Actually, I only 'manage' large airports (mostly Class 3s, plus a handful of Class 2s) that accumulate a lot of layovers. All the other airports are just way stations or end stations, places where jobs are dropped off and only bux jobs are picked up. I don't even wait for refreshes (not even in Class 3s). It's load 'em up and fly 'em out. Don't have the patience As for the mix, it's about one third each for Class 1, 2 and 3. Includes all of the Class 3s. Cheers, M.
Merlion, I read somewhere a few pages back that you used mostly blimps (It may have been the screenshot). What other planes do you use? It must be a hassle to fill up class 3's... -Macs96 Edit: Sorry for all the questions, I'm just curious as to how having 100+ airports can work...
Well then you should move over to TA1! Would love to get more active players in the mix since Nimblewiki seems to be gaining steam lately.
Pope-I don't care how humble you are about your bux collection strategy...I will brag for you and say this method is the single greatest strategy that I have read, and I have tried them all. If for no other reason than putting the planes in order! That piece of advice alone has been a headache saver for me. I HATED collecting bux, but now it is FUN! The other great part is that by keeping it simple, I am able to play for as many refreshes as I want! I've now played for about 2 hours since last night at 3am, and already collected 700 bux. When I can actually put in some time, I'm really going to rack up. One question...when you were hard core bux sitting how full did you wait for planes to giet before sending them? Also, how important is it to have cyclones going instead of seq-m.
This game is just awesome, started playing again 2 weeks ago after a break of 7 months. Just not sure how to go about growing a huge airline. Currently level 17 with a hub and spoke system from London to Jakarta (Mel/Syd), using both Aeroeagles and Birchcrafts to get my P&C to and from both hubs, while using Mohawks to distribute them to class 1 airports. What planes are the best to use at my level, and am I better off using Mixed planes instead of the full P or full C planes I am using right now? Appreciate all the help I can get ! GC: Fixojete
No worries, Macs, just ask away! My Class 3s are mostly Concordes and Hercs, with the occasional Seq, Cyclone or Cloudliner thrown in, mainly when there's a Class 3 event going on. Class 2s are Aeroeagles. And Class 1s, besides Blimps, are mainly Mapples and SKs, plus two KKs to address the imbalances the Concordes leave behind. Cheers, M.
Yes, but when the event is over, you will be rewarded by an extra long post by Merlion... Thanks for taking the time to answer my questions Merlion, I appreciate it... -Macs96
Hopefully, they're teasing us for a massive update on the 14th (since it'll be a year since PP came out).
*blush* Glad to hear it was coherent enough to be effective for someone else. I usually tried to wait as long as possible before sending planes off to London/Paris. There were times I'd need to kick off a 3-bux job to make room for a 5+ if there were still plenty of P or C slots left. It became much easier when I had the extra Aero in each city to use as a quick shuttle to another city in case both planes were out. i.e. If both of the Beijing planes were in the air, I'd use the Aero to sit and then deliver them as layovers to Seoul. Or, lets say you have a Cyclone in Beijing and it's got 6C/1P. I'd let it sit and would capture any extra cargo with the Aero and send it off to Seoul. This usually allowed enough time for a return trip so that no bux were missed. And of course if I had to boost the Aero for 1 bux in order to capture a 5, I'd certainly do it. Obviously the situation described above is much easier to deal with when using Cyclones rather than Sequoias. Cyclones are about 55% faster and carry 20% more. Especially for EA cities, this is critical. If you have a good chunk of time to play, it's even more noticeable. Prior to building up my stock of Cyclones, I used Seq M's. While it worked fairly well, I'd often be left with 0 planes in EA cities or LA. These give the highest value jobs and I hated missing out. Tried various schemes like having an extra Seq in each EA city and in LA. And tried having MISC planes as substitute sitters. But subs weren't convenient to track (since everything is deployed in order with MISC planes at the end of the list). After a point I just said 'to hell with it' and watched the market at every refresh and bought whatever Cyclone parts they were selling. Once I got enough parts, I re-deployed my entire layout using only Cyclones and Aeros and never regretted the cost to hanger the Seq and build/deploy the Cyclones. In other words, it's much simpler when you have over-engineered the setup
I definitely am feeling the pain not having cyclones... so if any of my Android guys are still here, I'd love some cyclone M parts I dumped the aero m in all the cities, and switched to make sf and phx have 2 each. I'm not seeing a problem yet with my EA cities. LA is killing me, and I have 4 misc planes going. Catching London and Paris at every refresh is probably the most important tip i have gotten since playing this game, and putting the planes in order has made bux collecting a joke! SOOO easy! When you were sitting didto deliver back from London and Paris did you fill just to the city the plane originated from or did you grab jobs along the way? I'm doing it the first way and catching the bonus almost every flight.
The main sitters assigned to each city would primarily just take their own jobs back home after dropping off other jobs in London or Paris. If they were less than maybe 60-70% full, I'd grab jobs to drop off along the way (no stopping, just dropping them off). So for example, if a sitter from Chicago had 7-8 total and I had a few NY jobs leftover and no NY sitter incoming, I'd just drop off the NY jobs on the way to Chicago. But for the most part, sitters carry their own jobs exclusively when headed back home. At other times, I'd send the plane to the opposite layover city and grab whatever was there too. The bonus is relatively regular, but certainly not a priority. The biggest issue for me was when everything was humming along and I'd have too many bux jobs. It's a good problem to have since the focus is on capturing the jobs and less about delivering them, but at times would require creative means to keep London and Paris at a comfortable level below the 60 layover limit. One other thing to keep in mind - if you have no sitters in a place like LA and can spare the layover space, send an LA sitter back home empty and boost it. The 1 bux you spend is nothing compared to missing out on a 45 minute period waiting for a full plane to make it back home.
And yet ANOTHER GREAT TIP! Such common sense thinking, and yet I guarantee I'm not the only one thinking "man, I can't believe I didn't think of that. I hope you newbies are paying attention. M should make you the king of the city Just spent 2200 on cyclone parts...so now I have 3 running, 20 cyclone bodies, and 20 cyclone engines...and 72 bux!
Berlin Berlin finish ... looks like Pope has some new competition. Still trying to recover from PP burn out, I had 6 empty plane slots during Berlin and was not inspired to fill them. Next event: Dive Trip in Casablanca Prize: 30 Bux
You're getting to the good part. I think the level 20s were the best part of the game. Aeroeagles are great planes, definitely keepers even after you've unlocked all the class 3 planes; I mostly use them for global events. I'd suggest retiring the Birchcrafts. Kangaroos are my favorite store-bought class 1 planes, followed by Mohawks in the P or C only flavors. I tend to avoid the M planes with uneven P/C splits. There's a lot of good info on this forum. You can start reading this thread from page 1 if you have tons of free time, or you can check out some of the highlights that are linked from the posts in my signature below.
Faye, or anybody else who knows - didn't Captainbrowncoat have a different forum name? (Trying to make sure he isn't already in my spreadsheet). Please enlighten me Thanks! M.
