Aug 31, 2011

Episode 92: ‘Foil’ed Again!!!

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Well the EPIC/Family Boss Fight is driving some a little nuts. The crew gets into some off the frustrations. Jen covers game changes, which there were only a few. Chester and Jana discuss the family progression and the compensation for the timer issues. While the community was pretty grateful something was done. The one complaint was that you did not have much choice over when to use the compensation.

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Get Free Stuff

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There is a new Mafia Wars spam post floating around in the news feeds and many are asking what it's all about. The first 5 players to click on "Get Parts" get exactly what it says.
So how do you make this post is the next question. You have to collect on your properties from the Home Page.  Click on the collect button and you will notice a "Share" button towards the lower center.
Click on it to generate the feed post.
I did a Stream Scanner run and these posts can be found under the "propertyV2" tab and they will say "Get Parts".
It may not be worth the hassle as you can only accept 3 per day. I accepted the one shown above and was able to get two more parts from the Stream Scanner run.
Maybe they are doing this to encourage players to use Union Hall. I would use it if the Port Item was on there and it had a memory. I end up needing to scroll to craft an item because the one suggested isn't the one I want to make. Until they add the above mentioned features, I will continue to use the Property Manager by Team Spockholm as it's much faster, has a memory and is more complete.

Thanks to Bella for posting on the fan page.

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Live Chat Link Issue

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About a week ago, players started to have problems getting into Customer Support Live Chat (1). The links that players were using to connect no longer worked. I've done some investigating and found out that the links were broke on purpose and they were considered an exploit. Live Chat should only be available when you see the Live Chat icon on the Customer Support Page. Many have created new links and I've even seen a few scripts written to help one "get in". When they work it's most likely coincidence.
If you see this then that means "No Chat For You!". I should point out that the Email feature is effective, it just takes longer.
The only thing official I found came from a forum post on the FarmVille forums (1). It's been said that Live Chat has always been for customers who spend money on Reward Points and that you only need to have made one purchase in your Mafia Wars game playing career.

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Hey guys,


Thought I'd chime in since live chat support has been a hot topic for the last couple days. In order to get live chat, you do need to be a paid player. You don't need to spend a $100 per month to get live chat though--that is just a rumor. You are entitled to live chat support if you have paid for FC in your lifetime, but please keep in mind that this CS feature may not be available due to high volume.

More info added:
  • There will always be email support. The news about email support going away is just a rumor.
  • Email support is available for unpaid users.
  • Email and live chat support is available for paid players.


Source:  Games Blog

Thanks to John Sweeney for the link.

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Boost Mastery Repeat Bug

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I'm really getting tired of things not working in this game! I have no Trigger Happys even though I completed the Mission and they dropped, my Family Boss Fight is a total mess and now I can't repeat the Boost Mastery Event. You would think they could at least get this one right! No matter where or how many gifts I accept, my progress stays at 0.
And yes, I did click the "Do It Again" button!
UPDATE: I contacted Customer Support and was offered 60 Reward Points to buy off the last two events. That's not going to cut it. I would need 612 Reward Points.
After pointing out the above, I was told to try again in 18 hours. I did that and this was my result.

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Arch Enemies Boost #3: Vitals Sight

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The third an final gift, the Vitals Sight, of the Arch Enemies Boost Mastery Event is now unlocked.
The Vitals Sight is a robbing boost and each one will give you a "200% chance of robbing your next property successfully.  Correct me if I'm wrong, but wouldn't a 100% chance be sufficient? No wonder the robbing equation is all jacked up! Each gift will contain 5 boosts.
Give and receive Vitals Sights through the Free Gifts System.
You know the drill, collect 4, 10 and 20 Vitals Sights to master the Bronze, Silver and Gold levels.  Your loot reward is a Competition Compound Bow and the stats will improve with each level of mastery.
If you mastered all three gifts, you will be able to collect your Grand Prize loot item which is the Olympic Archer and has stats of 151/114
There is an option to repeat the entire event. If you click on "Do It Again", the Home Page Module will reset and you can start collecting boosts all over again. The event can be completed a total of 3 times so it's possible to own 9 mastery items for each gift and 3 grand prizes.

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Epic Boss Fight Epic Bug

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UPDATE: Cerulean Master, Super Moderator, responded to this Zynga Forum Thread. The Boss Fight is still not resetting and more Families are reporting the same issue.

