(originally posted February 26, 2009)
Hubby and I tried out bombing last night, it's kinda fun, makes me want my VIP back... hmm.. tempting EDIT I bit the bullet and got my VIP back
What I discovered about bombing...
• You only have an hour for it so it's pretty short-lived
• You can only hit one album per person
• You can only hit one album every 60 seconds which is annoying and really limits how many points you can get
• You can't bomb an album that's already been bombed! Total bummer! If you have an activated bomb, it'll show you at the top of the album who that album has been bombed by, if it hasn't, it'll give you a link to bomb the album, or show you how long you have left until you can bomb again. EDIT They changed it! Now it shows who bombed the album before you, but you CAN bomb it too! YAY!
• You can easily tell which albums have been bombed in the list, it will show a little burning folder image on the albums that have already been bombed.
• You can only hit a max of 250 pictures per album, even if there are more pictures than that in the album. If it's 788 pics in the album, you only get points for 250 of them.
• You get DOUBLE the points if you hit someone who has auto11s on!
My experience last night:
Before activating... 36,486,438 points to go
After the hour was up... 35,969,995 points to go
Thanks to the mathematical genius of my calculator, I see I dropped about half a million points in the hour I had the bombing active. It was wicked fun.
EDIT My second experience I went down nearly 1.5 million points, a definite improvement. I saved the names of who I bombed and I counted 'em up afterward. I think I missed adding a couple of names, but I managed to get to at least 55 people during the hour.
I think it's too expensive, and the 1 per 60 second limit is frustrating. If it's going to cost so much, I think we should be able to just go for broke and hit as many albums as we can! Fine don't let us hit more than one album per person and once it's hit don't let someone else hit it, but only one every 60 seconds? Bah... in my humble opinion Auto11s are still more points for the money, but I think bombing is way more fun, and it doesn't mean I'm relying on other people either.
