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Pocket Planes |OT| ...and don't call me Shirley (iOS, Universal) #GAFAIR crew
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Dacvak
No one shall be brought before our LORD David Bowie without the true and secret knowledge of the Photoshop. For in that time, so shall He appear.
I tried cheating and maxing out my Bux and Coins, but then the game got all glitchy. (I wasn't very far to begin with and I just wanted to see what would happen). Anyway, the game definitely can tell if you edit you db file somehow, or it at least doesn't like HUGE unrealistic numbers like that.
Long story short, I started a new game in the west coast (was planning on doing this again anyway) to try and help GAFAIR. Point of the story, don't cheat.
Long story short, I started a new game in the west coast (was planning on doing this again anyway) to try and help GAFAIR. Point of the story, don't cheat.
chickdigger802
Banned
Current event ends in about a day. I expect we get the goods then, and then the next event starts.
Hmm. But various events have ended already - the glasgow and warsaw ones. And more will start before others have finished.
toythatkills
Member
Those events are ongoing. They'll come back around in a cycle and if you've delivered 100 pirates already, you'll keep adding to that until your reach 1,000. Not sure if you actually get anything for reaching 1,000 though.
The world event is different and entirely separate to the other events.
Oooh...I see. So Calgary is the single 'world event' and there's a rotation of other events? I get it now.
And you need to complete a certain number of events for your crew to get your reward?
I assumed they were just world events that gave you jobs that are worth more than standard jobs, I didn't think you got anything else out of them.
toythatkills
Member
Yep, and your Warsaw total is yours and yours alone, etc.
Well you don't get paid more for the event jobs as far as I can tell, so I assume there's some prize at the end unless it's just "hey, you did it, well done." They're a bit like the missions in Tiny Tower and you get Bux for those, but there's at least one person in this thread that will know the answer!
Tetrasides
Neo Member
You guys are getting smashed by #TouchArcade
Going to enjoy the 100 bux.
Going to enjoy the 100 bux.
Nooooooooooo!!!! Why why why
I wake up this morning to find my entire game wiped out, I spent so much time with it yesterday, it's such a good game and I love it, but why oh why would anyone release this buggy mess of a game?
Dave is this issue going to be fixed soon? I won't play again till it is, thank goodness I didn't invest any money in to this yet, and I fully expect to invest in this game, support the dev, but come on this is just unacceptable and disappointing.
I wake up this morning to find my entire game wiped out, I spent so much time with it yesterday, it's such a good game and I love it, but why oh why would anyone release this buggy mess of a game?
Dave is this issue going to be fixed soon? I won't play again till it is, thank goodness I didn't invest any money in to this yet, and I fully expect to invest in this game, support the dev, but come on this is just unacceptable and disappointing.
It feels like they haven't legitimately gained half of those points. 22,000 points? That's a lot to get in a short period of time. :s
Tetrasides
Neo Member
Legit. Buy all airports around Calgary and go nuts. Also, it's a massive forum... so there is a lot of people doing it also.
Tetrasides
Neo Member
New jobs come every 5-10 minutes I believe.
Mmmm, guess so, but again, it'll be interesting to see them approach the second world-wide mission if their all based around Calgary, heh.
flashburn2012
Member
Tempted to buy some bux, but man, they seem way overpriced. Of course the $40 deal is pretty good, but... $40? No way.
How does this compare to Tiny Tower? Whilst I can see the appeal of that game, personally I found it to be a very mindless timesink, though massively addictive.
In a weird way I'd have compared it almost to a portable World of Warcraft, okay, not in terms of gameplay, or scale, but in the way it draws you in so much that by the end of it, and you finally delete the app and stop playing you think "Thank god that's over". Or at least that was my experience.
Is this going to be more of the same?
In a weird way I'd have compared it almost to a portable World of Warcraft, okay, not in terms of gameplay, or scale, but in the way it draws you in so much that by the end of it, and you finally delete the app and stop playing you think "Thank god that's over". Or at least that was my experience.
Is this going to be more of the same?
Henk_Glimlach
Member
Did you use ICloud? Nimblebit says that helps against the crashing. Don't know if it helps against resetting.
Anyone used iCloud and got there game reset?
Diablohead
Member
i'm going to say that once you get more then a few seats per plane the 25% bonus will make fairs huge.
Long distance + 25% x 4 = monies
POWERSPHERE
Member
What happens if we all change our Crew at the last minute?
chickdigger802
Banned
It's brilliantly done. You want to buy some bucks you can ONLY get $40. Such a deal for space bucks!
PetriP-TNT
Member
Joined the #GAFAIR crew! Playing with my work iPad on slow pace
Stormwatch
Member
I noticed the same thing with New York. There seems to be some benefit to deadheading planes to big hubs like that. I guess that's where the layovers come into play. Bring all your planes and packages to one location and then send the planes out from there full of cargo/people to a single destination.
flashburn2012
Member
I wouldn't call it brilliant. I've never bought any currency in a game before, this is the first one I'm tempted to. However since the benefit of getting the $40 bux is so great, it just completely stops me from buying ANY bux.
Diablohead
Member
I bought 200 bux for £2.99 mostly to support the devs, but also to aid me a little bit along the way to buy and upgrade my planes. I used about 35 bux and made 15 back only yesterday.
iCloud question!
