Should I start creating my epic fleet with Pearjets or wait for Aeros? Also do most people go with M planes or P and C?
To NimbleTim: suggestion for higher level gameplay Hi NimbleTim, for high level players above level 30, I would like to suggest: (1) unlock special new airports that can only be purchased after certain levels. Such as class 4 airports upon reaching level 40, class 5 airports for level 50, so on. Maybe these airports will only be made visible upon reaching the minimum levels. (2) to introduce special planes: with ability to fly regardless of bad weather; or certain bad weather, such as "Snowbuster" being able to fly during snow storm. (3) New planes for level 30, 32, 40 so on (4) In airport view: tapping to clean rubbish to give coins/bux reward (5) Hiring of air stewardess to further increase passanger's satisfaction (eg: extra 5% bonus). Perhaps only certain types of planes can hire additional air steward. (6) Player given ability to host specific events in his/her chosen/Headquarter airport. HQ airport is the base chosen by player (can be changed with a fee). Hence, player can have a feel of ownership and can also do certain things (eg: with additional flight bonus) in HQ airport.
Good ideas! 1) They could possibly show up as gold dots on the map! 2) Love this idea. My ideas for this were; -- Air Force One > Could only land at capitals of countries that also increases jobs at an airport for a short time once landed (think of how cool the interior could be made with a cute little Bitizen president!) -- The Blackbird aka. Lockheed SR-71 > It's a high altitude aircraft that if flown, could be used as a radar system to warn of impending bad weather? -- Refueling plane > Could be made to cost a fortune to buy but could fly very slow and remain in the air for 3+hours and if a (class 3 - or above if introduced? - only) plane is routed via it, the cost of that flight could be reduced? If timed correctly, stopovers could be cut out of a flight path. That would be rewarding to me. 3) New planes will be the main reason we all want to continue playing 4) Another simple but good idea! Other things we could have for airports; -- Announcements over the intercom + other ambient background noises -- Aircraft flying in the skies in the distance -- Landmarks in the background of respective cities -- Change colour of airport etc. -- The sun and moon visible in the background at the respective times -- Sound effects of the various storms such as thunder and rain and blizzards. Introduce extra things such as hurricanes - have an odd tree rushing by the window for example. All these things would keep us entertained whilst 'cleaning' our airport for coins / bux as suggested and would offer an alternative to the in flight screen. Talking of which.... -- Different noises for the planes? Would be interesting and rewarding to finally hear what a new planes sounds like upon it's first flight -- Different weather/flying conditions such as rain, dark clouds, the odd strike of lightning to the plane. This would make waiting for bux to float by more entertaining 5) Excellent idea. Somehow integrate it into a future aircraft perhaps 6) I believe this is exactly what this game lacks compared to Tiny Tower. The sense of ownership. This could be a very good idea to expand on in my opinion... There's my thought's on your thought's Battleland!
Hey Pez, one thing I don't understand is why you're using Bangalore as one of your in-betweens. Using Mumbai makes the route from EA to SA much straighter than if you were using Bangalore. It also seems like Xi'an would make a better hub for EA than Shanghai because Shanghai is positioned a bit far to the south which means a big detour for passengers from Beijing heading to SA (it's even backtracking a little).
Level 31 here. Been feeling bored for a few levels and ended up collecting and amassing huge amount of bux just for the fun of it. Sold 10k of it for a whopping 55m or so. Felt quite fun for the duration of it. Now back to being bored again. Maybe will do some events but frankly not very enthusiastic about them. I like some ideas above like special airports.. how about flying to space even though that's a little unrealistic?
Sign me up for that - love the ideas. I am level 30 myself, and desire to play is dwindling - once you amassed over 6000 bux (nope, none purchased) and have 20 planes in the air, you just keep reeling in the coins and not worry about anything anymore, but you lack a goal to strive for.
I didn't think of using Mumbai, I might make that change. I don't use Shanghai as my bottleneck anymore, I use Bangalore, so I would switch that to Mumbai. The difference is likely 100coins or less on the whole but that adds up after the weeks. I use Kinshasa as my bottle next for SA also now, makes things flow ~much~ smoother.
You know I thought about suggesting to use Kinshasa and Mumbai as the respective hubs for SA and EA as well, but then I thought about the smaller trips you have to make if you don't want to do the long route. Wouldn't the longer distance between the hub and the spoke cities mean you will lose more money? For example, you want to go to Beijing from your EA hub. It's a lot easier to cover the cost of a shorter trip by filling up with one or two people who are going to Beijing than if you had to fly all the way from Mumbai.
