Showing posts with label Mafia Wars. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mafia Wars. Show all posts

Saturday, June 12, 2010

What's an Uber Gift in FarmVille, Mafia Wars and YoVille.

WHAT'S AN ÜBER GIFT?


An Über gift is a big, awesome gift. There are 3 of them, one from each game. The right combination of Buy.Earn.Play credits will earn you all 3 Über gifts at the same time: 200 Farm Cash in FarmVille, 50 Skill Points in Mafia Wars and a Slurpee machine for your house in YoVille! (There is no way to win Über gifts individually).


HOW DO I DO THIS?
You’ll need to redeem 5 to 8 Buy.Earn.Play. credits as well as complete 1 to 3 Zynga tasks. Each 7-Eleven product is worth 1 Buy.Earn.Play credit, while a Zynga game card is worth 2 credits. After 9 notches in your belt, you’ll unlock all 3 incredible üBER gifts at once. Don’t forget to keep track of your progress in the Gift Tracker tab at BuyEarnPlay.com.


EXAMPLE
Slurpee + Big Gulp + Ice Cream + Bottled Water + Hot Coffee + Chips + Grill Item + Orange Soda + Complete One Zynga Task = All 3 üBER gifts



To get started on unlocking these Uber Gifts, head to the buyearnplay.com website, login to the site with your Facebook account and agree to the terms of the promotion. Once that's done, you'll be directed to the red Uber Gift page. (If you don't automatically land on the page, click the red Uber Gift tab) with a brief (and slightly confusing) description on how to acquire these special gifts. 


See those nine white dots at the top of the page? Essentially, you have to fill up those dots by doing a combo of redeeming codes (each code fills up one spot, you can also use Zynga cash cards, which will fill up two spots) and performing 1-3 in-game tasks (more on these below). 


For example: Redeem codes from a Slurpee + Big Gulp + Ice Cream + Bottled Water + Hot Coffee + Chips + Grill Item + Orange Soda and complete one Zynga task = 9 activities that will fill up the dots. Once all nine dots are full, you'll be able to collect all three Uber Gifts.


Note: Don't try to cut corners by trying to redeem more than one Zynga card -- only one will count toward meeting the requirements to unlock the Uber Gifts.


OK, now onto these so-called 'Zynga Tasks' needed to collect the Uber-gift. There are special tasks assigned to FarmVille, Mafia Wars and YoVille players. You must complete at least one to get the Uber Gifts, and if you play all three games, you can just do all of the tasks. Then all three of those tasks will go toward meeting the Uber Gifts requirements (then you'll only have to redeem six 7-Eleven items to get the special gifts).


Here are the Zynga tasks, broken down by game: 


FarmVille


After redeeming a FarmVille-themed item, you will unlock a limited-edition Goji Berry crop. You must achieve level 3 mastery of this crop to complete the FarmVille task.


Mafia Wars:


After redeeming a Mafia Wars-themed item, you will unlock the Corner Store Collection of virtual items in the game. You will then need to complete 41 jobs and win 10 fights in order to unlock all items in the Corner Store Collection and receive a Limited Edition bonus gift. Task complete.


YoVille:


The YoVille task is a little less labor-intensive than the other two (not sure why). All you have to do is redeem seven YoVille themed items, and you earn a Limited Edition bonus gift. Task complete.


Once you've done the work you can reap the benefit of having 200 extra Farm Cash at your disposal (or one of those other two items) ... and you even get a Slurpee or 10 out of the deal.


[Source games.com ]


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Sociolatte



Friday, June 11, 2010

Mafia Wars Double Mastery Weekend

The Double Mastery Weekend has started on Mafia Wars. You'll be rewarded with double mastery from doing jobs in all cities except London. Be ready to take advantage of this weekend as it ends on Sunday night. This is one of the surprises launched by Zynga Mafia Wars this weekend and there is more to come over the whole month. The month of June marks two years since Mafia Wars was launched.

So all jobs you do will pay double mastery and therefore finish in half the time. As seen from the picture below there are also going to be some sort of fight rewards that you would need to check back on Wednesday 16th to find out you Fight Rewards.



Don't waste time and get your fight rewards and help Mafia Wars celebrate two years of crime. 



