In Missions, the task that requires you to get your mafia to join your Mission Crew is a pain in the ass.
Team Spockholm made the process easier by creating the Mission Crew Link bookmarklet. The Mission Crew Link would generate a feed request making the whole process much faster. Unfortunately, requests generated by third party tools no longer work.
If you click on links or requests, you will get the same error message that is used for free gift links.
This is the second component of the Mission Crew Link that Zynga has killed off in a matter of days. The Brazil (and by default Chicago) Crew request still works but there the game allows you to generate news feed posts. I don't know why Zynga won't do the same for Mission support.
Now the only way to get your mafia members to join your Mission Crew is to send out the requests and hope they accept them. Many players are hitting their gift limits, the ZMC can only hold 100 requests so the chances of players accepting your request are much lower than they were before. This means you will need to send out many more requests to get the job done.
To adapt, Team Spockholm as added Mission Crew Help requests to the Gift Blaster. Find it in the drop menu. The option will only be available if you have an active Mission task.
Select Mission Crew Help, load up your mafia (or family) and click the "Send to all" button.
Keep in mind, you don't need very many of these to get the job done. It's best to stop the run after a few hundred requests have been sent. Team Spockholm has a friendly reminder notification in case you were planning to send one to all of your mafia members.
This worked like magic. Within minutes of sending out a decent amount of requests, my Mission Crew task was complete.
I probably sent out too many requests because I had a ZMC full of return gifts. Accepting these sometimes gives you credit for the task so you can save them until you get to the next Mission Crew task and see if it works.
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Thanks for this. It doesn't make (and never has made) any sense whatsoever that Crew requests count against Gift limits.
ReplyDeleteJen, I've been keeping a good eye on how these work, and here's what I've found. If you accept one and it says "Joined" both accounts get credited with a crew member. If you accept one and it says "accepted" neither account gets credited with a member. So there is no use in sending the 'Thank you' you are either returning a bad request; or a good one that's already in effect.
ReplyDeleteJen, When I send mission crew requests it ask's for blue bags not mission crew it shows the picture of the mission crew good old Zynga.
ReplyDeleteI'm finding is somewhat hilarious how determined you people are to *not* play the game. You can get one from your energy account, and another one for joining your energy account crew. So that leaves four. You honestly can't send out 10-20 requests to your favorite mafia to get the rest without using a 3rd party tool?
ReplyDeleteJen, I went and got the latest bookmarklet on their website and it still is version .13 and doesn't have member crew as a selection. Where do we get the bookmarklet for version .15? My account has always been terrible for getting member crew added so I really need version (.15) and not the current version on their website (.13). Please give us a link to the new version.
ReplyDeleteHow does the bookmarklet update itself? I'm still on v (.13) I need this version (.15). Could someone please explain how I can get this version because again I tried to go and pull a fresh copy and it's always (.13) Jen, I"m begging you for help here.
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