There is good and bad news about the Lion Fish. The good news is that it replaces the Giant Thai Centipede as the highest attack animal.
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The bad news is that not all players are going to have a fair chance to get it. The only way to get this animal is to complete the Limited Time Mission, Dead Man Talking. This Mission was released on February 16th
(1) and then suddenly disappeared. It was brought back later the next day but not all players got a crack at it. The Mission is only available for 7 days and officially day one was Feb 17th. It will expire on Feb 24th. The problem here is that many players did not get it on their Missions Bar and some are still without it. If you factor in the fact that the second task of Part 6 could take in up to 4 days to complete, you most likely won't have time to get your Lion Fish.
Here is the problem. Collecting on your Hotel in Las Vegas is easy to do. Just click the collect button. If you did this right before getting to Part 6, you're going to have to wait 48 hours just to do it the first time. Now you will have to wait 48 more hours to do it again. There are only 3 days left in the event so you need to hurry if you want to complete it in time. I'm hoping that Zynga will realize they didn't plan this one out very well and extend it a few days, especially for the players who didn't get it on their account in time. Slow rolls on timed events are not cool at all!
Some players who breezed through it before it was pulled got an opportunity to do it a second time (I was not one of them). Tomas posted the following image on the
Mafia Wars Loot Lady Fan Page from a friend of his who was able to get 2 Lionfish!
I guess someone with $$ can breeze thru it twice but I'm not one of them. I do understand that everyone who should have had it should get a chance but it seems like they nerf things so much that those of us who actually had to work for our build should just start over, pass all our toys to our new accounts and build a strong E-account. Everyone is not equal nor is life easy. [[I've dealt with a stroke and renal transplant]] so it kind of sucks to see Z nerfing everything down to Kindergarten level.
ReplyDeleteIf winning is not important why keep score?
Well, I just finished the 3rd section of that mission and it looks like it has come to an end. I just wasted 217 energy on "Assassinate A Political Figure" and not 1 Night Vision Goggle has dropped. I don't have it to waste on Zynga's aggravating little shell games. I have the exact same problem with those stupid wooden boxes in Italy. I'll just keep using my resources to finish the Italy jobs and key on the Att/Def skill points. Zynga will make you "pay" something to get these silly bells and whistles like this Lion Fish. When will I ever learn?
ReplyDeleteanother planned glitch to get people spend RPs
ReplyDeleteHaving a timed mission is fine but perhaps the clock shouldn't start until you "click" on it to make it active.
ReplyDeleteexactly as you explained, Im trapped with the collect from your hotel twice, Ill be approx. 12 hours late. so I can kiss my lion fish goodbye. :'(
ReplyDeleteMy only gripe about this Lion Fish is that it gives no incentive to the people who still have Bangkok to finish Bangkok. With it being one of the hardest cities to finish up, doing this mission which yes, people could pay to walk thru it is a breeze. I was not happy to see my centipede be gone.
ReplyDeleteWell put lootlady.
ReplyDeleteI burned 2500 energy and only saw the night googles appear after refresh..then the last 5 started popping up.
Thought 3 days fine no issues 100RP points to find that after waiting for mafia to respond and checking wiki that COLLECT from hotel will not speed up with RP!
Brawlering the ice part....need extension to Collect...put it forward on your visit...at least allow me to buy the fish with Vegas cash or iItaly\vegas\bangkok\cuba money!
The WHALE
I've wasted more than 2000 energy points on "Assassinate A Political Figure" and can't get that 10th Night Vision Goggle. I'm getting fed up with it all.
ReplyDeleteI just finished and got my reward.. but i feel bad for those people who didnt get it.. and don't forget those poor souls who are damned in the Manhattan beta test version of mafia wars! They don't get ANYTHING!!!
ReplyDelete@Devlin85
ReplyDeletehi dev...its me ^^ man, i'm stuck at gathering mafia crew. whenever i sent a crew request, there's no "You sent XX request" pop up. that's sux.
I still have yet to see the Dead Man Walking mission. I got the empty mission bar when it told me to get started on it when it first came out.
ReplyDeleteMy advice to people who don't have it, is to contact Zynga Support. After explaining my situation, they gave me the mission items since it would be impossible to finish the mission on time.
Reply from Zynga :
ReplyDeleteBjorn, thanks for reporting your issue. I checked your particular issue and found that there are other accounts affected with this inconvenience. However, our development team is working hard in order to fix this issue asap and make the game more enjoyable for good players like you.
As a compensation from my personal assistance for your huge patience and understanding I have added 20 Reward Points on your account.
I wasted a lot of energy getting night vision goggles also then I remembered I had a load of them in my inventory so I got rid of every one to an account that takes "trashy loot". After that they dropped very quickly.
ReplyDeleteSomeone had done a study on this before as they had a theory if you kept a lot of unused loot in your inventory then your loot drops would be lower. It seemed to prove true but now we have the FHEL and that is not giftable yet.Much of it is now useless to me so I must wait until it becomes giftable if it ever does!
I also now have two lionfish.
ReplyDeleteI chase this reward event and I spend all I have. and lose that reward because run out of tme. 3 hour left to complete. evrything become unseless
ReplyDeletei got my fish for my both acct..it surprise me that when i reach the last mission that need me to collect my hotel in Vegas. It STATED there I already collected it once which I haven't.
ReplyDeleteSo i click collect one more time and hey presto!! Something glitch is good thing after all
I don't have the mission bar so no chance of getting the Lionfish or even the Cuba event. Keeps showing me the main Cuba intro screen but then doesn't show the bar where you can do the various
ReplyDeleteWhere the bar should be it's the Governor's Run bar (which shows as complete). Wish they could get their programming right.