Please Change Fuel (20) / Passenger (10) Gifts Back the Way They Were Before the Update

[greensmith]

The recent update replaced the Fuel (20) gift with the Passengers (10) gift (and vice versa). Here's my reasoning why this should be changed back.
Many of us have what we call "support" games that we created to gift Fuel (20) to our main game. It's a tedious process because you have to wait until a new game is at level 20 before you're certain the Fuel (20) gift will remain. It may or may not stay at level 10 but will definitely stay at level 20. I created four support games for Waverly huff on my iPhone 6+, my iPad Air, my iPad 3 and a Samsung Tab 8. Those games gifted me and 19 of my neighbors Fuel (20) every day. Since fuel is the bottleneck in advancing through Airport City, these support games were very important.
Now, all of a sudden, those four games gift Passengers (10) instead of Fuel (20). Passengers (10) is pretty useless as a gift, especially for us veteran players who have a very high population max. My current thought is to give up on those support games because they no longer serve the purpose for which they were established.
Did GI make this switch on purpose because they know fuel is the game's bottleneck and they want us to use bank notes to buy more? Honestly, I can think of no other reason for this change.
Cheers,
Tom

 

[Akims]

I concur. I cannot think of another reason. I never really understood the randomness of the gifting but passenger 10 is nothing compared to fuel 20. We all can send landing lamps....I am still waiting for update for windows but I have ceased to play my ipad after the update. It seems like my support games for windows are going to be deleted and restarted if this update does the same for windows.....not to mention my signature

 

[Agent_L]

@greensmith Can you explain how it works with level 20? I leveled to 10 and it was enough.

 

[Deetee04]

Although I like the switch and can finally send Fuel 20 after 4 years, I can understand the problem of the supportgames created just to give that fuel 20.
Therefore it seems better to me to give everybody Fuel 20 in their gift-list. Except real low level starting players nobody needs 10 passengers as a gift.

 

[Agent_L]

nobody needs 10 passengers as a gift.

Many people ask for passengers, just look at the sigs. People who play without purchasing greens are so constrained by real estate that they are always low on passengers once they reach Jumbos/Giants.

To me the issue is of quite low relevance: for supports it's fast and easy to level up a new one and for mains it's always a waste to send fuel/pax when I can send Earplugs.

 

[greensmith]

@greensmith Can you explain how it works with level 20? I leveled to 10 and it was enough.

@Agent_L
The first support game I started years ago kept Fuel (20) through level 10, then changed to Passengers (10) at Level 20. I started the game again and it stayed at Fuel (20) through level 20. The other three support games also stayed at Fuel (20). I guess it's random.
Cheers,
Tom

 

[Agent_L]

I think it's still faster to level 2 or 3 accounts to lvl 10 than one to level 20 : )

 

[AJ]

Who knows it might change again in future updates and you get back Fuel 20 as gift

 

[airport citywide]

On this last update I got fuel 20 and kept fuel3 and lost my passenger's so it's good that I got fuel 20 but sucks that I can't send anyone passengers I would like to trade fuel3 for passengers on any new updates

 

[InCoNvEnIeNtE]

Well so if I update will be able to send fuel 20 from inco and portugal ☺️

 

[diwata]

I agree. Fuel20 should be brought back. Anyway, if players create support games, they are still able to send fuel20 so might as well just let it stay. Better yet, why not have everyone else be able to gift them? Fuel20 is not even equivalent to passengers10 in my opinion.

 

[captain ian]

To me the issue is of quite low relevance: for supports it's fast and easy to level up a new one and for mains it's always a waste to send fuel/pax when I can send Earplugs.

My guess is that GI aren't happy with us creating "support" games to pump gifts to a main game, hence the changes giftable items. If that's the case I understand the reasoning, even if it's not an ideal situation (and telling people in advance would probably end up with people not upgrading their game). Unless you've made big progress with a support game it makes sense to start over if not having fuel 20 is that big of a problem.

 

[Agent_L]

My guess is that GI aren't happy with us creating "support" games to pump gifts to a main game, hence the changes giftable items. If that's the case I understand the reasoning, even if it's not an ideal situation (and telling people in advance would probably end up with people not upgrading their game). Unless you've made big progress with a support game it makes sense to start over if not having fuel 20 is that big of a problem.

Uhm, in my opinion the switch only encourages to create new supports.
Anyway, I believe the change was not deliberate.

 

[Kesh]

in order to keep everybody happy they should give both to everyone (F20, P10)

 

[Droidhak]

in order to keep everybody happy they should give both to everyone (F20, P10)

This is my vote, too. Before the update, I could only gift passengers in 2 different amounts, no fuel. Now, I can gift fuel or passengers, so I'm one who doesn't want that slot to change.

 

[spearman78]

in order to keep everybody happy they should give both to everyone (F20, P10)

I agree with gifting both, but upping the passengers to a higher number, say 50. I don't know about you, but other than lower level beginning players, anyone actually see a benefit to 10 passengers?

 

[Gt city]

I agree with gifting both, but upping the passengers to a higher number, say 50. I don't know about you, but other than lower level beginning players, anyone actually see a benefit to 10 passengers?

I would agree the same. Gifting both would be great

 

[M22]

Gifting both and allowing to gift to say 40 people a day would be really helpful as there's so many I can't return to right now.