You found a 12 Bux job in Nome? The highest I've seen is 10 Bux Honolulu to Tokyo. Maybe I should open up Nome to collect Bux.
I know your question was recently answered by Castle (here: http://forums.toucharcade.com/showpost.php?p=2620263&postcount=11944) and by 3wapp (here: http://forums.toucharcade.com/showpost.php?p=2620275&postcount=11945). I asked the same thing a few months back. Thought it couldn't hurt to read the same explanation rephrased. Coastcat's explanation (here: http://forums.toucharcade.com/showpost.php?p=2454467&postcount=7250): Your profit is delivery fees minus flight cost. For a Cloudliner with no weight reduction, the cost to fly LA - NY - Paris - Tehran - Tokyo is 26784 coins (according to The Rusty Snowman's handy tools). It sounds like you're flying to Seoul and stopping there, then continuing to Tokyo. The cost to fly Seoul - Tokyo is 1329 coins. Just to make the math simple... 17 jobs x 2488 coins per job = 42296 gross earnings from the loaded Cloudliner. For the LA - Tokyo flight, 42296 - 26784 = 15512 final profit However, you stopped in Seoul. When you fly Seoul to Tokyo, that's a brand new flight with the same valuable deliveries on board. Seoul - Tokyo, 42296 - 1329 = 40967 And that's how you get a seriously high single-flight profit. Train's explanation (here: http://forums.toucharcade.com/showpost.php?p=2454471&postcount=7251): My understanding is that each person and cargo only pay off only when they arrive to their stated destination. Added to that is each plane must "pay" a set amount of gold coin to travel from one city to another. Ultimately the coin a flight makes (or loses, I'm looking at you Starship). Is based on how much the payoff is minus the cost. So flying a plane full of Tokyo jobs from LA to Tokyo might be $35,000 in job payoffs, but $15,000 in flying costs. Thus $20,000 profit. But if you fly LA to Seoul and stop, you get $0 in payoff but $14,000 in costs. The Seoul to Tokyo flight would then get you the $35,000 payoff but now the cost is only $1,000 and a profit of $34,000. But when you add both flights together you still only net $20,000. Again, that's my understanding of it.
BIG bux exchange I finally traded in my bux, and had some interesting experiences along the way... Background: Until recently, I had never made a bux-to-coins exchange, and still managed to open 28 plane slots and make it to level 50 purely from flight profits. I never felt I needed more than 28 planes; when I re-started my planes, the first few would be landing just as I got to the last ones taking off, so I thought I would never need more than those 28 planes. Therefore, I just kept collecting bux. Not with any conscious strategy or plan--I'd simply pick up new bux jobs as I saw them and used my layover slots everywhere for bux jobs. I once thought I'd trade them in for a billion coins, but blew past that milestone and didn't bother. Then I thought I'd simply do one massive exchange once I was "finished" with the game (all events completed, all planes collected) to maximize my airline value. But then I saw sdo62's post about the limit in coins, to a maximum of 2,147,483,647 (that's 2^31-1, the maximum positive number using a signed 32-bit integer in computing). That gave me some incentive to cash in bux for the first time, since there was now no point in collecting indefinitely. I made careful note of my existing coins on hand and then made the maximum exchange to keep me under that limit: (that's almost 33,000 coins per bux!) But when I looked at my stats page, I saw that my airline value was negative! I quickly bought the 29th plane slot to use up some coins, and my airline value was positive again. Slowly and carefully, I worked my airline value back up exactly to the maximum value, and I let my planes idle for a while until this value was registered in Game Center: Then, as an experiment, I let a hot air balloon fly with no cargo (no profit, but no cost) and caught a single fly-by coin. As expected, the airline value went from the maximum positive to the maximum negative, as the integer incremented (from 0x7FFFFFFF to 0x80000000 for those of you who know hexadecimal). Perhaps the developers will use a "uint_32" instead of "int" for a future release, and we'll have a 4 billion limit... But even after that, I was still confused about one thing. My peak airline value was only good enough for 111th on the Game Center scoreboard. The people above me have plausible values greater than 2,147,483,647 so I don't think they're hackers (except for the top couple of people on the list). How can that be? How am I hit by the 31-bit limit but others apparently are not? Finally, now that I had a couple of billion coins, it was time to add some more planes. Why not? What else can you do with 2 billion coins? I'm certainly not going to open 105 airports? I doubled my capacity and now have 56 plane slots (could have opened a 57th, but didn't want to be cash poor): I'm still filling in the slots. My newly expanded fleet now looks like: 2 Cloudliner-Ps (one more under construction) 2 Cloudliner-Cs (one more under construction) 9 Cyclone-Ms (two more under construction) 9 Sequoia-Ms 1 Concorde 1 Hercules 17 Aeroeagle-Ms (I love this plane! I have so many because I spend most of my time working on individual events, and mostly pick the class 2 cities) 4 Mapples 2 Sea Knights I will likely keep some slots to swap in planes as needed for events (e.g. Cyclone/Sequoia/Kangaroo Ps and Cs for passenger-only or cargo-only events). But I suspect my gameplay will change considerably now...
