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MAFIA SPIRIT

Thursday, August 23, 2012

Slaughterhouse Guide

Frank Carver 2Slaughterhouse Banner

Who’s Hongree? There’s A Butcher Loose And His Name Is Frank Carver. You Need To Take This Butcher To The Market And Convince Him To Join Your Organization Filled With Criminal Minds. You Can Find Frank Carver (The Butcher) In The Slaughterhouse Where He Is Making Short Work Of His Rivals.Slaughterhouse Teaser

Travel To The Slaughterhouse

To Find Frank Carver You Must Find Your Way Into The Slaughterhouse. The Slaughterhouse Is Located On The South Side Of Chicago.

The Slaughterhouse Can Be Accessed From The Home Page Banner, The Travel Bar Or By Going To The Jobs Tab In Chicago And Clicking On The Additional District Button.

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Once You’ve Made Your Way Into ‘Slaughterhouse’ Secret District You Will See These Images (Which Will Change As You Progress Through The Levels Of The District)

BRONZE

Slaughterhouse Bronze

SILVER

Slaughterhouse Silver

GOLD

Slaughterhouse Gold

RUBY

Slaughterhouse Ruby

You Will Also See The List Of Jobs;

Slaughterhouse Jobs

Tender Hook Image

You May Notice The Image Of The Tender Hook Next To Certain Jobs. These Will Be Consumed In 2 Jobs And You Can Collect These From The ‘Break Into The Longhorn Stockades’ Job. These Will Also Be Needed To Fight The Boss Named Frank Carver.

Tender Hooks Drop In The First Job On The Jobs List;

Job1 Break Into The Longhorn Stockades

You Can Also Acquire These ‘Tender Hooks’ From The Free Gifts Page By Sending Them To Your Friends Or Them Sending Them To You.

Tender Hook Free Gifts Tender Hook Free Gifts Send

When Your Friends Accept The ‘Tender Hook’ Gifts You Sent Them You Will Have Some Returned To You That You Can Now Collect From Your ZMC (Zynga Message Center). Or You Will, Adversely, Send Some To Your Friends And When They Accept Them You Will Have one Returned To You.

Tender Hook Requests Slaughterhouse

The Tender Hooks Will Be Consumed In The 6th And 8th Jobs On The Jobs List;

Job 6 Slaughter The Bossman Upon His Refusal

Job 8 Clear The Slaughterhouse Of Any Bodies

If You Want To Know How Many ‘Tender Hooks’ You Need To Do The Jobs That Consume Them Then Follow The Chart Below;

JOBS W/O Strategist # Needed With Strategist # Needed

Slaughter The Bossman Upon His Refusal

18% 6 36% 3

Clear The Slaughterhouse Of Any Bodies

12% 9 24% 5
Total Needed For Bronze Level -->   15   8
         
Total Needed For All 4 Levels (assuming the % remains the same)   60   32

There Are Also 5 Jobs That Will Cost Chicago Clams (Cash) In Order For You To Complete This District. The Following Chart Shows The 5 Jobs In Addition To The % Of Job Completion Per Click (Assuming You Are NOT Using A Strategist Boost), Amount Of Chicago Clams Spent Per Click, The Number Of Clicks Needed To Master Each Job, And The Total Cost Of Chicago Clams Needed To Be Spent To Master Each Job.

    % Chicago Clams Spent Per Click Number Of Clicks Cost Of Chicago Clams
      Chicago Clam   Chicago Clam
Job 2

Take Care Of Cattle Ranchers

10 24 10 240
Job 5

Suggest A Partnership With The Boss

16 19 7 133
Job 6

Slaughter The Bossman Upon His Refusal

18 25 6 150
Job 7

Prosecute Your Trespassers

10 14 10 140
Job 8

Hold The Funeral For The Boss

12 29 9 261
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Total Chicago Clams Needed Per Level -->

      924

*These Are Bronze Level Only And May Be Different On Higher Levels Or On Different Level Accounts.

 

At The Top Of The Secret District Job Page There Is A Yellow Arrow That, When Clicked, It Expands Your Available Loot. This Area Allows You To Keep Track Of How Many ‘Tender Hooks’ You Have Acquired As Well As Your ‘Double Loot’ Boosts And Your 3 Collectable Loot items.

Available Loot From Slaughterhouse

For This Secret District The 3 Collectable Loot Items Are Abattoir Knife, Longhorn Steer And Floor Worker;

Abattoir Knife Stats Increased Longhorn Steer Stats Increased Floor Worker Stats Increased

These Items Are Helpful To Many Of Us. At Least Those Who Are Not VIP Members. 

