Players Say No To Battles

One Can More Than Reasonably Assume That Half The Families That Participate In The Family Battles Will See The Above Banner When The Battle They Participated In Commences. The Other Half Of The Families Who Participated In A Family Battle Will See The Following Banner;

The Dark Truth Of The Matter Is That Most Families Are Not Participating In The Battles At All. The Following 2 Pictures Show How Many Families Are Currently Registered In Mafia Wars.

As You Can See There Are 11,715 Registered Families. Since The Mafia Spirit Family Has Not Participated In Any Skirmish Nor Battle At All And We Have A Score Of 1500 In Each I Can Presume That All Families With That Score Or Less Have Not Participated In A Family Battle. On The Next 2 Pictures I Drew A Red Line On The Leader Boards Where My Presumed Participants Would Be Separated From The Non-Participants. 

As You Can See, With Using This Ideology, Only 23% Of All The Families Have Participated In A Skirmish And Only About 20% Have Participated In A Battle. One Can Only Deduce That An Overwhelming Majority Of Mafia Wars Players Have Not Partaken In A Battle (Nor Skirmish). 

One Major Reason Why Many Of Us Who Are Running Families Are Not Electing To Participate In The Family Battles Is The Family Progression.

We Feel We Have Enough Difficulties To Deal With In The Game As Opposed To 'Having' To Be Online To Help Our Family In A Battle That We Will Lose Too Many Fights In. We Need Ices, In Other Words, And We Can Not Get Enough Ices For The Family Progression If We Have To Red Ice To Get Them. Add To That, We Do Not Get The Fighting High End Loot When We Lose Fights. Add To That, The Fact That When We Lose Our Fights Trying To Get A Red Ice We Are Helping The Opponent Become Stronger Through The Experience They Are Gaining And We Still Lose The Battle. Add It All Together, Add To That, The Fact That We Still End Up On The Fight Pages If We Have Full Health So We Take Fight Losses From There Also. The Bottom Line Is The Fact That The Battles Aren't Worth The Same Loot Items We Get By Doing The Boss Fights Nor The Fight Losses We Take When We Participate Nor The Playing Dead We Have To Do If/When Our Family Is In A Battle And There Are No Viable Targets. We REFUSE To Be The Stronger Players Punching Bags!!