Airport CEO news & patch notes

Hello airport CEOs! First off, thank you so much for all of the wonderful feedback on last week's major release! It's fantastic to see that the work we put into this game is still so highly appreciated to this date. As a response to that major release we are today back with Airport CEO 1.1-1, fixing some of the most widely reported issues in relation specifically to the new helicopter feature. Here's the patch notes for today's update:

Release notes - 1.1-1

Improvement

• MERC-464: Helicopter flights now differentiated using separate colors in the flight planner panel

Bug

• MERC-10: Vehicle purchase tutorial step contains image references to old UI
• MERC-299: Medium helipad panel incorrectly show option of ability to upgrade to jet bridge
• MERC-462: Medium helipads R&D project can be researched ahead of the commercial license R&D project
• MERC-470: Durability modifier is not shown when up- or downgrading medium and large stands

As mentioned before, we are continuing to monitor issues as they are reported and will most likely be back with additional stabilization updates over the coming months. // Alexander, Fredrik & Olof - Apog Labs

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/30075207/f578a918dcb01d3d00d2a7157ceec43a5395a4a7.png Innovative rotor configurations, sleek cockpit designs, and formidable thrust! These are just a handful of features that define the helicopters in Airport CEO, a new type of vessel that can now traffic your airport! Featuring iconic models like the Bell 206 and the Boeing CH-47 Chinook in a passenger configuration, the Airport CEO Helicopters DLC showcases a quintet of distinct helicopter models that have played a pivotal role in aviation. This DLC also enables you to operate a new type of airport: Helicopters only! Of course, a hybrid configuration is also supported per your airport’s requirements. New features:

• Five new helicopters
• Two new airlines
• The small helipad
• The medium helipad
• Helicopter only airport operations
• Helicopter research projects
• Helicopter incidents

As a small celebration of the newly arrived choppers, we put together a small trailer showing them from their best angles... Read more about the Airport CEO: Helicopters DLC here!

Hej hej, airport CEO! Today we are happy to announce Airport CEO 1.1-0, a new major content update to Airport CEO primarily featuring the new Airport CEO: Helicopters DLC! Part of 1.1-0 are also a subset of other small changes and improvements, some of which already shipped with version 1.0-46 including a major game engine upgrade. And yes, with 1.1 there's finally some proper new Airport CEO content available for those who wish and while the work and development of Atmosfar continues in a mostly quiet state, we have during our free time and in-between sprints been working on realizing something of a personal dream of ours: Implementing helicopters in Airport CEO! You can read more about them here, but now it's time to check out the patch notes below:

Release notes - 1.1-0

New feature

• MERC-3: Small helicopter pad
• MERC-4: Medium helicopter pad
• MERC-5: New helicopter: Bell 206
• MERC-6: New helicopter: Robinson R44
• MERC-7: New helicopter: Boeing CH-47 Chinook
• MERC-8: New helicopter: Sikorsky S-92
• MERC-9: New helicopter: Eurocopter AS350
• MERC-13: R&D project: Small helicopters
• MERC-14: R&D project: Medium helicopters
• MERC-15: Helicopter flying simulation
• MERC-16: Helicopter turnaround simulation
• MERC-17: Helicopter incidents
• MERC-18: New airline: HeliJet
• MERC-19: New airline: BladeLift
• MERC-20: Helicopter flight planning
• MERC-21: Helicopter flight generation
• MERC-29: Helicopter UI icons
• MERC-30: Helicopter flight auto-planning
• MERC-56: Helicopter landing particle effect
• MERC-89: Helicopter sound effects

Improvement

• MERC-221: Curved connection lines
• MERC-240: Almost any object can now be quickly copied by hovering over it with the mouse pointer and pressing "C"

It's likely that we'll be back in a few days with an additional update stabilizing the Helicopters DLC, keep a look out here and we'll do the same! // Alexander, Fredrik & Olof - Apog Labs

Hello, airport CEO! It's time for another small maintenance update. Well, while it may be small in content it actually boasts a significant underlying change with a significant upgrade to the game's engine version. There's also a few other small but important changes that server to continue the stability and viability of Airport CEO going forward. Check out the changes below:

Release notes - 1.0-46

Improvement

• MERC-2: Upgraded engine version to Unity 2019.4.40f1

New feature

• MERC-12: Support for Epic Games achievements
• MERC-22: Migrated bug reporting tool to new Jira instance
• MERC-31: Almost any object can now be instantly copied using CTRL + C while hovering on it with the mouse pointer

That's it for now, thanks for reading and being an airport CEO! // Alexander, Fredrik & Olof - Apog Labs

https://res.cloudinary.com/brandpad/image/upload/c_scale,dpr_auto,f_auto,w_3072/v1676034634/19852/atmosfar-splash-screen-logo-low-quality "Uncover the fate of humanity’s final outpost as you survive and explore a thrilling world of floating islands and soaring beasts. Brave the skies on your own or assemble a squadron of your friends as you scavenge scrap to engineer and upgrade flying vessels while bringing your airbase along for the journey." Today we're extremely excited to finally be revealing Atmosfar, the next Apog Labs title and a dream and vision of ours for roughly the past year and a half. Atmosfar is a sky-high odyssey set on an alien planet of floating islands explored by flying crafts and a mobile airbase as you uncover the fate of your collapsed colony. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1798230/ATMOSFAR/ First, head over to the Atmosfar website to orient yourself. Secondly, if you haven't check out the trailer yet, you should do so immediately here: We're currently in the process of launching all platforms where you'll be able to follow the development progress and it might take some time to get everything up and running; please bear with us and keep the blue side up! // Apog Labs

Hey hey hey, airport CEO! Long time no see but we are back with the tiniest update as of yet, Airport CEO 1.0-45, that addresses an important issue with the achievement trigger system that has affected a small number of users. This update will ensure that achievements such as the Wilhelm Röntgen properly triggers once achieved. Here's the short patch notes:

Release notes - 1.0-45

Bug

• : Some achievement does in very rare instances not correctly invoke when reaching the trigger value

Unrelated to Airport CEO, we as developers have some exciting news to share: https://steamcommunity.com/games/airportceo/announcements/detail/3666531626462318431 // Alexander, Fredrik & Olof - Apog Labs

Good day, airport CEO! As you may have noticed we have over the past few days been doing some adjustments to the ATC system of Airport CEO, specifically targeting a few undesired behaviors featured mostly within very large airports. Today we're releasing the (most likely) final update in that series which takes care of some final stabilization in relation to these new updates, specifically...

