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imported>REA17S: Adding link to French Quick Start Guide

2019-05-30T01:25:43Z

Adding link to French Quick Start Guide

imported>REA17S: Updating link to forums

2019-05-30T01:16:38Z

Updating link to forums

imported>1993matias: /* Setting up your first route */ Made the wall of text less like a wall.

2019-04-24T14:54:01Z

Setting up your first route: Made the wall of text less like a wall.

imported>1993matias: Modified the text a bit based on the confirmation email (who knew that email was based on this text!)

2019-04-22T16:35:47Z

Modified the text a bit based on the confirmation email (who knew that email was based on this text!)

imported>1993matias: Updated it to reflect game changes through the years.

2013-01-27T10:30:25Z

Updated it to reflect game changes through the years.

imported>Pseudoswede: /* Setting up your first route */

2009-10-06T00:13:44Z

Setting up your first route

imported>Pseudoswede: /* Login */

2009-10-06T00:12:35Z

imported>Pseudoswede at 11:57, 24 March 2009

2009-03-24T11:57:43Z

imported>Mozero: Quick Start Guide moved to Buy Airccraft

2009-01-15T14:52:54Z

Quick Start Guide moved to Buy Airccraft

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	== Registering ==		== Registering ==

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 == Setting up your first route ==
 Routes are the way you earn money. Some routes are more profitable than others, but as a rule of thumb more passengers equals more money. Before we decide on an airport to fly to, we need to know how far your starting aircraft can fly. Click on Aircraft -> View Aircraft -> the magnifying glass at the right of the aircraft on the list. The range is listed on the right side. Now you can find a suitable destination airport, here we will use the gate search ('Operations' -> 'Gate Search'). Choose an airport within the range of the aircraft and rent a gate (you can use OCP to rent a gate without having to open a new page). <br />

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 Follow this tutorial on YouTube: click here or continue reading
-Routes are the way you earn money. Some routes are more profitable than others, but as a rule of thumb more passengers equals more money. Before we decide on an airport to fly to, we need to know how far your starting aircraft can fly. Click on Aircraft -> View Aircraft -> the magnifying glass at the right of the aircraft on the list. The range is listed on the right side. Now you can find a suitable destination airport, here we will use the gate search ('Operations' -> 'Gate Search'). Choose an airport within the range of the aircraft and rent a gate (you can use OCP to rent a gate without having to open a new page).
+Routes are the way you earn money. Some routes are more profitable than others, but as a rule of thumb more passengers equals more money. Before we decide on an airport to fly to, we need to know how far your starting aircraft can fly. Click on Aircraft -> View Aircraft -> the magnifying glass at the right of the aircraft on the list. The range is listed on the right side. Now you can find a suitable destination airport, here we will use the gate search ('Operations' -> 'Gate Search'). Choose an airport within the range of the aircraft and rent a gate (you can use OCP to rent a gate without having to open a new page). <br />
-When you have rented a gate at the airport (don't rent a gate at your base, you already have gates there), go to Operations -> Create Route. Select the departure airport, these can only be your bases (or alliance members bases). Then select the arrival airport, this will be the airport you rented a gate at. Remember, each gate has 10 slots, allowing up to 10 flights per day.
+When you have rented a gate at the airport (don't rent a gate at your base, you already have gates there), go to Operations -> Create Route. Select the departure airport, these can only be your bases (or alliance members bases). Then select the arrival airport, this will be the airport you rented a gate at. Remember, each gate has 10 slots, allowing up to 10 flights per day.<br />
-You are now presented with the competition (if any) on the route. Click on 'Continue to Timetabling'.
+You are now presented with the competition (if any) on the route. Click on 'Continue to Timetabling'.<br />
-Select an aircraft. If there are no aircraft on the list, you don't have any aircraft with enough range/free hours to fly the route. Try another pair of airports closer to each other.
+Select an aircraft. If there are no aircraft on the list, you don't have any aircraft with enough range/free hours to fly the route. Try another pair of airports closer to each other.<br />
-On the next screen select a price and a frequency. Optimal frequency is 0.5 (one-way), but it is generally recommended to fly with a frequency of 1 (round-trip). Remember, you can select whatever frequency you want here. Change the price to adjust your loadfactor. High price = low loadfactor; low price = high loadfactor. Keep the loadfactor at 100% with the highest price possible, this gives the highest profit.
+On the next screen select a price and a frequency. Optimal frequency is 0.5 (one-way), but it is generally recommended to fly with a frequency of 1 (round-trip). Remember, you can select whatever frequency you want here. Change the price to adjust your loadfactor. High price = low loadfactor; low price = high loadfactor. Keep the loadfactor at 100% with the highest price possible, this gives the highest profit.<br />
-When you are satisfied with the profit, click on 'Create Route'. You can add a flight number, but that is optional.
+When you are satisfied with the profit, click on 'Create Route'. You can add a flight number, but that is optional.<br />
-Congratulations, you have now created your first route! Repeat these steps until you can't fly more routes with your aircraft.
+Congratulations, you have now created your first route! Repeat these steps until you can't fly more routes with your aircraft.<br />
 == Final Note ==

