User blog:Ash-274/Not so fast, there!

"Patience is a virtue" but it can also get you the oppertunity to gain lots of job loot and consumables.

When a new level or location opens up most players will rush through it to gain mastery rewards as soon as they can. Zynga also tends to have more favorable ratios of energy/experience or stamina/experience when a new area is opened up that they dial back after a few days, so there is a specific benefit to charging ahead.

There is also another school of thought that can work out better for you. At Bronze-Level jobs take less energy than they do at higher levels; we all know this. Bronze-level jobs also have the same chances of dropping loot or getting a consumable (Hotel Keys, Satellite Phones, etc.). So if you have 4000 energy you can get a lot more of these with 12 energy per job and with 144 energy per job.

Some players now have dozens or even hundreds of the district-7 and -8 loot items like these: because they kept doing the Bronze-level jobs over and over again. I've mastered Hoover Dam to Ruby-level and Area 51 to Gold-level (so far) and, except for the Diamondback I have less than 3 of each of these items. I did, however, did the Vegas job that dropped the Alarm Code-dropping job from the Lower Strip level over and over and was able to master that and these new levels and still have more than 400 Alarm Codes left over, saving me energy.

This strategy doesn't work for everyone's style of playing, but consider it next time Zynga adds another level.