Hang in there! I agree it is slow going in the beginning but it will definitely pick up soon! You are on the right track closing class 1 airports and moving to class 3 airports. The class 3 airports will be your primary airports later in the game and you benefit from their larger job list and higher layover capacity. Build up your Bux supply cuz you'll need lots to upgrade larger planes later on. Also try to fill up your planes with people/cargo all going to the same place so you get the 25% cash bonus. The next three planes to unlock for you are: Equinox (lvl 12), Pearjet (lvl 14) and Aeroeagle (lvl 16). AIRPORTS: Red dots = class 3 airport Blue dots = class 2 airport Black dots = class 1 airport PLANES: class 1 = can stop at class 1, class 2 & class 3 airports class 2 = can stop at class 1 and class 2 airports class 3 = can stop at class 3 airports only
Your routes are impressive! I wonder how much time you spend managing 21 planes. I've changed my main routes and layover scenario many times and still haven't found a good balance between profitability and time management. I'm currently overwhelmed with juggling 18 planes, mostly from micromanaging the feeder/Bux planes. I can go down the list and load up my planes. Then by the time I'm done, new planes have landed and I feel I am never done and cannot walk away from the game. I'd like to configure it so that I can check in every hour or so to do "housekeeping" cuz this game is seriously affecting work!!
I agree with everything Faye said. I don't know if anyone has done any research into exp gain, it seems tied more to total trip payout rather than profit from my anecdotal experience, so try to fill your planes all the time and keep those birds in the air! There's no need to keep your airport number maxed, and I think it's advisable to not do that. I'm fairly high level and only have 7 airports open. That way you can ensure that the jobs that are available are: 1) Reachable. 2) Profitable. When you're buying airports try to keep them in a line as much as a possible, that way you can maximize your profits. Have 3 or 4 class one airports in a general line is going to be more efficient than having 7 or 8 in a web or circle.
Yeah it's kind of a pain in the butt if I want to make sure it's operating at maximum efficiency. While I'm at work (hooray for office cubical jobs when I'm reading/writing most of the time) I usually just check in every now and then and don't worry about layovers or feeding. Maybe during lunch I'll do some feeding and such, but generally I just pull natural jobbers until I have a pair of full big planes and then send. It's far slower and far less efficient (though sometimes planes fill surprisingly fast, I think advertising has a lot to do with that). I'll probably get 2 or 3 total back and forth flights in an 8 hour workday just checking in semi-regularly which makes me a fair amount of coin. If I'm averaging 11k or so profit on my cyclones that's probably somewhere around 240-260k and I'm netting around 14k on my Cloudliners so that's another 170-180k I think? And there's no feeder cost on those flights either so that's a plus. I am eating about 164k in advertising costs though so that stinks lol. I also have a pretty good amount of my planes doing the long distance thing. 12 of my planes are big planes, 9 are feeding. I don't worry about bux at all anymore, I just let them come from the big plane routes. They still come in at a fair clip, I think I made about 400 yesterday, which is a significant drop off from when I had 4 aeroeagles dedicated to gathering and transporting bux. But I'm at a point now where the bux aren't as important as the coins, I know I can bank the bux into coins but that seems like more trouble than I'm willing to deal with. Every plane in my fleet has fully upgraded weight, and all 12 of my big planes also have fully upgraded range. I have parts stored for 4 more cloudliners (2 P and 2 C) already. The limiting factor for me right now is the plane slots. It's going to cost me 2,643,900 coins to unlock the 22nd plane slot. That's going to be probably 2 days of play to get there, more likely 3 to be comfortable. In that time I'll probably get 700-800 bux just from running my route normally, which is more than enough to buy and upgrade another cyclone, and pretty close to buying and upgrading a cloudliner. If I use the plane slot to add a feeder (which I'm sure I will) I already have it in my hangar and the upgrade cost on a sequoia is pretty cheap.
Still enjoying reading your progress, tactics and stats for your game play! Don't think one of my messages was approved by an admin for whatever reason...?! So part of it was just to say thank you for the Sequoia gift Can I just ask, how did you manage your bux runs? Did you stock pile them all at a hub and then transport them all, or was it just take them wherever, whenever? Did you ever aim for the +25%? What was your profit per hour for the bux run planes? Why not include bux in with your regular flights?
Current World Event Rankings so far Just a shout out to Harpxr8 (recently traded with so see his name on the world event leaderboard). He's currently number 8 with 312 jobs delivered, closely followed and following closely everyone but the top 3 (719, 505, 451)! Nice to see players when they pull their weight rather than joining the TA crew just for the reward after doing a measly 5 jobs! Keep it up guys!
