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This is a bit of a rant, so read on at your own risk.

Well, I would like to see the drop rates for planetariums improved, as that is the only way I get the items I need for my space launches. I have nearly reached 100 green launches.  I visit my neighbors with planetariums as I don't have any of my own. Even so it can take a week before I have enough items to be sure that I can launch without help.

The other improvement I would like to see is more reasonable requirements for flights in alliances. I can't make any progress (get alliance points) because I can only do one of the 3 tasks in a given week. I maybe have to kick out the other members of my alliance because none of them are contributing. They are low level users, so that might have something to do with it. I hesitate to do that, though, but I think I may have to.

As for an in game chat or message capability, yes that would be helpful.  Facebook is not. (Enough said on that.) If you have joined a launch, then I think you should be able to communicate with other participants. The same should be true of alliances.

I am at level 75 and Airport City is plenty challenging (another word for frustrating as well as annoying) right now. I don't know how any of the really powerful players got where they are now. I have looked that the mega cities that they have and I am blown away by them.Maybe they play the game a heck of a lot more than I do. I have 11 planes and a fully expanded reserve hanger (full of turboprop planes)  and I can't keep up with all the various flights (regular and adventure) that I need to complete.  I suspect that the low drop rates (very seldom = only during a total solar eclipse that passes over your home), are a big part of my difficulties. I have not figured out when to use the bonuses, and because most of them are shorter than my long term flights, I don't see how they can even be used successfully.

As for the update to the weather events,  I sure hope the change to let them 'time out' is implemented quickly. I found that weather events has not really added much to the game. It is just an annoying hurdle to have to jump over when trying to make any progress in the game.

Maybe things will improve for me when I can move from green to blue and then red launches. It sure takes a very long time to make such progress though.  I am still saving up money for my first Thunderbird jet.