Universal Pocket Planes by NimbleBit - Join Flight Crew #TouchArcade

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  1. bgrim2day

    bgrim2day Active Member

    Nov 20, 2012
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    Hello all,

    I just sent a plane from London to Paris full of Paris bux jobs and just got the value of the bux. No 25% bonus. Am I doing something wrong? Is there a bonus on bux jobs?

    Thanks
     
  2. dantt99

    dantt99 Well-Known Member

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    You should still get the bonus
     
  3. ltbaxter

    ltbaxter Well-Known Member

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    #11203 ltbaxter, Dec 28, 2012
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    You get a bonus on bux jobs, but paid in cash. The bux are valued at 500 gold for this purpose. So if you deliver 4 bux, your 25% bonus doesn't get you one extra bux, but 500 coins instead.
    [Edit: Nope. NomadRichie, below, was correct. I give more detail elsewhere. ]
     
  4. NomadRichie

    NomadRichie New Member

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    My understanding is that the bonus for BUX jobs comes as coins, based on the coin value for that job (i.e., what it would have paid if it was a coin job instead of a bux job, jobs seem to remember their origin, an likely recompute their payout value on use, so the game knows what it would have paid for the job as a coin job).
     
  5. ltbaxter

    ltbaxter Well-Known Member

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    Good feedback Vic, thanks!

    I've noticed a few times that coins didn't seem to be a problem, until I looked at the price of the next plane slot. I can see why earlier is better, but only if and when you have a good solid fleet and plenty of cash.

    * The class 3 cities with upgrades are important, as you need the extra job for extra Bux's while parked there. You also need the layovers for twin hub swapping.
    * Somewhere near 25 plane slots sounds about right. Doing a 5000 bux cash in (which I now think I am targeting) will get you slots 23-25 way faster than coin runs.
    * I agree that even early in the game you take bux whenever you see them, as they're needed to build up a good fleet.
    * Like you I love the Kangas and Aeros early on. I have tended to upgrade them just because they're going to be around for ages, and upgrading them is cheap.
    * I'm sitting right where you said - full fleet of Seq/Aero/Kanga and no problems with either cash or bux (unless I wanted upgraded Cloudliners, which I don't) So I'm going to start experimenting more with various bux strategies. To avoid complete boredom I'll need some kind of hybrid action - plus some days I'm on constantly while other days very sporadic.

    In addition to my main device/account (iPhone) I'm also playing a fresh game on my new Mac Mini :) On the Mini I started in Central America and was laughing hard to find out minutes later that new event was in San Jose! There I'm lvl 12 and almost all traffic with my puny fleet runs thru San Jose.
     
  6. dandtpaul

    dandtpaul Member

    Dec 20, 2012
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    Can you do two events at once?

    How can I do the SJ and the Xian event at the same time?
     
  7. Chewbacca

    Chewbacca Well-Known Member

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    I have 22 planes and started doing the bux laundering around 20 planes. I don't do it on a high scale yet. I'm still needing to chase the coins.
     
  8. alyssacroacia

    alyssacroacia Well-Known Member

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    #11208 alyssacroacia, Dec 29, 2012
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    uh....forget that last thing.

    so....hey pplz :)

    add me on GC if you haven't already!


    THE MORE, THE MERRIER
     
  9. coastcat

    coastcat Well-Known Member

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    Open San Jose. Open Xi'an. Run San Jose jobs to San Jose and Xi'an jobs to Xi'an. It's as simple as that!

    I get bored running just the global event, so I'll usually do the smaller events at the same time if they're conveniently located. Since I had a bunch of class 1 planes already hopping around the Western Hemisphere for the San Jose event, it was easy to divert flights to Dallas, Toronto, and St. Louis for their local events.
     
  10. Chewbacca

    Chewbacca Well-Known Member

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    Also, the Easter Island achievement can be done with this one. It's just a hop away from Lima...
     
  11. dandtpaul

    dandtpaul Member

    Dec 20, 2012
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    Are the smaller events blue? It doesn't seem to update.
     
  12. green_paper

    green_paper Well-Known Member

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    No, jobs for smaller events don't show up in blue. Only the global event jobs come up in blue.
     
  13. JuniorFahly

    JuniorFahly New Member

    Dec 29, 2012
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    Anyone have a spare plane sitting around in their hangar they can give me? My little brother screwed up my game by deleting some things and it frustrated me. If you can that would be great! If not then I might have to restart haha

    GC: JuniorFahly
     
  14. alyssacroacia

    alyssacroacia Well-Known Member

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    Hey add me on GC alyssacroacia and I'll get some planes to you. Send me a PM to tell me which ones you need! :)
     
  15. tfrichards92

    tfrichards92 Well-Known Member

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    Nothing like having 11 of 18 planes grounded thanks to a tropical storm.
     
  16. turakm

    turakm Well-Known Member

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    So frustrated with these gifts! My last 3 :

    Navigator
    Bearclaw
    Supergopher
     
  17. tfrichards92

    tfrichards92 Well-Known Member

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    You all were right. It's much better seeing where you are and who's around you.

    GC: tfrichards92
     
  18. dandtpaul

    dandtpaul Member

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    How do you know what the prize is and how many jobs you've done? I see the global event status under flight crew but I don't know where to find the stats/prize list for the smaller events.
     
  19. Taylorpunk17

    Taylorpunk17 Well-Known Member

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    Unlucky, I have had so far about 60 bux in total, a bobcat, a sequoia-m but also a airvan, some people have received concordes!
     
  20. bgrim2day

    bgrim2day Active Member

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    Thanks for the help on the bux bonus. Here is my current setup. Let me know if you have any suggestions.

    Level 25
    5 pearjets's
    8 sequoia's
    1 cloudliner
    Airports open
    LA-NY-Paris-London-Tehran-Shanghi
    4 sequoia's running coin jobs. 2 ny-shanghi and 2 Tehran-LA
    I have a mix of 8 sequoia's and pearjet's doing bux jobs. Each sit's in it's respective city and loads bux jobs. Once full drop off the jobs at London or Paris. After there is enough to fill a plane I will fly to that particular city.

    Any thoughts?
    Thanks for the help.
     

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