Release notes - 1.0-44

Bug

• MERCURY-47103: Flights can on very large airports in rare instances be planned in the past due to a missing flight list cache clear
• MERCURY-47124: Flights on very large airports can slowly over time degrade in landing time accuracy
• MERCURY-47127: Serialized and de-serialized flights can due to an incorrect validation check on some airports bloat the flight data save file

While these balance issues primarily, as mentioned, with very large airports - ultimately airports of all sizes benefit from these improvements. Thank you for playing and see you around the community! // Alexander, Fredrik & Olof - Apog Labs

Good evening, airport CEO! Happy Halloween! We're back with a super small update as a result of the flight planner double booking fix part of the recent -42 update. The automated flight booking system is one of the most complex and involved systems in the ACEO code base and this particular change caused some performance degradation that we are now sorting out. We'll most likely be back with another stability update in the near future, but until then here's today's patch notes:

Release notes - Version 1.0-43

Bug

• MERCURY-47061: Uncaught NullReferenceException in flight update and planning look can in very rare instances on extremelt large airports cause flight traffic to stall
• MERCURY-47044: Flight status sanity check algorithm can for very large airports with a multitude of schedule flights cause significant lag spikes of up to 15 seconds

Have a great weekend! // Alexander, Fredrik & Olof - Apog Labs

Hello, airport CEO! It's happening! We're back with another update, this time Airport CEO 1.0-42, that not only fixes a fringe case with double booked flights on very large airports, but also brings no less than four new aircraft! Taking flight in this update is the Airbus A220-100 and A220-300, flying for Maple and Air Strada, as well as the Pilatus PC-12 and PC-24 which are both GA aircraft! These are part of the base game so no DLC needed to enjoy them. Please refer below to the full list of changes for this update...

Release notes - 1.0-42

Bug

• MERCURY-46847: Flight auto planner can in very rare instance plan duplicate flights
• MERCURY-46798: Updated incorrect airport names

New feature

• MERCURY-46914: New aircraft: Pilatus PC-24
• MERCURY-46912: New aircraft: Airbus A220-300
• MERCURY-46907: New aircraft: Pilatus PC-12
• MERCURY-46906: New aircraft: Airbus A220-100

That's all for now, thank you for playing and we'll continue to keep tabs in between developer of Project Venus. We'd also like to thank forum user andyc for the lovely Airbus A220 mod featured in this post's cover image. Fly safe!

Update 2:21 PM CET 21/10/2022

A fix for the stalling bug report form was mistakenly not included in this update, we have since now hot fixed the current version with that fix! // Alexander, Fredrik & Olof - Apog Labs

Hello airport CEO! Salutations from Gamescom 2022! Today we're bringing you an extremely small stability update as a threading issues has started showing its ugly face on the Windows version of the game, causing the game to not always correctly executing a quit to menu without crashing. This issue has now been mitigated as per the patch notes below...

Release notes - 1.0-40

Bug

• MERCURY-46689: Game application can in certain instances randomly crash when an active airport is being simulated as the player quits to the main menu

We hope you've had a good summer and are looking forward to supply additional updates over the coming months! // Alexander, Fredrik & Olof - Apog Labs

Good day, airport CEO! It's been a while since we last corresponded but today we're breaking the silence with a small quality of life update: Airport CEO 1.0-39! As you will see per the below patch notes, this update mainly solves a few extremely rare issues that have come across our backlog per your bug reports over the last half year. Since Airport CEO is, as of over a year ago, fully out of early access we're not working on any additional major features but there are still a few lingering aircraft models that are being prepared for their maiden V1 and rotate. And while they're not deployed with this update; you can rest assure that we have not forgotten them! Here's what's changing with this update...

Release notes - Version 1.0-39

Bug

• MERCURY-46425: Extremely rare exception in person movement system can cause passengers to get stuck on the wrong floor
• MERCURY-46416: Some projects can in rare instances have a lower max assignable admins amount than the minimum assignable amount
• MERCURY-46413: Flight planner does not always load correctly after closing the fligjht planning panel while dragging a flight
• MERCURY-46406: Aircraft can in extremely rare instances get stuck outside the active world
• MERCURY-46400: Cancelling of contracts can in extremely rare cases throw an unhandled NullReferenceException
• MERCURY-46366: Administrators can in extremely rare instances not be redistributed after project completion
• MERCURY-45993: Incorrect font in departure boarding card can cause some characters to appear as missing
• MERCURY-45345: Flights can in very rare instances overlap as a result of automatic planning on extremely large airports

While it's currently quite quiet over at Apog Labs, we're still burning the midnight oil. After feeling a bit of an early access communications burnout, communiqués from us has had a bit of a break as we've put our heads down and focused on the development of a new thing. But we'll be taking a break from that break later this summer via a studio update on the Apog Labs website, detailing some of the things we've occupied ourselves with during the first half of this year. Until then... fly safe! // Alexander, Fredrik & Olof - Apog Labs

Hello airport CEO! We hope you're doing well and that you're staying safe. Today, Airport CEO celebrates one year since the 1.0 release and because of that we'll be running Airport CEO and all DLCs at 50% off throughout the weekend starting 19:00 CET! We're also launching Airport CEO 1.0-37 which is a super small update that mainly fixes a rare occurrence of certain aircraft in certain instances requesting the wrong type of fuel. Here's the change log for this update...

Release notes - 1.0-37

Bug

• MERCURY-45940: Certain aircraft can in rare instances not request to expected fuel type (especially BAE 146 requesting Avgas fuel)
• MERCURY-45668: New project button can in very rare instances still be active even if all projects are completed
• MERCURY-45630: Bug report version not correctly set

We are currently mainly focusing on Project Venus, the working title of and the next Apog Labs project but there are still a few aircraft left to be implemented in Airport CEO; we have not forgotten about those! However, since we are for the moment mainly occupied with the future of the studio these are put on very low priority but will hopefully make it into the game sometime before the start of the summer. Thanks for reading and stay safe! // Alexander, Fredrik & Olof - Apog Labs

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/30075207/e7844b74e546e8571eb0fc46fbff23e9e893b6b6.png Unique engine placements, see through nose cones and raw power! Those are just a few of the components that summarize the eastern aircraft, birds rarely seen flying in the west yet special enough to leave a mark in the aviation history. Including the Tupolev Tu-114, the world’s fastest and most powerful commercial prop aircraft, the Airport CEO Beast of the East DLC contains a total of four different aircraft models significant to the eastern aviation history. Downloading this DLC will add the eastern aircraft to the new eastern airlines Yuri Air and Сибирские авиалинии (Siberian Airways). This aircraft pack DLC marks the final release of the planned aircraft packs as of the 1.0 launch. Airport CEO has since its launch always contained loads of western aircraft and we're today happy to include at least a few eastern types, completing the representation of the aircraft and aviation history in ACEO. Read all about the Airport CEO: Beasts of the East DLC here!

Hey hey hey, airport CEO! Happy new year and welcome to Airport CEO in the 2020s! We're kicking off this year with the release of Airport CEO 1.0-36, bringing about another batch of fixes and balances as well as a new GA aircraft, the Learjet 75, and also the final aircraft pack DLC as planned since the 1.0 release: Airport CEO: Beasts of the East!

Permanent solution for MacBook Pro M users

With the recent rapid release of Apple's new MacBooks containing M chips, both regular and pro, we've for the past months had a few issues with font rendering on those machines. That problem is with this update now finally permanently fixed and any new Apple M variants will run Airport CEO without any future font rendering issues.

