clocks winds down in Bangkok

There's now less than a day until Bangkok leaves your Mafia Wars game - possibly for good.

I have been focusing on Bangkok since we were told it would close, and I'm still only a little over halfway done. I think I can make it, though. I worked my way backwards, and am almost done with Oyabun, so hopefully the most demanding part is past me.

We'll see. How are you doing in Bangkok?

Betrayal in Bangkok hits the feeds

You can miss the latest event, Betrayal In Bangkok. It's in the feeds, and you'll get the big newspaper graphic when you log in the game, as well as a pop-up. Not to mention the Mafia Wars home page banner :D

Here is the first mission

We'll be posting walk thrus, and I know Nancy is working on a time frame, so stay tuned.

Global Mission: Betrayal In Bangkok

Bangkok Closes August 3rd

Zynga has released the banner for the upcoming Betrayal In Bangkok mission event. It's hard to miss the timer up at the top, with the words "Bangkok Closing In" in front of a blank timer.

At 12 noon Pacific time tomorrow the 27th, the mission event should kick off, and is supposed to last a week. During the event we'll get 5x mastery in Bangkok (thank GOD!), and at the end of the week, we get booted out of Bangkok.

We'll also be able to loot this item, the Iron and Silk, a weapon with (74,73) for stats. Not shabby, and we'll get the item from both fights and jobs.

Naturally, we'll have to collect an item, called the Forger's Glove from Free Gifts, and also Pirates.

 The Dragontongue is the grand prize for the event, and it looks badass! It has stats of (151,60).

Mission: Ties to Bangkok

Mission: The Ties That Bind has now closed and tomorrow Mission: Betrayal in Bangkok will start. I enjoyed having the Ruby Loot event in the same city as the weekly mission... splitting my time between two cities I feel like I am missing out on one loot or the other.

Are you ready for the end of Bangkok? I sold off all of my loot long ago... and have used most of my Baht for healing during this past Ice Season... soooo... I may be in a Bangkok Baht Bind!

Here's hoping for a fun last fling as we start a week filled with Hummingbirds on ice.

Bangkok closing

There's been a leak, shall we say ~ the rumor mill is starting to churn with news that Bangkok is closing, and this time it's probably for real. In addition, word is that a new city is coming soon. We already had a few inklings of the new city, as it has been mentioned during some Mafia Wars Live broadcasts, plus the recent survey about what new city/location idea we liked best.

Again these are put forth as rumors, as things that 'may not happen'. That being said, every indication is go. Gah, I am so far from finishing Bangkok. I was just working on it again earlier :-/

Where in the world are the Hung Chu Enforcers??

If you've started working on the Crossing The Line mission event, you may have noticed that the drop rate stinks for the Hung Chu Enforcers required for the first quest. I got 1 in about 1500 energy. For that part of the mission, you have to loot 12 of them from "Hire an unsavory crew" job, which is in the Pirate episode in Bangkok.

And the stats for the item suck, so don't look for a silver lining there.


In the forum thread regarding the new mission event, at least one person reports not getting credit for the Hung Chu Enforcers that they were able to loot. My lone Hung Chu Enforcer is better than what others are getting, though! One player reported spending over 9,000 energy for zero Hung Chu Enforcers. I saw a few posts that suggested reducing click speed may increase drop rates.

I might have to dust off ye olde e-ho; I'm curious now.

Feature Contributor Jose Perez also is having trouble looting this. Additionally, he says that they cannot be gifted to other players for credit. It seems the Zyngons can fix a bug, after all...