Domestic travel demand is higher than international so you should have all UK cities route through London as it will be the highest demand between UK cities
One way I've been able to save money in the game is by having an international hub with the capital for every country and then have 1-10 interconnected domestic hubs (depending on country size and location of cities) so it funnels traffic to specific regions. For example, I put all domestic travel in Germany through Frankfurt and connect it to Berlin; Birmingham and Glasgow are hubs that connect to London; Lyon, Nantes, and Rouen connect to Paris etc. This puts less pressure on the capitals since they focus solely on international flights and a few of the larger domestic cities. It also means that domestic travel can largely avoid all of the incoming and outgoing international travellers which alleviates the pressure on the domestic routes from capital cities later in the game. This method saves a lot of money over time since every route is not going to their country's capital and is going to a large regional hub that would be closer in proximity. Using this method, I've been able to unlock at least 50 countries on most of my games, with a fair few reaching 75-90 countries if I'm lucky with the scenarios. The only downside I've encountered using this method is when city's have festivals later in the game, it gets expensive to put 2-3 additional superjets on small regional routes to meet the demand when 40k+ people want to go to a single city meaning I'm most likely unable to advance to any further countries due to the enormous cost of upgrading a route for single use.
Yah planes need to be able to put in storage. If I need 5 planes for the Olympic soccer ever so often, why can’t I store them away? Selling them for half price then HAVING to buy them again for the next olympics I stupid…
A strategy that I feel like helped me out a bit was using small countries that have little to no cities as your hubs because they don’t get bogged down with domestic flights. Also, It’s helpful to make more flight connections than you think because the real pinch point of the game is the limitation of flight and airport capacity. Love watching you play. So glad they updated all countries mode.
I think I'm seeing similar ideas in the comments here but I think having increasing branches from the major cities into a couple minor, that branch to the rest of the minor ones, would be the best idea. That way too if the scenario you were talking about happens, instead of creating 15 new lines you can just make 2 or 3 and still have all 15 connected.
Wife found your channel a few weeks back and we've been actively watching your playlists to come up to speed on your games. Hello from Maine, USA! Love these videos and can't wait to be a long term subscriber!
Happy to hear you are enjoying it :) i have never been to Maine but am definitely eager to. Ive not be Northeast of New York state, but everything up that was seems so pretty
@@S2isDrawingDead Mid-October is a great time to Visit northern New England if you like to look at yellow red and orange leaves like the rest of the world! We'd be happy to show you around if you ever come through!
20:47 Interesting point, maybe a solution would be with those kind of resolution messages have a green or a red border depending on if it was a succes or failure instead, could help that
The new balance update is great, makes it possible to complete but still very much not a free win. I got pretty far but ended up petering out and losing by not being able to afford the next country with something like 11 countries left due to some overspending and inefficiencies. Excited to see how you do in this series.
Just a heads up for when you get to that point: I've unlocked Pakistan in my Free Play mode, and Karachi seems to be a huge travel destination, about as big as some of the biggest cities in China. That might be handy to know in Unlock all Countries mode, where mistakes aren't as acceptable.
I think you had the right idea to open up the US early in your run. That is what I did in my recent run and it brought in a lot of money. I was able to complete all the countries with relatively little trouble. I also opened up China, India, Japan, Mexico, and Indonesia ahead of the country timer because I wanted large population, long distance countries to drive my income even higher.
Definitely agree that a few hubs in China is the way to go. In my playthrough I had Berlin going to 4 hub cities in China, as well as Tokyo and Osaka. Keep a look out for the superjet routes that are consistently red, and check the top destinations from the airport and add a new route in direct to that / near it (e.g. I also ended up with about 8 to the Americas). Could also work nicely having Berlin/Paris/Rome all with their own direct China/India/Americas flights so no one airport has too much going through it. Also found pushing by buying countries out of order to get China, India and the USA in early to work. The long routes are significantly cheaper to build at that point, and the money generated quickly pays it back, giving you the freedom to buy more countries out of order to be able to better place hubs. Once you get later in the game, if any destination has something going on to make it more popular I ended up building a direct route to it even if it was otherwise a smaller airport. Also would say 'no' to discounting flights to keep demand the same since a reduction in demand helps get some of the larger airports back under control. Last tip which I found useful, is that since routes get so expensive later, if a country ever gets blocked out because of an outbreak, it's easier to just upgrade all the airports that relied on it a couple times instead of building new routes, and they'll easily survive until the country is back online.