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Sociolatte



Thursday, June 3, 2010

Mafia Wars Robbing Thought Process Explained

Recently Mafia Wars went out of their way to explain robbing. This was incited by a players letter to the Mafia Wars team that stirred them into action to explain what robbing is and what is the thought process that went into creating this feature on Mafia Wars. It also seeks to answer and clear questions that players may have about robbing. This letter also explains what features of robbing are going to stay and features that are going to be added.


Please find a copy of the letter below




Dear Mafia Wars Player,

First of all, I want to thank you for this thoughtful, well articulated letter. I always like hearing feedback from our most passionate players. Your wants and desires for this game are tremendously important to us here at Mafia Wars, and we hope that every feature we create will delight you.

In fact, we hope that our features will delight all of our customers, and therein, I fear, lies much of your angst. For you see, robbing was not primarily designed for the hard core player, a player archetype we like to call the social fighter. It was designed to try bring more players who might not ever fight someone into the PvP game, to try and nudge them down the path to becoming social fighters. As I am sure you know, for people who are not in clans, or refuse to go to “add me” threads, it is almost impossible to compete at all in fighting. There is almost no point in putting any points into stamina, or atk/def if you do not have 501 mafia. Robbing was designed to try and encourage those people to become more interested in PvP, to try and convince them to get more people into their mafia, and to get them to participate more in fighting. The data is still coming in, but so far it seems to be doing exactly that. We are noticing many more people putting points into stamina now, and many more people are taking part in some kind of PvP (fighting or robbing) than previously.

While this is good news for me as a designer, it is certainly not good news for you guys, the people that already have 501 in their mafia, and don’t need the gentle nudging towards becoming social fighters. All I can say to this is I DO feel that we have greatly underserved our fighting community in Mafia Wars, and that we are working on systems that should reward fighters greatly (I mean, please, there isn’t even any mastery bars for fighting  ). I think that you will enjoy the things we have planned.

It seems that your main concern for robbing is that it is not adversarial enough, and actually, I agree with you here to a point. However, the old robbing was WAY too punishing to players who could not defend themselves. If one person decided to “pick” on my properties, it quickly became worthless for me to ever even think about repairing them, or upgrading them. Essentially, if you were not an active fighter, with a large group of friends to back you up, there was no point to even investing anything into properties, since they would quickly be robbed down to 20% effectiveness, and the repair costs were so prohibitive. Many, many players were just giving up on properties, and not using the feature. So, when we redesigned robbing, we wanted it to matter when someone robbed you, but we did not want it to be the case that any one person (or groups of people) could completely shut you out of your properties and make them useless. Thus we came up with the “wither” idea, where people robbing your properties would be stealing the money your properties produced, but would not prevent you from collecting in the future. On the whole, I think this is a good system, however our implementation still needs some work.

Currently, properties do not stay on the robbing list for long enough, and so it is rare for a property to get robbed all the ways down to 30%. This is part of the reason why new robbing does not feel adversarial enough. We are looking in to why this is the case, and hope to have a fix out for this in the near future ( the tech behind generating the lists of properties that are vulnerable to being robbed is more complex than you might think!). Further, I agree that robbing someone from their profile page is not as satisfying as it should be. In the future, you will be able to see how badly a person’s properties have been robbed, right down to the yellow tape. Also, I think it will be possible for us to let you know with a countdown timer when a person’s properties will become vulnerable to being robbed.

A couple of other small improvements are planned for robbing soon including adding it to the other cities, as well an achievement for 9-0 clears, and the ability to retry a rob when you fail.

I hope that provides some insight behind the curtain. Now, to your specific suggestions about robbing:

1) “Return times robbed to player stats.”
Agreed. We will add this in a future push.

2) “Add real time robbing to player updates.”
Agreed. We will add this in a future push. Further, I think we will be doing away with the “coming soon” map on the properties page, and putting a special robbing only player updates there.

3) “Disallow robbing from the grave.”
Here, I disagree. 20 health is the bar for attacking. That is, you cannot attack, or be attacked when your health drops below 20. Since robbing does not do damage to the defender, we do not feel it is fair to prevent someone from robbing when their health is low.

4) “Add the progress bars and yellow tape to robbing.”
As I mentioned above, we will be adding this to robbing from the profile page, along with a timer letting you know when the other properties will become vulnerable. Also, the rewards for robbing from the profile page will be tuned up in a future push.

Again, thank you for your letter. I hope you keep enjoying our game!







