Age of Ash

[M22]

I saw the animation but I did complete and look shortly after 10 this morning.

 

[Droidhak]

I'm not seeing anything on the Facebook page regarding if they will post the video of the explosion for us all to watch. I would have liked to have seen it, even though I was among the 95% or so who failed it. I did manage to complete the side quests with an hour to spare.

 

[SactoDave]

Any clue when is the next quest (maybe Halloween) becomes live ?

That was rather harsh @Blue Aero especially so with many on ios reporting near 0 drops for CW during
the events entirety. I inconceivably finished at 4 AM by setting an alarm multiple times to try and get the
last CW item I needed. Got to my last 8 planes landed, nothing, had a full fuel supply and a couple extra fuel 50s
so put them in allowing for 3 instant complete flights to LA. On the last one the stupid vacuum pump dropped.
BTW I saw no animation just a pop up saying I completed the event with no animation just all lava and volcano gone.
Kind of annoying that evidently I needed to be up to see this. Very few easily finished this event and those that did find
it easy were all on windows. I would think you would understand many players frustration with your history dealing with GI.

I did complete the event on Windows, but I would not call it easy...the CW collection was frustrating to say the least.

 

[Luke pilot]

I missed this one by one Quadcopter.... very frustrating. I don't know how many chainsaws I used, but pretty much maxed how many I could get with Neighbors, Spylgass and other bonuses.

Visiting neighbors today I could not find many with the Capitol building. Finally got to see it at @greensmith airport.

Congrats to those who made it, hope the quest is brought back next year for those who didn't.

 

[Xilikon]

I have one in my city as well but realised we're not neighbors

 

[Crash McPlane]

I completed this, but saw nothing but and pop up saying so. Very lame.

 

[Jgm85]

For those who never saw the final scene for the volcano (like me), then pop onto the Airport City Mobile facebook page, they posted the video of it there.

 

[diwata]

Yea, I saw it. It was very cool. Although the tank looks like a medicine capsule.

 

[Gt city]

Yea, I saw it. It was very cool. Although the tank looks like a medicine capsule.

 

[Kesh]

Happy pill!

 

[Theo1977]

Free2Play (sorry kitten...)

Ivan, I am still waiting for an official explanation on what happened to the iOS Cold War collection drop rates for the Age of Ash quest. If you read through the forum, whoever got the CW in place on iOS had to purchase chests. I personally was so pissed that I am not inclined to buy anything from the bank from now on, as I felt cheated. If it wasn't a bug, then tell us please how the drop rates were programmed, whether there was a specific strategy (i.e. sell jumbos and buy jets, or vice versa!!!) so that we at least find some sort of closure. If it was a bug, at least find a way to compensate us *i.e. rerun the contest for iOS only at a later stage, just like windows had the university quest this year).

 

[Gt city]

Free2Play (sorry kitten...)

Ivan, I am still waiting for an official explanation on what happened to the iOS Cold War collection drop rates for the Age of Ash quest. If you read through the forum, whoever got the CW in place on iOS had to purchase chests. I personally was so pissed that I am not inclined to buy anything from the bank from now on, as I felt cheated. If it wasn't a bug, then tell us please how the drop rates were programmed, whether there was a specific strategy (i.e. sell jumbos and buy jets, or vice versa!!!) so that we at least find some sort of closure. If it was a bug, at least find a way to compensate us *i.e. rerun the contest for iOS only at a later stage, just like windows had the university quest this year).

Not sure if developers will post any of their "secret of programming".
As about me, that was the hardest quest I ever played. No and no drops, no matter what type of bonuses i used and what were their combinations. I would say it was more pure luck that knowledge how to play and what strategies should i have. At the end i need to bought several more chests, so i was able to complete. Without would just not be possible. But as for me, it is a game only. Since alliances started, there is so many different challenges in the game (that i like it, btw), that even if i will not complete new additional quests, i will still try to enjoy it. But i completlly understand "the frustration" of many. Especially those who bough bonuses and greenies to complete the quest, but they were unable to complete it anyway...
btw: Thanks for all gifts, Theo Trying to send back as many time it is possible ;-)

 

[Free2Play]

Free2Play (sorry kitten...)

Ivan, I am still waiting for an official explanation on what happened to the iOS Cold War collection drop rates for the Age of Ash quest. If you read through the forum, whoever got the CW in place on iOS had to purchase chests. I personally was so pissed that I am not inclined to buy anything from the bank from now on, as I felt cheated. If it wasn't a bug, then tell us please how the drop rates were programmed, whether there was a specific strategy (i.e. sell jumbos and buy jets, or vice versa!!!) so that we at least find some sort of closure. If it was a bug, at least find a way to compensate us *i.e. rerun the contest for iOS only at a later stage, just like windows had the university quest this year).

