If your curious to see how long your friends or enemies have lasted on the hitlist, you won't be able to get that statistic off their Mafia Wars profile. At the time of this post, every profile you look at will have your own hitlist survival time listed. Here are my current stats viewed from my own profile. My longest hitlist survival time is 1:56:54.
Here is my profile when viewed by somebody who lasted the maximum amount of time of 2 hours.
Here is my energy account when view from my profile.
This account couldn't have possibly lasted this long on the hitlist. Look at the defense and health stats.
Here is a Level 24 with a 2 hour survival time. You can tell by the stats that this person doesn't really play Mafia Wars.
The cool thing about being a part of The Informant Podcast is that everybody except me and Jana knows a lot about computers. Whenever I have a computer question, all I have to do is ask in our chat room. Sometimes I get more information than I need to know but it's nice to have them all in one place and is a valuable resource for me. I asked Pistol Pete, Arch-Angel Nemesis, and Mike Nestor why the hitlist stats aren't appearing properly and was schooled on PHP files. The Mafia Wars game script, runs based on code in several PHP files and there is currently a PHP code error which is causing the problem described above. Apparently this would only take a few minutes to fix. If you want to know more about PHP, read the quotes below.
"PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor. It is a recursive acronym; the first "P" stands for "PHP," and the first "P" of that stands for "PHP" as well, thus the cycle continues. It originally stood for Personal Home Page, but was renamed when the language fell into common use on the web, at version 3.0"./Mike Nestor
"PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor is a widely used, general-purpose scripting language that was originally designed for web development to produce dynamic web pages. For this purpose, PHP code is embedded into the HTML source document and interpreted by a web server with a PHP processor module, which generates the web page document. As a general-purpose programming language, PHP code is processed by an interpreter application in command-line mode performing desired operating system operations and producing program output on its standard output channel. It may also function as a graphical application. PHP is available as a processor for most modern web servers and as a standalone interpreter on most operating systems and computing platforms."/Arch-Angel Nemesis
Article written by Jennifer Patterson, Creator of the MW Loot Lady Blog, The Mafia Wars Loot Lady Facebook Fan Page and Co-Host of The Informant Podcast. |
I reported this to Zynga 6 times.. It took the 6th time for the cust ser. to understand this problem!
ReplyDeleteIt's been this way 3 month's now..
I had the same problem and reported it to the morons at Zynga. It has been a month and I've only gotten the run around on it. I recently got the 1 hour achievement so I no longer care but it is interesting to hear that EVERYONE is having this same problem. The 'helpers' at Zynga acted like they've never heard of such a problem. They asked me to send a screenshot of every profile that was having the same time shown!
ReplyDeleteThere's couple ways this has been coded wrong, with a $variable or the %USER%-type coding, well either way.. it is possible to fix the error in few minutes with just selective find&replace :) Wonder what takes them time ? ;)
ReplyDeleteI wonder how long it will take them to find out, that it takes 2 hours to get the 1 hour achievement ... :-D
ReplyDeleteSad but true, Zynga doesn't care about that they're just after money...
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