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This game does seem like it has the potential to be a really fun game. However I don’t feel that the Coin System is set up in any way that does not benefit the player. It takes too long to earn coins and you don’t receive enough to help you do anything. The little bit that you do receive it takes a couple days to reach the needed amount for building or doing any upgrades. There is also a glitch that happens when the Hawk Lands it seems to get stuck when coming in from the Landing Strip to Terminal 1. Which ends up jamming up the planes that are landing or due to land freezing the game. Maybe if this game was not so stingy with the Coin System this would be a perfect game.

This is one of the more unique city building games available. You not only build a city, but you also build and run an airport. At first things move along quickly. It is not too hard to get the basic things up and running. By around Level 10 though you have so many more things becoming available to you and you will not have even close to the amount of coins needed in order to put them in place. The important upgrades also require a list of items in order to be completed. The odds of getting those items from flights are very low. I find it a lot easier to use the gift system to get them. Also watching ads will let you fill in those last missing items. The coin earnings feel very unbalanced. You don’t earn nearly as much per flight as you feel you should. For example: a 3 hour flight will earn me 103 coins. I can get 120 coins in 5 minutes by watching my city buildings. I don’t feel like I’m earning any coins at all from the helicopter flights! I spend coins on parts and fuel for every flight. You add all those together and the expenses come out to about as many coins as the flight earns. I strongly suggest increasing the earnings per flight to make them more worthwhile. Other than the unbalanced earnings, this has been a good game.

I like this game very much. It is well thought out and challenging, with a unique combination of skills and items to be acquired in order to build your world of commerce and capitalism... BUT most of the challenge is waiting endlessly for building/products upgrades and forward progress (Spoiler alert: the emphasis unfortunately seems to be on aggravating you to the point of purchasing your way through the unnecessary wait times they impose on you- this certainly defeats the “neato” factor and the initial joy I began with). If you like to “buy” your way through cool games and have the throw away money in this day and age to do so (shame on you- go donate to a charity!), then this game is terrific! If you’re like me and can’t even afford to ‘refuse to spend money on principle’, then you will sadly put this app on the back burner day after day while waiting for a terminal or coffee shop or power plant to upgrade and push you forward to interesting new heights. If the creators and administrators would like to correct this irritatingly obvious flaw, I’d be happy to re-think my opinion. Otherwise, I can’t recommend this game unless you have two or more lifetimes to have a go at it.

This game is really great. It’s designed very well, there are plenty of things to do in the game. Although, there are some suggestions I’d like to make. First, I would love it if you were able to see what resources you have while looking at the flight options. When I try to fly a helicopter it says I need one of each of these materials, but it never tells me how many of the materials I actually have. Second, I feel like for the amount that the user spends buying the gold membership, there should be a lot more coins and cash given to the user. I find it really hard to collect money when you’re just starting out in the game, especially when all the upgrades are so expensive!! The land is also very expensive, so that makes it hard to expand your city if you’re just using coins. And the last suggestion I’ll make is: there should be some sort of marketplace added. This can be a separate building in the city where you can place items for sale that you have (such as excess resources) and people or neighbors who come to visit your city can click on it and purchase something they need. I know you will continue making this game great!!

The game is fun.. however, it is too expensive. In game money is collected way to slow for too little money considering what they want you to pay to get better buildings or upgrades. At level 13 the flights I can send out take an average of 45-60 minutes and get you 85 coins, I have 3 planes I can send out, so I can get 250 coins every hour, it takes 15,000 coins to upgrade a building. There is also a problem with “electricity” buildings take electricity to build and upgrade and unless you spend real money to get high output power stations, if you don’t you must build a LOT of 100 coin power stations that only put out 6 power. So you have very little room to put buildings and a lot of it is taken up with the numerous power stations you hate to put down. To expand for more room, 1,000 for the first, 3000 for next, 6000 for third. This is back to the first problem of not being able to get enough money. Would love to keep playing this but do not want to get on every hour to collect 250 coins until I get the double digit thousands to get 1 thing, then start at zero again.

