Runway Maintenance

[pbernard1216]

Hi all...I think I might have encountered a bug or maybe I don't quite understand a mechanic. Was hoping someone could help me.

Started a new game and after about 60 days in I noticed my 1 and only runway was down to around a 20% maintenance level. When I saw that it wasn't getting repaired, I waited until I had no flights (which conveniently was during the usual maintenance window) and hit the repair now button. Now every night during the maintenance window, my workers go and work on the runway but every time it hits 100% maintenance level, it starts back over at 0% and charges me $150k maintenance fee.

Has anyone else experienced this?

[feelseungi]

You have the exectly same problem that I have. My workers repaired same runway 3 successive nights and I lose $450k.

[pbernard1216]

Glad I'm not the only one at least. I'm gonna try and demolish it and build a new one since it relatively costs the same....

[LVGameDev]

Can we get saves from you both on this one please? We'll have to take a look to be sure, and to find & fix it, but this does unfortunately sound like a bug based on your description.

We'll try to reproduce it from scratch too, but if you don't mind sending over your saves we'd appreciate it as it'll save us time in tracking it down.

Hope you're enjoying & having fun so far, even despite some remaining rough edges -- we'll definitely get it looked at and a fix out as soon as we can. And thank you, for making SimAirport part of your holiday, and for helping us to improve the game -- we appreciate it very much! =)

[Aminushki]

I am experiencing this bug now aswell, the longer I play one map the more bugs I experience.

[Aminushki]

Originally posted by feelseungi:

You have the exectly same problem that I have. My workers repaired same runway 3 successive nights and I lose $450k.

Originally posted by pbernard1216:

Glad I'm not the only one at least. I'm gonna try and demolish it and build a new one since it relatively costs the same....

Did u guys happen to download a modded Airline/Aircraft that had the same name as a previously downloaded one?

[LVGameDev]

Rob and I both searched for this bug for about 6 hours yesterday -- and we did eventually find it, and a fix went up for it last night!

It turned out to be some old "save-fixing" code that was implemented in April 2017 which had a a very unexpected impact on the Supply Piles for runway repair. It does not appear that modded files have anything to do with it, and we did test that pretty thoroughly to make sure, but as far as we can tell it wasn't related to the issue.

We're hopeful that this was the only bug, but if you see anything else strange with upkeep please let us know. On an affected save, you may need to let your workers "use up" all the piles that had been ordered erroneously (may take a few game days), or you can alternatively try to demolish & re-build the runway to avoid that. Hopefully won't see the issue happen again after that, though!

=)

[ohboy710]

Yes the runway maintenance design is horrible. Both of my runways are under maintenance at the same time. Why can't you set those different? How do you even schedule maintenance if you have flights 24/7? You should be able to set a specific time per runway that you want maintenance to occur.

[chick10000]

Originally posted by ohboy710:

Yes the runway maintenance design is horrible. Both of my runways are under maintenance at the same time. Why can't you set those different? How do you even schedule maintenance if you have flights 24/7? You should be able to set a specific time per runway that you want maintenance to occur.

Most of the time they both do not need maintenance at the same time. Something to consider and not sure if this is your setup. A plane will not cross a runway if it is under maintenance. so make sure your taxiways go around the runways even at the top and bottom of the runway. Second if your runways cross each other/touch when one runway is under maintenance they are both shut down. basically because there are workers on the runway and they can be working on the intersection so for safety they are both shut down