Pocket Planes Strategy Guide, Tips and Tricks

If you're looking for a guide or tips and tricks on making tons of coins and bux in Nimblebit's latest iOS game Pocket Planes, then look no further because I've done all the "hard" work of collecting and posting information from various sources all over the web on how to best manage your fleet of Pocket Planes on your way to global airline domination. A word of caution though before you plunge into this addictive game -- Pocket Planes will take over your life if you're not careful!

Pocket Planes Online Airpedia List of all planes and their stats and classes!

Gameplay

Pocket Planes [AppStore] is Nimblebit's (the developer of iOS hit Tiny Tower) next game. The game is free-to-play with IAP, bux, which can get you new airplanes, airports, etc.. Tiny Tower was well balanced and IAP was not necessary so expect Pocket Planes to be the same.

In Pocket Planes you take control of your own fledgling airline in a region of your choosing. From there you get to expand your airline however you would like. Your airline can specialize in short-hauls with cargo, become a long-distance airline for passengers or any combination you would like. As you earn more bux you will get to unlock larger more efficient planes, airports and parts. Flights occur in real-time so you will schedule your flights and receive notifications as they reach their destinations

Pocket Planes will also incorporate a new feature called "Flight Crews". Your crew will compete in timed-events in order to win prizes like unique aircraft (as seen in the image below). So far the only example given of a possible event is for most flights completed by a flight crew during a period.

{source: neogaf}

Strategy Guide For Making Tons of Money in Pocket Planes

First of all, when you start you're only going to be able to travel between a close packed group of cities. Since these cities are so close, your flights are going to take off and land (and be ready for their next flight) within at most, 8 minutes. As you can see with 4 flights and the most any one flight will take is 8 minutes, you're going to be busy.

The goal for levels 1-20 is to get as far spread out as possible, and get rid of your gray airports when possible. They by far have the fewest jobs. After level 20, you can get a plane large enough to fly over the Atlantic easily, and you should know what you are doing at that point.

What you want to do initially is to balance between airplanes and units. For example, if you buy too many planes, you may find that your planes are sitting at cities waiting for new jobs to come in. At this point, buy airports! However if you're buying too many airports, you're leaving available items and money at these airports! So its important to find a balance.

Once you start getting blue Airports, you want to start to spread out and push the boundaries of your airplanes. Remember, the further you get away, the longer and more profitable the flights are.

Your first Red airport will cost between 45,000 and 51,000 coins, and will seem like a poo poo ton of money. It is at that point. However getting one of these Red Airports will probably stay with you for the rest of the game: Los Angeles, New York, London/France, or Jakarta.

When picking Aircraft, always pick the "M" type of airplanes.

 Plane Classes

There are three classes of planes in Pocket Planes: 

Class 1 planes are small, can only carry up to at most (at the best plane which is the Kangaroo) 4 units, fly short distances slowly, and can land in any city.

Class 2 planes are medium planes, can carry up to 6 units, fly much longer distances and faster and can only land at blue or red dot cities.

Class 3 planes are large planes, can carry up to 20+ units, fly huge distances, and at fast speeds, and can only land at red dot cities.

{source: somethingawful}

Tips and Tricks

Posted below are some Pocket Planes tips and tricks collected from all over the web to help you enjoy and get the most fun out of this game.

#1 You can get free coins (worth 1 and 10) and free bux while flying from one airport to another. Just click on the coins and bux that pass by your airplane.

#2 The dots signify how busy the airport is. Red is busiest, then blue then black.  Busier airports have more available jobs.

#3 To see how many times you did an event, click event then click the check mark.

#4  You can get anywhere with any plane regardless of their range, you just need to make more stops.

#5 Upgrading the airport gets you more jobs and layovers.

#6 You can buy parts in the market. You have to level up to unlock more plane models and parts.

#7 It's cheaper to build if you already have a part.

#8 You can also get bux through certain jobs.

