Munzee Weekly Podcast - Friday December 20th, 2024

In this episode of the Munzee podcast, hosts Rob and Craig discuss the latest updates in the Munzee game, including new events, player achievements, and features. They explore the evolving nature of the game, the excitement around new badges, and the community's reactions to recent changes, particularly the 'cursed ones'. The conversation highlights the importance of player feedback and the ongoing development of the Munzee experience.

In this episode, Rob and Craig discuss various aspects of the Munzee game, including the recent curse applied to capped items, the mechanics of gameplay involving scattering effects, and the introduction of a new challenge called Trouble in Toyland. They also highlight upcoming events for premium members in January and clarify details about the referral program, emphasizing its ongoing benefits for players.

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Chapters

• 0:00 Introduction to the Munzee Podcast
• 2:51 Exploring Munzee Events and Updates
• 5:57 Leaderboards and Player Achievements
• 8:49 New Features and Badges in Munzee
• 12:01 Customization and User Experience
• 15:03 The Cursed Ones and Community Reactions
• 17:02 The Curse of the Capped Items
• 20:46 Gameplay Mechanics and Scattering Effects
• 23:40 Introducing Trouble in Toyland
• 27:24 Celebrating Premium Members in January
• 30:11 Referral Program Insights

Transcript

Craig (00:00.207)
Welcome to the official Munzee podcast.

Rob (00:06.208)
I'm Rob, also known as Coach V, your host and the president of Munzee.

Craig (00:09.864)
And I'm Craig also known as Seemyshell I'm an avid Munzee player and I'm here to explore the game further.

Rob (00:14.784)
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.

Craig (00:21.593)
So sit back, relax, drink your coffee. Today's episode, we're chatting about all this curse. Rob, when will it end? The new secret zeops, there's new flat scatters with the flat flashlights and man, again, every week, Rob, something new, something new. I like it, mate, I like it.

Rob (00:39.886)
Something new like it or not. Yes indeed. There is something new all the time. It's the game the game that changes that's for sure.

Craig (00:46.142)
Exactly.

Yes, yes, or evolves doesn't change too much. It evolves. That's I think that's a better, a better word for it, mate. So meanwhile, meanwhile, again, different background for you. What's going on? What's going on?

Rob (00:51.446)
Evolve. Evolve.

I like that word.

Rob (01:00.814)
I don't like to stay in one place for too long. know that neither do you. So I think that we both work well together for a podcast because because it can be very mobile. Very, very mobile. I I'm in California. Yeah.

Craig (01:15.136)
Exactly.

in California from, one side of me to the other side of me from England to California. Wow. Wow.

Rob (01:22.76)
Yeah, we jumped not only across the pond, but then we kept going and jumped all the way across the country too.

Craig (01:30.191)
That's fair enough. And you're catching up with meetings and stuff too with the team in California?

Rob (01:36.718)
I don't know, actually, we have remains to be seen. I'm having meetings with them, even if I'm, you know, less than 30 miles away from them now. Yeah, so we, we just Lou and I've come out for a little sunshine and little extended Christmas break, I suppose. And I'm going to meet up with a few people and, actually meeting up with one of Lou's brothers.

Craig (01:47.405)
Wow.

Craig (01:53.711)
Mm-hmm.

Craig (01:58.169)
Mm-hmm.

Rob (02:06.318)
friends and doing some dog sitting in house sitting. It's a crazy story, man. The dog has won an Oscar. Yeah.

Craig (02:09.12)
home.

Wow.

Craig (02:15.221)
What is it? so you're in Hollywood. well around that area, that sort of vicinity. Yeah. Wow. Wow.

Rob (02:19.244)
Yeah, well, yeah, that that area. Yeah. Yeah. So the the the dog was part of a show on Netflix a couple of years ago that that won an Oscar of a short film. So yeah, so we're gonna be dog sitting that dog keeping it keeping it keeping it going while the while the owner is back over in England for a couple days. So yeah.

Craig (02:29.913)
Mm-hmm.

Craig (02:34.222)
That's really

Mm-hmm. Wow. Wow.

Craig (02:43.509)
Hahaha

Craig (02:47.887)
So we call him Sir Sir Barkalot now. That's what you're call it anyway. Fair enough, fair enough. Well, I've been back in Jersey now for a week or so and I'll be honest with you. I've been sitting down because it's been pretty chilly here as well. So I've been sitting down and I've been watching some YouTube videos, Rob. Now I'm talking about firstly Munzee events hosted by Whelan on YouTube. He did two videos. He did one in.

Rob (02:51.127)
Hey, there you go. So yeah, that's life for me. How about you?

