My two cents

[Dysydent]

I’ve seen a post on Reddit about this game and it seemed a dream come true. Unfortunately, it was not. It may be great, but so far, it’s unplayable.

This engine is great, there are a lot of planes and airports, and I love that you can play in the Golden Age, but the game lacks competition. While the world may be so advanced, the lack of meaningful AI makes it completely unplayable - there is no competition to speak of and there may be 400 companies beside you and you will still not feel like they are there. Please, fix that soon, before that, there’s hardly any gameplay in.

[Tjoeker]

Thanks for trying out our game. We’re fully aware we have a lot of work ahead of us. Including the AI.

[FAA]

That’s the beauty of early Alpha. I agree, it’s very uneven. The main features like passenger/route calculation, a lot of planes, airports and real airlines are already there, but some basic features like AI that actually makes sense, aren’t there. This makes the game barely playable, but be patient, once those are added, we’re in for a treat!

Still beats online crap with stupid airline names and lack of balance. Airlinesim.aero had a stupid airline named AirCheese as its long-time behemoth.

[Brytenwalda]

That’s the beauty of early Alpha. I agree, it’s very uneven. The main features like passenger/route calculation, a lot of planes, airports and real airlines are already there, but some basic features like AI that actually makes sense, aren’t there. This makes the game barely playable, but be patient, once those are added, we’re in for a treat!

Still beats online crap with stupid airline names and lack of balance. Airlinesim.aero had a stupid airline named AirCheese as its long-time behemoth.

Oh, yes, Air Cheese was atrocious. I don't think that any online sim can provide a realistic experience, players always like to do something silly, and demand is always off, for some reason. Not to mention that these worlds are usually dominated by several airlines owned by old players, who started as soon as the new server was there.

TAP doesn't really need that much to be great. If AI was alright, I would call this the best airline sim in a pinch. It has all the main things already - real airlines, real planes, real airports that are mostly correct for their era, all it needs is to make your competitors truly "think" and act properly. Everything more will make it better, I really want to see some more events, regulations changing etc. but with decent AI this will already be so much better than any other game on the market