limited time property Botanical Garden: time's almost up

Time is running out for you to finish building your Botanical Garden, you've got a little under three hours left. 

 

Two new inventory items were added into the Mafia Wars inventory since yesterday, which could indicate yet another limited-time property. I'm going to run away screaming if Zynga makes it as difficult to build as the last couple of properties, especially now that they've broken the Mission Crew Links script. I only finished my Botanical Garden last night, and I did not like how hard it was to complete. I know there are lots of players who aren't even close to done, so Zynga should beware that people are getting jaded over these properties. Players get sick of the endless begging. I know I sure did, particularly with the Botanical Garden.

Camo Ammo Belt (A:82 D:50) from Property
Bat-Eared Fox (A:55 D:81) from Property

New Limited-Time-To-Request-Upgrade Parts NYC Property: Botanical Garden

From the Official Mafia Wars blog, nothing we didn't already know:

The Botanical Garden is our newest limited-time-to-request-upgrade-parts New York City property! You have until 9:00 AM (Pacific Time) on Friday 12/9 to upgrade it to its maximum potential through feeds/requests. The Botanical Garden will retain the level to which you are able to upgrade it by the time the countdown timer reaches 0:00:00, after which the only way to upgrade the property will be by purchasing the remaining parts you need with RP.

The Botanical Garden will allow you to craft some green-thumb loot, including the Botanist (63/101 +4 Defense at ruby level) as you upgrade the property with the help of your Mafia sending you upgrade parts!

By the way, I've been forwarded "Zynga blog posts" by a couple of people lately. You should be aware that some sites attempt to misrepresent themselves by selecting names that appear to be "official". THIS LINK is the only official Mafia Wars blog, written by Zynga.

more on the Botanical Garden and requesting parts

If you get the message "This feed has expired", chances are it's not necessarily cause for alarm this time around.

It seems that Zynga had to go and mess with crap again (I really wish they would stop pissing off players like that). The good news is that the Mission Crew Links script workaround still works to help you continue collecting parts for your Botanical Garden. What has changed is that extra clicks on your parts requests posts will no longer carryover past the current level of upgrade you're working on.

For instance, you need 3 parts for the first level, and 6 people can click on the help posts to send parts. Before, what occurred was that players clicking to help would receive the message that "this user has received all the parts needed for this level" --until the player upgraded the property, then 3 more people could click through on the original post for help. Now, after the upgrade, helpers will get the message that the feed has expired.

Botanical Garden

You probably live under a rock if you aren't already aware that the Botanical Garden has made its appearance--the news feed is jammed with spam :0) This was initially said to be due out in early December, so I guess they decided that sooner is better than later.

The Botanical Garden can be found on your New York properties page or your Mafia Wars home page. If you're a stamina builder, you'll be interested in building this one. If you build for skills, you'll also want to build this one, as the Botanist offers +4 defense.

Botanical Garden to return in December

It seems Zynga jumped the gun and accidentally released the Botanical Garden property for a brief time today. According to the official blog, the Botanical Garden is due out the beginning of December, although it sounds like you'll get to retain any building progress you made before the property was pulled. Although it sounds like there will be other properties, at least at some point. 

In the course of preparing future limited-time-to-request-upgrade-parts New York City properties, we accidentally turned on the Botanical Garden this afternoon. We have since disabled the property, as it is not due for release until the beginning of December. When it is officially released, you will be able to request upgrade parts for 14 full days and any progress you may have made in the approximately 2 hours it was available today will already be in place. We apologize for the mix-up. Stay tuned for a different limited-time-to-request-upgrade-parts New York City property releasing next week!
- The Mafia Wars Team

Preview the limited time property Botanical Garden

Within the past few days, we've started seeing images of the next limited time property floating around, the Botanical Garden. The buildable items can now be found by searching your inventory, so you can get a preview what items we'll be able to build and their stats from the Botanical Garden.

If you check your Inventory, you'll now see these items. The Botanist is in the Henchmen category.

The Man Eating Plant is a weapon. Not really great stats on this thing, eh?

The Poison Vine is also a weapon. More meh stats. The Botanist is the only item with decent stats, it seems.

Credits to Mafia Wars Loot Lady and members of the community for originally snooping out the Botanical Garden, and credits to Mafia Wars Collectors for the item stat images.