Thanks for the reply. I am at work right now so I can't study my phone to get all of my planes, but I'm running a couple Birchcrafts, several Kangaroos and a couple Exquinox mixed. I haven't upgraded to any of the really big planes yet. I'm level 19 and have around 400k coins and 170 bux. Been saving up trying to decide what to do. Also, is it possible to fly over the Pacific? Or can you only go back and forth from Asia over to North America?
If you don't use your sequoias to get things to london/paris then you could remove all of your cities between NA and Asia and use Istanbul as your go-between. Fully range upgraded Cloudliners can make it to Istanbul from Chicago and Cyclones can make it from N.Y. And why not just fly your big planes from one end to the other and layover at each end instead of having a central layover spot? And you really don't have straight lines for profit purposes. While you might be able to fly from London to your destination in one go, the bitizen is calculating the amount he pays on a straight line from point A to point B, so you're still paying more in transport fees to get them to London then off London. I like the hub-idea though, it reduces or removes backfeeding I would imagine, which is always a good thing, but I would imagine it makes layover slot babysitting a real pain in the butt.
Thanks for your thoughts. - How long are flights from Istanbul - Chicago? Perhaps this would become future plans where Chicago/NY is the hub for the west and Istanbul is hub for the East. Cloudliners fly Chi/Istanbul. Everything else feeds into these 2 cities. Not too unlike my London/Paris hubs but a little more flatten out. Very interesting. I will have to grind the buxs to increase my Cloudliner fleet and then to upgrade them. Probably 2 weeks worth of work?
A whole bunch of pages back I wrote a pretty long write up of my current lay out. I have two routes that run, one from Chicago to Shanghai, with Cloudliners, one from N.Y. to Beijing with Cyclones. I sometimes have layover problems in North America, but I'm probably going to add another feeder when I can afford the slot and that should fix my problem. I only use Istanbul as a distance-extender, I don't see the need to use it for layovers. I load up Chicago, N.Y., Beijing and Shanghai and then fly direct from one end to the other. This way each city is only laying over people that want to head to one spot, it's easier to keep track of which cities need more layover slots filled. It must be a real pain to try to maintain which cities need more slots and which don't. Do you have a lot of downtime with your planes sitting and waiting to fill with layovers from one side or the other?
That's going to be my next addition. I think South America to Asia is a "better" route than North America to Asia. Especially earlier in the game when you have to take that crooked London/Paris route pre-cyclones. It's a shorter route, which isn't really a bad thing (shorter routes are more profitable in a miles/coins ratio) and South America has more, and closer, feeders than North America. I'm thinking of a Rio to Ganzhou route, should be really easy to keep full. It'll be hard to double route it without backfeeding, but I'll probably add Sao to Seoul after I get my Rio route established. Or I might switch my north route to end in Seoul and have my South America routes end in Shanghai and Ghanzou.
No hope of collecting enough coins for a plane slot anytime before the next Ice Age. I think I'll drop the Pearjets first. I really really really hate those odd splits. That's part of the reason why those Cloudbusters don't appeal ... if only they could split P/C evenly on those M planes. I'll try to phase out the Fogbusters for the Cyclones. It's really odd, sometimes there's a dry spell. Sometimes I don't have enough layovers and have to wait. Other times I have too many. So I'm not sure what the problem is. I'm taking layovers from Buenos Aires/Sao Paulo to Rio, and Beijing/Tokyo to Shanghai. It seems to be more of a problem on the South America end. My daughter is old enough to know what she's doing yet young enough to mess things up. It works out better if I tell her what to click on, but then everything goes sooooo slooooow. LOL The Magadan Global Event is not worth the trouble for the prize. I make more Bux than that by doing jobs, LOL, but I'm doing what I can for TA. This one is slow going with the Kangaroo going to the class 1 airport. I make a bigger dent when the Global Event takes place at a class 2 or class 3 airport. I hope the next Global Event prize is a Hot Air Balloon ... I really want to try using that for Nome-to-Wellington.
