Airport CEO News

Hey, hey, hey, airport CEO!

As we wrote in yesterday's dev blog we've got another little Steam autumn sale surprise update for you. Alpha 33.7-47 brings a few fixes but most importantly introduces the Queen of the Skies to Airport CEO!



The 747 is flown exclusively by Swiftly and if you have an existing contract with Swiftly at your airport you will need to cancel and re-accept it in order to make sure that the 747 is included in Swiftly's fleet generation.

Improvement

• [ACEO-19906] - Number of path finding worker threads now initially set to number of CPU cores (this can be manually changed via GameSetting.json)
  

Bug

• [ACEO-19755] - Check-in cancels with high number of departing passengers
  
• [ACEO-19858] - Aircraft movement not smooth when landing and taking off
  

New feature

• [ACEO-19905] - New aircraft: Boeing 747-400
  

Hey hey airport CEO!

Here's another dev blog digging into the stabilization we're doing on Alpha 33 and the continued development of Alpha 34. Lots of interesting stuff to read about, so don't hesitate but indulge in Dev Blog 141: Stabilizing one and developing the other!

Best regards,

Alexander, Fredrik & Olof - Apoapsis Studios

Good morning airport CEO!

It's time for yet another default update. Alpha 33.7-4 brings a lot of improvements including early access testing of several new languages, a new path finding worker thread solution, new a check-in desk allocation system and loads of other fixes.

This update especially targets you who've had issues with stalled passengers and employees in a late-stage airport with around 2k+ passengers or more. This is by far the bulk of our current bug report backlog and to solve it we've overhauled a large part of how the simulation engine distributes and calculates paths across multiple requests. We'll dive deeper into this in today's dev blog!

Here are the full patch notes for this update:



Improvement

• [ACEO-19040] - Overhauled path finding system to better accommodate multiple complex path requests and to avoid stalling path finding queue
  
• [ACEO-19686] - Notification now alerts if a service car left without ramp agents urging the player to construct a staff room closer to the service car stops
  
• [ACEO-19704] - Auto save feature will now maintain the five most recent auto saves instead of overwriting the same save
  
• [ACEO-19781] - Aircraft cabin cleaning truck now selects offloading waste depot by distance and load
  

Bug

• [ACEO-19012] - Overhauled check-in desk allocation system to enable better load distribution and avoid issues with immediate closing at the time of opening for delayed flights
  
• [ACEO-19110] - Taxiway one-way markers sometimes appear below taxiway line
  
• [ACEO-19234] - Wrong floor displayed in main panel when investigating object
  
• [ACEO-19366] - Persons stuck in secure area outside terminal cannot reset themselves
  
• [ACEO-19388] - Fuel trailer truck can in rare instances spawn without trailer
  
• [ACEO-19461] - Template tool not properly reset if trying to place a new object without deselecting it
  
• [ACEO-19478] - Fuel depot accidentally connects with fixed road nodes on vehicle depot
  
• [ACEO-19578] - No notifications spawned when contractors cannot find a way to a floor different than the ground floor
  
• [ACEO-19631] - Contractor offload site has incorrect max queue value causing contractors to fail leaving airport
  
• [ACEO-19632] - Adjusted vehicle entry points for small fuel depot and service vehicle parking lot to avoid spinning effect on vehicle enter
  
• [ACEO-19637] - Concrete tiles on lower floors disappear after loading
  
• [ACEO-19647] - Object description and name not correct for certain items in build panel
  
• [ACEO-19653] - Check-in and boarding desk doesn't remove staff zone when demolished
  
• [ACEO-19654] - Queue can be built on different floor than its parent desk
  
• [ACEO-19656] - Chance of aircraft go around balanced to occur less
  
• [ACEO-19681] - ULD trailers can in some rare cases when loading baggage for a flight not spawn ULD containers
  
• [ACEO-19684] - Baggage bay description confusing
  
• [ACEO-19698] - Transit structure queue full warning displayed too often
  
• [ACEO-19715] - Service vehicles force align trailers when parking at stand for baggage transfer
  
• [ACEO-19739] - Wrong description text for cleaning and catering in turnaround progress monitor
  
• [ACEO-19794] - Remote boarding process can in rare instances deadlock due to incomplete boarding checks
  
• [ACEO-19822] - Runway spawns world notification icons before construction is completed
  
• [ACEO-19835] - Baggage spawns outside body aircraft for narrow body end aircraft when offloading belt loader truck
  
• [ACEO-19841] - Text needlessly updating in some management panels after first time panel loading
  
• [ACEO-19874] - Object description panel generates dummy orphaned game objects in root causing potential memory leak
  
• [ACEO-19875] - When a tree is removed it can dump its overlay handler causing orhphaned game objects
  

New feature

• [ACEO-11853] - New language: French
  
• [ACEO-11854] - New language: Spanish
  
• [ACEO-14102] - New language: Brazilian portugese
  
• [ACEO-19757] - New language: Dutch
  

Good evening fellow CEOs!

We hope you're having a chill weekend and to make it a little bit more chill we're deploying Alpha 33.6-0 which brings a new round of stabilization fixes, specifically targeting the stuck airside shuttle buses you've reported a long with some capacity improvements for large aircraft in relation to check-in.

We'll be back with more updates late next week!



Improvement

• [ACEO-19457] - Number of check-in desks per flight is now dependent on passenger count (1 per 75 departing passenger)
  

Bug

• [ACEO-18993] - Conveyor belt rotations can in some cases become overridden when placed with template tool
  
• [ACEO-19358] - New airport screen in rare instances fails to fully load
  
• [ACEO-19373] - Missing notification on transit structures if they are at max capacity
  
• [ACEO-19405] - Path finding request can fail immediately after passenger deboards a transportation vehicle
  
• [ACEO-19449] - Previous queue anchor point ground floor spawn bug persists on older saves
  
• [ACEO-19454] - Persons can in certain instances get stuck on taxi stop due to incorrectly generated secure zone tile
  
• [ACEO-19466] - Price of objects are not always same as in description
  
• [ACEO-19471] - Check-in desk and baggage claim does not update UI when connecting to baggage bay
  
• [ACEO-19479] - Incorrect check system can cause airside shuttle buses to get stuck when deboarding onboard passengers
  

Good afternoon airport CEO!

As promised we're today delivering another small bug fix update. This one targets a few minor UI issues but primarily deals with a problem that could cause boarding to stall if a boarding desk is placed on a different floor than the stand it is boarding for. We've also enhanced some logging features to be able to better track exception bugs that occur across saves (when changing save names).

Here's today's patch notes:



Improvement

• [ACEO-19381] - Copy paste persistent log files into new save if user saves an existing airport with a new save anem
  

Bug

• [ACEO-19190] - Quantity input field in procurement container does not lock player input
  
• [ACEO-19315] - Uncaught NullReferenceException in bus boarding method for passenger can cause behavior disruption
  
• [ACEO-19342] - Passenger cannot access boarding desk if it's placed on a different floor than the stand
  
• [ACEO-19343] - Lower interaction panel year value can in rare instances be set to zero
  
• [ACEO-19386] - Removed legacy components from main menu aircraft which could in rare instances throw non-serious exceptions
  

Later this evening we'll be deploying a new experimental update with additional fixes so keep a lookout for that!