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.

SURVEY: secret district Lexington Hotel

Oh, AND Zynga wants you to take a survey for them about this latest secret district, Lexington Hotel.

I might have some positive things to say about this one, namely about the skill point acquisition. We'll see though. I'm going to play through it some before filling out the survey.

You can find the survey HERE.

NEW SECRET DISTRICT: Lexington Hotel

The latest secret district, Lexington Hotel, has landed on your Mafia Wars home page. Aren't you excited? :-/ Actually, this one looks a little more interesting than the previous secret districts. Only a little :)

This district will be available until 12/27 at 4pm Pacific time. 

You may notice a few differences with this one. It's in Chicago, under the heading of "Additional Districts" this time (I think it said "Secret District" on the last ones). Or, as usual, you can locate it on your travel bar. At first, it appears as though you may be limited to how many of the "limited edition" secret district loot items you can have, and if that's the case...need I really say more? But that might not be the case. Read on. 

CLICK HERE TO SEND LEXINGTON ROOM KEYS!

The one good thing I see, is it appears once you collect 10 of the loot items, you get 5 attack points.

Also on the new secret district header, you'll be able to track how many additional 2x loot boosts you have, AND how many Lexington room keys you have. Ok, I kind of like this. But just kinda!

That new status bar does a drop-down thingie. You'll be immediately blinded by all the Buy buttons, which I suggest you avoid. Here too is a bit more of an explanation about the 0/10 listing you see next to each loot item. You'll be able to get more, if I read this correctly: and get more skill points in the bargain. THAT I like, that more than anything gives me an incentive to give this a whirl. 

Collect 10 of each item to earn 5 attack points

Collect 25 of each item to earn 5 defense points

Collect 50 of each item to earn 5 skill points

Hence the 2x Loot boosts, which you can also ask for.

The ratios are kind of atrocious, in my opinion. 1.84 is the best, and it requires the Lexington Room Key. I would rather see better ratios out of these things, honestly.

EDIT...1.84 was NOT the best; it seems I needed to update my Top Mafia! I've got 1.94 now as the best ratio for the secret district.

Once the offices and playground of Al Capone, the Lexington Hotel is the perfect place to set up shop. Its opulence dazzles, hiding many secrets within its walls. Case the joint, take over the suites, plan your escape route and get ready for business.

Lexington Room Keys pulled

Last night, around the same time that the third Don's Gift item, Hunter Boots, was released, we also found Lexington Room Keys on our free gift page. Now this morning I find that when trying to send these items, they load and send as boring blue mystery bags. So apparently Zynga made another OOPS, and instead of just riding it, decided to pull it altogether. Kind of stoopid.

This has happened before, you would think Zynga would learn from their mistakes. A few weeks ago, they released Antivenom on the free gift page, and then pulled it again the same night. The Antivenom was for the previous secret district which just ended, Snake Island. In that case, we wouldn't see Snake Island for several more days yet, so it was more understandable to pull the item after its inadvertent release. This time it seems kind of stupid. A., that they'd turn around and make the same stupid mistake and then pull it, and B., the Lexington Hotel secret district will be out any day now.

At any rate, check for it again in a day or three and you should be able to send it again. For now you can still accept those which were sent to you last night.

SECRET DISTRICT ITEM: Lexington Room Key available

The Lexington Room Key is now on the free gift page, you may have noticed some of these in your ZMC already. These will be used for the secret district coming this week, Lexington Hotel.

Now it's available again, lol (as is the secret district). Click here to send it to your friends!

Zynga screwed up again....Lexington Room Keys pulled

Click here to send Lexington Room Keys to your mafia!

Here's some info from the Mafia Wars Wiki:

Loot

Icon	Name	Attack	Defense	Combined
	Newsbreaker	60	93	153
	Snorky's Fedora	103	68	171
	Barrel Cart	65	89	154
	Lobby Torpedo	88	61	149

Job Tier Mastery

Lexington Limo

Mastery Level	Item	Stats
Bronze
Silver
Gold
Ruby		181 82 263

NEW FIGHT LOOT: Coming Next Week

Notice that "the Don's Gift" seems to have gone missing? I kept watching for that yesterday, along with the Family properties. For next week, it didn't even make the list. I'm bummed that we have to wait for Family properties again...that was one I had looked forward to. Oh well, hopefully only a few more days :-/

This coming week looks to be rather busy, especially considering that Zynga rarely includes all the new updates in this "This and Next Week" posting. We have another Ice Season, another Secret District, another extra mastery event--this one for Brazil, at least, and:
::drum roll::

NEW FIGHT LOOT! I figured we were about due for new fight loot, and I've seen lots of random comments asking when the next generation would arrive. Now we know.

Coming Next Week*
*As far as currently scheduled, but things can change.

Family Properties
Ice Season: 13
Secret District: Lexington Hotel
Double Mastery: Brazil
New Fight Loot