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 Once you login for the first time you will be brought to the World Selection page. On the top of the page, it tells you how many tokens you have (you start out with 40). You will notice a wide selection of worlds you can join.  Pick your favourite one and click "Join World".  You will be brought to a screen where you have the following information to fill in:
-''Airline Name''; This should not be anything sinister or vulgar, names are checked so use something imaginative!
+''Airline Name''; This should not be anything sinister or vulgar, names are checked so use something imaginative! Real world airline names are not allowed due to copyright reasons, so be creative!
-''Airline Code''; This can be in IATA format (eg. EI) or ICAO (eg. EIN). The standard in Airline Mogul is to use the ICAO or 3 letter code format.
+''Airline Code''; This can be in IATA format (eg. EI) or ICAO (eg. EIN). The most common type in Airline Mogul is the ICAO or 3 letter code format.
 ''Operations Airport''; Selecting this has a two fold effect. Firstly it gives you 1 gate (which is 10 slots) at the airport of choice (some worlds offer more gates), but also it gives you a restriction to basing your airline operations on the continent on which that airport is located. You can only open up new bases there, although most worlds does allow for foreign bases on other continents.
 == Setting up your first route ==
-In order to create your first route, find an airport you would like to fly to - make sure your aircraft has enough range (Click on 'Aircraft' -> 'View Aircraft' -> the magnifying glass at the right of the aircraft on the list. The range is listed on the right side).
+Follow this tutorial on YouTube: click here or continue reading
-Find airports by going to 'Operations' -> 'Rent Gates' and browse through all the gates. You could also use the gate search feature; 'Operations' -> 'Gate Search'.
-When you have rented a gate at the airport (don't rent a gate at your base, you already have gates there), go to 'Operations' -> 'Create Route'. Select the departure airport, these can only be your bases (or alliance members bases). Then select the arrival airport, this will be the airport you rented a gate at. Remember, each gate has 10 slots, allowing up to 10 flights.
+Routes are the way you earn money. Some routes are more profitable than others, but as a rule of thumb more passengers equals more money. Before we decide on an airport to fly to, we need to know how far your starting aircraft can fly. Click on Aircraft -> View Aircraft -> the magnifying glass at the right of the aircraft on the list. The range is listed on the right side. Now you can find a suitable destination airport, here we will use the gate search ('Operations' -> 'Gate Search'). Choose an airport within the range of the aircraft and rent a gate (you can use OCP to rent a gate without having to open a new page).
 You are now presented with the competition (if any) on the route. Click on 'Continue to Timetabling'.
 Select an aircraft. If there are no aircraft on the list, you don't have any aircraft with enough range/free hours to fly the route. Try another pair of airports closer to each other.
+On the next screen select a price and a frequency. Optimal frequency is 0.5 (one-way), but it is generally recommended to fly with a frequency of 1 (round-trip). Remember, you can select whatever frequency you want here. Change the price to adjust your loadfactor. High price = low loadfactor; low price = high loadfactor. Keep the loadfactor at 100% with the highest price possible, this gives the highest profit.
 When you are satisfied with the profit, click on 'Create Route'. You can add a flight number, but that is optional.
-Congratulations, you have now created your first route! Repeat the steps until you can't fly more routes with your aircraft.
+Congratulations, you have now created your first route! Repeat these steps until you can't fly more routes with your aircraft.
 == Final Note ==