This game is fun if you are willing to commit to long term play. However, recent changes to events have made it not so great to play and I find myself less and less interested. Events start the day a new update is available, but they aren’t able to roll out to all platforms simultaneously meaning you often lose a day (or more!) waiting for it to be approved on your platform. Not only does it make it harder to finish the events, but you also fall behind on the leaderboard. Not sure why they can’t have the event start a few days after the update is live to allow time for it to be downloaded. They have also introduced premium tier on the events where you have to pay $4.99 to get the good prizes and also you can pay to skip levels to help you finish (which unfortunately is usually necessary given the late start issues noted above). Events have become weekly which means it isn’t even a once and a while charge, to get good prizes you’d need to pay each time. The prizes you get for the basic tier are pretty bland and don’t usually make it worth my time to grind through the event for a +3 population building that gives me 20 coins every 18 hours 🙄. Every update also seems to break something from the weather station to the videos to help skip time.

I’ve been playing this game for 5 years (but 3 for my current account). At first, it was fun to launch flights every day, upgrade to larger planes over time, and watch my city grow through weeks of gameplay. There are the hassles you need to watch out for in a F2P game like this of course, but for the most part, you can just invest a little extra more hours. But by level 60, the game really starts to feel like it forces you into a corner with massive price jumps in upgrades and buildings, for example I’m at level 69 and I still cannot afford the Falcon or Thunderbird (remember, I used to play this game every day for hours). Land plots/expansions also feel really difficult to save up for unless if you spend a ton on this game. Also, the events don’t offer much variation or reward to them at all, but this point is mainly for long-time players. I want to remain devoted to this game, but it feels too lengthy and I can’t experience the same satisfaction as I could from it years back. I get the company wants to make a profit, but gosh please give the people who spend little to no money a bit more room to breathe, or in other words, more freedom and choice in this game. I’m starting to consider if I want to delete this game in the near future.

I have a tech support issue weekly; things like earning items but then not actually having them in my collection, earning Alliance bonuses but not having them go active for several hours after they should have been, or sending planes on short flights and returning to the game hours later to find the plane flight timer got stuck at the beginning of the flight. It would be one thing if it rarely happened, but it happens all the time. I spend a lot of time and a fair amount of money investing in the game, but all these technical issues are beginning to make me distrust the game. I have to constantly make sure I was given what I earned. It would be like playing a few levels of Mario to try and get a mushroom and then when you finally do, it doesn’t make Mario grow. To make matters worse, their tech support is terrible. Their tech support often closes tickets without taking care of me; they simply offer their apologies and then ask me to rate the service. They’re really cheap about the game as well. One time they gave me a measly Business Class bonus to compensate me for the inconvenience, but only after I asked to be compensated. I may have to find another game to spend my idle time on.

You know I’ve played a lot of this game, and enjoyed it while you could, but it seems like there’s always a new dumb update, and if you don’t do it then it’s a non stop pop up, and you aren’t able to do certain things. It’s not just you update the game, and open and play it. You have to wait forever for it to upload a bunch of other garbage As soon as you open it, and it won’t just background up date, so if you close the window it starts all the way back, your screen shuts off? All the way back. I mean what was the update? Just so it can store more stuff in my phone. Now this update I keep getting to 116.1 out of 160.6 and it has stopped three times now. If these updates are a constant every couple week thing I will just delete the game, and find a new one. Which might happen anyway if it doesn’t download this time. ENOUGH WITH THE USELESS UPDATES. I don’t care if it’s Halloween, or Christmas or whatever update you’re going to do. If there was some incentive then maybe it would be worth the time, but there’s not. I mean money takes forever to gather, coins take forever to gather so if it’s taking me forever to download it seems like there should be at least a big coin bonus at the least, but there’s not.

I downloaded this game through an instagram app and was excited to try it. It was reminiscent of games back in the 2010s that were on everyone’s Facebook. I was instantly hooked and was getting objectives after objective. But then at around level 13 the game got severely annoying. I needed more land but that would cost 6000. I needed an upgraded strip and that cost 15,000. And the list of things get piling up and they were all things I needed 5 grand and up on along with a list of materials that I needed to get from planes that hardly ever came. I got so disheartened because on top of it they make planes and helicopters need repairs. It got very annoying very fast and I tried to stick it out but I could not since the game does not pay out with the work that you do. The most I would earn was maybe 1000 and that’s with all of the helicopters and planes. The buildings I had would give me 1 coin each or maybe 13 coins. I couldn’t add anything else because I couldn’t expand. Now seeing the reviews I see everyone has the same problem and the dev team doesn’t care. I almost bought a money pack but realized it’s most likely a cash grab scheme. In my opinion this game is no longer worth it and deleted it today.

