Hi!
Before I write about , I only want to say that Italy is open fro shiny members of Loyalty Points Program!I notice this when I see lots of Gold & Platinum members already have access to Italy.. It's one of the privilege!
Thursday, 4 November 2010
New Layouts For Secret Mission
If you click on the mafia name (for example : "Lileana" with yellow text on the screenshot above), it will take you to her Mafia Wars Profile.You have to use "Switch" bookmarklets to go to her FaceBook Profile if you want to send her a message, let's say if there is an idle person on the mission.
Below screenshot also show the same thing... You can click on the mafia name of the Host, it will take you to his Profile..
New York Extra Money
We have one strange bug here..
One friend has more than New York money held in bank more than he can!Please check on the screenshot below...
One friend has more than New York money held in bank more than he can!Please check on the screenshot below...
Wednesday, 3 November 2010
Triple Old City Mastery
As some readers have noted, Mafia Wars is giving players a reason to go back and complete levels in New York, Cuba, Moscow, and Bangkok, with the Triple Old City Mastery feature:
This has advantages for both old and new players: If you were just starting this game, you would NEVER sludge through New York (yes, sludge - I live there) to get your coveted 4-attack Armored Truck.
You *certainly* would never endure the Mafia Wars equivalent of childbirth to scratch out enough Baht, little by little, plus the 4,900 necessary Satellite phones, to progress through Bangkok. Instead, you would jump right into Las Vegas... and then Italy, where the loot is 20x better - and you can speed through the opening levels.
If you're a veteran with unfinished jobs/levels, you also want to focus all your Energy and Stamina in Italy as it opens, rather than the Avtoritet Level in Moscow.
So the Triple Mastery program (coupled with the occasional 2x Mastery bonus gift you can get/receive when doing jobs) will give you the incentive to get through those top tier jobs (where you're getting 1% or 2% mastery otherwise) AND pile up some Baht to but whatever's still worth buying in the Faction Store.
Nice move by Mafia Wars here.
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This has advantages for both old and new players: If you were just starting this game, you would NEVER sludge through New York (yes, sludge - I live there) to get your coveted 4-attack Armored Truck.
You *certainly* would never endure the Mafia Wars equivalent of childbirth to scratch out enough Baht, little by little, plus the 4,900 necessary Satellite phones, to progress through Bangkok. Instead, you would jump right into Las Vegas... and then Italy, where the loot is 20x better - and you can speed through the opening levels.
If you're a veteran with unfinished jobs/levels, you also want to focus all your Energy and Stamina in Italy as it opens, rather than the Avtoritet Level in Moscow.
So the Triple Mastery program (coupled with the occasional 2x Mastery bonus gift you can get/receive when doing jobs) will give you the incentive to get through those top tier jobs (where you're getting 1% or 2% mastery otherwise) AND pile up some Baht to but whatever's still worth buying in the Faction Store.
Nice move by Mafia Wars here.
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The Informant PodCast
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Atlantic City - Open For Some Servers
The brand new Atlantic City is open now for some servers only.. You can try to play using your computer and go to this site :
m.mafiawars.com
If your server has this city already, you will see this :
m.mafiawars.com
If your server has this city already, you will see this :
Tuesday, 2 November 2010
Support HDSA's Team Hope
Link : http://blog.mafiawars.com/2010/10/buy-a-war-wagon-to-help-annihilate-huntingtons-disease.html
You can go to the Marketplace to see this item..
Release Notes 9
Jori T.said...
One new thing too :
OLD CITY BONUS:
I still have Moscow unfinished so I noticed this nifty thing...
If you get 5% progress from an mission you will get extra 10% as "Old City Bonus".. So total 15%
4%
Masked Robbery - Third Mask
Hints :If you open Mafia Wars and accept a mask there in the request pop-up, you can accept the same mask from the facebook request page.
PS : Thanks to Hayden for the info. Congratulations!
Thanks to Stefiman for the hint!
Posted byMafia Wars Maniacat6:20 AM
Monday, 1 November 2010
Multi-Gift Chucker bETA Testing
I got this info from Leonard... this is about the new Multi-Gifting feature.. Because Zynga has slightly release this new feature to some players...Arun has made one tool for it too.. Still in beta version but you can try it..
