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Pro-boat, Hong Kong. HK's got better tourism for less money than Shanghai, while not breaking the bank like Athens would. A nice middle ground for passive income.
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Pro-boat, Shanghai I say to you that before this decade is out Iran will put a man on the opposite shore.
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Mar 27, 2014 23:16
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Pro-boat, Hong Kong. Let's get this done.
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Anti-Boat Its just a minor increase to tourism and a minor bit of money (that'll never make back its purchase cost before the scenario ends) for a single location.
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Mar 27, 2014 23:29
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All-Boat Strategy You are no longer an airline, you buy all the boats in the game. Hong-Kong, Athens, Singapore, Chicago, in this order.
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Mar 27, 2014 23:48
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anti-boat, we can party and waste all of our hard earned money after we win the game
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Krysmphoenix posted:anti-boat, we can party and waste all of our hard earned money after we win the game We're not going to win the game. No way, not with the enormous lead AirMurica has on us.  Pro-boat, in Hong Kong so it can be used to bring people to and from mainland China. Also because it would be much more useful for us than in one of the other cities. Why did we even entertain the thought of Athens to begin with?
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Mar 27, 2014 23:55
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Pro boat, Hong Kong. It's easy to underestimate what businesses can do for you; while the smart play would probably be to build up our air service a bit more before investing in more businesses, the boat should still be a useful investment. EDIT: we don't actually have to overtake Murica to win, thankfully. If the AI wielded that cash flow competently we'd be in trouble but we have a decent shot. the holy poopacy fucked around with this message at 00:01 on Mar 28, 2014 |
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Mar 27, 2014 23:58
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Pro-boat, Athens. Keep the dream alive.
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Mar 28, 2014 00:05
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Pro-Boat, Shanghai. If you turn down a Shanghai Pleasure Boat, are you really a man? I think not. 
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Mar 28, 2014 00:13
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Does Doug sell boats? I thought not. Seriously anti-boat.
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Pro-Boat. Hong Kong. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avaSdC0QOUM
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Pro-boat, Hong Kong, to put the "nautical" in "aeronautical".
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Mar 28, 2014 03:40
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Anti-Boat. Let the dream die.
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zharmad posted:Pro-Boat. Hong Kong. Your argumentive skills have forced me to be Pro-Boat Hong Kong.
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Mar 28, 2014 04:40
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You drat pro-boaters have sunk our proverbial ship 
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Just buy the goddamn boat already
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Mar 28, 2014 04:59
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Pro-Boat We will be masters of land, sea, and air. Botes.
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Mar 28, 2014 05:02
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I vote Hong Kong.
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TheMcD posted:Pro-boat, Hong Kong. Let's get this done. Here here!
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Anti-boat, the name on the box ain't Hydrobiz
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Mar 28, 2014 05:26
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Pro-Doug I think this means Anti-Boat??? I'm not sure how Doug works here I'm not nearly as wise nor as resourceful as Almighty Doug. Though you should probs. help out our pal Douglas
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Hedera Helix posted:We're not going to win the game. No way, not with the enormous lead AirMurica has on us. While our best probable outcome is "not losing" rather than actually winning, we still have a small chance. Murica may be making cash hand over fist, but they're also an AI opponent, open to exploitation. Anti-boat buy some drat planes with that money.