No, I didn't: I'm confident that the longest distance is Nome to Wellington, but I just guessed that it was worth 12 Bux. I opened Honolulu yesterday for the 10 Bux jobs, but I'm running out of patience for this route, so I definitely don't have patience for Bux collecting in Nome! Wow great investigative work!
Just updated the spreadsheet with most of the top 10 (I'm missing #6 & #8) and global rankings. Does anyone have intel on approximately how many player we have in TA1 this round?
Thank you for sharing this! I am in virtually the same place as you were, worked my way up to Level 50 the good ol' fashion way, although I'm one plane short at 27. At this point I am working on bux collection. Really appreciate you testing to see that the value of coins does retain.
right? I'm talking about down the road. When I have, say 1 Million coins, and I'm still doing these LA-TK/TK-LA Sequoia runs, should I advertise LA & TK continuously every 8 hours? My first choice would've been Nothing Suspicious Here[!], but I am a huge fan of green_paper's idea Con-Air!
Advertising is somewhat expensive, and I would never consider it for normal operations. Use it only when you need to generate a lot of jobs quickly (i.e. for events, when you have time limits) and only when coins are no longer an issue (i.e. you have millions available, and aren't really saving up for plane slots).
Just posting to confirm that 12 bux jobs do indeed exist, via nome >Wellington or nome to any of the upper eastern class ones. I found this out when I was trying a different route strategy for fun in which I would park a sea Knight or two in Wellington and collect Hawaiian jobs slowly. Once I could fill halfway fill an aero eagle I'd run those jobs along with jobs to other distant cities (enough to negate the profit loss or get close) until I had enough Hawaii layovers in LA to fill an eagle to the island. I did the same thing between nome and wellington/Russian class 1s(forgot their names). It wasn't the most efficient method of play but it was fun getting those people all the way across the world
That makes me curious; what is the highest Class 3 bux job? (aka bux amount from farthest distance from one C3 city to another) Thank you ALL, but I'm going to give up and just drop it. I just don't understand it. CastlePage has gotten close, but it seems that simply NO ONE can make it so simple for ME to understand. All this MATH is making my head spin!!! (that means YOU, Faye!!) lol jk Thanks for all the hard work and patience and kindness. But I just don't get it right now. Thank you for the info. That makes a lot of sense, thank you!
I think it's Tokyo - LA which is 8 Bux. Add class 2 Honolulu into the mix and Tokyo - Honolulu is 10 Bux. Throw in class 2 Sydney and Sydney - Honolulu is 11 Bux.
Thanks! Added to the spreadsheet. Thanks! Will add to FAQ. Edit: I popped this in the FAQ under the bux exchange warning link.
Thks for sharing! I dig the "one more balloon trip and airline value goes negative 2 Bln" lol I didn't realize you had not made a Bux exchange after all this time! How many Bux did you have? I saw somone here that did manage to get to 100k, not sure who it was (sdo?)