I think it would be really fun if they had a mode similar to unlock all countries, but you get to choose what your next country is. (You still have to unlock a new country every 6 minutes, but you get to decide instead of the game telling you what you need to unlock)
I’m trialing use of Lyon as the primary hub for France.. close proximity to southern France ports, Switzerland and northern Italy. Frankfurt also seems more central for Germany, providing for shorter connections to lots of domestic ports. Ideally, I’d like city to city to be less than 3 hops (domestic to hub, hub to hub, then hub to destination) to try to minimize travel time and hopefully increase income. Sometimes I create small domestic hubs, for example around Seville in southern Spain, before connecting to Madrid, or eastern Ukraine before connecting to Kiev. Belgrade also seems to be a good hub for the Balkans.
My longest flight ever was probably Amsterdam - Singapore or maybe Tokyo - Zürich. Don't remember how long each of those was, but both were just part of a longer route: after a day of birding in Singapore (arrived at sunrise) I took an evening flight to Melbourne and the flight from Japan was part of a route of me going home from Cairns - Tokyo (spend one night) - Zürich - Brussels. I was pretty knackered after both those trips.
at least in the Melb > Singpore one they are sort of going the right directly, tokyo seems well out of the way in going from Cairns to Zurich. I can imagine that one was rough
@@S2isDrawingDead Going back to Europe from Cairns was easier (and cheaper, although it cost me extra for luggage on the Tokyo - Zürich leg) over Tokyo than first flying to Sydney, then to the Middle East and then to Europe. And it allowed me to do some birding around the hotel near the airport in the morning 😁
My longest flights were Amsterdam - Buenos Aires and Johannesburg - Amsterdam. Both 12 hours. Sad fact, on my way back from Buenos Aires I had to go via Madrid. That was 9,5 hours plus 4 hours to Amsterdam.
@@S2isDrawingDead honestly don’t know since I’ve only been to a Thailand once. I heard that the other route is better. My friend said you either have a lay over in Japan or Korea then Thailand. All I know it was hot, bathrooms where hot from the water alone. Finally passed out once we got on the huge A380. One hell of a plane. Spacious.
Halfway through and thinking that he'd already got halfway across the Atlantic to Iceland - push to Greenland and you'd get Canada / US? Great game and appreciate watching you play though!
The UK is an interesting one. I get what you mean about connecting it to Paris. But London is a large city. It will have lots of traffic trying to head to it. So you're sending all of that traffic to Paris when you do that. I've done the math. And the most cost effective plane is the 300pax level 4. Level 5 isnt that much worse, but level 6 is wildly expensive even when you account for the extra speed.
Did you account for the cost due to the need for bigger airports because of longer wait times as a result of slower speed for level 4 planes compared to level 6?
