AC news bulletin 03.02.2021

[LX Air - Teresa]

If there is a special discount for police station do you change your mind

No. Not even if it was a 70% discount. I can play strategically to get tokens. But I don’t have CBMs, so I can’t play to get greenies. At least not the amount of greenies needed to get those buildings.
I still buy some greenies, once in a while, but I would never spend them on overpriced non essencial buildings.

 

[amir77a]

If there is a special discount for police station do you change your mind

It depends on the discount.

At current Duke is here, but didn't bring any discount with him.

 

[Navigata07]

That sure depends on the quantity of that discount... -10% or even -33% wouldn't make any real difference for me, it would be still very expensive.
I don't really understand the purpose of this change, that amount of tokens was anyway enough difficult to get. Now with their availability with Airport Cash only (and ridicously overpriced) it will totally lose its charm to get those buildings.
@Ur-quan, why not leave the possibility of getting all the autocollect buildings with tokens as before but maybe at a somewhat increased price?

Purpose of the change? It's quite simple. It's all about the diñero...moolah....dough...stacks....greens....universal lubricant...root of all evil...however you call it....cold hard cash!
Im sure part of the motivation may have to do with the hard economic times with the raging pandemic, but over the past year, the focus has shifted towards beefing up the bottom line.

The issue with this move, however, is that even though it has become more "accessible" to players who werent a part of alliances, it has actually backfired and become less accessible to newer players and left only for the CBM owners to grab up for themselves due to the significantly high prices, but the vets already grabbed what they needed from the autocollect shop ages ago, so there is no need for them to even go after them. What that leaves are the newer players who pay to play, and will shell out cash to get the buildings regardless of cost. They will be the ones driving the profits, and there are plenty more out there than you realize; it's a scary world outside of the forum 😱

G! really should have kept both options, because even if the wise players would use tokens to pay, I believe a lot of players out there would be too impatient to put in the work and would just pay greenies for it. Smart players would be happy; "Pay to play"ers would be happy, and G! would profit. Wins all around.

 

[LimSky]

Purpose of the change? It's quite simple. It's all about the diñero...moolah....dough...stacks....greens....universal lubricant...root of all evil...however you call it....cold hard cash!
Im sure part of the motivation may have to do with the hard economic times with the raging pandemic, but over the past year, the focus has shifted towards beefing up the bottom line.

While I'm really trying to understand the "hard economic times" as well as and "revenues for developers" part, G!'s moves since August last year are shameless in this regard. I play also other games and while they also have introduced new offers, theirs are mostly 1) attractive and 2) affordable. This is neither the one nor the latter, just as they would say "we give you the same buildings, but now we want you to pay way more for them". Many of us complain about the significant discrepancy between newer players and those who are around much longer and it looks like they wanted to make the life for newbies (me included) harder with every such move. If I see a couple more such "new ideas", probably they will see me go, because I'm not a millionaire.
I'm just afraid that the to-be-announced changes to the alliance system make the personal purposes in this game yet more unachievable. Be wary if you complain about cheaters - they will probably not block them or whatever, only they will make a new system that won't be playable to most. Not that I would stand for cheaters, because one time it affected me painfully in a personal way, but apparently G! can't cope with adequate coding solutions and their only way is to devise completely new ways (but far from what we would like, more levels, new space missions, new planes etc. etc.) and make us to pay tons of gold for their "work".

 

[amir77a]

While I'm really trying to understand the "hard economic times" as well as and "revenues for developers" part, G!'s moves since August last year are shameless in this regard. I play also other games and while they also have introduced new offers, theirs are mostly 1) attractive and 2) affordable. This is neither the one nor the latter, just as they would say "we give you the same buildings, but now we want you to pay way more for them". Many of us complain about the significant discrepancy between newer players and those who are around much longer and it looks like they wanted to make the life for newbies (me included) harder with every such move. If I see a couple more such "new ideas", probably they will see me go, because I'm not a millionaire.
I'm just afraid that the to-be-announced changes to the alliance system make the personal purposes in this game yet more unachievable. Be wary if you complain about cheaters - they will probably not block them or whatever, only they will make a new system that won't be playable to most. Not that I would stand for cheaters, because one time it affected me painfully in a personal way, but apparently G! can't cope with adequate coding solutions and their only way is to devise completely new ways (but far from what we would like, more levels, new space missions, new planes etc. etc.) and make us to pay tons of gold for their "work".

