Originally Posted by JonNYC
Additionally, what you are talking about would require a change in the programming of the computer that assigns the upgrades for Gold, Plat, EP. Such a change would be hard to keep secret, if you know what I mean. And I bet someone would have leaked it to me by now!
Well, an idle mind is a dangerous mind as it were, and these folks have lots of software developers that need to keep busy
. In the computer and industrial math industry, AA is well known as a place of eggheads. The Software that runs almost everything, almost everywhere, gets changed almost everyday. Heck, I can't keep my developers from making changes, even when it causes massive colateral damage
, they have nothing else to do other than eat doritos and drink diet coke
rbAA's post suggests that fare paid/basis/whatever is used as a metric to make certain determinations.
The dude that designed most of the yield mgmt system at AA was a grad school prof of mine in the mid 80s, and if he has anything to do with this stuff, I would not be surprised that there are all sorts of fancy algorithms inside the UPGD system that looks at 50 different factors....
The silicon based units are only as dangerous as the carbon based units make them