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Wednesday, July 28, 2010

Casino Dealer Is Available Now

Fiuuh, finally...
We can have this Casino Dealer dropping from job...


I just need one click and got these loot items..


So we're able to upgrade our Properties easily now.. especially the Table Game property!
Thanks to Haider for the info... and thanks Zynga team!

Happy looting, guys!



Welcome All to Vegas!

Ok, thanks to Mak, Nick and Cohen for the info.. now your wait if over, guys!
All of us can go to Las Vegas now...


And the loot items are giftable now! Wheeeeeeeeee..
Also the consumables..
Too bad, they don't give us chance to loot a special item on a specific job... The items are dropped randomly and only few are dropping from one kind of job.. will discuss more later on..
Meanwhile, enjoy Las Vegas!

How To Defeat Boss Fight In Vegas

Some of our friends complaining that they can not defeat Bosses in Vegas city on District 3 and also 5.
And why they can not succeed? Because the Boss has tons of Health!

For example Boss on Disctrict 5 below:

She has 25000 Health points!
I notice that we can have variance of Health for this Boss on the same District.. The one above has 25000 Health, some friends has 15000, and I got 1000 Health... lucky me?
Is it because I only on level 1 mastery now, so only have that much on her health? Anyone please advise? Trinity's mood


Ok, no matter how much Health the Boss has, we can still beat them!
How to? Ok, first I got one tip from Pedro, Chris and RB telling me to have my full of Health first.. then use a Stun Gun to attack her! It will not lowered her Health, but it will make her stunned or froze! So you are able to attack her without loosing your Health.. stun again, attack again, do this until your consumable is gone..

My henchmen sacrifice themself for me..
I keep attacking her, using my kits.. I use the Grenade, the Shiv, use Attack button again and heal my self with the Health kit.. but somehow the Boss is able to heal themself as well! She has a full health again! Crap!!!

Then I just click on "Ask for Help" button and publish! I think it works!
I still attacking her but she quickly loose her Health... I guess my best mafias are helping me to defeat her quickly, hooorrraaaayyy!!!


The point is, ask for help is the best way I know to defeat any Boss in fight!
If these tricks do not work for you, you have problem with your game.. please contact Zynga Support team about this..

Or.. according to Chris, if you lose now it's ok.. you can come back to attack her and it seems that she will have lowered Health this time.. If you lose again, come back and you will see that she has a lowered Health again... do this until you can defeat her!

I hope you can find your own way to defeat the Bosses now.. and if you know any other tricks, please kindly share on the comment section below..


PS : Many thanks for all the info comes from our friends... Haider, Chris, RB, Pedro, Hayden, etc etc...Thank you!

Another FaceBook Scam?

Lots of Mafia Wars players lost their account because some bad people use their computer ability to steal FaceBook accounts!
They create one script and will make a template that similar with the normal FaceBook layout or some screenshot from one game, so you will not have any hesitation to click on the provide link they gave there...

Please read the experience of this fellow of mine, Herbie..
I received mail this morning in my personal inbox from Facebook, and it looks genuine. It told me that I had deactivated account and that I could re-activate it by logging in. I knew I hadn't and I didn't respond to the mail. Not one to panic anybody, but just in case this thing is yet another way to hack into accounts, I'm passing the info to you.
Be aware of it if you get a similar email, don't click blindly, check these things out first!!

Wow, I would be confused to read the email and probably will click to reactivate my account right away!

But wait! Please think about it for a while before you click on anything..
Did you do any violation of FaceBook so you got this email? Did you get any pink slip from FaceBook? They should have warned us first before they deactivate our account, right?

So Herbie just ignored and deleted the email!
He has a normal FaceBook activities until now.. has no warning or being disabled for not clicking the button on the screenshot above..

This post is meant as a warning to you, my friends.. Please think first before clicking any link sent to you by any sources.. if you happen to click on it, quickly change your password or even better, create a new email to login to your FaceBook account!


PS : Thanks for the sharing, Herbie... Have a nice day!

Attack Live Targets!

Yes yes, I know.. lots of people complaining about the changing on bonus XP we got from fight now.. Stressss You can see one thread on Zynga forum discussing about this :
http://forums.zynga.com/showthread.php?p=6383288

I got many emails regarding this topic..

