UPDATE: The updated ZMC was pulled and restored to the version it was before the update. Gift accepting scripts are now working.
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By now you should have noticed the Zynga Message Center (ZMC) has been updated. At first it looks really cool. We have been asking for an "Accept All" option for quite some time. Zynga finally gave it to us but they took away the ability to open gifts individually. If I want to open 5 or 10 Mystery Bags to get a Stamina Boost, I have no choice but to open them all. The new layout also broke all the gift accepting scripts.
Requests are now broken into categories. There is an "Accept All & Send" button in the Free Gift category and you can accept ALL your free gifts in one shot.
Free gifts are now batched by item. In the example below, I have 101 Mystery Bags, 2 Animal Feeds, 1 Raw Meat and 1 Carpenter Nails.
You get two options for each gift type. You can either accept all of them and return one to each player or you can ignore them all. The option that is missing and is the main problem with the new layout is the open and accept individual requests.
It's a well known fact that Mystery Bags turn into crap after you open 10 or so of them. I usually do this once a day when I'm looking for a Stamina Boost. In the case of my Mystery Bags, I now have to open 101 of them.
I was concerned about how I would know what each Mystery Bag contains. As long as you don't accept another type of gift, what you get will stay displayed on the page. The process is super fast and if you click on anything else, you will lose that information. In the video below, I opened 83 Mystery Bags.
This is also problematic for gifts that have a limit. We can only accept 20 Artillery Rounds for the day but players who have many more than that are forced to accept them all. Once the limit of 20 is hit, Artillery Rounds turn into Blue Mystery Bags. Zynga should put the same cap on the number we can accept at one time if they aren't going to let us accept individual requests. Alejandro posted his predicament on the fan page. The only options for this type of situation is to ignore them all and wait for exactly 20 more to come in and accept or accept them all and get 56 Mystery Bags which will be applied to your daily limit.
None of this would be a problem if there wasn't a gifting accept limit of 200 a day. If Zynga insists on having a limit then they need to let us open gifts individually. The ability to accept a lot of gift requests is awesome but it should be an option to use when we want a large amount of the same gift. The new ZMC layout broke The Gift Collector and the ZMC Agent by Team Spockholm. If you try to load them, they will come up blank. Eike looked at the back code and found there is no easy way to open individual requests but they will figure something out. The Gift Blaster still works but I noticed my ZMC is not filling up nearly as fast as it used it.
The Family category contains Battle Requests and Family Boss Fight notifications. At least Zynga isn't forcing us to accept all of our Battle Requests at the same time!
Help Requests are how Free Gifts should be. There is an "Accept All" button but the requests are also listed individually. If they can make it happen with these, why can't they do the same with free gifts?
One interesting thing that Eike found in the back code is a counter that keeps track of how many gifts you have already accepted for the day. You won't see it on the front end because Zynga hasn't put it there. One bit of useless Real Estate on the ZMC is the box in the upper right corner that tells you who sent gifts to you. All you need to do is look down to acquire that information.
If you have the Spockholm Toolbar installed, this spot will now tell you how many more gifts you can accept for the day. It may take up to 24 hours for you to see this update.
Team Spockholm
Zynga
Other observations made by Eike are that Zynga is using the Burst Mode in the back code for gift accepting and added a 10 millisecond delay so the servers don't get saturated with requests. The problem is it wasn't implemented correctly and requests are all sent out at the same time (in the same millisecond). Team Spockholm has always avoided sending multiple requests, and now they officially put that into the code. Eike doesn't know what affect this will have on the servers but we may see problems because of it. This is not all negative and Eike did have some positive things to say about the new layout which include the number of gifts remaining for the day, the ability to easily open a large quantity of gifts at once and the fact that Zynga is using Burst Mode means Team Spockholm can use it too. I think this was a good first effort try but they need to scrape it and not return it until they can figure out how to let us open gifts individually.
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if they want this to actually function then take all the limited items and put it in a new category with an accept max button like they did with the energy packs. and why would anybody accept the mission crew individually ??? put in the option to chose individual accept in all categorys would be the best . theres a lot of daily limits: Artilleri Shells, Brazil Cash, Mystery Shipments, Secret Drops, Rifle Rounds etc.
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foookkkkkkkkkkk zynga they can't make anything right except spending on RP.
ReplyDeleteWould also like to be able to sort the categories the way I want. I'd rather have the gifts on top.
ReplyDeletei hate this to be honest want it like it was b4
ReplyDeleteWhat you can do, in the meantime, is to cancel/exit out of ZMC as you are accepting the gifts. You have to be quick but it does work.
ReplyDeleteit is that bad that scripts don't work, don't think. Not beingale to open indivually really sucks.
ReplyDeleteMight just delete my bags and send a few request out and thne open them.
Thank you Jennifer and Eike.
ReplyDeleteLove your work
if they want this to actually function then take all the limited items and put it in a new category with an accept max button like they did with the energy packs. and why would anybody accept the mission crew individually ??? put in the option to chose individual accept in all categorys would be the best .
ReplyDeletetheres a lot of daily limits: Artilleri Shells, Brazil Cash, Mystery Shipments, Secret Drops, Rifle Rounds etc.
don't , now you see it now you don't , it was there this morning and now the button has disappeared.
ReplyDeleteTypical of Zynga to continue its efforts to chase away players. No wonder the IPO went down after it was introduced in the past week.
ReplyDeletewhy is the select Max button gone??? Not having that option sux.
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