Fixes a bug with Flight Status dialog failing to display flights when a gate has been removed
    
  • Fixes a bug that could result in Storage Shelf showing the wrong sprite/state
    
  • Fixes a bug that could result in stuck workers, projects, and/or supply truck [when processing jobs near at-capacity zones]
    
  • Fixes a bug when canceling a project before the indicator animation is complete
    
  • Fixes Urinal "back" facing
    
  • Fixes pax stacking when waiting for an object — should always be aside not on it
    
  • Fixes a bug that allowed Clear & Demolish tool to sometimes bypass dismantle validations
    
  • Fixes a bug that prevented dragging modals that were partially off-screen
    
  • Modal windows that have their 'drag handle' off-screen will now re-position themselves so that their drag handle is at least partially on-screen
    
  • Fixes aircraft position being reset when deserializing into initial approach, landing, and takeoff states
    
  • Fixes an issue with UI becoming unresponsive when loading a corrupted save
    
  • Hotkeys U, P, & I now correctly toggle dialogs vs only showing them
    
  • Resizing the MFS dialog will now expand right/down only, vs in all directions
    
  • Fixes a bug where tall hover tooltips would go off screen
    
    
  
  
  
• MISC
  
  
  
  • Baggage Car improvements; intended to be less prone to 'stuck', able to recover more easily
    
  • Aircraft hovers on the Airline "Detail" UI now shows req'd gate & runway size
    
  • Updates the aircraft gate tooltip (today's flights for that gate, with status)
    
  • Updates the Conveyor build menu tooltip, includes overview/instructions
    
  • Updates the "money changes" to be less distracting (smaller font, up to 10 most recent entries)
    
  • Improves the workshop integration to show more detailed status for help in diagnosing failures
    
  • Optimizes sector generation code, slightly improving performance during active construction
    
  • Optimizes rendering; improves frame rates on integrated and mid-grade GPU hardware, softens the minimum video RAM requirements
    
  
  

We're shipping a great general release patch today, numerous updates including substantially-improved Passenger AI, initial Steam Workshop support, and a number of new objects, tools, and other new and updated gameplay elements, and of course a number of fixes as well. Check out the change log below for the full rundown!

Next Round Kickoff
We'll be kicking off the next round of updates on the 'experimental' branch very soon, and as usual we'll continue shipping fixes, updates, improvements and additions just as quickly as we can. We've got some great stuff in store for the next round, and we're excited to get this one out to you all & be able to really focus on digging into the next stuff and starting to roll it out to experimental -- we're so incredibly excited about what the future has in store for SimAirport!

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Thank You for your Support
We want to thank those of you who have been active participants on the experimental branch & in the experimental forum throughout this round of updates. Your bug reports, save submissions, attention to detail -- and, of course, your patience -- have been absolutely instrumental in allowing us to ship the way we have been able to. We sincerely appreciate it, and we thank you very much for your continued support; we truly couldn't do it without you.

NEW FEATURES

• Passenger AI Improvements — passengers are now constantly assessing their environment, even when already engaged with a behavior. You’ll see better queue distribution, new line hopping, fewer pax missing flights, and other improvements. Numerous tuning adjustments made as well.
  
• Steam Workshop Support - Initial support implemented! Share your maps with the community on Steam Workshop! Look for "Airport Sharing" in the game's Main Menu and the Workshop tab on Steam
  
• Added 'Small Retail Bar' — complete with 2 bartenders! Will be further improved in future.
  
• Added 'Windows' -- currently function like walls, with different sprites.
  
• Full 'Security Wings' support -- fully implemented, works for Lifecycle & other needs
  
• Added 'Profit & Loss' Report -- accessible only when CFO is hired with office. Hotkey: P
  
• Added A320 aircraft model -- added to several airlines
  
• Added a 'Storage' zone -- workmen will move leftover piles to it
  
• Added 'Area Sell' tool -- allows you to mass-sell supply boxes that are eligible for sale
  
• Added 'Male Restroom' and 'Female Restroom' zones -- removed generic/unisex 'Restroom'
  
• Added 'Urinal' object -- for Male Restrooms (Known: does not yet have back view)
  
• Added 'Bank Loans II' Research -- increases max loan amount
  
• Added 'Lower Interest Rate' Research -- decreases loan interest rate
  
• Added 'Highlight Passengers' button to Aircraft -- Green = Departures, Red = Arrivals.
  

• The in-game clock speed has been reduced 25%, while the simulation speed is the same — making the time scale more realistic (e.g. simulated walking speed)
  
• Bag/Body/Metal scanners now all require staff to work
  
• Enabled hourly infrastructure costs (ATC Tower, Baggage Carousel, Baggage Routing Station)
  
• Workmen will now handle the indoor luggage (golf cart) duties
  
• Numerous Passenger AI tweaks and object effect tweaks; Passengers also tuned to make them more likely to try catching their flight if running behind, even if their other needs are very high
  
• Numerous small tweaks to timings & object effects
  
• Cash registers and misc. other bulky objects will now count towards enclosed space zone validations
  
• More restrictive Aircraft Gate and Runway dismantle validations to help prevent stuck aircraft
  
• Prohibit passengers from using objects in Office zones
  
• Storage Shelf can now be placed indoors
  
• Fixed a bug that caused airlines to offer too many larger vs smaller aircraft contracts
  
• Revised Vehicle parking spots (better ‘pull far ahead’ and ‘close enough’ targets)
  
• Passengers will avoid cutting through Kitchen zones, if alternative routes exist
  
• Passengers will now wait nearby for Toilets (if in use)— helps prevent oscillation against the 2nd highest need
  
• ATM & Electronic Vending machine now working & usable, and revenue-generating
  
• Foundation tool near existing walls/foundations will now dismantle walls (free) vs consuming valuable Concrete supplies for those positions
  
• Road placement will now show the correct cost when available inventory exists
  
• Zones can now be edited under pending construction, in limited circumstances (i.e. not walls)
  
• Ticketing objects now require non-secure area to function
  
• Adds a new text indicator where vehicles spawn to show the (hidden) queue size, when roads are backlogged