#9 Aim to buy the fastest machine pieces for new planes first up; 2 seater/cargo planes are your ideal starting point because 1500 coins per hour is better than 500 coins per hour.

#10 Close airports so that you don't saturate your job list with low paying jobs. It's also a way to make some coin to open up other stuff, or to move your operations around when you are at your city limit for your level.

Snoopy Fair FAQs, Strategy Guide, Tips and Tricks

Help Snoopy, Charlie Brown and the entire PEANUTS gang build and organize a street fair!

In this taptastic adventure you’ll decorate Charlie Brown’s neighborhood and fill it with a wealth of wonderful stalls and attractions. Recruit your favorite PEANUTS characters including Sally, Linus and Lucy, just to name a few.

While the rest of the gang is busy with the fair, Snoopy brings his own brand of mischief to the game. Depending on Snoopy’s costume he’ll pounce on piles of leaves, help redesign stalls dressed as Artist Snoopy or, in the case of his Beagle Scout costume, collect marshmallows with his beagle scout troop in tow. Each costume will also unlock a themed minigame including a lemonade making game, a color mixing game and a marshmallow roasting game.

 Features:
- 21 PEANUTS characters
- 3 mini-games to unlock
- 27 Trading cards to collect
- 45 Original PEANUTS cartoon strips to collect
- A plethora of much loved icons from the PEANUTS universe to interact with (the dog house, the mailbox, the kite-eating tree and many more)
- Social features including the ability to visit friends’ fairs and interact with them
- Take Snoopy Snaps of your friends as they pose in classic PEANUTS scenes.
- Faithful to Charles M. Schulz’s artwork and featuring the classic music and official voice talent

Tips and Tricks {via multimage of toucharcade}

1. The paywall shows its ugly face after about 3 minutes of play. You need about 1000 Snoopy Dollars to buy everything in the game, maybe even more. I got 8 so far, and I'm now getting them at a slower pace than at the beginning. I'm guessing 2-4 Snoopy Dollars per day now. That's not a lot considering that the Linus Stand is 30 Snoopy Dollars. And this is just ONE stand. Which brings me to the next problem.
2. The Snoopy Dollars cost way too much. So you need 30 Snoopy Dollars for that Linus Stand. OK, how about buying 50 Snoopy Dollars from an IAP for 5$?! 5 hard earned dollars for 50 Snoopy Dollars! And this is the minimum! There are no IAP at 1$, nope. It starts at 5$, and this is the only way to get those dollars fast.
3. The most popular members of the Peanuts crew all cost Snoopy Dollars except Sally and Rerun. So you want Linus? 30 Snoopy Dollars. Lucy's Psychiatric Stand? 30 Snoopy Dollars. Woodstock? 75 Snoopy Dollars! Seventy-five Snoopy Dollars, or 7.50$! And there's like 20 of those stands, not mentionning all the objects like flowers, benches, pool, and even the minigames!

Junk Jack FAQs, Strategy Guide, Tips and Tricks

I was snooping around the App Store and came across this retro-inspired Minecraft-y gem from PixBits - Junk Jack.


Junk Jack [AppStore] is a 2D sandbox game where you can explore, build your home and survive in random procedurally generated worlds full of treasures and hidden secrets. If you have no clue what you're doing, posted below are some of the frequently-asked-questions, guides, tips and tricks collected from the web to help you get  started.

Beginner's Guide {via Tye-Dye of Junk Jack Official Forum}

To begin crafting open up your inventory and there should be a 3x3 box on the right side - this is the crafting box. You can split a stack of wood by double clicking it. Then when you are ready, press the crafting button beneath the crafting box. Some items may require you to be standing near a crafting add-on, such as an anvil used for making metal tools.

First off you will want to punch some trees to death and make a picaxe. Then make some Wooden planks from the wood from the tree.
W wood
_ nothing
[_] [_] [_]
[_] [W] [_]
[_] [_] [_]
Wood can be placed anywhere in the crafting slot.
Wooden planks will be referred as just planks from now on.