Please check it here on Mafia Task Force.
Please check it here on Mafia Task Force.
Zynga ToolBar Is Hacked?
If you have installed Zynga Mafia Wars Toolbar, you will see one changing.. I notice it happens if you use Internet Explorer and FireFox.
This is my toolbar now.. so Zynga's Toolbar is hacked!
This is my toolbar now.. so Zynga's Toolbar is hacked!
My Gold Treasure Chests
Thanks God, the Gold Treasure Chest Key is still dropping from this feature.. otherwise we have to buy it from the Marketplace using some Reward Points!One of our friend is opening his chests and got these items.. Woot! What a plenty of gold chests!
Sunday, 31 October 2010
Vegas Rare Collections - Dropping From Jobs
Forgot to post about this.. This is start happening last week..
We can get Vegas Collections dropping from doing jobs.. and they are not the common ones.. we can also got the rare collections!
On the screenshot below, I am using RepeatJob Vegas tool from Spockholm.. Got 2x Planet Bollywood which is one of the RARE collection item in Vegas!
We can get Vegas Collections dropping from doing jobs.. and they are not the common ones.. we can also got the rare collections!
On the screenshot below, I am using RepeatJob Vegas tool from Spockholm.. Got 2x Planet Bollywood which is one of the RARE collection item in Vegas!
Limited Time Offer
Yeah, it's a reminder or a suggestion for you to buy more Reward Points to increase your Loyaly Points.. so then you are able to upgrade your membership in Loyalty Points Program!
Still, lots of friends complaining to see why they don't get the upgrade membership although they have bough some Reward Points. They are hoping to see the bar meter raising and they got the congratulations message!But nope... they just have to wait and wait...
Now, if you want to buy some Reward Points, please just do that and don't pay attention on the bar meter.. otherwise you will be attempted to buy more and more and still wondering when the new level comes!
That's it about this .. hope you can use the Reward Points wisely..
Treasure Island - Stamina Refill For Today
Ok, another link for Stamina Refill from Treasure Isle game promotion..
http://bit.ly/aDw2qD
This link is still working by the time I check and got this screenshot..
http://bit.ly/aDw2qD
This link is still working by the time I check and got this screenshot..
Saturday, 30 October 2010
No Gifting?
I have just checked on my account... No loot is giftable at the moment!
If you go to your Inventory page, you can not see add to wishlist button, nor sending as gift!
If you go to your Inventory page, you can not see add to wishlist button, nor sending as gift!
Mafia Wars - "Italy Trailer"
Thanks to VaibhaV for kindly share this info..If you don't have Italy yet, you might want to check this trailer..
You can go to YouTube to watch it... Go here, please...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v
You can go to YouTube to watch it... Go here, please...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v
Friday, 29 October 2010
Mafia Wars - Bugs On Our Game
If you are in hurry, you won't notice when the game suggesting you to refill your Energy.. while you still have tons of it! Just go to another page and you will see your Energy back to normal... Still, it's annoying..
This is the screenshot where our friend, Param, has 2 Moscow city on the Travel list..
Atlantic City Bug
Some friends gave me info that there seems to be a bug with the new Atlantic City missions where the jobs are charging 0 energy, but also not giving out experience or V$. This was happening a few hours ago.
So I was checking the m.mafiawars.com website and discovered that the jobs didn't require any energy!LucasHere is the screenshot..
So I was checking the m.mafiawars.com website and discovered that the jobs didn't require any energy!LucasHere is the screenshot..
Mafia Wars Hall of Shame Pt.1
With all of the new and interesting features lately, you might think that I'm a Zynga employee who wrestled this blog from Colin to promote Mafia Wars 24/7. Not the case. As promised in September, this blog was not revived to serve as a Zynga cheerleading squad. And tonight, I am putting my pom poms down.
If you're reading a Mafia Wars blog, you're likely a dedicated player - and it makes no sense to simply complain all the time about a free game that gives us all... something (an addiction? an OCD fix? I'll speak for myself).
