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[mrklaw]

Has anyone NOT lost money, ever, using a starship? I fully upgraded the weight only & I'm still losing no matter how I play it. Disappointing if i can't figure out a good use for it.

Just use it to covert coins into Bux. You'll lose money but get Bux? Don't use it for normal passengers

 

[AlphaTwo00]

Damnit we just lost 9th.

 

[mrklaw]

Damnit we just lost 9th.

We were fairly clear before, and I thought our numbers looked good.

Edit: just did 130 jobs in the last 30 mins, but the gap seems static.

 

[TwiztidElf]

Bugger. Do you think we'll stay in the top ten? I think we should be ok. About 3k clear still at the moment.

 

[opticalmace]

One hour guys! Don't fail me now.

 

[TwiztidElf]

Lol. Cop that TouchArcade. Nimblebit should have cut deeper on first place imo.

 

[opticalmace]

Lol. Cop that TouchArcade. Nimblebit should have cut deeper on first place imo.

hm?

 

[Saint10118]

That was a hoot! Glad we squeaked in there! Does anyone know how many of us are in team GAF?

 

[opticalmace]

Is it possible to not lose money when flying the starship? What am I missing here?

 

[shira]

Haha stupid ta forums
Bigger prize for not being first

 

[mrklaw]

What's the most profitable flight? The cloud liner has most passengers but is expensive to run and can't do the longest routes. Aeroeagle can land in class 2 airports so eg sydney-Honolulu and is relatively cheap to fly, but can only carry 6 passengers. I guess ideally you'd want to fake the profit too, so you'd want an airport really close to the destination to lay passengers over in

 

[Chopper]

Lol. Cop that TouchArcade. Nimblebit should have cut deeper on first place imo.

hm?

Haha stupid ta forums
Bigger prize for not being first

That is GENIUS!

 

[Pachael]

That's bloody gold.

PS Luckily Singapore in on my routes lol

 

[Pheebers]

I stumbled upon the TA boards, and they're annoyed...but I think they understand too. I agree though. Genius!

 

[strem]

Well that starship sucks

 

[Supervlieg]

Ha, got Singapore on my route. Lets get that 2nd place!

 

[Chopper]

Look at the rewards for the new event. The devs have lowered the reward for the number one flight crew, specifically to target Toucharcade as we will be in the no. 1 spot as we have so many members. You'll notice the devs never post here any more, and just spend time on other forums.

Wow less bucks for first place-stuff you nimblebutt!

And starship is rubbish!

I lolled at the butt-hurtedness.

 

[jyoung188]

WTF how do you make money with the starship?

 

[Chanser]

WTF how do you make money with the starship?

I see it as a events ship or bux ship.

 

[shira]

I see it as a events ship or bux ship.

Yes I have found that it also works well if you have 2 reds near way other like London and Paris.
The flight is like $100 and it takes about 30s.

Really helps for redistributing since the flight distance is so short it is cheap and fast. I like to move the VIPs back and forth so that they are layovers rather then disappear every 5 minutes.
So when your Sequoia gets there they have 8-10 VIPs.

 

[mrklaw]

Yes I have found that it also works well if you have 2 reds near way other like London and Paris.
The flight is like $100 and it takes about 30s.

Really helps for redistributing since the flight distance is so short it is cheap and fast. I like to move the VIPs back and forth so that they are layovers rather then disappear every 5 minutes.
So when your Sequoia gets there they have 8-10 VIPs.

I thought back and forth doesn't work? Eg if you take a Tokyo passenger from NY to Chicago, then bring them back, it doesn't register as a layover?

 

[TheBaldEmperor]

And I'm out. I was about to be lvl 26, ranked 7, I think, in the last event, just loaded my game and all my progress is gone. That was a lot of fun while it lasted.

 

[shira]

I thought back and forth doesn't work? Eg if you take a Tokyo passenger from NY to Chicago, then bring them back, it doesn't register as a layover?

If you take a Passenger going to LA from Tokyo and drop him off in NY he is a layover.
The starship can bring him to Chicago where a Sequoia can bring him to LA wIth 9 others for a 25% bonus

 

[yogloo]

I thought back and forth doesn't work? Eg if you take a Tokyo passenger from NY to Chicago, then bring them back, it doesn't register as a layover?

