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Airline Tycoon - Evolution Contents Welcome to Airline Tycoon... 1-Installation Installation of DirectX 5 6 6 2-The Characters Moving Around the Game Keyboard 7 7 8 3-The First Game Selecting Your Home Airport Selecting the First Mission Selecting a Player The First Day Your Office, the Most Important Control Centre of All The First Mission Planning Your First Orders Observing Departing Flights Eight more orders... What Next? 9 9 9 10 10 11 xx 11 12 15 16 4-Routes Expanding the Route Network Route Administration Information About Routes Ticket Prices Dropping Routes Passengers and Routes 17 17 18 18 19 20 21 5-Orders Order Data (Information) Planning Orders 22 22 23 6-Transporting Cargo 7-Filofax / Notebook The Flight Planner Setting up Flight Orders, Cargo Orders and Routes Notebook vs. Filofax 24 25 27 28 29 8-Branches Renting New Branches 30 30 3 Contents AIRLINE TYCOON - Evolution 9-Staff Advisors Pilots and Flight Personnel 31 31 33 10-AeroPlanes Plane Management Servicing Planes Equipping Planes 35 35 35 36 11-The Airport Airport Expansion / Office / Personnel Office / Telescope Plane Dealer / Duty-Free Shop / Bank Petrol Air Counter Workshop AirTravel and Last Minute Counters / Museum NASA Shop / Rick's Café / Newspaper Stand / Advertising Agency Safe&Secure ltd. / Design Office Thoughts are Free 40 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 48 12-Aircraft Constructor Guide to functions Internet functions 50 50 53 12-Status Bar Items 54 54 13-Statistics 14-Playing on a Network Starting a Network Game (Game Master) Taking Part in a Network Game (Player) Loading and Saving Network Games Chat Mode / Possibilities for Sabotage in a Network Game 55 57 57 58 59 59 15-Options 16-Troubleshooting 17-Credits Appendix & Notes 4 Plane Specifications 61 64 68 Welcome to Airline Tycoon Evolution ations on purchasing Airline Tycoon Evolution. We hope you will have many hours of fun with it on your computer. Airline Tycoon is an economic simulation that you should not take too seriously and that does not claim to be realistic. Our aim was to create a simulation that, most of all, is great fun and that you do not need to rack your brain over too much. This may sound like an easy job; however, if you think Airline Tycoon is a walkover, you are wrong! You need to keep a close eye on all details, choose orders carefully, plan routes correctly, employ staff, keep an eye on your shares, set up branches and lots more. And on top of all that you have to make a profit, if not be the best. Airline Tycoon is unique in many details. The game runs in real-time and, at the same time, it is organised in rounds. In the real-time part you have to be ready at 9 o'clock in the morning and you then have to manage your airline (hopefully successfully) until 6 o'clock in the evening. You finish work at 6 o'clock and can lean back in a comfortable armchair in front of the TV, and hope you did everything right so that you still own an airline the next morning. Of course, you can work as much as you want, since you are your own boss. Watch out, though - the competition is not sleeping but always snapping at your heels... Congratul 5 Chapter 1 Installation Insert the Airline Tycoon CD into your CD-ROM drive. The installation will start automatically, if the auto-run facility for Windows® is enabled, otherwise you will have to run the file setup.exe on the Airline Tycoon CD manually. Once Airline Tycoon is installed, you can run the game using the "Start" button, otherwise click on the "Install" button and follow the instructions on screen. If you have created a program group during installation, then you can run Airline Tycoon either by clicking on the shortcut on your Windows desktop, or by selecting it from the Start menu: Airline Tycoon. If you have not created a program group, then you can start Airline Tycoon by running the file at.exe in the installation folder (either on your hard disk or on the CD-ROM, depending on the type of installation). Installation of DirectX DirectX is a runtime environment developed by Microsoft for Windows games. Airline Tycoon cannot be played without DirectX 6.1 (or higher). During the installation the program checks whether you need to update or install DirectX. Should you be prompted to do so, we strongly recommend that you choose to install DirectX. Later versions of DirectX will not be overwritten. 6 The characters Chapter 2 Each of the four players in Airline Tycoon has their own features. These are important in enabling you to assign counters, offices and other elements to the four players and their airlines. Each player also has their own characteristics. These show in different strategies and actions used to win the game. However, none of the four players has a technical advantage that would make it easier to become an Airline Tycoon. Tip: It may be important which of the four players you select: just take over the player of your greatest adversary, then he will not be a threat to your success. Features Figure: Airline Name Abbr. Colour Sunshine Airways SA Blue Falcon Lines FL Green Phoenix Travel PT Red Honey Airlines HA Yellow Moving Around the Game Moving around the game is very intuitive in Airline Tycoon. To move a player at the airport, just click on the appropriate place on the ground. The player walks to the desired position with a single click and runs if you double-click. If you want to access a room, then click on the appropriate door at the airport. The player will enter the room as soon as he or she has reached the door. As soon as you move the mouse to the left or right edge of the screen the mouse cursor will change to an arrow, and