Just a bit of advice that might help players that are getting a little further along. Colour coding planes. And i'm not talking by class or what type of plane it is either. I colour code my planes based on where the plane operates. Blue = Feeder cities (class 2) (Honolulu --> LA, Beijing --> Tokyo). Red = Long Haul (class 3) (LA --> Tokyo) Yellow = Jobbers (running between LA --> Tokyo picking up full jobs, doing bux runs) White = Event Then I sub-colour where necessary So White with a red stripe operates JUST lima --> santiago and back again. White with green stripe operates Buenos Aires --> Santiago and back again. I then name them based on the city they operate. So I have a blue doing beijing --> Tokyo, and a blue doing Shanghai --> Tokyo. Naming them "Bei 1" and "Sha 1" means I know instantly where to send them.
- 14k coins. - 5 bux - Lvl. 13 - 3 planes (Birchcraft P and C, Equinox P) - 7 airports (Berlin, St. Petersburg, Barcelona, Baghdad, Hyderabad, Taipei, and Osaka.) - Daily Rev. : 87k PLEASE HELP ME OUT. I feel as if Im doing something wrong or Im behind. HELP
You definitely need more planes. The general rule is to have more planes than airports. Think about it. You've got 3 planes trying to utilise 7 airports - that means there's just wasted jobs all over the place! Save up some bux and get more planes, whilst keeping your airports as they are for a while.
Hey guys, not sure if something like that has been said in the last 200 pages or so, if so, sorry. Here's a tip for people that can only check in every couple hours or so during the day, but have can give a bit of attention in the evening. Right now I am level 21 and I have 6 Aeroeagle-Ms (will have seven once I replace my last pearjet). The cities I fly into and out of are Tokyo and Seoul and Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. To bridge the distance I have Lagos and Karachi. These have the benefit of all being class 3 airports, not that it matters right now since I'm only using class 2 planes. I decided against using the first class 3 plane that I unlocked recently because it was making less coins per trip on the whole than the Aeroeagles, while draining my layovers faster. I also have 2 kangaroo-Ms, one in the Tokyo area, one in the Sao Paulo area, and 3 Navigator Ms, one in Tokyo and the other two in Sao Paulo. What I do is move back and forth from Seoul to Tokyo with Sao Paulo or Rio de Janeiro people to layover, and the same in Sao Paulo. With Those four airports upgraded to level 3 I have 60 layover slots each, 120 slots on each end of my trip and very rarely do I not have jobs to taxi from one to the other with my smaller planes. They're also close enough to each each other to ensure that I stay pretty much within the New Jobs rhythm. I can generally fill the my airports in about an hour or so watching T.V. in the evening after the little one goes to bed so that they're ready to go the next day. What this does is keep a steady and constant stream of passengers to maintain the 25% bonus on each Aeroeagle flight that goes out. I had to upgrade distance on them to make the trek, and also upgraded weight on most of them to save the coins. I make roughly 7k per flight and each flight takes around an hour and 20 mins or so. The taxi flights take 5-8 mins each. I also recently added Buenos Aires in South America for the sole purpose of bringing higher-coin passengers to Sao Paulo. I'll take a full load of Buenos Aires passengers down for the coins, then bring Tokyo or Seoul passengers back up. It's really been working well for me, bringing in a couple hundred k a day at least and I recommend it to other people that are looking for a more laid-back Tiny Tower like experience.
Sounds very, very similar to my setup, except mine is from LA --> Tokyo, and I don't bother having 2 hubs at either end - i just find it confuses things. LA is struggling with event layovers at present a little, but on the whole, using nearly all 60 layover slots at LA for Tokyo and vice verca, works great. I've got 2 Fogbuster and 2 Sequoia M doing those runs. In fact I feel like I should lay out my tactics in a separate post... Hang tight peeps!
I was using LA for a while but found that the feeders around it would go dry way too often which irritated the snot out of me. San Francisco and Phoenix, even upgraded, would have no jobs to Tokyo way too often. The two class 3 airports ensured that I always have jobs to pull and reduces the amount of attention I need to pay to the game when I'm reloading. I haven't reached the Sequoia level yet but was really disappointed with the Fogbusters to be honest. In the trip from LA to Tokyo they were making less money than my Aeroeagles while taking more passengers. It might have had something to do with the route that the Fogbuster had to take, it couldn't route through Madrid for a more-straight shot, having to use Paris instead, so I'll have to check it out again once I get my bucks built back up for my new route.