The Following Chart Shows How Many You Need To Collect To Be Rewarded A Set Of Skill Points;

Collect Reward
10

5 AttackAttack

25

5 DefenseDefense

50

5 Skill

As You Do Jobs You May Get A Refrigerator Car To Drop On Occasion.

Refrigerator Car Stats Increased

Refrigerator Car From Jobs

You Will Also Want To Acquire As Many ‘Double Loot’ Boosts As You Can In Order To Make The Above Items Accrue Faster. To Acquire These ‘Double Loot’ Boosts You Simply Click The Ask Button Located On The Available Loot Drop Down Box And Share A Request To Your Wall.

2XBoostsRequests_thumb457[1] You Also Acquire Them By Clicking On Your Friends Posts On Your Wall. Just Look For The 2X Loot Image;

Now, Let’s Review The Bandits.

TheBandit_thumb355[3] If You Read The Description Above It Pretty Much Says It All. These Bandits Appear Randomly While Doing Jobs In ‘By The Bookie’ Secret District.

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When The Bandits Appear You Have A Time Limit To Eliminate Them Within.

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To Eliminate These Bandits You Simply Click The Red Eliminate Button And You Can Move On.

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However, You Do Need Crew Members In Your Queue In Order To Eliminate The Bandits. These Crew Members Are Called Snipers, When Used.

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Once You Click The Eliminate Button One Crew Member (If Available) Is Automatically Used And Deducted From You Crew Queue.

 

DEFEAT BOSS FRANK CARVER

I Need To Fight And Defeat The Boss Frank Carver. He Is Waiting For You At The Bottom Of The Jobs List.

Defeat Frank Carver 2

 

In Typical Secret District Boss Fight Fashion You Will Need To Collect Several Items That Will Be Used In Combos To Beat Frank Carver. These Items Are;

Knife Slash Crack Of The Bat Knuckle Punch Tender Hook
Knife Slash Crack of the Bat Knuckles Punch Tender Hook Image
image_thumb9433[1] image_thumb1033[1] image_thumb11533[1] Tender Hook Red
image_thumb3533[1] image_thumb633[1] image_thumb11433[1] Tender Hook Ask
       

As You Can See We Need The ‘Tender Hook’ For The Boss Fight Combos In Addition To Doing Jobs Within The Secret District.

The Chart Below Shows The Order In Which To Use The Items To Activate The Combos;

Boss Combos Green Boss Combos Yellow Gold Boss Combos Red
  1st 2nd 3rd 4th

Green Combo

Tender Hook Tender Hook Crack Of The Bat Knife Slash

Gold Combo

Knuckle Punch Crack Of The Bat Tender Hook Crack Of The Bat

Red Combo

Crack Of The Bat Knuckle Punch Tender Hook Knife Slash

As You Use The Combos You Do More Damage To The Boss.

Defeat Frank Carver Red Combo

Crack of the Bat
Tender Hook Image

If You Find It Difficult To Acquire Enough Of The Crack Of The Bats From Robbing There Is Still A Way To Easily (Relatively) Beat The Boss. All You Need To Do Is Acquire Enough Of The Consumable (Tender Hook) Item To Attack The Boss With. To Calculate A Rough Estimate As To How Many You Will Need To Accrue Just Take The Amount Of The Bosses Health And Divide By 100 And Be Sure To Add Some For Those Times When The Boss Blocks Your Hit Or Your Attack Score Is Low. Do This For Each Level.

The Chart Below Is A Rough Idea As To How Many Consumable Items It Will Take To Beat The Boss. Remember To Add Some Extras.

  Boss’ Health Minimum Number Of Consumables Needed To Beat The Boss
BRONZE 2500 25
SILVER 5000 50
GOLD *15000 *150
RUBY *25000 *250
* Estimated

Defeat Frank Carver Tender Hook

Another Option Is To Just Use Your Stamina To Beat The Boss. Just Note That The Amount Of Stamina Needed Increases If You Use This Method. It Should Reset To 5 Stamina After 8 Hours The Ratio Of XP Gain Per Stamina Is Approximately 2.2. But, I Don’t Trust Zynga So I Don’t Use This Method. I Use The Consumables Method Because They Are Easy To Acquire (Except The Bats) And Why Let Them Take Up Space.

