Brawler Version 4.3

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We all were lost without Brawler the other day when Zynga messed with the Attack buttons.  Arun quickly got to work and it's now working and even better than it was before.  Arun thanked Team Spockholm for the temporary fix and Brawler version 4.3 was introduced on the Mafia Task Force Forums.

We now have more control over what it does and what it logs. If you already have version 4.2 installed, you shouldn't need to do anything else. If not, go to http://codeoutpost.com/?page_id=33 and drag "Brawler" to your bookmark toolbar and start fighting!  If you haven't used this tool yet, review my article for the basics (1).  There have been a few updates since that was written but I'll cover the new features of Version 4.3 here. The first thing you will notice is this version is more polished and has a sleeker look to it.

Some features have been added to help you tailor when the fight list will be refreshed.

Refresh Fightlist after attacking __ targets on Fightlist: Select a number of targets that seems to go with your current fightlist. During busy times, you often get fightlists that look like this.  No sense in having Brawler check a fightlist like this for living targets. Adjust the number of targets it will attack before refreshing to get a new fightlist.

Refresh Fightlist after Losing to __ consecutive targets: We've all run into fightlists that are full of targets that are much stronger than we are. Now you can select a number of consecutive losses to ensure that you don't attack all the living targets on a very strong fightlist.

You can now choose what you want Brawler to log and what you don't. There is so much useless crap that we get from fighting so it's nice to filter all that out. Click on the "Logging Options" button.

Here are all the options of the things you can chose to be logged.

In the run posted below, I turned on the post links for Ices, Stashes and Coins. I can go back when my run is over and post the things I want.  I don't post my ices but it's nice to post Secret Stashes as when they work it helps your mafia members.  To get to this log, simply click on the yellow Ices/Stashes/Coins link (providing that you checked for it to be logged). Then click on the link of the post you want generated.

Since I could care less about how many loot items I acquire that do nothing for my overall attack and defense score, I want to select attack and defense numbers of the loot that will help me. A little trick I use to get this number without having to calculate it myself is to go to the Mafia Wars Helper Analyzer (http://www.mwhelper.com/).  You will find an elaborate array of statistics about your character but to get the number that I will program into Brawler, I scroll to the bottom of each category (weapon, armor, vehicle and animal) and look for the part that says "Don't waste Reward Points on items that don't have at least Attack: __ or Defense __".

Since 57 and 55 are the lowest attack and defense numbers for my character, any equipment with lower stats is useless to me. Useless loot will still be logged as the categories are grouped into one but this will prevent a large majority of loot from being logged.

If you select "Log Targets", you will get a list with all the links of the targets you attacked. Personally, I don't really care about this but a lot of players who like to analyze their fights will appreciate it.  Click on any of the links and you will be directed to their Mafia Wars profile page.  Attack your target to get all of the fight statistics.

Here is a short run of about 2K stamina. You can see I have a lot less loot to look through. I do notice that none of the FHEL4 dropped.

Here are my numbers of FHEL after this run. I'll do another run to determine if this decline in drop rate is a Zynga issue or a logging issue.  Stay tuned.

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. All material is protected by copyright law