I won't be surprised if the new alliance system, will include 1 greenie for every flight, or a new alliance required building that will yield 1 coin a day, and will cost 500 greenies or something like that.
Oh... and alliance will available starting lvl 1, so everyone will be able to pay...

 

[LimSky]

I won't be surprised if the new alliance system, will include 1 greenie for every flight, or a new alliance required building that will yield 1 coin a day, and will cost 500 greenies or something like that.
Oh... and alliance will available starting lvl 1, so everyone will be able to pay...

Guess what, I thought about the same, the need to pay greens to be able to send a flight... Brrrrrrrrrrrrr!

 

[Martin L.]

Guess what, I thought about the same, the need to pay greens to be able to send a flight... Brrrrrrrrrrrrr!

That is the moment I delete my game off the ipad and find a more attractive games

 

[Navigata07]

While I'm really trying to understand the "hard economic times" as well as and "revenues for developers" part, G!'s moves since August last year are shameless in this regard. I play also other games and while they also have introduced new offers, theirs are mostly 1) attractive and 2) affordable. This is neither the one nor the latter, just as they would say "we give you the same buildings, but now we want you to pay way more for them". Many of us complain about the significant discrepancy between newer players and those who are around much longer and it looks like they wanted to make the life for newbies (me included) harder with every such move. If I see a couple more such "new ideas", probably they will see me go, because I'm not a millionaire.
I'm just afraid that the to-be-announced changes to the alliance system make the personal purposes in this game yet more unachievable. Be wary if you complain about cheaters - they will probably not block them or whatever, only they will make a new system that won't be playable to most. Not that I would stand for cheaters, because one time it affected me painfully in a personal way, but apparently G! can't cope with adequate coding solutions and their only way is to devise completely new ways (but far from what we would like, more levels, new space missions, new planes etc. etc.) and make us to pay tons of gold for their "work".

Yes I agree about the concern about these upcoming changes. I have no issue with paying for features...I find myself buying the premium pass because you really do get a lot of nice perks for $5...but that is the perfect example of a reasonable price. I always thought the cost of the autocollect are on the pricy side, but at least one could put in the work and eventually get there. It's certainly something I would keep my eye on in the future, as I already spent hundreds of dollars on this game throughout the years (especially when they had the super mystery building sale). Those days are done, so if there is a fee, it better be reasonable, else it will have to miss me.

 

[BrentCrude]

Has anyone experimented with obtaining a ton of event currency with flights and whatnot and completing all the tasks but not collecting any of the rewards until the last day thus not joining a competition group until the last day to make finishing high in your group easier?

 

[Navigata07]

Has anyone experimented with obtaining a ton of event currency with flights and whatnot and completing all the tasks but not collecting any of the rewards until the last day thus not joining a competition group until the last day to make finishing high in your group easier?

That's my go-to tactic. However, it doesnt always work in my favor. It does ease the pressure though, and allows you to play at your own pace without feeling like a target

 

[Harcourt]

Has anyone experimented with obtaining a ton of event currency with flights and whatnot and completing all the tasks but not collecting any of the rewards until the last day thus not joining a competition group until the last day to make finishing high in your group easier?

 

[Pit1024]

Has anyone experimented with obtaining a ton of event currency with flights and whatnot and completing all the tasks but not collecting any of the rewards until the last day thus not joining a competition group until the last day to make finishing high in your group easier?

Already many are doing so You might have worse luck than collecting from the very beginning...

 

[Jukebox]

Hello, pilots! News here.


🔵Thank you for the feedback on new flights window. Our designers have studied it and preparing fixing and improvements in the upcoming updates (adding items quantity display, resizing the UI on windows platform, etc.)

8.10 update release is planned for this week.

🟢Hello spring! We missed you! Snow will melt.

🟢Economy changes: As you've noticed we've decided to lower the maximum cost for high lvl land expansions.

