The Energy Rush Event was released at 6AM PDT on May 19th. It will expire at 6AM PDT on May 29th. You can only accept 50 gifts every day and need 500 to fully master the event. The in-game directions for this event don’t cover when the reset time it. It only uses the term 24 hours so initially we assumed that there would be no margins for error (or wiggle room). Now that there has been a reset, it’s clear that ‘24 hours’ actually means 12AM-11:59:59PM PDT (or your local gift reset time). The good news is the oddball release time of 6AM provides 1 extra collection period. If you miss accepting one or two (or 50) on any given day you can make it up as there is 1 extra collection period on Day 1. This is best demonstrated by looking at the home page banner below. The event hasn’t even been out a full 24 hours yet and because of the 12AM reset time I was able to collect 2 rounds in a 24 hour period and still have 9 full days to go. This brings the total number of possible gifts to 550. It would still be easier if Zynga could extend the timer by at least a day to allow for the casual and non-script using players to master the event.
Its 9am here yet it now says i cannot collect anymore and have to wait 23 hours, so not a 12am reset for me?
ReplyDeleteThat means you collected the max for the day most likely in the first hour. The reset time must be Zynga time and not local time. Either way you still get 11 collects instead of 10.
DeleteI sent a lot of Mystery Energy Gifts hoping to receive same in return, but it seems strange that I have received 147 Blue Mystery Bags instead. Should I ASK my mafia instead and NOT SEND any?
ReplyDeleteThe real problem here is that the Gift Blaster doesn't work correctly. Sure, you can send gifts manually to all your friends quite easily, but if you play on a real account, you want to only send to your friends that play MW, and there's no option to only send to your mafia. That makes this event a huge pain.
ReplyDeleteIn fact, I think that's the whole point of this event. They want to cause gift notifications to show up in non-players' accounts. I suppose it's good that they're looking to get new players.
they will whine..it will be extended as usual
ReplyDeleteHere again is another situation where it would be really nice if Spockholm's gift collector would collect the oldest first instead of the newest. I have 114 energy gifts right now. Gift Collector will collect the top 50, letting the bottom ones expire. I will have to collect all of these manually in order from keeping the older ones from expiring. Any chance you can get the Spockholm guys to tweak Gift Collector so that it collects oldest gifts first instead of newest?
ReplyDelete90% of the gifts sent dont come back
ReplyDeleteAnd so Mafia Wars players send friend requests to people they don't know, and then Facebook sends them to Facebook Jail. I wonder how many people have over fifty Mafia Wars friends that they know outside of Facebook.
ReplyDeletewell i found in the uk, i find gift collecting reset to be midnight but family progress at 8.00am
ReplyDeleteannoys me that they wipe out normal gifts like mystery bags etc, and dont count towards daily family progression thank god for easy helper.
ReplyDeleteGotta laugh - I sent out 2500 and got 2 back. Not a rousing success.
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