If you're in TA1, that's me at the moment. I run 36 Sequoias and 1 Aeroeagle for aircraft and all 32 Class 3 airports and Honolulu (that's why the Aeroeagle) for a total of 33 airports. I run a spoke and hub style routing. I don't care if the outbound planes are full, I launch them all at the same time regardless of capacity. On the inbound flight, I try to load a few bux rides for the income and the rest for the event. Being Sequoias, their speed is slow enough so that, after I launch everything on a schedule, I do something else in real life then come back to it in a couple hours and run it again. If the global event is a class 3 like this one, it's easy. If not, it takes me a bit longer because I have to run a feeder route and run slower speed and lower capacity aircraft. My GC is BJLemurcat, if you want to add me. I don't do every event so I won't be in first all the time. I also fly a Flight Simulator online and do that instead of Pocket Planes when I can. Bobby
Uhh... What did I get in London again? Last time I checked, 250 something jobs and 11th place, with XGarriga on my tail the whole event... BobbyH, you were out of sight! I wonder when my partial Concorde will be finished... Edit: 12th place with 249 jobs.
That London event was a tough one, a lot of other teams must have wanted that Concorde part.....TA1 only got to number 5 worldwide. Hey, it all pays the same above 10 I set up a feeder through Goose Bay from New York and Chicago for this current event but I'm going to be low key in this one. I need to put in a lot of hours in the flight school sim the rest of the week.......my online flying buddies are telling me my piloting skills are slipping......LOL. Keep pushing......I always see Faye, XGarriga, you, and kickasslee on the leaderboard. It's fun seeing names on the board. Bobby
Thanks Sorry, some more questions (and statements) - I just built my first Cyclone-M today, however, it is only earning 3,000-4,000 coins/flight, which is B-A-D. How do you guys get Cyclones to work? - I only have 200 something bux, and I'm level 26 now, were you "richer" then? I'm skipping the Iqaluit event, it's high in Nunavut, Canada and way too cold for Mapples to reach without freezing the fuel solid. Jokes aside, having such an inconvenient airport event (worse than Punta Arenas), is too much for a Level 26 player.
Faye will have to answer on the Cyclones, she flies them in her fleet. I do know that on identical flights the Sequoia will make much more profit than a Cyclone but, if you're sitting on the game, you can turn a Cyclone more frequently because it flies much faster so, over time, it would turn a better profit than a Cyclone. Just depends on how you manage your fleet......and time. You can get very rich very quickly if you "bux sit". I do that when I want to make a lot of money to buy another "slot". If you fill the plane for the 25% bonus and put a few paying customers with the bux sitters, you can still turn a profit and make a boatload of bux. Bobby
Actually, this event would be great for you. You have Class 3 airports including New York with Sequoias and Cyclones. Open up the event city and Goose Bay. If you bux sit into New York along with the event city, you can make money, get the event prize, and grind out XP to move up. Bobby
Someone sent me a message on this forum. I can see the notification in the upper right. But I'm having trouble accessing the message section. When I click on "your notifications", a drop-down menu appears about an inch or two below. When I move my mouse down toward the drop-down menu, the menu disappears. So I can't click on it. Anyone have ideas on what's going on here? @Chromatinfish Bobby gave you great advice here. This is exactly how I have Iqaluit set up. I already had New York. I just opened up Goose Bay and Iqaluit. My little Kangaroos take nearly an hour to make the round trip. This is my kind of pace. The Class 3 events we've had recently should all be pretty easy for most people and were a great way to collect Bux. Like the last event in London. All your big planes carry London jobs plus any Bux jobs to London. All the Bux jobs hang out in London until you fly your big planes back out loaded with these Bux jobs to their destination. Lather, rinse, repeat. I haven't been very focused on Pocket Planes lately. I've been spending most of my time playing Mafia Wars, which feels almost like having a 2nd full time job. And a friend of mine got me hooked on this new game called Trivia Crack. It's a friend vs friend trivia question game. So I've been playing that on my phone during any idle moments I can find. My laptop had a little accident today. I spilled some tea on the keyboard. So I'm not playing Mafia Wars on it now that it is sitting on a bed of rice in a storage box, along with some silica gel packs. So maybe I will have more time to devote to Pocket Planes during this Iqaluit event. I'm using a loaner laptop right now, but it doesn't have all the stuff I need installed for me to do the things I need to do in Mafia Wars. Cyclones are faster, but are expensive to fly and you'll earn less. Sequoias are slower, but are cheaper to fly and you'll earn more. Sequoias are great workhorses. I still fly a few of them. The planes you choose will depend on your style of play and how much time you have to devote to the game. Do you have a lot of free time to check in frequently? Or do you just want to do fling your planes and check back hours later? If you can check in frequently, then faster planes (quicker turn around time) will work better for you. If you check in once or twice a day, then the slower planes will do fine. For Iqaluit (why is it so difficult to type that word?), I've chosen to fly Kangaroos even though they are slower because I don't think I will have much time to check in. I placed my Mapples in the hangar since I won't be taking advantage of their faster turnaround time; they were placed in the hangar several events ago. This is an awesome resource: http://www.therustysnowman.com/proj/pocketplanes.php Use the second part, Earnings Comparison section. You can use it to check earnings. You can also use it to plot out different routes to get an idea of how much time (or earnings) the trip will take. This is especially helpful for multi-hop trips when you're not sure how far your planes can reach. Cyclones cost more to fly than Sequoias. So you'll definitely make more coins flying the Sequoias. Building up coins is important when you're starting out in the game. However you should know that Bux is actually more valuable. You can cash in bux for coins, and you will get MORE coins (more coins per bux) when you cash in a larger chunk of bux in one transaction. ** NOTE ** check out the link to the post about the max number of bux you can cash in Useful links/resources are in my signature below.
