Any guides out there on following even the tutorial?

[methos_723]

I am on my THIRD try to just follow the tutorial and I cannot get it to progress. Some criteria is not met on multiple items and they checklist wont check. I have run plenty of time to make sure everything is built and give it time to recognize that. I have tried moving and changing things... but I don't know whats wrong.

Examples:
1) Place a vehicle depot: Ok seems easy... and done. But no. it is not recognized.
2) connect a service road to your aircraft stands: Also does not get recognized.
3) No one will go thru my doors... I have to put holes in the wall or they say there is no path.
4) passengers will get off my planes but will not get ON my planes... I have connected boarding desks and PLENTY of passenger service agents.

The tutorial does not seem to be very good... it does not give any of the criteria you have to meet for each step. I am stuck and lost.

[mschol]

share a save or some screenshots indeed so we can investigate/give tips

[Madforce2k]

Originally posted by Darkrex NL:

dont know why you are having so much trouble with a game thats pretty easy and has a decent tutorial.try to add some screenshots so that i can help you

Having played this game before a year ago, and recently starting a new playthrough, the Tutorial is not good at checking off completed tasks -- at all. Thankfully, can recognize that I've done the thing needed and carry on. Don't need to be condescending to OP.

[Madforce2k]

Originally posted by Darkrex NL:

Originally posted by Madforce2k:

Having played this game before a year ago, and recently starting a new playthrough, the Tutorial is not good at checking off completed tasks -- at all. Thankfully, can recognize that I've done the thing needed and carry on. Don't need to be condescending to OP.

im sorry, did i hurt your feelings with stating my opinion? im just saying how it is, i find it easy and to be followed easy.

Nah, you didn't hurt my feelings.

Your comment wasn't helpful in the slightest, just condescending to the OP. You could just move on. The tutorial has issue, especially if you're not already familiar with the underlying game. Having some familiarity, playing through EA, one can figure it out typically -- but there were still many steps that would not complete despite doing what was asked. And some of those were as simple as 'build a thing' and not getting credit.

[Ezzler]

Worst tutorial ever. Same thing. 3 attempts. progress minimal. Should I wait 60 days for a plane to land or just refund the game?

[Fluff Bunny]

Hahaha... I restarted tutorial a couple of times before learning you could rotate objects with R button. You'd think it would make some simple mention of that... I had to restart because I thought I'd places things wrong and couldn't fit things in.

That and underground roads are important mentions since taxiways and service roads cant cross. I didn't realize that fuel trucks and planes cant cross the same ground to begin with so kept painting myself into a corner with that problem.

Then there are things like, if you use a doorway to get to a stand passengers get stuck... You have to punch holes in the wall to allow deboarding... Seems a bug to me, but passengers get stuck if you use doors. I wish tutorial explained that you had to knock the wall down instead... Lol.


Then I restarted twice because couldn't get remote stands to work. Each time plane just hangs on baggage stage in stand for days. Baggage works for non remote.

Third time, still couldn't get remote stand to work. But at least I figured that dismissing the plane moves to next step in tutorial. I assume remote stands are bugged and abandoned and devs forgot to take them out of the tutorial.

There really needs to be a tutorial to teach all the workarounds for all the bugs in the game. 🤣

[ajax_post]

[quote=Fluff Bunny;3048356660222231232... I assume remote stands are bugged and abandoned and devs forgot to take them out of the tutorial.

There really needs to be a tutorial to teach all the workarounds for all the bugs in the game. 🤣 [/quote]
Remote stands do work but you're right, the tutorial doesn't make it clear exactly how.

As a complete newbie to the game I have also struggled with the tutorial - it seems quite good at telling you what you need to use but not necessarily how.

My favourite example is baggage. the conveyor belt step shows belts going underground but at this point you probably haven't researched the tech to actually build underground!

If you look at the small illustrations carefully enough they do usually give you enough clues on how to connect all the bits together but if you make a mistake, not all those illustrations are included on the tutorial page of the main dashboard. It would be very helpful if those pages included all the detailed steps in full, so you can go back and review what might have gone wrong.

Anyway, I appear to have successfully navigated the tutorial and have a fully working (but badly designed!) airport so you may find my Lets Play series helpful - it's not a proper tutorial series but might help clarify some of the confusion ... https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfCB6ktiHMqQyk2oZFQjdwV_IDfM6jq-G

[Memento Moriarty]

The tutorial is definitely pretty thin. You REALLY have to pay attention to the images and read every word just to have a chance. I remember it took me 30 minutes of experimenting before I could get the vehicle checkpoint to work because it was not obvious that it has to be service road on one side and public on the other (because they never explain icons).

Regarding the doors... if you are building a wall and dropping a door in it, keep in mind that walls will delete secure zones, so you may have to rezone underneath your door.

[ajax_post]

Originally posted by Abecedarius:

Regarding the doors... if you are building a wall and dropping a door in it, keep in mind that walls will delete secure zones, so you may have to rezone underneath your door.

In my (limited) experience pretty much everything deletes the secure zone assignment!

If you delete (or move?) anything in a secure zone always check that wherever you removed it from is still marked as secure.