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Saturday, August 17, 2013

Rand And Rave - How Many Meester Z’s Do You Need?

Meester Z

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Rand And Rave!

In Progress (0/1)

Earned by having 1 million

Rands in the bank

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Since there are only 3 districts and each have 4 levels of mastery players can accrue only 12 of the Vault Codes. In order to upgrade the Rykdom Bank to level 5, when R 1,000,000 can be deposited, players need to acquire 20 of the Vault Codes. Therefore, until the next 2 districts are released meeting the goal of banking R 1,000,000 will be impossible.

Since players have already figured out a work-around for securing their Rand the inability of achieving this goal is pointless.

The work-around is to purchase items in the South Africa city store with any Rand over what your bank can hold and sell the loots later when you need to bank 1 million Rand.

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The most popular loot that players are purchasing in the South Africa City Store is the Meester Z (161 Attack 190 Defense).

Meester Z And The Rykdom Bank

This brings up the question: How many Meester Z loots do players need?

There is no single answer to this question because players will have differing amounts of Rand deposited in their Rykdom Banks.

We have put together 2 charts (shown below) to help you to determine how many Meester Z’s you need to have in your inventory ready to sell when you upgrade your Rykdom Bank to level 5.

Meester Z Sold

Both charts are based on selling your Meester Z’s for R 75.

The following chart shows an estimated number of Meester Z’s that you will need to sell to convert them to enough Rand to bank 1 million rand if you already have a number of Rand deposited in your Rykdom Bank.

Rand Deposited Meester Z’s Needed Converted To Rand
     
0 15,334 R 1,150,050
5,000 15,258 R 1,144,279
10,000 15,180 R 1,138,500
25,000 14,950 R 1,121,250
50,000 14,568 R 1,092,529
100,000 13,800 R 1,035,000
250,000 11,500 R   862,500
500,000 7,667 R   575,000
750,000 3,834 R   287,500

The second chart does a similar thing for you. This chart shows how much rand you need to bank and how many Meester Z’s you need to sell if you need a specified number of Rand in your bank.

Rand Needed Amount Of Rand To Bank # Meester Z’s To Sell
     
1,000 R 1,150 16
5,000 R 5,750 77
10,000 R 11,500 154
20,000 R 23,000 307
30,000 R 34,500 460
40,000 R 46,000 614
50,000 R 57,500 767
60,000 R 69,000 920
70,000 R 80,500 1074
80,000 R 92,000 1227
90,000 R 103,500 1380
100,000 R 115,000 1534

If used properly and in conjunction with each other you should be able to easily determine how many Meester Z’s you need to sell to reach 1 million Rand based on how much Rand you have already deposited in your Rykdom Bank. If you don’t wish to do the math the charts should give you a good estimate.

Skill-Stir -- Sales Event With A Twist

A new Sales event, called Skill-Stir, is now available in Mafia Wars. It looks interesting.

Skill Stir Banner

I almost got excited

When I First Saw DisSkill-Stir Pop 1

I thought to myself, “Wow, I might actually like this feature if I can get ‘Lucky’ and get some skill points out of this.” I was wrong. In the end it was a waste of time to spin the wheel 60 times.

Skill Stir Rules

“All remaining spins will be lost”….. Like this feature should be.

There really isn’t much to do in this event except click the spin button 60 times. Maybe, if you are lucky, then you might buy some skill points at a good price. I didn’t really have a good enough offer to tempt me into making a purchase. The best I got was 20 Health for 7 RP. Yeah, 20 Health that would cost me 50 more RP later to reallocate. I passed on that offer.

Through 60 spins a friends best offer was 20 Health for 21 RP.

Below is a series of images of my spins;

Skill-Stir Pop 2Skill-Stir Pop 2 bSkill-Stir Pop 3Skill-Stir Pop 4Skill-Stir Pop 5Skill-Stir Pop 6

Skill-Stir Pop 7Skill-Stir Pop 8Skill-Stir Pop 9Skill-Stir Pop 10Skill-Stir Pop 11Skill-Stir Pop 12Skill-Stir Pop 13Skill-Stir Pop 14

Where’s the survey for this feature? IT SUCKED!!!

The best thing about this feature is that it gave me a laugh when you look to the bottom-right corner of all the images. Zynga gives you the opportunity to spend cash for a chance to spend more cash.

 

"The Lemon Song" by Led Zeppelin

I should have quit you, long time ago. [X2]
I wouldn't be here, my children, down on this killin' floor.
I should have listened, baby, to my second mind [X2]
Everytime I go away and leave you, darling, you send me the blues way down the line.
Said, people worry I can't keep you satisfied.
Let me tell you baby, you ain't nothin but a two-bit, no-good jive.
Went to sleep last night, worked as hard as I can,
Bring home my money, you take my money, give it to another man.
I should have quit you, baby, such a long time ago.
I wouldn't be here with all my troubles, down on this killing floor.
Squeeze me baby, till the juice runs down my leg. [X2]
The way you squeeze my lemon, I'm gonna fall right out of bed.
I'm gonna leave my children down on this killing floor.

