New update - Down the Rabbit Hole (2016)

[Matina]

HI all
I am playing the game in an iPad
Is the event available for iPad yet?

 

[LAX]

Unfortunately, not yet!!

@greensmith Tom, when/if iPad gets the update, what is the best bonus for the new quest flights? The spyglass or regular dice? I have read your guides and I think it is the spyglass.

 

[Jgm85]

Unfortunately, not yet!!

@greensmith Tom, when/if iPad gets the update, what is the best bonus for the new quest flights? The spyglass or regular dice? I have read your guides and I think it is the spyglass.

Spy Glass is used for event drops, if you look at the description of Dice and Golden Dice it excludes Event items.

 

[suzy]

@amaidment ..added your code, pls accept??

 

[greensmith]

Unfortunately, not yet!!
@greensmith Tom, when/if iPad gets the update, what is the best bonus for the new quest flights? The spyglass or regular dice? I have read your guides and I think it is the spyglass.

Here's my guide:

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.​

Since the quest flights are going after drops for a collection, I'd say the Spy Glass. To increase the chance of Knife drops in neighbors' cities, I will use a Spy Glass. Same for Mushroom drops in my own city. In fact, I will time the Spy Glass so it works for the flights and the neighbor visits.
The A Friend In Need bonus works great for collecting ten Magic Mushroom patches per day from your twelve neighbors ... for seven days. (Not at every neighbor as it states.)

By the way, I've seen no increase in drops by combining bonuses -- using both a Spy Glass and a Sky Captain, for example.
Cheers,
Tom

 

[Marve]

Here's my guide:

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.​

Since the quest flights are going after drops for a collection, I'd say the Spy Glass. To increase the chance of Knife drops in neighbors' cities, I will use a Spy Glass. Same for Mushroom drops in my own city. In fact, I will time the Spy Glass so it works for the flights and the neighbor visits.
The A Friend In Need bonus works great for collecting ten Magic Mushroom patches per day from your twelve neighbors ... for seven days. (Not at every neighbor as it states.)
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By the way, I've seen no increase in drops by combining bonuses -- using both a Spy Glass and a Sky Captain, for example.
Cheers,
Tom

Hi Tom,
Have you tested if golden dice increase the drop rate for eggs buildings like planetarium?

 

[greensmith]

Hi Tom,
Have you tested if golden dice increase the drop rate for eggs buildings like planetarium?

@Marve
No, I haven't tested that theory. Since tapping those egg buildings is part of a quest, I'd go with the Spy Glass first to see how that works.
Cheers,
Tom

 

[greensmith]

UPDATE
I just tried out a Spy Glass on an iPhone support game that has the quest. It seems to work great for Pocket Knife and Mushroom drops.
I tapped five times at each of twelve neighbors and got 28 Pocket Knives. That's almost a 50% drop rate.
I used those 28 Pocket Knives to tap Magic Mushroom patches in my city and got 55 drops. That resulted in three Russian Eggs.
Wow!
I just tried out a Spy Glass on an Android support game that has the quest. I got exactly the same results as with the iPhone support game: 28 Pocket Knives from neighbors ... 55 drops from Magic Mushroom patches in my city ... and three Russian Eggs.
Double Wow!
I sent five planes out to Cheltenham. Will report back once they land to see if the drops work as well there. Also if Spy Glass helps drops from Egg buildings in my city.
Cheers,
Tom
PS: I can confirm that tapping on neighbors' Egg buildings only gives coins.

 

[wychanhk]

WYa(a2hkb4r) can gift Four of hearts and knife

 

[A Robbie Airport]

Hey all iOS user I have Knife and Three of Hearts if anyone wants to add me. I gift daily in general but would like some focused gifting.

 

[greensmith]

Hey all iOS user I have Knife and Three of Hearts if anyone wants to add me. I gift daily in general but would like some focused gifting.