I played this game on the section where you play the game for free and save it in three different slots when you get around 45% to 50% of the map it just randomly closes no warning no nothing so any progress if you don't save it constantly any progress is completely lost
Wouldn't it be best to set countries with only 1 or 2 airports as your main hubs since they don't have to worry about carrying passengers to small areas? The more individual cities you have leading into one place, the harder it will be to take all of the people out of the area since they all have to go through one place, but if you used countries with no local flights as your hub, they only have to focus on moving people who need to go really far
@@S2isDrawingDead glad to hear someone who knows what they're doing has had the same thought as me XD. I feel like it would be a lot easier to set up in freeplay to be fair edit: honestly it may be well implemented in situations like your last playthrough where central asia and china were under a lot of stress
@@Ncitbgihem Ive started to experiance an issue where Paris is taking too much of a load getting across the atlantic. I was thinking if i can set up an america > China connection, so that planes going to europe will go their direct route, while planes to china will use this one route. Somewhere like Havana being the american destination between houston, mexico and south america (ish). Havana is the small hub amongst huge hubs. If a lot of people want to make the journey though... it could make a massive bottleneck since only 5 planes would be travelling almost the entire map
@@S2isDrawingDead i feel like that definitely has potential. maybe setting up a second parallel route and installing "rungs" like on a ladder or even zig-zagging could help to alleviate that bottleneck, but that may prove too expensive to be practical unless you're able to set it up super early when everything is still cheap
I still find a bit way too much RNG, and less planning/skill based. I've gotten 75 countries on latest update, but still get hit with unavoidable failures :(
2 hour wait is probably that comfortable amount of time where you dont have to wait too long, but also dont have to stress about missing your connection if you are even slightly late
If you have a max people on stuggart, just upgrade the plane and if you have fewer people in Stuttgart. No people in stuggart then you can delete the plane then get it bought.
Does anyone have any tips to unlock all countries? I always do really well until I get to around 40 to 45% of the world. The most I've ever gotten was 60% but that was before the new update, with the new update I've gotten to 55% of the world unlocked. Money is always the problem for me, I get to a point where I can’t make enough money to keep unlocking countries. I've tried unlocking many countries quickly so I have extra time to make money, I've tried to unlock many countries then go slower so more cities pop up so that I'd have more people travelling. I've made long routes through the atlantic and from India and China to Europe. The money just seems to thin out after a while when countries begin to cost about 70 to 100k. I’d appreciate any help. :)
@@tommy8083 It will always be around 6 minutes if you wait as long as possible to buy the new country, but if you buy it earlier that extra remaining time is added to your next timer.
Domestic travel demand is higher than international so you should have all UK cities route through London as it will be the highest demand between UK cities
@Livio Draghi Are you sure it works like that? Isn't it just the same price as if they had flown a direct route?
One way I've been able to save money in the game is by having an international hub with the capital for every country and then have 1-10 interconnected domestic hubs (depending on country size and location of cities) so it funnels traffic to specific regions. For example, I put all domestic travel in Germany through Frankfurt and connect it to Berlin; Birmingham and Glasgow are hubs that connect to London; Lyon, Nantes, and Rouen connect to Paris etc. This puts less pressure on the capitals since they focus solely on international flights and a few of the larger domestic cities. It also means that domestic travel can largely avoid all of the incoming and outgoing international travellers which alleviates the pressure on the domestic routes from capital cities later in the game. This method saves a lot of money over time since every route is not going to their country's capital and is going to a large regional hub that would be closer in proximity. Using this method, I've been able to unlock at least 50 countries on most of my games, with a fair few reaching 75-90 countries if I'm lucky with the scenarios. The only downside I've encountered using this method is when city's have festivals later in the game, it gets expensive to put 2-3 additional superjets on small regional routes to meet the demand when 40k+ people want to go to a single city meaning I'm most likely unable to advance to any further countries due to the enormous cost of upgrading a route for single use.
Yah planes need to be able to put in storage. If I need 5 planes for the Olympic soccer ever so often, why can’t I store them away? Selling them for half price then HAVING to buy them again for the next olympics I stupid…
A strategy that I feel like helped me out a bit was using small countries that have little to no cities as your hubs because they don’t get bogged down with domestic flights. Also, It’s helpful to make more flight connections than you think because the real pinch point of the game is the limitation of flight and airport capacity. Love watching you play. So glad they updated all countries mode.
I think I'm seeing similar ideas in the comments here but I think having increasing branches from the major cities into a couple minor, that branch to the rest of the minor ones, would be the best idea. That way too if the scenario you were talking about happens, instead of creating 15 new lines you can just make 2 or 3 and still have all 15 connected.
Yes it's my way of playing when I get my best scores
I'm addicted to this game
Wife found your channel a few weeks back and we've been actively watching your playlists to come up to speed on your games. Hello from Maine, USA! Love these videos and can't wait to be a long term subscriber!
