no I want to go to the US/Canada first.
birchcraft is not enough.
I wonder if the equinox is better
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no I want to go to the US/Canada first.
birchcraft is not enough.
I wonder if the equinox is better
Katana_Strikes
Member
Wait for level 14, buy expensive pearjet, upgrade range fully.
Or buy Glasgow, Reykjavik, Nuuk and goose bay and go around (note that these are class 1 airports so you can only fly through them with class 1 planes). You can do that now, Mohawk/airvans are good for that
Katana_Strikes
Member
Well I think I'm about done with the game now. I've had a real blast playing it solidly for a whole week. It's really fun and really addictive but I think I've reached the end game point with it now. It's been great helping out as a team too. One of the best parts of the game.
Here's where I'm ending up. Stretched from San Fran to Tokyo:
I'll stick around for a bit, might see what happens on the next Global event to maybe help out but I'm pretty much done.
I think it might be good to help you guys out to if I can, scrap my parts and gift them to folk. I have 1 Pearjet and 2 Aeroeagle, 5 Birtchcraft and 3 Equinox.
Here's where I'm ending up. Stretched from San Fran to Tokyo:
I'll stick around for a bit, might see what happens on the next Global event to maybe help out but I'm pretty much done.
I think it might be good to help you guys out to if I can, scrap my parts and gift them to folk. I have 1 Pearjet and 2 Aeroeagle, 5 Birtchcraft and 3 Equinox.
Birchcraft can do this stock.
Katana_Strikes
Member
Madrid too. Which is good to have for the Global Event as a gateway to Casa anyways.
Oh, you can rach New York from Madrid? That's awesome, thanks for the tip!
Wouldn't mind an aeroeagle if you have one spare
game center ID is 'mr klaw'. Cheers. Still working towards TokyoHypereides
Gold Member
Thats a pretty sweet idea.
While youre at it, after trains they could do a international ship concept.
Managing stuff like; shipping cargos across the atlantic, bringing passengers on a cruise, greenpeace-ish ships to explore the climate balance and sea life, send larger archiological ships onto deep sea/treasure operations or dig for secret ship wrecks for rare material, create outer sea stations/oil rigs or even send fishing boats to catch seafood and sell it. As a defence there could be anti-pirate ships to hinder hijacking and such.
In the end, Nimblebit could create multi traffic sim expansions. Trains, Airplanes, Space travel. and ships. All small or larger expansions.
Ffffff, you're right, I got the pop-up again and no dice, still not registered in the list. Sigh.Transatlantic achievement still doesn't register after resetting.
It's always allowed you to download multiple updates without re-entering your password if you do it within 15 minutes. Same thing when you buy apps, the app caches your password for 15 minutes or until you terminate the app from memory via the dock.
iOS 6 won't ask for your password at all when you update apps.
I have 1 Pearjet and 1 Equinox. Pearjet allows for some really big numbers but it's so damn expensive due to its fuel costs.. it's almost not worth flying unless you have at least 3-4 and obviously preferably 5. I kind of shuttle back and forth between Tehran and Mumbai in hopes of getting enough to fly to Paris. The Equinox is a nice balance since it only requires 3 for the bonus. Have not purchased a Birchcraft yet.
PJ001: 4 H, 29 M flight time, average profit per hour of 4,194
EQ001: 13 H, 57 M flight time, average profit per hour of 2,576
The Pearjet is definitely a money maker, but it involves a bit more micro-managing/sitting and waiting.
PJ001: 4 H, 29 M flight time, average profit per hour of 4,194
EQ001: 13 H, 57 M flight time, average profit per hour of 2,576
The Pearjet is definitely a money maker, but it involves a bit more micro-managing/sitting and waiting.
I just got my first pearjet. I might just use it as a fast Atlantic bridge rather than try and fill it for long trips. I can close 4 airports (goose bay, Nuuk, Reykjavik, Glasgow), which lets me expand east quickly, but then I'd probably need at least two pearjets (one P, one C) and it might be a bottleneck. If you're patient, I think you'd get more profit per flight with a Mohawk or similar. Just not more profit per hour.
TheBaldEmperor
Member
I just Bought this bad boy.
Love the paint job!
When is the 25% bonus applied? Eg if I have a birchcraft in Los Angeles, and 1 passenger going to Tokyo, if I fly him from LA-NY, I get no flight bonus. But if I then fly him from NY-Tokyo in a plane full of other Tokyo passengers, I still get the 25% bonus, based on whatever their starting fares were?
I'm wondering whether to scrap my vans or my birchcraft. Birchcraft are fast but need more passengers to fill. And they can't land at smaller airports. Maybe birchcraft for US which has plenty of blue/red, but keep some class 1 planes for Europe which has a lot of class 1 airports with decent populations
I'm wondering whether to scrap my vans or my birchcraft. Birchcraft are fast but need more passengers to fill. And they can't land at smaller airports. Maybe birchcraft for US which has plenty of blue/red, but keep some class 1 planes for Europe which has a lot of class 1 airports with decent populations
Mike Works
Member
The 25% bonus is applied whenever you fill up your entire plane (minimum 2 passengers) with people and/or cargo all going to the exact same destination.
So if you fill up a 2 seat plane with one dude and one box going to New York, you'll get 25% bonus on each.
If you fill up a 6 seat plane with five dudes going to New York, and one dude going to Philadelphia, there will be no bonus.
So if you fill up a 2 seat plane with one dude and one box going to New York, you'll get 25% bonus on each.
If you fill up a 6 seat plane with five dudes going to New York, and one dude going to Philadelphia, there will be no bonus.
