Airport CEO Alpha 29 released

EG0611 · December 29, 2018, 4:49am

@Ziameter please provide screenshot of what is the issue.

Olof · December 29, 2018, 5:26am

Alpha 29.4-3 is out on the experimental branch with the new job task dispatcher system, it’s more of an improvement than a bug but… yeah. This is the big difference:

The system does now not only account for time until a job starts (which it did earlier) but also:

Tries to assign a job task its nearest suitable employee
Tries to prioritize employees that are in the same secure area as the job task

This means that if you have a certain area far away, i.e. boarding desk or whatever, you should now be able to again mitigate late boarding start times by simply building a staff room close to those desks. The system will make sure that jobs are dispatched to airport staff close to those desks. Also means that janitors finally will clean stuff right next to them instead of roaming the entire airport.

    Release notes - Airport CEO - Version Alpha 29.4-3

Bug

[ACEO-8286] - Job tasks that are not time dependent gets randomly selected causing delays for janitor and service technician jobs
[ACEO-8830] - Incorrect bug mitigation system can cause persons that do not correctly execute an activity after some time to be teleported to a random point in the airport

jasperwillem · December 29, 2018, 6:00am

yes, it has been there since the very start of the game.

yuuka_miya · December 29, 2018, 11:04am

I place my staff rooms in insecure areas, but they have separate staff-only checkpoints into the main secure area. Will this overwork my employees who are already in the secure area, while leaving those in the insecure staff room untouched?

Silvokial · December 29, 2018, 11:28am

By reading the update log, yes. The system does not account for secure/unsecure areas, but takes staff vicinity into account. I might be wrong, but it doesn’t seem like areas were ‘touched’ at all

Rubble · December 29, 2018, 11:43am

@yuuka_miya @Silvokial I’ve had some excellent results, but it’s not infallible. I have been able to reduce my janitors by about 30% and still keep the place clean. I’ve put a staff room at one end of a wing and the staff did go from there to the boarding gates rather than all the way through security at the one in the check in hall. YMMV as everyone designs their own way.

Ziameter · December 29, 2018, 2:05pm

Alright, it that case I have found a bug. Thanks for confirming

dewitjur · December 29, 2018, 3:01pm

All my job tasks have stopped getting assigned. ACEO-8897

airportguy · December 29, 2018, 4:31pm

anyone know what airline has the dash Q400 ?

Rubble · December 29, 2018, 4:42pm

Here you go. If you go to the actual post you will also pics kindly taken by Dewitjur

Rubble · December 29, 2018, 5:58pm

Anyone else having food court contracts that should be successful that then say you failed?

jasperwillem · December 29, 2018, 5:59pm

I thought people already bug-reported that on Internal.

VladB · December 29, 2018, 11:28pm

Same… thought to it was too obvious

Fredrik · December 30, 2018, 11:56pm

Final release of the year. Mainly baggage fixes. We plan to look into the other bugs the following week.

    Release notes - Airport CEO - Version Alpha 29.4-4

Bug

[ACEO-8492] - Baggage belts do not connect to the direction that you place them when another belt is adjacent
[ACEO-8638] - Bags get stuck on baggage bay after unloaded from service truck
[ACEO-8648] - Employee cannot leave secure zone after zone change
[ACEO-8770] - Baggage belt arrows going in the wrong direction
[ACEO-8777] - Conveyor belt on baggage bay snap to underground belts causing incorrect diversion behavior
[ACEO-8779] - Baggage gets stuck on belt truck on load
[ACEO-8809] - Mark object for deletion pays back money instantly even if objects is not demolished
[ACEO-8944] - Employee UI card has wrong colors

Bardaek · December 31, 2018, 1:31am

Accessing the employee button on the interface has been a non-stop source of finger crossing each time I use it in game. It’s worse if the game isn’t paused. If the game crashes, It’s always in the setting of pressing the employee button. It hangs up for a long time. Most times, it gets through it, some times, it will crash the system.

caolan753 · December 31, 2018, 10:23am

All you can do is file a bug report and submit it to the Devs for them to work on in the new year .

Admigo · January 1, 2019, 7:38pm

Will bagage also be optimized? I can’t really handle 10k passenger with bagage enabled but without bagage its fine.

Trojan · January 2, 2019, 1:51am

Getting duplicates of the CEO and one of them is completely black like a silhouette. Will be filing bug report soon.

Ziameter · January 2, 2019, 3:08am

Had the same issue, already filed a report

caolan753 · January 2, 2019, 10:04am

The Devs said that they would be looking at it and improving it, with new sites and what not to improve the performance of the game .