What I lose in coinage I gain in streamlining and reduced fly-backs. When I used Rio as my bottleneck for SA, I essentially lost Rio as a viable target for my EA planes. Those planes that would land in Rio would not have any layovers to contribute to the pool, so they would just drain which would invariably lead to fly-backs on other planes coming in, or I would have to send the EA plane off to gather layovers in Sao Paulo before heading out. Same on the other end. By gathering in Kinshasa and Bangalore I don't have that problem. I think once in the past 2 or 3 days I've had to have a fly back, whereas I had flybacks all the time when I was using Shanghai and Rio. It splits my wait time up so it does require a bit more constant attention which is kind of a bummer, the most I get when I have everything in the air is around 40 mins now. It usually is a flurry, then about 15-20 mins while all the planes head to their bottlenecks, then a flurry, then about 40 mins while they head to their destinations, whereas it used to be a flurry and a shorter wait, then a longer wait. I'm happy with it now though since I just click and hold and send!
That makes sense. Do you still use advertising? And if you do on which cities? If you don't use advertising anymore that might be the reason your daily revenue has increased? I figured that since you have so many planes (mostly Seq Ms I'd imagine), it would be nice if you could have more than 60 layovers in an airport huh? Lol
Ok, the whole "team aspect" is messed up. TA crew is just...way to large and now we can never lose anything AT ALL. I feel that im not competing with anyone, just doing 5 jobs then getting a reward. I hope NimbleBit comes up with a fix for this (although i dont even see how this could be fixed). But anyway, great game.
So up until now I've just been owning 20+ airports all over the place (class 3 only) and just delivering whatever there was the most of (preferring closer cities) with Aeoreagle-P/C. This was netting me about 170k return. I added a couple of Fogbuster-M doing London/New York only which pushed me to 202k. Over the past two days I've done barely any flights and been closing and opening airports to set up two new routes for a feeder/hub system. Waiting now to see how it pans out now. I have one Aeroeagle-P and C as feeders in SA NA and EA (2 pair here, one dedicated to each route jobs) and then 2Fogbuster-M on each route hauling. The only flights I have the 25% bonus for is the feeders when they leave the hubs, since that's the only place I need it (jobs reaching destination) and I haven't run into any real job holes yet with that plan. I also haven't noticed any real drop in bux jobs, I used to have 2 or 3 every other job refresh and I still get that many. Bonus now is so many are for 7 now I've got less airports. EDIT: Although my EA hub for SA is Guangzhou which has screwed me over this morning with an hour long tropical storm. Twice. I still click on the planes even with the glaring red GND 58m. Someone mentioned adding things like Airport customisation and more ambient effects which would be a nice touch, but also different sounds for aircraft but all my aircraft already sound different, jet engines helicopter blades and so forth. They all have unique sounds. Maybe turn your volume up?
That's strange, do you fly from EA to SA without bonuses? use your method as you know (9 P's and 9 C's currently) and I never fly from one region to another without the bonus, I just cycle each plane through the 4 local airports, layovers in Shanghai and Rio until full. I am usualy at around 48/60L in both, but manage it so that I'm very rarely stuck.
Thanks! I'm also looking for some opinions - what would be the best planes to hand out to newbies? Aeroeagles? Sequoias? Some class 1 planes? I'm guessing eagles, since most people have class 2 airports pretty quickly and they are pretty cheap to fly. What do you guys think?
Yeah, I would say Eagles for those reasons plus you don't want to take the fun away from people earning the best planes on their own
Aeroeagles for sure. They have great range and are very cheap to fly. They are the best planes for newbies to implement on a layover system as the main profit birds. I would know because I am one!
So I fly from South American to Kinshasha with no bonus, then dump in Kinshasa and fly to whatever Asian destination for a bonus. In Asia I fly to Bangalore with no bonus, then to whatever destination for bonus. The thing to remember is that if you fly from Lima to Tokyo for bonus you "earn" the same amount of coin as if you flew from Lima to Shanghai, unloaded, then loaded for the bonus that close to Tokyo and flew for bonus. Also the cost to fly a plane from Lima to Tokyo is the same regardless of when I fill for the bonus. So it doesn't really matter which port along the way I use as my bottleneck in the long term, as long as it's the most-straight. The only way I'm losing coins using Kinshasa and Bangalore is if I have to do a fly-back. I had one fly back yesterday out of probably 100+ flights. I find that Kinshasa and Bangalore are the best ports to load for bonus because everything is going to route through them anyway and they aren't target ports. The only change is that by unloading in Kinshasa my local jobbers are worth far less than if I unloaded in Rio. I rarely use locals though with this setup so it isn't that big of a hit. I also use only M's and I don't manage ~anything~. I don't pay attention to what's on the plane so long as it's close to full when I load it and then just fill it with whatever I can in Kinshasa and head off. I have my one P and one C in my fleet that deal with major imbalances that tend to creep up in Kinshasa and Bangalore. I'm probably going to have to add another set of P and C in the near future, but for now I haven't had a situation where I couldn't send a plane at all. I don't advertise at all anymore so that is an extra 480k a day that I'm not losing that I needed to spend to keep feeding running smoothly, is that part of the daily revenue calculation?
