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The Michigun is one of the new loot items that drops in the first District of Chicago. Nobody really paid it too much attention because look at it. The stats are anything but desirable.
Once players started progressing in the Chicago City Missions, the Michigun started getting a whole lot of attention.
The reason is because the last objective of the 6th Mission, Rum Runner, requires that you loot 20 Michiguns from jobs in Chicago. The problem was the drop rates were extremely rare and tens of thousands of energy was needed to complete this task. Many went to Customer Support.
Now that the masses are on this Mission, Customer Support was probably overwhelmed and something was done about the Michigun problem. When the Rum Runner Mission is active, they drop rate of Michiguns is really high. I couldn't verify this because the Mission is not active on any of my accounts but there are many comments on the Mafia Wars Loot Lady Fan Page. Players are also reporting that Michiguns drop in New York and Brazil when the Mission is active and it should no longer require a lot of energy or Customer Support to complete. You can see below they are dropping in the low energy New York jobs as well.
The Daily Take has been updated and it's much different than it was before. Now when you click on the Daily Take Link located at the lower right corner of your Home Page Current Event Module or the Collect Button from the Daily Take banner, you will get something different.
You now get to choose from 6 different items. The items get better with each day.
Click on the "Collect" button under the item that you want and it will be rewarded to you.
You can share the items that you didn't want with your mafia by clicking the "Share this take" button. A news feed post will be generated.
When your mafia members click on "Get daily take reward", they will have the option to choose from the remaining rewards. The rewards will vary on which day of the Daily Take is being shared. You can accept up to 5 of these a day.
Here is the reward screen for the post I generated from above.
I chose the last item and here is the screen I got. The second screen is from a post I found in my news feeds.
6 days ago, 5 new loot items were added to our inventory. They were all labeled as Special Event items and there were many guesses as to what type of event they would be offered.
The mystery of the items shown above has been solved.
If you go past 7 days, the feature becomes The Golden Take. Here is an image from someone who got there. We will have to wait to see what comes next as there shouldn't be anyone above this level at this time. I checked the Official Mafia Wars Blog and the Customer Support page but I think they don't care about informing us anymore. There are many images posted on the Mafia Wars Loot Lady Fan Page if you want to see more items that are now offered from the Daily Take.
For sometime now many if not all players have encountered the dreaded Grant Batch 43 Cookie. When the cookie gets too large, you can't access Mafia Wars. Removing the cookie makes it possible to get back into Mafia Wars but many players wouldn't know how to do that and Zynga hasn't done anything to spread the word. Once the cookie gets too big, you will get the message shown below when you attempt to access Mafia Wars.
Instructions on how to remove the Grant Batch cookie here bad request errors. In theory you could just block it but that doesn't really work and it always seems to come back no matter what you do. It can get to be very long and the frequency of which it grows depends on how much you fight. The image below had to be cropped or it would have taken up a lot of blog space. It's that big.
During Episode 11 of Mafia Wars Live, Ben and Jeff attempted to answer the following question about the Grant Batch 43 cookie.
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What is the point of the Grant_Batch_43 cookie?
I assume you're all aware this nasty little thing keeps appearing in my cookie folder, completely shutting down the game until I go through my folder and delete it, and it's been mentioned several times before on here.
It has no practical purpose as the game runs al right without it, so what's the deal with this?
We didn't get an answer but were told that when the Q&A transcripts were posted it would be addressed. Here is the clip of reply to this question pulled from Mafia Wars Live.
Those transcripts were never posted so I went to Team Spockholm to get the answer. The fist thing that needs to be cleared up about the Grant Batch cookie is a popular misconception that Zynga created it to catch script users in action. Pete stated that the Grant Batch cookie is used in the fight module and both scripters and non scripters get it. The problem is there are some tags in the code that are not closing properly and Zynga is working on fixing that. Below is Pistol Pete's response to an anonymous poster who drank the Kool-Aid, fell into the Zynga witch hunt system and s compelled to share it with others. The only part he got right is that Zynga is the originator of the cookie. Martin's reply to that was "It's kind of obvious Zynga is the creator, it comes from the game".