FollowSmoke
Member
I stopped playing this after playing 12 hours a day the first few days. How are you guys holding up?
Sure, but what about broken journeys when you use layovers?
Eg, two seat plane flying from LA to new York with one passenger that wants to go to Boston. 1,000 price. No bonus because plane isn't full. So I drop him at new York, and collect another passenger that is going to Boston (paying 100). Plane is now full. I get 25% on the full 1000 fare of the LA guy right? That fare follows him wherever.
toythatkills
Member
Yep, that's how it works.
In other news, reached level 16 and unlocked the Aeroeagle. Here's a comparison of their trips:
The Aeroeagle goes from LA to Beijing along the red line, carrying six passengers. The Kangaroo goes from LA to Beijing but has to follow the much longer green line most of the way, and carries only four passengers. Guess which one makes the most profit?
Neither, they're about the same. I can make more trips in the Aeroeagle but it really feels like the balance in this is totally messed up. Bigger planes hardly feel worth it for the extra work they take to fill. I'm done now.
Once you get to the longer flights, you don't need to check in as frequently.
Katana_Strikes
Member
I just Bought this bad boy.
Is that a Lvl 20 plane?
This is a big problem, and is the reason I haven't bothered playing the last couple of days.
Yeah. My flight times are getting quite long now. I just check on the game every hour or two and load up some new flights.
I think I'm close to being done with it, though. There doesn't seem to be much more for me to do.
Deadly Cyclone
Pride of Iowa State
Someone tell me if I'm playing this right. I'm basically just loading what can make me the most money and flying. I've bought like 3 airports, but that's all I keep doing.
Rekwest
Member
YES! The FogBuster.
I'm at a crossroads. I just expanded to Tokyo, but only pearjets can reach, as I go Delhi-Tokyo. What I was looking forward to as I approached level 14, was to shut down my north circle airports, as I could go direct across the Atlantic now, and use the spare capacity to expand in Asia or south america. But tbh I'm fairly happy with Mohawks doing the long routes. Easier to fill up 3 seats quickly compared to 5, don't need any fancy laying over and shuffling, just sit them in LA/Seattle and wait for 3 customers to Tehran etc. set them off and leave it.
The only negative I can think of is range, I'd need a few more airports along the way to reach Tokyo with a mohawk. But the big planes feel a bit tricky to manage efficiently
Vigilant Walrus
Member
anyone else who is afraid to start downloading OSX games. I have an Iphone 4s but have downloaded no games. Im afraid that if I go down this route it will lead to bad things. this game sounds bizzaare. i really,, really want to try that adventure game. sword and ... sword and something.
Deadly Cyclone
Pride of Iowa State
How do you get dollars besides buying and the random passenger? I have bought 3 new airports but am not even close to getting a new plane.
Deadly Cyclone
Pride of Iowa State
How do I do that? Are those just the more expensive airports?
Open up cheap local airports and then save up.
Deadly Cyclone
Pride of Iowa State
If you join a flight crew, that also helps.. #GAFAIR needs your help!
I'm in GafAir already.
AlphaTwo00
Member
Congrats on holding onto 7th. Let's see what the next one is.
I'm trying to see if I'll end up grinding out to level 20...
I'm trying to see if I'll end up grinding out to level 20...
Phonomezer
Banned
Santiago!
AlphaTwo00
Member
Shutting down the African operation, relocating, for the last time...
TwiztidElf
Member
I didn't get my flight crew reward.
Anyone else?
Anyone else?
AlphaTwo00
Member
It takes a while, give it some time.I didn't get my flight crew reward.
Anyone else?
Current setup: Santiago <->Mexico. One flight only, just class 2. Let's see if this works out...
Longer distances and larger airports help. If you are willing to sacrifice profit for Bux, you can earn them pretty quickly.
What counts for global events, number of fights or xp/profit? Eg is it better to set up a Santiago-cordoba with a plane going back and forth, or do fewer long flights like Tokyo-santiago? I would expect the latter to encourage people to level up, but I don't know.
AlphaTwo00
Member
Since its close enough: how the hell do I hit Easter island on a class 1 plane? Mohawk doesn't reach it from Santaigo
Edit: found it: Supergopher + 1 fuel upgrade will just do the trick.
Edit: found it: Supergopher + 1 fuel upgrade will just do the trick.
So..Mohawk with full upgrades should reach?
Mike Works
Member
I think I'm pretty close to being finished with this game already, which is unfortunate.
Since I've expanded my fleet and opened airports across the pond, my profits have actually gone down and the amount of work I have to do has gone up. Perhaps I'm not playing the "right way", but it feels like too much of a chore to come back to it.
Maybe if there was more of a reason to play... perhaps the chance to get a unique character/pilot, or plane decal or something, but all there is is more bucks and more coins, and ultimately it doesn't amount to much of anything.
Fun ride while it lasted and I played the hell out of it the past few days, but shame it didn't last a week for me. It was cool that there was much more playtime early on compared to Tiny Tower, but that pace never really cooled off, which led to the overload.
I'll still play the next NB game though.
Since I've expanded my fleet and opened airports across the pond, my profits have actually gone down and the amount of work I have to do has gone up. Perhaps I'm not playing the "right way", but it feels like too much of a chore to come back to it.
Maybe if there was more of a reason to play... perhaps the chance to get a unique character/pilot, or plane decal or something, but all there is is more bucks and more coins, and ultimately it doesn't amount to much of anything.
Fun ride while it lasted and I played the hell out of it the past few days, but shame it didn't last a week for me. It was cool that there was much more playtime early on compared to Tiny Tower, but that pace never really cooled off, which led to the overload.
I'll still play the next NB game though.
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