VIP Membership Now Available To All Players

Zynga announced earlier today that the VIP Membership is now available to ALL players. Here is what was posted on the Official Mafia Wars Blog;

VIP Membership Now Available To All Players!

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Mobster,

VIP Membership Plan is now available to all Mafia Wars players!

Thank you for your patience while we were gradually rolling out the VIP Membership to all players.

Get additional benefits for the longer you stay subscribed!  VIP benefits will now get better with the duration of your continuous subscription.

Enjoy exclusive benefits by subscribing to the VIP Membership Plan today!

-The Mafia Wars Team

Great, Great, Joy, Joy………………….

Now here is why many more players might quit this game. If you scroll down through the series of VIP loot images you will get a small glimpse as to how much of an advantage the VIP players have already gained over the ‘FREE’ players. 

This series of VIP loot is the current loot that many VIP members have been clammering for since June 1st.

The VIP members will have these loots maxed out by the end of today or tomorrow or within a day or two at the least.

For the sake of argument, as you can see in the chart below the VIP members are gaining absurd advantages quickly over the ‘Free’ players since the VIP loots drop rates are too good.

Loot Name	Amount Of VIP Advantage	Assuming 500 Needed By VIP Member	Estimated Advantage Acquired By VIP Member
Snake Fish	15	500	7,500
Gaucho	20	500	10,000
Bionic Mask	25	500	12,500
		Mafia Defense > Strength Gained >	30,000
Chrome Teeth	17	500	8,500
Basket Star	23	500	11,500
Orchestrangle	27	500	13,500
		Mafia Attack > Strength Gained >	33,500

If you didn’t notice there are still 2 more items to account for in attack and defense (4 more items total) that are not factored into the chart above. Therefore, the VIP is even greater than this chart alone represents.

So we look at the previous VIP loots to determine which loots are contributing. Here’s the loots;

To find out the best overall guess of the VIP Members total advantage gained we compensate for the 4 missing loot items that the VIP members have ALREADY MAXED their inventories with. Here’s what we have added;

Loot Name	Amount Of VIP Advantage	Assuming 500 Needed By VIP Member	Estimated Advantage Acquired By VIP Member
Bareback	11	500	5,500
Lightning Trike	22	500	11,000
		Mafia Defense > Strength Gained >	16,500
Steelian	11	500	5,500
Art Curator	24	500	12,000
		Mafia Attack > Strength Gained >	17,500

We can now add the 30,000 Mafia Defense Strength gained from the first chart to the 16,500 Mafia Defense Strength gained from the second chart to have an estimated 46,500 VIP Member’s Mafia Defense Strength gain of the ‘FREE’ players.

We can now add the 33,500 Mafia Attack Strength gained from the first chart to the 17,500 Mafia Attack Strength gained from the second chart to have an estimated 51,000 VIP Member’s Mafia Attack Strength gain of the ‘FREE’ players.

Keep in mind that these numbers ARE ONLY ESTIMATES. There are many other factors to consider to acquire the true advantage that separate the ‘FREE’ players from the rest of the player base. Such as the weekly item that the VIP Members are given. In addition to skill points, each week they receive one of the following;

Why should this concern anyone? You may ask. Because we know that a players Attack and Defense Strengths do get factored into a fight or rob somehow. The exact equation is unknown. But it has been rumored that it takes a +40 in a loot items Attack/Defense to equate to just 1 skill point. If this is true then it is like the VIP Members are gaining 1,163 Defensive Skill Points And 1275 Attack Skill Points over the ‘FREE’ players in addition to ALL THE OTHER PERKS OF BEING A VIP MEMBER!

This is a problem since many players only received the ability to even purchase a VIP Membership today. Will They still get the original loots? Probably.

It is also a problem because there IS NO reason for the ‘FREE PLAYERS’ to continue playing Mafia Wars because all we have become is the punching bags of the fortunate.

In other words, Zynga may as well lock the ‘FREE PLAYERS’ out since it HAS BECOME A PAY TO PLAY GAME!

IT IS ONLY A MATTER OF TIME BEFORE I MAKE THAT DECISION TO MOVE ON AND GET BACK TO ‘REAL LIFE’!

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.