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I've got 10 planes here, five all-passenger types and five all-cargo types (I don't care for mixed planes for some reason), all flying across the country, picking up/dropping off through Dallas and Houston.

Pocket planes strategy upgrade#

I found the need to upgrade both Dallas and Houston to accomodate for the high number of layovers, and it's worked so far. try to fill a plane going to an eastern city (say Washington DC), send them off to DC, and collect anyone going to a western city for layover in Dallas.

When it reaches LA, that plane will pick up any passengers going to any eastern cities and drop them all off at Houson.

When Dallas gets enough to fill a plane for a city, say Los Angeles, I'll pick up those LA passengers from Dallas and send the plane on to LA. I lay over my deliveries to the Western half in Dallas, and deliveries to the Eastern half in Houston. I split the USA to halves, East and West, and use Dallas and Houston as my two main hubs down the center of the country. I don't feel like I have it solved, really, even though I'm doing well. i'm not having trouble making money overall, but I'm sort of fiddling around with the right mix of plane sizes, airport sizes, and flight strategies as a way to keep the game interesting. that's the sort of thing that intrigues me at this point. I have not really teased out any data, but I suspect the flight per unit of larger planes is higher than that of the smaller planes - I have not found anyone who has pulled this information out, but the staggering travel costs of flying my 8- and 10-seaters suggest this to me.Īnyway. My current leaning is that this approach might really be best for the smaller planes, but not for the larger ones. sitting in Rio empty rather than in SP with 3 still waiting to go to Rio).

Pocket planes strategy free#

If I'm in this situation, maybe the right call is just to deliver all 4 passengers bonus free and get my profits now, so my plane is empty and sitting at a heavy airport for the next time i pick up the game (i.e. What are the real bounds of profit maximization? Profit per passenger? per flight? Or per day of real time? Some of it is definitely the last one - and that intrigues me. Now, thinking this through a bit more - maybe the obvious isn't as obvious. Another angle would be to fly all 4 to some other site closer to their final destinations (like La Paz, for me) and fly from there to get the bonus for all the passengers eventually. Now, were I playing the game continuously, I think this is very easy - I fly them all to SP, drop off the 1, and fill the 4th seat next cycle, and get the 25% bonus at the end.

Pocket planes strategy full#

So, with that in mind, what really is the optimum profit strategy? Obviously, landing with full bonus-earning flights is ideal, but at what cost? Here's an example that hit me all the time - I have a 4-seater flying out of Mexico City, and have 3 passengers to Rio and 1 to Sao Paolo (fill in your details as necessary - the important thing is the two destination cities are close to one another). My style of play is to pick up the game occasionally, set it down, and when i pick it up again, all my flights will have finished. I'm not interested in the totally obvious stuff. And if I'm going to play, I will have little choice but to think about it. My daughter digs the game, and i like what she is learning from it, so we are likely to keep playing, a least for a while.