That would be me. I'm not sure about your mouse problem.....almost sounds like a DPI setting issue but that's just a guess. Anyway, I'll copy and paste the PM to here. Hi Faye, I have 33 airports.....all 32 Class 3 and 1 class 2 that is Honolulu. I also have 37 airplane slots....36 Sequoia's and 1 Aeroeagle to get to Honolulu. I do this because I can get to any Global Event anywhere quickly by simply repositioning my fleet. My question is........in your opinion........should I keep working towards anymore airplane slots? I'm starting to think that if my network of airports is only the maximum of 32 class 3 airports, anymore airplane slots is just going to mean a lot of waiting to fill airplanes. You've been at this longer than me so I'll trust your advice. Bobby
Bobby is a tough one to keep up with, but it certainly keeps things interesting. Looks like you're figuring out which planes you like or don't like. You don't have to buy each type as they get unlocked when you level up. It is worth fully upgrading a class 3 airport if you know you want to keep it permanently. Cyclones are less profitable than Sequoias. Cloudliners are even worse! The P/C imbalance on those Cloudliner M planes drive me nuts. I always fly them in pairs, one P Cloudliner and one C Cloudliner. You'd need to have 2 free slots for a pair of them. This makes it less frustrating, but you still need some patience to fill them up (easily 3 or more job cycles). And Cloudliners are expensive to buy, build and fully upgrade ... 73 bux per part (x3) plus 73 bux to build. BTW, I can send you a cloudliner to try out, if you like. However I'd need to send it through someone else who can forward it to you because I don't see your name in my gifting list. Pocket Planes only lists 100 people. I only upgrade the planes I plan on keeping permanently. How many airports to have open is a hard question to answer. The number of airports will vary from person to person, depending on their playing style. (I have 23 airports open) Having too many airports dilutes the job pool which can make it take longer to fill up your planes with jobs to the same destination. If you want to focus on a Global Event, it can be much easier when you close far away airports and only keep a few close to the event city. But you'd need to have the resources to keep opening and closing airports every 3.5 days. I think there were several Concorde part events over the past several years, but never a full Concorde event. Perhaps another old timer who has better memory can chime in on this one?
Are you able to work down your list of planes within one job cycle? If so, then you're doing well. It can't hurt to have more airplane slots. It keeps your options open. You may want to use more planes for one event, but less in another event. I have 65 plane slots, but this doesn't mean I fly 65 planes. The number of active planes keeps changing. During the London global event, 26 slots were not in use for the event (planes grounded or put back into the hangar). The rest were manageable because many were on long distance runs. I just fling a plane and don't have to think about that plane again for a long time. It's manageable because all the active planes have staggered landing times, so I only have to deal with a "handful" at a time. During this Iqaluit event, I fling a bunch of Kangaroos up to Iqaluit and back, and then I don't have to think about them again for a long while. So after they've taken off, I can spend some time going through the rest of my planes and that doesn't take too long once I've got things up and running. I have 15 unused slots right now. Of course, it can take a while to get things up and running when I've been away from PP for a day or more, but once it all gets going it is not too hard to fill the planes. I sometimes move my class 1 planes from one class 1 event to another class 1 event by filling the planes up for the new class 1 event location, and then opening any needed airports for them to make the multi-hop trip. Sometimes it can take a while to fill up all the planes, plus 3 to 4 hours for them to deliver the jobs and head toward their new class 3 airport base if the new event is someplace across the globe.
