Let me try to explain this way and see if you can understand. Note that the numbers are arbitrary (i.e. I'm not referring to PP for the correct amount). Let's say that in Tokyo, there's an LA job for 1000 coins. This means that if you deliver this job to LA, you will be paid 1000 coins. Let's also say it costs you 600 coins to fly from Tokyo to LA (i.e. your profit will be 400 coins), and it costs you 500 coins to fly from Tehran to LA. When you layover that 1000 coin LA job in Tehran, and then later have a plane fly that job to LA, the profit that you see on PP is 500 (1000 coin job - 500 coin cost of flying from Tehran to LA). So it appears to have a "higher" profit than if you had flown from Tokyo to LA. By the same reasoning, if you drop off that 1000 coin LA job as layover in Chicago, and then use another plane to fly it to LA, you will see "huge" profit, because the revenue is large (Tokyo-LA job of 1000 coins) while the cost is small (flying from Chicago to LA). So should we all be dropping off jobs in Chicago so that we can see huge profits flying from Chicago to LA? Well, the profit IS huge from Chicago to LA, but don't forget the cost it took to fly the job from Tokyo to Chicago. That Tokyo to Chicago trip was negative profit, because you are charged for flying from Tokyo to Chicago. You didn't make any money because the job didn't reach LA .... you're only paid when the job reaches its destination. (Harmoniamundi's 3 rio passengers don't count because they don't know what they are doing. http://forums.toucharcade.com/showpost.php?p=2617166&postcount=11821) Am I making myself clear or I've confused you further?
You don't make more profit. You could fly from Tokyo to LA, Spend 5000 on the flight, make 10,000 for a total profit of 5,000 Or, you could fly from Tokyo to New York, Spend 3000 on the flight, make 0 for a loss of -3,000. Then, later, you can go back, pick those tokyo people you laid over in New York, fly them from New York to LA, Spend 2000 on the flight, make 10,000 for a FLIGHT profit of 8000, but a total profit of 5000 (since you burned 3000 getting them there earlier) So the game thinks you made a super profitable flight, but really, you are tricking it, because you made a super costly flight earlier to get there.
Cashed in @aly - Ouch on the return of the ghost passenger! I hope the fluids do their job. I don't think you have the cash to advertise right now; I think you'll get enough jobs within a few refreshes to make the LA-TK run with bonus. Ok! I made my first major (for me) cash in after running bux for a while. (Hat is tipped to vic and several others sharing those strategies). I'm level 36 with a healthy fleet, and had 21 planes slots, plenty of cash on hand and no need to spend bux, so it was definitely "time'. I ended up cashing in 9105 bux for $46Million, which paid for planes slot 22... and 23... and ... 29 As others have no doubt felt, there was some pain in doing the cash in, with the pressure of "oh, I should collect a few hundred more." The reported exchange rate was 5052, but the incremental value of "one more bux" was 9604. Now it's back near 500 of course. I could have pushed longer for 30th plane slot now for just 870 more bux, while after the cash in that next slot will now cost 3700 bux. But with a whopping eight new slots my production rate and ability to run events and bux at the same time is much better. (Besides, where do you stop, short of the 65K limit?) From 29, to get to 35 plane slots now will take 15K bux, 25K bux to get to 40 slots; 35K to 45 slots; 45K to 50 slots. Now I need to keep collecting bux because I have a bunch of new planes to buy - I'm thinkin' Sequoia-M's and Cyclone-M's.
I'm level 34 and don't have a really successful BUX strategy. Can someone point me in the direction of one? I tried the bux wheel with Seqouia M and 11 fully upgraded class 3 airports it was only yielding 400 bux a day or so..
Choose a caption or provide your own! A. Hijacked Transport B. World's Fastest Getaway Vehicle C. Nothing Suspicious Here
Just wanted to say that I've seen some really nice colour schemes in some of the screenshots being posted, including this Concorde of yours! And a caption? How about "Con-air"?
Bux running tips Here are two good posts on bux strategies, by Vic Sark and Castlepage: http://forums.toucharcade.com/showpost.php?p=2526262&postcount=8810 http://forums.toucharcade.com/showpost.php?p=2558050&postcount=9577 Here's what I'm doing based on these and other posts. This was lvl 34 with 21 planes. In a nutshell... - Cyclone-M or Sequoia-M sit parked in "twin-hubs' - Shanghai/Seoul, Rio/SP, or LA/Chi. They do nothing but collect all bux jobs, and when either the C-half or P-half is full, they swap with the plane in their neighboring sister city (filling with coin jobs to that city). - On arrival at the sister city, dump all, and repeat. Your twin-hubs should be fully upgraded class 3's for max layovers. - Other planes (perhaps half your fleet, Sequoias', Aeros, whatever you have) actually make the deliveries. If you care about cash still, load up with coin jobs to get the 25% bonus. To maximize bux collection, have more planes doing the collecting and let the delivery planes ignore bonuses, carrying only bux jobs, all over the map. When those planes land at some place like Tehran, fill with whatever bux or coins you can and head back to the nearest bux hub city. - Practical tip: color-code your bux collecting planes Green. They will tend to sit at the very top of your plane screen. Every refresh you hit those first; it doesn't take long. - Somewhere around the 10K bux point, cash 'em in for several more plane slots, then dedicate another 4 bux-collectors and some more bux runners. See the other links given for how to work this when you're simultaneously trying to do events. Good luck!
Don't have Beijing & don't need both Seoul AND Tokyo. Will sell the former & buy Beijing. Seoul long & thanks so much for your rapid response, goffy. We are definitely on the same page, CastlePage. Yes, discussion about PPs remains the raison dêtre of this thread & should be at its core. Still, IMO, a forum without personal commentaries/interactions, hellos/goodbyes, games/challenges, & interspersed with humor lacks the essentials of camaraderie which make a forum a compelling place to visit, maybe settle down. I, for one, really enjoyed reading your weather reports. Hope you'll do more. And, yes, describing a way to collect coins fast for the beginner PPlaners is a super idea. See you've already implemented a way to gather ideas.
Looks like the Engine got lost in transit. I'll send you another one. And that was my problem! I didn't have time to sit in front of the phone all day working layover feeders. It doesn't work as well for the "set it and forget it" scenario. I still don't use a feeder system. LOL. Should I start asking, "Are you back (lah)?" when someone has just returned and is standing right in front of me so obviously the answer is yes? Yes, I love these 2 answers too.
Out of curiosity, what's the highest Bux job available, and from where to where? Probably from Nome to Wellington - 12 Bux is my guess.
