Pioneerville

Yay, another Zynga game. You won't be able to miss this new banner on your Mafia Wars homepage. I've heard about this Pioneer Trail game, but haven't really read up on it.

Clicking the banner will prompt you to allow the game to be installed. It looks for all the world like Frontierville, which I stopped playing looooong ago. It wasn't a bad game, per se, but feeding chickens and visiting neighbors didn't ultimately hold my interest over Mafia Wars.

Frontierville horse design contest

This isn't Mafia Wars related, but I saw it hit my news feed from the Zynga Inc. Facebook page and thought it's pretty cool for those of you who also play Frontierville. They're having a "Design a Horse Contest", and you can design the horse any way you choose using the template provided. If this sounds interesting to you, make sure you check out their rules here.

I'd like to see them do something like this for Mafia Wars. It's been done in the past. I might just bring that up :) 

Gamers Unite: A Challenge

The debate on Gamers Unite and the infamous Snag Bar has now raged on for nearly a year. Which is really stupid, because it takes very little effort to learn the truth for yourself. That's what I did, very early on in this melee, and that's what I'm doing again.

That's right, I have the snag bar installed right now, and it's snagging away merrily. Well, actually, it hasn't snagged sh*t yet. It's not the magical tool that many people seem to think it is. But, if people want to keep trying to tell me it's stealing their stashes, I wanted to see if it's true, so I downloaded it and installed it.

The past few days have seen not only a resurgence of rumors about Gamers Unite and the snag bar, but also a new wave of people claiming that "there are posts th[a]t confirm GU DOES INDEED WORK ON MW" (an actual quote).

"GU" does not in and of itself "do" anything, so the originator of that statement has already shown a clear lack of knowledge of the topic. "Does indeed"? Orly? I must not have the same snag bar as you, because mine most definitely does not indeed.

See that? It snags for Farmville, Cafe World, Frontierville, and Cityville. No Mafia Wars.

Although, the snag bar's snagging functionality isn't quite as awesome as some people think, because it ONLY snags items that are already posted to the news feed by other players for their mafias to claim, and it's not even very efficient at that. So even if it did snag for Mafia Wars, it wouldn't be touching the secret stashes that get posted to your wall, it would only be looking for items published to the news feed for the taking.

Ugh, the things I do for the sake of staying informed! I even unblocked Farmville, Cityville, Cafe World, and Frontierville in order to take a fresh look at what the snag bar's capabilities are, and so I'm flooded with requests from those games, lol.

So, as I sit here actually running the snag bar, I'm telling you, you're wrong.

My challenge to you is, if you're certain that it steals stashes, where is your proof? I want to see it.

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