It's only fair to give Mafia Wars praise and criticism on balance, as developments warrant. Having praised Mafia Wars for some truly innovative developments, it's time to mention a few things that need a fix. So tonight will be the debut of the Mafia Wars Hall of Shame, a feature I will run on occasion to highlight some... lacking... aspects of the game.
As with any beauty pageant, we go in reverse order:
Coming in third today is Fight Club and its Victory Coins. As fully detailed by Colin when Fight Club debuted, you'd need to win thousands upon thousands of fights to get to Fight Club levels where the loot even approximates something that drops in any random Vegas job.
Lately, Mafia Wars gives you the option of sharing Victory Coins when you win fights. For the most part, however, I suspect people are watching their Fight Club levels and Victory Coins rise as a by-product of their normal fighting - and not as a primary goal. This could be fixed if Mafia Wars would update the loot so that the early-level stats are comparable with what's already out there - not worse.
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Tonight's Mafia Wars runner-up feature for this edition of Hall of Shame is the recent Loyalty Program, with its Emerald, Gold, and Platinum levels.
The rewards at Emerald level - which everyone starts at - are almost useless. You can get a Health Refill by using your Rubles and Pesos at any time, and a 22/35 Armor piece is not likely going to move you up in the ranks.
The one decent item available at Emerald level - the 58/29 Executor Pistol - is not actually available until you get enough Loyalty Points. Don't be fooled by the "Purchase Now" button - click it, and you will be asked to... purchase Reward Points.
This program reminds of how airlines, credit cards, and hotels encourage you to stick to one company...the difference being, I don't have another choice of where to play Mafia Wars OTHER than Zynga. Where else would I direct my Mafia Wars loyalty??
The benefits for moving up to Gold and Platinum levels are very attractive loot items, shown below - but then again, you can buy many of these items (like Crates) with your existing RPs in the Marketplace, or buy RPs just to get the items. Adding levels AND Loyalty Points... a bit much.
I understand that Zynga is a corporation. A hugely successful corporation, in fact, and good for them - their marketing and innovative games made them over $250 million in revenues in 2009, and has the company valued at $1.2 billion dollars, according to public reports.
Zynga has every right to encourage players to purchase Reward Points. In fact, the recent promotion that would subsidize the cost of new schools in earthquake-ravaged Haiti was undeniably commendable and puts Zynga on the map with other socially conscious companies. But there has to be a better hook than the Loyalty Program.
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My #1 offender in this debut edition of the Mafia Wars Hall of Shame is the Crime Spree feature:
First of all, what exactly merits the NEW logo here? This was last updated in July or so, when it already had been useless for months prior. Mafia Wars rebooted it with a promise of a new loot item at each level.
That worked for me exactly ONCE. I was at Level 31 and - upon reaching Level 32 - got the awesome Trouble Maker weapon with 55/46 stats. I imagined loading up an arsenal of Trouble Makers. Yet upon reaching level 33... nothing. 34? Nada. 35? Zilch. And so on.
The prospect of a significant loot item at each level was necessary because of the mediocrity of the loot you typically get when some one participates in the Crime Spree feature. Here are two representative examples:
These two items, with (30/10) and (17/25) stats, won't possibly make your top 501 items in any fashion.
Crime Spree IS useful for one and one thing only: when some one sends YOU a Crime Spree request, you can cash it in for 50 Energy points or 40 Stamina points - but only 5x a day, and only once a day per Mafia member.
Given that no one is using Crime Spree because of the lack of decent loot, even this aspect has dried up - though I do see people on their feeds asking "some one send me a Crime Spree please!" - and you know it's not to earn another Sumotori Fighter with 17 attack points.
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Mafia Wars rolled out great new features in September and October: Challenge Mission: Dublin; Declare War!; Secret Drops; and Secret Missions, to name the highlights. If they could make these existing features worthwhile, the game would be at an all-time peak.
And to end on a high note, as I pick my Zynga pom-poms up from the ground, the Daily Chance Lotto Claim Prize feature indeed found its way back to a random number from 1 to 5 tonight:
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If you're reading a Mafia Wars blog, you're likely a dedicated player - and it makes no sense to simply complain all the time about a free game that gives us all... something (an addiction? an OCD fix? I'll speak for myself).
