Limited Time Mission: Dead Man Talking

Zynga has given us the second limited time mission. I should finish this one later today, so it seems a good time to blog with a few items I have learned: tips in here on how to save messages, how to do it with with a small mafia, and how to do it more quickly.

A few things can trip you up in this first part. First you need support from your mafia - but only five helpers, so this isn't bad. I'll discuss how to do this easier later in this article. Second, you need to declare war. This seems trivial, but with a new mission thousands of people will be scrambling to declare war. When someone declares war on you that prevents your declaring war for hours and hours: getting the war declared should be your first priority.

This part of the mission is the easiest part. It requires stamina - and that's it. If you have a small mafia, though, winning 25 fights can be difficult. I have worked with people with tiny mafias. In this case you need to find others with very, very small mafias. Add them as a rival and fight and fight the same people - even if they have been iced - to get through the 25.

The part of the mission shown above is the longest. Unless you spend RP you will HAVE to wait at least 18 hours to build the second armor. If you have built one already, this could take you several days to do. Similarly, you must make sure you get a winnable war done - if people keep declaring war on you, this step might never succeed.

One thing I am doing is delaying building as long as I think I will complete a mission. This lets me build when I think I will need to build. While it pushes back builds by perhaps an hour, it lets you finish the mission a day earlier.

The step above is another easy step. Nothing should slow you with this one.

This step requires a lot of support from your mafia. Here I made a mistake that I will avoid in the future: all missions assistance is reciprocal, so as long as other people send me requests, I don't need to ask them for help! I sent out 16 requests for this - none of which were needed since I had plenty in my inbox.

Conversely, finishing this fast was important because...

Most people won't finish this, last, critical mission! Why? Collecting from the hotel occurs every 48 hours. When I started this I had 34 hours until collection. Collecting from the hotel twice requires at least 48 hours.

A key for many players here will be to not collect from Las Vegas for a while so that they can collect from the hotel as soon as they get this mission. That enables them to collect again in two days.

Without this approach, let's assume you are an "every day player" who collects from your properties every day. You log on and have two days until you can collect. Two days later it isn't ready to collect at the time that you log on. So collecting the first time may take three days. If you don't time collecting, you could be making your second collection after another three days. With six days for this mission, most people will fail this mission - unless that watch the collection timing. Timing is critical for this mission - hence the reward is big! Good luck!