Release notes - 1.0-36

New feature

MERCURY-45330: New aircraft: Learjet 75 MERCURY-45329: GA aircraft can now be set to use "correct" (as realistically defined by the player) fuel type if enabled in gameplay settings

Improvement

• MERCURY-45343: Tweaked negotiation points for an improved negotiation experience

Bug

• MERCURY-45608: Passenger interaction time at a boarding desk doesn't always properly reflect the staff's skill and desk's condition
• MERCURY-45606: Updated baggage claim room requirements to include at least three (3) baggage belts
• MERCURY-45508: Non-public transit structures can in rare instances be considered for airport transit calculations cause ghost cars to endlessly attempt parking at staff parking lots
• MERCURY-45466: Aircraft can in rare instances pushback despite being grounded due to severe weather incident
• MERCURY-45435: Certain franchise contracts cannot always be properly signed immediately via the room panel
• MERCURY-45379: Boarding start time can in some instances with extremely large flights start before that flight's time of arrival
• MERCURY-45374: Birds do not always spawn on expected coordinates on larger maps
• MERCURY-45366: Extremely rare baggage stack overflow exception when baggage belt claim areas do not contain proper carousels can cause application crash
• MERCURY-45363: Passengers waiting for check-in do not always claim seats in their flight's check-in counter terminal
• MERCURY-45344: Negotiation point aquisition not properly explained in contract panel
• MERCURY-45333: Selection overlay not always correctly aligned with object
• MERCURY-45331: Vehicles can in extremely rare instances become invisible when assigning them to a different depot
• MERCURY-45326: Chez Clara restaurant does not always reveal description
• MERCURY-45324: Queue points can in very rare instances cause an unoccupied section between existing queue points when loading airport
• MERCURY-45322: Remote stand without a terminal will not spawn a warning notification, causing re-fueling and other services to fail
• MERCURY-45315: Some MacBook devices not using Intel chips can in extremely rare instances not correctly render UI labels
• MERCURY-45081: Trashcans cannot always be relocated

Thanks for joining us in 2022 and we hope you'll have yet another flourishing CEO career year! See you soon. // Alexander, Fredrik & Olof - Apog Labs

Hey there, airport CEO! We hope you had a good weekend. Last week we had another Steam sale event which means loads of new airport CEOs starting their career. As a result of this we've made sure to watch the backlog carefully during this past week and that's why we're back today yet again with another small stabilization update.

MacBook M1 Pro chip support

This update includes support for the latest MacBooks running the M1 Pro chip and will ensure that the game runs normally, however not natively, as Rosetta is still required for the game to launch.

New object selection highlighting system

We've implemented a small UX improvement coming in the shape of an object selection highlighting system, this means that objects that you can click and interact with are now highlighted when your mouse is within their selection area.

Release notes - 1.0-33

Improvement

• MERCURY-44982: Minor UI paneling improvements
• MERCURY-44912: Added selection box for objects to more easily identify them as intractable

Bug

• MERCURY-44994: Elevator is not always clickable
• MERCURY-44992: Completed flights can in certain instances be removed from the flight planner before the day is over
• MERCURY-44976: Selection overlay prioritize the room over items inside room
• MERCURY-44969: Hover tool tip description in settings panel can in certain instances appear out of view
• MERCURY-44958: Hiding the UI using F4 can break the UI toggling in certain panel instances
• MERCURY-44949: Right click settings not available on some items despite appearing selected
• MERCURY-44948: Object selection visuals only appear on ground floor related objects
• MERCURY-44947: Elevator menu not selectable despite showing selection overlay
• MERCURY-44926: Some objects displays selected overlay incorrect relative to actual object grid
• MERCURY-44925: Multiple selection overlays are de-selected if hovered over
• MERCURY-44924: Mesh setting warning spam in log can cause performance degradation
• MERCURY-44922: Text elements not rendering on MacBook M1 pro chips
• MERCURY-44919: Steam achievement sync invalidates The Collector-achievement on load
• MERCURY-44915: Incorrect aircraft references are in very rare instances serialized on hangars causing them to become unavailable
• MERCURY-44913: Room overlay doesn't scale properly with non-uniform sizes
• MERCURY-44911: Incorrect aspect ratio for image preview in color picker panel
• MERCURY-44910: Incident cool-down not working properly causing excessive incident load on higher difficulty setting
• MERCURY-44907: Vehicle path finding can in certain cases fail when vehicles enter or exit airport through specific road checkpoint configuration
• MERCURY-44890: Parking lot can in rare cases display occupied slots despite no vehicles present
• MERCURY-42134: Flights do not properly clear after extremely extended gameplay sessions causing gamedata .json to swell in size

That's all for now, enjoy your days at the office and see you later - fly safe! // Alexander, Fredrik & Olof - Apog Labs

Spooky hello-ween, airport CEO! It's been a few weeks since we last spoke and a lot has happened since but we're back once again with another minor quality-of-life update of Airport CEO! This time it's time for 1.0-30 which again primarily addresses a few fringe case bugs along with some other very minor improvements but most importantly it addresses the bugged bug reporting system and brings that back to full functionality. But first...

We're now Apog Labs

As of October 15th 2021, our company’s legal entity name has changed to Apoapsis Game Laboratories AB but we will be known as Apog Labs. Other than this change, nothing will change in regards to how we develop, maintain and support our past and future products. You can read more about the name change here.

Release notes - 1.0-30

Improvement

• MERCURY-44868: Mesh render setting adjusted for reduced overdraw and slightly improved performance
• MERCURY-44867: Minimum passenger ratio slightly increased

Bug

• MERCURY-44901: Persons can in extremely rare instances not render correctly due to faulty mesh setting
• MERCURY-44898: Very large saves can cause certain sound effects to fail playing when invoked
• MERCURY-44874: Some sliders can snap back to initial value when released
• MERCURY-44866: Text overflow in road settings panel for certain languages can cause performance degradation
• MERCURY-44855: Fuel truck can in extremely rare road configuration cases turn around at service road checkpoint
• MERCURY-44853: Stair truck option is missing from road node settings panel
• MERCURY-44835
: "The collector" achievement considers aircraft that are not in a non-modded airline fleet
• MERCURY-44824: Year change observers not correctly invoked causing some year dependent features to not execute
• MERCURY-44807: Flight frequency can in rare instances be labeled as "once" despite being daily
• MERCURY-44736: Fixed a few minor incorrect region settings for cities in the airport database
• MERCURY-44658 :Lines on passport checkpoint item can be rendered above other objects
• MERCURY-44649: Fixed Aircraft Vickers VC10 incorrect rear wing layer setting

As you can see, there's not only been changes made to the game but also to the bugs themselves. They are now labeled as "MERCURY" instead of "ACEO" as we've named our games in the order of planets in our solar system. We'll see how many we get to. Anyway, that's it for now. We're currently focusing mostly on the development of the next Apog Labs game but there are some minor things cooking for Airport CEO as well! But until then, have a spooky Halloween and... Fly safe!

Update 10/29/2021

We have received reports about the newest MacBook Pro with the M1X (pro) chips not parsing text in Airport CEO correctly. This bug has been fixed on the experimental branch of Airport CEO and will be available as part of a default release later this coming week. // Alexander, Fredrik & Olof - Apog Labs

Good afternoon, airport CEO! We hope you're doing well on those hot summer tarmacs. Today we're releasing version 1.0-27 with just two minor but still important new features. In a response to some feedback we've been reading across the different ACEO platforms, conveyor belts can now be built on the lower floors without the need of having acquired the multi-floor permit first. This is in response to some valid criticism on the challenges of starting out constructing that first conveyor belt system and we couldn't agree more as this change will now make that starting phase a bit more frictionless. We've also implemented the ability to change the color of the mouse pointer as that default yellow can be a bit difficult to interact with for some users.