My Current Setup Level: 24 Planes: 2 x Sequoia (M), 2 x Fogbuster (M), 3 x Aeroeagle (M), 8 x Pearjet (M) Airports: Honolulu (2), Los Angeles (3), Lima (3), Santiago (3), Buenos Aires (3), New York (3), London (3), Tehran (3), Beijing (3), Shanghai (3), Tokyo (3) Average Daily Income: 993,943 Main Strategy My main strategy is to run the Sequoia and Fogbusters from LA --> Tokyo constantly. No deviations for bux or special jobs. 2 Pearjets run from Honolulu to LA dropping off Tokyo layovers (and at the moment, event layovers). 2 Pearjets do the same from Beijing / Shanghai to Tokyo for LA jobs. This nets a lot of money! Sub-Strategy I then have 2 Pearjets and an Aeroeagle that I call my 'jobber' planes. One operates in the americas, one operates in asia and the other all over the place. London acts as a hub between americas and asia (i.e. a New York to London flight might have a good bux mission on it for asia, so i'll drop it off at london for the asia jobber to pick up). The overall jobber is there to pick up any scraps and job around various airports where there are full planes Event Strategy For this current event i've got 1 Pearjet running Buenos Aires to Santiago, non-stop, and 1 pearjet doing the same for lima. the 2 remaining aeroeagles do drops between LA --> Santiago picking up the extra layovers from Honolulu. Hopefully some people will find this useful
I find with 2 planes running honolulu to LA, there's plenty of layovers. Also - i find it hard to believe teh fogbusters made less than aeroeagles? the stats for mine suggest about 6k an hour, and the sequoia about 8 an hour, which is plenty more than my aeroeagles were making with the same flights before.
I have London, Paris & Madrid. I played around with my routes and found it more profitable to fly LA --> Tokyo via NY-Madrid-Tehran (rather than thru London or Paris). And it's really weird. Sometimes going thru Shanghai to Tokyo is cheaper than going thru Beijing to Tokyo. Other times, this flip flops and going thru Beijing is cheaper. :-/ However in the big picture, this is all negligible.
That actually sounds more solid that what I'm doing, I might give that a shot in a week when I've built my cash back up and am level-appropriate. I'd also have to get a lot more Pearjets.... Do you have a problem with the pearjets bringing less cargo than people? Would Aeroeagles be a solid replacement or would the lost speed jam things up do you think?
I don't find the less cargo thing a problem at all to be honest, although the Aeroeagles will replace SOME of my pearjets soon. My thinking was for later on, when I get Tetra and Cloudbusters, who's M planes have MASSIVE passenger / cargo differences. Pearjets work a lot better than aeroeagles for the layover runs though. I could probably replace the jobber pearjets though, just haven't got round to it!
Yeah that 12/5 ratio for the cloudliner M looks terrifying. I might have to have a P and a C once I get there instead of two Ms. Or I might just not do cloudliners...
I think you've got to go for them - imagine the bonuses on 17 jobs in one flight, going that far!? Tetra planes go the other way though and hold more cargo. If I have 1 cloudliner and 2 Tetra, it should balance out just about.
jsut realised i'm 17th in the event as well! Some guy on twitter keeps banging on about how he's done about 1,500 jobs - thing is, he's literally focusing his airline around the events every time! I much prefer the transatlantic approach with events in-between. I'm thinking about keeping lima / buenos anyway, and then just moving onto the next event on top of that.
K... I'm sure that this has been answered already... But I'm trying to get some Class 2 planes, but whenever I try to place them in an airport, it says that they can't be placed there. I've tried upgrading my airports... But that doesn't seem to work. Are there just certain airports that can house Class 2 planes, or do I need to upgrade my airports to level 3 before they'll hold class 2 planes... Or what? Thanks for any help... And sorry, I tried using the search this thread feature, but it only searches for words with 4 or more letters, and there's TONS of posts with the words "class" and "plane" in them... Can't search for "class 2" ... =o/
Finally got New York What city should i go forto introduce myself to europe? London? I have Birchcrafts and Equinox.
The class of an airport has to do with the color of the dot it has (which I think has to do with the population of the place), not with how upgraded it is. Black dots are 1, blue are 2 and red are 3. So you can only place and fly your class 2 planes at blue or red dots. For flight planning purposes you can't even use a class 1 airport as a distance-extending stop in your class 2 airplane's trip.
