We saw how
Get Satisfaction can be an effective tool for the players to communicate with Zynga and get results when the Requiescat in Pace Centesimus achievement was removed from the game
(1). This was one of many flaws with The Raven feature. Much more has to happen before the community as whole will start liking and utilizing this feature. Most choose to ignore it. The next big idea comes from one our admin of the
Mafia Wars Loot Lady Fan Page. Leonard Wong started the Get Satisfaction Idea shown below. Leonard asks (very politely) if it would be possible for us to to activate the 8 hour timer once The Raven appears. If you like this idea, go
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It would be really nice and very practical if we, the players, had some control over when The Raven timer is activated. I can accept the fact that The Raven will only appear every 3 days. What I have do have a problem with is when The Raven appears right before I'm going to go off line. What are players who have to work, sleep, or do something in real life suppose to do? The have no choice but to let The Raven go. At some point yesterday, The Raven appeared in my account. The problem for me was that I didn't realize it and went to bed. I'm not a big sleeper so I was lucky to wake up in time but my timer was down to less than 2 hours. I would have been screwed if I got a full 8 hours of sleep.
We are required to click on the "fight" button before we can start this Boss Fight. Why can't the timer start once we do that? This way we could choose a time when we know we will be on line and start farming consumables.
There also should be better notifications in the game when The Raven appears. Missions are quite obnoxious about it and I don't think anyone has ever missed one. The Raven will appear on the fightlist, one of the later Home Page Modules and on The Operations Page. If you aren't looking on any of these pages, you won't realize he is there. I could go on forever about the poor drop rates of Ammo, but that's an idea the developers are very much aware of and chose not to properly adjust it so enough could be found in a 8 hour time frame.
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i was giving this some thought as i had to let the raven sail by unmolested for the third time now ( i refuse to dump RPs on this crap.)
ReplyDeleteletting us start the event on our own pace really would be an awesome idea. it would go a long way to mitigate my biggest gripe (besides the abysmal drop rate of bats and sniper rounds) -- namely that he seems to always pop right about when i'm wanting to go to bed and/or am out of all my cooldowns for the day.
if i could start him at a point when i could have a chance to dedicate most of my cooldowns, then perhaps it would be a bit more effective.
my personal suggestion is to let people get drops like the bats and sniper shots at all times -- not just for 8 hours every 3 days. if someone is diligent enough to mix up fighting and robbing during those 3 days, then the fight should be perfectly doable each time and even the 100 kill achievement would have been a feasible goal (over 10 months -- ugh. but i'm still sitting on 34 trillion after nearly 18 months, so...)