Rob In Pink Robbing Spree Season 8 2/24

First Robbing Spree July 2012

Don't forget, this is now *energy* based! Beg for consumable (Be-Leaver) from this banner.

Be sure to send out a lot of Be-Leavers

I always try to have 100 of these before I begin a robbing spree. I like to use the peek feature on every rob and that uses a lot of these consumables.

How it works:

Earn up to 50 Be-Leavers per day: 20 from requests, 20 from feeds, 5 from clicking on feeds and 5 from jobs. As usual, Zynga over-explaining, making it more confusing than it needs to be.

The hot loot: 

Cover Up, armor [varies]

Flying Fish, animal [varies]

Heat Wave, weapon [varies]

***UPDATED*** Robbing Spree Season 5 11/20

Robbing Spree Season 5 is upon us!

Rob Trick or Treat (robbing spree season 4)

Robbing Spree Season 3

Robbing Spree Season 2

New Event Robbing Spree (season 1)

Prepare to collect as many Cable Crimps (consumable) as you can. I suggest collecting around 100 before attempting the Robbing Spree. Then you can clear the entire board the first time around.

How it works:
***UPDATE***
Robbing Spree now using ENERGY not STAMINA

Robbing Spree now uses ENERGY not STAMINA
***UPDATED***

How to get those Cable Crimps:

The Rewards for successful Robbing Spree:

Bearded Saki, animal [varies]

High Beam, vehicle [varies]

Bullet Belt, armor [varies]

Robbing Spree 3 10/10

Street Dancer, henchmen [stats vary]

Robbing Spree Season 3

We're going to want as many of these as we can get! Collect 20 from free gifts (zmc) and then post to "Ask for more" the beg on your wall to get a few more. I suggest obtaining as many of these as you can *before* you start a robbing spree.  Also, don't start a robbing spree if you are very low on stamina. 

How to play, when you click the tiny question mark, you get this pop up full of great information:

The Rewards are:

Carzilla, vehicle [stats vary]

Trident, weapon [stats vary]

Street Dancer, henchmen [stats vary]

Robbing Spree Season 2 9/12

Robbing Spree Season 2 is here:  for a complete breakdown of how this works, please click this link: 

 New Event Robbing Spree 7/18

Last time it was Knob Wrenches, this time it is Ninja Grappling Hooks.

See that cute little ? Question Mark in yellow? To see the detailed Mafia Wars explanation, click there.

How to go on a Robbing Spree

The Loot::

Garbage Picker, Henchmen [varies]

X Ray Glasses, Armor [varies]

Laser Rifle, Weapon [varies]

Robbing Spree Wrench Knobs Ask button gone 7/26

For the Robbing Spree event the Ask for More button is gone.

Since there are two more days left in the event, I went to the Support tab in the game and checked there

Robbing Spree FAQ it is stated there that the last day to ask for these was July 25 and now these are purchasable by Reward Points.

UPDATED Gifting Insanity

****UPDATE: Zynga took action, probably too much action, and made many items back to being ungiftable.  Gold Treasure Chest keys being among them, and of course the items needed for the limited time events such as mafia poker.  Some of those are good to not be giftable. UNFORTUNATELY, Special Parts and Exotic Animal Feed are also among the items that are no longer giftable.  Zynga can't get it right to save their lives.  Morons. I RECOMMEND EVERYONE CONTACT CS AND DEMAND SPECIAL PARTS AND EXOTIC FEED BE MADE GIFTABLE AGAIN!****

Well, I am stunned by this recent gifting expansion by Zynga.  It is LONG overdue.  And it's also fraught with error.  Either by oversight or apathy, Zynga has created an unfair advantage for certain players.  Gold treasure Chest Keys are giftable.  The items needed for ALL 3 current limited time events are giftable....which really leaves me scratching my head.  The knob wrenches, the parts for Ripped Rims, AND Poker Cards are giftable....this is obviously a great thing for players with multiple accounts, and an even greater thing for people who have multiple accounts that actually get played often.

I am no judge of people with minis. I have several.  I think minis are one of a few reasons the game survives - they drive the DAU number up considerably.  I'd say AT LEAST half the DAU are mini accounts, if not more than half.  My judgement, as always, is reserved for the idiots at Zynga.

I am, however, excited about the new life this has breathed into the trading community, which was all but dead.  The trading community was a special part of Mafia Wars. Maybe some people who quit playing when trading died out will come back.  I know I will be compelled to do some trading to get my hands on some of these damned treasure chest keys.  I am also pumped that special parts and exotic animal feed are now giftable.

So my final thoughts are: I am saying "Way to go, Zynga" in two very different ways at the same time. One is very sincere, one is very sarcastic.

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2nd ****UPDATE**** Missing Rob Squads 7/22

**** UPDATE #2 ****
Zynga is aware of the missing Rob Squads, but it appears to be unintentional
Missing Rob Squads: We are aware and investigating this issue
Please go to that page and click the Bandage so they will *fix it*!
**** UPDATE #2 ****

Now that we have the exciting new Robbing Spree Event our Rob Squads seem to have disappeared.
*UPDATE*
From a reliable source, you can still use Rob Squads in Spockholm Robber BG v 1.08 beta
*UPDATE*

We still have burners, and *yes* the Rob Squads did say "Limited Time" for a very long time, so maybe we just forgot that the time was limited, the way that Zynga forgot that the Third Family Property is still "Coming Soon". 

I did find that I still have all of my Rob Squads in my Boost inventory, so we still have them. Maybe they'll come back later.

The Ville Cross Promotion 7/21

Ville-ocity, vehicle, bronze, 160 attack, 125 defense

The other day, when I was having a *lot* of trouble getting Mafia Wars to load a page, there was a brief pop-up announcing a Mafia Wars and the Ville cross promotion. It quickly blipped away and I was unable to grab the image for you, but here is what I *do* have.

This is when I got the Silver level in the Ville (to level 6)

At level 9 I got the Gold Ville-ocity

Now I am going for level 12 to see the next Ville-ocity.

I am liking this a *lot* more than the new Robbing Spree Event

Level 12 reached, reward collected!

The Ville-ocity is now Ruby, vehicle, [190/155]

The Ville, level 12

*UPDATED* New Event: Robbing Spree 7/18

Robbing Spree involves Robbing Houses, sending and receiving Knob Wrench gifts, use of stamina and wow there's a lot going on here! More *gifting* while we have poker and two secret districts already? Brilliant (facepalm)

I clicked "Go Rob" after I had enough of the Knob Wrenches 

I was about to grab the shot of what it looked like after I robbed but the page evaporated because I had triggered *three* alarms, so pay attention!

This part is what you will see when you click the little Question Mark on the Robbing Spree

(How To)

When you ask for more Knob Wrenches, a beg post will appear in the feed

More How To:

*You can earn a total of 20 Knob Wrenches per day*

This seems to me to be too low considering how many it takes just to get *inside* the robbing.

******UPDATE*******

Earn up to 50 Knob Wrenches per day 

(20 from requests + 20 from feed + 5 from clicking feed  + 5 from jobs)

About the Houses

The Payout Table

Falkland Islands Wolf (animal) Gooey Choco (vehicle) & Lights Out (weapon)

Various attack and defense

**************UPDATE*************

What it looked like after I robbed a neighborhood

I robbed *one* more, got a 2nd "alarm" and collected and a new pop-up

*************UPDATE************

I'm tired of all these events, and I'm sure you are too. Yeehaw.