You Might Be A Free Player If…..

What Do You See Wrong In The Image Above?

How About The Drop Rates Of The Items?

The Drop Rate Of the Make-Up Artist Appears To Be 2.3 Times Greater Than The Honey Bees Drop Rate. Not Only That, The Amount Of Energy That Has Been Put Into Trying To Get To 50 Of Each Item Is Absurd. Nothing Drops When When The Strategist Is Utilized.

For the Record, The Account Shown Has Over 10,000 Energy And Has Leveled Up 52 Times Since This Event Began.

Just Because A Player Plays The Game Without Expenditure Doesn’t Mean Things Should Be impossible For Them. Then We The Players And Zynga Wonder Why Players Quit.

Mafia Poker Season 6 On The Docket

Mafia Poker Is Coming Back Once Again. So Cash In For Some For Chips And Get Your Poker Face Ready Because A Bohemian Is Waiting For You To Join Her At The Poker Table. There Are No Aces Up Her Sleeves Because She Doesn’t Have Any.

Land Ahoy Gifting Event

The first thing that many of us think of (especially us older ladies and gents) when we hear the words ‘Land Ahoy’ is Gilligan’s Island. Many of us, to this day, can not forget the lyrics of the TV shows theme song.

Gilligan’s Island originally aired from September 26, 1964 to September 4, 1967. The syndication of the show helped to propel the title character of Gilligan into a widely recognized American cultural icon. The hit TV show became a CBS network phenomenon and stuck in the minds and hearts of many. Read more about Gilligan’s Island at wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilligan's_Island.

Zynga’s newest event, called ‘Land Ahoy’, has nothing to do with Gilligan’s Island. It does, however, have that nautical theme that we attribute to Gilligan’s Island.

According to wiktionary.org the term ‘Land Ahoy’ can be defined as follows;

land ahoy 

1. (nautical) Interjection shouted by the ship's watch to inform the crew that land has been spotted.

In the case of Mafia Wars it has to do with gifting and spamming and begging.

There isn’t much to go over with these types of events. You simply ask for and send select items to your friends and collect them from your ZMC’s.

Once you’ve collected enough of certain items you receive another item with higher stats.

The gold level Holidayer helps some players with their defense as you can see above.

Each of the 3 items that we will be collecting will give us boosts to use while fighting and/or robbing. The fighting boosts are, for many, pretty useless. Those of you who are at lower levels may benefit from them while fighting others at or near your levels. 

The Cornerstone – Building A Community

You can just see the excitement on Ivankov Dimitrovich’s face about the next Limited Time Mission and Gifting Event. He looks like how many of us feel about the over-burdening of events and sales, etc. The next limited time mission will be called ‘The Cornerstone.’

There is a bit of irony on the banner. If you read the sub-caption it reads “Just because you built it, doesnt mean you own it.”  This caption could be used to relate the images and features in the game that are used by us bloggers. Just because we screenshot the images it doesn’t mean that we own them. They are still property of Zynga’s even though Zynga has permitted use of them in our blogs for the purposes of tutorial and discussion. You can read about Zynga’s guidelines for use of THEIR images and in-game material on our About page or by visiting Zynga’s Fansite Guidelines page. You can also read more about Fair Use here.

But some still seem to think that they are the only ones who have rights to post Zynga’s images or tutorials about the game. Some still publicly accuse others of copycatting them even though anyone and everyone who wants to, or knows how to, locate the images and post them onto their blogs.

Some people just do not seem to realize that the Mafia Wars community is dying and if we stood together as players, bloggers, associates, comrades, etc and we helped each other and maybe even shared a little info (as http://mistyfiedmafiawars.blogspot.com/ and I have done and even made guest posts on each others blogs) then maybe we could salvage this dying game.

But, you cannot build a foundation without laying the cornerstone first. And you need the right person to lay that cornerstone. Otherwise, the building might fall.

The cornerstone (or foundation stone) concept is derived from the first stone set in the construction of a masonry foundation, important since all other stones will be set in reference to this stone, thus determining the position of the entire structure.

Over time a cornerstone became a ceremonial masonry stone, or replica, set in a prominent location on the outside of a building, with an inscription on the stone indicating the construction dates of the building and the names of architect, builder and other significant individuals. The rite of laying a cornerstone is an important cultural component of eastern architecture and metaphorically in sacred architecture generally.

The origins of this tradition are vague but its presence in Judeo-Christian countries can be associated with one quotation from the Old Testament (Psalm 118:22) cited six times in the New Testament (Matthew 21:42,Mark 12:10, Luke 20:17, Acts 4:11,Ephesians 2:20 and 1 Peter 2:7)and Isaiah 28:16quoted by the writer of the Book of 1st Peter 1 Peter. The writer of the Book of Ephesians makes clear that Jesus is the cornerstone, of a faith rather than a building, referred to in the Old TestamentEphesians 2:20 .