It's hardly the first time a global event has been in a Class 3 cluster - earlier events were held in Mumbai, Delhi, and Seoul. It balances out the tougher events (the Chick-Con in Norilsk, good grief). EDIT: Bit of an understatement. As of this moment, Faye's at #5 with 1179 jobs! Zoomed right past me as if I were sitting still.
Anybody try to gift parts to someone on the Android version of pocket planes yet? Is it even compatible?
So I'm trying to figure out the best way to fill up big planes? Is it layovers or letting them sit there and slowly fill up with jobs?
One day in and touch arcade is at 222000 jobs. Not a great showing so far for an event that as you pointed out should have massive numbers. On another note I am slowly getting back into PP. running 3 Cyclones on a southern route with Sequoias running the north route. Debating another attempt at a north/south route from London using 2 Cloudliners, a P and a C. Not sure how feasible that would be.
So what is this Mac version of Pocket Planes I thought I saw something about? I have fond memories of working Norilsk with my blimps. LOL it was just a quick sprint before I ran out of breath and passed out on the track. I actually haven't played much PP since I woke up Thursday morning ... but tomorrow is another day ... yes, I realize it's already "today" for most of you ... it's 2AM and I'm going to bed now, my "today" doesn't begin until after I wake up ... got side tracked playing Mafia Wars. I am struggling with this problem with my Cloudliner, which I built a couple days ago. I let it sit in LA (picking up Tokyo jobs) and it takes hours to fill up before it takes flight. My main fleet (non-event planes) use a modified Pezmage Sequoia Plan. I have used a feeder/layover method in the past and that works too if you have more time to check in to the game more frequently. Check out this post. It has a link to the Pez Plan, and also links to some other posts which may be of interest to you. http://forums.toucharcade.com/showpost.php?p=2420801&postcount=6750 Hmmmm... I guess the numbers aren't quite that high due to the underwhelming prize. I'm trying out a Cloudliner-M for the very first time, and after 2 days I think I'm ready to scrap it. Maybe I need to try it with a P and a C.
Re: Cloudliners I have learned a couple of things by using Cloudliners as my primary long-haul planes. 1. You have to use the feeder system to make it efficient. This really increases the amount of time you have to spend actively playing the game. They are way faster than Sequoias too, so you really have to keep that feeder system going. 2. Not filling them all the way and getting the 25% bonus makes them pointless to use. 3. Because of the uneven P/C ratio on the M model of the Cloudliner, it is far less annoying to use use a P and C model in tandem to pick up even amounts of jobs. This sounds like it would add work, but it actually gives you one less thing to have to worry about. Just make sure the feeders are even and then run the Cloudliners in loops picking up their jobs. Here is my earlier write-up of my system: http://forums.toucharcade.com/showthread.php?p=2392642#post2392642
And that is my problem since I am not spending a huge amount of time playing PP. Guess I like the idea of a third route and since London, Paris are pretty much untouched except as passthru airports I thought running south to Kinshasa with a P and a C Cloudliner might be a third route. Just leave them on the ground till full then fly them out.
Hi all, I've been lurking at the forum for the past week, reading up on posts and learning pocket planes strategies. I started Pocket Planes slightly less than two weeks ago. Started and re-started at north and central america, and Asia before settling on Asia simply because it has a bunch of red cities in close proximity. I just turned lvl 21. Added coastcat and no_kitano a few days ago. Saw coastcat at 1488 at no. 13 on the leaderboard and got so excited so decided to register to say Hi. Hi coastcat I'm wowed at SlightlyNorth's 25 planes ! I only have 14 planes in the air (with some small ones at in the hangar). Biggest plane I have is pearjet. I like its speed, but it IS costly to fly Is Pearjet more costly to fly for short distances compared to long ones? I'm zipping away on Pearjets, Birchcrafts and Mohawks I want to grouse: the M planes are driving me nuts. I usually count the number of entries there are for a city e.g. 4 seater plane, 4 Tokyo city. Nice. Only to find out it must be 2 passenger, 2 cargo and the airport invariably has 3C1P or 1C3P. GRRR !!!!! My GC name: CastlePage (I think).
You can make direct flights to SA (Lima, Sao Paulo, Rio) from London/Paris with fully range upgraded Sequoias too, 1s well as to Africa (Kinshasa, Lagos), which is a nice use of these 2 airports. And just have an aero or a blimp dispatching bux jobs back and forth between them (I dispatch SA jobs to London and Africa jobs in Paris). the problem using Cloudliners would be for the back trip though
Ah yes! This was the post I was searching for and couldn't find. Thanks for reposting, and for writing it in the first place. I wish we could make a sticky for this one post.
I've completely lost interest in Tokyo... It's so boring!!!! And there lies my problem. I moved away from the feeder system because I don't have the time to babysit all those feeder planes. I just want to send them off and then come back much later to check up on them. I added your writeup to the other links in my other post so people can easily look up various scenarios. You have to fill up Pearjets with 5 jobs going to the same city in order to make a good profit with them. Pearjets are expensive to fly. In general, faster=more expensive, slower=more profitable. I wouldn't invest in any more Pearjets. At level 21, you should be able to build Aeroeagles (available at level 16) ... there are great indispensable class 2 planes in my fleet (even at level 48). Using M planes or P/C planes is a matter of personal preference. It seems easier to load P and C planes upfront. I prefer M planes that have evenly split P and C.
