Munzee Weekly Podcast - Friday October 11th, 2024

In this episode of the Munzee Podcast, hosts Rob and Craig discuss various topics related to the Munzee game, including community events, player participation, and exciting new features. They highlight the importance of player engagement, share updates on recent events, and introduce new game mechanics such as the PumpQrate and Halloween-themed items. The hosts also tease upcoming releases, including tarot cards and a Halloween dragon, while encouraging listeners to stay tuned for more updates. In this episode, the hosts delve into various aspects of the Munzee game, focusing on dragon evolution mechanics, new player outreach initiatives, and strategies for enhancing player retention. They discuss the importance of community engagement and feedback in improving the game experience, as well as providing practical tips for players to maximize their gameplay. The conversation emphasizes the collaborative nature of the Munzee community and the ongoing efforts to support both new and experienced players.

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Chapters

• 0:00 Welcome to the Munzee Podcast
• 2:58 October Events and Community Engagement
• 5:54 Recent Munzee Events and Player Participation
• 9:10 Updates on Munzee Mechanics and Features
• 12:01 Halloween Special: PumpQrate and New Mechs
• 15:05 Introduction of Tarot Cards and Future Releases
• 17:59 Halloween Dragon and Gameplay Enhancements
• 21:10 Understanding Dragon Evolution Mechanics
• 24:14 New Player Outreach Initiatives
• 31:11 Enhancing Player Retention Strategies
• 35:57 Community Engagement and Feedback
• 41:01 Game Mechanics and Player Tips

Transcript

Seemyshell (00:01.665)
I better scroll to the top, stand by. Welcome to the official Munzee Podcast.

Rob (00:06.925)
I'm Rob, also known as Coach V, your host and the president of Munzee.

Seemyshell (00:10.779)
And I'm Craig, also known as Seemyshell. I'm an avid Munzee player and I'm here to explore the game further.

Rob (00:15.983)
Each week we'll delve into Munzee's mysteries, divulge some secrets, and inform players from around the world just what is coming your way.

Seemyshell (00:23.106)
So sit back, relax as today's episode we chat about some spooky, spooky stuff because we are in October. But apparently, apparently Munzee needs your help. Yes, the listeners we're talking to, you guys listening, Munzee needs your help Rob. What the, wow, you're reaching out to some players.

Rob (00:39.504)
Yeah.

Questions for me, why not questions for you? So I want to jump straight to that, but we do have the normal stuff to get to. So you kick us off. What have you been up to? Your background is different today. It's looking nice. Yeah. Yeah.

Seemyshell (00:45.026)
Hahaha!

Seemyshell (00:48.994)
But... Yes, yes.

Seemyshell (00:56.306)
I know. Looking back to normal, like whatever normal is for me. Yeah, I've returned to New Jersey, mate. So I'm, I'm back in my normal room. yeah. And I'm getting things ready. I'm getting things. I've only got nine days of recording this nine days left. Actually said a week left after this goes live in a week's time. I'll be heading over yours and lose way over to the UK. So I'm going to meet up with you, mate. So get ready for that.

Rob (01:20.153)
What? That's right. Everyone's gonna see all the cap ons from see my shell in places you never expected all all across the UK. Yeah.

Seemyshell (01:26.604)
Yeah.

Seemyshell (01:31.308)
Yes. Yeah, exactly. Cause apparently, you know, as you know, I'm from Australia and so Australians are convicts of the, of England. So not as much as Australians talk about it in Australia. dare say. What, what, about, what about you, mate? It's the same sort of background there. You're still in the UK. Nothing's changed for you.

Rob (01:40.862)
Yeah, we don't talk about that here as far as I understand. Yeah.

Rob (01:48.654)
Probably,

Rob (01:55.077)
Yeah, still here. I'm actually headed over to Florida for a short period next week. So yeah, as you load up and you start to head this way, I will be headed back this way. So yeah, we'll be we'll be catching back up. But yeah, what I've been up to right now is listening to the Munzee Maniacs podcast. And so

Seemyshell (02:02.954)
Rob (02:24.075)
I went, I went for a weather update. That's the reason that I went in there. However, I stuck around for the beer chat. So they they hooked me on the beer chat. That that was part of you know, it's part of the fun of some chat back and forth between our podcasts and, and I actually really enjoyed this one because I have done enough.

Seemyshell (02:29.432)
Yeah.

Seemyshell (02:34.135)
Yes.

Rob (02:48.945)
over the last couple of weeks that man did they have a lot to talk about and they were helpful yet again to me and and I'm not going to I'm not going to make anything painful for them based on their helpful feedback they didn't even know they were giving feedback so you'll find out why in a few yeah

Seemyshell (02:53.613)
Mm-hmm.

Seemyshell (02:58.359)
Yeah.

Seemyshell (03:04.854)
No. Yeah. Yeah. There you go. There you go. And see, see what happens. mean, I know they listened to the show, Kevin, Sarah and PJ, all three of them listened to the show as well. And a big shout out to those guys. I did listen to the show also. And I thought the same thing, Rob. I thought, wow. I'm actually, I'll be honest with you. I tuned in more than what I normally do when it comes to, I I listen to podcasts when I'm driving, you see. So.

You know, I've actually, I actually tuned in and, and, and they had some, they come up with some good points and some good pointers of which I'm going to ask you a few questions at the end of this episode, Rob as well about it too. So there you go. Wow. So keep up the good work, Kevin, Sarah and PJ from the Munzee Maniacs podcast. Also, I almost forgot Rob, almost forgot, mate. It's been a few days now since I was at the event in, in Rome, Georgia with, with, W Helen,

Rob (03:42.554)
Wow.

Well, all right.

Seemyshell (04:03.522)
It's his birthday coming up. So there you go. The 19th of October is W. Helen's birthday. So everyone out there, if you know where W. Helen is, you can easily find him. Have a look at his cap ons. On the 19th of October, is his, are you ready for this Rob? It's his 75th birthday.

