Skipping to take-off auto crashes company plane, resulting in brutal punishments, insurance also broken

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ISSUE DESCRIPTION

When hitting alt+ n to skip to take off when in career mode, the game will sometimes go straight to a “you crashed” screen and never load in. This is particularly brutal when you do it in your own company plane.

The resulting punishment is a massive hit to reputation, and insurance DOES NOT cover it even if you have the highest tier. It covered 0% even though it was supposed to cover 85%. I suspect insurance just straight up doesn’t work. This is a problem outside of company career as well, as having this happen as an employee still results in a brutal hit to reputation, often losing an entire bar.

Good thing this game has no bugs, or these brutal punishments might be a problem.

My proposed fix is to knock off this hardcore nonsense unless you can guarantee your game is completely bug free enough to not punish the player in such a hardcore way when it is not their fault.

[PC Only] Did you remove all your community mods/add-ons? If yes, are you still experiencing the issue?

Yes

FREQUENCY OF ISSUE

How often does this occur for you (Example: Just once, every time on sim load, intermittently)?

Intermittently, I suspect that this is caused by the sim trying to load the aircraft in and it bouncing off the pavement hard. It’s hard to tell what causes it because you never get to load in.

REPRODUCTION STEPS

Please list clear steps you took in order to help our test team reproduce the same issue:

  1. Play career mode for some time, always skipping steps.
  2. Note that sometimes the game crashes your plane before loading in after skipping.

YOUR SETTINGS

If the issue still occurs with no mods and add-ons, please continue to report your issue. If not, please move this post to the User Support Hub.

What peripherals are you using, if relevant:

Logitech Extreme 3D Pro

[PC Only] Are you using Developer Mode or have you made any changes to it?

No

[PC, MSFS 2020 Only] Are you using DX11 or DX12?

N/A playing 2024

[PC Only] What GPU (Graphics Card) do you use?

AMD 6800 XT Reference

[PC Only] What other relevant PC specs can you share?

AMD 3900X CPU
32GB DDR 4 RAM

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I have managed to capture a photo of the 0% insurance as proof. I have the highest plan. Granted this was for landing too hard, but it was the same screen and the same bug as when the game auto crashed me in the bug report, I remembered to take a photo of the broken insurance this time.

It should also be noted “plans” is misspelled. It should be singular and not plural.

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I just skipped to the start of a banner tow path (I was already in the air) and the aircraft was teleported to 0 AGL and I crashed immediately. This was not my own plane though, so I respawned, but the plane was on the ground again but at full speed, so I crashed again, and then I was just stuck in a crash-spawn loop with no way out of it.

I had to restart the mission. Very frustrating.

As for the career consequences for this:
Devs please add a 30 second grace period for crashes after skipping to the next mission segment, so that career money isn’t lost. It’s brutal and the game isn’t stable enough to be souls-like.

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I guess it’s safe to say that they haven’t fixed this 19 days later… it’s been happening to me in career mode only on passenger airline missions. Very unfortunate since I have S level reputation and you can imagine how much it goes down after that…

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• Yes, in Career mode with my own aircraft and communication stopped working, no ability to park because I couldn’t communicate with tower, asking for taxi to parking didn’t do anything, so I tried skipping to shutdown and it just went to crashed aircraft screen. Was my first twin engine, down 3M and 2 days of grinding so not sure I’m playing for AWHILE, sadly… Too much of a grind just to have a bug take it all away in a second with no way of correcting it.

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