@A Robbie Airport
You haven't published your Android "friend" code so I can't invite you. You can invite me by adding Waverly huff (my iOS "friend" code).
Cheers,
Tom

 

[Bali Hi]

UPDATE
I just tried out a Spy Glass on an iPhone support game that has the quest. It seems to work great for Pocket Knife and Mushroom drops.
I tapped five times at each of twelve neighbors and got 28 Pocket Knives. That's almost a 50% drop rate.
I used those 28 Pocket Knives to tap Magic Mushroom patches in my city and got 55 drops. That resulted in three Russian Eggs.
Wow!
I just tried out a Spy Glass on an Android support game that has the quest. I got exactly the same results as with the iPhone support game: 28 Pocket Knives from neighbors ... 55 drops from Magic Mushroom patches in my city ... and three Russian Eggs.
Double Wow!
I sent five planes out to Cheltenham. Will report back once they land to see if the drops work as well there. Also if Spy Glass helps drops from Egg buildings in my city.
Cheers,
Tom
PS: I can confirm that tapping on neighbors' Egg buildings only gives coins.

I tried out Tom's tip and was disappointed when the first two neighbours visits only resulted in 2 knives (20%)! However, subsequent visits drops rates improved to 2,3 and even 4 knives per visit.

11 neighbours visit later, total knives I got was 27 / 55, that 54% drop rate!

This a very good tip that everyone should know about

 

[amaidment]

@amaidment ..added your code, pls accept??

I've accepted, thanks!

 

[Jgm85]

Following on @greensmith tip with Spy Glass, time it properly so you can get 2 rounds if visiting neighbours in with the same Spy Glass. Using Bali's figure you could get around 40-50 knives from 1 Spy Glass

 

[Brasil95]

COMPLETE GUIDE of new quest is here:

https://www.facebook.com/notes/airp...le-faq/1304263656267518?__mref=message_bubble

But, all other FAQ are most welcome, from all of us...

Playing the quest and got six Russian eggs, two Indian eggs and then I wanted to buy the Special Hangar and got the message that I cannot buy anymore Hangars. Made the mistake then to sell one of my step 6 Hangars, but the same result. Send a request to G!, does anybody else has this Problem? (no power Problem, I have enough)

 

[Jaume]

Playing the quest and got six Russian eggs, two Indian eggs and then I wanted to buy the Special Hangar and got the message that I cannot buy anymore Hangars. Made the mistake then to sell one of my step 6 Hangars, but the same result. Send a request to G!, does anybody else has this Problem? (no power Problem, I have enough)

Can you send more pics of your airport area? Maybe there's someting we can see...

 

[Jgm85]

Playing the quest and got six Russian eggs, two Indian eggs and then I wanted to buy the Special Hangar and got the message that I cannot buy anymore Hangars. Made the mistake then to sell one of my step 6 Hangars, but the same result. Send a request to G!, does anybody else has this Problem? (no power Problem, I have enough)

Do you have any Santa or Military Hangers? You can only have 6 of these, so e.g. 2 x Santa, 2 x Military, 2 x Card Hangers. If you have 4 x Santa Hangers and 2 x Military Hangers then you need to delete one of these to get a Card Hanger. The 3 are classed as Special Hangers and you can only have a max of 6 combined. Hope this is clear for you.

 

[Brasil95]

Do you have any Santa or Military Hangers? You can only have 6 of these, so e.g. 2 x Santa, 2 x Military, 2 x Card Hangers. If you have 4 x Santa Hangers and 2 x Military Hangers then you need to delete one of these to get a Card Hanger. The 3 are classed as Special Hangers and you can only have a max of 6 combined. Hope this is clear for you.

Thanks, yes this was the reason (had six Santa Hangars). Again thank you very much

 

[Brasil95]

Can you send more pics of your airport area? Maybe there's someting we can see...

Problem is solved, thank you very much. I had six Santa Hangars and that's the max one can have...sold three and now it works.

 

[Jgm85]

Thanks, yes this was the reason (had six Santa Hangars). Again thank you very much

No problem, I'm glad you got it sorted.