Zynga player survey: Back Alley Business, Brazil

Zynga has posted another survey, this one for the Back Alley Business, Brazil additional new secret district. Go HERE to take the survey. Since they seem capable of cranking out these surveys, it would be nice if they would also get back to cranking out the daily free points on their fan page and the This and Next Week blog posts every Friday. Slackers!

Ice Season, Chicago double mastery, Holiday Treasure Hunt end today

Due to all the stuff, crap, and events lobbed at us last week by Mafia Wars, there are several things ending either today or in the very near future. Ice Season 13 will be wrapping up in a matter less than 4 hours now. How'd you do? Me, not so great. Again. Hate to say it but I've kind of given up on the Ice Seasons. They're impossible for a balanced player like myself to finish with everything else going on at the same time. Sucks, I kinda liked them, too :(

 Chicago double mastery also ends tonight, at 11:59pm Pacific time.

Also ending at midnight Pacific time tonight is the Holiday Treasure Hunt (yes, I finally found the timer) :D

The Toy Store will be wrapping up tomorrow evening.

So will the Lexington Hotel 'additional district'.

Also keep in mind that the contract missions will be going away in a few days.

Hopefully all of these things won't be replaced. We really need a break.

City of Traverse is now available--but you have to PAY

Wow, that is LOW. For the past few days now we've been seeing a countdown timer under the heading of Additional Districts in Chicago indicating that City of Traverse was becoming available again soon. That timer just ran down, and instead of finding City of Traverse available, you find you have to PAY to get in. City of Traverse was initially released on November 1st, as a secret district. I shouldn't be surprised that after the hype, we now are required to pay 35 reward points if we want access.


No thanks, I'll pass. That's really crappy of you, Zynga.

Edit, some are saying it's charging them 25 RPs. It may have something to do with whether the district was previously mastered, I'm not sure. I don't plan on paying, either way. 

If you unlock it, you'll have 12 days to play this district, per Mike.