Pocket Planes by NimbleBit - Join Flight Crew #TouchArcade

[Cahockey]

Originally Posted by Ben170292

Can any aircraft do Kinshasa to Mexico city?

Only a Concorde, Starship, and 15% upgraded Cloudliner.

[Cahockey]

Originally Posted by Vanamonde

Have you been delivering mainly cargo?

For some reason (bug?) only passengers count for the latest mission, cargo is ignored.

No bug, it's because medical conference events do not have cargo as part of the event. There are also some other events like this with just people.

[itschriscollins]

Originally Posted by Ben170292

I'm doing the sequoia method that Pezmage wrote a while ago, has anyone got any ideas on how to make more profit without modifying too much?

Just realized I posted this at about the same time as the post above

I posted my adaption about 10 pages back, my average daily rev is now 2mil with 16 sequoias, including a small loss on my event planes at the moment. Basically got rid of the hubs so I have barely any airports and sit on jobs. Also with only 16 planes you can just run one route making 4 less airports so jobs should be even faster to fill up. I'm bringing in 4 planes at a time up to 32 total then I'll stop and see how it's going.

EDIT:
My post is #6114 on page 612 of this thread.

[Hirusan]

Well, I lost everything. But it's a good game, so it's hard to fault nimblebit for it too much. I just turned off iCloud syncing and started again. Hopefully they fix it in the future.

[Umbrasquall]

Originally Posted by itschriscollins

I posted my adaption about 10 pages back, my average daily rev is now 2mil with 16 sequoias, including a small loss on my event planes at the moment. Basically got rid of the hubs so I have barely any airports and sit on jobs. Also with only 16 planes you can just run one route making 4 less airports so jobs should be even faster to fill up. I'm bringing in 4 planes at a time up to 32 total then I'll stop and see how it's going.

EDIT:
My post is #6114 on page 612 of this thread.

The thing with Pez's method and why it uses hubs is because it was made for people who are on the go and do not want to spend too much time playing the game. I only check 4-5 times a day for 5 minutes at a time. I want to be able to fill up my planes and send them off, since I don't have the time to come back every few minutes for job refreshes.

If you get rid of the hubs and rely on job refresh to fill planes then it's not a strategy based off of his method.

I think a lot of the older players have done what you are doing at one point. It is a good way to make money, if you have the patience to wait for the job refreshes. Once the novelty of the game started wearing off, people started to try to find ways to maximize profit while minimizing playtime, thus, Pez's Sequoia Strategy.

[itschriscollins]

Originally Posted by Umbrasquall

The thing with Pez's method and why it uses hubs is because it was made for people who are on the go and do not want to spend too much time playing the game. I only check 4-5 times a day for 5 minutes at a time. I want to be able to fill up my planes and send them off, since I don't have the time to come back every few minutes for job refreshes.

If you get rid of the hubs and rely on job refresh to fill planes then it's not a strategy based off of his method.

I think a lot of the older players have done what you are doing at one point. It is a good way to make money, if you have the patience to wait for the job refreshes. Once the novelty of the game started wearing off, people started to try to find ways to maximize profit while minimizing playtime, thus, Pez's Sequoia Strategy.

Well sticking with that there is no way I can see of furthering profits without using a different system. It's essentially a same-plane feeder system so maybe having dedicated feeder planes (different ones) could speed it up when you do check but other than that.. Nadda.

[AshElse]

Originally Posted by Cahockey

Does anyone know if there is a way to check the total coins earned by a single plane? I would like to see how much money my planes have brought in.

The flight log shows how long your plan has been flying and profit per hour.

[Andrwsc]

Originally Posted by Umbrasquall

I think a lot of the older players have done what you are doing at one point. It is a good way to make money, if you have the patience to wait for the job refreshes. Once the novelty of the game started wearing off, people started to try to find ways to maximize profit while minimizing playtime, thus, Pez's Sequoia Strategy.

I disagree. I've been playing since day 1 and I'm now at level 40, but making money has no meaning at this point. I have 24 planes in the air and don't want any more. I have over 12,700 bux on hand, so I could exchange for over 67 million coins if I wanted, but there's no need. I have 20 airports open (out of 45), so it's never a big deal to open or close them.

I've completed all the achievements (even though they don't all show up because that part of the game is very buggy) so the only things left to play for are:

1. Waiting for the hot air balloon, Bobcat, Concorde and C-130 Hercules to show up in global events so that I can complete the Airpedia
2. Finishing all 45 individual events

So basically my planes sit idle most of the day now unless events show up in my cities, and then I'll invest some time to increases my progress. (Today is unusually busy: Tehran, Sydney and Johannesburg all have something going on.)

But I don't see any point in setting up a dedicated set of routes just to make more coins at this point in the game.

[Bluebear88]

Have they ever done an event where the event jobs are all outgoing from one city? Maybe a Volcano Evacuation from Honolulu?

[vicsark]

Originally Posted by Bluebear88

Have they ever done an event where the event jobs are all outgoing from one city? Maybe a Volcano Evacuation from Honolulu?

Nope. Great idea though