[:plant:] Pocket Planes on iOS (Flight Crew #gamingforce)

This game has been taking a huge bite out of my productivity, much to my shame! (Lvl 12 now.)

A couple of things:

Upgrading airports DOES NOT allow for different class planes, I think - black airports will only ever take Class 1 planes. Therefore, I never bought any, and in fact, after saving up money to buy my first red airport, I sold off my starting black airport for cash. At this point, I only have red airports.

Saving money to buy only red airports is slow for the first one, but they have a lot more jobs for your planes. It annoyed me how my starting black airports sometimes didn't have any jobs at all. I think upgrading and advertising your airports might help to increase the number of jobs they have, but I haven't done that - too busy saving my cash for my crazy dash for more red airports.

That said, I'm not really convinced my growth strategy is optimal for making money - long-haul flights cost more, and take more time, which means that per time, running flights between only red airports may not make me as much as if I had some blues along the way for my short-hauls. I'm basically doing this for my sanity.. not having to check my flights every 5 minutes :P Also, it really only is viable in Asia as an initial growth strategy, where there is the highest density of high population airports. My plan is to build a line of red airports across the world for my long-haul flights, and concentrate my short-haul flights around Asia to continue making money that way when I want to.

I started out in Osaka, bought airports in Korea and China and quickly shut down my Japanese operations, though I may go back for Tokyo at some point. My line now stretches from Seoul to Tehran, and I'm probably going for Istanbul after this as I try to expand into Europe.

Also: the world is flat! No transpacific flights allowed, which is lame. Just keep that in mind!

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Sadly, it looks like the devs are not really interested in changing that right now, it seems, judging from eeenmachine's post on NeoGAF:

Quote:

The world being flat is mostly a design decision. It is the only way you can have flights as long as we wanted.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

I've been so busy with work that when I do look at Pocket Planes, I barely pay attention to what I'm doing to my planes, so I'm fucking up a lot and sending people to the wrong places.

YOU WANT TO GO TO ISTANBUL? NO, FUCK YOU, YOU'RE GOING TO SEOUL

(This actually happened. )

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.