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!)

Also expected to come during the next cycle (note: is subject to change!) are the following, which are less finished but are all in various states of completion right now:

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

We've also got a few other things we've been playing with that may or may not shape up in time for this next cycle -- not to mention the remaining items from the most recent roadmap (Multiple Floors & Translations, which we've been steadily working on as well) -- but we'll definitely continue to keep you posted as usual. And finally, we did some audio/video recording to make a "dev update" video for you all; we'll see how it turns out, and if it turns out OK we'll be releasing that fairly soon as well. Worst case, we may need to do a second take of it -- but we're definitely going to give it our best shot! :smiley: Didn't mean for this to get so long, really just meant to wish you all a Happy Halloween! Thank you everyone for your patience and for you continued support, we'll have more for you soon!

[ 2017-11-01 02:09:45 CET ] [ Original post ]