I have been playing this game since 2013 and to date have spent over $1000 of REAL CASH! They always told me it was my choice, but when everything costs so much to get, I finally said I can’t afford to spend anymore of my own money. If they would only make the item’s more reasonably priced and the “additional items” needed get either gifted from your neighbor’s or have enough videos to play to help get the items in a timely manner, then the number of videos would change daily, I was getting 9 or 10, then it dropped the next day to just 2! I just want to see if I can make level 80 without using anymore of my cash. Now there is a update I can’t get for the next event as it said was already opened which is not correct! Apple might be the blame with this as I keep getting a message when I open the game telling me there is a new update that Apple shows I have already opened!!! The game does have some fun challenges, but I’m not sure will be able to continue as now I’m on a fixed income with doesn’t leave any extra for fun stuff, like this game. Apple if you read this fix the error so I can at least get the latest update(s).

UPDATE as of 10/19: All of the issues I had got fixed with the most recent update. However, I haven’t been able to play the game since last week. It begins loading and it gets stuck at part 1. I’ll go back a few hours later, and it does the same thing again. I paid money to play this game and now I feel taken advantage of. It’s time to find a new game because this game is ALWAYS having problems. —— I’ve been playing this game since the beginning of the year and I enjoyed it to the point I was purchasing add-on’s with my real money. However, ever since the game did a major update last week, the game is wonky and the customer service is terrible. I put a plane in the repair base and the plane has disappeared. The repair base will say it’s there, but I can’t see it nor take it out of the repair base and onto a stand. I’ve sent many messages to tech support with screenshots and I haven’t received a response or a remedy for the issue. For a game where I’ve paid money to thoroughly play, I expected better. At this point, I’m ready to give up the game and move on to a new one with less tech issues.

Run, Run for your life!!! They must have a 4.6 rating based on reviews from years ago. It is RIDICULOUS! They hook you in with a simple design and by level 20 you are trying to save for your next plot of land just to build a mission objective. Let me save you the time AND MONEY, I’ve written to the developers asking them to chill out on the greed and maintain a fun game, but they just say, “I will forward this to our team...”. Ha Ha and HA! They are laughing all the way to the bank! They make more than pot growers!!! Perspective...you land a plane in the game, you make $100 (fake money). Now you need to upgrade your landing strip because you’ve landed too many planes trying to save money...now you have to turn away paying flights that want to land, because you can’t afford to upgrade your airport! 30,000 and 80,000 for an upgrade! Ha Ha...again, it’s like trying to buy a home in real life on a lawn mower’s budget! LAME!!!! To just put the nail in the coffin, they have “hop up” additions you can buy to help flights drop needed items to continue other flights. Wait...they are 100% a LIE! I tried them, even spent real money in the game to buy more, but they DON’T WORK!!! I wrote to the developers again....but they just ignore me. This is a money pit for you to get hooked, spend tons of cash and break your gaming device! I’m So Frustrated with this game!

Like most have stated already this game started off fun and a good source of quiet relaxing entertainment. As you level up it takes a lot of coin and airport bucks which you soon find out you have to spend your own hard earned money to more than supplement the lack of coins and green bucks. Once you get your head around that piece you than realize yet another major challenge and even more frustrating is the drop rate for items. For example, the Halloween and thanksgiving event they give you to work towards. I haven’t been able to successfully complete either one because the items just wouldn’t drop. I played non stop during the allotted time to complete these tasks and got nothing for it. I opened two tickets outlining the problem with their drop rates not working properly... in both cases I a canned response saying the developers said the game was working correctly. I was also told no one else had complained of this issue. That was a lie, multiple people have the same frustrating results. I would really like the developers to hear our complaints, understand our frustration and make the necessary changes to make this game worth investing our time playing it.