Rob (04:18.705)
Yeah. What? He has amazing guns and doesn't look a year over 72. No, he I know he's not 75. Yeah.

Seemyshell (04:28.014)
I'm chucking him under the bus. know right, know. He's going to love it. He's going to love this episode with all the W Helen bits and pieces. But again, Rob, he's done a video about the little Munzee event that we had after the big geocaching event too. I will say this, I got a private message saying that they thought the Munzee event was going to go mega because there was like 52 Munzee players.

were there the whole weekend, capping, capping, capping, capping, capping. So people were putting cards out there. We're getting like 52 caps on their cards. Brilliant. Great work, right? But there's a problem. There's a problem, Rob. There was, there was only like maybe 13, 14, 15 players attending the event, Munzee event, because, so if you don't know, the mega event itself went from like the Wednesday all the way through to the Sunday morning. So Sunday lunchtime was the Munzee event, you see.

Rob (05:02.725)
Wow. Yeah.

Seemyshell (05:25.254)
And of course people like to get on the road as soon as the geocaching events finished, especially if they are a Munzee player, whom is a passenger in a geocaching vehicle. See? So that's, think that's the, that's the problem with a lot of them. yeah, I had five people come to me saying, Craig, we would love to come to the Munzee event, but we can't convince our geocaching friends. so that was what it was about. there you go. So make sense.

Rob (05:36.209)
Yeah.

Rob (05:42.673)
That's true.

Rob (05:49.585)
Yeah. Yeah.

Well, there you go. Yeah. Yes, it does.

Seemyshell (05:54.474)
Makes sense. So, but the people who placed the cards still got a lot of points in that from the cards too. So thank you everyone who attended everyone who placed cards. one more thing. She's going to love this too. Colecracker7 turned up alongside with, I can't think of her name now. of sudden, not Jeffo, the other friend she has all the time. Anyway, I can't think of her name. Wow. yes. That's it. That's it there. Yeah. That's the one. That's the one. That's the one. The two of them. I have to apologize.

Rob (06:15.409)
This is CB.

Rob (06:21.317)
Yeah, because cache browsers is their name. Yeah.

Seemyshell (06:25.836)
Yes, yeah. I have to apologize because she doesn't drive a Ford F-150. I took a photo of her in front of her vehicle and I'll post it in the water cooler very soon. It is a big Denali she has, a huge Denali. But Rob, GMC Denali, they drove up from Florida to Rome, Georgia purely for the event, the Munzee event. And to give W. Helen his birthday cake.

Rob (06:39.451)
GMC, yeah.

Rob (06:54.833)
That's great.

Seemyshell (06:55.498)
It even said, even even said happy birthday, W Helen written on the cake too. there you go. Anyway, enough of that chat. Speaking of the week that was, we had events in USA, California, Florida, Iowa, and Georgia around the world.

Rob (06:58.833)
That is too funny.

Rob (07:09.165)
England, Holland, Lithuania and Finland.

Seemyshell (07:13.454)
And the leaderboards over the weekend, some good numbers too. Friday we had BellBoz with 1.3 million points, Ponyrn with 680,000 points, and Jebiggy on 455,000 points, and I just murdered that name. On Saturday we had...

Rob (07:29.521)
and Skindo with 2.4 million q 22 q 17 543,000 cold crackers 7456,000

Seemyshell (07:43.092)
And on Sunday we had the bridesmaid coming up from the bottom Munzee Prof with 1.3 million points, Colecracker7 with 481,000 points and KitKuri on 465,000 points. The events this weekend, we have two in Minnesota, Ohio and one in Jersey, which I'll be hosting Rob. And then around the world we have, you ready for this? Asaka Japan. Yeah, Sarah, she made notice of two.

Rob (07:46.673)
He

Rob (08:08.537)
hey, that sounds like some maniacs. Yeah, that's great.

Seemyshell (08:12.398)
Exactly. Ontario, Canada, Netherlands and Denmark have two as well. Now I'll scroll through this really quickly, Rob, because we've got to get to the meat and bones too. Large events coming up, Netherlands this week and there's 39 there, October 13th, December 8th. This is very unique, one, December 8th. It's called Deck the Firehalls in Tennessee. It's a coexist event celebrating Christmas in a fire station. It includes fancy dress and cookie swaps, et cetera. And I met the host in Georgia, Rob too. So super Nate.

Rob (08:41.041)
Okay.

Seemyshell (08:41.569)
Big shout out to you, mate. They will dress up really cool too. So, and thank you for your service. is a firefighter too. So thank you, mate. We have January 16th, January 16th to 19th, Florida. We have Munzee Quest and Block Party, January 25th to 26th in Sydney, Australia. Munzee Madness, California, March 8th and 9th, May 3rd. Munzee and Uranus, but there's a second one. It's another event on the same day called Big Fun and Uranus too. So there you go. There's two events there so far. May 24th, we have Munstock.

Rob (08:48.301)
Hey, that's great.

Seemyshell (09:10.624)
And then June 7th and 8th, Ohio hosting SOS. See nice and quick with those ones. Yeah. Another event in Uranus. So anyway, I know that's what you're giggling at. The little, the little, the little 14 year old Rob comes out. Like I see it in the video. So there you go. All right, Rob, what's happening in this current world? What's happening this week?

Rob (09:16.867)
Impressive. Yeah. God. I pretty much have to mute myself. Too funny. I like what Jennifer and the other hosts are doing. Too funny. I mean, every time, yeah.

Seemyshell (09:40.302)
period of time. What have people known or will know?

Rob (09:41.359)
Yeah, so let's let's kind of go through this maybe even quicker than we usually do, although we actually have a good bit of time. So I'll explain a few things a bit more than our our prep. Who knows? So we released Pump Crate last week. So let's talk about a few things from last week. You know how we kick it off. So Pump Crate last week. And that one is available through the redeem store.

Seemyshell (09:48.16)
Mm-hmm. We do now.

Seemyshell (09:56.686)
Mm-hmm.