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 Primary Objectives: pre:5 - Boat Boat-Vote: 17 - Pro-Boat 9 - Anti-Boat 2 ATH - 3 SHG - 12 HKG Secondary Objectives: pre:4 - Upgrade Aircraft On Existing Routes, favoring Jets 3 -Additional Doug Stretch Goals: pre:Expand service in Asia and America
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1965 - Hydrobiz Q1 1965  I just want to say one word to you, just one word. Are you listening? Watercraft.  Spare agent time spent bidding at home. With luck, we’ll disrupt the efforts of our rivals.  Had my eye on Singapore for a while. Trying for 6 more slots here, with intent to one day flip off ConAir by making their own home base a spoke on our network.  People Auck to Flockland, and London grows again.    Turns go a lot faster when you don’t have money. Q2 1965  A hookup for Perth and negotiations in Chile mark Blue’s continued focus on southern business.  No, you can’t defect to us.  We’ve brought their attention home again, as ConAir goes for China.     Boat lives. As an Amusement-type business, the Pleasure boat has the side effect of boosting the tourism rating of the city once purchased. Hong Kong is up 5 points from where it was before. The more expensive ones provide even larger bonuses. Other businesses in this category are the Amusement Park, Golf Course, and Ski Resort.   Competition out east is putting pressure on our routes. We’re keeping ahead in totals, but it’s hurting our revenues.  I hope to improve on that with some added service. Note that the price of Doug has slightly fallen. All planes experience some dropoff in value as their design ages. Doug is 18, which is quite a lot in Aero-years, so that number will continue to drop off as we move forward.    The Second Kashmir war is underway. India and Pakistan, who together make up most of the Middle East region, will be cut off from negotiation and under major penalties for the duration of the conflict. As with the Suez crisis before, the ingame event will last much longer than the historical conflict. There’s not much air service to either belligerent, so the direct impact on our business is low.    However, there’s more to this than first appears. While the first event didn’t mention it, future reminders will inform us that this war is driving up the price of oil. Everyone is getting squeezed by fuel costs until it ends. Q3 1965  Further fragmentation in Asia. Singapore also likes us. ConAir has to reprint all their business cards.   Another competitor for the light jet market. Compared to the B727, this little fellah sacrifices 800 miles of range to slip ahead in capacity, efficiency, and price.  A shiny red line marks the direct impact of the war.  AirMurica won’t let that stop them from carrying on as usual.  Doesn’t look so bad from up here, but we are still feeling the burn. We only made $9 million last turn.  At least we have a boat.   Kuala Lumpur has always been a great connection for us, I decide to hand them a Doug. Those two IL14s get reassigned to Cairo and Tashkent. I’d intended to send them to Bombay, but with the war on even our existing link there is under stress. If they can handle more traffic, it won’t be until after the fighting stops.  Guess whose aircraft are the most sensitive to fuel prices?  Thanks, war.    Not a fun turn. A crisis like this is not a good time to get experimental. With effects of the war all over our business model, it’s hard to tell if those schedule changes added up to an improvement or if they should be rolled back. The answer’s probably yes Q4 1965  ConAir actually suspended all their local mideast flights this turn, as all their spokes are inside the conflict. It’s the only reason they’re black right now - 0 is not negative.  Boat status: Wet.    Route Status: Damp. On close inspection, we can see that this shuffle isn’t doing well. Demand is a little more complex than just seats per week and cost per chair, and I’ve misjudged the vague wobbly cloud of other factors which influence performance. I’ll give these another turn to see if changes in fares can polish their performance, but this holds I’ll roll them back and send that Doug somewhere more promising. Probably London.  Oddly enough, Bombay is holding up well.  Russia, not so much. This thing is really hurting them.  Air’Murica is willing to run routes at losses for the sake of climbing the scoreboard. They continue bidding in secondary regions and buying jets.  The war still rages on.  Spain!    If only this were GuerraBiz.  1965 Year-End Review  We own a boat. And we’re half way through the scenario. We’ve come far, but have a ways to go if we want to have a hope of coming out on top. With that in mind, let’s take some time to go over what we have Boats aside and the air-travel industry as a whole.       Our connectors remain dependable and strong, filling seats and bank accounts alike. Cairo is even starting to take to the extra flights provided by that extra IL14. Really, though, these routes are overdue for upgrades. The performance of our rivals proves there’s loads of tickets waiting to be sold. Getting either of THROM or THR’HGK switched over to jets would do a lot to increase our revenue, and free whole flocks of Doug to work in other sections of our network.     Home sweet home. A small-time slice of our business, but one vital to our success. Fortunately, our near monopoly of Tehran and effective use of tiny planes has kept us undisputed leaders in the area. Of concern here is a local symptom of a bigger problem - we have a lot of unused time. Those 14 slots way over in Calcutta have been sitting idle since we bought them, chipping away at our bottom line over the years. We have time in a lot cities all over the world with fair potential for new routes, but until we get them active they earn us nothing. It’s a problem we could solve with the aforementioned influx of Doug.       Asia has come into its own as our second-largest field of business. ConAir has had some success in clawing their way back up in response to our aggression, but has only just slipped back into a tiny 96-person lead last fall. More of our idle hours are on display here, along with I think are secondary effects of running fewer flights to Kuala Lumpur. (We’ll know for sure after I swap them back to daily IL14s) I expect we can start shaving extra slots off our old links here to save money.      