Flights with maps

[SactoDave]

I am about to use a map to Miami. Loading up on fuel and spare wires. Thinking of buying a spyglass or something. Any advice?

Thanks,
~Dave

 

[M22]

You want to launch all your jets at once, use fuel catalysts to speed them up once so they land within the 6 hour map duration (not necessary if you have loads of maps). Just before they all land use a golden dice, then as they all come in the golden dice increase the chances of drops. Now you can send the whole fleet out again before the map time is up and speed up again. Lots of fuel needed and catalysts to do it this way.

 

[SactoDave]

Thanks for the excellent info @M22

 

[Deetee04]

Small correction, flights to Miami take 12 hours, not 6. The maps that you receive with first places in Blue launches work for 12,5 hours. So you will have at least half an hour to send off your planes again. But ofcourse you can use catalysts to speed up, or activate a weathervane bonus before you send your first planes away.
The advice about the Golde Dice bonus is correct, I noticed over the years that it works best when you activate it one hour before your planes will land. For best effort: try to combine the dice with friends visits, it increases the drops!

 

[Anubhav]

Reposting With a Permission Of Tom ( Greensmith )

Spy Glass
"This bonus increases the chance of quest item drop (both common and collectible) by 150% for 6 hours."
Quests are the icons that occasionally appear on the left side of the screen. Sometimes they are main quests, like the recent "The Great Game" and "Santa's Bad Day" quests. At times, there are subquests that appear that walk you step by step through the main quest. Using a Spy Glass bonus increases the chance of drops from flights that are part of these quests.
Dice
"This bonus doubles the chance of item drop from a flight (excluding quest and collectible items) for 6 hours."
If you fly to an Excavations destination trying to get a Map Chest drop, a Dice bonus will help. Or, if you fly to Iceland trying to get a Deicer drop, a Dice bonus will help.
Golden Dice
"Increases the chance of a collectible item drop from a flight (excluding quest items) by 150% for 6 hours."
Collectibles are items that appear in the Collections tab. I recently flew Giants to the five Tale of Bygone Years destinations -- Kyiv, Novgorod, Murom, Smolensk and Chernihiv -- to earn a Winter Palace. I used Golden Dice to increase my chances of drops of the items necessary to complete that collection. The bottom line was that when I used Golden Dice, I got an average of twice the drops that I got when I did not use Golden Dice.
If you have the patience and the time, you will get the drops eventually. Yes, it is totally random. Or you can spend a few greenies and get them sooner.


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[SactoDave]

@Deetee04 , @Anubhav

Thank you for taking the time to help me!