So before I went dual-route I had 4 aeroeagles that did nothing but bux. Two of these eagles did nothing but bux collection. I had one in North America that typically sat it L.A. until it had at least 4 Asia bux jobs on it, then I flew it to Chicago. Chicago was my bux hub in North America. If I had any bux jobs from Asia to L.A. I would then pick them up and fly back to L.A. and sit again. In Asia I had a Bux eagle that sat in Seoul or Tokyo and would fly back and forth as soon as it had 2 bux jobs. So Seoul and Tokyo were both my bux hub in Asia. I would stockpile bux jobs for any of my ports, since they were all flown over in my flight from on bux hub to the other. The other two did nothing but bux transporting. So I would go from Chicago to Seoul or Tokyo. I wouldn't worry about the 25% bonus on the bux runs at all. If I could get it, awesome, if not, no biggie. All of my bux planes had a negative coins per hour listing. I consider it paying coins for bux, which is a pretty good deal given that the coin value of a single bux is at least 500 coins. For the sake of comparison a bux guy from L.A. to Tokyo is like 8 or 9 bux, in terms of coins that 4000 or 4500 coins. A coin passenger on the same route is right around 2000 coins. So I'd be paying something like 5 or 6k in transport costs for like 40-50 bux. Good trade off I think! For the main route buxs I would usually let them "rise to the top" of the layovers list, and when I had enough I would load them all on one of my bux eagles and send it over. I tried to keep the bux jobs off my main flyers because I wanted an accurate coin-per-hour, not that it really matters.
Does anybody know why the number of bux you earn from jobs doesn't increase even with the 25% bonus? I can understand for jobs worth 3 bux and under but for 4 and over surely there should be an increase?
Idk, guessing they just forgot to consider this... But I also thought a 4 bux job with a 25% bonus should surely be worth 5bux...
That makes sense to me too, but I'm pretty sure that even 4 bux and over jobs don't increase at all, even though it says next to the job '25% bonus'
Game considers each buck to be worth 500 coins. So the 25% bonus gives 4 bucks and 500 coins for that flight (assuming 4 bux job to start, 4x500 coins is 2000, 25% is 500)
Pretty sure I saw someone post that the 25% for bux jobs is converted to coins. So a 4 bux job that should give 1 bux bonus gives 500 coins?
That's pretty neat. I thought that there was just no bonus instead. But say for a 5 bux job with the 25% bonus, would you still get 500 coins or 625 coins?
Getting my stuff together and making good money. Lvl 10 Planes: 3 x Kangoroo P, 3 x Kangoroo C and 2 x Kangoroo M Cities: Berlin, London, Madrid, Paris and Barcelona. When I don't get my Planes fully loaded, I just add stuff that needs to go to Paris and there I will fill up the plane for the 25% bonus. This works ideal, because Paris lays in the middle of all my cities. Like this: - - - - - 500 coins (just bought Paris) and 20 bucks. When I don't get my Planes Daily rev: 100k Airline value: 280k Think I will continue this course till I am able to buy Pearjets. Are Pearjets able to go NY-LONDON?
A (3x range upgraded) Pearjet will go from London to New York. A Birchcraft will not be able to make it from London to New York, even with upgrades; however you can work around this by going south via Lagos to South America (to Recife(c2) with non-upgraded Birchcraft; to Rio(c3) with 3x upgraded Birchcraft) Think about spreading your wings a bit instead of bunching up your airports around the same spot. Madrid(c2) & Barcelona(c2) are very close together, you may want to eventually close Barcelona. Think about which direction you would like to expand first. Do you want to expand toward North America/New York? Or do you want to expand toward Asia/Shanghai/Tokyo/etc? Buy New York(c3) if you want to cross the Atlantic first ... you'll need a 3x upgraded Pearjet. Buy Istanbul(c3) or Tehran(c3) if you want to head to Asia ... London to Istanbul requires Birchcraft, Pearjet, or 2x upgrade Kangaroo. London to Tehran requires a Pearjet or 2x upgraded Birchcraft. Sent me a PM and I'll try to hook you up with a plane or two.
Sounds like a great plan. But I wonder: Is it really worth keeping London and Tehran just to keep using Aeros to ferry bux overseas? I think you' be better off closing those ports and swapping to Seqs to cart the bux over. The more I play, the more I feel like every airport has to really justify its existence to remain open. Random thought: have you considered an asymmetrical route? I'm toying with the idea of having the asian 'flower' cities feed only LA/Honolulu. Then, for eastbound flights, to pick up whomever I can on the way. The idea is that in HI/LA/Chicago/NY, you are easily filling your planes with all asian-flower cities (which you group up in Shang / Bej), then on the flower end, you're feeding with very small, fast planes, aiming to average 2-3 minutes travel time (in a perfect world, where you make it back just in time to pick up the next job cycle) to your binary hub(s). I haven't implemented this idea yet, but I'm tempted. I also just got cyclones, so I'm still trying to decide if I'm building on the aforementioned strategy, or the above experiment. Also: you should add me on GC, Pez
Since I posted that I've ditched London and Tehran and started a second route going Chicago to Shenghai with Cloudliners. I posted a rather long post talking about it on page 451! Give a read
I haven't tried the advertising thing yet. I rely on smaller planes bringing layovers to my hub. Is it really worth it? 164k... that's quite a lot of coins! ... especially when I'm scrounging around for coins to upgrade planes and buy plane slots. This is part of my problem. I only have 3 big planes and everything else is a feeder or job/bux chaser. It'll be a long while before I can get another big plane into the mix. I really need to rework my route first and make it so that I can fully load a big plane without having to wait too many job cycles to do so. Maybe go back to the North America to Asia route I had used before. I'm doing the South America to Asia Route right now. What I really need to do is let go of Honolulu ... it's so hard to do when I had fully upgraded that airport, and I love sending a bunch of 10 Bux jobs that way ... but I can really use the coins too.