The Grant Batch cookie is a flaw in the new fight module and there is something that makes it explode in size which prevents the browser from accessing Mafia Wars. Once Zynga can locate and fix all the triggers, the Grant Batch cookie will no longer be a problem. If you use Assassin-a-Nator there is now a hidden benefit. A bit of code was written into the script and it automatically deletes the Grant Batch cookie for you. If you noticed you haven't gotten the Grant Batch cookie error in a while, this is probably why. Manual fighters are on their own and must constantly delete the cookie until Zynga fixes the problem.
Thanks to Pete and Martin for educating us on the Grant Batch cookie and to Mike Nestor for uploading the Mafia Wars Live clip on the Informant Podcast YouTube Channel. Also thanks to MWLootLady for sharing this info.
Many players have been getting "Bad Request" error messages when they try to go to their Mafia Wars account. This error is caused by a Grant_Batch_ cookie that is really long.
To play Mafia Wars again on your computer, you need to remove this cookie. To remove it in Chrome, click on the little wrench in the upper right corner of your screen and select "Options".
From the Options page, select "Under the Hood".
Now select "Content settings".
From the Cookies category, select "All cookies and site data".
Now you will get a list of all your cookies. You could just remove them all but if you use the Spockholm bookmarklets like Inventory History, Stats History or Mafia Manager, you will lose all of that data. To find the Grant_Batch_ cookie, scroll through your cookies and click on facebook.mafiawars.com in the site column.
Now all the cookies associated with this site will open up. Find Grant_Batch_ and click on it. It will open all of the information about the cookie. Now scroll to the bottom and click on remove. Once you do that, you will be able to get to your Mafia Wars game again.
If you use FireFox, go to Tools located in the upper left portion of your screen and select Options.
Now select "Privacy" located at the top of the Options window an click on "remove individual cookies".
Scroll through your cookies and double click on facebook.mafiawars.com.
Now scroll the cookies until you locate the Grant_Batch_ cookie and click on it.
Now all the information of that cookie will be visible. Click on Remove Cookie and it will be gone and you can play Mafia Wars again.
Spockholm once again developed something new. We call it the "Link-o-Database", and it is basically an addition to the Link-a-Nator and the Free-Gift-Get-a-Nator.
The original way of sharing your gift links was posting them to your wall. The script to create and post those links is called the Link-a-Nator, or LAN.
Later we came up with the idea of a Spocklet that collects all those links posted to your friends walls and displays them in a easy way. This is called theFree-Gift-Get-A-Nator, or GAN. In the latest version it even sorts your links by category and lets you click them or copy to the Bagman Mugger.
Meanwhile Facebook-API changed a few times and is still changing for some accounts, making it really hard to find enough gift links. We've already added (with help of our fan Bill Liebler) an option to scan the feed, but this is painfully slow and never gives you a lot of links.
We've always dreamed of having our own database of links, where you just go in and get links that you want, fast and instantly, without bothering Zynga or Facebook. The problem here was to get only the links of your mafia members, which is not a simple problem.
Now Zynga came with their (or Chester's) Family Module. With the Family Progression, the need for gifts became bigger, since you can easily fulfill your daily helper task with opening 100 gifts.
So we from Team Spockholm sat down and designed and created a Family Gift Database (Martin called it Link-o-Database).
How does it work? The concept is simple. Every Family Member contributes their links, and every user can then retrieve their Families links.
We designed this to be as easy as possible. It was integrated into Link-a-Nator and Get-a-Nator and you just need one extra click each to use the Link-o-Database.
When running the updated Link-a-Nator, you will notice the following new options:
Clicking the "Publish to family link-o-database"-button will publish your links to the database. One click, no further work for you. If you want to even save that click, check the "Send to database automatically after creation."-Option and your links will always be updated to the database.
Now that you have created your links, you may want to retrieve your family member's links and click them. Run the updated Free Gift Get-a-Nator and select the option "Link-o-database" from the select field. Click "Scan" and you will see the links in an instant!
To ensure you are really uploading your links for your family, we've added a leech-check. You have to have at least 10 links uploaded in the last 48 hours, or you are not eligable to retrieve your familiy's link. Of course you should post your links daily to help your family the most!
For the Beta-Test-Phase, we have decided to roll this feature out (yes, sorry for using Zynga-methods) to only 1/10th of the familys. If you family-id ends with a "7", then you may use it. We're doing this so we can monitor the server-load and will then include more families every day. So try again every day and enjoy the benefits of this new service!
