Winners of Family Inheritance Event: 3/4/2013

The Official results for the Family Inheritance Arena Event have been released. A reprint of the Official Mafia Wars Blog Results is below;

Winners of Family Inheritance Event: 3/4/2013
Mobsters,

Here are the winners of the Family Inheritance event.

The rewards have been credited to the winning Family accounts on March 4th 2013 PST.

Ranks	Family ID	Family Name	Total No of Crests Earned	Leaderboard Reward
------	--------------	------------------------------	----------------	----------------
1	1274	[RUS] Russian Mafia Group	244009	100 RP
2	58	Mafia Wars Gods	181043	80 RP
3	6411	мęŧâмΘяŤթħōşíŞ	135069	60 RP
4	1039	Hungarian's Arrows	111350	40 RP
5	5156	Assassin-a-Nators	86505	20 RP
6	1340	Garda de Fier	86196	15 RP
7	132	nWo Wolfpac 4 Life	75504	13 RP
8	22344	Czecho Slovak Legion	59286	12 RP
9	3773	★★★★★ HIT TEAM ★★★★★	57890	10 RP
10	1056	AYLBTU	49370	8 RP

Congratulations to all the winning Families!

-The Mafia Wars Team

I would like to congratulate the winners of this event.

However, if you are like me you NEVER get overly excited about ANY event that involves competing to finishing number one. That includes IceBoards, JobBoards, and Bang Your Head Boards. Why? You may ask. Because all you see is the same players or families at the top of every one of these types of events. They aren’t fun for ALL the players of Mafia Wars. They only favor a select few players or groups of the game. If I have NO CHANCE  then why bother? These types of events only succeed at alienating too many players from the game. 

If you compare the winning families of the 2 most recent Family Inheritance Events you will notice that 7 of the 10 winning families won in each event. In the chart above I highlighted in yellow the 7 families that made the top 10 in the previous Family Inheritance Event. I also left the 3 new families in white. In the chart below I highlighted in red the 3 families that did not make the top 10 in the most recent event.

Ranks	Family ID	Family Name	Total No of Crests Earned	Leaderboard Reward
------	--------------	------------------------------	----------------	----------------
1	132	nWo Wolfpac 4 Life	211805	100 RP
2	11178	╠Sραßαr╣	207990	80 RP
3	58	Mafia Wars Gods	103006	60 RP
4	1274	[RUS] Russian Mafia Group	95939	40 RP
5	5156	Assassin-a-Nators	95382	20 RP
6	6411	мęŧâмΘяŤթħōşíŞ	80554	15 RP
7	1039	Hungarian's Arrows	52146	13 RP
8	13218	UnLeashed	43067	12 RP
9	1026	Loyal 2 the end	42349	10 RP
10	1056	AYLBTU	41489	8 RP

We scratch our heads and wonder why players have left this game in droves. One reason is the simple fact of the unfair nature of the events within the game. One works hard and plays for countless hours day end and day out to what end?

A Home Away From Home – A Charity Sales Event

 

Housing Volunteers Needed -

Duties Include – Purchasing Housing Volunteers at a cost of 1 for 40 RP to help support the Fisher House Foundation.

 

In addition, you are asked to obtain and maintain a Family Beach. Keep up on the Family Beach maintenance. Locate it’s doors.

The more RP’s that you contribute the more Housing Volunteers and/or Family Beaches you acquire. In addition to helping the Fisher House Foundation.

The pay scale for your contributions as a Housing Volunteer is the acquisition of the title ‘The Philanthropist’. In addition you will also get your face into game as an NPC (Non-Playable Character). Most likely you will be a family boss that the Mafia Wars players will get to fight. It is possible that your npc will appear in missions or other locations as well.

Mafia Wars Updates – 2 Out Of 3 Ain’t Bad

Within the Mafia Wars Forums News And Announcements Section an update from the Mafia Wars Team has been posted by Super Moderator Dassem Ultor. A duplicate copy has also been posted on the Official Mafia Wars Blog.

Within these announcement postings Zynga is informing us of some features that we will soon see in the Mafia Wars game. They include a well over-due new destination (name not announced yet) and more Operations that will be similar to the Italian Jobs Operations.

Here is a viewing of those original Mafia Wars announcements;

 

Updates From Mafia Wars Team

Dear Mafia Wars players,
As 2013 gets underway, the entire Mafia Wars team here is excited about the new features we are working on to make your favorite game even more fun, engaging and rewarding. Today, we wanted to share some of our upcoming new features and events that will be launching over the next few months in Mafia Wars:

1. Mafia Wars players have been requesting a new city for a while now. We recently published the survey for the next Mafia Wars city. Based on your feedback, we’ll be releasing a brand new city for all of you to enjoy soon. Vote now http://zynga.tm/p1h if you haven’t already.

2. Given the positive response from our player community to the Arena, we will be adding a number of social features: Families will now be able to battle each other and amongst themselves in private rooms and you will be able to challenge rivals or create an instant rematch after finishing an arena. In addition, we will be adding multiple new PvP (Player vs Player) modes and events.

3. The Operation: Italian Files was very well received by our players and you have asked us for more events like these. Look out for more Operations - coming soon!

Stay tuned! We will be sharing more of our plans for Mafia Wars regularly on this blog.
Please feel free to leave your suggestions and feedback about the game in this link: http://zynga.tm/iXa

Zynga did throw us a doobie when they stated “Given the positive response from our player community to the Arena, we will be adding a number of social features.” Really? Which community are you referring to that has given you the idea that we want more to do with the Arena? You seemingly took our original idea and concept of a Fighting Arena and turned it into a jumbled, confusing, annoying, aggravating mess. Too many players, from my perspective, want nothing to do with the Arena.

I guess 2 Out Of Three Ain’t Bad.