No, I'm pretty sure those have been the only two so far. I would love to see the Starship and Concorde!
from what I here you get the achievement when you depart. then you can use bux if you want to speed it up
You can't get a balloon yet, can you? I want one really bad, so I can paint it orange and green and haul around a guy in a pumpkin-head mask. I will name it "WHAT" so that whenever he lands, it's like "WHAT arrived in New York!"
But you can't get the Huey yet unless you trade parts, right? I think they should have the Flight Crew missions always give you a new unique plane part. This insignificant-number-of-bux thing is getting effing stupid.
I completely agree. It wasnt too bad on the last even when it was about 60 bux (I think) but only 25 for the winner this time isnt really worth the cost of purchasing Moscow and the surrounding airports.
I did it using the supergopher 3hrs 42 minutes achievement popped with NO passenger • Nome • Whitehorse • Saskatoon. • Quebec • Nuuk • Reykjavik • Oslo • Bucharest • Kuwait city • Butwal • Bangkok • Palu • Cairns • Brisbane • Wellington
I seem to have gone wrong somewhere guys, haemorrhaging money.. Got airports in London,Brussels, Bordeaux, Bergen,Warsaw, Munich, Naples, Berlin, Volgograd,Tehran, Kuwait, Delhi, chengdu, hong kong, Beijing, Harben, new York ,los Angeles and Kansas city. Planes in Europe, Mohawk m, kangaroo p, kangaroo m, Mohawk c, birch p, equinox m. Trans Atlantic, pear c, pear p x2 and aero p. have I too many airports? I know I need a feeder in the USA, but I am just not getting the hang of it. I know it is a lot to ask but can anyone help please?
I believe there was a glitch where players kept receiving the parts for the HUEY over and over again when returning to the app, hence no mystery part for the San Jose event. However, I'd like to believe that since the prize is only 25 bux that perhaps there will be a plane part included this time? I wasn't on the game for the first few world events, but I presume it didn't tell you there was going to be a mystery part until everyone received it at the end...? It seem's a bit much that we're expected to pay 51,000 for Moscow for a measly 25 bux to me. Unless they've decided the TouchArcade crew is bankrupting their bux supply
I seem to have gone wrong somewhere guys, haemorrhaging money.. Got airports in London,Brussels, Bordeaux, Bergen,Warsaw, Munich, Naples, Berlin, Volgograd,Tehran, Kuwait, Delhi, chengdu, hong kong, Beijing, Harben, new York ,los Angeles and Kansas city. Planes in Europe, Mohawk m, kangaroo p, kangaroo m, Mohawk c, birch p, equinox m. Trans Atlantic, pear c, pear p x2 and aero p. have I too many airports? I know I need a feeder in the USA, but I am just not getting the hang of it. I know it is a lot to ask but can anyone help please?
Looks like too many airports to me. What level are you? I see you have Aeros so you can go ahead and start doing the Shenghaia <--> New York route if you really wanted, but you're going to need to get a few more Aeros and I'm not sure how you bux situation looks.
First world events (Brisbane and Casablanca) both announced the special planes as prizes right when it started. Only Brisbane had mystery parts throughout the event, hence people having multiple warhawks. Haven't heard anything about Mystery Parts for Moscow, so I'm assuming there's none this time. Nimblebit is clearly looking into adjusting global event prizes though, as events used to last 3.5 days (2 per week) and this one is just 3 days. Unless its just going to bette events with worse prizes
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So I'm about to hit level 28 and get those gigantic 17 seater planes and had an idea, wanted to bounce it off the rest of you to see what you thought. Right now I'm going LA to Shanghai via the usual route. I've found that a fully range upgraded cyclone can skip London and go straight to Istanbul, then on to Shanghai, so to keep a straight shot I'll probably upgrade all of my sequoias to cyclones, and switch Shanghai for Beijing. But I'm thinking, if I have so many high-capacity, high-speed planes shooting around, I'm going to burn my layovers really fast, so I'm going to see how running two routes, with advertising, works. I'm thinking of doing 8 cyclones, split into two groups, going back and forth from LA to Beijing. That'll put me at eating 48 layover slots on each end each hour, at most. So if I were to through one of the big boys in, I'd be over the 60 and would have to hope for some lucky jobbers waiting at the port. So if I do a Rio de Janairo to Shanghai route as well, just for the big ones, I can put 6 big guys, split into two, and that'll put me at eating 51 layovers in whatever amount of time. The benefit to Rio is that it has three large airports in short distance so I can fill it fast, and Shanghai has a large number of big ports close by as well. The only thing I'm afraid of is jobbers being spread thing. Right now I'm not having that problem at ~all~ with advertising New York and Shanghai, so I'm hoping I won't have the problem if I split. It'll probably be aw hile before I can see if this works for sure, since I'm going to have to add another fleet of jobbing aeros before I can get things running. What do you guys think?
