Saying Hi and a simple question...

[DareDevil]

Hello All,

I have recently (a month ago) discovered FSX and even more recently FS Passengers, after having seen some discussions on a few FSX Forums. I believe
FS Passengers give a true purpose, which was completely missing in FSX.

My virtual company is going well, and today I reached C3 level. I had already enough flying hours, but not enough points, due to a night collision on
the ground with another aircraft (after that, I don't have much trust in AGC people anymore...).

My question is about the crash: FS Passengers decided to award me -400 points (or something like that), which I think is right, but the odd thing was
the message about repairing the aircraft: I do not remember exactly the text but it was something about this line "The aircraft is a complete wreck,
you should buy a new one etc etc but if you want to repair it, the cost will be xxx USD".

The funny thing is that the cost for repairing the aircraft (a trusty Cessna 172) was minimal (below 5000 USD) so of course I decided to repair it,
but I couldn't understand the logic of the message: saying that the aircraft is a wreck and suggesting to dump it but at the same time, stating that
with a minimal investment the aircraft can be repaired...

BTW, any suggestion for the next aircraft to buy (C3) ?

Thanks in advance,

DareDevil

[gbapache]

Welcome to the fourum
By using the insurance to repair your busted-up, fixed-wing, ball of aluminum your insurance rate will go up. With higher rates you make
less money on each flight. To keep costs down in the beginning try buying used planes so that next time you use your plane for bumper
cars you can sell it without taking too big of a hit.

[DareDevil]

Thanks for the welcome and the reply. Yes, I was aware of the two ways of handling mishaps, but my question was different, it was about the odd nature
of the message.

DareDevil

[SkyAirWorld]

Unfortunately the program can not distinguish differences in some conditions (without adding hours upon hours of coding even then still nothing
guarenteed)


Its a set message for when aircraft reach a certian point.

[DareDevil]

SkyAirWorld wrote:
Unfortunately the program can not distinguish differences in some conditions (without adding hours upon hours of coding even then still nothing
guarenteed)

Thanks for the answer. Yes, it makes sense. Weird however, I would say it should take a couple of extra lines of code to handle that, something like:

delta=1-(aircraft_value-cost_of_repair)/aircraft_value; // so range is between 0.0-1.0

if (delta <= 0.25) then
display( "It is definitively worth fixing." ); // case 1
if (delta >0.25 && delta <= 0.5) then
display ( "You can still do it, but the damage is severe." );// case 2
if (delta > 0.5 && delta <= 0.75) then
display ( "Don't do it, unless you have an alternative" );// case 3
if (delta > 0.75) then
display( "It is a total wreck, not worth fixing." ); // case 4

It would also be interesting for all cases to increase proportionally the possibility of mechanical failures, as the airframe has been damaged. I do not
know whether this is modeled, but I suppose it could be interesting.

Just an idea,

DareDevil