HOw to get 32 planes in 6 game days?

[jotagrande]

Can anyone explain how my competitor is getting this?

I'm curious how my main competitor is able to acquire more than 32 aircraft in the span of 6 game days, not including another several he has received in the previous few game days. I just noticed he placed an order from the new market for several E-195ARs so I decided to look at when they'll be arriving and saw that he also is getting these other deliveries.

Game world is (at writing this message) 8 February 2012 all on lease:
Feb 9 170LRx1  170Stdx1  190LRx1  =3
Feb 10 170LRx1  175LRx1   =2
Feb 11 170LRx1  175LRx1 190LRx2  195LRx1  195ARx2   =7
Feb 12 170ARx1  170LRx1  175ARx1  175LRx3  190LRx2  =8
Feb 13  170LRx3  175LRx1  190LRx2  195LRx1   =7
Feb 14  170LRx2  175LRx1  190LRx2   =5   Total 32

then

Feb 19  175LRx3  195ARx1  =4
Feb 20  170LRx1  190LRx2  =3
Feb 21  170ARx1      =2 Total 8

More than half from Brokers, much less than half from P2P with not that many of them being from Alliance partners.

I've only been able to get 3 per week from UM before having message come up saying my people are all busy acquiring planes and I can't get anymore for a week...

I thought there were restrictions in place to prevent uncompetitive behaviour. Are there?

Thanks,
Jono

[Cardinal]

I thought there were restrictions in place to prevent uncompetitive behaviour. Are there?

There are. He's restricted to the same number of orders from the Used market as everyone else.

However, there's no restrictions on the number of deliveries per day. And one possible (likely) scenario is that some of the planes he bought were close to needing C or even D checks, so he ordered them and selected "Perform C [or D] Check". This delays the delivery by the duration of the check. About a game week or so later, after the 3-planes-per-week restriction expires, he also orders planes from the UM but they don't require C-checks. So they deliver around the same time as the planes he ordered previously.

[gazzz0x2z]

That's doable, but that's quite a feat. Very impressive concentration of firepower. I am impressed.

As Cardinal said, the idea is to coordinate the arrivals, not the orders. Even not considering the checks, you can choose the number of weeks before delivery - from 2 weeks to 20 weeks. So if you spread your orders on 19 weeks, that is 133 days, As you can get 3 planes every 8 days, the theorical maximum is 48 airplanes arriving within one week. I guess the objective is to take the market at once, without a warning. I don't do that(my tactics are more Boa constrictor than killing tiger), but it's an interesting technique.

[11Air]

Maybe he spotted a lucrative new base that's not serviced yet. But that's a gamble to wait a few weeks for aircraft.

[gazzz0x2z]

Maybe he spotted a lucrative new base that's not serviced yet. But that's a gamble to wait a few weeks for aircraft.

Or serviced by a player that looks weak(ideally, losing money, and with small cash reserves). A blitzkrieg can take such a player in less than one game year.

Yes, it's a gamble, that's why I'm not doing that. But it' a perfectly legit, and efficient tactic.