I played up to level 7 yesterday on my iPad, I unlocked Calgary so I can help a bit. Then this morning I installed the game on my iPhone before going to work, but it's not synching my progress, so I'm a little bummed. Also, now I'm a little scared: how can I be sure it's not going to synch the other way around? I mean, am I going to find my iPad with the zero progress save from my phone tonight?
I played up to level 7 yesterday on my iPad, I unlocked Calgary so I can help a bit. Then this morning I installed the game on my iPhone before going to work, but it's not synching my progress, so I'm a little bummed. Also, now I'm a little scared: how can I be sure it's not going to synch the other way around? I mean, am I going to find my iPad with the zero progress save from my phone tonight?
Kung Fu Jedi
Member
Downloaded the game and started playing last night and definitely got sucked in. It is very addicting and lots of fun. It does need a "Quit" button though, as I really didn't want it running all of the time and ten minutes after I shut it down I was getting notifications of events in game, even though I have it set to not alert me.
toythatkills
Member
Imagine you've got airports in Europe, and airports in the US.
It's not realistic to send loads and loads of small planes back and forth across the Atlantic, so you'd drop off all your European passengers that want to go to the US at London, and then take a huge plane of them over the Atlantic all at once. Then when they get there, drop them all off and pick them up on smaller planes to take them where in the US they want to go.
I haven't read their Pocket Planes thread but their Tiny Tower thread was full of people hacking and cheating the game, so I really wouldn't be surprised. Still, with a LOT of people I don't see why 20,000 isn't possible, all depends on how many people they've got. Maybe it'd be better if leaderboards were calculated based on the average jobs per person, weighted depending on how many people are in the club so that a one-person club doesn't have a huge "average." Dunno how you'd actually manage that.
flashburn2012
Member
Yeah, please fix the issue with it still sending notifications even though I have them turned off. Annoying.
Can someone better explain layovers? I load a person who wants to go I city A, but instead unload them at city B and then pick them up again and go to city A?
How much does it increase the value of their trip? Does it need to be a different plane or do they have to be unloaded for a certain amount of time, or can you just unload and load again?
Also since when are layovers more expensive than no stops
How much does it increase the value of their trip? Does it need to be a different plane or do they have to be unloaded for a certain amount of time, or can you just unload and load again?
Also since when are layovers more expensive than no stops
toythatkills
Member
That's a lot of planes! I had a similar set up of airports, I'll suggest Moscow as a decent buy next. Most planes can reach it from Warsaw so everything will be able to get there, and it's pretty far away so the jobs can be valuable. Also, it's red so there's tons of jobs to get. I closed a bunch of the smaller ones, too, since they were basically rubbish at this point.
ponpo; see my post a few posts back.
nicoga3000
Saint Nic
I bought $5 worth (200 bux) and I feel pretty good about it. Could I use more? Sure, but I don't NEED more. I've still got 129 and have no real need for more at the moment.
I DO wish, however, that the exchange from bux to coins was a bit more desirable.
Yes, i´m going to buy Moscow as soon as i have the money.
flashburn2012
Member
I really only wanted to use them to exchange them for coins, so maybe that's why I didn't feel it was worth it. 120,000 coins for $5 seems expensive.
Ah didn't see that, stupid me. Thanks.
Edit: although, this seems to make sense only in scenarios like that. If all your airports are clustered in a small area, is there still a point?
POWERSPHERE
Member
I think it's so you drop off someone within range somewhere then you can double up with a different plane to get the bonus.
nicoga3000
Saint Nic
It is expensive - that covers 2 high traffic airports...And that's really it. Not sure if the exchange rate can be adjusted, but I know I would consider it if it was more worth it. Even though it grows with 1 coin per bux you add, it's still a miserably low exchange rate.
toythatkills
Member
There might be a way to make it work, ie. gathering all your bitizens in one place so you can get combos for taking them to their destination. I think the amount of micro-management that would take probably wouldn't make the gains worth it though.
I can only really see myself using it for trans-Atlantic flights, because presumably the amount of money you'll get will be pretty huge.
Stormwatch
Member
This is how I envision layovers. I haven't actually done them yet, but I think this is how it works. Basically, you have a mixed bag of people/cargo at the origin airports. You bring all that cargo to one central hub airport. From there you create other flights carrying cargo whose destination is all the same airport. This way you get the 25% bonus for having a plane full of cargo with the same destination. It might cost a big more initially, but the final benefit is definitely worth it on the larger planes.
Yeah that seems to make the most sense.
Also I need more logic in airport buying. Can't tell whether to buy cheaper airports that are a little further to expand or try to save for all these big cities like Seoul and Beijing that are all close by. Expanding is probably better but hate sitting in an airport without many jobs haha.
Does upgrading an airport increase its popularity a bit ala advertising, or when does it simply upgrade the amount of job slots it can hold?
toythatkills
Member
I'm trying to expand to big cities further away, keeping black dots just as waypoints really to increase my range, and trying not to stop at them. I had a bunch of black dots close together but I was making tons of trips for not much money. Now I'm taking planes between Moscow and Barcelona which takes about half an hour and earns me 1,500 coins a trip, or so, for way less effort. If I can expand south to Lagos, this should be even better 'cause that's red too.
Upgrading an airport increases the number of jobs and layovers.
Stormwatch
Member
Can a mod approve eeenmachine? https://twitter.com/eeen/status/213612056543367168
VeryGooster
Banned
Ditto and I just bought a Vita two days ago. :lol
Man, it's going to be a bit before I can open flights to and from New York, which is all I want at the moment.
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