Saturday, August 27, 2011
Aurora Giveaway For A Price
The secret to a happy marriage
The secret to a happy marriage
A man and woman had been married for more than 65 years. They had shared everything. They had talked about everything. They had kept no secrets from each other except that the little old woman had a shoe box in the top of her closet that she had cautioned her husband never to open or ask her about.For all of these years, he had never thought about the box, but one day the little old woman got very sick and the doctor said she would not recover.
In trying to sort out their affairs, the little old man took down the shoe box and took it to his wife's bedside.
She agreed that it was time that he should know what was in the box. When he opened it, he found two crocheted dolls and a stack of money totaling $95,000.
He asked her about the contents. "When we were to be married," she said, "my grandmother told me the secret of a happy marriage was to never argue. She told me that if I ever got angry with you, I should just keep quiet and crochet a doll."
The little old man was so moved; he had to fight back tears. Only two precious dolls were in the box. She had only been angry with him two times in all those years of living and loving. He almost burst with happiness.
"Honey," he said, "that explains the doll, but what about all of this money? Where did it come from?"
"Oh," she said, "that's the money I made from selling the dolls."
Where Are The Street Blades?
Yesterday Zynga added a new Ultimate loot item to the Epic Family Boss Fight Rewards. They were too lazy to create a Ultimate category on the Rewards Page so you will find it listed with the Superior items.
Everybody wants this item but nobody has reported getting one. Many Families have killed Jeff many times over and the Street Blade just won't drop.
Since the Street Blade was added to the rewards, the {ASS} Family has completed 16 Boss Fights and nobody has gotten one. We also haven't seen any other players in different Families posting about it. Andrew "Bushwacker" is a very active Jeff Killer in the {ASS} Family and you can see by his Inventory Group run that even he hasn't gotten the elusive Street Blade. It was suggested that maybe you get it once you've acquired all of the Superior items but you can see below that this is not the case. I think Zynga forgot to turn it on or they failed to inform us of what is needed in order to get it.
Bonus Links
Bonus Links for Today
Looking for Email, Lucky Stash Spins, Toolbar and Atlantic Bonus Links? You have checked out the right place for the links to collect those bonuses!
Check out the links below:
Lucky Stash Spins - (Time: 24 hours)
Check out the links below:
Instructions to use the links:
- Click on one of the links below
- Wait for the 5 seconds countdown located at top right of page
- Click on "SKIP AD"
- Enjoy the Bonus!
Email Bonus - (Time: 24 hours)
http://adf.ly/2T4mK
http://adf.ly/2T4mK
Toolbar(Mini Energy Pack) Bonus - (Time: 8 hours)
Facebook Sharing Changes
If you've updated your status lately you probably noticed the status box looks a little different.
Facebook was nice enough to offer a tour and explain the changes and how they work.
We can now tag people, say where our location is and control who will see our posts. This may come in handy for those who don't like to annoy their non-Mafia Wars playing friends.
For more information on these changes, go to the Facebook How Sharing Works Page.
Family Progression
Family Progression Update
Earlier today, the {ASS} Family reached Level 7 on Family Progression. The Craftsman Perk gives you a 10% chance of looting double property parts. How lame is that? Of all the perks, this one takes the booby prize. Anytime Zynga uses the word "chance", you can count on it being worse than advertised.
With a new level comes a new piece of the puzzle. Team Spockholm created a Family Experience bookmarklet which reads the back code and will tell you exactly how much Family Experience is needed to advance to the next level. Here are the numbers for Level 7.
Now Zynga did throw us a bone and they posted the numbers we asked for(1). The problem is they all don't match what is written in the back code of the game. These numbers appear to be rounded estimates. That may be good enough for the farmers but Mafia Wars is a statistics driven game and the players prefer exact numbers.
Here is a comparison of what Zynga tells us versus what we actually see in the game. The numbers in red are estimates made by Eike of Team Spockholm. With the additional information, he was able to find a pattern and is confident that these numbers are accurate. In a perfect world without bugs, a Family with 100 members who perform 100% of the tasks every day (or week), it would take 206 days to get to Level 10. Go here for a more detailed explanation of all these numbers and estimates from Eike.
Level
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What The Game Tells Us
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What Zynga Tells Us
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1
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12,500
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0
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2
|
25,000
|
50,000
|
3
|
56,250
|
50,000
|
4
|
125,000
|
125,000
|
5
|
250,000
|
275,000
|
6
|
562,500
|
500,000
|
7
|
1,250,000
|
1,250,000
|
8
|
2,500,000
|
2,750,000
|
9
|
5,625,000
|
5,000,000
|
10
|
12,500,000
|
12,500,000
|
Cuban Mercenary
Get A Cuban Mercenary Today
Yesterday I took an unauthorized and short trip to Cuba (1). I was able to see that the Cuban Mercenary will be needed to perform jobs. What I wasn't able to determine is if it will be an equipment item or a consumable. Looks like we will need a lot of them if they are consumables.
Someone pointed out on the Mafia Wars Loot Lady Fan Page that this item is giftable and can be added to your wishlist.
You probably won't get a Cuban Mercenary from your mafia members because not that many players have them yet.
You can get them from opening up Mystery Bags.
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