I can confirm back and forth doesn't work.

 

[yogloo]

Does anyone have an extra starship engine?

 

[rocksteady1983]

Does anyone have an extra starship engine?

I have 2 extra ones. Delivered 3 mystery parts, all engines Whats your name, I'll gift you one.

 

[edbrat]

Slipped out the top ten, double shifts needed Gafair!

 

[MiniBossBattle]

i make no money using the starship. Just a pretty plane to keep in the hanger?

 

[opticalmace]

i make no money using the starship. Just a pretty plane to keep in the hanger?

I make a tiny bit going form london to paris. lol

 

[rocksteady1983]

Yea, I'm pretty disappointed in the starship. Even the upgraded weight reduction doesn't help enough.

 

[Meier]

Rome and Kabul being closed right now is killing me non-Class 2/Class 3 plane routes! >< I hope we can get back into the top 10.. not as big of a deal on this one, but we don't want to lose that precedent!

I have an extra Starship engine and controls if anyone wants to swap for a body part.

 

[MiniBossBattle]

Yea, I'm pretty disappointed in the starship. Even the upgraded weight reduction doesn't help enough.

I dumped about 50 odd bucks to get the weight down. Still losing gobs of money each flight. I am moth-balling the plane & keeping it in the hanger.

 

[DigitalDevil]

Rome and Kabul being closed right now is killing me non-Class 2/Class 3 plane routes! >< I hope we can get back into the top 10.. not as big of a deal on this one, but we don't want to lose that precedent!

I have an extra Starship engine and controls if anyone wants to swap for a body part.

I'll give a body for an engine.

My id is straydog1980

 

[yogloo]

I have 2 extra ones. Delivered 3 mystery parts, all engines Whats your name, I'll gift you one.

My id is yogloo. Add me!

 

[mrklaw]

Tropical storm in Jakarta again?nthey only had one last night

 

[strem]

This race between us and #10 is a good one

 

[mrklaw]

I wish when you plot a course,nyou could remove other planes. Sometimes it gets a bit crowded

 

[Meier]

Well, 10th is looking like it's out of reach at this point. Hopefully we get back into the top 10 next time. This has been one of my better contributions to the Crew.

 

[Meier]

I just spent the last 40 minutes or so filling up my first ever Sequoia flight.. with passengers to Singapore. DOH!!!

 

[Mithel]

At what level do you stop receiving new types of plane?

 

[mrklaw]

28 I think. I'm on level 26 and have access to everything except the cloud buster. Haven't bought anything past the sequoia though, love that plane

 

[opticalmace]

If I backup my ipod touch will it save my Pocket Planes data? It seems to mention music, movies, etc.

 

[shira]

If I backup my ipod touch will it save my Pocket Planes data? It seems to mention music, movies, etc.

Enable iCloud save, you should be good

 

[Unicorn]

Still not on Android?

:c

 

[strem]

Well Bankok going down for an hour really fucked me. I had 4 of my planes there and 4 of my little planes in Singapore that relied on Bankok as a jumper all trapped

 

[AlphaTwo00]

11th. Oh well.

Goose Bay! GO GO NORTHERN CANADA!

 

[mrklaw]

Goose bay is cool. Sea knights and Mohawks from new York and Chicago. Should actually make money this time - Singapore I was basically breaking even with lots of empty return flights

 

[The Real Abed]

So glad to see Goose Bay. I always try avoiding there since currently it's the most remote place I have in my small tiny map. But now I'm sending stuff there like crazy...

But I don't know if I want to switch from team #IndieAir to team #GAFAir. (Right now Indie Air is #22. What's GAF Air?)

 

[Kryptonite]

Just got a new update for the game. Seems to fix a lot of things.

Edit: I still get a weird bug where the name of my Sea Knight (in hanger) changes with the name of another plane I have active. It happens intermittently.

 

[The Real Abed]

What does "city cap" mean? Is there a limit to how much of the world you can own? I thought the goal of the game was to get every single city and a huge fleet of super fast jets and a billion coins. If anything I wish you got 2 cities per level instead of 1. Leveling takes way too long. I still haven't filled the entire US yet.