Craig (03:12.877)
Now, Monroe's are you ready for this? She she sent me a private message and she asked me to pronounce the town in which she lives or city. What are you going to call it? Des Moines Des Moines Des Moines. It's not hard to understand. It's not Des Moines. It's Des Moines. So, Wheeler was in Des Moines for an event there and then he was in Florida for an event down in Florida. This man gets around a lot to, be honest with you, W Helen. exactly, exactly.

Rob (03:22.466)
Des Moines, you did it. That's it.

Rob (03:36.482)
Yes, it does. How else do you stay number one?

Craig (03:41.953)
And then I watched a great, great video as well by Minnesota boy, Minnesota boy, Minnesota boy. look at that. I stretched it out nicely. he's was actually giving tips for capping during the winter months, especially in the snow up in obviously Minnesota. And, yeah, some great tips were had as well on his video. Make sure you get there. Watch those YouTube clips as well. Links are in the description of this podcast. All right, Rob.

Rob (03:48.908)
Nice. Yeah.

Craig (04:08.341)
Events from last weekend we had Alabama, Massachusetts, Florida there was two, Missouri two, and Texas was two as well and around the world.

Rob (04:16.819)
around the world UK, two in Germany, Finland, Netherlands, and Hungary.

Craig (04:21.935)
And then the leaderboards over the weekend. These are some new names over the leaderboards. Rob on Friday, we had toxin with 823,000 points. Aaron's sook Aaron sook. think it's yes. 726,000 points. And this is a new name. Delcarls on 452,000 points on Saturday. Rob.

Rob (04:26.872)
Like it.

Rob (04:43.598)
500 XL with 1.13 million Keto curry with 1.12 million Herbie 1.1 million and set them H 1 million

Craig (04:54.895)
So he had four millionaires on Saturday. Well, on Sunday we had even more millionaires. We had FRLK on 1.7 million points. Jebiggy on 1.2 million. Regal with 1.1 million. And the other millionaires were Pinkeljetty. I'm hammering these names. I'm telling you now. Destolkjezforever and Poppyjoppy. And last but definitely not least is J1.

Heusman all on a million points. So there more millionaires on the Sunday now by those names as well They're not us millionaires. We'll just say that I don't believe so

Rob (05:30.51)
Correct. believe most or all of those are in the Netherlands. Yeah, I believe so.

Craig (05:37.699)
Netherlands nice nice so well done and congratulations to all the the leaderboards over the weekend events coming up this weekend we have in North Carolina Indiana Florida and Minnesota as well and around the world we have to rock Germany and Norway

Rob (05:53.994)
Germany and Norway. I thought I was doing it. Yeah, you got it. We did.

Craig (05:57.803)
No, that's all right. We can do it together sometimes. It's okay. It's okay. Again, big events coming up. Make sure you do have a look at all the December dessert events because they are dessert events, which means there's special events. You get extra things. If you're a 10, you don't get just things like extra cake, but you do get extra cake, but not just extra cake, but you can actually get, what you call it, codes, discount codes for things in the store too. So make sure you get to yourself to any, any of the December dessert events.

Meanwhile January 16th and 19th in Florida. We have Munzee Madness, California March 8th 9th May 3rd is Munzee Uranus, big fun in Uranus May 24th Munstock and June 7th and 8th is in Ohio They're the big events and if you do have another one coming up next year reach out to me and we'll try and build it Rob We try and build these events for everyone out there. So that's all the events and the week that was let's move on to the week that is Shall we? I know right?

Rob (06:52.174)
Wow. We've moved quicker through that than ever before, think. I'm impressed. So let's slow down as we get through. No, just kidding.

Craig (06:55.981)
Yes. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You're welcome. Well, we have to slow down now because things have happened and they've been a little bit confusing in different ways in different circumstances. And we'll get to that now. firstly, Rob, this weekend from, Thursday all the way through to Sunday, there was a double points weekend for cards, flats, greenies, all mysteries and, and scatters. Those scatters include the wisps, Rob, the wisps.

Rob (07:25.326)
Wow.

Craig (07:26.135)
Yes, yes, I like that. Exactly. But even better, if you're a mailbox holder, get triple points, not just double, but triple points if you're a mailbox holder. See, can rob it's worth it. It's absolutely worth it. Exactly. And we're going to get to those scanners, especially the wisps a little bit later on as well. When I ask you questions in regards to all this cursed activity that's still happening, it's still happening. It's been over a week now. Still happening.

Rob (07:28.066)
That was good timing, isn't it? Wow, that's weird.

Rob (07:40.942)
It's amazing, isn't it?

