Suggestions

[kerishd]

I love this game but I'd like to see some changes please:

(I'm only playing the 'Unlock All Countries' mode)

1. The [SPACE BAR] should pause the game (or let us bind our own keys)
2. When the game is paused, we should be allowed to edit the routes.
3. When the game is paused, we should be allowed to upgrade the overcrowded airports.
4. When the game is paused, we should be allowed to purchase new territory.
5. When loading a game, it should start in a PAUSED state.
6. When the "Airport Overcrowded" beep beep warning starts, please do not auto-centre to the afflicted city. I have lost so many games because my screen suddenly shifts to a city far away. Please give us a pop up warning instead. When we click on the pop up, that should take us to the troubled airport.
7. We need to see a history of the warning messages (perhaps there can be an expandable menu at the bottom of the screen). Again, I've lost many games because I get flooded with messages which are missed.
8. We need a button to upgrade ALL planes in one route. It starts to become annoying to upgrade 5 planes across all the routes.
9. It would be good to see the total number of PAX waiting at each airport and the max PAX capacity of the airport on the main screen.
10. It would be good to see a small grey dot on the main map that shows where all the potential airports are (this is convenient for future route planning when playing 'Unlock All Countries').
11. When playing 'Unlock All Countries' I often run into bad random events at the very beginning (i.e get sued for $300). This is basically a restart. Please scale the bad events to the cost of the territory at the beginning of the game so at least we have a fighting chance to meet the 6 minute limit.
12. Game balancing 'Unlock All Countries', perhaps give us 2 or 3 choices for the next territory. I had a few games where it goes Germany -> France -> UK -> Iceland -> Greenland -> Algeria -> Mali ... and then Algeria gets an Ebola outbreak :( Basically a restart.

--Edit--
13. When bad weather/bad event hits, do not delete and destroy my routes and planes. They should just be paused and they should auto-restart when the event is over. Also, I get no warning when the bad event is over and the airport re-opens.

But overall this is still a great game!


--Edit 16 Nov--

After playing Unlock All Countries obsessively over 4 days, I'd like to make further suggestions:

14. I discovered the trick to the game is to connect to major countries as fast as possible. But I notice some countries are just difficult to get to. Namely, South Africa. I'd like to suggest additional neighbouring connections:
a. Iran should be neighbours to Saudi Arabia/UAE/Qatar/Oman
b. Venezuela should be neighbours to Jamaica/Cuba/Haiti/Dominican Republic
c. Australia should neighbours to South Africa/Madagascar
d. India should be neighbours to Somalia/Kenya
e. Brazil/Argentina should be neighbours to South Africa

15. I notice the more connections you have to an unlocked country, the more likely it will be randomly chosen as the next objective country to unlock. Furthermore, if the country is in Europe, then it is even more likely that the country will be chosen as the next objective. This mechanic is unhelpful because it is more important to connect to countries that will boost your bank balance (e.g. USA, China, Japan). The game has an unhealthy desire for a connection to Iceland and Greenland. Please re-adjust the random objective to preference major passenger countries.

16. Asia-Pacific should connect to the Americas.

[Switish]

I really like this suggestions.
If I can add. Feel free to add the below to yours and I'll remove them.

i) Be able to toggle between airports vs routes: too often I want to click on a city to upgrade but the routes over are selected. I've lost games because of this.
ii) When I click on a city, I can see its routes and then upgrade them + it's fleet.
iii) I can upgrade planes from the same window, rather than selecting it.
iv) When I select a plane, I can select through the rest of the fleet
v) when I select a plane, I can jump to either airport
vi) When I click on an airport, the routes within the country are different colour to those outside the country.
vii) Instead of just plane shapes, please include a number of the upgrade, it's not easy to tell the difference

[Goose]

Love these suggestions- also add

i) for the notifications a system like civ 5 where they appear in a column on the right and can then be dismissed with a right click or left there would be great

also want to stress how great the above suggestion would be to be able to upgrade planes from the route rather than going back and forth between the plane and route when upgrading multiple planes

[Kyuui]

I agree with just about all the above suggestions, and would like to add a couple more.

1. Color options/dark mode. the two tone blue and white may not be a great combo for those with visual issues. having a way to adjust that would be great.

2. Mouse interactions. Currently we can interact with countries with both left and right mouse button. Take the function off the left mouse button as we use that to move. I've lost a handful of games because I had to go scrolling around.

3 over crowded timers confliction. Right now we get pulled to an overcrowded airport, this gets harder to deal with if you have more than one pop up and has caused me to loose several games.

4. Overcrowding timers are WAY to short 5 seconds is not enough time to deal with the situation. Especially when its an airport with a lot of routes or one of a group in a small area (DC NYC PHL is a great example)

5. Scenario options. It would be nice if we could start some of them in different geographic areas or different cities, though this is something that can be address via custom scenarios

6. Game event persistence. One of the events in game upgrades all of your planes to level two due to the lack of capacity. The actual event functions fine, however it does not persist and any new routes you open start with a 20 seat plane.

7. Aircraft size vs route. Small planes shouldn't be doing transatlantic flights. Planes need to fit the route a bit better. Having a 20 seat plane flying Hanover to Berlin, makes sense. it does not make sense to have that same size plane fly from DC to London. A trade off here would be to increase the cost of the route by the amount of upgrades removed.

8. The longer flights need to earn more, much more. Income should scale to both aircraft size and route length, the longer the flight the more income.

Hopefully some of these make sense and can be looked into!