Mm-hmm. Yep.

Rob (10:10.859)
What it has in it is it's got the headless horseman mech or count Calcula and not just those two things because there's a chance of either one of them, but there's also different spooky Halloween cards that also come with that. So a special limited edition that players may not have received from the past. So if you already have the blueprint of

Seemyshell (10:11.138)
Mm-hmm.

Seemyshell (10:16.75)
Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.

Seemyshell (10:30.189)
Mm-hmm.

Seemyshell (10:35.853)
Mm-hmm.

Rob (10:38.991)
those two headless horsemen or count Calcula, then obviously you're going to have this automatically deployed. And you know, all what you're saving there is you're saving the cog cost, which is more than what the value of, you know, the crate would be. It is the same values in terms of caps as a golden crate. So you can use the, you can use the crowbars to break it down.

Seemyshell (10:43.022)
Mm-hmm.

Seemyshell (10:55.587)
Mm-hmm.

Seemyshell (11:02.36)
Mm-hmm.

Seemyshell (11:07.342)
Mm-hmm.

Rob (11:08.497)
so that you can open it in 31 captures. 31 October Halloween you see yeah always always something behind it isn't there always.

Seemyshell (11:14.54)
There you go. geez. always something, always something. Couple of questions before we move on though. So there's this opening this crate. I got to check myself. Opening this, does that count towards the Glenwood?

Rob (11:32.203)
Mm Yeah, it definitely will, because the you're you're getting this one during this month. And so if you complete it and you open it during this month, then yes, it counts as one of the crates. Also, if you already have two and you might be asking this, if you already have two crates or if you're not premium, you can only carry one crate. If you're maxed out on crates and then you redeem, then yes, you will open up a third slot.

Seemyshell (11:33.846)
Yep, perfect.

Seemyshell (11:39.597)
That's right.

Seemyshell (11:44.888)
Perfect. Another question.

Yes.

Mm-hmm.

Yep.

Rob (12:01.337)
So you could be working on three crates at once. However, when you open that one, that doesn't mean, you're going to get a new one dropped in in that third spot. So don't forget, because I actually did that. And I thought, wait, I just opened the pump crate. Why didn't I get one on that next greenie? So yeah. And then I remember.

Seemyshell (12:02.59)
Mm-hmm. That once, yeah.

Seemyshell (12:09.734)
Yeah, no. Yes.

Seemyshell (12:18.922)
No, and vice versa too. Like if you've got two green crates, for instance, and the pump crate and you open a green crate, then it shifts over. So you still only got one pump, one green, one pump. That's it. You don't have three. So it makes sense, makes sense. Yeah. And that was the question I was about to ask you too. So there you go. So people, if you are working on your, your Q rates for the clan wars, then definitely get the, pump one as well.

Rob (12:31.237)
Yeah.

Rob (12:37.179)
Very good.

Rob (12:41.157)
You

Seemyshell (12:45.954)
So Rob, what you're saying though, if I don't have the blueprints for Count Dracula or the Headless Horseman, what happens then?

Rob (12:53.593)
You get them. If your pump crate opens and that's the mech that comes out of it, then you are going to get that blueprint. And these are blueprints that were from two years ago, last year, that kind of thing. this is the way to get them basically.

Seemyshell (12:55.435)
okay.

Mm-hmm. Yep.

Mm-hmm.

Seemyshell (13:06.477)
Yeah.

Seemyshell (13:10.72)
Mm-hmm. Another question, and this isn't on the show notes, because I just thought of this on the top of my head, and that is, in the past, Rob, you and the Munzee team have done little things whereby if you have mechs that relate to upcoming holidays in the USA, for instance, Halloween, for instance, Count Dracula and Headless Horseman, and you have those mechs out in the wild and they get captured, sometimes things...

Rob (13:29.073)
Mm-hmm.

Seemyshell (13:38.787)
The owner of the mechs can get things from them being bonuses from being captured. Is that still ongoing Rob?

Rob (13:40.593)
bonuses.

Rob (13:45.017)
We call them secret events, believe, or credit events. can't remember, but we do in fact call them. I personally call them secret. And I don't know why specifically they're called secret. But, you know, it's one of those things where people like trying to read my mind and see into what I might do. Everyone knows that's a terrible game to play. So.

Seemyshell (13:47.406)
sorry. Yeah. Yep. Yeah.

Seemyshell (14:07.952)
No. Honestly, if you try to read Rob's mind, people, I'll let you know right now, it is the deepest and darkest place you'll ever see in your entire life. saying.

Rob (14:16.945)
You

Lou and I have been together for quite a few years and we learn new things about each other or she does about me all the time. So good luck to everyone else out there. Here's what here's what I'll say is that those of you who tried to read my mind and thought, you might get me and you might figure things out in advance. The number 13 and the number 31 come to mind for me so I can I can tell you that much information.

Seemyshell (14:24.01)
You

Seemyshell (14:30.556)
Exactly.

Rob (14:48.205)
Is it 13 days left until Halloween? Is it on the 13th of this month? Are there, you know, different things that might happen? Yeah. So stay tuned, but I but nothing has happened yet. So no one's missing out on this specific thing at the moment.

Seemyshell (15:05.868)
What, what I will say to everyone though, if, this is not just now, but in future. And I've done this myself, Rob, for, for what do call it Valentine's day this year, just gone and Easter, et cetera, as well, is that I will, I'll, I'll, I'll get one Mech out there that I think could be, you know, related to the upcoming holiday in the U S and so I'll get one. And then I'll watch them, see, and then if something, if nothing happens and I go, okay, I'll leave it for a little bit. And then if something does happen, go, I found the little, I found the little, Rob's little.

Rob (15:15.685)
Mm-hmm. Yeah.

Rob (15:33.605)
Yeah. You might be right. You might be the one to find it or you might just need to watch everyone else try and find it. It's just a question of do you want to be first or do you want to be ready if it's available? Yeah, exactly.

Seemyshell (15:35.662)
tricks of his trade. But in saying that too...

