Collectable Stat Cards: The Crime Boss Collection

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As predicted from the loot items that were added to the inventory, there is a new generation of Collectable Stat Cards. Set 2 is called the Crime Boss Collection and all the cards feature bosses from the game. I’m still trying to get the loot from the first batch but the good news is the loot drop rate is better this time around and it may cause some to rethink the strategy of totally ignoring this feature.



Clicking the help mark opens up the in game instructions. They have changed to include the addition of a drop-down menu in the Collections & Vaults tab.

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Collectable Stat Cards cost 15 reward points each or you can buy them in packs of 3 for 42 reward points.  There are several different in game places where you can purchase them. Get them directly from the purchase buttons on the Home Page banner shown above. If you don’t want them, be careful because Zynga didn’t add a confirmation button for this set of cards.  You can also buy them in the Marketplace under the “Playing Cards” tab.

If you go to your Inventory Page and click on the Collections & Vault Tab, there is now a dropdown menu that offers both sets of cards.
Purchase buttons can be found on the Card Page as well.

The Set 2: Crime Bosses Page is the same as the Set 1: Crime Ring Page in that there are 5 series of 5 cards and 1 series of 5 reward cards. The only difference is the cards themselves. The background is a dark green as compared to the black of Set 1.

For each purchase made, the card(s) reveal themselves and fill their designated slot. Your stats are displayed and you can see how the card(s) you got improved them. Each card offers a different number and type of skill points. You have no control over which cards you get. It’s all random but you will see the common ones more frequently. It’s a little cheaper to buy them in packs of 3. If you want to keep buying them, there are also purchase buttons on the window.

Acquiring all of the cards isn’t as easy as it seems because you will get many duplicates.It’s not fun to invest 42 reward points and get 3 cards that you don’t need! The only saving grace is the skill points but there are cheaper ways to go about getting those.

Along the way, you will run into some interesting characters. For a guy who has supposedly vanished from the game, The Raven sure gets a lot of face time!

Jimmy Lechon is back and is once again flipping us off.

I guess they forgot about the friendlier finger filled version (1).

Once you get all 5 cards in the series, you will be granted the reward card.

When you click on the “See Reward” button, you will find a special loot item and the location you need to do jobs to get it. All 5 Reward Cards are shown below.

Once you own the Reward Card, the loot item will drop from all jobs in the area specified. The drop rates seem to be much better than they are with the first set of cards. I was able to get all 5 items and didn’t spend a whole lot of energy.

Series 1: NY Boss Tier

Series 2: New York Underboss Tier

Series 3: Brazil District 4 /Sao Paolo Tier

Series 4: Chicago District 5/ Lakeside Docks

Series 5: Las Vegas District 7/Area 51

You can get more than one of each item above. I did a 9,900 energy run in New York and 3 items dropped. I got 2 from doing jobs manually and now have a total of 5.

Once you get all 5 Reward Cards, the Grand Prize item is automatically awarded and there is no need to farm for it like the other 5 items. The Blue Whale packs in stats of 205/205!

There are a total of 30 featured Crime Bosses. Each card contains a special description of the featured boss. The photo album below contains all 30 of these cards if you’re interested.

		Set 2: Crime Bosses VIEW SLIDE SHOW DOWNLOAD ALL

To figure out if these cards offer value for the reward points required to get them, I took screen shots of my reward point balance and character stats before and after I got all of them. I spent 903 reward points to gain 273 skill points. Your results will vary as there is a luck factor involved. It all depends on how many duplicate cards you end up purchasing. You could end up having to spend a lot more or a lot less. The average for the first set of cards was around 1,000 reward points.

To demonstrate that these cards are a bad deal if all you care about are the skill points, I broke down the number of skill points I could gain by speeding up the crafting timers of the New York Properties. Crafting speed up costs 12 reward points so I could have bought a total of 75 with the reward points that were used on the Collectable Stat Cards. For collectors or players who like to buy loot, it may be worth it as you also get a powerful loot item and the chance to loot multiples of 5 decent items.

900 Reward Points 75 Speed Ups	Property	Skill Points	Total
Attack	Weapons Depot	+6	+450
Defense	Weapons Depot	+6	+450
Health	Private Zoo	+20	+1,500
Stamina	Chop Shop	+6	+450
Energy	Chop Shop	+6	+450