[closed] FsPassengers for FSX official note and Blog !

[Ali310]

Urthgental wrote:
* Each career comes with different starting paramters
* Flight type can not be decided before each flight
* Information about the progress of each career required (same as "airliner career" pilot ranks)

But most important, it would require some background information associated with flights. (Flying "Air force One" is similar to
missions). I talked about this a few times here, but there there was hardly any feedback.

So, from my understanding to implement your ideas about the "VIP Service" are great but would extend the current concept
heavily. I assume Dan will keep the more generic approach and let the user build the careers in his imagination...

yeah I mean the parameters could be further decided upon by feedback from the people who bother with this thread (most of the forum
haha). but the general idea would be to gain reputation (or lose it) by flying VIPs to locations as well as you can. you choose the routes,
aircraft and whatever like any normal flight, but the plane has to be pretty full, and you have to charge for VIP seats, where you choose the
price based on how good you think you are - similar to normal flights, but your reputation is easily affected by the picky celebs (eg +1% or -
1.5%). the thing is that if you charge high VIP-class prices on normal flights, you'll barely get any passengers. whereas in this case there'll
be roughly 75% of the plane's capacity in use or something (a celeb probably wouldn't travel alone, and a flight for one person wouldn't be
so great). the only thing is you'll start out with a very low rep, and you'll probably only be getting paid peanuts (but the lower you charge and
the better you fly, the more the VIPs think of you and recommend you - meaning higher reputation +2.5% a flight maximum, and you could
earn loads just from a single flight. i'm not sure how to use scenarios/missions, and I'm not sure they'd work for this kind of thing anyway?

feedback from Dan/anyone would be appreciated. as I've said, the parameters could be completely discussed and changed by what
everyone else thinks. I know a lot of what I said above seems very similar to normal flights, but the difference is you have an excuse to
charge loads for only a handful of passengers, and you can get a lot of money and very high reputation quickly - whilst running the risk of
losing reputation. also, think of running a normal airline on fsp, with the ability to do a VIP flight every now and then to boost reputation and
bank balance?

forgot to mention, there could be a combination of VIP/humanitarian, where politicians get flown out to developing countries, or to countries for meetings etc (so not just air force one). and celebrities also fly to developing countries for charities (eg sport relief and comic relief in the UK). the names would be random, or "A. Politician", "A. Musician", "A. Bodyguard", "A. Entourage" etc



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