Release notes - 1.0-27

New feature

• ACEO-44257 Mouse pointer color can now be changed

Improvement

• ACEO-44239 Underground baggage belts can now be built without having acquired the multiple-floor permit

Fly safe! // Alexander, Fredrik & Olof - Apoapsis Studios

Calling all airport CEOs on this frequency! After a little more than a week of new CEOs starting their career in relation to the current Steam summer sale, we're back with another small stabilization update. This one again focuses on those fringe case issues where very specific design solutions invokes a specific unwanted behavior. We're also balancing some minor values in relation to the needs update system, solving an issue where needs at smaller airports are drained more quickly than at larger updates. For the Airport CEO Vintage DLC, this update also includes a new stand variation with a vintage concrete look.

Release notes - 1.0-26

Bug

• ACEO-44184 Vintage DLC: Airside shuttle bus has incorrect parking position when servicing Ford Trimotor aircraft
• ACEO-44176 Trailers can in certain instances clip through terminal floor when parked
• ACEO-44173 Minor typo in aircraft damaged hangar text
• ACEO-44170 Aircraft can in very rare instances initiate startup sequence twice causing unexpected behavior
• ACEO-44147 Certain baggage contents not always localized correctly
• ACEO-44143 Loading during de-icing procedure can in certain rare instances cause the de-icing job tasks to be temporarily abandoned
• ACEO-44141 Supplier discount not clearly highlighted in contract panel
• ACEO-44138 Few minor notable locations have incorrect region values in airport database
• ACEO-44135 Missing localization key for generic.key.objects message in rare instances displayed
• ACEO-44126 Terminal quality rating can in extremely rare instances be displayed as "not a number" causing other rating calculations to fail
• ACEO-44117 Extremely rare taxiway connection exception in startup sequence can cause stands to appear disconnected
• ACEO-44113 Small stand shows incorrect airline dropdown when enabling commercial flights
• ACEO-44078 Missing localization key for generic.key.object-must-be-closed message
• ACEO-44071 Service vehicle routes can on some instances for certain aircraft appear as incorrect
• ACEO-44016 Remote aircraft boarding procedures can in extremely rare instances consider arriving passengers as such eligible for boarding and cause remote boarding procedure to extend to max time
• ACEO-44001 Needs update system can in rare instances poorly take into account update frequency if person amount at airport is very low
• ACEO-43950 Catering trucks can in very rare instances park on top of aircraft nose
• ACEO-43891 Immediate index increase in room fetching algorithm can in very rare instance cause some rooms to have significantly less passenger interaction without an apparent reason

New feature

• ACEO-44191 Vintage DLC: Vintage concrete stand(s)

We'd also like to remind you that if you're experiencing prolonged, significant issues with running Airport CEO the best way to get in contact with us is immediately via the Airport CEO support e-mail: [email protected] See you on the tarmac! // Alexander, Fredrik & Olof - Apoapsis Studios

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/30075207/5fdc0bb81b569f1f9502be5786c1f039113d9f8e.png Props, small jet engines and quirky fuselages! Those are just a few of the components that summarize the golden age of flying, a time when traveling was just as glamorous as the leg room and gourmet meals served onboard. While the golden age of flight primarily lasted between the 1950s and 1960s, the Airport CEO Vintage DLC contains a total of seven different aircraft models typically flown between the 1930s and 1980s. Downloading this DLC will add the vintage aircraft to new, vintage versions, of the Maple, Nordic, Tulip, OK Air and Swiftly airlines. Read all about the Airport CEO Vintage DLC here!

Well hello again there, airport CEO! We've had quite the bit of a break since the 1.0 launch of Airport CEO but today we're back once more with a quick look back at the time that has passed since but more specifically... some exciting news! You can either head on over to Dev Blog 161: The way of the future, or alternatively, just head straight to the Airport CEO: Vintage Steam store page! Enjoy! // Alexander, Fredrik & Olof - Apoapsis Studios

Hey hey hey, airport CEO! As you may of may not know, since the launch of Airport CEO 1.0, we've been continuously updating the game on its experimental branch (although at a much slower pace than before the final release) and today it's time for another one of those updates but this time on the default branch! Today we're bringing you Airport CEO 1.0-22 which primarily solves a round of fringe case bugs, balances some minor aspect of the game such as the cost ratio between different parking lot types but also a new and highly requested feature involving the ability to toggle the landing and take-off direction of a runway (when not active)! Here is the full list of changes for 1.0-22:

Release notes - 1.0-22

Bug

• ACEO-43964 Person cars arriving to a GA airport can in certain instance park despite no passenger traffic being active
• ACEO-43945 Rezoning an airline lounge bathroom can in rare instances cause it to become available for non-business passengers
• ACEO-43934 Rare null reference exception when fetching transit structure entry exit point can cause world tunnel entrance updating to stop
• ACEO-43930 Fixed rare missing localization key issue for service vehicle
• ACEO-43927 Small hangar can be built beneath terminal
• ACEO-43813 Flood lights can be placed on top of world entrance
• ACEO-43810 Minor type in police vehicle description
• ACEO-43806 Check-in desk description text in certain instances exposed
• ACEO-43800 Road node vehicle type setting for Jet A1 and Avgas fuel truck incorrectly swapped which can cause pathfinding issues in specific instances
• ACEO-43740 Road checkpoint can in rare instances incorrectly state not being connected to a world entrance tunnel
• ACEO-43739 Conveyor belts can in certain instances change direction when connecting to a tilt tray
• ACEO-43738 Vehicles parked beneath upper terminal foundation can for some items cause rendering issues
• ACEO-43735 Long term parking starting fee not balanced
• ACEO-43710 Upgrading a single stand will not invoke any cost
• ACEO-43506 Tress planted through copy paste do not always update season coloring
• ACEO-43476 Vehicles can in rare instances become visible on underground floors
• ACEO-43474 Vehicles can in rare instances not turn on to stand immediately when approaching it

Improvement

• ACEO-43809 Runways can now change landing and take-off direction when toggled off

But... that's not all! Parallel to the back-burner development of Airport CEO and prototyping new ideas we've also been working on a something little else... we'll have some news to share come this Thursday, which will also be the day of the next dev blog. See you then! // Alexander, Fredrik & Olof - Apoapsis Studios

Hello airport CEO! It is time for another small update, 1.0-19, which focuses on solving the recent bug reporting issue, introduces some balancing and minor new features, fixes to some minor issues and a few important anti-stutter performance improvements.

Connection bug for bug reporting system (meta!)

The previous two week's issue with reporting balancing issues and fringe case bugs has now been resolved. The error was caused by an overhaul of our bug reporting platform configuration, as a result of the general dwindling down in project management, which resulted in new issues created being refused by the server. This has now with this version been fixed and issues are again possible to be reported just as per usual.

