CrewLife Status Update
Happy Friday! About 2 weeks ago, I published a post regarding the beta for a new career mode addon that I've been working on named CrewLife, and I just wanted to provide an update on what's been changed since then and all of the features.
What is CrewLife?
CrewLife is a virtual airline pilot career platform built around the idea that flight sim hours should mean something. In CrewLife, you can:
- Start at a Cadet at either a Tier 1 or a Tier 2 airline and work your way up.
- Promotions aren't simply earned through hours. Promotions are based on three things:
- XP (Earned from completing checkrides, earning awards, and completing flights.)
- Checkride (Written Quiz) Completion (Each rank has a different set of lessons and checkrides, everything is based off of real-world aviation knowledge.)
- A little bit of background. I am a Private Pilot IRL and am working on earning my instrument rating, and continuing flying as my career. I feel as though one of the best ways for myself to learn is through teaching (I am NOT a Certified Flight Instructor, but I believe being able to explain things through lessons on the platform will cause me to better understand concepts myself and as an additive, allow others to learn about real world flying without requiring money to be spent)
- Airline Hours (Number of hours flown for the airline you fly for.)
- Each rank unlocks longer schedules, more route options, and more privalleges.
- Promotions aren't simply earned through hours. Promotions are based on three things:
- Earn money based on the tier and airline you fly for.
- Money can be invested, saved, and spent on various items
- Compete with other pilots via a leaderboard, either globally or simply for your airline.
- Receive passenger reviews (Seeded from 10000+ different possible reviews) based on the way that you flew
- Track your flight via the CrewLife Tracker
- Supports Xplane and MSFS
- Via XUIPC or FSUIPC
- Supports Xplane and MSFS
- Apply for new airlines via our Job Board & Applications system
- Competitive system - score is calculated from your hours, XP, reputation, and safety record
- Appications take time to resolve with approval/denial + reason
- Contract lock system that incurs an early exit fee if you decide to leave your airline within 30 days of joining it
- and more..
- Fatigue rules based on IRL regulations
Now, what's new since I last posted about CrewLife?
- Simbrief Integration
- CrewLife now has full simbrief integrations, including a full flight briefing sections based on your simbrief route
- Tracker Update
- the CrewLife Tracker has been updated to v0.3.1 which included a complete UI overhaul, and multiple QOL adjustments
- ALL Checkrides and Lessons have been created for nearly ALL ranks.
- Around 5-10 lessons were hand crafted per rank. Checkrides (Written quizzes) were also created.
- Departure + Arrival Gate system
- Airports have been hand curated for proper airline + gate assignments
- Stock market
- Created new way to invest money, using fictional stocks that have the possibility of having events that can cause stocks to either drop or rise.
- Market is based on IRL hours and closes at IRL times as well.
- UI Overhaul, the UI of the site has been completely overhauled and readability has been massively improved.
- Weather based XP bonuses
CrewLife is still looking for testers!! Help is needed!
If you're interested in trying out CrewLife for yourself, head over to the website, and create an account! I'd also love for you to join the discord and let me know that you're testing so that we can hash out any issues you find and implement any suggestions that you have!
Currently the site is on manual approval mode, that means once you create your account, I will manually approve the account creation. Whenever your account is approved, you'll receive an email with instructions on how to get started!
Website can be found here: https://fscrewlife.com/
And the discord can be found here: https://discord.gg/XaA7ze9aKU
Looking forward to having new testers and meeting you guys!
(CrewLife is and will always intend to be free and inclusive to all users!)