Craig (07:55.627)
Robert, tell us about the flat scatters that are happening at the moment with the flashlights. What's going on with them?

Rob (08:00.162)
Well, flat flashlights. I was actually fortunate enough to get a lot of these and I got three badges from flat flashlight captures and scatter captures yesterday. Yeah, there were so many flat flashlights around. Lou was blasting and I was cleaning up a lot of the scatters. so yeah, I picked up three badges that I didn't have before, which was kind of cool. So yeah, everybody get out there.

Craig (08:07.95)
What?

Craig (08:11.307)
Craig (08:23.627)
Wow. Wow.

Rob (08:26.638)
Look for those flat flashlights capture those and then pick up the scatters. There is a special badge for for this time period and there's a discount on flashlights in the online store. And that'll run through Sunday.

Craig (08:34.596)
Mm-hmm.

Craig (08:40.303)
Very good. Now there was a little bit of confusion in regards to the badges. apparently it's, there's one new scatter. Is there just the one new scatter of the flat flashlights? And if you pick up three of that brand new scatter, which looks like an actual flashlight and it's flashing the letter you know, for Munzee, that's the one itself. If you pick up three of those, you get a badge, but you've got to get three of that exact one, not three random scatters of other, other, you know, flashlight scatters.

Rob (08:49.998)
I think so, yes.

Craig (09:10.093)
Just that one itself. there, but if you haven't got the others, then you can pick up those as well. So, so like yourself, Rob, you didn't have the others by the sounds of it. And now you do have all of them. So congratulations to you, my, as a person who can even give himself the badge if he wants to, but now he has to earn it. I like it.

Rob (09:10.306)
Okay.

Rob (09:20.076)
Now I do. Thank you.

Rob (09:26.858)
I have so much so much better if I earn it. It feels good. like reading reading that daily email that comes through and like, three badges that I got yesterday that I didn't even realize that I picked them up because you know, they pop through the notifications or they get delivered at different times. I did stop and look at the munch decks in the camp hub at one point in time yesterday to see if I had earned the badge for something. And at that time I had not so

Craig (09:30.111)
It does. It does.

Craig (09:34.894)
Mm-hmm.

Craig (09:38.339)
Hahaha.

Craig (09:44.143)
Mm-hmm.

Craig (09:49.07)
Yes.

Rob (09:55.576)
It's good to see that this morning.

Craig (09:55.759)
perfect. And I will say this as well. Let's flick back now because I listened to the Munzee Maniacs podcast over the last week, week and a half. and, and, PJ, he said he's question or not question, but suggestion more. So was to actually have, know, how you have the three little, buttons down each side of the bottom. So one on the right, one on the left, and you've got the, Z-OP button, you've got the clan war button and you've got the blast button. He wants another button on top of that, but the button he wants is.

Rob (10:21.612)
Mm-hmm.

Craig (10:25.613)
the munch decks and I'm like, no PJ, you don't need the munch decks button there. It's going to take up more real estate. Why not PJ? Listen up. Why not keep this? Listen to carefully, keep cappy on your screen, keep him on your screen as a button to just press him. And then you can go press straight to the munch decks. It's one extra press, PJ, one extra press, and you're not taking up any more space on the actual screen in terms of the real estate. So yeah, that was the other thing he said, Rob too. Now,

Did you listen to

Rob (10:57.452)
Actually, I didn't. You're saying it and and it was on my list of things to do. But because we were traveling and everything else, getting ready for that, having a family Christmas before we flew like I've had a chaotic last week.

Craig (11:02.222)
Mm-hmm.

Yeah. Yeah.

Craig (11:09.891)
Mm-hmm.

Or the other thing he said, ready for this Rob? Now you gotta listen carefully. Those same buttons that he's talking about, he wants to know if possible they can be customizable in terms of you have the button, what buttons you like in what places.

Rob (11:31.072)
Now, isn't one that sounds like question of the week, and I don't answer those during the podcast, so it's too bad to I would I would I would go back to any player who had questions about wanting to update the app and ask them, would they rather that we start throwing customization into the app or fix the things that are broken? Yeah, I feel like I've heard some feedback about that from somebody.

Craig (11:34.465)
Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. No.

Rob (12:01.15)
I heard it through my headphones. Yeah. yeah, it was PJ. That's right. So anyway, I hear what he's saying. Has that been something that we've kicked around many times? Yes. Has is it on a is it on a long list? Yes. Is it is it on the shortlist? No, we're not there yet. But what you can see is exactly what you've just said.

Craig (12:05.334)
That's right.

Craig (12:13.401)
Mm-hmm.

