Goodbye 48 Hour Battle...Hello 1 Hour Battle
If anybody cares about the Family Battle feature, the 48 hour Battle option has been removed and replaced with a 1 hour Battle.
The help page has also been update to reflect this change.
Family members now have to join the battle by clicking the "Join the Battle" button and have the option not to if they don't want to participate. Admin are automatically thrown in whether they want to battle or not. The time synchronization is a little off but ices will start counting as soon as you join the battle.
On the Family Leaderboard, the Skirmish is the 1 Hour Battle and the Battle is the 4 Hour Battle. Zynga really needs to fix the backward buttons. If something is highlighted then it should be displayed, it's ass backwards. They should also bother explaining these changes and how the scoring systems work. There is nothing on the Official Mafia Wars Blog or Customer Support.
Something appears to be wrong with the scores as well. You will notice that the overall family score s much lower than the individual scores. Enter New Name of the AssHat Family has a individual score of 65,250 but the total score is only 5,333. This has been confirmed on other accounts as well.
How To Remove Auto-Posting
Some players are noticing that their Mafia Wars requests are auto posting to their walls. This became really apparent when the new property was added. When clicking on the "Ask for More" button, there is not a request to publish and the buttons immediately change to "Request Sent". The request is automatically published to your wall. This put a damper on the trick used to post 4 property requests at once outlined here. The work around is quite simple. All you need to do is go to your wall and copy the link location of your old posts.
If you don't like auto-posting, there is a way to stop it. Go to your Account Settings from the Account Menu.
Select Apps located in the upper left corner.
From the list of your applications, find the Mafia Wars and click on "Edit".
From the option "Post to Facebook as me", click on "Remove".
The next time you click on the "Ask for More" button, you will get a popup trying to get you to undo what you've just done. Click "No".
You will now get a requests that you control. To get more property parts, copy the link address from posts already on your wall, go to a url shortening site and make small links then copy the to your wall or group.
While you are on the application edit page, scroll to the bottom and check the App activity privacy setting. If you have it set to "Only Me" then your posts will not be visible to anyone but you and your mafia members won't see them.
Change it to Public, Friends of Friends or Friends to ensure that your Mafia Wars posts will be visible and your mafia can help you.
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The help page has also been update to reflect this change.
Family members now have to join the battle by clicking the "Join the Battle" button and have the option not to if they don't want to participate. Admin are automatically thrown in whether they want to battle or not. The time synchronization is a little off but ices will start counting as soon as you join the battle.
On the Family Leaderboard, the Skirmish is the 1 Hour Battle and the Battle is the 4 Hour Battle. Zynga really needs to fix the backward buttons. If something is highlighted then it should be displayed, it's ass backwards. They should also bother explaining these changes and how the scoring systems work. There is nothing on the Official Mafia Wars Blog or Customer Support.
Something appears to be wrong with the scores as well. You will notice that the overall family score s much lower than the individual scores. Enter New Name of the AssHat Family has a individual score of 65,250 but the total score is only 5,333. This has been confirmed on other accounts as well.