Release notes - 1.0-19

Bug

• ACEO-43516 Business generation logic can cause notable lag spikes due to excessive string comparison
• ACEO-43515 Null reference exception can in very rare instances be thrown when conveyor belts verify connection
• ACEO-43512 Bug reporting tool setting change caused bug reporting tool to not correctly submit bug reports (meta!)
• ACEO-43487 Minor stutter can be frequently experienced due to improper list sorting for certain item type fetching
• ACEO-43482 Minor spelling mistake in incident report e-mail
• ACEO-43464 Mass-upgrading multiple stands does not charge the correct cash sum amount
• ACEO-43459 Deleting wall can in extremely rare instances not reset underlying area properly
• ACEO-43458 Building windows doesn't always separate underlying zone area properly
• ACEO-43440 Persons serailized when transitioning on a walkaltor can be displaced on load causing them to get unintendedly stuck in sealed off areas
• ACEO-43381 Different runway sizes can incorrectly be multi selected together enabling players to change unapplicable settings for certain runways
• ACEO-43278 Area of Hawaii categorized as temperate and not tropical
• ACEO-42252 Resolution setting not always consistent and working as expected

Improvement

• ACEO-43383 Runways can now intersect
• ACEO-32236 Jira manager credentials updated

We wrote a small post release text on the studio's Instagram account with the purpose of giving a small status update. We're currently working on additional content for Airport CEO and will be back with a proper dev blog once we're nearing completion! // Alexander, Fredrik & Olof - Apoapsis Studios

Hello there airport CEO! We hope that you've had a relaxing weekend, perhaps celebrating some spring related feast! We've celebrated by preparing the next quality of life update of Airport CEO, 1.0-15. This update mainly focuses on mitigation of various minor annoyances and also balancing of a few different systems including, for example, passenger shopping demand in departure areas, staff applicant spawn rates, animal spawn rates and some R&D project balancing. We're also addressing some issues with inconsistencies in the numbers reported through the daily economy report, as well as a heap of other minor issues and fringe bugs. In this update we're also introducing two new variables for modded airlines which can be used to alter the spawn rate of certain liveries and aircraft. You can read more about what these changes mean in this forum topic. Below is the full list of changes for this update...

Release notes - 1.0-15

Improvement

• ACEO-42796] - Vehicle depot can now be built underground
• ACEO-42884] - Increased spawn rate of available applicants
• ACEO-42998] - Staff happiness now exposed in staff tab of management panel
• ACEO-43222] - Special livery tag added for mods to support rare liveries not spawning as often as standard
• ACEO-43223] - Fleet count added for modded airlines to support specifying the number of aircraft types for a given airline

Bug

• ACEO-42232] - Chinese font asset not always correctly generated
• ACEO-42299] - Refreshed staff not prioritized when dispatching new job tasks
• ACEO-42614] - If a project has more admins assigned than actually arrived at the airport (and working) the project will not progress at all
• ACEO-42621] - Objects can in very specific instance become immovable after move panel has initially been displayed
• ACEO-42668] - Animals can in rare instances spawn on top of fence
• ACEO-42672] - Incorrect step calculation can in rare instances cause GA bird strike emergencies to always fail at 75% despite being fully completed
• ACEO-42695] - Flights do not always distribute among available check-in desks
• ACEO-42701] - The game can in rare instances appear as crashed due to a log print lag freezing the application when an elevator floor
• ACEO-42712] - Generic key "clear" not translated correctly
• ACEO-42719] - Planned check-in desks refunds more if de-planned than if destroyed
• ACEO-42764] - International zone created by passport checkpoint doesn't reset if object is removed
• ACEO-42770] - Notification for missing vehicle type of specific emergency can in certain instances only be attempted to spawn once at game start causing the notification not to appear
• ACEO-42833] - Save error dialog panel doesn't instruct if save fail reason was due to lacking disk space
• ACEO-42922] - Total expenses math error in economy report when calculating daily income and expenses
• ACEO-42923] - Average employee productivity incorrectly stated in daily operations report
• ACEO-42946] - Concorde aircraft can in some instances not correctly start the deboarding process
• ACEO-42977] - Save process may in extremely rare and specific situations not be correctly executed
• ACEO-43016] - Passenger interest in shopping too low after passing security
• ACEO-43055] - When deicing is active aircraft doesn't always distribute over available runways
• ACEO-43058] - Total expenses does not always sum up correctly in daily economy report due to mixing various total variable sums
• ACEO-43080] - Some service vehicles can in certain instances pass a stand and turn around instead of immediately turn on to the stand
• ACEO-43106] - White on yellow text in road options causes them to be difficult to read
• ACEO-43117] - Security checkpoints can be built in a specific situation where the initial queue point can overlap other objects
• ACEO-43172] - Animal spawning is due to previous spawn change extremely frequent
• ACEO-43182] - Airline livery input field in development panel sends movement input when typed in
• ACEO-43221] - Runway repair world notification can in rare instances remain despite being repaired

We'll be back in another few weeks with another quality of life update with continued balancing, improvements and fringe bug fixes in response to the issues you keep reporting to us. // Alexander, Fredrik & Olof - Apoapsis Studios

Happy(?) Monday, important business person! Just like most airport CEOs, we're back to work after a relaxing weekend. Well, perhaps not too relaxing as we just like most CEOs have a difficulty of not taking work home with us during the per society ordained week breaks. As a result, we're launching the next post 1.0 stabilization update, Airport CEO 1.0-10, which takes care of some rare issues, some extremely rare issues and some much needed balancing to a few different economy related systems. This update balances a few aspects of the economy that makes GA airfields a bit more profitable in the later stage of an airport's development, balances the franchise rent fee exploit and also adjusts the exacerbated profits possible from jewelry shops while also making passengers a bit more interested in shopping once they've passed into the secure zone area. We're also solving a wide range of very rarely occurring bugs but also a more widespread issue of queues for security checkpoints in some instances not being correctly buildable until the second time its attempted. Below is the full log of changes for this update...

Release notes - 1.0-10

Improvement

• ACEO-42666] - Departing passengers in secure zone shopping need deterioration rate balanced
• ACEO-42836] - GA parking cost increased to make GA airfield aspect more profitable

Bug

• ACEO-42311] - Aircraft can in very rare instances stall when attempting to fetch an available runway
• ACEO-42364] - Job task dispatching for remote boarding flights can in some instances for medium on large stands not always work correctly
• ACEO-42570] - Concorde droop-snoot too far drooped when parked at stand
• ACEO-42571] - Supersonic DLC: Aircraft spawn ratio too high
• ACEO-42574] - Price of jewelery heavily inflated
• ACEO-42580] - Missing tooltip on follow with camera on flight information panel
• ACEO-42590] - Economy report incorrect when calculating balance including construction cost
• ACEO-42596] - First queue point can in certain instances not be built until second attempt for specific desks
• ACEO-42605] - Medium check-in desk is not unlocked with baggage unlocking R&D project
• ACEO-42636] - Service trucks can in extremely rare instances not appear after exiting vehicle depot
• ACEO-42639] - Bags can in extremely rare instances be assigned incorrect status on transition causing them to fly across world
• ACEO-42644] - Planned objects count towards net worth
• ACEO-42645] - "Delivery trucks only" setting for road nodes does not include fuel truck deliveries
• ACEO-42652] - When toggling planning mode the context menu label does not always update
• ACEO-42680] - Persons can in extremely rare build configurations adjust prematurely to certain desks causing them to become offset when deboaring airside shuttle buses
• ACEO-42682] - Animals can in certain build configurations pass through fences on a diagonal path
• ACEO-42683] - Main menu flip row sound slightly too loud
• ACEO-42699] - Closed baggage bay does not spawn world notification immediately on load causing baggage operation to stop
• ACEO-42708] - Switching desk access person type whilst persons are interacting with desk does not always cancel their interaction
• ACEO-42709] - Pusback truck outside of airport service road area can be assigned a job task causing a behavioral deadlock
• ACEO-42760] - Localized date string can clip out of view
• ACEO-42798] - Certain e-mails can in rare instance lack subject line
• ACEO-42831] - Pushback truck can park on top of stair truck for some specific aircraft types
• ACEO-42837] - Franchise rent too high as it can be misused as passive income
• ACEO-42838] - Ramp agent job task can in certain instances get created twice causing double the amount of ramp agents on an active stand

