the deal with the Hung Chu Enforcers

There's been a lot of discussion about the drop rates for Hung Chu Enforcers since last night. I decided to try and do a drop rate study to determine what frequency they could be obtained for those doing the Crossing The Line mission event. That was a silly idea, as it turns out, and I'm glad I gave up quickly.

As we know, the objective states to loot 12 Hung Chu Enforcers from Job: "Hire an unsavory crew".

Clicking the Go Now button brought you to this job in Pirate tier of Bangkok. This job does not actually have a loot drop associated with it.

In Jen's post about the Enforcers, she noted that Hung Chu Enforcer came from a marketplace crate in the past. My own screenshots also show that it is indeed a marketplace item, and that's when I realized ~ my energy account wasn't getting them to drop because the account had already collected exactly 12 Enforcers. After that point, they will not drop from that job. :facepalm:

I know some of you are having trouble getting them to drop and you don't have the 12 yet, but keep at it. The account I was using for testing purposes last night maxxed out on them in about 3 levels. I already have a few of them on my personal account too. They will drop if you haven't gotten 12 yet, although the drop rate is low. I've seen a few people say they looted the 12 Hung Chu Enforcers but they are not being counted for the mission. Sadly, for those of you with that issue, Customer Support is probably your next step.

Hung Chu Enforcers: why the drop rates are bad

A little while ago, I made a post about the drop rates of the Hung Chu Enforcers required for this new mission event. It included the above screen shot of the Hung Chu Enforcer inventory entry.

I was curious about the drop rates, so I dusted off an old energy account. I went back into my inventory to get a screen shot of my start number of Hung Chu Enforcers, and lookie what I found! Yep, they want you to buy your way out of it.

Well, now we know why the drop rates are bad. That makes me not want to do this mission event at all.

And speaking of that drop rate study that I started? If anything, Zynga has actually reduced the drop rate since adding this option to purchase the damn things with Reward Points.  I just got started, but I've gotten zero Hung Chu Enforcers out of the first 19,000 energy spent.

Where in the world are the Hung Chu Enforcers??

If you've started working on the Crossing The Line mission event, you may have noticed that the drop rate stinks for the Hung Chu Enforcers required for the first quest. I got 1 in about 1500 energy. For that part of the mission, you have to loot 12 of them from "Hire an unsavory crew" job, which is in the Pirate episode in Bangkok.

And the stats for the item suck, so don't look for a silver lining there.


In the forum thread regarding the new mission event, at least one person reports not getting credit for the Hung Chu Enforcers that they were able to loot. My lone Hung Chu Enforcer is better than what others are getting, though! One player reported spending over 9,000 energy for zero Hung Chu Enforcers. I saw a few posts that suggested reducing click speed may increase drop rates.

I might have to dust off ye olde e-ho; I'm curious now.

Feature Contributor Jose Perez also is having trouble looting this. Additionally, he says that they cannot be gifted to other players for credit. It seems the Zyngons can fix a bug, after all...