Friday, August 16, 2013

How To Get 5000 Robs In South Africa – Waka-Waka

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Waka-Waka

In Progress (0/5000)

Earned by Robbing 5000 times in South Africa

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The Waka-Waka Achievement requires players to rob 5000 times in South Africa. Currently players should NOT be able to acquire any robs in South Africa. When players access the robbing page in South Africa they are greeted with the caption “Patience is a virtue. It takes time to build Properties. Come back soon and rob Properties with virtue.”

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vir·tue
  1. Behavior showing high moral standards: "paragons of virtue".
  2. A quality considered morally good or desirable in a person.

Synonyms

merit - chastity - goodness

 

Of course this is Mafia Wars. It’s a game about crime and who cares about desirable qualities in a person when there are achievements to be had and other players to beat to the punch and to be stronger than. In other words, there are ALWAYS ways to work-around what would appear what Zynga wants the players to do.

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The work-a-round is simple. By target robbing from a players profile allows this achievement to be accomplished before Zynga adds the properties to the Rob Boards.

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Shipyard Success 1 Shipyard Success 2

It costs 10 Stamina to rob the Shipyard in South Africa. Therefore, the total amount of Stamina that will be needed to rob 5000 times in South Africa is 50,000 Stamina.

The Experience payouts are 5 or 6 for robbing losses and 9 or 10 for robbing wins. Not very good if you were hoping to do a lot of robbing in South Africa to level quickly.

The only good news is that robbing losses do count toward the Waka-Waka Achievement goal of 5000 robs.

Shipyard Failed

Target robbing can be a slow process if you manually seek out players who have not collected their Shipyard’s Rand. The benefit would be that if/when you find a Shipyard that has not been collected you could rob it multiple times.

An alternative is to use a script.

The Spockholm Robber Redux v1.08 is a popular script that many players like to use.

Robber Redux v1.08

From what I’ve seen the script scours the fight page for Shipyard’s that have not been collected and robs them according to how many times you set it to rob for (or until the property can no longer be robbed, whichever occurs first) and moves onto the next player.

If you are looking for an alternative script to the Robber Redux then you might be hard pressed to find one currently. The Rob Master, by MW ADDON doesn’t appear to have been updated yet.

Rob Master

This could be due to the fact that the Rob Master reads from the Rob Page and not the Fight Page. Once South Africa properties are unlocked on the Rob Page this will be a good alternative to the Robber Redux.

Shipyard Robbed

There could be other alternatives available. If you use Unlocked MW, Demon, Lucifers, or other scripts you might check for a Robbing feature within them to see if something is available. I do not use any of those so I apologize for not having any information regarding them.

Rob wisely and stay undetected.

Current And Former VIP Survey – FREE Optician Bribe Loot

Can you read the eye-chart? 

Optician

Zynga is targeting current and former VIP players with a survey and bribing players with an Optician. The aim is to get players to tell Zynga what they need to do to get you to purchase, or to continue to purchase, a VIP Membership.

 

VIP Survey Pop 1

 

Dear Player,

As you are no longer subscribed to the VIP Membership program, we would like to get your feedback on how to improve the quality of the program. Please share your feedback and get a free Limited Edition loot item: Optician (164A, 235D).*

Your feedback is critical for us to improve the quality and associated benefits of the VIP Membership.

Thank you for your support.

-Mafia Wars Team

*Disclaimer: The item will be added to your Inventory within a week of you completing the survey. Please provide accurate Facebook UID to get the reward item.

 

If you didn’t get the pop-up you might be able to take the survey and still get yourself an Optician by following one of these  links;              Former VIP Survey             Current VIP Survey

What you see should look like the following;

VIP Survey Pop 2VIP Survey Pop 3

You have 7 options in the drop-down boxes to rank the importance of the 7 options. You can NOT have duplicate rankings (as seen below).

VIP Survey Pop 3 a

VIP Survey Pop 3 b

This last question is only for the former VIP players.

VIP Survey Pop 4

 

VIP Survey Pop 5

    • To get your Facebook UID (User Identification Number) simply go to your Facebook profile and change the web address from
    • https://www.facebook.com/whatever your facebook profile link says 
    • to
    • http://graph.facebook.com/whatever your facebook profile link says 
    • by replacing the www with graph you will bring up a page that shows your Facebook ID.

For many players it becomes another bill having to pay $25 a month. I am uncertain if this will inspire players to re-purchase a VIP Membership. I know I won’t!

CURRENT VIP MEMBER

FORMER VIP MEMBER

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