Happy to hear you are enjoying it :) i have never been to Maine but am definitely eager to. Ive not be Northeast of New York state, but everything up that was seems so pretty
@@S2isDrawingDead Mid-October is a great time to Visit northern New England if you like to look at yellow red and orange leaves like the rest of the world! We'd be happy to show you around if you ever come through!
20:47 Interesting point, maybe a solution would be with those kind of resolution messages have a green or a red border depending on if it was a succes or failure instead, could help that
greatly exicted for this series after binging the last, and this time you can take over the WHOLE world
The new balance update is great, makes it possible to complete but still very much not a free win. I got pretty far but ended up petering out and losing by not being able to afford the next country with something like 11 countries left due to some overspending and inefficiencies. Excited to see how you do in this series.
Just a heads up for when you get to that point: I've unlocked Pakistan in my Free Play mode, and Karachi seems to be a huge travel destination, about as big as some of the biggest cities in China. That might be handy to know in Unlock all Countries mode, where mistakes aren't as acceptable.
I think you had the right idea to open up the US early in your run. That is what I did in my recent run and it brought in a lot of money. I was able to complete all the countries with relatively little trouble. I also opened up China, India, Japan, Mexico, and Indonesia ahead of the country timer because I wanted large population, long distance countries to drive my income even higher.
Definitely agree that a few hubs in China is the way to go. In my playthrough I had Berlin going to 4 hub cities in China, as well as Tokyo and Osaka. Keep a look out for the superjet routes that are consistently red, and check the top destinations from the airport and add a new route in direct to that / near it (e.g. I also ended up with about 8 to the Americas). Could also work nicely having Berlin/Paris/Rome all with their own direct China/India/Americas flights so no one airport has too much going through it.
Also found pushing by buying countries out of order to get China, India and the USA in early to work. The long routes are significantly cheaper to build at that point, and the money generated quickly pays it back, giving you the freedom to buy more countries out of order to be able to better place hubs.
Once you get later in the game, if any destination has something going on to make it more popular I ended up building a direct route to it even if it was otherwise a smaller airport. Also would say 'no' to discounting flights to keep demand the same since a reduction in demand helps get some of the larger airports back under control. Last tip which I found useful, is that since routes get so expensive later, if a country ever gets blocked out because of an outbreak, it's easier to just upgrade all the airports that relied on it a couple times instead of building new routes, and they'll easily survive until the country is back online.
I think it would be really fun if they had a mode similar to unlock all countries, but you get to choose what your next country is. (You still have to unlock a new country every 6 minutes, but you get to decide instead of the game telling you what you need to unlock)
great that they updated the game so soon. I'm interested to see your world domination!
I’m really impressed that you pronounce Düsseldorf the correct way! Not many foreigners actually do that. How did you learn it? Have you visited it?
You’ve really got me thinking about this. Since i murder pronunciations so often. I feel like i have to have heard it enough - but i dont know where.
All of that fun for 5 bucks - I'm in! Thanks for showing the game - it's a little gem by now!
in one free play, Beijing had its longest flights from Beijing to Buenos Ares (the opposite side of the world from there) and Mexico City
You can save the game in a layout and then load from the saved to change the country you want to unlock next
Does it still work with the update?
AND is it cheating?
Of course it’s cheating, you get less points if you load save games.
I’m trialing use of Lyon as the primary hub for France.. close proximity to southern France ports, Switzerland and northern Italy. Frankfurt also seems more central for Germany, providing for shorter connections to lots of domestic ports. Ideally, I’d like city to city to be less than 3 hops (domestic to hub, hub to hub, then hub to destination) to try to minimize travel time and hopefully increase income. Sometimes I create small domestic hubs, for example around Seville in southern Spain, before connecting to Madrid, or eastern Ukraine before connecting to Kiev. Belgrade also seems to be a good hub for the Balkans.
