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Wednesday, November 23, 2011

Zynga Defeating Itself In Mafia Wars

Zynga's Newest Event, "Save Don's Dinner", Is A Waste Of Effort For You Unless You Are A Strong Fighter. 
This Just Might Mean More Bad News For The DAU Of Mafia Wars.
We Have To Deal With Trying To Get Ices For Ice Season 11
Now We Have To Chase 100 Turkeys
Which We Risk Having Get Stolen If We Get Iced
How Can The Newer Players And Lower Level Players Compete?

They Can't! And The Less Lower Level Players There Are The More Mid To Strong Players Will Likely Quit Also. 

Zynga Is Defeating Itself In Mafia Wars With Overlapping Events That Too Many Players Can Not Complete, Too Much Emphasis On Fighting, Closed Cities That Newer Players Could Have Used To Build Themselves Up In, Rewards (Boss Fights) That The Drop Rates Make It Impossible To Get, And All The Changes That Have Messed Up The Opportunities That Many Of Us Used To Have A Chance At All (Gift Links Not Working). 

I Hate To Say It But If You Are New To Mafia Wars You'd Do Just As Good To Quit Now. Unless You're Alright Being A Punching Bag For The Elite.  

Seriously Zynga, You Are Taking What Could Have Been The Greatest Online Game Ever And Squandering The Potential!

Issues With Feeds And Cider House

Dear Mafia players,

We are aware that there is an issue with the feeds and in particular with the ones related to the Cider House when requesting parts. Our development team has been notified and is currently working to resolve this issue.

Please check the game periodically for updates on its availability. We apologize for this inconvenience.

There is no need to submit an email for this issue. To help us out, click "Please Fix" below to help us keep track of the total number of affected players.

http://support.zynga.com/CP_ArticleView_WebFull?custlayoutid=&gameId=43&Id=kA160000000GqRUCA0&lang=en_US&layout=WebFull&layouttmpl=Tmpl_WebFull_1&loc=en_US


Tuesday, November 22, 2011

Save Don's Dinner Walk Through

Save Don's Dinner Walk Through

Thanks to Jennifer of the MW LootLady Blog for this Walk Through!

Don's Dinner is our Thanksgiving Event. We have 8 days to complete it and most should have it done by tomorrow.

Zynga has posted anything about the event so we must rely on the in game instructions.
The goal of the event is to collect Thanksgiving Turkeys and keep enough of them to collect your loot item reward.
One thing you should notice right away is there are a lot of Asterisks in the instructions. We are limited in how many Thanksgiving Day Turkeys we can collect in a day. 20 from Jobs, 20 from fights and 20 from friends.
Of course there is no limit on buying them with Reward Points. Get them right from the instruction page or go to the Marketplace. To get one of each of the 4 loot items (you can get as many as you want), you will need a total of 200 Thanksgiving Turkeys.
The are very easy to get from doing jobs. If you want a decent experience/energy ratio, activate your Lockpick Bonus and do the District 2 Chicago Job "Secure Hooch To Sell In Your Joint".
If you want to spend as little energy as possible, go to New York and do a 1 or 2 energy job. I did the Associate Tier "Mugging" job which cost 2 energy. The drop rate was pretty good.
I was able to get the remaining 9 Turkeys I could get for the day with just 666 energy.
Getting Turkeys from fighting is a little more complicated. You can track your progress on top of the Fight Page.
You can steal them from other players. You will notice big obnoxious Turkey symbols on the fightlist and that means the player has Turkeys.
You will notice a thing called Turkey Vision. If you activate it, you will be able to see who has unprotected Turkeys for 5 minutes. The first time you activate it it's free. Zynga explains that "When Turkey Vision is active, you'll see who has turkeys which are easier to steal! You have 5 mins of free Turkey Vision.".
Here is what your fightlist will look like with Turkey Vision activated. Targets with a slash through their Turkey Protection are the ones you want to attack.
I iced 3 players in the 5 minutes my Turkey Vision was active but I didn't get any Turkeys. You will notice the ice screen has been modified for the event. Kills still look the same.
So far I'm not impressed with Turkey Vision so I won't be purchasing it with Reward Points. They are crazy to think players would spend 10 Reward Points for 5 minutes of something that doesn't seem to work anyways!
If you steal a Turkey, you will get a notification on top of your fight module.
Or if You Fight And Steal A Turkey Without Using The Turkey Vision Your Ice And Stolen Turkey May Look Like This;
The good news is this event didn't break the Assassin-a-Nator. I used 3,394 stamina and got 6 Turkeys. The Turkeys are showing up on the loot log yet but I used the Turkey Counter on the Fight Page. I may have gotten more as some could have been stolen. Inventory History is the way to see exactly what's going on with your Turkeys.
Asking your friends for Turkeys is easy. Just click the "Ask" button. If you want to see your post, turn off auto-posting.
When your mafia members click on your post, you get a Turkey. You can get 5 Turkeys per request. I'm not sure what the timer is on the "Ask" buttons. The event was pulled before we could verify if you get one for helping. I imagine you do since there is a 20 per day limit.
Like it or not, people are going to steel your Turkeys. You can get protection from your mafia. Turkey Protection is available on the Free Gift Page. You can accept 20 a day. I don't now the details of how long each Turkey Protection lasts or how it works. Hopefully we can figure that out tonight.
If you want to save a few clicks, here is a link that will take you to the Turkey Protection Send Page. If you don't have the event on your account, this link will be a Blue Mystery Bag.
When you have enough Turkeys to master a level, there will be a "Claim Reward" button on the Home Page.
You don't get your reward when you click on it. It will direct you to the instruction page and you have to click the "Redeem" button.
To get the Bronze Level Butler, you need 25 Turkeys. You can collect that one first or keep your meter going. You need 50 Turkeys for Silver, 75 for Gold and 100 for Ruby. Once you Redeem a reward, those Turkeys disappear and you have to start over. It may prove to be difficult to keep 100 your inventory.
What's unique about the Butler is you can have more than one and getting a higher level will not remove your lower level. Here is the inventory of an account that got the Ruby Level Butler. You can see all levels of the Butler are active and there are 2 Bronze Levels. The bottom line is that we can keep collecting Turkeys and collect as many Butlers as we can for the next 8 days. What fun!


Family Gatherings Known Issues - Zynga'd Again

As Usual, ZyngBugs Are Infecting The Coding In Mafia Wars. This Time It Is Family Gatherings Mission Event.

Zynga's Announcement On Their Blog.
 Hello Mafia Players,

We are aware that some of you are experiencing the following issue:

Mission Event: Family Gatherings - How Was The Food? - Gain Access To Private Villa
Issue: Some players report not receiving credit/progress for completing the "Gain Access To Private Villa" job task.
Status: Investigating. If you are experiencing this issue, please reply to this post with your answers to the following questions so that we may better assist you. 

Remember, only forum moderators, administrators, and Mafia Wars developers will be able to see your post, so your information will remain private.
  1. When did you first notice the issue?
  2. What are you doing in the game when you experience the issue? (Please provide as much detail as possible to help us reproduce the actions that trigger the issue for you.)
  3. What Internet browser are you using and what is its version number? (Example: Google Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer, etc.)
  4. What is your Facebook profile link? (Examples: http://www.facebook.com/username orhttp://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=4444444444444444)
Thanks,

~Mafia Wars Team

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