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Dafsade
350+ Star Club
It looks like we're on track to make the 50% challenge you threw out this week. Thanks for that. I mean, it's going to be a squeaker. We need 30 completed missions to hit 50%. We currently have 21 with a little over a day left. From what I can see, @Mariof20 @Mik81 , @Pinkiex , @мики , @Flavapill and you are each on track to get one more, and @Corinthian Seats appears on track to get all three. That makes 30. But as a safety, if someone can lock down one more, either you to Almaty (if that's possible in the time remaining) or anyone else to one more of theirs, I think we'll be sure to reach that 50% challenge you made. I mean, I'd love 👏 to get an extra 50% coin bonus 💰 on all the flights ✈ I do for a week.
What's more, the challenge hasn't made a dent in our standing in the top 100. But know that it could. Last week, for example, I carried 45,000 passengers because I was focused on completing the Long-Awaited Mail quest. The flights that quest entails are all of minimum duration for each category of plane. But this week, I've only carried 23,600 passengers so far, probably will hit 30,000. That's because the flights I was given for my three missions were all of much longer duration. Each flight taking a lot longer means fewer passengers carried. I'm only bringing this up because this alliance's focus is very much on always being in the top 100 and getting the Small Bronze Chest and Omega Map Set every week that comes from that. I mean, I'm all for a challenge like this you've made . I'm just letting you know why you don't see the alliance always do 50%, or sometimes even only doing 10%, like last week when several who usually do more of their missions, like me, decided to focus on the quest instead, in part because it also helped further the alliance's passenger goals because of its short flight times. I think there probably are alliances that focus first and foremost on the missions and getting 50% or 100%, especially if they don't have what it takes to reach the top 100, because otherwise, what's an alliance for? But this alliance is consistently top 100 (props to @Dafsade and all Damien Saez Alliance members that make that happen 🥳), and achieving that often means foregoing missions when the flights for those missions take 50% or 75% longer than the duration of the shortest flights that will result in more flights completed and more passengers carried, which is what the top 100 is based on, passengers carried, not missions completed. FYI.
I'm not discouraging you from making challenges. Definitely, definitely not. I thought it was great because I haven't seen anyone do that yet in the month or two I've been a member. I was glad to see it . Really. I'm just letting you know why from what I've seen it may not always work out, that if we find ourselves during the week with a ranking over 100 and needing to boost ourselves back into the top 100 or even skirting the line in the 90s, alliance members are going to focus on getting us into the top 100 over completing their missions, so don't be discouraged if we don't always do super great on the percentage of mission completed because the bonus we get from being top 100 is way better. This week, though, because of you, it looks like we'll do both. Hopefully. It's gonna be a squeaker. So maybe this week we'll be able to have our cake and eat it, too.
The long and the short of it is, because it's often a trade-off for being top 100, I don't want you to get discouraged if the alliance can't always do 50%, or even if this time it can't. You're a new and valued member and we like having you around.
I feel that we will miss 2 tasks to reach 50% ... If someone do one, I could do one too !