As per usual we'll continue to monitor the reported bugs and apply weekly fixes on the experimental branch. Also as per usual we ask that for any critical issues you still may stumble upon, send an e-mail to [email protected] and we'll expedite your issue. Thanks and enjoy! // Alexander, Fredrik & Olof - Apoapsis Studios

Good evening, airport CEO! It's time for another small stabilization patch fixing a range of fringe issues as well as some much needed systems balancing on various parts. In this update we're pushing balancing fixes to the terminal quality collection system as well other achievement checks not always being correctly invoked for the AOTY award. We're also adding a counter to the baggage bay display showing what the number of allowed connections still possible.

Release notes - Version 1.0-7

Improvement

• ACEO-42425] - Remaining stand connections available for baggage bay now exposed in baggage bay panel

Bug

• ACEO-42132] - Vehicles depsawning as not operated can lock various vehicle status functions
• ACEO-42158] - Passengers always perform purchases regardless of business class and content at store
• ACEO-42175] - Planning mode overlay for rooms does not disappear after construction
• ACEO-42224] - Roads can now be instantly built if user has mistakenly destroyed both contractor and delivery site
• ACEO-42235] - Catering truck exits on left side of road after servicing the Boeing 787 aircraft
• ACEO-42307] - Terminal quality rating almost always impossible to increase above 50%
• ACEO-42329] - Placing terminal on top of unbuilt fence can cause terminal foundation rendering issues
• ACEO-42360] - Large aircraft are not always using the correct runway entrance
• ACEO-42395] - Baggage claim requirements text incorrect
• ACEO-42400] - Flight information displays cannot be moved
• ACEO-42403] - Patrol step in tutorial has flipped control instructions
• ACEO-42413] - Spawned dummy ramp agents counted in terminal assignment panel
• ACEO-42416] - Incorrect research description for Ford trailer trucks
• ACEO-42430] - Missing null reference check for person node availability in job task serialization can in extremely rare instance disallow airport from saving
• ACEO-42431] - Large fast runway ramps not always upgraded correctly
• ACEO-42437] - Incorrect number of assumed services can cause turnaround services offered rating to not reach 100%
• ACEO-42440] - Typo in runway fetch setting in operations tab
• ACEO-42443] - When removing elevator entrance on an intersecting middle floor the client can in extremely rare instances crash
• ACEO-42445] - Planned ATC and radar towers count toward airport's flight capacity
• ACEO-42457] - 1900D aircraft has reversed fuel truck access paths which can cause fuel trucks to not reach job task start location
• ACEO-42460] - Service vehicle road connection is not checked if a hangar is deactivated
• ACEO-42463] - Baggage bay can in extremelt rare instances be set as not reachable by connected stands
• ACEO-42465] - Passengers can in extremely rare instance ignore walking with path when deboarding airside shuttle bus
• ACEO-42470] - Airport of the Year status and achievement not always properly invoked
• ACEO-42473] - Dummy spawned ramp agents accounted for in salary charge
• ACEO-42475] - Balanced terminal quality rating value collection for smaller airport terminals
• ACEO-42480] - Shops not updating their child desks parent room status can cause new franchise establishment not to open despite staff being present at desk

We'll most likely be back again next week with another round of minor fixes as bug reports are made. // Alexander, Fredrik & Olof - Apoapsis Studios

Good afternoon, airport CEO! First of all, thank you for all of the kind and heartfelt messages we've received and read throughout the various Airport CEO communities in relation to the 1.0-0 release. It seems as if most of you, including some new CEOs who've joined us over the past few days, are very much still enjoying Airport CEO without its early access label. While you've been busy running airports, we've been busy watching the backlog for any issues that are still being reported. We're happy to see that there are no critical issues still remaining in the game and that the reports that we now receive mainly pertain to either very specific cases that now have been found because the game is simply being played by a lot more players, minor bugs we did not fully catch during the last steps of the beta period or user errors (also known as lack of game design intuition). That said, if you're still experiencing extended issues with a crashing application or notable other critical issues, we ask that you send us a support e-mail directly to [email protected] so that we can help you out and debug your case. Any instance of critical issues we've found as of the 1.0 release have been isolated to the user's device which is why we need to assist you on a case to case basis. Today we're back with the first post 1.0 patch solving some of those minor bugs that have been reported during the weekend, including a final fix for the dreaded Apple M1 no text labels rendering issue.

Re-implemented support for devices running the Apple M1 ARM processor

If you're a user of a device running the new Apple M1 ARM processors, you've probably noticed the apparent lack of text labels rendered in the game. With this update we're finally solving that issue once and for all and you no longer need to stay away or apply the GL Core override fix, Apple M1 devices are now fully supported.

Release notes -Version 1.0-4

Improvement

• ACEO-42346] - Runway queue count in UI panel now include departing aircraft

Bug

• ACEO-42088] - Two separate variable accessing for pax when boarding a flight can cause those pax to stall if flight is dismissed during boarding process
• ACEO-42094] - Text elements can in rare instances for devices running the M1 Apple chip still clip out of view
• ACEO-42095] - When adding stickers, already placed stickers can sometimes change when adding more to the sticker folder
• ACEO-42099] - Switching between a GA and commercial stand can in rare cases cause all flights on that stand to be cancelled
• ACEO-42164] - Flight planner refresh icon does not clear the new flight notice icon
• ACEO-42167] - Flight info displays cannot be moved
• ACEO-42173] - Converting a stand to remote does not remove pax transit signs
• ACEO-42180] - World notification for flights that are cancelled are in rare instances not correctly removed
• ACEO-42187] - Construction material delivered to drop off sites after vehicle checkpoints not always correctly executed
• ACEO-42188] - Localized texts contain escape sequences
• ACEO-42198] - Vehicles can in extremely rare road configuration instances not completely park on point causing a park-to-unpark behavior loop deadlock
• ACEO-42200] - Extremely rare missing null reference exception check in emergency flight removal can cause emergency to remain active until reload
• ACEO-42214] - Missing instruction on how to acquire a medium check-in desk in the medium check-in desk build system
• ACEO-42222] - Elevator can deactivate available paths when changing elevator floor settings
• ACEO-42229] - Floor tiles can be rotated despite always spawned at default rotation
• ACEO-42233] - Vehicles not parking in roof covered parking structures can become offset
• ACEO-42239] - Objects placed on the outmost perimiter cannot always be destroyed
• ACEO-42243] - Trashcans cannot be moved
• ACEO-42254] - Wings on Boeing 737 aircraft renders above fuselage
• ACEO-42269] - Contractors do not recognize available seats in staff rooms
• ACEO-42272] - Planned structures delete built fences
• ACEO-42281] - Under certain circumstances diagonal guides on taxiway won't disappear
• ACEO-42284] - Spawned dummy ramp agents can appear in the hired employee panel list
• ACEO-42286] - Incorrect rendering setting can cause volcano ash to severely degrade performance
• ACEO-42295] - Franchise contract details not consistent
• ACEO-42301] - Vehicle statistics button displays unlocalized text
• ACEO-42302] - Various world notification containers can in extremely rare instance remain in world despite originating issue being solved
• ACEO-42314] - Pop out setting for tutorial not always working correctly
• ACEO-42339] - One-way arrow setting can in extremely rare instances cause certain vehicle types to not be allowed on that node