Rob (12:26.252)
And this is not on our notes. So I had no idea we were talking about this, but it fits perfectly because the camp hub is a place that we can drop, different icons, obviously very quickly. And you can see that we've done that over 2024. Like that's been sort of a major expansion and everything on that screen works. So as you might imagine, if we're looking to

Craig (12:38.039)
Yes. Yes.

Craig (12:42.991)
Mm-hmm.

Craig (12:49.859)
Yes.

Rob (12:54.644)
add things, we're not going to be updating the main page of the app, the main screen, the map screen. It was difficult enough for people when we launched it with the buttons that we have and like, I want them bigger. I don't want them there. I want them here and various places and everyone's got feedback and that's great. And we want to hear that. However, the, the fact that we put can't capi fairly large in that top left corner.

Craig (13:01.519)
Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.

Craig (13:11.855)
Mm-hmm.

Craig (13:22.798)
Mm-hmm.

Rob (13:24.074)
And that wasn't a popular thing. But he is like the home of the future. That's that's where the future is going. The future is going to land in that camp hub, you have MHQ time, you have wishing wells to get to them to request them, you have the daily activity tracker by clicking on the calendar.

Craig (13:32.057)
The home button. Yeah. Yes. Yeah, exactly. Exactly.

Craig (13:42.799)
Mm-hmm.

Mm-hmm.

Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.

Rob (13:52.14)
You've got the munch decks now and you have the redeem store. You also have the daily stroll. Yeah, number of stars daily stroll, like literally the the picture that we are building the story that we are building all exists within that camp hub. So

Craig (13:55.245)
Yep, and the number of stars. Yeah, this... Yeah. Yep.

Craig (14:06.286)
Mm-hmm.

I do see, cause I'm looking at it now as you're speaking as well. And I do see there's still a lot of room there. If you want, if everyone has a look, there's a lot of room above his head. There's a lot of room behind his backside. For instance, you know, that's there's a lot of room still on that screen. but yeah, like, and you just said something to Robert by clicking the, the calendar, you go to your daily activity tracker. I didn't know that that's brand new to me. Yeah. I just did it then and went, wow, you do, you can. So.

Rob (14:21.39)
Mm-hmm.

Rob (14:33.452)
really? Yeah.

That's been there since the very beginning. Yeah, you've got the...

Craig (14:39.691)
Yeah. See, not many, not many people know this or things. So, guys, listen up. you, if you're out and about, yeah, click around the screen a little bit, you know, touch different things and see what they do. and you may learn different things like me, right? Right. Then brand new learn from me. like it.

Rob (14:53.952)
It's there on purpose, and it's not going away and it is going to expand because you're right, there's plenty of room. We've we've been purposeful, I think with what icons we're using in the location of them. However, you can also see that they are fairly large on there.

Craig (15:03.16)
Mm-hmm.

Craig (15:10.724)
Mm-hmm.

Rob (15:14.606)
which means that we have plenty of room to shrink those, move those, all that kind of stuff. So don't don't get your heart set on them staying in the exact same location forever, because the wishing well is pretty far distant, you know, out in the background. And if it ever becomes an even more important part of the game, just, you know, just in case it ever does, then who knows, maybe it becomes part of the foreground instead of the background.

Craig (15:19.471)
You're on.

Craig (15:28.598)
It is, it is.

Craig (15:35.183)
Mm-hmm.

Craig (15:38.969)
Mm-hmm.

Craig (15:43.727)
Exactly. So PJ, I hope that answers your question, mate. you know what? They were good questions from PJ, I'll be honest. There wasn't, yeah, there was actually good questions from him too. So I do appreciate that. And they are bringing up more and more podcasts, Rob, as well. So, and, and I say, you know, a lot of people say quality over quantity, but they do quality. So why not more quality? So that's what I'll say. All right, Rob, moving on now to the, the cursed.

Rob (15:44.322)
Yeah. Anyway.

Yeah.

that's good.

Rob (15:59.698)
good.

Craig (16:12.151)
The cursed ones, this has been the bane of some people's existence in regards to this curse. Some people liked it, some people hated it. I've looked at different...

Rob (16:19.426)
That sounds like every day in everything that we do. That's fine. That's fine.

Craig (16:22.255)
Exactly. Exactly. So as we were recording, this is on Thursday, this week. So, but as it comes out on Friday, all the cursed ones are now cursed and they're all you've got rid of all that sludge out of the servers. Is that correct?

Rob (16:34.258)
It well, you know what I think was just super ironic is that we recorded this last Wednesday, right? And everything happened on Friday the 13th. And for about the first, what, six hours of the day, the curse didn't even work properly. So it didn't even roll out properly. So me, me acting like, we don't know what's going on was actually how it went. And I felt like that was supposed to be an act.

