Extortion Run: Panos' Pizzaeria

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Four days ago Zynga announced that a new event called Extortion Run was coming soon [1]. Today it’s here and it’s just a complicated version of the Limited Time Property but with less skill points. Instead of upgrading buildings, we are striking fear into an upstart business owner named Panos. Like Limited Time Properties, there are 15 levels and making progress on the Fear Meter requires going on a News Feed & Begging Safari to acquire ‘Rough Ups’. As you level, you can build 1 loot item every 18 hours (sound familiar?). With the news feeds so messed up right now, Zynga had no business creating a new event that relies on them 100%. Clicking on begging and bragging posts rarely gets you anything but white pages, errors and the dreaded ‘The maximum amount of players have already collected from this feed’ message. Once the bots are updated, the problems will only get worse for those who try to do it manually. The only improvement over the Limited Time Properties is that we can ask for stuff every 3 hours instead of 8. There isn’t a FAQ at this time but some basics are shown below. You will need to acquire a total of 679 Rough Ups to get to Level 15. For more details on that go here.

To start, ask your friends for Rough Ups from the home page banner or the Extortion Run tab which used to be the Operations tab (but is still named the Operations page!). You can ask every 3 hours and get up to 6.

Go to the same areas to level up your Fear Meter and you can make another post and get 5 items. You also unlock the privilege to ‘Extort Fear’ by building the item that is unlocked for the level your Fear Meter is on.

Once you get to Levels 3, 6, 10 and 15 you will get a reward. You don’t need to build this one, it’s automatically granted. The 4 rewards for Levels 3, 6, 10 and 15 are shown below.

You can also get up to 10 extra Rough Ups per day by helping your friends (8 per help request and 2 per brag request). If you are lucky, you will get one of these.

The not so lucky or determined will get these instead.

The feature is permanent so once you get to Level 15 and unlock all the items, they will be available for crafting every 18 hours. When it’s time to craft, go to the Operations page and click Extort. The timer can be sped up for 6 reward points which is cheaper than Limited Time Properties but you get half the skill points for Level 15. Since this is in addition to the 5 items we can craft from Properties, it is a good thing.

The items that you can build for Levels 1-15 are shown below. Items for Levels 7-15 come with skill points but not as many as the Limited Time Properties. Extra Topping comes with +1 energy point. The level 11-14 Pizza Tosser comes with +2 defense and the Level 15 Pizza Tosser comes with +3 stamina.