Thank you once more for these past days, it's been wonderful watching all of your airports come to life from the Malmö control tower and we're not going anywhere soon. We'll be continuing the life support of Airport CEO as issues are reported and discussed throughout the communities. See you out there and as Scott Manley keeps saying... fly safe! // Alexander, Fredrik & Olof - Apoapsis Studios

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/30075207/6ed57f21b6ec45a21b80a44aa6f22d0090ff646b.png Hey hey hey, airport CEO! Airport CEO has now graduated from its early access state to a full blown 1.0 released game. We are not really sure how to go about summarizing the journey we have been on together with the community since that September Thursday back in 2017, especially since humans are specifically poor in appreciating the concept of time over an extended period, but just as Fredrik said when he opened Unity for the first time, "How hard can it be?", we will give it a shot.

Release notes - 1.0-0

New feature

• ACEO-42115] - Aircraft pack DLC support: Airport CEO Supersonic

Improvement

• ACEO-32803] - Final QA pass: Aircraft prefabs
• ACEO-32804] - Final QA pass: UI

Bug

• ACEO-41821] - All contractors are not correctly accounted for in extremely rare instances and thus cannot always be fully be dismissed
• ACEO-42007] - Percent signs are for some system cultures shown as squares
• ACEO-42011] - Opened flight planner does not refresh offered flights
• ACEO-42043] - Boarding card is not always hidden for visiting persons
• ACEO-42067] - Toggle overlay buttons invert functionality if object is already selected
• ACEO-42070] - Quick firing employee can cause duplicate person removal and objects to render strangely
• ACEO-42079] - Passengers can in certain transit structure setups arrive very late causing other passengers to arrive late and a check-in fail loop
• ACEO-42082] - Queues that end toward an unwalkable position cause agents to fail finding the queue entry point
• ACEO-42085] - ATC connections not refreshed when game is paused causing them to appear as not connected
• ACEO-42092] - Extremely rare displacement of passport checkpoints can cause deserailization to stall
• ACEO-42093] - Fire trucks can in extremely rare instances after extinguishing a GA aircraft not clear the runway
• ACEO-42104] - Security checkpoints can in rare instances show faulty stand connections (visual only)
• ACEO-42112] - Pushbacks can in extremely rare instances not be invoked due to vehicle job task execution failure
• ACEO-42114] - Faulty pax despawn fetch check can cause very few passengers to spawn for each transportation vehicle
• ACEO-42123] - If passengers begin check-in via a self check-in desk they cannot prefer regular check-in desks when attempting to switch, causing a significant self check-in bias
• ACEO-42127] - Very rare index out of bounds exception when demolishing ATC related objects during threaded connection test can cause update system to stall
• ACEO-42131] - Improved error message when not enough runway ramps are attached to a runway
• ACEO-42138] - Airports can be created without airport name input field content

The Airport CEO early access flight

Airport CEO 1.0 was released today, Thursday March 4th 2021 at 19:00 CET (10 AM PT), and consequently transitioned out of its early access period. The idea was formed in the summer of 2015 and development started in the beginning of autumn that same year. The first year of development however can hardly be accounted to any actual progress of the finished product, especially not in its current form, as that year was all about learning how Unity works and how to write code for a game. In the second year, development slowly started picking up and we were able to put together something that was actually working, including the various core systems such as building, ATC and passenger AI. On September 28th in 2017, Airport CEO released as an early access title to a small but very eager group of people who had been following the Airport CEO progression since the founding of the Airport CEO twitter account back in October of 2015. Around 8000 people bought the game in its first early access released hour which resulted in an immediate placement on the Steam global top selling list which in turn had a cascading effect on sales as a placement on that list is hands down the best type of advertisement any game can get. That weekend was probably one of the best and worst of our lives as the success we had, while putting in exhausting 16 hour shifts every day deploying several updates per day fixing critical issues that arose due to the highly unexpected number of new players, enabled us to quit or jobs the next week and start Apoapsis Studios. The release weekend gave us the means to realize our vision for Airport CEO but it also showed us that this vision was far away and that we were about to embark on an early access marathon. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/30075207/4b5239b4f263a9346a8b4f190a70aaae3a2a3392.jpg A screenshot overlooking an extremely early build of Airport CEO from 2017. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/30075207/88ebbf4d9f967775549011de48ac1b087f2fc408.jpg The old UI prior to the UI overhaul update. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/30075207/aed6a4a3c9e08a68d0e32abfdfcd6596bc99a513.jpg A screen overlooking the old graphics in greater detail. Almost looks like a different game? The first pre-alpha gameplay trailer, released May 31st 2016. Same same but different? Airport CEO has since then been fully redeveloped and essentially nothing from that first early access version still remains in the game today, apart from some extremely core and fundamental systems. We have overhauled just about everything in the game ranging from how agents are moved to the graphics, the UI, fundamental performance overhauls and… well, just about everything else. When Alexander joined the team back in January of 2019 we had just about completed the first overhaul of the game in its current early access state and we were ready to move forward with major feature implementation. Alexander’s added abilities kickstarted this phase of development and we quickly added new tooling, localization and much more but specifically new features resulting in major feature updates. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/30075207/2533e444ddd2582cd71311354c69537705f5e697.png The Airport CEO 1.0 we are launching today looks nothing like the thing we launched in 2017 and it is all thanks to a somewhat established idea of what the final product would look like, in combination with an absurd amount of input from an incredibly passionate and active community. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/30075207/65c5faa0c1d0624683d3cb8f693679478f0ab19d.jpg ... and how it looks today!

Flight data!