Mm-hmm.

Seemyshell (15:47.36)
I always, I'm always first. I'm always first. But in saying that too, the other thing you've got to think about and that is if you do know Rob, Mr. Vardeman, Coach V, if you do know him personally and everyone, a lot of people should, and that is not everything's always going to be the same every single year, every single holiday. You change things up all the time. And so yeah, that's what it is. So there you go people, get your.

Rob (16:04.41)
no, absolutely not.

Rob (16:10.382)
Have you played this game?

Seemyshell (16:12.654)
Get your pump crate now in the redeem store. think it's 750s heads, 750 something like so I believe so. There you go. So get them now and also get your tarot cards as well. These new tarot cards, what are they about?

Rob (16:17.039)
believe so,

Rob (16:25.457)
Yeah, so I'm sure everyone around the world pronounces this word different. So, you know, just like creates a tarot is what we say, but you know how it goes. So Tarot Tarot cards. Yes. So this is just something just a little different, weird, spooky ish. The, you know, not not the same as the real world designs and all that kind of stuff. This is a munzified version. So, you know, we're not we're not headed in any weird, dark directions. So everybody's clear.

Seemyshell (16:30.466)
Hmm. et cetera.

Seemyshell (16:39.864)
Mm-hmm.

Mm-hmm.

Seemyshell (16:47.052)
No.

I

Rob (16:54.737)
just having a little bit of fun. So we released a set number one of these in the online store last Friday. It's different sets of cards that, you know, go into our fairy tale story of Cappy and unicorns blessing and, you know, just different kinds of things. So again, just having some fun with it. And what is not only implied by the fact that this was called set number one, but I believe it's actually written and stated blog.

Seemyshell (17:00.802)
Mm-hmm.

Seemyshell (17:09.006)
Mm-hmm.

Seemyshell (17:18.028)
Mm-hmm.

Mm-hmm.

Rob (17:23.754)
is that there will be additional sets. And so here's a hint. Set number two is coming out on Friday. As you listen to this.

Seemyshell (17:24.4)
Mm-hmm.

Seemyshell (17:29.998)
So today, so if you listen to this, if you listen to this before midday, Monday, HQ time on Friday, you've got the scoop people then keep an eye out because you've got more cards coming out this on Friday at midday. Very, very cool. All right, next up we have the Mechs and Scatters at the moment. Speaking of Mechs, they're double points all the way through to Sunday. That's nice. That's nice. Yeah.

Rob (17:50.127)
Yeah, they are. Right. mean, double point Max is a pretty big deal. So for those who are headed toward the higher levels, scrap stars, you know, that's that's some pretty decent points from scrap stars. And when Max are double points, then you get a lot more deploys of those. So that means that the scrap stars actually do fill up. So helpful hint from me. Just think about that. And then also scatters your times, too. So since

Seemyshell (17:56.333)
Mm-hmm.

Mm-hmm.

Mm-hmm.

Seemyshell (18:09.304)
Mm-hmm.

Seemyshell (18:17.741)
Mm-hmm.

Rob (18:18.039)
I think every single Mac right? Well, not every single shouldn't say that because spider bots don't but a good majority of the Macs also scatter things. So not only are getting double points from the Macs, but also from those scatters and elemental scatters, which is part of the clam wars, all the all the scatters are double points. So it looks like that's all gone off without a hitch, which is amazing.

Seemyshell (18:23.234)
Yeah.

Seemyshell (18:27.735)
Mm-hmm.

Seemyshell (18:32.206)
Mm-hmm.

Seemyshell (18:38.008)
Mm-hmm.

Seemyshell (18:42.104)
That's nice. That's nice.

Rob (18:42.395)
We've not seen any support tickets about it and nobody else is hitting me up with direct messages. So that is good news. Yep.

Seemyshell (18:46.95)
Nope, nope. I've yeah, yeah, exactly. And so would that include then the scatters from the unicorn like the flaming arrows, the Trojan unicorn flaming arrows? So if you need those flaming arrows scatters, for instance, because they're a requirement and a lot of people like, what, this is all new. Then yeah, then get those as well. Rob, I've got a tip of the week coming up in regards to that shortly. there you go. Stay tuned for that one.

Rob (18:58.161)
I'll charge the unicorn, yeah? Yeah, it does.

Rob (19:05.627)
What?

Rob (19:14.516)
good, good.

Seemyshell (19:16.79)
Alright, next online you have, what is this, the Halloween dragon?

Rob (19:21.413)
Yeah, so it's happening between right now and when the podcast goes live. So you haven't seen it yet, but we've got a Halloween dragon. You know how we've had these dragon eggs and dragon mobs that are bouncing around this year. So this is the year of the dragon. So we said these are going to be sort of the permanent long running mob set. Well, it's time for a new dragon and this time it's available in the online store so everyone can buy it there.

Seemyshell (19:25.41)
Mm-hmm.

Seemyshell (19:32.97)
Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.

Seemyshell (19:41.08)
Mm-hmm.

Rob (19:48.175)
Now what's happened in the past with these others is that people have launched an egg, right? And the egg has a short incubation period. So you're only getting a certain number of caps and then someone, you know, finishes off the egg, they they hatch the egg, it goes out and the baby dragon is not yours. So we've decided, let's listen to people. Let's go with the opposite direction. So what we're doing is we are launching this one as the evolved adult version of the dragon.

Seemyshell (19:57.614)
10 caps.

Seemyshell (20:07.469)
Hmm.

Mm-hmm.

Seemyshell (20:17.609)
Rob (20:17.775)
And so that lasts the longer amount of caps and that can't remember if it's 25 or not 25 sticks in my head though.

Seemyshell (20:21.902)
Mm-hmm. think it's 25. I think it's 10, 15, and 25.

Rob (20:27.833)
I thought that was what it was, but I didn't write it down. So you you launch that one. So you're going to get much better point value from this Halloween dragon. So this one's only going to be available for a short time. And when the adult dragon is capped enough, then it's going to revert back to egg stage. Now the eggs are going to go back on our account on the the dragon keeper.

