How do people deal with duplicate gate numbers in different numbered terminals?

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I’m editing an airport in the World Hub right now, and it has a terminal 1 with gates 1 through 16 and a terminal 2 with gates 1 through 17. Of course, if I try to model it that way, the SDK yells at me because I have duplicate gate numbers.

If the airports had terminals A and B this would be easy because then I could simply give a “GATE_A” and a “GATE_B” designation. But this is not the case, here: the terminals are numeric.

Other than assigning a fake “GATE_A” and “GATE_B” designation, or simply foregoing realistic gate numbers, there does not appear to be a way around this. How do people deal with this?

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The way I’ve dealt with it is selecting the area where each parking is located (North, Northeast, East, etc)

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No way out! Airports should not use numeric terminal id’s :slight_smile: :slight_smile:

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Thanks for the answer. If I do that, would they still show up as gates on the World Map?

(I can test later. No need to answer if you would need to research it. But thought I’d ask.)

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Heh, feel free to tell that to JFK, LAX, Chicago, London, Manila, Sydney, Rome, Seoul, Narita…

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Yes they show up as NW PARKING 1-3, S PARKING 1-5, etc.

And I think the list is sorted by area then number.

IIRC parking without an area designation is sorted at the end of the list, but I could be wrong.

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Thank you for the answer! I will look into it when I get into a position to test my airport.

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Agreed, I do the same (north, south, southwest, etc)