Universal Pocket Planes by NimbleBit - Join Flight Crew #TouchArcade

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  1. green_paper

    green_paper Well-Known Member

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    Just looking for suggestions

    I have LA, NY, Paris & London (all fully upgraded).

    I also have a few class 2 airports near LA and NY to feed those two hub cities. London & Paris feed each other.

    Currently I'm using 5 Mohawks as feeders, and 2 Fogbusters, 3 Aeroeagles, and 4 Peareagles for cross-country or trans-atlantic flights.

    As for resources, I currently have 200k + 400 bux. I'm at level 22.

    Should I make any changes to my fleet? I get the impression that I should be using bigger planes as feeders.

    Thanks!
     
  2. NimbleTim

    NimbleTim Well-Known Member

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    1. Opening any city should trigger is. You can do a 0 million one for a little over 1000 coins.
    2. If you were offline when you completed it it might be logged as complete in the game but not gc. We fixed the offline caching in this release but if it is already cached it will never try and save to gc. Reset Awards should fix it.
    3. Same

    If you Reset Awards most of the achievements should trigger pretty quickly (as soon as you do a triggering event like sending a plane off or buy a city). Some of the ones like Transatlantic and longest flight you will have to redo.
     
  3. KitFisto22

    KitFisto22 Well-Known Member

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    What happened to the bux jobs...?
     
  4. Benholio

    Benholio Well-Known Member

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    Ugh, I was hoping it was just my imagination. I just spent a ton of hours re-configuring everything for a bux-collecting strategy.

    Anyone else noticing greatly reduced bux job spawn rates?
     
  5. vicsark

    vicsark Well-Known Member

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    #5345 vicsark, Jul 19, 2012
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    Vanished too?
    Didn't see it at first with the layovers backlog but...
    Ooops Nimblebit saw it was a bit too easy to collect Bux in the hundreds a day... not really good for the in app purchases?
     
  6. The Guppy

    The Guppy Member

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    I'm wondering about the "make 100 deliveries to x" achievements. If I reset awards so I can get "Transatlantic" how will I get those achievements back?

    Will I get them back as soon as a make a flight anywhere? Or will I have to make one flight to each location again to trigger them? OR will the counter be reset and I'll have to make 100 deliveries again?

    I really hope the counter isn't reset. I have them all except Tiksi and it's not something I want to do again.
     
  7. NimbleTim

    NimbleTim Well-Known Member

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    The counter is attached to the unlocked city. So as long and you still have it open just deliver one job and it should trigger again.
     
  8. The Guppy

    The Guppy Member

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    Aha, thanks. I didn't keep any of them open though, and having just reopened Goose Bay for the event I see that the counters aren't saved if you close an airport...

    I guess I'll live without Transatlantic instead! :D
     
  9. Mdaymond

    Mdaymond Well-Known Member

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    Is this because it is featuring the Huey (a previous event's reward?). This won't be the same for the Concorde will it? Part of the allure to World Events is scrambling my jets to pick up mystery parts and ship them off to the respective city. And it also allows collection of parts to build up giving us extras to trade and gives me a reason to be experimental with my routes.

    Others are also reporting what seems like less bux jobs appearing - have you dramatically decreased them?

    That certainly isn't the case! One flight, I had one Bitizen post something about his flight >18< times! Bit too many there perhaps NimbleTim?! lol

    I'm considering doing this...
     
  10. wolfhunt

    wolfhunt Well-Known Member

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    NimbleTim,

    First, thanks for yet another fun game, I have having alot of fun with this one.

    Second, my wife has a game that gliched (before this current update) in which her money went down to -$266,725. I saw (I thought) that the negative balance glitch was fixed in the update but she still has a negative balance post update. Is there a way to fix this? She can't even do a flight because it tells here she doesn't have enough money. When the glitch occured it kept popping up an upgrading Detroit window even though she did not upgrade it. I thought if she closed Detroit the money might come back but she can't close it because a plane is there and it can't take off.

    Any help would be appreciated, she likes the game but is very frusterated right now (especially since I can still play mine).

    Thanks
     
  11. hippiesrlame

    hippiesrlame Active Member

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    Has anyone figured out how the auto load logic really works? I am finding when I auto load a plane with less cargo space than there are jobs destined for that city it doesn't necessarily pick the layovers, or the higher paying jobs in the priority I would expect...
     
  12. SpudWreck

    SpudWreck Active Member

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    for me it seems to pick from the one I select down, then wraps around to the top, so if you want to pick layovers first click load on the first layover.
     
  13. Spidubic

    Spidubic Well-Known Member

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    Same for me.
     
  14. Pezmage

    Pezmage Well-Known Member

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    I've had a weird thing going on with the auto unload, maybe someone else can see if their game does it too. If one of my feeder sequoias isn't full I just pick the first thing on the list when I go to unload, then hold to unload all, that way I don't have to scroll past the first set of, say, London people, I can just start loading on my way down and save a couple seconds.

    But what happens is I'll pick the top guy up, then do the unload all hold, and it won't unload them all, I have to pick someone farther down the list or go down to my first actual layover for it to unload everything on the plane. Anyone else running into this?
     
  15. hippiesrlame

    hippiesrlame Active Member

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    Awesome, thx for the tip
     
  16. Angelxz

    Angelxz Active Member

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    Can anyone direct me to a page (or just tell me) if the new update is good to go/ I don't want to install it and it cause chaos, like wipe out everything I have built up.
     
  17. Pocketplanegod97

    Pocketplanegod97 Well-Known Member

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    It's because the unload/load thing only works with the same type of people/cargo going to the same destination
     
  18. Codycat

    Codycat Well-Known Member

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    Don't stalk me.
    hey Nimbletim,
    I still haven't received that starship you said you sent. I'm beginning to think it is something with my game :/ I have wifi/3g on and everything, as well as a connection with game center. But anyways, do I need to give you the new code (NB-thingy) from after the 1.04 update?
     
  19. Pocketplanegod97

    Pocketplanegod97 Well-Known Member

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    Is it me and my fat fingers or is it everyone? When I press the little X when a notification appears it takes me to the plane that landed? I wanted to stay at th current plane I was and it moved planes when I tried to touch the little X



    Spent 200 bud on the job reloading thing :D it's cool

    Also going to be posting my method that got me from 200k daily rev to 580k daiy rev in about 2 hours real play!!! When it is fully functional it should be working awesome making me about 1.5+ mil daily rev!
     
  20. Mdaymond

    Mdaymond Well-Known Member

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    #5360 Mdaymond, Jul 19, 2012
    Last edited: Jul 19, 2012
    I also ran into this problem. Thought it was just me not pressing unload for long enough until it did it again, and now you've said the same thing... is it us or the game? lol


    Well, yeah. It's good to go. Many of us here have already updated without a hitch. Go to you app store on the iPhone / Pad and it'll be there.

    Or download onto your computer and install via iTunes from;
    http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/pocket-planes/id491994942?mt=8

    Happened to me a few times too and my fingers aren't fat! I think you just need to lightly tap in the centre of the 'X' instead of inadvertently swiping the notification bar first as we're so used to moving quickly on the touch screen. Although, any white around the 'X' will still count as the notification bar it seems...
     

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