Imho, having each sequoia or cyclone assigned to one city adds unnecessary complexity. What I do is I assign a few paired P/C cloudliners for the closest class 3 cities near the event one. They are either yellow (P) or red (C) and named EVTOK or EVSHA for example. These planes can do round trips if they don't have other bux jobs. And I send them back immediatly to their assigned airports with whichever jobs there is. But for the main fleet M planes, I use the basic load strategy form my last post. And if I see layovers buildup somewhere, I focus on this city on the next few planes. That doesn't happen often though, as I only layover bux jobs. Of course, I play only for the global events now, so my setup is for late game strategy
Hey, I've just got back into PP after a long while. I unfortunately lost my save and Nimblebit kindly replaced my planes etc but I'm still building. My game centre ID is the same as my username here, please feel free to add me . I need some experenced players for hints and tips. Planning to stick around the forums a little more often. Cheers!
What do you do for a class one event? Do you turn your central hub into a layover destination for all bux jobs and event jobs?
If I decide to go for the top 10, the closest class 3 becomes the central hub. I'll have my 3 pairs of Cloudliners P/C doing round trips from the closest airports to the hub with event/bux jobs. About 15 class 1 or 2 planes doing the round trip from the hub to the event city. 20 cyclones as the regular fleet, and a dozen as Bux sitters. The only time I use my cyclones bux sitters as regular planes is for an event like NY where there weren't mystery parts. Now I mostly either go for the top 10 or just do bare minimum, depending on my free time and the event. I'm not sure I'd like the swarm strategy, it feels very repetitive although very effective. I like having a dozen permanent class 3 airports and reorganizing a fourth of my fleet depending on the event. I dunno maybe I'll try Merlion's Blimps once
Thanks all for the welcome! For the record, the correct answer is 'him' This was the first event where I did much more than the minimum, apart from events where I already had a port setup. I'm back to bux-sitting now, as it became apparent rather quickly that my seat-filling strategy in Sydney outpaced my available slots. Once I get another 20k bux or so, I'll most likely switch over to events exclusively. Many thanks to all who have posted (and/or collated) strategies!
Hi and welcome Could you tell us what your setup was for Sydney, you did an impressive number of jobs!
Thanks Merlion for another great read LOVE your MOFO updates!! I've been so burned out. I managed to make 12th for Sydney. I was hoping to at least make top 10 but I had to work all day Saturday and didn't get home until after the event ended. Big props to all of you power players who keep going event after event! I don't know how you do it!
Heh, thanks. If we're allowed self-pats on the back, I was actually < 100 jobs away from my final # with just over 7 hours to go. And surely, I'd be glad to share the setup: The initial goal was bux/parts sitting and of course seeing how well I'd do in terms of the leaderboard. The event itself went well, and I ended up with about 110 C-130 parts total. I'll leave it up to the reader to determine if that was successful or not. To be quite honest, I don't see myself using a C-130, much less 30+, but it was enough of an enticement to try. So with all that being said: Opened all of the major EA cities I didn't already have, to include: Xian, Beijing, Seoul, Tokyo, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Bangkok, Manila, all max upgraded. Each of these cities (apart from Manila) had 2 Seq-Ms assigned with reduced weight and increased speed. 1 was designated for bux/parts sitting, the other for feeding Manila with Sydney jobs. These numbers ended up changing a little but the general concept was roughly the same. Opened Sydney and Melbourne. Ran advertising full-time in Sydney. Assigned 2 upgraded Mapples to Melbourne to run event jobs. These ran to Sydney and straight back even if only 1 event job was in the list. The rest of my slots were devoted to mostly Aero-Ms, but I slowly added some Aero-Ps to the fleet as I was able to find parts. I think it ended up being 15 Ms and 5 Ps (?). How it worked was pretty quick and sloppy: At each refresh, run thru the top of the job list and scan for parts or bux headed to Sydney for the sitters. Then do the same for each of the feeder Seq until I had 5 passengers and send off to Manila. The extra Aero-P in the fleet negated the need to wait for cargo other than what existed in the list. Once the sitters were close to full, sent those off to Manila as well. Based on the overall layover condition of Manila and the location of the 25 plane herd between Manila and Sydney, I'd use the sitters as feeder planes until things evened out. This is the 'parent' in the parent/child queue relationship. After dropping off Sydney jobs in Manila, planes were sent back to their home port with whatever was headed to that city, whether full or not. Aeros were sent to Sydney and back to Manila with no stop. i.e. they all came back empty. I never had much of an issue with getting the 25% bonus, allowing a small amount of income for every trip. At times, I used the return trips to manage the queue from a 'child' perspective, and bux-boosted empty planes to catch parts jobs sitting in Manila, or to grab what I referred to as 'free' event jobs after a refresh. Since it only costs 1 bux to travel empty to anywhere you can fly, this was an easy choice to help manage time. If I wanted to let the game sit for a while, let the planes land whenever, but if I was able to be fully engaged, spend a bux and get another plane headed to the event. Overall, I broke even in bux gained/spent over the course of the event. The amount of bux spent filling out the fleet and upgrading everything was quite a different matter. I think I spent well over 3k in capital expenses. Of course the primary part of the strat is having enough time. Being a longer distance event between Class 2 cities was certainly a help in this regard. Hope this was interesting enough ;-)
Anyone have any extree P/C Cloudliners that they are not using to donate to the cause? Would also take P/C cyclones Now I see the flaw in giving them away I will give my strategy and screen shot after the event. After all the more that can put up the numbers the better we can compete with TA. Maybe even beat them again! I am trying to beat my personal best and with the end in site I want to see how far I can push past it The only tough thing is I am leaving town to a place with no Internet (crazy I know). I will have to drive to the gas station to log in to Game Center so if you see big jumps that is why. Good luck to all pilots! Happy and safe flying!
For Xi'an, I initially tried my known method of fill, hop & drop....since I just can't resist any BUX job, small or large. Quickly it became apparent that to stay in the Top 10, this would not be effective. A major switch was required. I changed things up to using Xi'an as a central hub...alas...I made ground! Or...so I thought. Seems there were some other tricks up pilot sleeves that eluded me. I must resist the small BUX jobs. I need to trust that in the long rn, avoiding the small BUX will result in much higher BUX payoffs. Flying 50 planes, a total mix of any Class 3 planes I have available, everything from Cloudliners, Sequoias, Cyclones, a C-130 and a few Tetras thrown in the mix. Working to replace the dinosaurs. It's hard to visit the Market in the midst of flinging planes. LOL P.S. just so no one worries...I'll be away Thurs - Sun with limited fly time.
I went to the store and bought a drink and it costed less than your drink. Every kid I know including mine swear that cost is used correctly in the above sentence. Am I delusional or should the sentence say "cost" instead of "costed"??
As an American English speaker (who still struggles with the language), I think "cost" is the correct usage in your example sentence above. I believe "cost" is the past tense of "cost". I think the use of "costed" is more ubiquitous outside the United States and it is used with a slightly different meaning (viz. to set the price of something). This is how I would use "cost" in the past tense: "Inconsistent Game Center synching cost me a Top 10 position in the MOFO rankings," grumbled CastlePage.
anyone have any luck getting nimblebit to help them get there stuff back? I had a fleet of 25 sequoias and a ton of bux completely lost.
I have never needed to contact them for support however have heard success stories from others on this forum. While waiting for others with more experience to chime in ... Have you checked out this support page? There is contact info on the right sidebar. http://support.nimblebit.com/customer/portal/topics/301836-pocket-planes/articles
