3x Brazil Mastery

This banner just popped up on my Mafia Wars homepage banner, so it looks as though we will be able to get extra mastery when doing Brazil jobs until this coming Tuesday afternoon.

Using your Brazil crew member Strategist boost will not double the 3x mastery, however it does still double the original amount of mastery.

For instance, if you get 5% mastery on a job normally, you'll get 15% mastery with the 3x mastery event, plus another 5% mastery if your Strategist is active.

The Night Before The Raven

Twas the night before The Raven, when all through the house

Not a peripheral was stirring, not even my mouse.

The Mystery Bags were hung by the chimney with care,

In hopes that Stamina Refills soon would be there.

The Yakusa were nestled all snug in their beds,

While visions of Bloody Knuckles danced in their heads.

And mamma with her Master Chief, and I in my Skull Cap,

Had just settled our brains for a long Mafia War’s nap.

Sorry... this feels like a fairy tale from the Brother's Grimm... and I mean the original book version... not the cutsie cartoon version!

Tomorrow the Raven will appear "sometime" should I choose to go fighting... I have tried several Serial Level test runs... and think that I am now ready to try and defeat this beast without wasting a single unit of Stamina searching for a Sniper Shot!!

Here are all of the things that I have done to be ready for battle:

• Sent out Blue Mystery Bags to my entire mafia (using the Chrome Extension FGS) asking that they send one back in return.
• I have 6 Stamina Packs in my ZMC (Zynga Message Center) just in case I try and open one too early or any have expired.
• Accepted all gifts that are not Mystery Bags, Brazil Crew Requests, or Stamina Packs.

Here are the things I have not done today... or at least in the last 12 hours:

• Brazil crew slots are empty, 10 people wait to be added.
• I have not collected the Brazil properties since this morning
• It has been more than 24 hours since I used my last energy pack.
• I have not even visited the Marketplace so no Fight Club Energy Refill was used.
• I did not visit Atlantic City today.
• I did not open my e-mail bonus.
• I did not post for help with any jobs.
• I did not open a single mystery bag.

Soooo... now I am ready... I will post my game plan in the morning... as you can tell from the above list... Some options are solid full refills... some are small energy or stamina adds... some are dice rolls trying to get refills.

I have the house to myself all day... and except for puppy piddle duty I am ready to serial level and battle my best to not use a single RP or combo to defeat this goon!!!

What tips and tricks do you have to make it through the session with a Raven body in hand?

PS - If I had found more than 4 Sniper Shots per 10,000 stamina I honestly wouldn't have gone to all this trouble to avoid RP... but if you make me use every bit of time for 8 solid hours just searching for parts to TRY and play... I'll change from Checkers to Chess... not a problem!! The 3-D board is 10 ft away... we can go THERE too! This is supposed to be a game and a challenge... not an 8 hour job for a year for a single skill point. /rant

Updated Request Window announced

 A post on the Mafia Wars blog announces an upgrade to how we send free gifts.

It says we'll be able to send 50 gifts at a time. To reduce clicks, we'll be able to skip this Send Requests Facebook confirmation to "the exact same group of recipients in the future", and it sounds like we'll be able to have multiple groups. It doesn't say exactly how we select the group each time we go to send gifts though.

Only about 10% of players have the option right now. Yay, another freakin' slow rollout. ETA on complete rollout is "a few weeks".

They also have this to say, "while the Request window appears in all the places mentioned earlier, the upgraded Request window will initially only appear when you request Brazil Crew. You will know you've been added to the new Request window experiment, then, when you return to the game and discover that your Brazil Crew Request window looks more like the one pictured above."

Families: updated request icons, new ad

By popular demand, the Family icons have been changed in the ZMC. You should see the above icon, instead of the one that looked like a Brazil crew request.

You'll probably also be seeing this ad on your Mafia Wars home page soon.

problems asking for Brazil Crew

I had to pass out before the fight changes hit my account last night, and I'm waking up today to a LOT of changes and some problems. One of things I've been seeing is people complaining that they now have to send Facebook requests to get additional Brazil Crew, and I have good news for you folks: you can still publish a news feed post to get your Brazil crew! They just changed it around a little bit.

The more Facebook requests that we send to each other, the happier Zynga is, so it doesn't surprise me that they made that the first option for obtaining crew members. Unlike the energy pack snafu, though, this time they did leave in the option for the news feed post.


You're probably used to just clicking on the Ask button to post for Brazil crew members. 

Which now takes you to this page, where it seems you have to send a Facebook request in order to get crew. 

But back up - go back to the fight page in Brazil, and instead of clicking the Ask Button, click on the dropdown crew menu just to the left. Now click on Recruit.

Presto! There's your news feed post.