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General Chat / Re: Token costs?

« on: August 03, 2009, 02:55:07 am »

Short answer, no.

Which kind of token would be deducted first, free or paid?   

Hey if I'm going to do a wiki on this I need all the information I can get.  Sorry if this makes me seem like a pain in the rear end.

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General Chat / Re: Token costs?

« on: August 02, 2009, 09:48:06 pm »

Thank you.  I suppose I'll have to stay on the world I am on for a few real months to let some tokens accumulate, and then fiddle around with starting a private world and altering the starting settings before confirming, to get an idea of what add-ons cost what.

For duration, is that two real months or two game months?  And if you have both free and paid tokens when buying a premium search function, what kind of token will be deducted first?  If you have 9 paid tokens and 54 free tokens, can you combine them?

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Game Strategy / Starting the first focus city?

« on: August 02, 2009, 09:12:03 am »

I'm wondering when to do it.  I have one Let-420 and 3 Let-610s (one of which is leased), DOC 1.197M on world 799.  I will be taking delivery of an ATR 72-200 from one of the game brokers tomorrow and with that, I will have saturated SEA at least within a small handful of airports 500 nm or closer (probably not complete saturation, but enough so that any additional aircraft would be underutilized).

I am wondering what is the best way of starting a focus city because gate costs are cutting into profits.  Should I use a very close airport such as PDX and YVR to get more use out of my existing slots, or does this make me vulnerable for me to getting too confined later in the game?  Also I've read that I should upgrade aircraft when my DOC is as low as it is before opening a focus city, but far as I can tell all that would do is depress the fares on my existing routes (like adding frequency) so I am strongly considering getting my focus city, acquiring another ATR or two, and doubling my revenue.  THEN I can worry about upgrading my Lets.  Thoughts?

Also, unrelated question, how bad will the EUR 1 fare wars get and (for future focus cities and worlds I play) what is the best balance between having reasonably busy hubs and avoiding the nasty fare wars?

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General Chat / Token costs?

« on: August 02, 2009, 08:58:32 am »

I am quite obviously a noob, albeit one that tries not to be too stupid and has 1.197M DOC (W799) after two (real) days of playing.  I have noticed various assorted references to 'tokens' to do stuff such as enhance assorted search functions and create private worlds.  However, the cost of performing any given action in tokens seems to be quite nebulous as it does not appear I can look up the cost without actually going to do something and stopping just short of the "confirm" button or what have you.  I searched the game manual wiki for "tokens" but only found peripheral references in other articles.  The only hard cost I've found actually referenced in the manual is 30 tokens to enter another world to play multiple worlds at once, in which case I can just wait for them to accrue.

Is there any kind of table anywhere that lists stuff you can do with tokens and the cost of doing it?  It would be kind of stupid for me to consider buying any without knowing in advance what they would be worth to me.