It's amazing how much crap Zynga has thrown at us over the last few days. I can barely keep up with everything they throw at us on a good day! I had a real life situation explode in my lap earlier this week, and haven't been able to pay much attention the past few days, looking at the game now is downright discouraging.
Wednesday we noticed Chicago was added to our travel menu. It's pretty safe to assume now that Chicago is coming soon,
very soon, much sooner than the 2 more months we'd be waiting if we were going by their first estimated release date.
Traveling to Chicago will only get you this screen for the moment. Nothing much of interest there. We'll have a bootlegging operation, presumably a property of some sort. And crew - most likely reminiscent of the Brazil crew.
Yesterday we saw the introduction of another new property, the Venetian Condo, which meant, more begging. More link spamming. Fortunately, we are still able to create links for the property parts, saving us quite a bit of hassle and waiting and frustration.
Hey! Where's my Private Zoo? <-- I saw lots of questions like that in the news feed yesterday.
The answer to that question is just below your shown properties. "Select 5 properties that you would like to make active (this will appear on your property list)."
Your first thought is probably that you got Zynga'd, being limited to 5 properties. But look closer and you'll see you can change the selection of which 5 properties are showing. Do all your building, then drop down under the properties, uncheck one that's active, and make your 'hidden' property active.
After doing that, a Save Changes button will appear, and you must click that. Afterward, your 6th constructable property will show up and you can build from it as well.
Then yesterday we got another one of those Collect 7 loot drop events. They tried to make these events too fancy; they were much simpler and less intrusive when we had these types of events two years ago. The limits and disappearing loots from the new style of Collect 7 loot drop events is just annoying. I'd do my best to ignore it but it's in my face every time I go to my Mafia Wars home page.
In fact, the only thing at all noteworthy of the Henchmen Urban Agents event was this tidbit of news that we'll be getting another class of equipment called Henchmen. I'd almost bet money that comes out next week with Chicago.
Prepare yourself for Henchmen, ***coming soon, the newest item category in Mafia Wars!*** Help can be had from the most unlikely people, including the local Cab Driver, Garbage Man or Bartender. Gather these 'Urban Agents' to strengthen your Mafia and ultimately gain the Mastery item, the Cocktail Waitress, if you collect all seven.
Oh boy. Something else to keep up with. :yawn:
Now there's this that several people are noticing. Just what Battle Is On? I honestly don't know, but I'm speculating that this may be about the Family mock wars that Jeff AKA Month has been working on.
And with all of this crap hitting the game, don't you know some stuff got borked? As in, seriously, majorly borked. A bad glitch allowed you to remove members from OTHER Families, and this information was unfortunately published, likely leading to malicious actions on the part of some. The hole was quickly patched, but
if you find that your Family is missing members since yesterday and you don't know why, you should definitely contact customer support ASAP.
Also, last night brought yet another nerfing to Power Packs. Now
you can no longer use both an energy pack and a power pack. It's one or the other, every 8 hours. But - we again get 125% stamina from the Power Packs, rather than just 50%. I'm really sick of their retarded "experiments".
What morass will today bring? I'm sure Zynga will show us soon.
