Hello airport CEO,
Happy new year! We're starting off 2019 with a series of stability improvements for Alpha 29 and have through the holidays been deploying a few updates to the experimental branch with important bug fixes and improvements based on your bug reports.
In excess of the bugs mentioned in the below change-log, we've included (re-implemented) an important update to the job task dispatchment system that mitigates several efficiency issues relating to how and when jobs are assigned.
The system does now not only account for time until a job starts (which it did earlier) but also:
- Tries to assign a job task its nearest suitable employee
- Tries to prioritize employees that are in the same secure area as the job task
This means that if you have a certain area far away, i.e. boarding desk or whatever, you should now be able to again mitigate late boarding start times by simply building a staff room close to those desks. The system will make sure that jobs are dispatched to airport staff close to those desks. Also means that janitors finally will clean stuff right next to them instead of roaming the entire airport.
We'll get more into the details of this system, why it was temporarily removed for Alpha 29 and now re-implemented, in Monday's development blog.
More important updates will be deployed for the experimental branch this week and consequently, when verified for their stability, transitioned over to the default branch as expected.
Release notes - Airport CEO - Version Alpha 29.4-4
Bug
- ACEO-8286] - Job tasks that are not time dependent gets randomly selected causing delays for janitor and service technician jobs
- ACEO-8492] - Baggage belts do not connect to the direction that you place them when another belt is adjacent
- ACEO-8638] - Bags get stuck on baggage bay after unloaded from service truck
- ACEO-8648] - Employee cannot leave secure zone after zone change
- ACEO-8770] - Baggage belt arrows going in the wrong direction
- ACEO-8777] - Conveyor belt on baggage bay snap to underground belts causing incorrect diversion behavior
- ACEO-8779] - Baggage gets stuck on belt truck on load
- ACEO-8809] - Mark object for deletion pays back money instantly even if objects is not demolished
- ACEO-8830] - Incorrect bug mitigation system can cause persons that do not correctly execute an activity after some time to be teleported to a random point in the airport
- ACEO-8944] - Employee UI card has wrong colors