Thank you for the info Faye, that makes sense to me. Sometimes I have to separate the game from real life. In my mind, a plane not in the air isn't making money so I have trouble thinking of unused plane slots. However, shooting for as many plane slots as you have gives me the idea to start regional lines off my network of class 3 airports. It's going to take a lot of bux sitting to buy 65 slots What's the reward if there is no goal Thanks again for the help. Bobby
Yikes, Faye and Bobby, I never expected so many posts Faye, thanks for the info. I never did buy a Tetra, and I regret even spending 120 bux on a Fogbuster which was horrible so I tossed it in the hangar ASAP. See, I use 6 Aeroeagles for events, but Iqaluit is Class 1, which means spending well-earned bux swapping Aeros for Mapples (which I have a few of). I'm going to save up some Cyclones to compete in Class 3's until I have reached Level 40 or something. I have not put a 25% bonus on a plane in eons (Never since Sequoias). I load up the plane from Jakarta-Lima with Jakarta, then Kinshasa, then Lima. Similarly, I load a plane from Tokyo-Los Angeles with Los Angeles, then New York, then Paris/London, then Tehran. It seems to be comforting since it craves my impatience. LOL... I had a dream where I was servicing all 250 airports in Pocket Planes, and Supergophers carried passengers from Pevek/Tiksi/ or any other far-end place to Seoul for Russia, and Chicago for North America, and Buenos for South America. Aeroeagles carried jobbers from Class 2's like Seattle, Houston, Berlin, to Los Angeles, Mexico City, London, respectively. Apparently I had a fleet of Concordes, because oodles of them shuttled jobs internationally. LOL That was a weird dream...
Kangaroos are relatively cheap. I keep a handful in my hanger just for class 1 events. Slow but you can grind out a respectable number of flights to make the prize with them. Also.......did you do the Christmas events? The sled is a class 1 and actually will make the trip from New York without the stopover in Goose Bay. Anyway......the whole object is to have fun.....and this is certainly fun I sent you my 2 extra sled parts so you'll have a class 1 ride Bobby
Thank you very much Ugghh... With A frayed gifting system, I cannot send a repayment If I could, I would send you something (Like a Sequoia, Cyclone, or maybe Concorde part).
Try as I might, I just can't catch up with the top two (not sure who is at the top right now, not on my friends list I guess). My little fleet of 23 planes is not enough... Kangaroo's are good little planes, but slow and unfortunately my platform does not get me access to faster Mapples unless they are gifted or part of a contest. Those or a fleet of sea knights would work well for many of these class 1 events I would think... Based on what I am reading here, the general consensus appears to be less is more when it comes to the number of airports. Right now I still have too many class 1 and 2's open, (nearly 40 open overall, but most of these are class 3) so as soon as I can get any bux in layovers delivered, I think I will close most all of them down and see what that does to my passenger mix. I too, like the sequoia over comparable volumn planes due to profit margins although I do have some cyclones as well... Looks like we are currently in 3rd overall, not bad when you consider that a majority of the jobs come from only 10 players!
You are doing awesome.!!!!!! Faye is #1 and you and I are trading 2nd and 3rd. I wouldn't be working this hard if it weren't for Faye and you. We are a team and we are in a battle for second. Keep it up......this is fun and exciting. I love it !!!!!!!
You're doing great with the Kangeroos. That is all I am using for this event. I don't have any Mappies or Sea Knights. My only class 1 airplanes are Kangeroos, a couple Kringle Kruisers that only carry 3 and a couple of Blimps that are miserably slow. Don't be discouraged, you're doing great. Bobby (BJLemurcat)
Here is status of other crews: #1- Toucharcade #2- Toucharcade1 #3- Nimblewiki (Congrats to all hardworking members of TA1 for passing this serious competition) #4- Unknown #5- Polygon #6- Unknown #7- Unknown #8- Unknown #9- Unknown #10-Jayisgames #11-PPWikia C'mon Toucharcade One!
Thank you Faye, you were very helpful and helped me decide what to do. I made enough bux during this event to now have 38 slots. I can run a full cycle with the class 3 airports to feed the class 1 event although you and kickasslee have been working me hard the past few days. I see you have 65 slots but didn't use 26 for the London event so you were using 39!slots which is only one more than my 38 total. I think I'll stay at this level now and save bux to build my fleet....it's pretty thin at the moment. Thank you again for the help and advice. Bobby (BJLemurcat)