Johannes said, as everybody noticed the loot droop rate also changed, it seems like they changed the formula to get loot in fights. You won't get any more loot from iced players and if you attack an iced player you won't get more than 2 XP points for that. Also the "rally the troops" isn't working on iced players anymore.

So, You'll only be able to get loot by attacking players that are Alive. You'll not be able to gain any loot from those players that are already Iced.
Hayden has already tried it out with AttackX with some 690 stamina, no single loot drop.
He tried with Brawler with only attack live targets ticked, with 19 stamina used, 2 loot dropped..

Sarah did it using AttackX and this is the result :


And this one from -Red..
Have you noticed the fight XP change? You barely get the x 2 multiplier anymore, nor the 3 XP... maybe in 10 or even 5 % of the cases...

My stats used to be ~2.33 XP/Stamina then it went down and I looked and I mostly got 1/2 xp in the log. I reset my stats and started to log again and now I get a payout of ~1.75 to ~1.8 XP/stamina!

Note that the new Vegas jobs - when you are careful and make sure you win the fight - give out EXACTLY x 2 XP/Stamina which seams to push players "serial levelling" to do Vegas Fight Jobs instead of normal fighting! (I always got a crappy robbing rate personally).

We need to add an "Vegas Auto-fighter" script now :p

(Note: the bad "payout" is because MWAP doesn't seem to "avoid" players with whom you have fought and lost, so if my Vegas bank is full, and there's only one person to attack in the "current available list", it will keep attacking the same person... lame...)

- Red!
Here is the screenshot..

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I don't know what happen.. is it only a temporary bug?
We know that Zynga is well known with this kind of glitch if they want to add one feature or event..
If this is premanent, why they don't give any explaination? Hmmm, according to Al Catraz - Super Moderator on the thread above : "Its just bad luck (appears to be really bad luck) over a smallish sample."

We have another opinion from our friend, Klas..
The lower exp and zero loot only happens when u fight iced or dead players.
I did a test with brawler and only attacked live players (takes time and annoying but wth)
did 460 attacks.
now i got 2.18 exp/stamina and 7.5% loot..

Its a little lower then normal but that is because brawler thinks sometimes that a target is alive,
but then another player kills him and when brawler attack the target, it is already dead so sometimes i attack iced/dead players
that gives lower exp and zero loot chance on that attack.

Good point of view, mate!

Lots of people back to do Robbing now because of this changing.. if you still want to do some fights, you can attack live targets only now to have your bonus of XP and fight loots..


PS : Thanks a lot to -Red!, Johannes, Hayden, Klas, Ben, Sarah Wilson A.K.A Little_Tiger and Davo for the infos..

How To Use Facebook Credits

I know that I have told you many times about FaceBook Credits.. but now I have officially explanation from Zynga about this... so we can convert them now!

Many friends have some kind of rewards from FaceBook and they can use this to buy points on some of FaceBook games... Nobody know how to get this from FaceBook.. one friend said you can contact FaceBook via email to ask them sending you the credits... some just accept it without knowing why or how..

Here it is again the example when you have the credits..


Another one...


Or this one...
I still don't get my own Credits.. so can not try to convert it to Mafia Wars Reward Points..
Apologize if I just copy-paste what I have found on Zynga Support Center..

Here you go :

How To Use Facebook Credits

To purchase virtual goods and in-game currency for your Zynga game, you will first need to purchase Facebook Credits!!

How to purchase in-game currency

1. Click on the "Add {in-game currency}" or "Get {in-game currency}" link from your game.

2. Select what you want to purchase.

For example: 72 Horseshoes, 115 Sand Dollars, etc.

3. Select the payment method.

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If you select Credit Card or PayPal, you will purchase the exact amount that you have selected. Your Facebook Credits balanced will not be affected.

If you select Facebook Credits, we will first display how many Facebook Credits you currently have.

If you have sufficient Facebook Credits to complete the purchase, you will not be asked to charge to a credit card or to PayPal; you will be able to complete the 'purchase' with Facebook Credits.

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If you do not have sufficient Facebook Credits, we will inform you of how many Facebook Credits you are short, and what's required to complete the purchase.

Select Credit Card or PayPal, and then select a Facebook Credit package.

