I had some time to check out the new multi-gifting feature which is in the Beta testing phase. To get to it, click on "Inventory" and then "Gifting"
It will appear st the bottom of your gifting page.
Select a gift, click open the drop box, select the number you want to send, search for the person(s) you want to gift, then click "Send". In the following example. I sent 10 Treasure Chests to my main account.
When I logged into my main account, the messages from my Home and Inventory pages notified me that I received 10 Treasure Chests.
I took screen shots from my Inventory before and after and the numbers matched up.
I then wanted to see how long it would take to send a larger quantity of items. I decided to send myself something more useful than a Treasure Chest and chose Bulletproof Glass.
I had to reset the drop bar to 10, scroll to find my name, check my name, and click send each time. It was very time consuming to send them all. It has been recommended that this number be increased. If it stays at 10, it won't be an effective trading tool. When I logged into my main account this is what my Inventory page looked like.
Again, the numbers in my inventory matched so items don't appear to be missing from using this feature.
Although the multi-gifting program won't help facilitate bulk trading if it stays the way it is, it will help you dump the loot you don't want anymore. I hated to do this to my mafia but I got rid of all my Brass Knuckles in just a few clicks. I had 130 to dump so I adjusted the drop bar to 10, selected 13 mafia members, clicked send and they were all gone. Rather than irritate 130 people for sending them 1 Pair of Brass Knuckles, I really pissed off 13 people for sending them 10. My bad.
If the number of gifts we can send at a time increases and the gifting delays decrease, I think we will all be much happier with the gifting system as a whole. Read the
Multi-Gifting Feedback Transcripts to see what some of the players who are Beta testing this feature are recommending to 3 Representatives from Zynga. It's a very positive sign that Zynga does care what we think.
have lots of treasure chests if that's what you'd like Jennifer ... lol :)
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agree that 10/send is just insufficient. Need a multi drop down box approach, with digits for 10s, and 100s as well as 1-9. Also, a preferred list of folks should be incorporated. Say anyone you have gifted to in the last 30 days, and all mafia members you have added in the last thirty days. Maybe you can influence the powers that be. :)
-david
I wish I had this available on my account. I agree that the number of gifts you can send should be higher than 10, but still, being able to send 10 gifts at a time beats the heck out of just sending one, which is the way it still is with my account. :(
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