Originally Posted by
doubles
How long does the grid have to be 75% green? 5 minutes? One day?
Still on reserve for a year?
What base would you pick as a noob commuting from a major midwestern city with only a small Spirit presence?
Initial open time is seniority based. It’s open for a few days. No trades/drops/swaps are processed while it’s open. The grid has to be 75% green at the start, and won’t change, because nothing gets processed. After IOT closes, CS will start to process requests in seniority order. At some point requests will get denied because of the days being red, because more people drop in IOT than pick up. The day after the IOT awards are out, daily open time opens. Normally there will be a lot of trips in there and the grid will be somewhat red, at least in my seat/base/history. When DOT opens everyone will put a ton of requests in at the same time. Normally that will crash FliCa, and you will be angry. After a few days things stabilize, all weekends are red, and only trash trips are left in open time. Also, none of this matters to newhires. You can’t do anything until you are off reserve, and by the time that happens your shirt will be blue.