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PLEASE NOTE: Any remaining Facebook Credits that were not used during a purchase will be added to your Facebook Credits balance and can be applied to any Zynga game!

Your current Facebook Credit balance is on the upper right-hand side of the page from within a Zynga game:

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Facebook Credits are being used by the following Zynga games:

  • Cafe World
  • Mafia Wars
  • PetVille
  • FishVille
  • FarmVille
  • Treasure Isle
  • FrontierVille
Source : Zynga Support Center
http://zynga.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/1824/cissues/1


PS : Thanks to Sandra and Punith for the screenshot..

Tuesday, July 27, 2010

Las Vegas : New Free Gift Items

See this new icon?
You can click on it and you will arrive on the Free Gift page!


Also available on the promo tab at the Daily Checklist.. so it is new free gifts from Las Vegas city..


Here they are :


Need to see the stats of these free gift items? You know it already, they are all crappy items..

LAS VEGAS - NEW FREE GIFT ITEMS

WEAPONS


ARMOR


VEHICLES


ANIMAL


I know lots of you want to have these items and eagerly to send to your beloved mafias..
But please don't do it.. Why? Rather than to have these items, I am sure your mafias need another items.. like Mystery Bag, Rack of Chips (if they have not enter Vegas yet), new materials from Vegas building, etc..

Share the wealth, please..


PS : Thanks to Kyle, Hayden, -Red! Love you, guys! OMG.. luv it!
Thanks a lot for the kind infos..

Slot Machine Game : Heaven Or Hell?

Do you like gambling?
Sometimes I do.. I used to be one of Bridge card player (one of game card) and I played Poker too..

Talking about gambling, placing bets, hoping to win a large amount of Reward Points will make us of having a bad habbit on this game! Everytime I see Slot Machine game, my hand is so itchy to move my mouse to click on it and have a few spins! Xixixixixix

Let's have a look at the pay table once more..

The table suggests you to place more bets to win more!
And here is the email from one of lucky player :
So, I just want to show something really cool.
On first image which I took, when I had 10M xp, I have 33rp (from 15 july) . Second image is from today (25 july) and there are 845rp... all earned from Lucky Stash by clicking on "play 3 points" (I clicked on
it 500+ times... and I earned maybe 8times 240rp sometimes 120rp and a lot of 15rp and lower rewards). So what you think about spending RPs on Lucky Stash now? :)

BEFORE PLAYING SLOT MACHINE


AFTER PLAYING SLOT MACHINE

We can see that he has a lot of Reward Points now!
He never bought points, all he got from spinning the reel...

Placing more bets will have a chance for bigger rewards, but cost more as well..


One of my friend got lucky from claiming his free spin! He only placed 1 bet and got this prize..


What a lucky players!
According to Cohen, nobody really win a jackpot right away.. He won his jackpot today but somehow Zynga will let their Developer to decide whether you are eligible to have all rewards or not.. I don't know about this.. but I hope somebody really win right away and no need review from any Developer!

Seeing these lucky players make me feel to try my luck.. I have some Reward Points and decided to play... out of luck! I bought a game card and still no luck! Lost all of my points (got big ZERO now!)
Not only me.. my best friend Mak also lost 621 Reward Points because he wanted to win the jackpot and keep spinning the reel!
I am sure there are lots of unhappy players out there..

Oww, gambling is such a dangerous thing!
Now it's depend on you, guys... want to play this mini game or just ignore it! Peace yo!


PS : Thanks to Dark Courier, Mak, Cohen, Andre, Carlo..

Monday, July 26, 2010

Vegas Consumables

Thanks to Mark for this..
He was asking me about how many Vegas consumables we need to master all District at 4 mastery levels..

I don't know because I have not mastered all jobs yet.. so thanks a lot for this, Mark!

VEGAS CONSUMABLES

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Here they are..


Tips from our friends Mark, Haider and some others (sorry forgot your names) :
Collect all of these consumables on the first mastery level of each Districts!
That way you can save a lot of Energy.. you will need more of them on the next levels and the energy will be higher..
Also, try to open all Disctricts at level one first to unlocked new Properties..

Thanks again to Mark, Haider and to all who kindly shared the infos to me.. Thanks also to Mafia Wars Wiki so Mark can continue making the table..
Have a wonderful day in Vegas!

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