v8.0 is out - discussion

[Navigata07]

I am happy that I did buy "only" 4 of them last minute in v7

4 what?

 

[MikeH]

4 what?

Sorry. Boarding Bridges that seem not to work in v8.

 

[Navigata07]

Sorry. Boarding Bridges that seem not to work in v8.

Oh ok. Well an event will most likely arrive this week, so lets see if they address anything at all in terms of bugs. Any information on discord?

 

[MikeH]

Oh ok. Well an event will most likely arrive this week, so lets see if they address anything at all in terms of bugs. Any information on discord?

Last info from today is that they are working on an update. No other information or hints.

 

[Navigata07]

Last info from today is that they are working on an update. No other information or hints.

Roger that thank you. Im ok with the lull...can focus on normal flying.

 

[ItsRalphy]

True, but @BobbinsPilot eventually reached lv 80, so chances are that gathering coins isnt much of an issue anymore.
@Madge59230 I think hit the nail on the head. If he only can get access once a day, he would need to arrange everything based on his availability. Some people only have access to their computers (windows players) and only have a couple times a day to work with. Everything for them should be 8 hours and up for the most efficiency (flights, buildings, fuel collection, launches). It works out a lot better for mobile players, as we can hop on at any time for a few minutes to send flights out, collect pax, then keep going with our days. The best players integrate the game into their lives, not the other way around.

You and @Madge59230 are absolutely right - you fly your OWN game to suit your life, not the other way round. I work full time, so I play around 15 minutes over breakfast in a morning - land, send, collect basically. When I get home from work I have an hour whilst TV is on - land, send, collect, visit and gift, and then at bedtime I have a 15 minute round of land and send. To work this I absolutely major on buildings that gift passengers at either 4 or 6 hours where possible, 8 hours next choice. That way first in the morning, and early evening they are at their maximum numbers. That works for me!

 

[Navigata07]

You and @Madge59230 are absolutely right - you fly your OWN game to suit your life, not the other way round. I work full time, so I play around 15 minutes over breakfast in a morning - land, send, collect basically. When I get home from work I have an hour whilst TV is on - land, send, collect, visit and gift, and then at bedtime I have a 15 minute round of land and send. To work this I absolutely major on buildings that gift passengers at either 4 or 6 hours where possible, 8 hours next choice. That way first in the morning, and early evening they are at their maximum numbers. That works for me!

Textbook example. Well played 👏🏿

 

[Tito]

Hi is there some one on here that also runs Amazon Android ?
I have yet to be able to get the v8.0 update for over a week, cannot visit friends any more,
said I need to update but cannot, first time this has happened, sent in a ticket,
thank you for any help

I am having the same issue. I have sent countless emails to Gi. They seem to have no clue what's happening but a simple apology in response they sent me. I have contacte Amazon and they are aware of the issue but they said they are waiting on Gi to send them the update. That was a week ago. I am frustrated.

Tito

 

[Dan]

Mate good advice and thank you, but unfortunately i have a life and can only fly when my children are in bed, the wifes in bed or even better they have all gone out, so for those of us in work, with families, flying 24 hours a day is not possible, sometimes its impossible to even get on the game.

Hey we have all been in the same boat at some point in time. I gave the numbers based off of two iterations a day assuming one in the morning and one again at night before bed. Not everyone can play all day everyday but you honestly don't have to in order to get a lot out of the game.

There are a lot of great examples between this current post and the one of yours that I am quoting. You don't even have to make drastic changes. Make small ones over time and they will add up months down the road.

If you don't have the time to manage your alliance then change the settings to open and set a minimum game level of 40 (if you want passengers) or 20 (if you want to weed out those who will just quit anyways and accept those who will do tasks) or something like that. Check the alliance once towards the end of the week and boot out anyone who is not completing tasks. Tasks will build reputation points which will increase the amount of players that you can have in the alliance. Don't feel bad about booting out alliance members. They will be just a bunch of random players that are there to boost reputation points and get whatever weekly alliance bonus that they can in return. In 9-15 months from now when you have the time to play you will have a much larger alliance and then you can start selectively adding players who will fly for passengers and with more alliance members you can more easily move into the top 100.

If for whatever reason in the future you can't find the time to play the game or manage the alliance you haven't wasted huge amounts of resources (your time). Just a little bit here and there will reap rewards later. Just think of it as compounding interest.