Once You Defeat Frank Carver And Have Completed All The Jobs You Will Be Rewarded With 2 Rewards.

 

For Defeating Boss Frank Carver You Will Be Rewarded With A Cleft.Defeat Frank Carver Held Off

Cleft Bronze Image Cleft Silver Image Cleft Gold Image Cleft Ruby Image
Attack123 Defense155 Attack133 Defense175 Attack143 Defense195 Attack153 Defense215

Defeat Frank Carver Held Off 2

 

For Mastering The Slaughterhouse Secret District You Will Be Rewarded A Butcher.

Butcher Bronze Image Butcher Silver Image Butcher Gold Image Butcher Ruby Image
Attack97 Defense151 Attack101 Defense171 Attack105 Defense191 Attack109 Defense211

Mafia Wars Survey

On the Official Mafia Wars Blog you will find a message that informs us about a survey and warns us about more features that Zynga is working on that will involve fighting. Here is what Zynga has to say;

Mafia Wars Blog 

Mafia Wars Survey

Play Now!

Mobsters,

You have seen player recommended features and changes in the game over the last few months. We love to delight you with innovative features that will help improve the game and make the game more fantastic!

We are working on adding more features around fighting in the game and would like you to give us your inputs to make this feature better.

http://zynga.tm/aAj <--- Click here to complete this quick survey to give us a few insights on the fighting aspect in the game.

- The Mafia Wars Team

I don’t know about you, but I have the belief that when it comes to running a Mafia your number one goal should be about making money and not so much about fighting. That would include in any manner in which money can be made.

Since the fighting features have become the predominant features in Mafia Wars one can’t help to feel that this game is mis-named. It should be called Gang Wars!

We all have a pretty good idea that Fighting will most likely take the votes in the survey, which asks;

Mafia Wars Survey

Hi Mobsters,
You have seen player recommended features and changes in the game over the last few months. We love to delight you with innovative features that will help improve the game and make the game more fantastic!
We are working on adding more features around fighting in the game and would like you to give us your inputs to make this feature better.
Please complete this quick survey to give us a few insights on the fighting aspect in the game.
- The Mafia Wars Team

* 1. In MW, what is your preferred activity?

Robbing

Jobbing

Fighting

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You do have an opportunity to try and get this game back to what a Mafia should be by taking the survey and answering either Robbing or Jobbing. Even you Fighters should answer either Robbing or Jobbing if you want players to fight and beat up on. It is those players who left the game and WE NEED THEM BACK!

I said many times before that ‘This Game Has A Lot Of Potential An Could Be Around For A Long Time’. Zynga just needs to take this game back to what made it an award winning game and start from there.

Zynga needs to Bring in more cities. Bring back old cities. Make Robbing worthwhile. Develop an in game trading feature. Make Battlefield an in-game feature. And there is sooo much more Zynga could do to make this game number 1 again.

Wednesday, August 22, 2012

Family Icing Event: Let the Ices Begin Winners

Let The Ices Begin Winners Banner

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?

Spotlight Sales Event

 

Grand Prize Comedian
 Spotlight Sale Tag
Daniel Kade Closeup

Spotlight Banner

WELCOME TO THE GRAND ILLUSION. Live at the Spotlight Comedy Club. Get your tickets to the show.

The Spotlight is now open and you could get yourself a Comedian.

Spotlight Sale Pop Up

For 5 qualifying purchases you can get a Bronze Comedian.

For 10 qualifying purchases you can get a Silver Comedian.

For 15 qualifying purchases you can get a Gold Comedian.

For 25 qualifying purchases you can get a Ruby Comedian.

 

Keep track your purchases in the marketplace.

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There are 4 more featured loot items that will be available for purchase during this event.

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For a better look at these items details click Here.

To help you get to your 25 purchase benchmark Zynga is providing a 50 % off on RP.

Spotlight Sale Banner With 50 Off50% off Sale

What might go unnoticed is that the only crates on sale (at the moment) are the Psychology Crates.

Psychology Crate Most players buy these to get to their 25 purchase requirement to earn the ruby loot.

These crates are on sale for 8 RP. That equates to a 200 RP purchase for 25 of these crates. If, or when, another crate goes on sale for 6 RP you would still need to spend 150 RP.

When these sales required only 15 purchases you would have needed 90 RP to buy the 15 crates at 6 RP and 120 RP to buy 15 crates at 8 RP.

I’m just saying that Zynga is cleverly getting you to buy more RP to get the ruby loot item.

I’ll pass, as usual.

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