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 Once you have registered for the game you should receive a confirmation email. Click on the activation link on the email to activate your account, then visit the login page and put in your email address along with your password to login. If you forget your password at any time use the forgot password function available there.
+If you can't log in or activate your account, you can contact staff on [[Image:Staff.gif]] from your registered email. Let our staff know, they can activate the account for you.
 Once you login for the first time you will be brought to the World Selection page. On the top of the page, it tells you how many tokens you have (you start out with 40). You will notice a wide selection of worlds you can join.  Pick your favourite one and click "Join World".  You will be brought to a screen where you have the following information to fill in:
 ''Airline Name''; This should not be anything sinister or vulgar, names are checked so use something imaginative!
-''Airline Code''; This can be in IATA format (eg. EI) or ICAO (eg. EIN). The standard in Airline Mogul is to use the ICAO or 3 letter code format. It is recommended that users try using 3 alphanumeric codes because most of the letter codes are already in use.
+''Airline Code''; This can be in IATA format (eg. EI) or ICAO (eg. EIN). The standard in Airline Mogul is to use the ICAO or 3 letter code format.
-''Operations Airport''; Selecting this has a two fold effect. Firstly it gives you 1 gate (and 10 slots) at the airport of choice, but also it gives you a restriction to basing your airline operations on the continent on which that airport is located. You can only open up new bases there.
+''Operations Airport''; Selecting this has a two fold effect. Firstly it gives you 1 gate (which is 10 slots) at the airport of choice (some worlds offer more gates), but also it gives you a restriction to basing your airline operations on the continent on which that airport is located. You can only open up new bases there, although most worlds does allow for foreign bases on other continents.
 == Setting up your first route ==
-When you enter that world you will be taken back to the homepage. This is very similar to the homepage when you were logged out, but there is a new navigation bar at the top. From here you need to purchase a gate at your destination airport. (You already have a gate at your base). The way routes work in Airline Mogul is that each person buys a gate at both their departure and arrival airport. Each gate gives you 10 slots which can be used for 10 flights. Go to ''Gates'', ''Rent Gate'' and navigate from there to either ''countries'', ''continents'' or ''search''.<br /><br />
+In order to create your first route, find an airport you would like to fly to - make sure your aircraft has enough range (Click on 'Aircraft' -> 'View Aircraft' -> the magnifying glass at the right of the aircraft on the list. The range is listed on the right side).
-When you have found the airport you want, rent 1 gate from it by clicking [[Glossary#OCP|OCP]] (Remember one gate will give you 10 slots) and then continue to ''Routes'', ''[[Create Route]]''. Here you select your departure and arrival [http://i39.tinypic.com/302szuo.png|right|caption] airports. (Departure airports can only be a base or a hub) Select both of the airports and press ''Search Airports''. ''Continue to Timetabling'' and select an aircraft, from here you can then decide on the number of flights per day (Frequency) and the ticket price. Try to mix and match different frequencies and ticket prices to optimize your return. (Remember *.5 = One way)<br /><br />
+Find airports by going to 'Operations' -> 'Rent Gates' and browse through all the gates. You could also use the gate search feature; 'Operations' -> 'Gate Search'.
-But when you rent your first gate, please make notice to the range of your aircraft, which can satisfy the distance of your route.<br /><br />
+When you have rented a gate at the airport (don't rent a gate at your base, you already have gates there), go to 'Operations' -> 'Create Route'. Select the departure airport, these can only be your bases (or alliance members bases). Then select the arrival airport, this will be the airport you rented a gate at. Remember, each gate has 10 slots, allowing up to 10 flights.
-Create the route and that's it! You should be earning your first revenues when the day changes every hour.
+You are now presented with the competition (if any) on the route. Click on 'Continue to Timetabling'.
 == Final Note ==

