Notification Changes 7/5

This morning on the Official Mafia Wars Blog, Notification Changes were announced.

Notifications are to be simplified, now one notification regardless of type of attack (regular or power attack) and batched power attacks will be reported as a single attack.

There is a Disturbance in the Force

...several disturbances, in fact. I suddenly found myself booted out of the game, after which I was greeted with a pretty white screen. My Family member Ann found invisible Family Boss Fights (shown above). Some are receiving strange errors in a pop-up message, others can't get in at all. Still others report that many scripts suddenly stopped working. I noticed I couldn't click to change the view Recent News in my Player Updates.

Families tag showing in Player Updates

Check out your ingame newsfeed, the Player Updates, and you'll see one of the issues that Zynga has been working on and finally fixed: getting Family tags to show up in the Player Updates. I bet we'll start seeing those tags updated to show up elsewhere, too.

Player Updates

I don't normally watch my Player Updates much, but there's been a little situation over the last few days that has given me cause to do so, and I've noticed a few things that I may not have otherwise. Yesterday I saw that the player updates now tells us if we've been attacked by SMS. Today I noticed that someone declared war on my top mafia, and that supposedly 4 people took me out in that war! Just exactly how many players does it take to take me out?? :D

 

 

One other thing I noticed was that operations are clearly marked in the feed - including the name of the op!

 Why Zynga doesn't put the name of the operation on the news feed posts is beyond me.