I'm already running a modified version of what you are suggesting. I have a Chicago/New York <---------------> Beijing/Shenyang and a Sao Paulo/Rio De Janeiro <-----------> Shanghai/Seoul The reason I have two cities listed on each end, is because I am willing to "backfeed". (example: I go to NewYork, pick up Beijing/Shenyang passengers, and bring them to Chicago, which is FARTHER) I know, I know, people here don't seem to want to "lose profit" by back feeding, but it IS the fastest way of filling up layover slots, and gives you the benefit of a backup city. I'm willing to lose some profit for systematic stability. Reasons backfeeding is bad: It's a longer route for less pay (meaning less profit) Reasons backfeeding is good: 1) MY profit per hour is better (meaning for every hour I spend micromanaging layovers, I make more money, since it's more automated) (not to be confused with profit per hour of flight the planes have) 2) backfeeding allows my planes to go to have an alternative hub within the target region (just in case an event closed down an airport) 3) I double my layover slots (instead of having "only" 60 slots in Rio de Janeiro, I now have 120 slots in Rio/Sao Paolo) 4) I fill up my layover slots twice as fast (since I'm targeting 2 cities on the other side of the world, instead of just one) My fleet of planes: I have 1 Aero going between Sao Paulo and Rio, picking up Shanghai/Seoul bound jobs, and dropping if off the other city. (These two class 3's are so close, it's easy to fill up the layovers.) I have 2 Aero's in the Chicago/New York area, picking up Beijing/Shenyang bound passengers. (I also have D.C, Detriot and Toronto) I have 3 Aero's in eastern China/Korea. They pick up New York/Chicago and Rio/Sao Paolo bound passengers, and drop the New York/Chicago in Shenyang and Beijing, and drop off the Rio/Sao Paolo in Shanghai and Seoul. I have 10 Cyclones, 6 doing to the: Sao Paulo/Rio De Janeiro <-----------> Shanghai/Seoul 4 doing the: Chicago/New York <---------------> Beijing/Shenyang I also have a handful of long range Areo's and Pearjets doing buxs routes. I've kept D.C, Detroit, Toronto, Tokyo and Guangzou open, because I'm getting a LOT of bux jobs for them. I just store them until I can fill an pearjet or aero, and then deliver them all at once. I'm averaging over 1500 bux a day on this system. (and since my last exchange was over 5000 bux at one shot, each bux is over 3000 coins, so an aero with six 6bux jobs is worth over 100k to me, which happens often to me) One VERY important thing I've done, is color coordinate my planes into PAIRS. I have my cyclones painted IDENTICALLY in pairs. What I make sure to do, is keep the pairs on opposite ends of the world, and send them crisscrossing at the same time. I NEVER send only one of the planes, only in matching pairs. This way, I don't come back to my game after an hour, and have all my big planes in one side of the world, which would make my layover situation all lopsided. Again, this is less "profitable", than sending the planes anytime i can fill it. But this balanced system ensures that I can fill my planes anytime after a break. I can't micromanage this game forever.... Note: I chose Seoul/Beijing/Shenyang because of their close proximity to each other, and Shanghai as the closest "fourth". Tokyo was just a little too far for me. Tokyo is now just a Bux stop for me, as well as Guangzou. I chose Chicago and New York as the closest North American class 3 cities. Anyways, this is my system. Take from it what you will.
Ah right, thanks for letting me know! I've been curious about that. It's annoying that there isn't a system that is being followed yet - I'm doing the Moscow challenge as I had an abundance of bucks available and can make the 51,000 coins in just over an hour at my current level and I don't want to miss out on any special prize at the end if that's what Nimblebit have planned. I doubt it but y'know, just to be sure...
I'm level 15, travelling transatlantic and all that, but was just wondering what you guys use as your plane numbers, I've decided I'll name them according to their maximum travel, has anyone got any better ideas? Edit: I've also placed a "S" "M" or "L" to stand for short, medium and long distances
When you said MY profit per hour, you were just making a distinction because the profit per hour for the planes is only based on flight time, correct? And by your time you mean profit for total time you actually spend playing, rather than the flight time. Is the profitability of this set-up reflected in your average daily revenue? I.e., is the average daily revenue actually calculated as just a sum of the profit per hour for each plane or does it actually look at the amount of money generated / the number of days played? Do you know? (Obviously it should be much lower than you actually generate, as you mentioned that bux jobs are a significant portion of your income). When you say long range Aeros and Pears, I assume that means you actually have Aeros running from say Chicago to Shengyang? What other airports did you choose to leave open then in the middle? (London and Tehran). I'm very impressed by this set-up, and its clearly well thought out. I haven't decided personally if I'm going to try for running both an NA -> Asia and SA -> Asia or just try for managing only 1 of them. As a final question, have you/do you plan to incorporate Cloudbusters into this strategy? How would you do so specifically? Its really frustrating with the enormous passenger/cargo difference in the Cloudbuster-M