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 Once you have registered for the game you should receive a confirmation email. Click on the activation link on the email to activate your account, then visit the login page and put in your email address along with your password to login. If you forget your password at any time use the forgot password function available there.
-If you have not received an activation email, you should still be able to log in using the email and password you provided during registration. However, unactivated accounts could be deleted, so please email staff [at] airlinemogul [dot] com from your registered email and let our staff know, so we could activate the account for you.
+If you have not received an activation email, you should still be able to log in using the email and password you provided during registration. However, unactivated accounts could be deleted, so please e-mail [[Image:Staff.gif]] from your registered email and let our staff know, so they can activate the account for you.
 Once you login for the first time you will be brought to the World Selection page. On the top of the page, it tells you how many tokens you have (you start out with 40). You will notice a wide selection of worlds you can join.  Pick your favourite one and click "Join World".  You will be brought to a screen where you have the following information to fill in:

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−	#~~REDIRECT~~ [[~~Buy Airccraft~~]]	+	== Registering ==
		+
		+	To register simply go to [http://www.airlinemogul.com/airlinemogul/register.php AM Register] and fill out the form, don't leave anything blank. The username cannot have any characters such as @ in it, so you may have problems registering if you try to use these.
		+
		+	== Login ==
		+
		+	Once you have registered for the game you should receive a confirmation email. Click on the activation link on the email to activate your account, then visit the login page and put in your email address along with your password to login. If you forget your password at any time use the forgot password function available there.
		+
		+	If you have not received an activation email, you should still be able to log in using the email and password you provided during registration. However, unactivated accounts could be deleted, so please email staff [at] airlinemogul [dot] com from your registered email and let our staff know, so we could activate the account for you.
		+
		+	Once you login for the first time you will be brought to the World Selection page. On the top of the page, it tells you how many tokens you have (you start out with 40). You will notice a wide selection of worlds you can join. Pick your favourite one and click "Join World". You will be brought to a screen where you have the following information to fill in:
		+	''Airline Name''; This should not be anything sinister or vulgar, names are checked so use something imaginative!
		+	''Airline Code''; This can be in IATA format (eg. EI) or ICAO (eg. EIN). The standard in Airline Mogul is to use the ICAO or 3 letter code format. It is recommended that users try using 3 alphanumeric codes because most of the letter codes are already in use.
		+	''Operations Airport''; Selecting this has a two fold effect. Firstly it gives you 1 gate (and 10 slots) at the airport of choice, but also it gives you a restriction to basing your airline operations on the continent on which that airport is located. You can only open up new bases there.
		+
		+	== Setting up your first route ==
		+
		+	When you enter that world you will be taken back to the homepage. This is very similar to the homepage when you were logged out, but there is a new navigation bar at the top. From here you need to purchase a gate at your destination airport. (You already have a gate at your base). The way routes work in Airline Mogul is that each person buys a gate at both their departure and arrival airport. Each gate gives you 10 slots which can be used for 10 flights. Go to ''Gates'', ''Rent Gate'' and navigate from there to either ''countries'', ''continents'' or ''search''.<br /><br />
		+	When you have found the airport you want, rent 1 gate from it by clicking [[Glossary#OCP\|OCP]] (Remember one gate will give you 10 slots) and then continue to ''Routes'', ''[[Create Route]]''. Here you select your departure and arrival [[http://i39.tinypic.com/302szuo.png\|right\|caption]]airports. (Departure airports can only be a base or a hub) Select both of the airports and press ''Search Airports''. ''Continue to Timetabling'' and select an aircraft, from here you can then decide on the number of flights per day (Frequency) and the ticket price. Try to mix and match different frequencies and ticket prices to optimize your return. (Remember *.5 = One way)<br /><br />
		+	But when you rent your first gate, please make notice to the range of your aircraft, which can satisfy the distance of your route.<br /><br />
		+	Create the route and that's it! You should be earning your first revenues when the day changes every hour.
		+
		+	== Final Note ==
		+
		+	When the game reaches the end of every month, your bills for fuel and gates are totaled and charged to your account, so on the 1st day of the month your cash may drop very low. If you had planned to order anything make sure you hold onto enough cash to do so. Also remember that, unlike in real-life, Airline Mogul months only have 24 days (one day per real-time hour). You can find the time scale by searching the word [[Time]].
		+
		+	Enjoy the game and if you want, drop into the forums to say hello.