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

GAMEPLAY CHANGES

• 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

BUG FIXES

• 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