Hi! Yes, sometimes you'll get frustrated because you need passengers for your M but only cargo jobs come up when you look. Just bang your head gently against the wall and get used to the pain. Nevertheless, I run mainly Ms except for the Mohawks unless there's an event which only counts cargo or passengers. Agreed. I've been sending jobs there, but also to other events in Asia. I've also started experimenting with my first Cloudliner, an M. To keep it filled I shuttle LA and NY jobs from Tokyo to Seoul or Beijing. The goofy balance makes this more challenging, of course, because I've been using Kanga Ms rather than Ps to shuttle jobs to the layover cities. I could fix this imbalance, but am too lazy to do so. More Kangas feed Tokyo jobs from SF and Phoenix to LA for layover. Maybe I'll try to fill a Cloudliner with Tokyo jobs from Nome. Just because.
Guess I was just looking for a reason to use the two Cloudliners I have in my hanger. Rather than do that maybe I need to set up a bux route using blimps as feeders and then Sequoias to main cities.
I don't use feeders to help load my one and only Cloudliner M. But I was thinking about what I might use as feeders to help avoid an imbalance of layovers. Maybe 2 Aero P + Pear C = 12 P & 5 C. Although I hate Pears. Hmmm... I hate the 2P 3C Sea Knight, but it is easy enough to compensate by picking up 1 non-layover C, and then 2P 2C from the layover pool. Wonder how much you'd make taking 17 jobs from Nome to Tokyo. I'm still sending some jobs to Tokyo, but am also focusing on my long distance LA-Tokyo & Lima-Tokyo routes. It takes my Sequoia 2 hours to traval across the globe. I think I'll just do enough to secure a spot in the Top 10.
NO MORE TOKYO, PLEASE SOMETHING ELSE!!! (Deep breath) So how about this idea...a three day class 1 or 2 global event, then a 24 hours class 3 event, then back to a three day class 1 or 2 event. That way if you want to Avengers Assemble your big planes and swarm a class 3 then it would be a one day sprint. Then we could go back to a peaceful marathon event. Everybody wins. Heck, I'd do both just for a change of pace.
Tell us how you really feel. Avengers Assemble ... So the Cloudliner is Iron Man? LOL I like the shorter 1 day class 3 marathon idea .... However I can see going Bux poor rearranging my fleet (more frequently) every time we switch events. I usually spend more Bux than the event Bux prize. :-/ SlightlyNorth is actually ExtremelyNorth leading Tokyo with over 6800 jobs. To give you an idea by how much more, #10 has around 1900 jobs.
Woke up and found coastcat gone beyond my sight. I'm flying to Tokyo like mad, shuttling between beijing and tokyo (cos of the beijing event), feeding from shanghai, manila guangzhou, seoul. And still in the low teens. And Faye is leisurely sending jobs to Tokyo and yet manages to stay in the top 10 ! I went for Pearjet at lvl 14 because of the speed and distance. EasterIsland event was on then. Pearjet was the only plane available that could cross from Kinshasa to Rio. So I spent my bux upgrading mohawks and building pearjets, and bankrupt my coins buying an extra airport plus Karachi, Kinshasa, rio, lima and of course Easter Island. I thought of skipping areoeagles and fogbuster (fogbuster is a staggering 120 bux to build !) and go straight for Sequoia. But now I'm taking your advice to build areoeagles because it can go straight to class 2 cities. BTW, out of curiosity, how many plane slots do you have at lvl 48 and how much does a plane slot cost? I have 15 plane slots and the next is like 531900 coins. And coins/bux are still hard to come by (mainly because I'm focusing on Tokyo, so not always doing the 25%). So I'm still at the state where I have to save like mad to buy airport, but it's a relief to be able to buy cities just like that (E.g. the easterIsland). I remember how hard I worked (catching coins and bux) to buy my first red city
Plenty of time to catch up! I'm focusing heavily on individual events and bux-hunting now, so not sending as much to Tokyo. For now I'll coast along (how appropriate...), but if I fall out of the top 25 (at #12 now) I'm likely to launch into a job-delivering frenzy. Build the Aeroeagles. Build the Sequoias. Skip the Fogbusters. Fogbusters are fast (312mph), while Sequoias are slow (190mph). That sounds great, but increased speed means a higher operating cost. For the London - Tehran - Beijing run, your gross income (fare/delivery charge) is 1178 per job. Aero, 48 minutes: 6 jobs * 1178 = 7068 gross profit - 3009 operating costs = 4059 net profit (676.50 profit per job) Fogbuster, 33 minutes: 8 jobs * 1178 = 9424 gross profit - 5690 operating costs = 3734 net profit (466.75 profit per job) Sequoia, 55 minutes: 10 jobs * 1178 = 11780 gross profit - 4331 operating costs = 7449 net profit (744.90 profit per job) (calculations, as always, based The Rusty Snowman's splendid PP tools)
I second this idea. The time schedule fits perfectly into the week, 3days 1day 3days versus 3.5day events. It's a nice break to run a class 3 event but after that first day of cramming so many jobs into the city it becomes monotonous and you end up just despising the city the last two days and lose interest as many have mentioned.
