Lucky Stash Winners Rate Drops As DAU Drops

If you are looking for true ‘In-Game’ evidence about the negative affects that the declining player base is having on the game then look at the list of Past Jackpot Winners of the Lucky Stash.

If you look closely at the list above then you will see that it has been more than a year since a Lucky Stash winner has won more than 70,000 RP’s. In addition, there has not been 2 Jackpot winners in the same month since August 2nd and 23rd in 2011.

The current Jackpot is sitting around 22,800+ RP’s.

It has now been 3 weeks since the last Jackpot winner won the Jackpot on June 29th, 2012.

June 20th, (a month ago) was the last time the DAU has seen 400,000 Daily Users of Mafia Wars. According to AppData.com The DAU has been as low as 340,000 4 times during the past month. This occurred on July 6th, 7th, 8th, and 16th. Currently the DAU sits at 360,000.

It almost appears that Zynga is deliberately trying to drive down the player base. I guess they think we will go play the Ville instead.

Maybe some will long enough to get the Ville-ocity…… Maybe some won’t bother. Maybe some will quit playing ALL Zynga’s games.

And then it will be too late for the brain surgeons that work at Zynga to realize that if you want to make money and generate that revenue that makes your shareholder’s happy you NEED PLAYERS! AND NOT JUST THE ONES WITH CREDIT CARDS!

ROBBING SPREE SCAM!! TOTAL BULLSHIT!!

I liked this event at first but now it has become disappointingly apparent that in order to do any good at all in this event you HAVE TO peak before you choose to rob a house. For my last six robbing boards the first rob has been an alarm or a 2x alarm.

You’d think that with 25 houses to choose from and only (up to) 6 alarms hidden within some of the houses the odds of not finding an alarm without peaking would be in your favor on a new board. With this event the odds of finding an alarm without peaking first appears to be 100% in favor of Zynga.

This is Zynga’s way of trying to FORCE you to buy the Knob Wrenches.

This is why I WILL NEVER PLAY ANY ZYNGA LEGALIZED GAMBLING GAME! IT WOULD BE OVERWHELMING FIXED AND NOT A GAME OF CHANCE!!

Coming Soon; Riches To Rags Mission

If you continue playing Zynga’s games you will soon be going from ‘Riches To Rags’. That is, the next limited time mission will be called ‘Riches To Rags’. Is Zynga trying to tell us something?

Lisa Jenning returns once again to Mafia Wars. I guess her Garage Sale was a success.

Lisa Jenning also appeared in the Black Market mission.

Robbing Spree Overview

A ‘NEW’ event called ‘ROBBING SPREE’ is now available. Note; a player needs to be at least on Level 15 to be able to play this feature.

Before you start you should learn how to play this feature. Here’s How To Play Robbing Spree;

Since you can’t even begin Robbing without collecting Knob Wrenches we’ll start by explaining how to collect them.

 

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Q: How can I get Knob Wrenches?
A: You can obtain the part - Knob Wrench through various modes which include Requests, Feeds, Jobs and buying the parts using Reward Points. Below are the details:

Requests: You can get 20 Knob Wrenches by accepting Requests from your friends. Once you have accepted 20 requests in a day, the excess Knob Wrenches lying in your request box will be converted to Blue Mystery bags.
Feed Posts: You can post a feed every 2 hours and get a maximum of 5 Knob Wrenches per feed when your friends click on it. You can earn up to a total of 20 Knob Wrenches per day. Please note that once you have collected 20 items from your feed posts in a day, you will still be able to post the feeds but will not receive the parts until the daily limit timer resets. The daily limit timers reset at 00:00 AM PST.
For example: If you posted consecutive feeds from 6:00 AM to 02:00 PM Pacific Time and collected 5 parts from each of them (5x4 Feed posts = 20 Parts), you will reach the daily limit. You will not receive parts any further till Midnight (Pacific Time) of the same day (as the daily limit timer resets at Midnight Pacific Time).
By clicking on your friends’ Feed posts: You can earn up to 5 Knob Wrenches per day by clicking on the feed posts published by your friends.
Jobs: You can get up to 5 Knob Wrenches per day as loot drops while doing jobs.

	Initially Start With	15
	Free Gifts In Your ZMC	20
	Requests	20
	Clicking On Friends Feed Posts	5
	From Jobs	5
	Lock Pick Bonus * Note; Not Everyone Will Be Lucky Enough To Acquire These 5	Up To 5

Once you have 10 Knob Wrenches you are now able to start the game by clicking the ‘GO ROB’ button.

You will be taken to the ‘neighborhood’ where you can rob 1 of 4 different types of houses.

The Houses have:

Alarm:  Triggers a single alarm.

2x Alarm:  Triggers two alarms.

Knob Wrenches:  Use this to Peek, start a new game, or enter a new block.

Half Skill Points:  Find the other half before you click on "Grab Haul" to get 1 full Skill Point.

Energy/Stamina Refill:  Refills 5% of your maximum Energy/Stamina.

City Cash:  London Pounds to help you master the city of London.

Boosts:  3 Absinthe, 3 Jukebox, 3 Vampire Batting and 3 Ruthless

Items:  Falkland Islands Wolf, Gooey Choco, Lights Out. Rob same item to increase its mastery.

 

The ‘neighborhood’ or robbing board looks like this;

You should also notice the clock that indicates the amount of time left for this event.

I must say that so far I am liking this feature. I also got a bit excited since this feature reminded me of a suggestion I posted on Mafia Spirit Blog back in April.

SATURDAY, APRIL 28, 2012

A Few Suggestions For Mafia Wars

What We Are Suggesting Is A New City, If You Will, That We Will Call The ‘Neighborhood’. Like All Cities The ‘Neighborhood’ Will Have Jobs For Players To Do. The Difference Between The ‘Neighborhood’ And All Other Destinations Should Be That Your Entire Family Would Have To Contribute To Each Of The Jobs.

No, this isn’t exactly what I suggested. But the use of the ‘Neighborhood’ idea is a nice variation of what I had in mind.

As you hover your mouse over the images of the houses you are given a choice to Rob (costing 25 stamina) or to Peek (consumes 3 Knob Wrenches). Either option will reveal what the house has contained within it.

Just be careful because like any good Neighborhood many of the houses have alarm systems which will halt your robbing spree.

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Q: What is an Alarm?
A: When you Rob a house, it is possible that you trigger any one of the following alarms, please make use of Peekoption to see what’s inside a house before you rob it.
Alarm:  Triggers a single alarm.

2x Alarm:  Triggers two alarms.

As soon as you activate an Alarm, the alarm counter on the top of the game window will be activated. If you activate 3 alarms, you will lose your Robbing Spree and your haul from that block.
Alarm Status:

 

In other words; ‘You Get Nothing!’

 

Just remember to ‘Grab Your Haul’ before that happens.

After you click on Grab Haul, the item(s) will be added to your inventory and a confirmation message will be displayed:

Whether you get the ‘That Was Close’ Popup or you ‘Grab Your Haul’ you can redo this event as many times as your Knob Wrench count allows you to.

Here is a video created by Zynga for the Robbing Spree Event;

** The video and some of the images and FAQ’s above are borrowed from blog.mafiawars.com Robbing Spree. Visit the Official Mafia Wars Blog for more FAQ questions and answers about the Robbing Spree event.