If you do, get out now! Before you hear those words; Till Death Do Us Part.
Zynga wants to make it official since all of you have been living with Mafia Wars for years. Spending hours upon hours clicking each others buttons. Chasing each other all over the internet. It’s been a love fest so why not make it official. Why not get conjoined in Holy Matrigamy? Till Death Do Us Part.
Just don’t forget to tip the ‘Justice Of The Peace’ 45 RP for each of the next 7 days….
Ice Season 30 is under way. Nothing different from the previous Ice Season other than the Grand Prize loot, which is a Snooker Player.
Snooker (UK /ˈsnuːkər, -kə/[1] or US /ˈsnʊkər/)[2] is a cue sport that is typically played on a table covered with a green cloth or baize, with pockets situated in each of the four corners and a further two, commonly referred to as the middle, or side pockets, that sit in the middle of each of the long side cushions. The (baize) cloth on a snooker table has a directional nap running from the balk end of the table towards the end with the (black ball) spot. This affects how a ball rolls depending on which direction it is hit or shot. A regular (full-size) table is 12 × 6 ft (3.7 × 1.8 m). It is played using a cue and 22 snooker balls: one white cue ball, 15 red balls worth one point each, and six balls of different colours: yellow (2 points), green (3), brown (4), blue (5), pink (6) and black (7).[3] A player (or team) wins a frame (individual game) of snooker by scoring more points than the opponent(s), using the cue ball to pot the red and coloured balls. A player receives additional points if the opponent commits a foul or fails to escape from a snooker. A player wins a match when a certain number of frames have been won.
The tier prizes are as follows;
On September 2, 2013 we posted about a new collection that is called the Gracias Collection. The Gracias Collection is now available.
The items that we will be collecting for the Gracias collection include a Bubbling Over, Kind Gesture, Muchas Gracias, Cheers, Special Occasion, Party Popper, and a Sparkle.
The Gracias Collection is supposed to be part of ‘The Accomplice’ event (not released at the time of this posting).
READY FOR LAUNCH
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The Accomplice - FAQ
Pick an Accomplice and Gain Extra XP From Fights! Receive gifts from your friends and Vault the new Gracias Collection for great Rewards!
Q: What is The Accomplice? When will it start?
A: The Accomplice is a limited-time event where you can gain additional XP from fights in Chicago with the help of your friends who play Mafia Wars.
The event will start on September 19, 2013 and will end on October 04, 2013 and will be applicable only for Fights in Chicago.
Q: How do I access the Event? How does it work?
A: Please travel to Chicago and click on Fight to access The Accomplice.
You can also access The Accomplice and Gracias Collection through the Home Page module.
You will notice the change in Fight screen for Chicago with a pre-populated list of Accomplices from your Facebook friend list who will last for a certain number of fights and will help you earn additional XP.
Your friends will also see you as an Accomplice when they fight in Chicago and can benefit from you in the form of additional XP.
Please note that best available Accomplice (in other words, the most active Accomplice) will be selected by default.
You also have an option to pick your own Accomplice before starting a Fight.
Hover over the image of any Accomplice to find out how many fights they will last and help you earn additional XP.
When you attack an opponent, you will see a screen which shows you the amount of XP received from the selected Accomplices:
Q: How is the extra XP calculated?
A: Each Accomplice will give you 1 extra XP per Fight. Total XP earned will depend on the total number of Accomplice available to you, their Mafia Wars activity level and your Level.
Once you have received all the XP from an Accomplice, you can choose to thank them with a Mystery Gift before selecting your next Accomplice.
Q: Can I thank the Accomplices automatically without having to manually select them?
A: Yes, you can choose to automatically thank your Accomplices and use them. Thanking an Accomplice will send them a Mystery Gift, which can be used to Vault the Gracias Collection.
Please check mark the option as shown below:
You will receive a Facebook prompt when you thank your Accomplice, please check the box shown below to avoid the prompt again:
Q: How will my activity appear to my friends in The Accomplice event? How can I check this?
A: To check how your daily activity in Mafia Wars reflects to your friends in The Accomplice, please visit the Daily Take feature through Home Page module.
Q: What if I do not have any Accomplices actively playing Mafia Wars?
A: If you have less than 50 Accomplices to choose from, the Mini Boss will fill-in for the remaining slots. Every Mini boss will give you benefits equal to one day.
Q: Is there a limit on the XP which I can earn through my Accomplice?
A: Yes, you can benefit from a maximum of 50 Accomplices every 8 hours. After every 8 hours, the list of available Accomplice will be refreshed.
The number of additional XP you can earn through your Accomplice depends on the number of fights they will last which in turn depends on your Level and the days your Accomplice has been active.
Q: How do I collect items for the Gracias Collection?
A: The new Gracias Collection is a part of The Accomplice Event and offers great benefits on each Vault.
Every time your friends choose you as an Accomplice during the event and send a Mystery Gift to thank you, the items from the Mystery Gift will be added to your 'Gracias Collection'.