It's only fair to give Mafia Wars praise and criticism on balance, as developments warrant. Having praised Mafia Wars for some truly innovative developments, it's time to mention a few things that need a fix. So tonight will be the debut of the Mafia Wars Hall of Shame, a feature I will run on occasion to highlight some... lacking... aspects of the game.
As with any beauty pageant, we go in reverse order:
Coming in third today is Fight Club and its Victory Coins. As fully detailed by Colin when Fight Club debuted, you'd need to win thousands upon thousands of fights to get to Fight Club levels where the loot even approximates something that drops in any random Vegas job.
Lately, Mafia Wars gives you the option of sharing Victory Coins when you win fights. For the most part, however, I suspect people are watching their Fight Club levels and Victory Coins rise as a by-product of their normal fighting - and not as a primary goal. This could be fixed if Mafia Wars would update the loot so that the early-level stats are comparable with what's already out there - not worse.
=======
Tonight's Mafia Wars runner-up feature for this edition of Hall of Shame is the recent Loyalty Program, with its Emerald, Gold, and Platinum levels.
The rewards at Emerald level - which everyone starts at - are almost useless. You can get a Health Refill by using your Rubles and Pesos at any time, and a 22/35 Armor piece is not likely going to move you up in the ranks.
The one decent item available at Emerald level - the 58/29 Executor Pistol - is not actually available until you get enough Loyalty Points. Don't be fooled by the "Purchase Now" button - click it, and you will be asked to... purchase Reward Points.
This program reminds of how airlines, credit cards, and hotels encourage you to stick to one company...the difference being, I don't have another choice of where to play Mafia Wars OTHER than Zynga. Where else would I direct my Mafia Wars loyalty??
The benefits for moving up to Gold and Platinum levels are very attractive loot items, shown below - but then again, you can buy many of these items (like Crates) with your existing RPs in the Marketplace, or buy RPs just to get the items. Adding levels AND Loyalty Points... a bit much.
I understand that Zynga is a corporation. A hugely successful corporation, in fact, and good for them - their marketing and innovative games made them over $250 million in revenues in 2009, and has the company valued at $1.2 billion dollars, according to public reports.
Zynga has every right to encourage players to purchase Reward Points. In fact, the recent promotion that would subsidize the cost of new schools in earthquake-ravaged Haiti was undeniably commendable and puts Zynga on the map with other socially conscious companies. But there has to be a better hook than the Loyalty Program.
=======
My #1 offender in this debut edition of the Mafia Wars Hall of Shame is the Crime Spree feature:
First of all, what exactly merits the NEW logo here? This was last updated in July or so, when it already had been useless for months prior. Mafia Wars rebooted it with a promise of a new loot item at each level.
That worked for me exactly ONCE. I was at Level 31 and - upon reaching Level 32 - got the awesome Trouble Maker weapon with 55/46 stats. I imagined loading up an arsenal of Trouble Makers. Yet upon reaching level 33... nothing. 34? Nada. 35? Zilch. And so on.
The prospect of a significant loot item at each level was necessary because of the mediocrity of the loot you typically get when some one participates in the Crime Spree feature. Here are two representative examples:
These two items, with (30/10) and (17/25) stats, won't possibly make your top 501 items in any fashion.
Crime Spree IS useful for one and one thing only: when some one sends YOU a Crime Spree request, you can cash it in for 50 Energy points or 40 Stamina points - but only 5x a day, and only once a day per Mafia member.
Given that no one is using Crime Spree because of the lack of decent loot, even this aspect has dried up - though I do see people on their feeds asking "some one send me a Crime Spree please!" - and you know it's not to earn another Sumotori Fighter with 17 attack points.
=======
Mafia Wars rolled out great new features in September and October: Challenge Mission: Dublin; Declare War!; Secret Drops; and Secret Missions, to name the highlights. If they could make these existing features worthwhile, the game would be at an all-time peak.
And to end on a high note, as I pick my Zynga pom-poms up from the ground, the Daily Chance Lotto Claim Prize feature indeed found its way back to a random number from 1 to 5 tonight:
View the Original article
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