For me: Not particularly - but I suppose that's subjective. With each Hub city receiving people/cargo from 4 cities - it fills up pretty fast. Which mean at any given point there should be a particular set of people and cargo being ready to fill up planes and take off pretty quickly. I don't really "keep track" per say - with each hub city - whatever people/cargo that has the highest number at the moment is slated to be the next flight out. So it's kind of a fire and forget type of thing. There's also the benefit of being after to quickly shuffle people/cargo from london to paris or vice versa to fill in the last few slots so the plane can take off relatively quickly.
I do South America to Asia: Rio - Kinshasa - Mumbai - Shanghai It's not a bad route, and it is pretty straight ... so it makes it easy to scroll across the map while zoomed in and still find the next waypoint. (I had a problem with the up and down path from NY to Shanghai when I was zoomed in on the map) BTW, I sent you a Tetra part, hope it arrived OK
Yeah the uneven Ms are terrible. I didn't use Tetras at all. I'm using Cloudliners right now, in C/P pairs but I ~hate~ it. If I didn't have so many bux invested in them I'd switch them for cyclones in a heartbeat.
I think your method is far more flexible for the game decides to be a jerk than mine. If you get 2 or 3 job pulses without a certain city/cargo it doesn't stall you out like it does for me. I think that's a huge plus. I've spent upwards of 20 mins in L.A. waiting for a feeder to fill for New York, that kills me.
Ah.... so it isn't just me!!! I had a problem with Mexico City too, now I try to avoid stopping there cuz it's just so hard to fill up my plane and leave again.
Cloudliners are hard to fill up. It really only works if you fly direct between hub cities with other planes feeding you people and cargo.
I assume that's why. But they're also fast, which makes them extra irritating, imo. The more I think about the numbers, the more it seems to me that Sequoias are maybe the best end game plane.
I think it comes down to playstyle. If you only check a few times a day. Then Sequoia are likely the best. Easy to fill up and highly profitable. If you check more than 6-8 times a day and you use the hub system - then Cloudliners will move more people/money in the absolute term in a day.
I don't know if this has already been asked/answered, but: is NimbleBit thinking on allowing more than 1 airport purchase in each level up? They could allow 1 black airport & 1 blue/red airport for each level up. More strategy involved this way. Only a suggestion though...
I was just experimenting with that route right now but I find the L.A. to Tokyo a bit for profitable I am making 15k + from L.A. to Tokyo but from Rio to Seoul I am making 11k with my new sequioas and yes the Tetra part just arrived thank you very much
The main reason I hate them is because they have an uneven m so I have to go p/c. The way I prefer to play (what I had been and still am doing with my Cyclones) is pick up as many p/c pairs I can on my Cyclone M that are just sitting in the port, then filling the rest with layovers and sending off. Rinse, repeat. This way the pull on my layover pull is reduced a bit, making restocking it easier. With my p/c Clouds I can't really do that. I have to pick the airplane, then switch the view to all, then count up all the pairs, then load on one plane, then switch to the other and load the same number. And if the game pops new jobs while I'm switching it might throw everything off. Plus I hate the numbers, 17 and 17, for 34 total. I can't add another pair of Clouds without pushing to 68 total needed each trip.
How am I Doing? Hi guys I'm new and wanted to find out how I am doing?? Here are the stats: Level: 12 Coins: 43,000 Bux: 185 Fleet: Walaby P, Mohawk M, Mohawk C, Birchcraft P, Navigator C, Navigator C, Anan P, Kangaroo M, Equinox P Airports: New York, Toronto, Washington DC, Atlanta, Miami, Dallas, Phoenix, San Francisco, Mexico City, London. Airline Value: 479,000 Population Served: 66M Total Flights: 1,581 Miles Flown: 1,064,776 Passengers: 1,746 Cargo: 1,180 Most Profitable Flight: 1,331 I used to be in Europe but moved to the US but because my next set of planes are the Pearjets I kept London so eventually I can do NY>London. -BritishAmerican