Seemyshell (20:31.662)
Mm-hmm.

Seemyshell (20:35.522)
Mm-hmm.

Seemyshell (20:40.546)
Mm-hmm.

Seemyshell (20:57.048)
Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.

Rob (20:57.137)
account. And so then that's going to restart the process. Instead of people getting 10 caps, you have a guaranteed much higher value cap ons and that kind of stuff. All right. So again, all all all helping get the get the big points for this year for this month claymore.

Seemyshell (21:01.703)
Yeah.

Seemyshell (21:10.048)
So that's a question I had.

Seemyshell (21:15.468)
Yes, yeah, this month. Now that's the question I had because again, Rob, someone reached out to me and at first I thought to them itself, you know, this person's really looked deep, deep, deep into the Munzee art as such. And what it was was that they reached out to me and they said that the Munzee art is actually incorrect when it comes to your dragons and your evolutions of the dragons, because you start off with the egg and then there's an arrow between the egg and the baby.

Rob (21:24.933)
Mm-hmm.

Seemyshell (21:44.652)
And then there's an arrow between the baby and the adult. And then there's an arrow between the adult and the egg. Now up until now by the sounds of it, because every time the adult dies, it just dies and there's no, it doesn't get re-incarnated to an egg. Right. And so they were saying that.

Rob (21:47.899)
Mm-hmm.

Rob (22:00.163)
but it does. but it does. It just comes back on the on the dragon keepers account. Everyone doesn't maybe realize that then, but it does. Every one of them, they all come back. However, there seems to be someone out there that keeps smashing some of those dragon eggs. It's very weird. I don't know who it is. I'm looking behind the scenes. There's somebody there's somebody back there. No, it's me.

Seemyshell (22:10.613)
What?

Seemyshell (22:15.142)
Seemyshell (22:19.5)
Yeah, Monroe's.

Rob (22:24.209)
I'm pushing a button every now and then and I'm like, let's clear out some of these dragon eggs, knowing that we have another one coming soon. I don't want there to be 20,000 dragons all over the map. So I'm controlling the dragon population myself as, as they go back to egg state. am cracking some eggs myself, just so you know. So, but yeah, they did. They do. So the adult does come back out as an egg unless I reset that cycle myself.

Seemyshell (22:31.629)
Mm-hmm.

Seemyshell (22:36.173)
Yeah.

You

Yeah.

so they do go back to egg state. Yep. Okay.

Okay. That's what happens to the ego. you, Munzee is correct in saying that. So, it just, it just, that account. No. Yeah. Yeah. No, that makes sense. That makes sense. No, that does make sense. I like it. I like it, Rob. Very good. See, but in saying that too, in saying that to, people I said in the past, podcast past episodes, I've said everyone loves it when Marie's got her hand on that dial, for instance, you know,

Rob (22:58.543)
It just doesn't come back on that account. It comes back as the Dragon Keeper, yeah.

Rob (23:08.965)
We've managed, yeah.

Rob (23:19.717)
Yeah.

Seemyshell (23:20.63)
And everyone loved it up until the point where she had the hand on the dial for all the ingredients to the cupcakes. And now we're still getting cupcake ingredients leftover from way back when. Cause there was thousands, there was thousands of cupcake, cupcake ingredients. And, because people were, understandably so people were magnetizing something in order to get something else. another type of bouncer, for instance, for their clan wars or for their this, that, the other.

Rob (23:26.912)
yeah, I know.

Rob (23:32.069)
I've been working on that too. I've been working on that too. There were.

Seemyshell (23:49.206)
And although we're getting Rob was was cake ingredients. so then all of sudden people were saying, maybe Mari shouldn't have a hand on the dial. Like, so you can't win either way. You know what I mean? It's hard to win either way. So if Rob's hands on the dial, it's, it's rare. If Mari's hands on the dial, sometimes they'll get too much. So there you go. That's not in the show notes. See, that's all brand new. All right.

Rob (23:52.529)
Mm-hmm.

Rob (23:56.881)
True. So I've heard you.

Rob (24:07.889)
You never know.

Rob (24:12.529)
True, true story.

Seemyshell (24:14.562)
Very good. Now we're going to get to the real good stuff because we've got only five minutes left now. We've got to get this now. And that is we did the new player outreach. What this is what you are asking people out there for their support, their information. What are you saying about this Rob?

Rob (24:18.979)
Yeah, know, we burned all our time.

Rob (24:29.903)
Yeah, so let me quickly and honestly quickly try and give the here's what we've done. So we put together the Muns decks, right? And then the Muns decks. Now you can see all the things that you have captured all the things that you have not captured. So it's going it's sort of something that you can scroll through to see all the pieces. There's going to be a lot more information added to that so that you can actually read more about what they are and have links to support guides and stuff like that. That's coming.

Seemyshell (24:34.606)
Mm-hmm.

Mm-hmm. Yep.

Seemyshell (24:49.315)
Mm-hmm.

Seemyshell (24:58.51)
Mm-hmm.

Rob (24:58.865)
But it's a big process and so we're continuing to work on it. So we put them under munch decks and you can see the ones you've most recently captured. You can also see your most recent badges, which is a very handy thing. That was a quick update after so we've got that next today as we are recording. But for everyone else, it's it's this just happened. We have put out a magical lantern. Okay, so this magical lantern is a single

Seemyshell (25:22.296)
Mm-hmm.

Rob (25:28.337)
landing spot for a new thing called lightning bugs. And these lightning bugs are intended to help out a newer players. Okay, so there's some tips so that these newer players don't forget kind of like your referral, who loved to read everything and didn't want the pop ups to go away. She read everything.

Seemyshell (25:48.65)
Mm-hmm. Everything. Yeah. Yeah, she did.