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Sociolatte



Wednesday, May 26, 2010

Mafia Wars Arctic Crates

Mafia Wars now has two types of Arctic Crates. One Arctic crate which can be purchased for 12 Reward Points and three Arctic crates which can by purchased for 35 reward points.


The Item Chances of these crates are


10% Rare
30% Uncommon
60% Common


The Loot items you get are as follows




Armor
snow shoes (36 attack 21 defense) – common
immersion suit (28 attack 44 defense) – uncommon


Weapons
ice pick (22 attack 35 defense) – common
polar bear (43 attack 25 defense) – uncommon
glacier (42 attack 25 defense) – uncommon
tundra smg (37 attack 61 defense) – rare


Vehicles
penguin aquacraft (36 attack 25 defense) – common
snow monster (62 attack 30 defense) – rare




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Friday, May 21, 2010

7-Eleven promotion for FarmVille, YoVille and Mafia Wars is now live

Well the wait is over and the special promotion has been launched. Zynga and 7-Eleven have launched the promotion and here is what you need to do to get a game card and redeem it for special rare in-game items


You need to check the store locater to find the store nearest you. Once you get your card with the code you need to login to www.buyearnplay.com. Where you will be asked to connect via Facebook and enter the code found on your card.


You can redeem only 10 codes per day as there is a daily limit. So you can get 10 gifts per day and three gifts per product type.


The 7-Eleven promotion also includes "Uber Gifts" where you need to redeem six to eight codes and complete 3 "Zynga tasks" to unlock special gifts. Which include 200 farm cash, 50 skill points in Mafia Wars and a Slurpee machine in YoVille.


[Source blog.games.com ]


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Sociolatte



Wednesday, May 19, 2010

Mafia Wars Las Vegas Properties

Las Vegas is getting readied and is coming soon to Mafia Wars. In fact Mafia Wars have released sketched of the creative process. Mafia Wars game maker Zynga have a top-notch creative team in place and the sketches are now available if you would like to see a concept going from inception to the final finished stage.


Those beautiful building take a lot of hard work and creative energy. The pictures released by Mafia Wars are proof of it. 


The sketches released are for the Hotel/ Casino and all these new buildings can be upgraded individually. They will look bigger and better as you upgrade them. Future updates will show individual details about each property but for now these are the images available. Mafia Wars Las Vegas Properties are really gonna be something.






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Sociolatte



Thursday, May 13, 2010

Mafia Wars Gold Treasure Chests

Gold Treasure Chests are out again in Mafia Wars. The chests have been updated and if your lucky you will have a chest drop in your game. Use the Gold Treasure Chest key to unlock it for new rewards. So you need to be on the look out to get your Gold Treasure Chest Drop. The key can be purchased from the Market Place.







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Friday, May 7, 2010

Mafia Wars Twitter Contest!

Announced on the Mafia Wars forums. The 3 day Twitter Contest events. Close on the heals of the FarmVille Tweet for cash contest come the Mafia Wars Twitter contest. The winner of course wins 500 points. 


Details of the contest are given below


Zynga Mafia Wars is hosting a special 3-day Twitter contest!
We’re giving away 100 Reward Points to 10 daily winners, and one Grand Prize winner will win 500 points! It’s just a simple tweet a day!

To Enter:

1. Log into your Twitter account and make sure you’re following @mafiawars – www.twitter.com/mafiawars

a. If you don’t have a Twitter account, it only takes minutes to register!

2. Tweet this contest message “Tweet for Reward Points Day 1! I want to win 500 RP from @mafiawars #mafiawars! http://zyn.ga/AF"

a. On Day 2 - “Tweet for Reward Points Day 2! I want to win 500 RP from @mafiawars #mafiawars!http://zyn.ga/AF"

b. On Day 3 - “Tweet for Reward Points Day 3! I want to win 500 RP from @mafiawars #mafiawars!http://zyn.ga/AF"

3. You may submit up to 5 tweets a day.

4. Tweets for the daily prize will be accepted until 11:59 pm PST that day, and winners, who will be randomly selected, will be announced the following morning.

5. A Grand Prize winner will be chosen on Sunday at 11:59 pm PST. The more you tweet, the better your chances of winning 500 Reward Points!

6. Contest runs from May 7, 2010 – May 9, 2010.
Winners will be announced on Twitter and on the Mafia Wars fan page. Don’t forget to spread the word about our special 3-day contest!



