so i just got a Cyclone and was hoping to replace one of my Aeroeagle with it doing a London -> Tokyo route. But the profit i get from the Cyclone is around the same and sometimes even less. 4-5K with the cyclone (with 25% bonus) and the Aeroeagle gets me around 5K each flight (with 25% bonus). and the cyclone uses up my layovers twice as fast! wondering if anyone knows why it is like that?? and will the Cyclone be better off doing longer flights, like from one side of the map to the other?
I had that same problem with those planes, that's part of the reason I went back to Sequoias after running a cyclones/cloudliner set up. What the Cyclone had going for it is speed. If you have full layovers all the time in your main ports, then you want to keep pulling them off as fast as possible so that you can make profit. A cyclone makes roughly the same profit as a sequoia on the same route but takes 2 more people. It also makes that route in like half the time. The other thing to note is that if you're trying to work your way up the level leaderboards you have to use these faster planes. While their profit is similar, the total amount that they make is not, and your exp gain is based on the total amount made, not profit. You'll also probably climb the miles-flown leaderboard faster also since they make more flights due to their fast speed. So if you have the time to play the game more, then you want to use those fast planes because their profit per hour is much higher. Plus Cyclones and Cloudliners pretty much need layover support if they're going to be worth using. If you're only checking in one or two times day, then you want to use the slower planes because their profit-per bitizen is higher.
Jobs Per Airport and upgrades Anyone know how this works? I have a few class 3 airports that I upgraded to level 3 and it does not seem to add a significant amount of jobs. I've closed most of my smaller airports so I was wondering if job number per airport was depending on total number of owned airports. It seemed the job list was longer when I had a number of smaller airports (which I never flew to).
Things are straightening out. And everything is making so much more sense. Less planes sitting waiting, not as many flights. And I am making more coin! Although I think it is more addictive. Now I am thinking of getting a second route running. Just hit level 26 and am debating picking up some Cyclones to add to the mix. Things have slowed down considerably since I figured out what I was doing wrong. Cyclones I hope will balance the game a bit more towards the time I can devote.
What is a good south American to India route? Not messing up my current route ( LA TO BEJIING ) I am using Seoul, shanghai, Tokyo and shenyang as feeders so I need a route that doesn't interfere with the route I have there currently please answer lol
With a little bit of color coding you can go South America to Guangzhou and use the same feeder cities in Asia. Just have feeders that are feeding N.Y. guys to Beijing one color and guys that are feeding South America guys to Guangzhou a second color.
(I think Im annoying everyone with my posts.) I have 200k coins. 400 bux Level 24 3 airports (New York, London, and Moscow.) 5 planes. 2 Tetra and 3 Fogbuster. I have no idea where to go from here. If I open new airports, I wont have any money to fly a plane. Its getting boring with just three airports as well. I really want to set up a Morth and South pattern for my planes but the problem is money. I think Ill exchange 100 bux for coins if its a good idea. Tetra-P Tetra-M Fogbuster-M x3 Thanks in advance for helpful tips.
Heh Yeah. I wish there was more info on how many jobs are attached to the number of airports / how many jobs does upgrading add. Correlation between number of jobs and number of airports / upgrading seems to be very obscure.
I have adopted a South America to Asia route which is making me alotof money using Sequioas. But I couldn't do that straight away I needed to save some money and Bux first. So I had all 7 Class 3 airports in the Americas opened (NYC, Chicago, LA, Mexica City, Lima, Rio, Sao Paulo & Buenos Aires). Picked up random jobs and shipped them all to Mexico City (fully upgraded). Then once I could fill a plane I shipped them out. Rinse and repeat. Once I had enough Sequioas....I started on my current route.
I am going to attempt that. Had Rio open so I bought Lima, Sao Paulo, and Buenos Aires. That is the west side. On the east I opened Guangzhou as a main airport and will see how it goes. Maybe biting off more than I can chew. Hope the next event is not in some out of the way place.
I tried to respond in two sentences, but I found that it was interesting for me to try to formalize my strategy by writing it. It's not perfect yet, far from it! The main advantage of the hubs in the map center is that you at least double the storage for layovers. And you don't really have to coordinate your planes if you have enough layovers so you don't need extra attention and assigning an area to each plane as I understand you're doing. Once in a while it gets too crowded in one airport and you send a few big ones to deflate it. It's also very fast to build layovers if needed as the 2 airports in the hubs are close. Just send an aero doing bak and forth trips. Abd added bonus you're not stopped by an airport closed for bad weather. You could think of it as routes all converging from 3 clusters (North America, South America, East Asia) to the 3 hubs in the center of the map (Europe, Africa, Middle East) that act as main and massive storages : I'm still working for the best allocations but it should ressemble sthg like that : Europe hub (Paris/London) connecting the North America cluster (LA/Chicago/NY) and East Asia cluster (Shangai /Seoul/Tokyo). Africa hub (Lagos/Kinsasha) connecting the South America cluster (Rio/Buenos Aires/Lima) and East Asia cluster Middle East hub (Mumbai/Karachi) connecting Europe hub and Africa hub to East Asia cluster I'm kind of specialising airports in the hubs but that's not very formal yet. Think of it as one of each hub airport more specialised in a westward or eastward direction as well as north or south areas jobs going east from NA to EA are going through NY, Paris and Karachi jobs going west from EA to NA are going throuh Seoul, Karachi and then London jobs going east from SA to EA are going through Rio, Kinshasa then Mumbai jobs going west from EA to SA are going through Shangai then Mumbai and Kinshasa Of course if I can fill a plane early, I send it directly to its destination, not doing the intermediate airports (from Seoul or Karachi direct to LA for instance, not stopping at London or NY) And depending of the bux and cargo flow : Lagos is kind of a hub for SA <> Europe. Chicago hub for NA <> Africa. Lima hub for NA <> SA Well, I have too much free time...or not Anyway, my two cents
Does anybody know what affects the airline value most? Should I open more airports and service a higher population, increase my airlines capacity (more planes, bigger planes), all of the above, ...? I am at level 33 with 21 planes and 15/36 cities (all class 3 except Honolulu), with an airline value of about 7.5M. Looking at the leaderboard, I am #161 worldwide in level, #72 in miles flown, #480 in total flights, but about #11000 in peak airline value. Clearly I'm playing the game "differently" than how Ian & Dave expected. I would have thought all these metrics should be in the same ballpark, but my airline value is a distinct outlier.
The devs said the jobs for the airports you don't own are still there in the jobs pool, you just can't see them. From what I understand it works like this: so say you own airports A, B and C. There are X jobs visible at airport A, Y are for airport B. You want to pick up jobs from airport A for airport B. Selling airport C will reduce X, but will not change Y. Upgrading airport A will increase both X and Y. There is a random element though, so the number of jobs for each airport will change when the jobs refresh.
Ah, thanks for that info. I mistakenly thought closing down airports would increase jobs to open airports. Thats a few hundred thousand coins down the drain. This is very helpful to know. Thanks again.
I really enjoy that strategy. If I had the time and desire to really push myself still I would probably give it a whirl, it sounds like it has all the fun and profitability of the way I was doing it with none of the irritation and stress. Who knows, maybe when I get bored of seqouias and feel the itch (and have thousands of bux to blow in bringing planes out of storage and upgrading them) I'll give it a whirl!
