Launch thread

[PhactorPhil]

If you want to fire one up I'm good. Just confirm the color. I currently have 1 green and 3 blue kits

@PhactorPhil i have 5 farmers markets and will likely have a 6th later tonight

Thanks @Davescharf

 

[Blue Jay]

Sorry had stuff to do last night so couldn't get one off. Will set up a green now.

 

[Davescharf]

Do you want me to take first? Is @Matt going to join?

 

[Davescharf]

@Blue Jay I'm actually going to launch it. That way if @Matt or you want to start another before I leave for work tomorrow you can.

 

[Matt]

Sorry guys work is crazy right now. I'm scaling back playing for a few days so will just try and join the launches as I need that hotel!!! Is there one open right now?

 

[Blue Jay]

We've just launched, sorry @Matt. Will need to start getting these QL's then we can plan better and all be able to join together and do lots . @Matt how much further are you to getting reds and MC3 ?? Any help you need where we can help we will, same for you @PhactorPhil

 

[Davescharf]

I'm willing to turn on a QL but with a 3 hour turnaround we will only get a few launches in unless we have a second. We will also be limited by launch kits I think but even 4-5 launches is better than nothing.

I'm definitely going to turn one on next weekend but I suspect we will launch red for the money grab that comes with it. How close are you guys to having a red pad built? If you join a party you won't need a lot of resources to collect a lot of money and items

 

[Matt]

I got 200K left to go for the lvl 3 update, my red launch pad finishes construction in 4 hours. I'll greenie the hq when I get the 400k and I'm gonna start asking you guys to send me some antennas. If there is any left I can just watch the adverts. I've already got half the antennas so should be live with red launches by Monday latest I reckon?
I've started a blue and loaded up for first, if my randoms don't launch it hopefully you guys can join?

 

[Davescharf]

If it's still there near the end of the launch I'll come join it. Just let me know if it launches.

You and @PhactorPhil should start swapping antennas and look for others on the forum who are building a red pad. Once you have the Red Control Center you can't send them as gifts.

Amongst my neighbors I'd reach out to Jenny12345, TheDarkside, Andy Reed, and guys with lower level support games. All the people I mentioned are on the forum so maybe it's worth looking to start a thread and tag some of them to see if they can help.

I'm not even close to starting my level 8 tower (1,000,000 coins) but there aren't a lot of forum members who have the items so I'm getting them before neighbors upgrade and no longer have them. Jay is doing the same as we each have different components we are swapping

 

[Matt]

Nice one!! I can't see Phils id code to add him. Phil! Add me bruh!

 

[Blue Jay]

Yeah sorry @Matt i cant gift antennas anymore as i have already built MC3 :-( happy to help where i can though m8

 

[PhactorPhil]

Hey @Matt I can send Yagi-Uda Atennas. How many do you need?

Hey @Davescharf thanks for the advice ... I have all the building requirements for the L3 Mission Control, so now it is a matter of coins ... 400k for the MC L3 and 200k for the LP 3 ... but I need to first upgrade my Town Hall to L7 ... which is going to take a while as I'm only a 1/3 of the way there ...

I hate to be the slow poke, but i think it's going to be quite some time before I can participate in the Red launches

In the meantime, I'll keep my eye out for and participate in any Green launches.

 

[Davescharf]

Funny. I don't think I've upgraded my town hall even to level 6 yet.

I've told Matt this before but I've chose to focus on launches and get enough silver tokens for Grand Hotels. They increase population by 300 and only cost the tokens from launches. I used my coins saved from that to do launches and pay for other stuff.

There are a lot of longtime players here who will swear by having very few commercial buildings in your city and leveraging your neighbors buildings (mainly planetariums) for money, then using those items to raise more money by joining in launches. Lots of ways to do it for sure

 

[Blue Jay]

Same @Davescharf i have stopped building town hall at level 6 and wont be expanding for a while yet, too much other stuff to spend money on to evolve the airport. Ive got 2 grand hotels ATM but need to save up for those mints, banks etc now

 

[Matt]

I get what you say on the commercial buildings. But I am always hoping on so as I have still low level commercial stuff that pays out alot under the hour I get alot of extra revenue. I would say my breakdown of a typical days play is around 35-40000 coins. 10-16k from neighbours, say 2k from flights and the rest from my buildings. Space money is a bonus.
Once I get my red launch active I'm upgrading the terminal and tower, another flight catering facility, then upgrading planes. Alot of the hotel population will be residential but those castles at 12 greenies a pop are great value as well.

 

[Matt]

Oh and I will upgrade to town hall 7 as I think 200 extra is very helpful but mainly because the building looks way cooler!

 

[Davescharf]

You are getting more out of your neighborhood that I ever did then. I might get 1000 a day now but even when I had more buildings it wasn't a lot.

I'm going to need a 4th catering facility here soon. Might be flying a lot to South Observatory too in order to keep passengers move no without using catering. I didn't start building the facilities early enough.

 

[PhactorPhil]

Wow, I love the interesting and diverse approaches!

@Matt I'm still trying to figure out how you're getting 10k in coins from neighbors. That's amazing!
.@Davescharf I like the Grand Hotel idea and think I will make the launches a priority. Can we only do one launch per day, or is one launch per day per colored pad?
@Blue Jay I'm all in for the QL's once I am up and running

Ya'll are a great gang to play with. Thanks for inviting me!

 

[Davescharf]

@PhactorPhil You can launch as much as you have fuel for and as quick as your launches come back. One QL in a Launch means it comes back in 2 hours and 40 minutes. 3 of them it comes back in 15 minutes and it's almost instant with 4. That's why getting into a QL party is a good thing when they pop up in the forum...I've done 10-15 launches in an hour before. You can earn a ton of coins from them too.

The easiest way to get all those coins is to add people on the forum with planetariums to be your neighbor. The collections that drop from them are 2000 coins for 2 of the 4 possible ones. All collections from them also comewith a launch box so you can build up your launch items. I generally get about 15 boxes minimum a night and anywhere from 20-30k in coins just from those collections.

 

[Davescharf]

So just for grins I counted my coins from neighbor visits. I was intentionally trying to get items for green launches so I was clicking on training centers, green pads, etc. I don't think I visited more than 20 planetariums tonight out of the 50 visits I made.

I only got 9,800 coins and 10 boxes, of that 6 collections were the 300 coin ones and 4 were the 2,000 coin ones. I did get two field rations though so I can do two more green launches.

Last week I know I had 2 nights were I had 10 collections of the 2,000 coin ones each night.

Time to go open the small number of boxes. Hope I'll get something good

Edit: 2 PEBs in 10 boxes...I'll take it