My longest flight ever was probably Amsterdam - Singapore or maybe Tokyo - Zürich. Don't remember how long each of those was, but both were just part of a longer route: after a day of birding in Singapore (arrived at sunrise) I took an evening flight to Melbourne and the flight from Japan was part of a route of me going home from Cairns - Tokyo (spend one night) - Zürich - Brussels. I was pretty knackered after both those trips.
at least in the Melb > Singpore one they are sort of going the right directly, tokyo seems well out of the way in going from Cairns to Zurich. I can imagine that one was rough
@@S2isDrawingDead Going back to Europe from Cairns was easier (and cheaper, although it cost me extra for luggage on the Tokyo - Zürich leg) over Tokyo than first flying to Sydney, then to the Middle East and then to Europe. And it allowed me to do some birding around the hotel near the airport in the morning 😁
@@Calonectrisful definitely sounds like you sneak in the birding any which way, love it :)
Awesome Interested to see how it'll go
Yes! All countries mode, I hope you do well :)
My longest flights were Amsterdam - Buenos Aires and Johannesburg - Amsterdam. Both 12 hours. Sad fact, on my way back from Buenos Aires I had to go via Madrid. That was 9,5 hours plus 4 hours to Amsterdam.
From the amount its mentioned im getting the sense that madrid must be a big airport
@@S2isDrawingDead Not that big compared to other simular cities. It just has a lot of international connections. Amsterdam is much bigger.
Chicago to Du Bai then to Bangkok. 5 hour lay over in du bai. That first leg 14 hours. Second was about 6.
Would the other way around the world be quicker? Or would it be about the same each way?
@@S2isDrawingDead honestly don’t know since I’ve only been to a Thailand once. I heard that the other route is better. My friend said you either have a lay over in Japan or Korea then Thailand. All I know it was hot, bathrooms where hot from the water alone. Finally passed out once we got on the huge A380. One hell of a plane. Spacious.
YAY! I AM LOOKING FORWARD TO THIS
Halfway through and thinking that he'd already got halfway across the Atlantic to Iceland - push to Greenland and you'd get Canada / US? Great game and appreciate watching you play though!
What i found out is the Yugoslavia area if you start there and make the increase thing is a money maker almost as good as the usa
Hi greetings from germany, I love your Channel! I just want to let you know that the German Airport Frankfurt is the 4th largest in Europe
Haha, do you think i havent given it the respect it deserves?
please make a video which country is the most recommended to open
Very easy to spend in this level but hard to wait and save
The UK is an interesting one. I get what you mean about connecting it to Paris. But London is a large city. It will have lots of traffic trying to head to it. So you're sending all of that traffic to Paris when you do that.
I've done the math. And the most cost effective plane is the 300pax level 4. Level 5 isnt that much worse, but level 6 is wildly expensive even when you account for the extra speed.
Did you account for the cost due to the need for bigger airports because of longer wait times as a result of slower speed for level 4 planes compared to level 6?
@@axelnils You can have 4 level 4 planes for the same price as 1 level 6.
Mijn lievelings land is Zwitserland en alle airports Bern is de hoofdstad
I played this game on the section where you play the game for free and save it in three different slots when you get around 45% to 50% of the map it just randomly closes no warning no nothing so any progress if you don't save it constantly any progress is completely lost
Sometimes the next country goal is ridiculous, you always start in Germany but one time the next one was Mongolia and another time it was China
Wouldn't it be best to set countries with only 1 or 2 airports as your main hubs since they don't have to worry about carrying passengers to small areas? The more individual cities you have leading into one place, the harder it will be to take all of the people out of the area since they all have to go through one place, but if you used countries with no local flights as your hub, they only have to focus on moving people who need to go really far
i have started thinking about this for REALLY long distance flights, havent put it into practice though
@@S2isDrawingDead glad to hear someone who knows what they're doing has had the same thought as me XD. I feel like it would be a lot easier to set up in freeplay to be fair
edit: honestly it may be well implemented in situations like your last playthrough where central asia and china were under a lot of stress
@@Ncitbgihem Ive started to experiance an issue where Paris is taking too much of a load getting across the atlantic. I was thinking if i can set up an america > China connection, so that planes going to europe will go their direct route, while planes to china will use this one route. Somewhere like Havana being the american destination between houston, mexico and south america (ish). Havana is the small hub amongst huge hubs. If a lot of people want to make the journey though... it could make a massive bottleneck since only 5 planes would be travelling almost the entire map
@@S2isDrawingDead i feel like that definitely has potential. maybe setting up a second parallel route and installing "rungs" like on a ladder or even zig-zagging could help to alleviate that bottleneck, but that may prove too expensive to be practical unless you're able to set it up super early when everything is still cheap
I still find a bit way too much RNG, and less planning/skill based. I've gotten 75 countries on latest update, but still get hit with unavoidable failures :(
I have completed the all county mode three times now since the update, as long as you have a strategy that works RNG really doesn’t matter.
