Attack To Win: Extra Victory Coins

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Yesterday a new feature involving Victory Coins was implemented .  Nobody was quite sure what it was.  There is a discussion thread on the Zynga Forum Boards titled Double Victory Coins in which players share their experiences with the feature thus far.  We don't get double the Victory Coins for fighting, we get an opportunity to share Victory Coins with our mafia members.  When utilized properly, both you and your mafia member will get an extra 1-100 Victory Coins for fighting.  The option to share Victory Coins will drop while you are fighting.  If you don't get a drop to share Victory Coins while fighting, check your wall for "Attack To Win!" posts.

Click on "Attack to win" and you will be directed to your fight page.

Start attacking and you will see the +2 Victory Coins are earned for a undetermined number of attacks.  You will also get the option to share more Victory Coins with another mafia member.  When you click on "Share Coins", you will generate a post which will go the wall of the mafia member that was selected by the game.

As you fight, the +2 Victory Coin message will be there on every fight, win or lose, until the extra Victory Coin run is over.  You will end up receiving up to an additional 100 Victory Coins when it is completed.  I'm not sure when the total amount of extra Victory Coins show up in your account.  You can see from the image below that only the Victory Coin I was supposed to win through normal game play was added to my balance but the extra ones weren't.  It may be that they are added at the end when all the fights are completed.

I wanted to see if this feature does what it's suppose to so I did a run on Brawler of 4,830 fights.  I chose this number because 2 days ago (before the feature was implemented) I did the same run and was able to compare the results.  I clicked on one of my Attack To Win posts before I started.  You can see by the results that I gained 88 more Victory Coins than I did during the prior run. The results are very comparable as the difference between fights won is only 7.

Some players are having problems posting when they attempt to share Victory Coins.  Don Wobbin posted the following image on the Forum Board discussion thread that I referenced above.  This is what happens if the person selected to receive the post is in your mafia but is not one of your Facebook friends.  It can also happen if the selected player does not allow friends to post on their wall.

Bmaniac, Mafia Wars Team Member responded on this thread and says that they will be looking into this problem immediately.  There isn't much Zynga will be able to do about this as it's a Facebook function.  To prevent it, they could run the feature through the Facebook request page and let us select the player to share Victory Coins with.  He also said that you are guaranteed 1-100 Victory Coins on your next attack.  Based on the little amount of time I've used this feature, I don't think it's on one specific attack but a series of attacks.  I never got anything but +2 additional Victory Coins at a time but I got the +2 Victory Coins from the same person on multiple attacks.  Please comment with you experiences with this feature.