Lead Into Gold: Myth Busting

Myth Busting is the first mission in the Lead Into Gold Mafia Wars mission event. Zynga has really been skating on thin ice with some of their mission names lately, as this one reminds me an awful lot of a certain show on Discovery Channel. During the Return To Cuba mission event, we saw a mission called Intel Inside - and you can't tell me you don't recognize that name!

Objectives

• 0/4 ACTIVATE 4 CREW MEMBERS IN BRAZIL.
  Appoint members of your Mafia to keep everything in line while you're gone.

• 0/8 ACQUIRE 8 ARMORS.

For your first objective, it means exactly what it says. Go to Brazil and activate 4 crew member positions.

If you need to get more crew members in order to complete this objective, DON'T click the Ask button. It seems the most obvious way to go about getting more crew, but that button only wants you to send Facebook requests to get crew members. You don't want to wait for people to answer those requests.

Click the button to the LEFT of the Ask button, and a drop-down menu will appear. Click the Recruit button there.

That'll generate a news feed post, and your online friends can click and immediately join your crew with much less waiting time on your part.

The second objective has some people confused, and understandably so. You're told you need to acquire 8 Armors, and when you click Go Now, it dumps you in the marketplace. Zynga just wants you to purchase armor items, but we're not going to do that.

• Go to Brazil.
• Click on your Inventory tab. 
• Click on City Story. 
• Click on Armor. 
• Buy ANY armor there, and it counts toward your objective.

So realistically, you're looking at 60 seconds to complete the Myth Busting mission :0)

The rewards for this one aren't so hot - some jungle maps and Brazilian Real. But, I don't think any of us will turn up our noses at the XP.

Out Of Time: mission event

You'd think Zynga could come up with some different graphics by now. At any rate, no one will be surprised to learn that there's a new mission event to follow up on the Return To Cuba mission event that just closed.

Out Of Time is the name of this mission event, and Intel Inside is the first mission involved. Zynga sure does like to dance with infringement.

For the first mission you'll need to 'trade for' Pain & Sufferings, which is why you'll suddenly see posts for them in your news feed.

Return To Cuba: time's almost up!

If you haven't finished the Return To Cuba mission event, time is almost up and you better get to work. You've got about another half an hour left. Please note, Cuba does NOT close with the end of this mission event, Cuba will be open for another week.

Cuba revisited..."Bay of Pigs Part Deux?"

Returning to Cuba!!
With anticipation to revisit it....

 YAY!...finally back to Cuba after being locked out.  I looked forward to this since I've been around long enough to remember anxiously waiting for Cuba to open the first time!  The achievement for completing the ruby level sat there teasing for a week...the new loot and consumables in inventory greyed out...we knew it was coming.

Then the return in true Bay of Pigs fashion for those that were the first in!
Robbing at first in Cuba left a bit to be desired (ok, more than a bit!)




Gets kind of hard to rob in Cuba when everything is locked up...wonder if it's a form of crime prevention?

Solved easy enough as I found out after..rob anywhere and still counts to the mission objectives...one hurdle down!  ON TO PART 2!  :)  (hmm..looks like it seams easy enough)

Pretty standard looking..get support as usual, no biggee!
Fight and get loot..very easy!






Getting support actually went smoother than the fighting! (huh?)  Mashing the power attack in fights yielded no results, so....doing what any of many seasoned fighters do....I mashed the power attack even faster!  Another oops!!...when the results finally would catch up...would have the ice in record time...

There is nothing like watching your stamina burn off on an iced target, and getting to watch it while you reload the fight list, scroll down to select a target, choose the next target...and still have to wait for all the attacks to finish from the last target! (wonder if I managed to ice people a second time when I was waiting)

Nice numbers! ..worth the extra stamina..








Now to check how many actually dropped for me!  :)

HUH????...WT#%@&%....(NOT GOOD!!)

Many people ran into this issue for some mysterious reason.  When contacting CS, they referred me to a link so they can count how many people were having troubles with Cuba....THE PART I DON'T GET IS WHY DO WE NEED TO VOTE TO HAVE SOMETHING FIXED!!!  If there is a problem we fix it! If they were using it to track the number of people to see how widespread the problem was...a better explanation of it is in order.

For those still with problems that they can work around and still wish to report problems, click the vote to fix button.  Think it was the fastest thing they could set up to get a count.

"As a newly released part of the game, there might be some parts that still need some tweaking. So here, the following article will fill you in with the information you need to know: "

http://support.zynga.com/cp_articleview?gameId=43&Id=kA160000000Gpb4CAC&lang=en_US&loc=en_US

No information or help there!..just a counter! Calling it help is cr#p!!!

 So far all the shots for the Trigger Happy items from the mission look like this..a decent return!

THIS IS WHAT I'LL BE LOOKING FOR!!..From everyone I've talked to this is not out of line.

On the plus side (I hope!!)

the word from our Headquarters is that the system will automatically grant the item that it retrieved, but if after 48 hours, you do not receive the items, contact me immediately for further assistance. 

Regards,
Mxxxxxxx Xxxxxx
Zynga Player Advocate 

On the plus side, looks like they are trying to fix things.

Something tells me this could be long and drawn out. :( 

sigh...I gave up on my walk thru

{K}

Return To Cuba timer clarification

The Mafia Wars blog released a blurb about the Return To Cuba mission event. It doesn't contain a whole lot of new information, mostly just reemphasizing that Cuba is open for two weeks. I did notice this clarification though:

Note: Mission Event: Return To Cuba ends at 4:00pm PDT on 9/5, while Cuba will remain open until 4:00pm PDT on 9/12.

So while the Return To Cuba mission event itself will be ending in several days, but Cuba will remain open for another week after that. Good to know. I hadn't even noticed they had different timers, because I'm observant like that :0)