Craig (16:41.903)
Mm-hmm.

Mm-hmm.

Craig (16:50.473)
No.

Rob (17:02.836)
What? This is ridiculous. So to those who were like, is he pretending or is he not? I'm not even sure anymore. Who knows? So we, I tried to post in a few places, you know, like we really had a good plan. We really thought this was going to be fun. Things didn't go quite like we expected from the exact moment of launch. However, I think that we did the right thing by just reapplying the, the curse to

Craig (17:03.663)
I

Craig (17:09.39)
Mm-hmm.

Rob (17:30.558)
any of the amethyst and the briefcases that had already been capped. So that basically gave a lot of people two extra caps that day. So they could cat they kept that amethyst that was cursed, then they could cap the one underneath it. And then later in the day, when we put it back on, then it was like, you can cap both of those again. Yeah. With the curses, the wisp actually going out at that point in time. So so yeah, yeah, we thought it might be fun.

Craig (17:31.103)
Yes. Yes.

Mm-hmm.

Extra. Exactly.

Craig (17:44.356)
Mm-hmm.

Craig (17:50.093)
Cuss again. Exactly.

Craig (17:56.205)
Yeah, yeah.

Mm-hmm.

Rob (17:59.11)
we've got that, that veiled, you know, mysterious creature that if you read through the stuff, appears to be called the trappers or, he is, well, he's come in and he's put a curse on, on, conveniently all 13 of the items that, people were, you know, there was this request that came in from that shadowy figure.

Craig (18:05.423)
Mm-hmm.

Craig (18:15.033)
Mm-hmm.

I noticed.

Rob (18:23.694)
about the the the 13 what I can't even remember what it was called. But anyway, that deploy event and then any of those. So what has been determined is that all this is it. That's the end of the curse at this point in time. Yes, all 13 of them have been applied. They're going to stick around until the 31st because 13 reverse that 31 conveniently.

Craig (18:26.894)
Mm-hmm.

Mm-hmm.

Craig (18:39.855)
applying the curse. Yes.

Mm-hmm.

Rob (18:52.768)
same number of days in the month this year. So for those of you who are like, wait, how long is this going to be around until the 31st? These will go away. All of the curses will go away as we roll into 2025.

Craig (18:58.671)
Mm-hmm. Yep.

Mm-hmm.

Craig (19:06.703)
Either on the 31st or after the 31st goes away or it goes away when you cap it. So if you're, if you're one of those people out there that turn around and say, I don't really want this, look at all this, this cursed stuff on my map, go out there and cap them. That's all it is. So at the moment they're on all the cursed 13, which was the diamond, the aquamarine, the topaz, the amethyst, the onyx, the fire mystery, the water mystery, the air mystery, electric mystery, void mystery.

Rob (19:12.407)
Yes.

Craig (19:34.233)
Briefcase night vision goggles and virtual master of disguise now the other question came in Rob as well is that? When I kept the curse of say for instance the an onyx or a jewel that's not going against my that's not going towards my clan war and For that reason is because you're actually capping the curse not the actual onyx or the jewel underneath But but if you're capping like a diamond for instance, then it's a physical. So of course that goes towards your your crates

to open your crates, you see. So that's the way it kind of works because there's been a lot of chat online in regards to these aren't going again, going towards the clan wars. And that's because A, you've probably already kept it before or B, it's your own gem.

Rob (20:19.02)
Yeah, we call it a mask whenever we have that the mob, the flash mob, if you will. That's this is this is using a similar mechanic to the past when we flocked the map, you know, with flamingos when we've done that kind of thing. The pillow fight from long ago. So you put that you put the the one cap mask on top of something and and then that one's gone. So it's kind of like any scatter type thing.

Craig (20:25.304)
Mm-hmm.

Craig (20:30.905)
Mm-hmm.

Craig (20:36.451)
Mm-hmm.

Craig (20:43.204)
Mm-hmm.

Craig (20:46.873)
Mm-hmm. Yep.

Rob (20:47.594)
The nice part, what I've really enjoyed is the fact that on the ones that scatter. So like the all of the mysteries, they all scatter something normally when you cap them, the briefcase, the night vision goggles, when you cap it as it's cursed, then it sends those scatters out. So it's creating a lot of extra gameplay. And that's, you know, like the air mystery sending out all the feathers and the void sending out all the different weird stuff that the void sends out.

Craig (20:56.279)
Mm-hmm. Yep. Yep.

Mm-hmm.

