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Wednesday, August 22, 2012

Family Icing Event: Let the Ices Begin Winners

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The top ten winners list for the Family Icing Event: Let The Ices Begin, have been released and announced of the Official Mafia Wars Blog. Here is a copy of the list.

Winners of the Family Icing Event: Let the Ices Begin

Mobsters,

Here are the winners of ‘Let the Ices Begin’ event.

Family Ice Seasons Winners

The winners will receive their rewards by the end of 8/22/2012 PST. 

Bonus Prize For the Top Families

These types of events always draw out those throw around accusations of cheating, etc. Here are some of the comments from the winners announcement on the Official Mafia Wars Blog;

Family Ice Seasons Forum Comments

These players will be labeled as whiners and all sorts of other derogatory inflammations.

These players do, however, have a legitimate gripe in an event such as this one where the TOS (Terms Of Service) are blatantly ignored by players and Zynga. The TOS explicitly warns about the use of automation software, bots, and the like. 

CHEATING AND HACKING - You agree that you will not, under any circumstances:

  • d. Use cheats, exploits, automation software, bots, hacks, mods or any unauthorized third party software designed to modify or interfere with the Service or any Zynga game experience;
  • e. Use the Service in order to design or assist in the design of cheats, automation software, bots, hacks, mods or any other unauthorized third party software designed to modify or interfere with the Service or any Zynga game experience;
  • f. Without Zynga’s express written consent, modify or cause to be modified any files that are a part of the Service;
  • g. Disrupt, overburden, or aid or assist in the disruption or overburdening of (1) any computer or server used to offer or support the Service or any Zynga game environment (each a "Server"); or (2) the enjoyment of the Service or any Zynga game by any other person;

It is a known fact that for many players Mafia Wars cannot be played without the use of bots or scripts since many players have astounding amounts of energy, stamina, health, attack and defense.

An event such as this one was sure to draw the stamina heavy accounts out from dormancy. An event such as this one was most certainly designed for the strong players. An event such as this one most likely made Zynga a ton of money from players purchasing stamina refills.

With ice counts for some of the families topping the 500,000 mark it is obvious that players utilized autoplay scripts that would have aut-healed their character and auto fought for them. In addition, these players may have used scripts that would do jobs automatically for them and more.

The following chart shows the average number of ices per player for the event.

Family ID TAG Family Name Ices Achieved Members Average Ices
Per Player
58 MwG Mafia Wars Gods 644886 97 6648.31
5156 {ASS} Assassin-a-Nators 548601 99 5541.42
5035 ≡ƒ≡ ƒ๏ям๏ѕÂ 歡樂ƒůn團 450231 64 7034.86
3243 ๏™ Target Mafia 447689 101 4432.56
132 {|nWo|} nWo Wolfpac 4 Life 400185 90 4446.50
1056 [AYLBTU] AYLBTU 386360 91 4245.71
1346 ~Ⓜ~ Ⓜυρμιδων-Ⓜyrmidons 319454 53 6027.43
7424 {ṀωṀ} Mafia Wars Maniac 257141 71 3621.70
1085 •FIN• •FIN• 228499 67 3410.43
6411 ƸMƷ мęŧâмΘяŤթħōşíŞ 200359 87 2302.98

 

The ‘Let the Ices Begin’ event ran for 7 days (or 168 hours). As a family the winning families averaged more ices in an hour than I can in 3 days.

 

Family ID TAG Family Name Ices Achieved Members Average Ices
Per Hour
58 MwG Mafia Wars Gods 644886 97 3838.61
5156 {ASS} Assassin-a-Nators 548601 99 3265.48
5035 ≡ƒ≡ ƒ๏ям๏ѕÂ 歡樂ƒůn團 450231 64 2679.95
3243 ๏™ Target Mafia 447689 101 2664.82
132 {|nWo|} nWo Wolfpac 4 Life 400185 90 2382.05
1056 [AYLBTU] AYLBTU 386360 91 2299.76
1346 ~Ⓜ~ Ⓜυρμιδων-Ⓜyrmidons 319454 53 1901.51
7424 {ṀωṀ} Mafia Wars Maniac 257141 71 1530.60
1085 •FIN• •FIN• 228499 67 1360.11
6411 ƸMƷ мęŧâмΘяŤթħōşíŞ 200359 87 1192.61

If you break the above chart (which shows the families average ices per hour) down to an average number of ices by player per hour then you have what is shown in the chart below;

 

Family ID TAG Family Name Ices Achieved Members Average Ices
Per Hour
Per Player
58 MwG Mafia Wars Gods 644886 97 39.57
5156 {ASS} Assassin-a-Nators 548601 99 32.99
5035 ≡ƒ≡ ƒ๏ям๏ѕÂ 歡樂ƒůn團 450231 64 41.87
3243 ๏™ Target Mafia 447689 101 26.38
132 {|nWo|} nWo Wolfpac 4 Life 400185 90 26.47
1056 [AYLBTU] AYLBTU 386360 91 25.27
1346 ~Ⓜ~ Ⓜυρμιδων-Ⓜyrmidons 319454 53 35.88
7424 {ṀωṀ} Mafia Wars Maniac 257141 71 21.56
1085 •FIN• •FIN• 228499 67 20.30
6411 ƸMƷ мęŧâмΘяŤթħōşíŞ1192.61 200359 87 13.71

Since it’s obvious, and even openly admitted to by some, that the winning families used bots and scripts to acquire the number of ices that they achieved in this event one could reasonably ask a few questions like;

Were bot and script use abused during this event?

Did players utilize said bots and scripts to ice mini accounts in attempt to be a top 10 family?

Should these families be banned?

Is Zynga’s ‘laissez faire’ approach to certain bots and scripts in as much as condoning the use of them?

What do you do now as a player? Do you continue to play? Do you quit?

All I know is that Zynga cannot continue to ride both sides of the fence. Zynga needs to either openly endorse the use of scripts (at least for Mafia Wars) or ban the abusers. You cannot have it both ways because it IS A CONTRADICTION IN TERMS!

What is your stance on the use of bots and/or scripts?

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