Very disappointed I haven't played much in the past few months--just getting 50-100 jobs per global mission every 3.5 days, and that's about it. Ever since I cashed in 65K bux for 2B coins, and used that to expand my fleet from 32 to 57 plane slots, my game crashes every job refresh interval. I have to restart the game every 5 minutes. I was very hopeful when I saw today's update, but alas, the game still crashes shortly after I see the "NEW JOBS!" banner. EVERY TIME.
Pearjet Just wondering, what's everyone's take on pearjets? I seem to find them profitable but there isn't much talk about them.
GC: RyanChew Thank you Any tips on which airport to build next after London and Paris? I read online that it's best to build airports in a straight line so.. Istanbul/Cairo next?
Pearjets IMHO are one of the most underrated planes out there, design-wise.* They look very elegant, and have more sweeping lines than even the Concorde. They're easily the most elegant planes in the Airpedia. I roll them out of the hangar every once in a while, mostly P or C versions whenever there's a Class 2 P or C only event, or to address layover imbalances. Lovely beasties. The reason why Pearjets're so underrated I think is their direct successor, the Aeroeagle. When you get to the point in the game when they're available, they're immediately of better use than the Pearjets. One seat extra, cheaper to fly, no P/C imbalance, they're truly useful Class 2 workhorses. So whenever they become available, everyone switches to Aeroeagles, hangars the PJs, and never looks back. So all of you higher up in the levels, think of the good old Pearjet every once in a while. They don't deserve a dusty, dreary mothballed existence in a dark corner of your hangars. Cheers, M. *) Disclaimer: this is a sponsored message from the Bates Pearjet Corporation. The M S & H accept no editorial responsibility for any of its content, which solely reflects the personal opinion from one of its editors.
Added, I'll send some planes your way when I get a chance during work. My main route goes like this: Los Angeles - New York - London/Paris - Istanbul/Teheran - Seoul/Tokyo Another good one is: Rio de Janeiro/Sao Paulo - Kinshasa - Guangzhou - Seoul/Tokyo At some point, you'll probably end up with both of these routes, but since you allready have London and Paris, stick with the first one to start with. And remember, there is really no right or wrong way to play the game, progress will allways be achieved!
I think it went down, unfortunately. Before I think for every bux you sold, the value of each one increased by one coin. Now it's every 2 bux equals one coin extra value.
One caveat. Even though you can't buy some of the higher end planes at lower levels, you can still use them if you get them as a gift or in a trade. But if you get a level 3 plane, you have to have two level 3 airports to fly them. And those are not cheap early in the game.
I haven't updated to the latest May version yet, and the conversion rate is 1 coin for every 2 bux. Changing that rate with a game this old would be more trouble than its worth to Nimblebit I'd wager.
My mistake. I always thought it was 1 bux for 1 coin extra. Anyway nothing else has really changed in the update as far a I can tell, apart from you can watch a 15 second video for 1 bux, which isnt too bad a deal.
Thank you for the kind words to my excessively long diatribe! Cloudliners seem to do best if you just let them sit there and fill themselves, or have feeder planes bring them items. It may take a while, but once they're filled, they seem to be profitable. I do the same with the Concorde. But most importantly, the Concorde is just cool to fly. I have read a lot of the signature posts. I am probably watching my pennies too intently, but I like to fly things in a truly straight line as much as possible. Dehli is an extremely important and I would say absolutely necessary city for the northern route, however, I recently opened Karachi and Dhaka because I kept finding some planes just didn't quite reach Delhi, or using these cities made routes from the south more straight, and therefore more efficient. And again, straight seems to be more efficient than worrying about the number of stops that you take... This is a great site. Thanks.
