Dec 20, 2011

Artillery Shell Bug

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Yesterday the gift accept limit was raised to 250 from 200 a day. Zynga didn't bother to notify us of the change but I told you all about it here.  To verify this news as fact, I opened a lot of gift from several accounts. One thing I noticed is opening Artillery Shells don't count towards the Family Progression helper task once you've accepted your 20 for the day.
Artillery Shells 1-20 count towards Family Progression and Zynga makes it easy to keep track of how many you have opened by supplying a count down with each gift opened.
Once you've opened 20 Artillery Shells, one of three things happen (assuming you haven't opened your limit of 250 requests for the day). You are normally told that you have reached your daily limit for Artillery Shell and  it is converted to a Blue Mystery Bag.
This is Zynga we are dealing with so often it will say "There was an error with this request".
Sometimes the Artillery Shell opens but nothing changes to the initial message. If you already opened 20, this one won't be added to your total nor will it convert to a Mystery Bag. It doesn't give an error message so I don't really know what to call it when this happens.
The main problem with accepting Artillery Shells after you reached your daily limit is they don't count towards Family Progression. I opened all the Artillery Shells that were in my ZMC. The first 20 counted towards Family Progression and everyone after that didn't and there was no progress.
It says right in the game that you get 1 point for opening a free gift. Artillery Shells are still free gifts even if you opened 20 of them. This has to be a bug and for the sake of players with small mafias, I hope Zynga can fix it. While they are at it, they should really remove "Give crime spree help" from the list below. Leaving it will confuse players that they so desperately need to hang on to.

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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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1 comment:

  1. That is annoying, however I find it more annoying that regardless of level, I only get 1000 mafia attack raise instead of the promised continuing raise,

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