 

[MikeH]

Roger that thank you. Im ok with the lull...can focus on normal flying.

@Navigata07 - info from today. There will be new event, during which there will be collection "Business Angel" with Design Bureau as reward. If I remember correctly, some players had it last year by mistake.
EDIT - it should start on wednesday or thursday.

 

[Navigata07]

@Navigata07 - info from today. There will be new event, during which there will be collection "Business Angel" with Design Bureau as reward. If I remember correctly, some players had it last year by mistake.
EDIT - it should start on wednesday or thursday.

I remember hearing about that. Ok thats good to know thank you. Lets see if anything else gets addressed with this update

 

[Junior Sis]

@Navigata07 - info from today. There will be new event, during which there will be collection "Business Angel" with Design Bureau as reward. If I remember correctly, some players had it last year by mistake.
EDIT - it should start on wednesday or thursday.

Thank you for the heads-up.

 

[Hyperion1722]

Nicely done (sarcasm)...

 

[PLMerry]

My game on my Android Pad was down since the 8.0 version and finally came back up. For a while I had lost all my neighbors and all the gifts that were sent me. At one point I got this screen. Any thoughts? I tried to take some miracle glue to see what it was used for, but could not get any. I am glad that the postman was satisfied though.

After a few more tries reloading my game progress I ended up with everything back, except the week of game play I missed.

 

[Neil ellor]

Hey we have all been in the same boat at some point in time. I gave the numbers based off of two iterations a day assuming one in the morning and one again at night before bed. Not everyone can play all day everyday but you honestly don't have to in order to get a lot out of the game.

There are a lot of great examples between this current post and the one of yours that I am quoting. You don't even have to make drastic changes. Make small ones over time and they will add up months down the road.

If you don't have the time to manage your alliance then change the settings to open and set a minimum game level of 40 (if you want passengers) or 20 (if you want to weed out those who will just quit anyways and accept those who will do tasks) or something like that. Check the alliance once towards the end of the week and boot out anyone who is not completing tasks. Tasks will build reputation points which will increase the amount of players that you can have in the alliance. Don't feel bad about booting out alliance members. They will be just a bunch of random players that are there to boost reputation points and get whatever weekly alliance bonus that they can in return. In 9-15 months from now when you have the time to play you will have a much larger alliance and then you can start selectively adding players who will fly for passengers and with more alliance members you can more easily move into the top 100.

If for whatever reason in the future you can't find the time to play the game or manage the alliance you haven't wasted huge amounts of resources (your time). Just a little bit here and there will reap rewards later. Just think of it as compounding interest.

As I always say slowly slowly is the best way 8/9 years in 🚀🚁✈

 

[Neil ellor]

My game on my Android Pad was down since the 8.0 version and finally came back up. For a while I had lost all my neighbors and all the gifts that were sent me. At one point I got this screen. Any thoughts? I tried to take some miracle glue to see what it was used for, but could not get any. I am glad that the postman was satisfied though.

After a few more tries reloading my game progress I ended up with everything back, except the week of game play I missed.

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You may have insight to the next event???

 

[Navigata07]

Another thing to note is that with 8.0, you should take great care with repairing planes in the hangar. When you have a normal plane, I believe the "Repair" option is above "Sell". However, when you repair a special plane, the order is flipped, so you may end up clicking "sell" instead of "repair". Good thing you need confirmation before selling

 

[Pit1024]

Another thing to note is that with 8.0, you should take great care with repairing planes in the hangar. When you have a normal plane, I believe the "Repair" option is above "Sell". However, when you repair a special plane, the order is flipped, so you may end up clicking "sell" instead of "repair". Good thing you need confirmation before selling

Even worse, both buttons change randomly their positions even for same type planes, so repairing several planes one after the other you end up at least ones clicking the Sell instead of Repair. Good that it asks “are you sure you’d like to drop this plane” or similar.

 

[Navigata07]

Even worse, both buttons change randomly their positions even for same type planes, so repairing several planes one after the other you end up at least ones clicking the Sell instead of Repair. Good that it asks “are you sure you’d like to drop this plane” or similar.

Really? I didnt notice it for similar types. I only noted it between my normal planes and my S3s and Ranger Jumbos. I'll have to be even more careful now

 

[ac huang]

This is one way to have you sell suddently your nice plane uncarefully. Then, GI get the benifit.