Source [ http://forums.zynga.com/showthread.php?p=5485238#post5485238 ]






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Sociolatte



Wednesday, May 5, 2010

Mafia Wars Paris Challenge Mission Chapter 2

Mafia Wars Paris continues with chapter 2. In chapter two the goal is to steel the Mono Liza. Get in the game now to work out your strategy and go steel the Mona Lisa. We will update this post as more details emerge.




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Sociolatte



Saturday, May 1, 2010

How to hide or unhide Mafia Wars on Facebook

How to hide Mafia Wars updates from appearing on your News Feed.



1. Login to Facebook.

2. Hover over the Mafia Wars update 

3. The 'Hide' button appears on the left hand side of the update

4. Click on Hide.



Once that is done you no longer have updates appearing on your News Feed



How to Unhide Mafia Wars



1. Login to Facebook.

2. Scroll right to the bottom of your News Feed Home page

3. On the right hand side of the last News Feed you find the button 'Edit Options'

4. Clicking on 'Edit Option' brings up a list or people or applications you might have hid.

5. Find Mafia Wars and click the button next to it which says 'Add To News Feed"



Your done, Mafia Wars updates are back on your News Feed.








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Sociolatte



Friday, April 30, 2010

Mafia Wars: Most Wanted

Mafia Wars is definitely adding new features to the game and for now Mafia Wars may start following story lines and webisodes.


The story line has been launched in Mafia Wars Paris and all the details have still not been revealed. 



Paris, the 'City of Lights,' home of Notre Dame and the Eiffel Tower is also the birthplace to one of the world's most infamous criminals. Having eluded the FBI, MI-6, and the KGB, the Shadow is on the loose and wreaking havoc on the streets. Preview this criminal mastermind's first act of vengeance in the newest Mafia Wars webisode, then continue the adventure in Mafia Wars!


For now it looks like Mafia Wars will launch a webisode and players can then continue the game in Mafia Wars. To get the story that needs to be followed players would need to watch the webisode and then continue the story line in the game itself.


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Sociolatte



Sunday, April 25, 2010

Mafia Wars Next City Survey

Zynga makers of Mafia Wars and other popular Facebook games have been releasing surveys to help take the game to the next level. The new survey launched for Mafia Wars has to do with helping them choose the next city when you would like the game to be played in.

The survey has three main categories. 1. Which new city would you choose, 2. Which city would be your second choice. 3. Which current Mafia Wars city is your favorite.

Mafia Wars would like your input and we have a list of the survey questions below.


1. If you could choose the next city in Mafia Wars, which would you select? Please select your top choice.

 Athens, Greece

Dublin, Ireland

Istanbul, Turkey

Johannesburg, South Africa

London, England

Los Angeles, USA

Mumbai, India

Prague, Czech Republic

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Rome, Italy

Sydney, Australia



2. What would be your second choice?

What would be your second choice?   Athens, Greece

Dublin, Ireland

Istanbul, Turkey

Johannesburg, South Africa

London, England

Los Angeles, USA

Mumbai, India

Prague, Czech Republic

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Rome, Italy

Sydney, Australia



3. Out of the existing cities in Mafia Wars, which is your favorite?

Out of the existing cities in Mafia Wars, which is your favorite?   New York

Cuba

Moscow

Bangkok


4. Please explain why the existing city you chose is your favorite.

To take the survey please click here.

Which city would you want to play Mafia Wars in next? let us know.




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Sociolatte



Thursday, April 22, 2010

Mafia Wars 4 limited item collections from the movie 'Scarface'





Today the fourth and final themed item was released by Mafia Wars "My Little Friend" with 51 arrack. This pretty much sums up the total of four items released by the game.



A total of four items were released and for those of you who missed it here is the complete list.

1. Deal Gone Bad

2. Tony Montana Suit


3. House Cat
4. My Little Friend


This is pretty much it and we'll be waiting to see which mafia type Hollywood movie they choose next. It is fair to expect Mafia Wars to continue with another movie theme as it just makes things more interesting.


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Sociolatte



Mafia Wars Private Zoo and Animals Unleashed

Mafia Wars is bringing Animals and a private Zoo that you can own in Mafia Wars. The animals can be used in fights. Two limited edition animals have been released in the market place the African lion and the pit bull. Both these animals are available only for a week.





To kick off this change Mafia Wars is a having and "Animals Gone Wild" week during which animals will be dropping from jobs, fighting and robbing.





