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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    Give us his email address and we'll tell him to install PP on his phone. :p
     
  2. vicsark

    vicsark Well-Known Member

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    Opened and fully upgraded for the 11th time Kinsasha. Sent a few Mapples there.
    Advertised Port Elisabeth.
    29 min. Round trip, slow paced event nice :)
     
  3. alyssacroacia

    alyssacroacia Well-Known Member

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    1. Great Distance (LA ---> Paris)
    2. Great Profit (if you fill 8/8 seats); negative profit if you fill only 7/8

    Thank you, Snowbird & Number1Ump. anything else, anybody?
     
  4. alyssacroacia

    alyssacroacia Well-Known Member

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    IDK if any of you have already noticed this, but I saw this a few hours ago on the leaderboard and I thought it was really interesting!

    - SlightlyNorth = 999 jobs sent

    - ??? = 777 jobs sent

    - ??? = 666 jobs sent


    HOW INTERESTING, HUH?! :D
     

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  5. lewishenson

    lewishenson Well-Known Member

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    Another bux only event, another event I'll be sitting out I'm afraid.
     
  6. Faye Valentine

    Faye Valentine Well-Known Member

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    Finally got rid of the Vegas lay overs.

    Sea Knight, 47 min round trip Kinshasa <> Johannesburg <> Port Elizabeth
    Love the slower pace. :)
     
  7. boomerkidd

    boomerkidd Well-Known Member

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    :O you actually keep track of the number of times you've reopened kinshasa?
     
  8. RLangley91

    RLangley91 Well-Known Member

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    It surely can't have been worse than Chicago's in the run up to Christmas.
     
  9. vicsark

    vicsark Well-Known Member

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    lol, I'm not that obsessed!
    That was random, but close enough I guess ;)
     
  10. tfrichards92

    tfrichards92 Well-Known Member

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    Posting from phone at 3 am. Not sure on my job count but here's my rankings:
     

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  11. CastlePage

    CastlePage Well-Known Member

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    Are you sure it wasn't you, green_paper, folding up your green paper into a triangular shape to look like a beard :D

    How about give him these reasons:
    1. Your little girl wants her own PP
    2. Cheaper to install PP on his phone than to buy another phone in order to install PP
    3. You're taking geography lessons on PP. Well, it's true for me in my case. I have never heard of the following cities (Port Elizabeth, Geraldton, Iqaluit, Bariloche, Hobart, Kabul and Livingstone) until I do the global events. Heard of Timbuktu but didn't know where it was.

    Very interesting :)

    Just got home. Now I need to clean up Las Vegas and close Mexico City.
     
  12. alyssacroacia

    alyssacroacia Well-Known Member

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    Help!

    What do I do???:confused:

    I thought I understood the strategy but now that I'm staring it in the face I don't know wha t to do now. OK so I have 12 slots and 5 Sequoias in service.

    ISSUE #1:
    - I have a Sequoia-M named "BUX M" in Tehran.
    - it has a fully-upgraded engine & carbon fiber (speed & weight)
    - onboard: 1 NY bux job ($5) & 7 regular NY jobs & 2 London bux job ($2 each)
    - where should it fly?

    ISSUE #2:
    - I have another "BUX M" in Tokyo.
    - nothing on it is upgraded at all.
    - onboard: 1 LA bux job ($9), 1 NY bux job ($7), 1 Tehran bux job ($3) & 7 regular Tehran jobs.
    - where should it fly?

    ISSUE #3:
    - I have my las "BUX M" in NY.
    - no upgrades.
    - onboard: 1 Tokyo bux job ($7), 1 London bux job ($3) & 8 regular London jobs.
    - where should it fly?

    *then I have a Sequoia-P and a Sequoia-C with no items, both waiting in LA ("BUX P") and ("BUX C")*
     
  13. alyssacroacia

    alyssacroacia Well-Known Member

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    flightcrew in 30th place? What FC (flight crew) would that be?
     
  14. Spike3187

    Spike3187 Well-Known Member

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    You answered your own questions on where they should fly...

    1, London > NY (pick up a Ny job in London)

    2, Tehran

    3, London.
     
  15. Spike3187

    Spike3187 Well-Known Member

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    That is their position in the TA crew (world rank 3 is the crew)
     
  16. no_kitano

    no_kitano Well-Known Member

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    Issue 1, 2 & 3:
    Dump the regular jobs from your bux-planes.

    Bux-planes only collect bux-jobs. When they are full send them to a nearby city or to your hub-city, unload & start collecting bux again. (When you are collecting bux with M-planes, you don't have to wait until they are completely full. When a Sequoia has for instance 5 P bux-jobs, and 3 C bux-jobs you can fill it up with 2 regular C-jobs to the city you want it to go).

    Your regular planes pick up the bux-jobs, fill up with regular jobs and get the 25% bonus.

    Hope this make sense. My English isn't so good.
     
  17. Fullquiver13

    Fullquiver13 Well-Known Member

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    Changing your GC ID - impact?

    If I was to change my GC ID on my phone what would be the impact to my PP?
     
  18. Harmoniamundi

    Harmoniamundi Well-Known Member

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    College party woo hoo! Spoiled brats...
     

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  19. CastlePage

    CastlePage Well-Known Member

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    Aly, I'll give you a very harsh but I think effective advice:

    1. fly your sequoias to the nearest airport and dump all your bux jobs as layovers.

    2. For the next 48 hours, your QUOIAs are banned from collecting bux jobs, unless they are LA or Tokyo jobs. Your QUOIAs can only fly between LA and Tokyo on 25% coin jobs, unless they are LA or Tokyo bux jobs.

    3. For the next 48 hours, you can only spend bux on buying sequoia parts from the market. It's your choice whether you want to invest in M or pairs of P/C planes. Strictly no upgrading of planes.

    4. you can fly your class 1 planes to do the global event if you like.

    5. What to do during the 2hr QUOIAs flight from LA to Tokyo?
    a. rest/sleep
    b. Play Tiny Tower, or Pocket Frog (which I haven't tried)
    c. Watch the plane fly and try to catch coins and bux (you can actually make quite some coins this way).

    6. Your goal:
    a. Earn enough coins to open 18 plane slots. Before 18 slots, you are banned from bux strategy.
    b. Get 10 sequoias.

    What-if scenarios:
    7. What if you're at Tokyo and a non-LA bux job appears? You can pick it up, and drop it at Tehran. From Tehran, pick up LA jobs to get 25% bonus. Similarly at LA, you can pick-up non-Tokyo jobs and drop them off at NY (if that's what you have).
     
  20. bgrim2day

    bgrim2day Active Member

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    That's a great way of explaining it.

    I label and color code all my planes. All bux planes are green and named after the city they sit in (NYBX, LABX). All bux jobs are laid-over in Paris and sent back to their city. Having them named helps keep track of where they should go.

    My coin planes are blue and are named after their route (LASHG for LA-Shanghai and MXSOL for Mexico-Seoul) that way I can keep the routes from getting messed up.

    Aly, does this help?
     

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