Chances for the Cold War collection were really low. That's it.

Larger planes that require more fuel and passengers always have higher chance of getting anything, when we're speaking of the same collection that can be acquired from several flights, because it costs you more to launch them. The optimal strategy for completing any event is dedicating all your resources to it from day one it's available, use any and all bonuses and fuel that you saved up previously, and use the biggest planes you have available at your level.

I can't get into more detail, as obviously all game mechanics are under NDA. I share what I can. But seeing how offensive many people treat those insights, almost calling me a liar outright, I wonder if it's a good idea to share anything. It's not a corporate account, I'm not obliged to come here by any means, I come here only because I'm genuinely interested in what you think about the game.

I hope you enjoy other quests to come, as they'll be easier.

 

[Theo1977]

Chances for the Cold War collection were really low. That's it.

Larger planes that require more fuel and passengers always have higher chance of getting anything, when we're speaking of the same collection that can be acquired from several flights, because it costs you more to launch them. The optimal strategy for completing any event is dedicating all your resources to it from day one it's available, use any and all bonuses and fuel that you saved up previously, and use the biggest planes you have available at your level.

I can't get into more detail, as obviously all game mechanics are under NDA. I share what I can. But seeing how offensive many people treat those insights, almost calling me a liar outright, I wonder if it's a good idea to share anything. It's not a corporate account, I'm not obliged to come here by any means, I come here only because I'm genuinely interested in what you think about the game.

I hope you enjoy other quests to come, as they'll be easier.

The problem was not about dedicating resources, the problem was that even though we dedicated ALL resources, there was zero reward. As @Gt city said above, it was not anymore a matter of strategy, rather than pure luck. Obviously I don't expect you to share the details to that extent, but at least look at it from a customer's standpoint; we try all bonuses, all combos (obviously I was flying Thunderbirds, which like you said, cost much more than Jets and didn't make any difference when I switched to jets or jumbos), and still nothing (I had 2 drops for more than 300 or so flights - with and without bonuses, with all types of combo bonuses, etc.).

Anyhow. I don't want easy. Easy was buying the chests to get the reward, but that's not the definition of easy. I want something like for example the Pharaoh's quests, which was hard, but you could tell that whenever you activated a bonus, or whenever you used different strategy, you could see visible results. For example, I used greens to buy Spy Glass, because I knew it worked when I ran out of them. If I see that nothing works, which was the case in the Age of Ash, I simply move on.

Thanks for the answer, although I am still left with a bitter taste that I was somehow cheated.

 

[ryder]

The problem was not about dedicating resources, the problem was that even though we dedicated ALL resources, there was zero reward. As @Gt city said above, it was not anymore a matter of strategy, rather than pure luck. Obviously I don't expect you to share the details to that extent, but at least look at it from a customer's standpoint; we try all bonuses, all combos (obviously I was flying Thunderbirds, which like you said, cost much more than Jets and didn't make any difference when I switched to jets or jumbos), and still nothing (I had 2 drops for more than 300 or so flights - with and without bonuses, with all types of combo bonuses, etc.).

Anyhow. I don't want easy. Easy was buying the chests to get the reward, but that's not the definition of easy. I want something like for example the Pharaoh's quests, which was hard, but you could tell that whenever you activated a bonus, or whenever you used different strategy, you could see visible results. For example, I used greens to buy Spy Glass, because I knew it worked when I ran out of them. If I see that nothing works, which was the case in the Age of Ash, I simply move on.

Thanks for the answer, although I am still left with a bitter taste that I was somehow cheated.

Hi Theo. I, like you, did not see any correlation to the higher levelled planes and the drop rates for this quest and saw no benefit by using the bonuses. Having said that, I was only flying turboprops (Bali), jets (Los Angeles) and deltas (Lima). Every flight destination for the cold war indicated that the drop rate was "very seldom", so there was no indication that the bigger planes would yield higher drops.

I completed every part of the quest except the cold war collection, and I decided not to buy any chests at the end of the quest. However, I know of so many friends that did, as they had got so far and commited so much time that to not complete it would have been an entire waste of their time and commitment (unless they wait for the quest to reappear next year??).

How many people would have completed the Age of Ash quest if the Cold War Collection was the first part of the quest? If I was being cynical, I might say that not as many people would have committed so much time to the event and therefore, not got so close to the quest achievement, and therefore, not bought chests to finally complete it.

I also like a challenge and I don't expect an easy quest. A lot of players talked about using a strategy to complete this quest, but in the end, they had to purchase chests to complete the final element(s) - How is that a strategy?

Neil