@@axelnils nice! That's good to hear. I'll have to give it more of a go
@@axelnils Ah, realized I had not use the updated version yet, hah!
Why you have to connect every city to Berlin that at the beginning of the video
Lower than 1000: don’t upgrade. Higher than 1000: upgrade fast
soon im going from _ to _ for 8 hours then wait another 2 hours for another flight then I got from _ to _ in another 8 hour flight
2 hour wait is probably that comfortable amount of time where you dont have to wait too long, but also dont have to stress about missing your connection if you are even slightly late
If you have a max people on stuggart, just upgrade the plane and if you have fewer people in Stuttgart. No people in stuggart then you can delete the plane then get it bought.
Why are you sending some of the cities you have in Paris
Just do any hubs to hubs airplane to max level. Cross continent or cross oceans can get max planes and max capacity.
Lyon can be a point because many french and Spanish cities can use fewer money
Lesh go
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Does anyone have any tips to unlock all countries? I always do really well until I get to around 40 to 45% of the world. The most I've ever gotten was 60% but that was before the new update, with the new update I've gotten to 55% of the world unlocked. Money is always the problem for me, I get to a point where I can’t make enough money to keep unlocking countries. I've tried unlocking many countries quickly so I have extra time to make money, I've tried to unlock many countries then go slower so more cities pop up so that I'd have more people travelling. I've made long routes through the atlantic and from India and China to Europe. The money just seems to thin out after a while when countries begin to cost about 70 to 100k. I’d appreciate any help. :)
You do not want Russia. It has so many domestic flights due to the sheer size of the country, especially getting from Siberia to Moscow.
I got 78 charity campaigns and I got 986 867 and I beat it in 30 minutes with 30 hours left lol
Idk why you have to do every uk or Ireland country to Paris not london
Does anyone know when this is coming out on IOS?!
most properable is never as it was removed quite a while ago, which is sad.
Why the Slovenian capital city have to be to Rome but not Vienna
For the algorithm
The german empire is back
I got the Slovenian capital to Austria because I got 3 cities in austria
My longest flight is Tel Aviv - Hong Kong. Had to avoid Russia and muslim countries such as Iran. Not much compared to other people though.
Wow yeah i can imagine that limits your options in long flights out of the middle east
Why avoid muslim countries? Lmao
@@KarrasBastomi relations between Israel and (most) muslim countries are not exactly the best.
Anyone know why he has so much time to unlock countries?
Every time you unlock a new city you get 6 minutes added to the timer. So any time remaining gets added to the 6 minutes
@@TheMoleRat interesting, it seems to me no matter how many countries i add it always stays at 6 minutes
@@tommy8083 It will always be around 6 minutes if you wait as long as possible to buy the new country, but if you buy it earlier that extra remaining time is added to your next timer.
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Hello Fly Corp Fan, what could possibly have brought you to this video?? :P
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Why are you adding some of the city you have to Paris😡
"North Macedonia"
*scrolls to Israel
"is it here somewhere?"
I will put Croatia into Slovenia lol
I got top 3 lol
im the 1000th like
I have one time that I got restart and it said Sweden next, and it’s common. But the second one is China. What the fuck
The game just want you to go to the capital city of Italy rome
The moblile version sucks, you make no money but of course you have the possiblity to watch ads to make bonuses, it's very frustrating.
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I am the first one
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