you can scroll through the airport. If you click on the left mouse button at the same time, you will scroll even faster. Clicking on the right mouse button will bring the player back on the screen. No need to look for him! In the example you can recognise the office of Falcon Lines by the Logo beside the door and the very individual lighting 7 Chapter 2 The characters Moving around in rooms and using items is just as easy. As soon as you move the mouse over an interactive item, person or selection text, the cursor will be surrounded by a green line. Text will also be highlighted, as soon as you can select it. Keyboard In Airline Tycoon some functions can be accessed directly using the keyboard. This will make playing much easier when the game has reached an advanced stage. Tip: If a button is pressed twice, the player will run rather than walk! A O C D W E G H K B L M N 8 Player goes to Petrol Air Player goes to his Office Player goes to Rick's Café Player goes to the Duty-Free Shop Player goes to the advertising agency Player goes to the plane dealer Player goes to the Globe (filofax) Player goes to the cargo office Player goes to the newspaper stand Player goes to the Bank Player goes to the Last Minute counter Player goes to the museum Player goes to the Nasa-Shop (not available in every mission) P Player goes to the Personnel office R Player goes to the Route management board S Player checks the Score (telescope) T Player goes to the Air Travel counter U Player goes to Mr Uhrig (airport management) W Player goes to the Workshop Y Player goes to the Security Office X Player goes to the HiTech Design Shop Tab ( ) Player immediately quits to go home F1 Call up a tool tip F2 / Esc. Display options / Quit game F3 Load game F4 Save game Pause button Toggle pause on and off +/Speed up / slow down game Space bar The time count speeds up 20 times when the player runs. Pressing O and then the space bar means that the player is back in his office almost immediately. The first game Chapter 3 When you first start Airline Tycoon, the introduction will be shown, which you can exit at any time by pressing the ESC button or clicking anywhere on the screen. Afterwards, the main menu will be displayed. Before you boldly throw yourself into the first game, you should first choose your home airport. Tip: You only have to select your home airport once, at the beginning. Airline Tycoon stores all your settings. Selecting a Home airport In the main menu, click on the option Home airport. In the following menu you will find all the airports available in Airline Tycoon. By clicking on the symbols and you can browse through all the available airports. Choose the desired airport by clicking on it. In front of the currently selected airport you will see a . Click on OK to confirm your choice and return to the main menu. Selecting the First Mission In the main menu, click on the option "New Game". At the beginning you can only play the first mission, "A new job"; all other options are greyed out and cannot be selected. Click with the mouse on the option "A new job" and then on "Next" to choose the first mission. This will take you to the player selection. 9 Chapter 3 The first game Tip: You can also change the names of your adversaries. A very interesting choice would be your partner or the nice gentleman from the Inland Revenue (a so-called death match), or your favourite neighbour, the one who always mows his lawn at lunch-time... Selecting a Player In Airline Tycoon you can choose between four different airlines. It is a matter of taste which one you choose. As far as we know, neither the different airlines nor the players have any advantages or disadvantages over one another; however we do not want to exclude the possibility that they might... Click on an airline to select it. You can change the name of the player by clicking on the default name. You can type in a new name as soon as the green highlight is shown. After the selection, click on "Start". The game begins... The First Day In the first mission you will be accompanied by Belinda, your assistant. At the beginning Belinda will give you valuable hints and tips. When you do not want any more support from Belinda, just click on the space bar or the symbol at the bottom right-hand side. First you need to go to the office of the airport manager, Mr Uhrig, where all players have to report every morning. Mr Uhrig is responsible for the smooth running of the airport and behaves accordingly. Belinda On the first day Mr Uhrig will tell you how you can perform your mission. If you did not pay attention, you should visit him again, or give him a call. However you should not disturb him unnecessarily; Mr Uhrig is a very busy man. Tip: If Belinda talks too slowly for you, just click on the speech bubble. She will then just skip to the following text or hide behind the status bar. After the conference in the morning, all players go to their offices. 10 The first game Chapter 3 Your Office, the Most Important Control Centre of All At the beginning, your office is the most important control centre of your new company. Enjoy the peace, the tasteful interior, the beautiful suede, and the not yet dried-out plant in the corner, because soon you will no longer have the opportunity to look at the interior of your office... From your office you can look up and create flight plans, equip To select an option, just click on the appropriate area on the screen. ·Kerosene management ·Finish work ·Filofax ·Leave the office ·Equip aplanes ·Make call ·In-tray aeroplanes, manage the kerosene supply, make phone calls, read your post and, of course, decide when to finish work. The First Mission In your first missi ...