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Pocket Planes |OT| ...and don't call me Shirley (iOS, Universal) #GAFAIR crew
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nicoga3000
Saint Nic
Man, I just opened my first flight into South America. It's funny how excited I am to start branching into 45-60 minute flights. Just makes me enjoy the management aspects of this game more and more!
E: But Bogota is going to run me 40k. Time to save!
E: But Bogota is going to run me 40k. Time to save!
AlphaTwo00
Member
Halfway through Lvl 11. Third on the GAF list. Wario, you've fallen behind!
Good job NimbleBit, you've killed my battery twice in one day. It's now constantly plugged in.
Good job NimbleBit, you've killed my battery twice in one day. It's now constantly plugged in.
Dog Problems
Banned
AlphaTwo00
Member
NimbleDave (or whoever else reads this), silly minor suggestion (or maybe you've tested this): Is there someway to differentiate a location that has maxed out the layover cap on the map itself? I've boned myself enough times onto cities that have maxed out, and then it became a weird process of flying in empty planes just to dig myself out of a hole...
FollowSmoke
Member
I can't wait to get to that point. I have to constantly have the phone in-hand to tend to these short flights.
Yeah so this game.. Is officially awesome. My coworkers were laughing at me when I had to explain to them what I was doing though... Whatever, HAVE TO KEEP CLICKING. Expanding my transatlantic bridge atm, about to get my first airvan, hopefully gonna make it to calgary before the event ends 
should be able to
should be able to AlphaTwo00
Member
Damn east coast snowstorm! My anchor of Toronto is ruined!
kurisub306
Member
haha, I know. Sad thing it happened just AFTER I bought LA and ended up with 2 of my planes stuck there.
Finally opened a route to Calgary so I'm glad to finally be contributing!
FollowSmoke
Member
haha, I know. Sad thing it happened just AFTER I bought LA and ended up with 2 of my planes stuck there.
Finally opened a route to Calgary so I'm glad to finally be contributing!
You're doing god's work.
FollowSmoke
Member
Do you guys keep the amount of airports you have maxed out?
AlphaTwo00
Member
Basically, it's a "meta goal" of doing flights to a specific location. The "global event" sums up however many people accomplish, and hands out a reward for the leaderboards based on how the groups did.
Think of it as multiplayer, even though we're not playing the same game.
It's similiar to Tiny Tower where you'd collect certain store items to earn bux. Looks like this game will have timed events and your groups compete again other groups to earn large reward bux prizes.
EDIT: lol I knew someone would beat me.
We are currenty #3
Reluctant-Hero
Member
Damn it. I had a flight in-route to Portland and then a snow storm broke out there. Now my plane is grounded for 50m!
FollowSmoke
Member
There are set world events. Right now there's a chemical spill in Calgary. You join a flight crew (GAFair) and try to ship as many emergency items to Calgary as possible. The top flight crews get rewards when the event ends. Check 'Flight Crew' under the menu option.
eeenmachine
a developer of very popular and awesome games
Classes are fixed. Upgrading just gives you a bigger job pool and more layover slots.
nicoga3000
Saint Nic
I don't. I enjoy having fewer airports for now as it is a lot easier to juggle and make money still.
eeenmachine
a developer of very popular and awesome games
My endgame preference is to have a network of red cities east west across the map and then buy temp connections to the global event cities.
AlphaTwo00
Member
I'm trying to picture this right now: would you just put all the class 1/2 planes in the hanger so that you don't get those missions?
eeenmachine
a developer of very popular and awesome games
I usually ran AeroEagles on the main line and would recommission a fleet of kangaroos connecting the GE city to the nearest main line city which is where I would concentrate layovers.
I have 2 first aid to Calgary on 1 plane and another double passenger back east stuck. I wasn't paying attention lol.
Bobs Big Boy
Member
Have broken out of the West coast, extending my line up through Canada and brought in New York. Great how it always feels like you're making some progress, however small.
AlphaTwo00
Member
Which reminds me: is there a cap to your fleet size, both active planes and ones in your hanger?
eeenmachine
a developer of very popular and awesome games
Just the depth of your coin purse.
NimbleDave
Neo Member
I'm not going to be able to keep up with the thread this weekend since I am going out of town. Eeenmachine will have to take over answering questions.
BlackWaltz
lotta black folks here
Heh.
the other communities are just much larger, we probably have the highest per member delivery average though I'd imagine
we won't drop out of the top 10 and 2-10 is the same prize, so it's all gravy
Tetrasides
Neo Member
I think I bought too many bux... rolling with 21 planes.
BlackWaltz
lotta black folks here
I think I bought too many bux... rolling with 21 planes.
As in 21 active planes?
AlphaTwo00
Member
Tetrasides
Neo Member
Yes sir... I bought a lot of bux. I've scraped all my 1-2 seater planes so now they are all 3-4 seaters.
AlphaTwo00
Member
Looks like I've set myself back with quite a misstep.
My initial base was in the east coast (Toronto, Detroit, Montreal), and slowly expanded the in-between cities to get to Calgary. After reading some of your thought on how to optimize, I ended up closing some of the smaller ones in hopes of bumping up my numbers output. In general, it seemed to be a success, I was getting more routes to Calgary immediately, but this was at a cost of a few idling cities that weren't handing out enough deliveries for the number of planes I had (~12). I had also expanded out west, but those super long routes didn't seem to offset the issues.
I've pretty much reverted all my old cities, reopening all the smaller cities I had closed as ways to generate layover stops.
My initial base was in the east coast (Toronto, Detroit, Montreal), and slowly expanded the in-between cities to get to Calgary. After reading some of your thought on how to optimize, I ended up closing some of the smaller ones in hopes of bumping up my numbers output. In general, it seemed to be a success, I was getting more routes to Calgary immediately, but this was at a cost of a few idling cities that weren't handing out enough deliveries for the number of planes I had (~12). I had also expanded out west, but those super long routes didn't seem to offset the issues.
I've pretty much reverted all my old cities, reopening all the smaller cities I had closed as ways to generate layover stops.
ilikesanta
Member
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