Mar 26, 2011

Why Mini-Energy Packs Suck

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I don't need to say anything more than what's on the image below. Please note that it has been well over 24 hours since I used the last one. I know you can get your Mini-Energy Pack link from the Link-a-Nator but I'm currently having an issue with that.


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.
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19 comments:

  1. Obviously that looks like they are included along with gifting/mafia invite requests.. or are you allowed so many Energy Pack requests per day?

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  2. Chris "[MIG]noobasaurus"March 26, 2011 at 4:41 PM

    Get-a-nator

    that is all.

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  3. 99% of the time, I don't even get one back, so what the eff?

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  4. the mini pack been really useful for me. i get to level 6 level a day and pour everything to attack and defense
    and its not that hard to get
    1. use the link a nator and get the link
    2. see the people playing mafia war and online at that time
    3. sent them one and ask them to send it back.

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  5. Yep That about covers it. Good idea ( from the players) Crappy implementation ( by Zynga) could we really expect anything else?

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  6. I love the mini-pack and the flexibility it gives me. But having to spam for six packs is too much. They need to increase the number we can keep on-hand and, possibly, change it so that you get a full batch of mini-packs (6) when you send spam out for it. If they gave everyone newsfeed posting option and allowed six people to respond to one post, that would help too.

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  7. this game has become a pain and a frustration for a non high paying cc players . with all the glitch spamming and begging.
    lets strike to bring down the marketing team :p

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  8. The only bright side is that old links will work so once you have a link to post on your profile for people to send you an energy pack, just keep re-using the same link

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  9. Yep not getting energy packs is slowing my lvling and progress.
    Just make it auto at different times of day would be better than this new 6\6 requesting\spamming!

    "THE WHALE"

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  10. use get-a-nator to get the 6 packs when u need them, i find it a better way than having to use 1 full energy pack,i can use it when i need it and not plan around having to use the full pack

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  11. Well, All I have to say about this is, We could hold 5 energy packs before so we always new we had at least 5 day worth of energy, we now should be able to hold 30 mini packs, the same five days worth, this is the only thing wrong with this idea, I like them, but they need to fix it some we are not spamming the walls every day to get what we should already have. Evad

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  12. with old epacks u got 125% do you get the extra nrg from these as well?

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  13. I agree with anonymous/Evad. Well put.
    But as for daily usage, mini packs of 25% would have been far more useful to me when i converted my acct from energy to stamina (w/a by-product of becoming a fighter). Mine was a long time ago, before the fighters refills were changed. But currently to do so, you'd just have 2 refills max a day (e-pack and fighters refill). Now you have 7 boosts possible, w/o using rp.
    I have a couple dozen or two other benefits coming to me off the top of my head. Simply put:
    Spam notwithstanding, i see this as a great help, to more people than it will annoy. Especially low levels, fighters, and newer accounts.

    Just my two woofs on the matter, plz dont be angry at me if i differ in opinion.

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  14. charles pitts

    this will be great once they
    fix a few bugs

    i hate the idea i have to use
    a big energy pack
    when i only need a small one
    or two small ones

    i wish you could see
    how many you have in reserve
    once you used all the ones
    you can

    a better timer
    it would show you when the next one would be available for you to use

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  15. i don't have the mini energy packs yet...does any one else still have the old style packs??

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  16. I am only a level 596 with 329 family members. Now, after the recent "anti-customer-actions" the things are becomin VERY boring. The recent "Mini Energy Pack" change is the´.... well, add the word You want.

    IMHO: Zynga marketing, probably due IPO goals, is acting against its loyal customers. I have "swiped" my credit card (not often enough?), but for now, I will definitely not pay from ANY Zynga based service and actually, if things start to get as boring as they are, I have some other options available.

    All good for Zynga marketing team! One learned lesson: Getting a new customer against one lost customer requires 10x investment to get the customer to same level. In addition to that, lost customers are extreamly hard to get back!

    But what the heck.... Their marketing is probably not even following thse comments!

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  17. By the way: I just complained against the Mini Energy Packs, and yes indeed, one of the comments was that "i hate to use the whole pack to get 100 points ... or something". Yes, I agree, but oin the other hand, that teaches you to play more smartly and design You moves!

    There are many ways of taking a huge advantage from the full energy refill to gain levels. I will NOT start to "beg for mini energy packs", rather I plane well how to get the few remaining points, OR if desperate, even buy a refill for a strategic advantage.

    This games seems to be loosing all of its strategic design that used to make it interesting enough despite the sometimes a bit "slow motion".

    The mini-packs are for those who can not plan. But maybe that will be the better target group for this game? Eh?

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  18. And once more. Yes, if we would get 30 packs in queue (aka. single donation adding 6 mini packs) that could even improve the experience, but for now.... Implementation of a potentially good idea just s*ks....

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