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I've seen a few reports of this and have reported it.

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Some Families are currently experiencing a bug with the Epic Family Boss Fight. Jeff can not be killed. When it looks like he is defeated, he regenerates his health back to 1,000,000. Nothing resets and there are no loot items to collect. It's as if you are doing a new fight but the old fight didn't reset. I know of four Families experiencing this so it is a bug that can be reproduced. You can see that our Leaderboard is stuck on a previous fight. The score I see on my Fight Page is a total of multiple fights and the Leaderboard is the same one as the fight we were on before this bug hit. There is usually lag with your current score and what shows on the  Leaderboard, but not this much.  Players entering the bugged Boss Fight don't even show up on the Leaderboard so nobody can send them boosts. You can also tell that there is an issue by looking at the timer. We consistently take down the Boss about once and hour or so. It's been over 14 hours since this fight has reset which is very un-{ASS} like. Please comment and include your Family link if your Family is also affected by this bug.
To further demonstrate what is going on, I took a video. You can see we have almost "defeated" the Boss. My score is now over 20,000 and is consistent with what shows on the Leaderboard.
As soon as Jeff is defeated, it takes you to the Boss Page and shows that the health is 1,000,000. There is no collect button for any kind of reward.
I left Mafia Wars and came back in a new window and clicked "Join the fight" from the Home Page. You can see the timer did not reset to 7 days.
My score is still adding up from multiple Boss Fights but on the Leaderboard, it went back to the original fight that we are stuck on.

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Mafia Wars Surveys

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Zynga has a few surveys they want us to take. Click on the links posted below to get there.


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Help us make better Mafia Wars features and events. Please take these very quick surveys to let us know what you think about the following: 


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Update On Robbing In Cuba

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Here is Customer Supports statement in regards to the jacked up robbing in Cuba. Go here to check for updates. I hope this means they will fix the Trigger Happy problem as well. My Cuba Robbing Page still looks like this.


Cuba Updates

Updated 08/31/2011 at 09:29
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UPDATE FOR CUBA RELEASE ISSUES
During the anticipated re-opening of Cuba there were unexpected issues that arose regarding the empty robbing boards for our players.  The Neo Imperium has had Cuba in their evil clutches for too long.

But don't worry, we're working on the robbing boards and other related issues and will have a release that will go out tonight that will get you into that action.

Thank you for all of your early excitement, and we appreciate your patience while we work to resolve these issues for you!

The Mafia Wars Team





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New Cuba Loot Drop Rates

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The new loot that was added to Cuba is great and should improve most players equipment scores.
I did 500 jobs in the El Soldado tier using the job with the best experience/energy ratio. The very fist job, "Rob Your Cab Driver" costs 10 energy and has a ratio of 1.8.
I did 500 jobs, spent 5000 energy and got 32 items. This is a drop rate of 0.64% and a cost of  about 156 energy per item.
I mentioned in the previous post that there were two jobs not requiring consumables with exp/energy ratios of 1.95. The first was in the El Patron Tier. The "Eliminate A Rival Family's Agent" costs 37 energy.
On this 500 job run, I got 28 items and spent 18,500 energy.  This is a drop rate of 0.14% and each item costs about 660 energy.
The best job of the El Cacique Tier also has a ratio of 1.95. "Arrange A New York Drug Shipment" costs 55 energy.
I got 30 items this time but spent 27,500 energy. The drop here is 0.11% and each item costs about 916 energy.

To sum it all up, it's best to sacrifice the extra experience to get more loot items. I would use all of your energy on the first job and do as many jobs as possible.

Job
Tier
Experience/Energy Ratio
# of New Cuba Loot Items
Drop Rate
Items/Energy
Energy Cost Per Item
Rob Your Cab Driver
El Soldado
1.80
32
0.64%
156
Eliminate A Family’s Agent
El Patron
1.95
28
0.14%
660
Arrange A New York Drug Shipment
El Cacique
1.95
30
0.11%
916


To help you track your progress, use the Inventory Group bookmarket by Team Spockholm. It's been updated and includes all the new Cuban loot items. I can see that Zynga still hasn't given me my Trigger Happys back. I'll give it another day before contacting Customer Support. You can also see the unaccounted for Shelled Torso is still not dropping.

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