The Gracias Collection can be vaulted multiple times during The Accomplice event and you can receive any of the following Rewards:
Once you have vaulted the collection, you can re-vault only after your current boosts expire.
You can access the Collection through the Home Page module or through the Special collections in “Collections & Vault” section of Inventory.
Q: Can I vault or re-vault the Gracias Collection after The Accomplice event expires?
A: No, you will only be able to Vault the Collection while The Accomplice event is active. Once the event is over, you will be unable to Vault the Collection.
Sometimes you get further talking to a wall than you do talking with people.
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“For those who are unable to respect the playing styles of others, there is a new Spocklet called the Idiot-a-Nator. If only this could permanently remove the Mafia Wars applications for those who qualify.”
The individual who wrote the above statement knows who they are. Apparently they believe that we, Mafia Spirit and others, are idiots if we do not agree with their BULLSHIT!
“I really don’t care what people say or think but I do stand by my statement that nobody has a right to criticize anyone in this game (at least not on my site).”
They “really don’t care what people say or think” about comments where they make derogatory statements of others. Like their shit don’t stink. Like they are better than you and I.
I ask, Who the ____ are they to tell me, you or anyone else that they don’t have a right to say or criticize anything? I will criticize anything I wish to (or don’t like) about the game because I DO have a right to do so. Just like they have a right to believe that I don’t have a right to even if they are wrong. The first Amendment gives me (and them) that right! Of course there may be repercussions for what I or they say.
Now, if they really don’t care what anyone has to say about certain things, ideas, concepts, game features, etc, then why do they need to say anything at all about what others say? Why must they tell you that you don’t have a right to say something that might be negative about a feature within the game? Why do they continue to post about it?
They can ask all the same questions of me.
For me, as to why I write about these issues, it is about defending the little guys. It’s about integrity. It’s about fairness. It is about respect! It IS about what I believe IS best for the game.
Do you believe that anyone deserves to be called an ‘idiot’ just because they might have a differing viewpoint or opinion than someone else does? I don’t. But, this is not the first time that those whom I speak about have called others ‘idiots’. They are also accusing of of not respecting others playing styles;
“For those who are unable to respect the playing styles of others”
That comment is grossly inaccurate. We have never stated anything about players style of play other than the use of scripts IS a cheat. What we are criticizing IS Zynga, the Scripts, and certain features that we see (or believe) that have hurt the game in some manner. More specifically, this debate is about any (and all) feature(s) that have a leaderboard to determine players who are rewarded for finishing in the top 10.
We are NOT criticizing the players because they are only using the tools in which Zynga and the script writers have provided them.
We are also upset because you ARE being blatantly lied to. When these people make comments like;
“As you can see from the post I made about it, I’ve been against these types of events from the start”
They provide a link to an old post where, as evidence to their claim, they made statements like
“Not too long ago, Zynga warned us not to abuse scripts then changed their stance to don’t use scripts at all. Since then, many of us have modified our behavior in fear that Zynga would start taking more serious action than the lame warning popup that some players (to include those who don’t even use scripts) have been getting for years.”
Who has a shovel? I’m knee deep in the hoopla….. Oh, and there’s more;
“The Let The Ices Begin Family Ice Event encourages script use in every way shape and form. There is a nice leaderboard “glorifying” the top 4 families who get the most ices and Zynga even claims that these are the strongest in Mafia Wars. Most realize the number of ices you get does not correlate to strength but correlates to how many hours you are willing to run your fight scripts during the event. You know as well as I do that none of these families are fighting manually as Zynga says we should do. In the end those who choose to use scripts and blatantly show it are going to be rewarded with a loot item.”
They further exemplify the necessity to use the scripts in the next paragraph;
“Nothing about this event make sense. There is no bully throttle, players are encouraged and bribed with loot to be on the leaderboard and it's really a contest of let the best script abusers win. Its like taking a group of recovered crack addicts on a field trip to a crack house.”
The only point in the entire article that ‘might’ imply a stance against these leaderboard types of events is when it is stated;
“Mafia Wars has pulled some pretty crazy stunts in the past and I would rank Let The Ices Begin up there with the Snoop Dogg incident”
No! That comment IS NOT a direct stance against these events and features! In the last paragraph it’s buried anyway when it is implied to be patient because their co-horts who write the scripts will figure away around the problems with this statement;
“If Let The Ices Begin is a sting by Zynga to ban accounts that are abusing scripts than this is phase one of the assimilation process. Team Spockholm is smart enough not to put all their eggs in one basket.”
Sure, they will argue that that was just part of a joke. But puhlease, WE ARE NOT THAT STUPID! We can read between the lines at what was implied!
We’ve already pointed out other contradictive statements. Such as;
I’d say that with considering all the facts one can only deduce that this individual only states what they believe whomever they are speaking to at any given time wants to hear.