Picaxe crafting
[S] [S] [_]
[S] [P] [_]
[_] [_] [P]
Where
S = wood
P = wood plank
_ = nothing

After getting a good haul of stone (maybe some coal too), make an axe (probably for getting more wood) and a new picaxe.
You will also want to make a swords
S=stone
P=plank
_= nothing

Axe
[S] [_] [_]
[S] [P] [_]
[_] [_] [P]

Sword
[S] [_] [_]
[_] [S] [_]
[_] [_] [P]

Chop some more wood and find the closes cow to you.With your sword beat him to death and hopefully get leather (you need 2 leather so find another cow maybe:))

Then look for a sort of light green plant with beans on top. Mine it and get some papyra (what you make paper with).

Then make some paper with the papyra with
P= papyra
_= nothing
[_] [_] [_]
[P] [P] [_]
[P] [P] [_]
Get enough papyra till you have 4 paper (I think about 8 papyra should do it)

Then make your self a book
L = leather
P = paper
_ = nothing

[_] [_] [_]
[L] [P] [P]
[L] [P] [P]

Then you can start adding page to book. Put page on hot bar then click on it (when you are out of menu). It will be stored in your book, which acts as a little collection tutorial / craft book (collect all page will really help).

You will probably want to think of making a place of residence now (ie house :L). Your first house shouldn't be too fancy, just out of dirt or random blocks and will be designed to last you your first night.

On your first night I would advise just making a mine like tunnel down like steps:
____[ ]
__[ ][ ]
[ ][ ][ ]

This should get you enough stone, ores and coal or everything.

Your next step (after making a  house) will be to start making furniture and crafting additional tools.

Make a Wooden work bench by first making a hammer out of wood
(hammers are used for removing furniture, doors, ladders, etc)

W wood
P plank
_ nothing

[_] [W] [_]
[W] [P] [_]
[_] [_] [P]

Then make the bench like this
W wood
P plank
H hammer
[_] [_] [_]
[P] [H] [P]
[W] [W] [W]

Torches are also a must have as it stops monsters spawning!
C coal
P plank
_ nothing
[_] [_] [_]
[_] [C] [_]
[_] [_] [W]

After making a work bench a nice looking furnace will be on your mind (keep house warm and for making better tools and widgets)
S stone
T torch
_ nothing

Furnace
[S] [S] [S]
[S] [T] [S]
[S] [S] [S]

You will also want a door and a chest (to store treasure in)
First you will need something called a widget
Widgets are made with iron ingots and copper ingots
Ingot crafting (by furnace)
L ore lump
C coal
_ nothing
[_] [_] [_]
[_] [L] [L]
[_] [_] [c]
The lumps and coal can be anywhere as long as there is two lumps and one coal next to a furnace
When you craft a iron and copper ingot make a widget
Widget
I iron ingot
C copper ingot
_ nothing
[_] [_] [_]
[_] [_] [I]
[_] [C] [_]

Then with widget
Chest
P wood
W widget
_ nothing

[_] [_] [_]
[P] [W] [P]
[P] [P] [P]

And door
P plank
W widget
_ nothing
[P] [P] [_]
[P] [W] [_]
[P] [P] [_]

You will also need to make an anvil to craft metal tools (iron silver gold Mithril)
To make an anvil
I iron ingot
S stone
_ nothing
[_] [_] [_]
[I] [I] [I]
[_] [S] [_]
Then when you stand next to one you will be able to make a metal tool (advised to have furnace and anvil close to each other)

As you go you will find many crates containing items for crafting and building
Vases - contain treasure but, be warned may spawn spiders upon breaking
Chest- use hammer to break them (contains items varying on what kind of chest) better the chest better the items

Strength of tools on material from weakest to strongest:
Wood
Stone
Iron
Steel
Gold
Mithril

Full list of recipes (Tools, Interactive Items, Blocks, Items, Crafting Add-ons)

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