Rob (25:53.455)
That's what new players do. The rest of us are like, go away, pop up. I just want the points and I want to move on. Okay. So the pop ups have helpful tips for the, for the players. There's different colors of the lightning bugs and each one of them shares a little different advice for a newer player. Okay. So as you read those things, don't tell us, I already know all this stuff. We now, you know this stuff, but it's for the new players. So this is part of that, that process.

Seemyshell (25:58.87)
You

Seemyshell (26:11.822)
Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.

Seemyshell (26:17.976)
Yeah.

Rob (26:21.641)
And so the thing about these these magical lanterns is new players are going to get these in their account when they start. And this is going to be something for them to deploy. And this is free, something for them to deploy at the location of their choice. It doesn't move. It stays there for 30 days. And it is going to be the only landing spot for these lightning bugs. So these lightning bugs are going to come to this magical lantern. It's going to give them advice.

Seemyshell (26:32.75)
Nice.

Seemyshell (26:36.94)
Mm-hmm.

Seemyshell (26:42.955)
Mm-hmm.

Rob (26:51.535)
as many times a day as they land there. All right. So this is another part of what we're trying to do to help out new players, because the more we all help out new players, the more players there are, the more the game grows, that kind of thing. So we these are going to be available to anyone through the in app store, there are 150 zeds, which what that seems super cheap. That's because it is. That's because all it does

Seemyshell (26:54.934)
Okay.

Seemyshell (26:59.757)
Mm-hmm.

Mm-hmm.

Seemyshell (27:09.72)
Mm-hmm.

Seemyshell (27:14.862)
Mm-mm.

Rob (27:15.865)
Is it just let's these lightning bugs land on it. So you can cap these things every time you see a lightning bug there. We're giving one of these to every or we have by the time everyone listens to this, we gave all the premium members one of these for free. You're welcome. So can you go and buy a second one right now? Sure you can. So you could have two out right now. Premium players could have two if they buy the second. Anywho, that's what's going on. So what we're trying to do is we are really, okay. You asked me about these things first.

Seemyshell (27:22.529)
Mm-hmm.

Seemyshell (27:30.892)
Okay, wow.

Seemyshell (27:41.634)
Question.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Question first and first for most. This is predominantly for brand new players. Understandably so. They can cap it every single time. They can cap more than once a day, as long as the lightning bug is on it. Is that what you're saying? First. Is when the lightning bug. Perfect. Perfect.

Rob (27:56.453)
The only time they can cap it is when there's a lightning bug on it. If you put one out, guess what? I can see yours. If you put one out, it's available to everyone.

Seemyshell (28:04.29)
I was going to say it. That's exactly, that was one of questions. Yeah. What if, what if, so what I used to do, Rob, because I got, I got addicted to referrals a little bit because I love the points that referrals give you, you know what I mean? And so what I used to do is I, and I still do, I reach out once a week, I look at my own new referrals and then I reach out to them and send them a little message saying, you know, g'day, this is what, this is my name, you know, welcome to Munzee, blah, blah. Especially if they started capping.

I'll then place something in the area for them, for instance, as well, whether it be, you know, what do call it? The electric traps, for instance, or I might even go ahead and get them a POI so they can cap it every single day, you see, something like that. So is it possible then if I could purchase one of these with 150 Zs and give it to someone, or you can only purchase it for yourself? only through the, okay.

Rob (28:40.657)
yeah, yeah.

Rob (28:44.759)
good call. Yeah.

Rob (28:55.065)
only it's through the in-app store. So you buy it on your account and it has to be deployed through the app. So unless that person is near you, instead what you would be wise to do is you would be wise to say to that new player, anyone who creates an account after today, when we launched this, me and you recording today, when you send a message to your new referrals, you say, don't forget to deploy that magical lantern.

Seemyshell (29:07.437)
Mm-hmm.

Seemyshell (29:14.252)
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Seemyshell (29:21.186)
Mm-hmm.

Rob (29:24.533)
And you have you have tutorials about how to deploy virtual things. So that's great. So they deploy that magical lantern. And then anytime that something lands on it, cool, they need to be quick. So this is teaching people about that whole like chase the bouncer type idea. If you see it, cap it if you see it cat like that magical lantern is going to light up. That's what's happening. It's going to turn a light on and it will be on the map. Cap it. There's a lightning bug there. That's it.

Seemyshell (29:24.642)
Yeah.

Seemyshell (29:28.64)
Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.

Seemyshell (29:35.522)
Mm-hmm.

Seemyshell (29:39.894)
Yes. Yes.

Yeah.

Seemyshell (29:47.864)
That's cool.

Seemyshell (29:52.042)
Mm-hmm. Yep. Yep. Perfect. That's, that's, that's ideal. And I want a lot of people don't understand and don't know Rob. And that is, I heard it through the Muncie Maniax podcast as well. Sarah doesn't know what's happening in the backend per se. I only know because you told me personally off air. And that is with Cappy, for instance, people don't understand because you're a, you're a normal player. You're a full-time player. You've been playing this game for months, if not years. So you don't know what's happening behind the scenes when a new player starts a new account.

Rob (29:54.299)
So that's the process.

Seemyshell (30:20.78)
Cappy is the new account, like tutorial person, animal. they, Cappy does lead the people through a beautiful tutorial. if you listen to this podcast, you haven't seen it because you're not a new player. So there are reasons, there are reasons for Cappy. and cause Sarah, think Sarah even said as well, it'd be nice if know, Cappy was used. He is being used as a tutorial icon as such. So yeah, you guys are doing that.

Rob (30:35.191)
True.

Rob (30:48.523)
And with the launch, with the launch of this magical lantern, the that tutorial is being rebuilt with yet another piece of we've given you a magical lantern. Cappy says, here's how you deploy it. So we're actually going to show them exactly how to do it. And that's coming in the next few days weekish. But we're kicking off the magical internet and lightning bugs first.

Seemyshell (30:56.205)
Mm-hmm.

Seemyshell (31:00.76)
Mm-hmm.