“I’ve been against these types of events from the start”
If you believe those words then why didn’t you take a more pronounced stance against these Leaderboard type of events? More like this stance from WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 15, 2012:
or when WE stated in our post called
This kind of feature would have been an OK, at best, idea if the game were new. These kinds of features do not really mean anymore than bragging rights and will get boring rather quickly. Especially when the same players are at the top each time it resets. You know, those players that topped the Death By Ice event. Other than those players, WHO CARES? This is just another feature for them.
For the rest of us, If rewards will be involved it may make this interesting for a minute. However, that would just lead to some players finding ways to cheat.
Ultimately this feature is just going to take up space on Zynga’s servers. Many players won’t care to even check on it unless they need to collect something.
Who’s been against what? Since when?
| Who’s an idiot? | It must take one to know one |
FYI, I will continue to post whatever I want – This IS my blog after-all. Funny, where have I heard those words before?? ………It IS what TRUE fan blogs do. That is we post our opinions, the good, the bad, and the ugly, as we see it.
Somehow, something just doesn’t seem right about this -
I 100% DISAGREE! AS A PLAYER OF THIS GAME (FREE or PAYING) I HAVE A RIGHT TO MOAN, GROAN, WHINE, GRIPE, BITCH, COMPLAIN, AND ANYTHING ELSE I CHOOSE TO SAY ABOUT THIS GAME! ….. PERIOD!!! ….. JUST LIKE YOU DO OH GREAT AND POWERFUL AND WONDERFULLY DECEPTIVE MAFIA WARS LOOT LADY!
I BELIEVE 25 TO 45 MILIION FORMER PLAYERS WOULD AGREE WITH ME.
Look, I may not spend tons of cash on this game, but, that DOES NOT mean that I am NOT a customer of Zynga’s. In fact, I AM very much a potential customer of Zynga’s and THAT, alone, GIVES ME THE RIGHT to criticize Zynga, the game of Mafia Wars, the features within it, AND YOU!
It’s so great and wonderful that you and your family have finished in the top 4 of these events 67% of the time and in the top 10 100% of the time. Maybe this is why you don’t want others criticizing these events. You don’t want to lose your unfair advantages that YOU ABUSE!
I am sorry, but, just because you spend more money on this game in a weeks time than some gross from their jobs within an entire month it gives you no more, and them no less, a right to say anything about this game. The lesser fortunate ARE PEOPLE TOO! TREAT THEM WITH THE SAME RESPECT THAT YOU DEMAND OF THEM!
Now, you can let this post piss you off to the point where you feel the need to take it out on my character in the game (that is your M.O. after-all). Or you could take it out on the family I am in (which they have nothing to do with my blog - other than being readers of it). You could chase even more players from the game by keeping them (me/us) iced/dead. But, what would that prove? What would that accomplish?
Now please go back to doing what you are good at – that being inflating your numbers for your blog and game by creating tons of mini (ghost) accounts.
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That was in response to this very post. So, let me get this straight. You now are proclaiming;
“I stated that nobody has a right to criticize and of the top families.”
We agree that you did make that statement. However, you are now defending it by saying;
“This was directed mostly at the comments made on my post about the Sadist Mafia Family and the ones we always see about cheating after these events. Please don't be so vein and think everything is about you!” ~Jen
Umm, since I have never shied away from being a proponent against the use of scripts and have even written posts about cheating (1) and have openly stood against what the game has become as a result of these abuses, I think that means me and anyone else who has spoke against the cheats. No one is being VAIN at all.
“It was not directed at any family in particular.”
That’s exactly right. It was a blanket statement. Just as my post was speaking in a general point of view of anyone who might wish to criticize these lopsided, UNFAIR events!
“I'm not upset that my family was not in the top 4 and I'm proud of the ices we got.”
Of course you aren’t upset about coming in 4th. We stated that, in so many words. You’ve finished in the top 10 100% of the time. Why would you be upset about it?
The problem is that you (and Zynga both) are too arrogant to see the problem.
All of the comments on your blog, to the point when this screen shot was taken, are all calling out the cheaters.
In your first response to one of your followers you say that
“Zynga rewards all this behaviour so it's obviously not cheating.”
You later respond to another with this comment;
I'm agreeing with most of you here. Take it up with Zynga
We don’t know what you believe. Is it cheating or not, in your eyes?
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The fact that too many players have quit playing as direct result of the scripts is just one of the major problems with the game.
Do the math, please. Only 10 families can win anything in these events. Through 6 of them how many different families have won anything? In theory, there could have been 60 (or up to 6000 players). In reality, there have been less than 20 families (less than 2000 players). These events result the same families winning every time only making them stronger and stronger. Thus, guaranteeing the same families will win them again and again. Further guaranteeing that it is pointless for anyone else to try. For that matter, making it pointless for anyone else to play this game, let alone spend money on it.
All-in-all these events ARE NOT indicative of a FAIR AND LEVEL PLAYING FIELD.
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