Dev Blog 145: Passport checkpoints and immigration, self check-in, segregating departure and arrival and more!

So it will be out tomorrow morning or the stuff you want to look out will be ready by morning?

Let it be decided by developers :wink: We waited 3 more days on previous devblog but it was worth it.

today is tomorrow

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Technically this is never correct.

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in that case, tomorrow is today?

It looks like tomorrow is not today yet.

Will ariving passengers will be able to use duty free shops?

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Guys, be patient. The devblogs are always in the late evenings. So today is still today. But if not then it’s just ok… So please stay on ground. We are all humans, so don’t expect that the game dev. are making progress 24/7.

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That’s the problem of this game. It’s always like “let’s finish that little piece” and then 8 hours passed away.

That’s more of “ I’m addicted to this game”

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Yes, as long as you make them available in the area where they wait for baggage claim.

I think I’ve written this comment a few 100 times but here we go again: Dev blogs take an insane amount of time to produce. We want to deliver great dev blogs that in detail instruct you of the changes we’ve implemented and how the development is progressing. We don’t want to publish dev blogs just because of the sake of it and we want to write cohesive stories that tell the full extent of a feature and not leave you in the end with a “maybe”, “perhaps” or “we’ll see”. If we’re 95% done with a feature and need to test the last stuff, or polish something a bit to get nice screens to show you, it’s 100 times worth to push the blog post forward rather than just releasing something unfinished because that will in turn generate a bunch of questions and lower the overall quality of the authored progression. Yes, delays suck but the bi-weekly setup with delays we have now is the best we can do, if you don’t want us switching to every third week.

If the constant delay is an issue we will have to switch to a model where we remove the concept of a punctual dev blog and instead release dev blogs when it’s suitable. Don’t get us wrong, we love writing them and it’s very important to share what we’re working on and get feedback from you all but we do not want to release low quality dev blogs just to meet deadlines, but rather do so when we have finished (ready for testing) features to share with you.

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Just my opinion, but it might be worth to switch to a non-scheduled dev blog model and then release them bi-weekly as you are now. This way you don’t really have a set time obligation to worry about and can push it a day or two if needed. Anyway, I think the current system is pretty good and I love the dev blogs… So keep up the great work!

I personally like it the way it is… Every other Wednesday or thereabouts… A delay of a day or 2 is obviously fine.

i suggest be fexible so dont have be on fixed days - you could easily switch around days if you are busy

People with high anxiety levels like me would prefer to have a fixed day, and of course it’s OK if is delayed a couple of days. Delays = good news.

While I don’t know what great story Olof will be writing this time, I can speak freely that the new Alpha is all about the indoor experience (terminals).

And since I’m doing most (all?) assets that are being used indoor, I can definitely tell you that I worked on some really cool stuff that people will get excited about :slight_smile:

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Can you use the walkalators indoor and outdoor, so that the pax can use it to get to their terminal from the parking spot faster?

Good question!

@Alexander would know :slight_smile:
I just create the assets, I don’t implement/code them :wink:

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I prefer any program update to any blog.
If you switch to daily devblogs, some people will get nervous when they’re not ready by noon.
Whatever comes, I’ll take it when it’s ready.

When comes the next update? :innocent:

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Hoping for single walkalator and escalators. Not to force one-way traffic, but instead to have more flexibility in design, improve flow and separate flow. For example, two down escalators and one up. Or a walkalator in the main flow direction (like towards gates or towards baggage, and normal walk corridor in the other direction. Or up escalator on the left, stairs in the middle, down on the right.

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I guess, the answer might be a soft ‘We are telling you, we are still there working on X’ on a regular base - every week or two weeks. Just to say ‘Hi’ to the community and telling them you are alive and engaged with problems and others covering milestones out-of-schedule if you really accomplish something epic. This might be best in my book. Blogs for the sake of writing them is … unnecessary. We already know you do a great job.