Rob (31:11.291)
We hope everyone understands, but this is all about new players. And that's a big focus for us right now, is we are really looking for ways to not only bring new players in, because we do a lot of work and advertising and things like that to bring in new players. However, we are working hard now and have been for a while.

Seemyshell (31:15.768)
Mm-hmm.

Seemyshell (31:28.546)
Mm-hmm.

Rob (31:34.709)
at trying to retain those new players. And so that's the part where I would like to ask for everyone's help. know, we have kind of done that in different ways at time or two. But we really would like to know if there are successful things that people are doing out there. I'd love to replicate that and do it with more people around the world. I know what you do, because we have talked about it.

Seemyshell (31:38.542)
Mm-hmm.

Seemyshell (31:44.546)
Yeah.

Rob (31:59.697)
in reaching out to your referrals. But the thing is, there's a lot of people obviously who come in with no, they aren't referrals. And so they don't have someone who's reaching out to them and attempting to guide them. So that's why we have Cappy. Cappy is leading them through some initial steps. However, we all know that just because an app has a tutorial doesn't mean that you don't go tap, tap, tap, tap, tap, tap, tap, just get through it. So they're not all going to be learning everything.

Seemyshell (32:12.408)
Mm-hmm.

Seemyshell (32:23.554)
Yeah. Yeah.

Rob (32:29.281)
I'd love to have more people I'd love to have more feedback and to possibly wrap up this portion. The Munzee Maniacs had a big long conversation that was actually super helpful about how we could grow the game in Japan specifically because that's where two of them are. And that totally makes sense to me and I would love to be able to do a lot of that but it involves translating everything into Japanese which we don't have someone who can do that. And so that's where we then again,

Seemyshell (32:40.44)
Mm-hmm.

Seemyshell (32:54.37)
Mm-hmm.

Rob (32:58.361)
look to get help from the community. That's the only way we have translations in the app. So apologize to everyone that this has taken a longer time of you listening today. However, we don't do this often. And right now, this is actually super important. It's important to the future of the game, I think, you know, that we all kind of work together. And that's why I'm literally asking for everyone's help and everyone's feedback and input.

on something that is very productive. Okay, this is all of us coming together to make the game better. We can't make it less difficult. That's not possible. So please don't tell me don't put difficult stuff out there. Stop making new things or whatever. I wish that that were possible. However, it's not. We've got to keep growing the game. As we do that. How can we all work together to get these new players back in the app playing the game?

Seemyshell (33:31.95)
Mm-hmm.

Seemyshell (33:39.417)
Yeah.

Seemyshell (33:55.512)
Mm-hmm.

Rob (33:56.315)
growing the map, points for everyone. What else can I do?

Seemyshell (34:01.123)
So what you're saying, Rob, is that you need people right now listening to this experience players, et cetera. If they, have an idea and no idea is a silly idea. Just saying that, you know what I mean? Like every single idea can help at some degree. You might have an idea, a and someone else might have idea B and then all of a sudden, you know, Rob thinks of ideas C because of those two, for instance, you know, that type of thing. So what you're asking people to do. So what you're asking people to do is reach out.

Rob (34:11.665)
It's true.

Rob (34:22.897)
That's how our team works, yeah.

Seemyshell (34:27.79)
how can they reach out where to? Do they just literally send a support ticket? just say, fair enough. How can they send an email that's going to go somewhere?

Rob (34:32.931)
let's not overwhelm support because support is already very, very busy and I'm part of that team and we're very busy. So we, we have a player suggestions email that does not get responded to. I would say 3 % of the time responses go out. All of those emails are read by at least one member of our team. All right. So.

Seemyshell (34:47.746)
Mm-hmm.

Seemyshell (34:54.796)
Mm-hmm. Right.

Yeah.

Rob (35:00.463)
We have a player suggestions place. and, I, I can't remember if it's actually player suggestions at Munzee.com, but anyway, it's on Munzee.com slash contact. So player suggestions, that would be very helpful. let's set up threads in, in the Munzee water cooler in, you know, Munzee for newbies in all the different places and definitely on discord and the letters N P O new player outreach. That's what I've been using internally.

Seemyshell (35:13.23)
Mm-hmm.

Seemyshell (35:20.215)
Mm-hmm.

Rob (35:30.405)
for us to be able to communicate in our team about it. And also whenever I do reach out to people, they are getting an NPO code that goes directly from me personally to them in order to try and encourage them to stick around in the game. If I deploy something around them, I use the letters NPO so that as it comes through my feed and my notifications, I'm like, that's that new player. I need to reach back out to them.

Seemyshell (35:31.437)
Mm-hmm.

Seemyshell (35:44.747)
Mm-hmm.

Seemyshell (35:51.374)
Mm-hmm.

Seemyshell (35:56.524)
Yep. Yep.

Rob (35:57.561)
So this is me telling you how I've been doing it and maybe that will help some of you and then you send me some ideas because I'm literally trying everything right now and I really want this to all be successful for all of us.

Seemyshell (36:05.314)
Mm-mm.

Yeah.

Seemyshell (36:12.63)
Very good. Very good. So there you go people. heard it. And also obviously links for that email, et cetera, are all in the description of this podcast or a well, well, well over time this time. Look at this. See, this is what happens when I let you go. literally just let you go a quick couple of quick things before we leave. And that is a question of the week. And this one is that people are saying that they're getting Zeds from their bank POI being capped as interests. is this true? What's, what's going on there with that? Is that true?

Rob (36:21.009)
Way over. I know. I know.

Rob (36:38.989)
You're welcome, people. This is one of those things that I've talked about and said, like, hey, I'm trying some secret things, some things that are not promoted as as like, hey, this is this is a reward that you will get so that everyone expects it. When you don't expect things as a teacher. That's how I always rewarded people. If they didn't come up to me asking, like, can I have then more often than not, I just distributed things. And so that's part of this.

Seemyshell (36:41.506)
They... That just happens.

Mm-hmm.

Seemyshell (36:54.518)
Yeah, no.

Seemyshell (37:06.614)
Yes, very cool.