🟢And ow we're working on making auto-click buildings more accessible:
Bank Branch, Visa Center, Pawn Shop, Collection Agency, Police Station, Logistical Center, Tax Service, Ministry of Truth and Design Center will be no longer requiring alliance lvl and will be available in the regular shop.
Player level requirements are also lowered:

	Cost before	Cost after	player Lvl requirement after
Bank Branch​	400 Silver tokens, 20 gold tokens	50 airport cash	10
Visa Center​	400 Silver tokens, 20 gold tokens	50 airport cash	10
Pawn Shop​	400 Silver tokens, 20 gold tokens	70 airport cash	20
Collection Agency​	2500 Silver tokens, 150 gold tokens	160 airport cash	30
Police Station​	2500 Silver tokens, 150 gold tokens	160 airport cash	30
Logistical Center​	2500 Silver tokens, 150 gold tokens	210 airport cash	40
Tax Service​	3000 Silver tokens, 250 gold tokens	500 airport cash	40
Ministry of Truth​	3000 Silver tokens, 250 gold tokens	500 airport cash	40
Design Center​	3000 Silver tokens, 250 gold tokens	610 airport cash	50

Special airship offers are planned.

Passengers contracts costs in airport cash will be lowered as well.

	time	cost before	cost after
Express Contract	60	10 Silver tokens / 2 airport cash	10 Silver tokens / 2 airport cash
Urgent Contract	180	40 Silver tokens / 6 airport cash	40 Silver tokens / 5 airport cash
Rapid Contract	540	125 Silver tokens / 18 airport cash	125 Silver tokens / 14 airport cash
Standard Contract	960	250 Silver tokens / 32 airport cash	250 Silver tokens / 24 airport cash
Lengthy Contract	1440	450 Silver tokens / 48 airport cash	450 Silver tokens / 35 airport cash
Long-term Contract	2880	1000 Silver tokens / 96 airport cash	1000 Silver tokens / 70 airport cash

P.S: 🔵Next event will be Walk in the clouds

Still 60;greenies for a plot of land

 

[Madge59230]

Still 60;greenies for a plot of land

As ur quan said. The reduction is a BLOCK at maximum price. Not a reduction. Your price will continue exactly as before. Look in the wiki and you will see the prices.

Land Expansion Price

Maximun size CITY side is 80 x 44 squares (20x11 city blocks) Maximum AIRPORT side is 80 x 44 squares (20x11 city blocks) The city can be expanded by purchasing blocks of 4x4 (16) squares. At the start of the game, each side (city and airport) starts with 4 blocks and can be expanded 216...

www.airportcitygame.com

 

[Bob69bob]

Has anyone experimented with obtaining a ton of event currency with flights and whatnot and completing all the tasks but not collecting any of the rewards until the last day thus not joining a competition group until the last day to make finishing high in your group easier?

One thing I did discover, (I didn’t want to pay the upgrade fee if I wasn’t going to finish the last event) is that once you’ve completed the final level, the option to purchase the upgrade is removed 😫.

 

[Taz424]

I got a small update and now I have F20 from my neighbourg who transform in F3. Does anyone has this issue ?

 

[Bob69bob]

I got a small update and now I have F20 from my neighbourg who transform in F3. Does anyone has this issue ?

Are you sure it was F20? All uncollected fans and firecrackers from the old event were converted to F3 for me.

 

[Taz424]

Are you sure it was F20? All uncollected fans and firecrackers from the old event were converted to F3 for me.

Ok, it comes from the firecrackers then. It was weird. You're right! Thank you @Bob69bob !

 

[Pit1024]

One thing I did discover, (I didn’t want to pay the upgrade fee if I wasn’t going to finish the last event) is that once you’ve completed the final level, the option to purchase the upgrade is removed 😫.

Do you mean, after completing last level you are no longer able to purchase Premium class?

 

[LX Air - Teresa]

Do you mean, after completing last level you are no longer able to purchase Premium class?

It happened also on the previous event: if you delay the purchase until after you reach level 20, then the offer disappears...
so keep an eye and purchase the premium when you’re certain you’ll reach level 20, but still not there...