Contrary to what some players are claiming, the limits for how many free gifts we can accept in a day has not changed. A limit of 200 free gifts a day was imposed in September of last year
(1) and it still holds today. Zynga changed the timing of when your free gift limit will be reset to zero. It used to reset at 12 am PST and changed to 12 am for all time zones. Now that we have so many different type of requests, I was curious to see what counts towards this limit. Everything on the Free Gift page, 2X Mastery Boosts, Red Mystery Bags, Secret Drops, Bonus Payments and any free gift links for older gifts count towards your 200 limit. If you open any of the above mentioned items, you will be told "You cannot accept any more Free Gifts today". I started at this baseline to demonstrate what can and can not be accepted and therefore counts or doesn't count towards the limit of 200.
With all the Missions and constant Mission Events, we see a lot of Mission Crew requests. Unfortunately, these count towards your limit. You get nothing for them except a warm fuzzy feeling for helping your mafia members and they certainly don't look or act like gifts.
Brazil Crew requests are different. You can accept as many of these as you want. If there is a vacant crew slot, you will fill it and get nothing in return. If you accept the request from the Facebook request page and the person you attempted to help has all of their Brazil Crew positions filled, you will get a Mystery Bag. If you want to collect more Mystery Bags, try accepting as many Brazil Crew requests as possible. There is no limit.
If you accept a Energy Pack, it won't count towards the limit. You can accept as many of these as you want but can only hold 5 in the queue. If you accept Energy Pack requests once your queue is full, you don't get anything.
You will no longer see requests asking for Energy Packs on your request page. News Feed requests are now the only way to ask. When you click on one of your mafia members Energy Pack request posts, you will be told that "All Mini Energy Packs have been sent." even though Mini Energy Packs no longer exist.
Crime Spree requests do not count toward the 200 limit but you can only accept 5 of these a day.
Mafia Wars invite requests don't count and if you accept these from the Facebook request page all they do is direct you to the Home Page in Mafia Wars. The only way to accept Mafia Wars invitations is from the My Mafia page or the Zynga Message Center.
As stated in a post I made about Mystery Bags and wishlist items
(1), there is no Facebook limit on how many requests you can send. It's unclear if this is a bug or an intended change. Some people seem to think the post referenced above was reason for the Mystery Bag nerf. Why people think that Zynga read this post and implemented the new Blue Mystery Bags complete with the Superhero Collection in a span of 3 days is beyond me. The timing was a coincidence and some are giving me way too much credit for influencing what Zynga does.
Come on Jen, it wasn't your blog...it was me posting how the Red MB link had been broken along with the Columns and Tiles on the Loot Lady wall two days ago. That's what did it--they fixed that (of course breaking the 'Item on Wishlist') and added new collection in only 48 hours ! Each comic book in the collection is the true life story of one of the devs... ;)
ReplyDeletebut a limit of 100 gifts (inbox) & with every mission comes 20-30 crew invite and daily brazil crew invites, crime spree requests etc etc .. end up losing Mystery bags/gifts because hit daily limit accepting gifts. (& overload of spiders & such spam events)
ReplyDeletei really hate the modified Mystery bag & another reason soon i will quit MW/FB all together. they do nothing but make the game worse every day...
Actually, I am under the impression you can accept as many crime sprees as you get, but you only get to choose 5 rewards from the first 5 you accept.. that being the stamina or the energy.
ReplyDeleteI am curious if gifting error pages count towards the gift limits.