Rob (37:07.545)
I just thought it would be fun to start with the bank because thinking about how banks work, if you put stuff in money in, you get things back and people have paid for these bank POIs. Why shouldn't you get some sort of a return? There's no guarantee that it's always going to be the same return. Just so everyone's clear about that. It's also happening for credit cards, the credit card evolution. So I'll tell you that one. And Fenrir is working properly.

Seemyshell (37:10.752)
Yeah. Interests.

Seemyshell (37:16.536)
That's right.

Seemyshell (37:28.227)
Mm-hmm.

Seemyshell (37:33.687)
Yes he is.

Rob (37:33.817)
Fenrir is working together with Rover to bring back Rover treats to the Fenrir owners. So those are three specific ones. There will be more surprise wheel and prize wheel have always done that blah,

Seemyshell (37:40.46)
Very cool.

Seemyshell (37:45.582)
Yeah, yeah, yeah. But they all change up all the time anyway. So also Munzee requests of the week. This one comes from Sarah from the Munzee Maniacs podcast and their latest episode. And she says, Rob, is it possible to have two different dates slash times on the event pages? So one being the local time that they're actually having the event, but also one being Munzee headquarters time, because everyone knows when MHQ time and what that does.

Rob (37:48.561)
They do.

Seemyshell (38:12.298)
predominantly the U S players cause a U S you're always behind the, like in terms of the timeframes and time zones. So they're having hosting events in Japan for instance. And then when the event is finished, everyone leaves the U S wakes up and goes, that's right. There's an event in Japan today, but it's already happened. So does that make sense? yeah, exactly. Exactly. So.

Rob (38:30.543)
Yeah, 15 hours later. Yeah. Yeah. Totally makes sense. And you know what? I agree that this is needed from past conversations. It's not been something that was possible, I think. However, I don't know where we're at currently on all of this. And so I'm going to say this, Sam Tagg, you're it. Do you think you could help me out with this? Because I don't know the answer. So again, Sam, creator of Cuppa Z. Welcome to the team again and

Seemyshell (38:38.176)
Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.

Seemyshell (38:43.607)
Mm-hmm.

Seemyshell (38:47.086)
Mm-hmm.

Seemyshell (38:58.888)
Yeah, he does.

Rob (39:00.598)
can we do? He listens. So I know that he'll hear that. And everyone knows that Sam is responsible, is responsive, reactive.

Seemyshell (39:09.614)
Mm hmm. Not perfect. All right, Rob, we're to end it with the Munzee tip of the week. And this tip came from the water cooler. And I will say water cooler because this is a great tip for everyone. If you're out there doing clan wars, people, you're wanting the Trojan unicorn, and you're wanting the flaming arrows, this is how you do it. You can deploy a shield for yourself. Now you can gain a shield by using weapon shards to give yourself a shield. You then

Even though you can't cap your own shield, technically, if you place your shield at your location, you then magnetize that shield, you can cap the the bounces of which the Trojan unicorns are one of the main things that land on the actual shield. it's not it's I guess everything in life. It's not guaranteed, but the Trojan unicorn will land. You kept the Trojan unicorn.

You go around people and you grab all three of those, you'll end up with 95 points. Is that enough? No, because you need 100. Because you give 50, 50 and then minus five for instance. But beware, beware. The shield will archive, automatically archives after six caps. So that's literally, that's just one. If you want to waste the second magnet, you can if you need to, for two cap, but I wouldn't do that. I just use the one magnet on it and then leave the shield there for someone else to cap later on.

Rob (40:08.251)
Yeah.

Seemyshell (40:30.875)
So you've got two more caps after that.

Rob (40:31.089)
Put a second shield out, get four more. Yeah, exactly. Put out a second shield. Just a thought.

Seemyshell (40:35.214)
There you go. There you go. But I will say, Rob, this is, this is literally pushed out so many people to actually use these Trojan unicorns again, which is good to see. mean, I know the GCV, Josh, the GFKNVlogger, he had enough in his bank when it comes to weapon shards. He pushed out 40, 40 Trojan unicorns, Rob, 40. I mean, that guy's purse must've been full. That's insane.

Rob (40:51.281)
you

Rob (41:01.297)
Mm hmm. A lot of people have a lot of weapon shards and hey, thanks for playing along everyone. I appreciate it. And you know what I really enjoy when the community comes together like this to solve a problem because this is the solution and this was sort of the the answer hidden at the end of a maze for everyone. Like I don't I don't put together requirements that there isn't some way to actually achieve them without extreme pain.

Seemyshell (41:06.507)
Mm-hmm.

Seemyshell (41:10.957)
Mm-hmm.

Seemyshell (41:14.872)
Mm-hmm. Yeah.

Seemyshell (41:22.498)
Mm-hmm.

Seemyshell (41:28.024)
Yeah.

Rob (41:29.977)
So to those of you who haven't found this yet, there you go.

Seemyshell (41:30.976)
And at same time, Rob as well, you don't hand feed people either. So you, know the answers out there, but you're like, you know, fine. This is the teacher in you, mate. This is the teacher. You find it yourself, people find it yourself. So there you go. All right, Rob. Well.

Rob (41:37.678)
no.

Yep. I might guide someone to a fish, but I'm not going to catch it for them. Yeah.

Seemyshell (41:49.0)
Well, well, well over time. nearly 42 minutes, Rob. That ends now another official Munzee podcast.

Rob (41:57.201)
Thanks for sticking around with us on this adventure.

Seemyshell (41:59.438)
I

Don't forget to subscribe, rate and review on your favourite podcasting app. And of course, join us next week for another amazing episode.

Rob (42:09.803)
And remember, Munzee is more than a game, it's a worldwide community of mobile game players.

Seemyshell (42:15.352)
So keep scanning, keep discovering, keep that Munzee spirit alive. One, two, three, Munzee on. that was... I know, I know.

Rob (42:20.141)
Munzee on. we actually said the same word together today. I my brain was moving trying to figure out what to say.