Craig (21:09.305)
Mm-hmm.

Craig (21:12.911)
Mm-hmm.

Craig (21:17.263)
Yeah.

Rob (21:17.448)
but you've also got the cursed wisps as well. So, yep, it's been good.

Craig (21:21.239)
Yep, yep, exactly. There's some people out there, Rob, as well that don't like this sort of stuff because they're like these scatters. They're going everywhere. They don't look good on my map. All I'll say to that is, you know, after you get them and they scatter everywhere and the map looks absolutely disgusting. And it does because the scatters galore, especially when you've got scatters upon scatters. So you've got not only the scatter wisps, but the scatters from the mysteries, for instance, as well. All you do, Rob, is just...

Don't play for a couple of hours and then have a look and refresh the map and they're all gone. So they're not there for a long period of time. They're there for two hours. and that's all it is from there, but he's a trick. Cause if you cap, if you cap one of each of the cursed off the actual item itself, you get a badge. got the badge this morning. So I've got the badge because I kept one of each diamond, equimoon, topaz all the way down. Here's a little tip. If you're out there and you don't know whether you capped or not, actually there's two tips.

Rob (21:51.662)
You

Rob (22:09.496)
Did you?

Craig (22:19.501)
then you go into CUP of Z in CUP of Z you can actually see thanks to Sam if you've actually kept them all or not going into the area of CUP of Z on the homepage. You can see what you have or haven't kept. Now here's the big, big, big second tip which I learned this morning, Rob. If I, for me, I didn't have the topaz.

I'm looking, going, there's no topaz around me. my neck, my closest topaz. That's actually cursed is two and a half hours away. I, I, I deploy the topaz. It came up on my map as being instantly cursed so that I can cap it and therefore I can get. So what I'm saying that is that if you're out there and you don't have different ones and you don't have any of them around you, deploy it, deploy yourself and it'll be cursed straight away. Even today up to the 31st.

Rob (22:57.762)
Mm-hmm.

Craig (23:10.667)
And you can then cap your own not cap your own Munzee cap the curse off the Munzee. So yeah. And, therefore you get a badge. So if you don't have any of those around you or any left in your head, need it, deploy it and that's there to go. So that's a good tip, Rob. I like that tip. You like it? Yeah. Yeah. Easy. The more deploys, the better. And then Rob, you've got a jam or, know, an onyx or whatever it is near you for bounces to land upon later on. So.

Rob (23:15.982)
True. Good point.

Rob (23:26.38)
It is. That's what you need to do. Yep.

Craig (23:40.515)
Exactly, exactly. Or if it's a virtual type, deploy it for your other clan members so then they can get the dual benefit out of it in regards to the clan wars. I know. I'm full of it Rob and the idea is two. Anyway, we're going to move on mate. The secret zeops. There's only brand new secret zeops. Trouble? Trouble in Toyland. Tell us about Trouble in Toyland.

Rob (23:50.902)
bad idea. Teamwork.

Rob (24:05.6)
Indeed, Trouble in Toyland, it's 1,500 Zeds that's available in the secret Z-ops section of the app and let's see, four levels for you to complete and when you complete the entire Z-op then you get the new Moon Racer mech. So yeah.

Craig (24:13.689)
Mm-hmm.

Craig (24:24.507)
Mm-hmm. Have you done it, Rob?

Rob (24:28.11)
I have not you know what, honestly, I haven't even purchased it yet. And with the number the number of caps that I did yesterday, I could I'm pretty sure and the variety I'm pretty sure I could have completed the whole thing. Yeah. I so I was part of the the creation of this one. Obviously, I help out with whether I agree on you know, tasks and rewards and that kind of stuff. And so I know the general idea behind it, it is, you know, through different gaming type

Craig (24:32.207)
no!

Mm You could have done it. Yeah. Yes. Exactly.

Craig (24:45.262)
Mm-hmm.

Craig (24:50.031)
Mm-hmm.

Rob (24:56.606)
set up and I like the I like the badge I like the overall badge of it I think it's really cool.

Craig (25:01.199)
Yes. Yes. And the actual moon racer himself too. Looks really cool as well. So I I will say that. And, and, and some people get it because it looks cool. You know what I mean? Like because the actual item looks cool, which is great to say, Rob, I got mine yesterday. I got mine yesterday, but I was surprised because it was over 24 hours. It took me over 24 hours to get it. And, and, but I was still number 12. I still got moon racing number 12. Exactly. So I put on my own per on my, see my shell Instagram page.

Rob (25:05.602)
Yeah.

Rob (25:09.656)
Done.

Rob (25:24.989)
wow.