Announced by Mafia Wars



The animals are coming! Mafia Wars is pleased to announce that animals will have a new importance in the game. Starting next week, animals will become a fully-fledged combat item class that you can use. In fights and robbing, you’ll bring one Weapon, Armor, Vehicle, AND Animal for each Mafia member you use in the fight! All existing animals in the game will be converted to this new “Animal” item type.

In preparation for this change, we’re kicking this off by having “Animals Gone Wild!” week. During this week, animals will be dropping from jobs, fighting and robbing. If you want a head start in assembling your private zoo, you can go to the Marketplace to get your hands on our new Vicious Crates. These crates will contain exclusive LE animals that can’t be found anywhere else. We’ll also be featuring various LE animals in our hourly sales slots, so keep an eye out for those great deals!

We are also releasing two Limited Edition animals on the Marketplace: an African Lion and Pit Bull. These will only be available this week – so make sure you grab them before it’s too late!










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Sociolatte



Mafia Wars Paris

Mafia Wars will be coming soon to the city if lights Paris, France. And it seems reasonable enough to expect bread, wine and cheese collections.

You and your mafia can now get ready to conquer the city of lights.

Paris has now been added to the game's drop down menu with the tag "Coming Soon"

Las Vegas was announced on the same drop down menu but it seems Paris is coming first. Will keep this post updated as and when news is released by Mafia Wars




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Sociolatte



Wednesday, April 14, 2010

Mafia Wars Mystery Vault

The Mystery vault in Mafia Wars is a randomly occurring event. Your Mafia has discovered a locked vault. Hack a secure terminal to intercept the email with the security code.


When you login to Mafia Wars you stand he chance of discovering the Mystery vault. 





Once you discover the Mystery Vault you need to click on Email me the code. Once you click on email me the code you get an email with a link to click which takes you back to your Facebook page and the game. There you find another link to open the vault. Once your able to open the vault to stand to win some limited edition loot uptp 1000 Reward Points and up to 250 XP.


There maybe some technical related issues though and you find that the link is not opening. Most users recommend that you keep clicking and eventually it will open. Please share your experiences with the Mystery Vault and what loot you found etc


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Sociolatte



Monday, April 12, 2010

Mafia Wars Limited Edition Items from Scarface





Mafia Wars has teamed up with the movie "Scarface" to bring you special Limited Edition items from the film! Go to the Marketplace NOW and get the first of four items - Deal Gone Bad - only available through this Wednesday. Keep checking on the Marketplace for more Scarface items, coming soon




The Chainsaw from one of the most brutal mafia movies made in Hollywood








51 attcks 33 defence




There are to be more scareface items coming soon so please check the market place. 




It really makes sense for Mafia Wars to go back to the classic Hollywood mafia movie to bring those classic themes to life. This mob themed game draws inspiration from the original Godfather styled moves and those themes are still in-vogue in Mafia Wars.







































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Thursday, April 8, 2010

Mafia Wars Explosive Crates

Prize items that you can get inside explosive crates :


Weapons :
suspicious package – common – 30 attack 18 defense
explosive putty – common – 31 attack 15 defense
flame broiled – rare – 56 attack 33 defense







Armor :
trip wire bomb – common – 32 attack 19 defense
depth charge – uncommon – 23 attack 40 defense










Vehicles
rigged tanker truck – uncommon – 39 attack 29 defense
rigged oil tanker – rare – 30 attack 57 defense












  • These items are purchasable for Godfather points. One crate for 12 or Three crates for 35.


  • Items in this category may NOT be gifted.



Available: April 6, 2010 - ?



One Explosive Crate One Explosive Crate (12 Reward Points)


60% chance for Common items


30% chance for Uncommon items


10% chance for Rare items


Three Explosive Crates Three Explosive Crates (35 Reward Points)


60% chance for Common items


30% chance for Uncommon items


10% chance for Rare items







































Crates

Godfather Crate

Tools Of Persuasion

Yakuza Crate

Red Hammer Crate

Woodsman Crate

Wild West Crate

Street Crate

Colosseum Crate

Best of Crate

Hard Labor Crate

Tiger Crate

Cuban Crate

Halloween Crate

Experimental Crate


Food Fight Crate


Best of 2009 Crate


Spy Tech Crate


Sports Mystery Crate


Bangkok Crate


Crisis Crate


Spy Tech Crate 2


Urban Crate


Explosive Crate
Special Crate


Super Stuffed Crate



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