Zynga's Q&A: #7 Health During Boss Fights

Item #7 on Zynga's Q&A list is about how other players can still attack you, even when you're doing a boss fight. During the Mafia Wars Live broadcast before this past one, Jeff AKA Month explained a major reason why Zynga hasn't made it so that we can't be attacked during boss fights. Essentially they don't want a loop hole in the game that would allow a player to "hide" from being on the fight list. Point. I hadn't thought about that, but you know it would happen.

The Zyngons have an idea about how to handle that, and want to know your thoughts on it. 

At that time Jeff explained this idea, which is also mentioned in item #6:

7. When fighting a boss, my health sometimes decreases because I’m also being attacked by other players. Please make it so that other players can’t attack me while I’m fighting a boss, as it can prevent me from being able to ice the boss.

There are some challenges with this, but we are open to suggestions. The solution we’re currently considering is to essentially give you boss-fight-specific health. You would enter into a boss fight with a full bar of health and be able to fight the boss knowing that only they can reduce it. To reflect the fact that fighting someone in real life would leave you vulnerable to attack by others, you would still be able to be attacked by other players, but any hits you receive outside of the boss fight will only be reflected in your regular health. Because you can still be attacked and even iced while in a boss fight, you’ll still want to give some attention to building good attack and defense stats. The strategic balancing of stats is an important part of Mafia Wars. Please share your feedback regarding Boss Fight Health.

Hmm. A separate health meter for boss fight? That might just work. What do you think?