Zynga Q & A #10 War Declared Notifications.
It really gets on player's nerves that while they are in the game and playing they get no notification at all when a war has been declared on them.
Topic #10 on Zynga's Q&A list is all about these notifications and they want to know what you suggest.
10. The red "War Declared" flag doesn't always show up. Can Mafia Wars notify me in any other way when war is declared against me?
Notifications are tricky... how would you like to be notified?
Above you can see I declared war against my adversary. They were in the game and playing Mafia Wars. They weren't notified anywhere with any red flag that I declared against them. They even went from Home to Properties and still they were clueless that somebody had declared against them. With how fast wars can be over this doesn't bode well for them at all.
Just by chance they went to their Player Updates and there they saw that I had gone to war with them. So in some way we are notified, but there is a slim chance that somebody would be stalking their own player updates to catch a war being declared on them in time.
Luckily they were able to get to this war and call for help before I had a single person helping me, but only because we were working in conjunction to get these screen shots specifically for this post.
The only time that the red flag appears with either War Declared or War Over is when you completely exit out of the game or refresh the tab. I know I stay in the game until I'm done with what I am doing. Very rarely will I back out and go back in repeatedly. This means no notification for me if I keep Mafia Wars open.
