Most players really like the new Brazil Crew Bonuses. They are something new and exciting and the only complaint people have is the spam. I covered what each bonus is suppose to do
here and how the requests work
here. It appears as if two of the eight bonuses, the Lockpick and the Scout, don't really do what they say.
The Lockpick is supposed to give you twice the loot for the next 20 jobs you do. I chose to do a job that drops consumable items at about a rate of 100%. You can see here that my Lockpick is active and I only got one Satchel Charge per job. I also tried other jobs and didn't get any loot to drop at all. I'm not sure what they mean by twice the loot here but I initially assumed you would get two loot items during a drop instead of one. It not uncommon to get zero loot items after doing 20 jobs and it really sucks when this happens while the Lockpick is active. So far I give this bonus a big FAIL.
The Scout is suppose to tell you which properties on a robbing board contain the elusive Precious Goods Collection items. When my Scout was active, I could see the little Scout symbol on certain properties but I surely didn't get a collection item. I'm hoping as more players have the items available to rob that this bonus will work but for now this is nothing but false advertising.
The Guardian is a bonus that is hard to prove if it works or not. My Guardian is active for 18 hours but my Player Updates only go back 2 hours and 15 minutes! Maybe it's time four our Player Updates to go back further so we can feel satisfied that our properties were protected.
You are mistaken about the 2x loot drops. That little green border is the second loot piece. I just confirmed this and have screens if you need proof. Had 9 gas cans, put the bonus in place, did the gas can job and had 11. Think of it like a stack of cards... the second card is behind the first. I also noticed that no matter what loot it is (consumable, loot items etc....) It always does the green border if you loot it twice. Even if the item is a Rare item and should have a blue border... it's green cuz you got 2.
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i too was pissed the first day! just before i was gonna hunt down a damn cs i saw the border green border! u just have to mouse over em!! :)
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Someone already responded about the green border so I'll skip that but on the matter of the guardian, won't the evidence it isn't working be that you have a property that's been robbed?
ReplyDeleteOne thing you can clear up for me: is the guardian also protecting the precious collection? Or is that always up for grabs?
Hi!.. so a green border indicates I get loot twice.. gr8! one couldn't clearly state that one had to 'hint' it.. hmmm.!?
ReplyDeleteAnd what about the scout thing? It totally sucks.. this is a new City and all I get from robbing is the same old useless crap like b4.. Firebombs, and tons of Karpov pics from a dead city in the game, not to forget the 3.409.600 piece of burglar out fit from the NY vault...! I have not gotten one single new item from robbing... and I've been test robbing my hole stamina for 2 days...!! - really!! How hard can it be to clip a few new JPGs to the Robbing Board..??!
- Jennifer.. if you do have a list of things to pass on to zynga PLEEEEASE put that on as well !.. THANKS!
agree green border is the second item
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i have done first brazil district ruby and after doing all bronze my 2nd district gold is about to complete. and the matter is, my crew members are full and it shows me always inactive. even i noticed this thing every day but i never got any double mastery in job fight and robbing or even from property. its just a dead stats of zynga or they need to fix bugs yet as its still in beta.
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