Craig (25:31.535)
And stories and I put their, are you working on this? And there's six votes saying, yes, they're working on it. And then there's three votes saying, no, they're not. And one of the votes saying, no, they're not. Is hail my star. Good friend. Yeah. Hail. My sister's not working on it. I know it ready for this. Another one that's not working on it either is minions are cool over in California. He is not working on it either because Rob.

Rob (25:39.554)
Hmm.

Rob (25:44.205)
What?

Rob (25:53.441)
What?

Not cool. Needs to fix that.

Craig (25:59.311)
He needs more as soon as he gets zed's as soon as he gets the zed's he use them for other things like I used to as well. I used to do the same thing until I learned that hang on, you know, I need 1500 zed's for this. So I now save up my zed's so I can actually get it straight away. yeah. So

Rob (26:01.717)
okay.

Rob (26:16.27)
Every other month one of these is going to come along, so you know, you know, or at least that's how it has been.

Craig (26:19.299)
Yeah.

Exactly. But one of the ones that said yes, who's working on is Q 22 Q 17. She's working on it and a few others as well. So very, very cool. But yeah, moon moon racer. great looking lion sort of style or cat big it's from Dylan's head.

Rob (26:38.956)
Yeah, it's still it's from it's from Dylan's head, you know, I can't remember which story this comes out of. But you know, there's he's always got some sort of a theme and he works around it. And yeah, yeah, I just sit back in in amazement and watch how he watch how he builds everything together. It's cool.

Craig (26:46.766)
Mm-hmm.

Craig (26:51.439)
Mm-hmm.

Mm-hmm.

That's really cool. So 1500 Z in the actual in app itself. If you don't have the 1500 Z you can purchase the amount of Z you require to then purchase the secret Z Ops as well. And don't forget these secret Z Ops, they do go away. They go away after a certain period of time and then you can't push them again unless there's a big sale on the secret Z Ops later on down the track, which has happened in the past. All right, Rob, moving on now. You've got this, something's happening in January. What's happening in January?

Rob (27:24.78)
Yeah, I'm not sure exactly how much of this information we're going to share by Friday. So just going to mention a big overall celebration is coming in the month of January. We really appreciate our premium members. We we love that you guys support the game and we want to give back to you. So we've got some special things that are going to happen at the at a very minimum every weekend during the month of June of January, almost a July.

Craig (27:30.157)
Mm-hmm.

Craig (27:34.319)
Mm-hmm.

Craig (27:51.993)
Mm-hmm.

Rob (27:52.59)
not there yet. So, in January, different things are going to be happening each weekend and, it's, it's a, gonna kick off with big points, with, tripler on, the first weekend. So as clan wars start in the new year, premium members are going to get triple points, where we are going to be trying some new things and we are going to try these new things with premium members only to start it off in 2025.

Craig (27:58.404)
Mm-hmm.

Craig (28:02.105)
Mm-hmm.

Craig (28:06.922)
Rob (28:20.862)
I'm really excited for us to get out of 2024 and to kick off the new year. Really thanking premium members and like I said, don't know how much of this is going to be published quite yet. But if you're not a premium member, why not please join us, support the game because honestly we could use your help and we will continue to put together good stuff in the future.

Craig (28:22.905)
Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.

Craig (28:34.915)
Mm-hmm.

Craig (28:43.343)
Mm-hmm.

Craig (28:47.263)
And I will say as well, Rob, that some little birdie from inside Munzee headquarters, inside Munzee, they've reached out to me. Mari, you know who you're talking about Mari Mari. I didn't say anything. and I will say that, I was, I was fortunate enough to be, shared one of those, things that are happening for premium members only. Now, if you're not a premium member, listen carefully, get yourself premium membership before January, because they're.

Rob (28:59.022)
No.

Craig (29:15.307)
Rob this one thing, thing, one thing that I was told and is huge for so many people out there. that's all I'll say. can't say anymore. Sworn to secrecy. She had me sign a document and everything, Rob. So yeah, no, that's not going to happen anyway. I know, I know. So, but all I'll say is yes, trust me on this. from a player's point of view, it's a hundred percent worth it. Get yourself a premium membership ASAP. if not for anything else, Rob.

Rob (29:19.139)
Mm-hmm.

Rob (29:28.366)
That's how she rolls.

Craig (29:42.383)
just so you get the ticks off those maps. That's the biggest thing is all the ticks that stay on your map when you're non-premium. So get yourself premium ASAP and yeah, big things are happening in January. All right, Rob, we're gonna move on to the question of the week. This question came from Anna Santo on the water cooler. on the water cooler, there was a talk in regards to how to introduce new players for your area or friends and family, that type of thing as well.