Airport CEO has during its early access period sold about 180000 copies and is at the point of its 1.0 release rated as “very positive” on Steam with an average score of 84% positive across 4145 reviews. Airport CEO has had 91 major releases (i.e., releases on the default branch) and well over 1250 minor releases pushed to the experimental branch. We have deployed over 3500(!) builds in total (including both Windows and macOS) and have averaged around three experimental releases per week across the entire early access period, but almost a new release every single working day of the week during the beta period. On average, 25000 unique CEOs launch Airport CEO every month; currently about 2300 daily and in the past 90 days a total of 53000 CEOs took to the skies. Together they have a combined daily playtime of around 270 days(!) (or 16200 hours), which is an average of almost three hours per day per CEO. When they have been playing, they have together over these past years sent us over 42000(!!!) bug reports containing mostly qualitative issue descriptions, suggestions, or thoughts on the development of the game. Out of all those issue reports of which we have been scrolling through every single day, a total of 16213 have been manually processed meaning that either Alexander, Fredrik or Olof has given a particular issue a specific resolution such as for example “fix deployed”, “deployed to default”, “duplicate” or “cannot reproduce” – the remaining, about 26000, are in fact duplicate reports. These numbers are staggering to look at from a developer’s perspective and nothing we could really have hoped for, being the first ever real thing we have developed not to say the first and only game we have ever built. Saying that “we are extremely grateful” for how this journey turned out is not really doing it... let’s each try and have a separate go of it:

Alexander’s take

"The time I’ve been working on Airport CEO has been the most rewarding “professional” experience of my life. To be developing a product you actually take pride in, with the absolute best customer base and community any product can wish for, working in a thriving and (more importantly) creative industry confidently surviving the worst pandemic in modern history, and with amazing coworkers, there simply isn’t much else to ask for. There are too many things I’ve learned to be listed here, but the accumulated knowledge at Apoapsis Studios gained from the development promises great times ahead. Because, with our game finally ready to be released into the wild, we are of course looking ahead. I know, however, that I will forever be looking back at our time with Airport CEO with nothing but warm memories."

Fredrik’s take

"Wow! What fantastic years we have had together in the Apoapsis team and the whole community while working on this amazing project. When I started up Unity game engine for over 5 years ago, I could never in my wildest dream imagine where we are today with Airport CEO. It has been by far the most challenging thing I have ever done in my life, but at the same time the most rewarding. We are extremely proud of Airport CEO and grateful to have the opportunity to make this our living. I hope our journey can inspire others to do the same with their dreams. Finally, I just want to give a big thanks to everyone who have been part of Airport CEO and I hope that you will follow us in future projects!"

Olof’s take

"Turns out it's really, really, really difficult to develop an airport tycoon game that in at least the bigger scheme of things is trying to emulate aspects of reality as accurately as possible (while still being playable). The initial early access version was really just an attempt at that and what we're releasing now can in many ways also be interpreted as "Airport CEO 2". The engagement from the community powered by an extremely agile release pipeline, daily updates, coupled with a very accessible bug reporting system which prioritizes quantity over quality is what has made this project possible. It's been the biggest privilege of my life working on this game together with the community, Fredrik and Alexander and with this project being our first attempt at a game one can only dream of what we'll build next."

Airport CEO: Supersonic

There are a lot of great and beautiful aircraft out there, in the real world as well as in Airport CEO, taking passengers to and from their destination as quick as their engines propel them. But there is a special breed of aircraft that no longer traffics the skies in real life… but as of today, if you want to, now can traffic your airport in Airport CEO. Celebrating today’s 1.0 release of Airport CEO, we’re also releasing a free micro DLC called “Airport CEO: Supersonic”. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/30075207/1826ee0470899be5a501b7200bb4bf6b709e540d.png That’s right, the Concorde and Tu-144 can now be downloaded via the free DLC and will consequently be flying for Olympus Organization and Zoom! (Concorde) as well as Stripe Air and Crown Airlines (Tu-144). You can read more and download the DLC now on Steam! We try to stay as accurate as possible with the aircraft in Airport CEO and most of them do still fly in real life, perhaps though not in the configuration or frequency as they do in Airport CEO. Supersonics, however, are not part of the current aviation industry, and that is why it made sense to add them as downloadable content enabling players to decide for themselves if they want them in the game or not.

Airport CEO 1.0 and beyond

In the previous dev blog we took a deep dive into the future of Airport CEO beyond its 1.0 release but we are in fact at as of this point… tracking into uncharted territory. Depending on (but also regardless of) the reception of the 1.0 release we will be keeping a close eye on the developments around the game for the coming weeks and months, responding with patch updates accordingly to the perhaps continued supply of community feedback. You can read more about the future of Airport CEO beyond the 1.0 release in Dev Blog 159: Airport CEO 1.0?

Thank you!

Last but the opposite of least, we would like to thank a few people who have been extremely important to us during these past years. To Steve, Mitchell, Lucas, Kim, Elin, Lewis, Clara, Ellen and Maria who have been helping us with the core aspects of the game in terms of aircraft design, graphics, community, audio and emotional support: Thank you. To the many community managers of the various Airport CEO platforms around Discord, Reddit and the Forum: Thank you. To Sinephony (Daniel and Anton) for a brilliant soundtrack: Thank you. To the members of the focus group on the Airport CEO forum who have been helping us test out features very early: Thank you. To those who have sent in a bug report: Thank you. To those who have participated in the various design contests: Thank you. To everyone at Game Habitat in Malmö and the Malmö game developer community: Thank you. To our friends and family: Thank you. And last but certainly not least… to YOU who have have been playing the game, following along on the flight: Thank you!!! We will leave it there for now. Once we have had some time to reflect on the development of Airport CEO we will be back with a proper postmortem and in the meantime you will always find us around the Airport CEO communities. Fly safe! // Alexander, Fredrik & Olof - Apoapsis Studios

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/30075207/5f510d3c35640eef7ee3fd3fe060e491f3073e46.png Hurrah! In celebration with the Airport CEO 1.0 release today, we're launching the free DLC Airport CEO Supersonic, an aircraft pack consisting of the Concorde and the Tu-144 that'll elevate your airport to a supersonic standard - complete with glorious afterburners! Downloading this free DLC will add the Concorde to the default airlines Olympus Organization and Zoom! and the Tu-144 to the default airlines Stripe Air and Crown Airlines, all part of the base game. Read all about the Airport CEO Supersonic DLC here!

Hey hey, airport CEO! As with all previous major beta releases we will this time too, over the coming days leading up to the 1.0 launch on Thursday, focus on rapid minor deployments and fully stabilizing the current build. However, these changes are changes that we deem small enough and of a non-experimental nature which means that we can more quickly put them on the default branch. Here's today's update...

Release notes - Beta 8.1-3

Bug

• ACEO-41908] - Demolishing unbuilt foundations causes noticeable lag when using CTRL method
• ACEO-41944] - Upgraded structures do not get correct operation cost
• ACEO-41978] - Removing a transit structure while system is verifying connectivity to world entrance tunnels can cause null reference exception to be thrown and update process to stall
• ACEO-41980] - Missing job task assignment clamp can cause vehicle deserialization to stall
• ACEO-42005] - Certain key shortcuts not correctly labeled in tutorial
• ACEO-42014] - Rare positioning error can cause certain objects not to be built on world edge
• ACEO-42016] - String formatting exception in e-mail
• ACEO-42021] - Aircraft can in rare instances get stuck on stand immediately after load
• ACEO-42028] - Airbus A380 aircraft max fuel level slightly reduced to enable better turnaround accuracy
• ACEO-42037] - Structure lights can in rare instances become visible from underground when activated
• ACEO-42046] - Medium aircraft do not always select most suitable runway ramp
• ACEO-42050] - Specific placement of baggage bays can in rare instances cause baggage to swap bay
• ACEO-42053] - Objects can be removed outside of owned land plots generating income
• ACEO-42058] - Aircraft can in certain instances cross intersection while another aircraft is already crossing

Improvement

• ACEO-42026] - Large weather station now sufficient for displaying regular weather data

We will most likely be back tomorrow and especially on Thursday! // Alexander, Fredrik & Olof - Apoapsis Studios