South Africa Tour (Part 5) – The R&D Lab

 

The R&D is the second property in South Africa. It is the property that allows players to make consumables that are necessary for jobs.

 

The chart below shows how many parts are needed to upgrade each level of the R&D Lab (but only to level 4);

 

	Zebrawood	Sack Of Mud	Gauteng Zinc	African Brick	Bushveld Steel		Make 2 Every 18 8 Hours
	0	0	0	0	0
					Level 1 Unlocks
	1	1	0	1	1	4
					Level 2 Unlocks
	3	3	1	3	3	13
					Level 3 Unlocks
	5	5	2	5	5	22
					Level 4 Unlocks
	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
	9	9	3	9	9	39

The R&D Lab can only be upgraded to level 4 currently. Eventually there will be 8 districts in South Africa and we will get to complete the remaining 6 levels.

The chart below shows estimates of the number of parts we expect to accumulate as new districts are released.

	Zebrawood	Sack Of Mud	Gauteng Zinc	African Brick	Bushveld Steel
	7	7	3	7	7	31
	9	9	4	9	9	40
	11	11	5	11	11	49
	13	13	6	13	13	58
	15	15	7	15	15	67
	17	17	8	17	17	76
	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
	72	72	33	72	72	321

We expect that there will eventually be 16 items in total for us to make in the R&D Lab because each district appears to have jobs that require the consumption of one of 2 consumables.

As we upgrade the R&D Lab we will unlock the consumables.

The consumable loots do drop in a select job within each district and are required for the completion of select jobs within the district in which they drop.

In addition, the consumables will also be required in the bonus jobs.

I can only speculate that this is an attempt by Zynga to slow the game down some. Or to make some money. Either way, we’ll wait to see how that works out for the game. Currently players just want to get this district completed and get back to London or whatever they were doing before South Africa was released.

R And D Lab