I'm sitting at 43 with 675m coins, so I can buy plenty more but I can't even keep 37 planes in the air(20 for the event) without going crazy or losing interest every couple of days.
40 slots, 25 Airports max and I'm planning to stop my expansion to 50 to accommodate a wide combination of mainly 30 Blimps, 20 Mapples and other planes in my Hangar.
I'm at 62, and halfway my next target of 64,000 bux which will buy me another 5 (five!) slots. Half of my fleet at the moment consists of Blimps, the other half is a regularly changing mix of mainly Mapples, Sea Knights, Aeroeagles, C-130s, Concordes, the odd Sequoia or Cyclone, and a couple of Kringle Kruisers. I'm still going for more slots, mainly out of laziness I guess. Trying to achieve a situation where I have so many planes sitting in slots that I don't have to take stuff in and out of the hangar all the time Cheers, M.
Thanks, Pope! That's quite an impressive setup, with an equally impressive result! If you could do this in such a way that you can keep this up over several events, you'd most certainly end up with more MOFO points btw Cheers, M.
Random question: what event city would be the most challenging? My guess is Hilo! Edit: or Easter Island!
Soooo basically you could decide at any time to hop off the fence and destroy the rankings for as long as you felt like?
By far it would have to be barrow, Alaska. With Norilsk you have a class 2 real close and TONS of class 3's that are close enough Barrow the closet you have are Seattle and closest class 3...LAX! If you went out if Seattle it would be 25 minutes one way with a fully upgraded mapple. While they are relatively the same distance from the closest big city, barrow would be harder in my opinion because you are feeding from a class 2 where as with the other you can feed cloud liners into Moscow.
Currently at 51 slots. Almost to my next BUX goal for expansion to 56 slots. Currently flying: 30 Aeroeagles - a variety of M, P/C 5 Cloudliner C 6 Cloudliner P 2 Clyclone C 3 Clyclone p 5 Clyclone M I always run 100% event and pick up BUX I can along the way. With expansion, plan to put a couple of planes in BUX sitting mode...until I see that I'm not keeping up with the leaders, then they'd convert to event...LOL.
54 plane slots...158 Million coins...63,313 Bux and not a clue what I will do next. Unless there is an update I really do not see the need to add any more planes to the endless scrolling! Level 62 about ready to roll over to Level 63....
Honolulu Top 10 WTG Popehatz!!! 15k jobs in Honolulu... Jmac & Tater tied with 2488 jobs; they both leapfrogged over Lorena within the last hour. Next up: Air Museum Opening in Rio ... prize is a P-40 Warhawk.
I have 57, and I totally regret the expansion. I went from 28 slots (IIRC) to 57 in one fell swoop after a 65K bux exchange, and ever since then my game crashes EVERY single job refresh. It is somewhere between infuriating and impossible to participate fully in any event, so most of my planes are idle for days. I was much happier with <30 planes.
I always thought P/C players paired up the planes. Is there a reason why yours learn more toward P planes? My game crashes quite a bit with 42 slots. And the freezing/pauses are frustrating too. Must play in slo mo, so adding more planes would make it even harder to make one pass through my plane list within the same job refresh cycle. I think I was happiest in the level 20-30s. Hmmm... now there's a great reason to have more slots!
Mystery parts I know that since the reward for this event is a challenge is a plane so there should be mystery parts right? And how often do mystery parts show up? Also in general, is it better to have a lot or few airports?
1 - Yes (I've got one going to Rio as I type)*. 2 - I don't know, but it seems like you get 1MP per 100 jobs (I got 14 MPs from 1400 or so jobs back in March during the Boston Starship event). 3 - I know that, the fewer airports you have, you'll be getting more jobs for the airports you gave. Whether that affects the number of MPs, I don't know. (But you'll probably get more if you advertise Rio.) * - Yes, I'm back playing Pocket Planes.
Whether it is better to have more or less airports is really up to your playing style. It's harder to fill planes with 25% bonus when you have too many airports. Merlion plays with 100 airports: Merlion's Blimps Bux Strategy, revised http://forums.toucharcade.com/showpost.php?p=2797990&postcount=16011 Merlion's Blimps4Bux Strategy http://forums.toucharcade.com/showpost.php?p=2623874&postcount=12060 Penguin worked Honolulu with only TWO airports and ranked #4 at the end of the event. Photo of Penguin's Honolulu setup: http://forums.toucharcade.com/showpost.php?p=2824535&postcount=16405 An interesting read is Relharn's study on coin/bux jobs per city: http://forums.toucharcade.com/showpost.php?p=2645751&postcount=12731 And there's Merlion's recent post about his experience with Bux jobs: http://forums.toucharcade.com/showpost.php?p=2824904&postcount=16418 Woot!!!
