Arc Reactor (facepalm) 8/3

Yet another new limited time property Arc Reactor

More new items to build

Little stat bumps come with these items

If you are a VIP player, like I am, you probably *have* to make it to at least level 13 to be using this equipement.

There will be lots and lots of begging. Again, too many things going on at once in the game causing event fatigue and general burn-out. But don't worry! There *are* things that the Zynga Studio has yet to complete!

We got our Family Boss fight back, though the loot is almost useless, but we still do not have the third Family Property. I'm guessing we never will.

Ripped Rims Build Event 7/24

Didn't we just finish a  Limited Time Property?

When I noticed we have yet another event/special build thing going on this morning I almost fell out of my chair. But here it is. The Ripped Rims: Mafia Wars Official Blog announcement gives a detailed explanation about how this will work.

Clicking on the question mark in the banner reveals this information:

If I read this right, we can collect 45 parts per day.

 We have had events like this in the past. Let's begin with the begging for Rim Spinners from the Home page in-game. Click that and you will see these posts in your news feed.

The stats will go up for the Big Spinning (vehicle) and Spina Spin (henchmen) 

Each build will require a certain number of parts

The Ville Cross Promotion 7/21

Ville-ocity, vehicle, bronze, 160 attack, 125 defense

The other day, when I was having a *lot* of trouble getting Mafia Wars to load a page, there was a brief pop-up announcing a Mafia Wars and the Ville cross promotion. It quickly blipped away and I was unable to grab the image for you, but here is what I *do* have.

This is when I got the Silver level in the Ville (to level 6)

At level 9 I got the Gold Ville-ocity

Now I am going for level 12 to see the next Ville-ocity.

I am liking this a *lot* more than the new Robbing Spree Event

Level 12 reached, reward collected!

The Ville-ocity is now Ruby, vehicle, [190/155]

The Ville, level 12

*UPDATED* New Event: Robbing Spree 7/18

Robbing Spree involves Robbing Houses, sending and receiving Knob Wrench gifts, use of stamina and wow there's a lot going on here! More *gifting* while we have poker and two secret districts already? Brilliant (facepalm)

I clicked "Go Rob" after I had enough of the Knob Wrenches 

I was about to grab the shot of what it looked like after I robbed but the page evaporated because I had triggered *three* alarms, so pay attention!

This part is what you will see when you click the little Question Mark on the Robbing Spree

(How To)

When you ask for more Knob Wrenches, a beg post will appear in the feed

More How To:

*You can earn a total of 20 Knob Wrenches per day*

This seems to me to be too low considering how many it takes just to get *inside* the robbing.

******UPDATE*******

Earn up to 50 Knob Wrenches per day 

(20 from requests + 20 from feed + 5 from clicking feed  + 5 from jobs)

About the Houses

The Payout Table

Falkland Islands Wolf (animal) Gooey Choco (vehicle) & Lights Out (weapon)

Various attack and defense

**************UPDATE*************

What it looked like after I robbed a neighborhood

I robbed *one* more, got a 2nd "alarm" and collected and a new pop-up

*************UPDATE************

I'm tired of all these events, and I'm sure you are too. Yeehaw.

Coming Soon... New Secret District (facepalm) 7/11

[Boss Fight: Defeat Miss Mausoleum]

I saw this post and (facepalm) happened:

The Mafia Wars Fan Page just posted this image:

New Secret District: The Obelisk of Sao Paulo

There will be bandits 

But don't *freak out*, though they've again been very busy creating event fatigue in the players,

 Zynga still has left some things not completed yet!

But we still have *no* Bossfights as a Family

and we *still* do not have the third Family Property

Still Waiting: Family Property #3: Event Fatigue July 4th

"Dear Zynga..." I have written that a number of times to customer service over the past couple of months. In *every* contact I have had with CS I asked about our Third Family Property. I got the same reply every single time. The CS agent has no information regarding that.

EVENT FATIGUE!

Since June 6th we have had more than a dozen different "events" from Land Ahoy, Midsummer Manic, Few and Proud, we have had new Limited Properties, DIY Weapons Lab, Hellish Hydraulics, we have had secret districts,  the Slammer and Lighthouse Lobbying. We have had collection events and Reward Point spend-a-thons. 

Yes, Zynga has had their design team *very* busy creating a bunch of short term events and properties and *sale* events that seemed to need us to spend Reward Points (cash cash cash to Zynga) so that we can get to the next hot loot item. Some of the loot in these "new" *events* isn't even new loot. I honestly don't know how many ways we can communicate to Zynga that we, the players, would like the Third Family Property to open. To me, this simply explains why so many players have left the game. I'm sure even more will leave, as it is becoming a *pay to play* if you want to play at the higher levels, if you want the best loot.

Just my two cents worth

Oriental Retribution Mission Event 7/3

Oriental Retribution

Mission #1: Fresh Off The Boat

Easy peasy

Mission #2:  Swimming with the Big Fish

Mission #3:  A Night on the Underground

Mission #4:  Taking Their Leave

Mission #5: What a Beautiful Ring

Mission #6: New Friends

Mission #7:  Profiting from your Loss

Mission #8: Winner's Circle

Mission #9: Disoriented

New loot item from this Mission: Judo Expert

When you click "Defeat Kasumi Leonovich" you go to the fight page, spend 100 stamina

What's next?