Europe remains our largest source of passengers. London is an excellent connection, and Paris and Berlin overcame their initial sluggishness and show potential for growth. Athens is choking a little on the low fares it needs to keep filled. It’s a common problem for short range routes, where the base price is so low. There’s more Idle time here waiting to go online, though our expansion in the region has been held back by Rome’s slow-growing airport.   Our humble beginnings stateside continue to pay off. The slower pace of bids here means we’re nowhere near as over-extended as we are in friendly territory. Each of those piles of extra time could be taken by a single plane.   Speaking of idle hours, Oceania has all the rights in place to roll out service in the region. We need only a plane to get us there.   Business-wise, South America is much like Oceania. Black and Blue have a few planes active, but are mostly fighting for a place on the scoreboard. Now that we’re set up in Washington, we have our pick of potential hubs when we’re ready to go south of the border.   Poor Africa. Only the Russians have bothered to set up shop here, and they’ve failed to accomplish anything but a very fragile local #1. Anyone who choses to bust in here could quickly knock them over, but they’d not earn much money in the process.   Overall, a status quo has managed to emerge. Air’Murica is the yet unchallenged top dog of the AeroBiz, but as their recent stuttering shows they’ve been unable to reliably turn that lead into positive financial feedback. Con Air has reaped the benefits of breaking into markets overseas. They’re getting packed with cash from their successes on those fronts, but from the passenger counts and local data it can be seen that they’re getting outflying-foxed on a lot of fronts. They need to work on their short game. Air Marx has failed to export the revolution in regards to civilian travel by aircraft, and has been left helplessly thrashing about at the bottom of the barrel. The only hazard they pose to us is their sizable footprint in Europe, which presents some competition. And then there’s us. We’re a tough little ship. On our good days, we take what little we have and squeeze out a competitive business model. Maybe let’s keep that up? 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PLANES We need more planes to use that time. Expanding our network will allow us to stomp ConAir into the dirt, and then we can begin chipping away at the lumbering giant that is 'Murica. Get some jets on the routes that need them. I trust management to know what they're doing on that front.
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Planes and jets. Now that we have our boat, it's time to continue expanding the other fleet.
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Mar 30, 2014 18:48
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Planes, planes, planes. I still want a 727, but you'd probably be better served either by buying more DC-8-50 to free up the DC-6s on THROM or THR-HKG, or by buying the DC-9 instead.
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Mar 30, 2014 19:03
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Routes! Break into another continent! I don't care if it's South America, Oceania, or Africa, we're going to need more #1 passengers, and those are markets we have yet to tap into.
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Mar 30, 2014 19:13
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I don't see nearly enough planes in the air. If people want some more fancy shamancy jets I guess those can work as well.
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I think for this year we should just defer to our chairman (A_Raving_Loon) because I don't like how big some of these gaps are starting to get and I'd rather just say to the smartest person in the room "Do what makes us money" until we have a proper cushion to meddle again.
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More Doug. More Routes.
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I'm curious, why vote for routes if we can't even use what we have?
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Wow, that boat is underwhelming as all get out. I'd like to take this moment to extend my apologies to the entire anti-boat faction. E: I guess that's why it's not called HydroBiz. David Corbett fucked around with this message at 20:55 on Mar 30, 2014 |
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Mar 30, 2014 20:52
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Yeah, Entertainment Business is mainly about the tourism buffs. The biggest ones can get as high as +20.
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Mar 30, 2014 20:56
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Planes. Eventual goal of expanding into Oceania.
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I told you guys the boat was a waste of money Shoulda bought more planes!! Dedicate some money to flex spending as well, if we manage to get enough side cash to either buy a route or a plane then we should have that leeway.
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Mar 30, 2014 21:23
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Sell the boat to spite the heathens and also to buy a plane
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The White Dragon posted:Sell the boat to spite the heathens Nah, Don't sell the boat as long as it brings in profits. Not to mention the tourist boom. We have it, let's at least not throw away an expensive yet minor advantage when we're not in the lead.
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Now that we've gotten this boat nonsense out of the way, let's actually focus on the real fleet. The one that's going to make us money. Planes can be a focus but I'm also with GetWell that it might not be a bad idea to defer to our CEO this time around. As long as he doesn't buy more boats.
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