And Anna brought up the fact is that she said that the store credit for referrals is not active anymore. Now what, what, what that means I'll tell people first what that means. And that is because I've got it several times, Rob. And that is that if you refer someone as a Munzee player and they keep playing, then you get points for the referral. You then get ongoing points for life as long as they keep playing. Now the more points and the, you get from.

them and other referrals as well if you do several different referrals then you get to a certain point and you get Munzee credit to use in the store like $25 worth of credit in the store after you get a certain amount of points what she's saying is that that no longer exists Rob do you know anything about that yes yeah

Rob (30:57.54)
is that my question? Do I know anything about that? that doesn't sound correct from everything that I know. So I'm pretty sure. Yeah. So if, if anyone can look at the munzee.com slash referrals page and you can see your points there and it kind of has a little write-up. And if you can't find all the information there, then you go to our help guide and you'll find more information there. And then you search on the blog and you might find different information there and I apologize.

Craig (31:03.403)
Mm-hmm, so it still exists. Yeah. Yeah, okay

Craig (31:11.299)
Mm-hmm. Yep. Yeah. Mm-hmm.

Craig (31:20.825)
Mm-hmm.

Craig (31:25.375)
huh.

Rob (31:26.924)
So many places, but you know, we try to get it all together. yeah, it is still a thing. So a support ticket to support at munzee.com so that we can look into it for you. it, to my knowledge, it is triggered automatically through our system. Yeah. It should still be working.

Craig (31:33.494)
It's still a thing, yeah.

Craig (31:38.019)
There we go. There we go. It's still a thing. Perfect.

Craig (31:44.513)
Mm-hmm. Okay. Automatically. And while I'm quickly there as well, you can go on the munzee.com and go onto the leaderboards and on the leaderboards you have referral program leaderboards, referrals in total and also referral points. Quick shout out as always to Joshua, the geocaching vlogger with the most referrals ever. 1,563 referrals in second place and nowhere near close is gyro dude with 401.

So three times, Josh is over three times higher than second place.

Rob (32:19.566)
And I believe that Gyro Dude was like an entire scout troop type thing. Yeah, if I remember correctly, yeah.

Craig (32:24.527)
so yeah, yeah. And then all the way down in eighth place you have see my shell with 102.

Rob (32:32.142)
Honestly, 102 is even very impressive, know, that, yeah, everybody can try it. it's a free code that you can download through the online store. we'll give you a sweet looking little business card that you can get printed out and pass out to people. Yep.

Craig (32:36.591)
Thank you, mate.

Mm-hmm.

Yeah. Yep.

Craig (32:48.691)
Mm-hmm. Yeah. Yeah. And not just the overall, but also Robert tells you by the month and for this month, as we're recording it to Minnesota boys in the lead with two referrals and Josh, the J.K.K. blogger is in third place with one referral. So that's how you can do it. And then obviously you can look as well through leaderboards, through referral points. Now, this is where it gets interesting, Rob, is because the referral point. So Joshua has only got one referral for the month, but his referral or points for the month.

Rob (32:59.554)
Hey!

well.

Craig (33:17.167)
is 9,500 points. So he's got 9,500 points by nothing, by referrals alone. yeah, overall.

Rob (33:25.294)
Wow, that's a quality, quality referral to get that many points in a month.

Craig (33:30.035)
Exactly. Overall, Josh is at 1.7 million points overall for referrals alone. So you can imagine how far down he's going to be on the, he would be on the leaderboard if he didn't have referrals at all. So there you go. I hope that answers your referral question. And if you've got any other questions in regards to referrals as well, please reach out and ask. I'm happy to help. and all listen to some of the other Munzee podcasts that we've done in regards to referrals, the more the referrals, the better, but.

Just beware, if you're a Munzee referral, you'd become the Munzee Yoda for that person. They're gonna come to you and ask questions about Munzee and go from there. All right, Rob, that ends another official Munzee podcast.

Rob (34:10.69)
Thanks for joining us on this Munzee adventure.

Craig (34:13.299)
Don't forget to subscribe, rate and review on your favourite podcasting app and join us next week for another informative episode.

Rob (34:20.239)
And remember, Munzee is more than a game, it's a worldwide community of mobile game players.

Craig (34:24.985)
So keep scanning, keep discovering, keep that Munzey spirit level 123 referral on. You said Funzey, you said Funzey. It's Funzey. It's what's my Funzey, my Funzey.

Rob (34:28.974)
M-fun-zion, what? I think I said M-fun-zion. What on earth was that?