Upcoming Items
White Lion (Animal 117/158), Superior

 
Ice Season 14 item

Ribbed Ankle Boots (Armor ???/???), Superior

 
Ice Season 1? item

White Cap Racer (Vehicle ???/???), Superior

 
Ice Season 1? item

Naughty List (Consumable), Common

 
Properties Consumable item

Double Loot (Boost) 

Exotic Dancer (Henchman 150/96), Rare

 

Ice Climber's Axe (Weapon 95/149), Rare



Virgo (Vehicle 151/96), Rare



Flip Vest (Armor 97/148), Rare



Whale Shark (Animal 149/95), Rare



Card Magician (Henchman 96/150), Rare



Slang 450 (Animal 148/96), Rare

New Fight Loot 12/15/2011 

Ounce (Animal 104/48), Superior

Wintermute (Weapon 48/101), Superior

aka Chuck Pistol

Traceur (Henchman 103/45), Superior

Troller (Vehicle 42/100), Superior

The Don's Gift: Gift #5-Solar Glide Drone

The fifth Don's Gift is now available. Post your news feed request from the Home Page or the Free Gift Page.

Now that the stats were changed on these items, some may find they are useful. We will be getting a defense vehicle for 3X Mastery in Brazil with stats of 105 so this item will soon be obsolete. For now I'm happy to see it helped me.

This time I won't forget to click on 2 news feed requests and you shouldn't either if the item can help your score.

Searching For Don's Gifts

Earlier I told you that Zynga changed the stats on the Don's Gift items that were already released. Because the previous stats sucked, many didn't bother to collect them. You can see from my Inventory History run I didn't go out of my way to get 5 of each item when they were available.

I knew from previous testing that you could still get a gift once it was off the Free Gift Page but I didn't know how long the posts were good for. I still don't have a clear answer but was able to collect 2 Tracker Bikes and 2 Hunter Boots from old requests.

You need to find active daily players in your mafia and scroll their walls. It looks like the Tracker Bike and Hunter Boots posts are still good.

I didn't have any luck with the Triplets. Clicking on the posts produced the message "Sorry, but the Don's patience has its limits. This feed has expired". It's nice that Zynga changed the stats of these items but it's not fair of them to prevent players from getting the older ones. If an item wasn't helpful when it was offered, you can't blame players for not wanting it. If there were a warning that stats could possibly change this would be a different story.

The History Of FHEL

The first thing some players do when they see the acronym FHEL is ask what it stands for. This is the term players in the community adopted when referring to fight loot. It stands for Fight High End Loot. Loot items that could only be obtained through fighting was first introduced into the game on June 15th of 2010. There were 10 items and fighters couldn't have been happier. At the time, the stats were very desirable and fight loot was a big success.

About 6 weeks later, a second generation of fight loot was introduced. The stats were comparable but there were only 4 items. The Super Moderators dubbed this release "Super Loot". The term wasn't popular with players and it never caught on. Instead it was called FHEL2.

The reason most call it FHEL is because Arun labeled it this way in Brawler. Job loot that also dropped in fights was labeled by destination, for example Moscow job loot was called Moscow High End Loot. High End Loot is a phrase that was often used in the trading community and that's what Arun decided to use.

When new fight loot is released, there is often confusion over what it is called. Today's fight loot release was the 10th generation so many call it FHEL10. Others have grouped releases together and include a different number. For example, when the 6th generation of fight loot was released, there were only two items with stats worthy enough to be called high end. Many just grouped these items into the FHEL5 category. I used to called it FHEL51/2. The Inventory Group Spocklet groups the 5th and 6th generation of fight loot in the FHEL5 Tab and the 7th and 8th generations are group under the FHEL7 Tab. This is why the current generation is labeled FHEL8. Whatever players wish to call these groups doesn't really matter. Nobody is right or wrong. These are all terms created by the community and what really matters is how many you have and how many you need.

Below is a chart showing the release dates of each generation of fight loot as well as the highest stats in attack and defense (per group). It's hard to believe that only a year and a half ago we were excited over loot items with stats of 54!

Generation	Release Day	Items	Highest Stats
1	6/15/10	12 Gauge Devastator Zeus Bomb Suit Segmented Body Plate Skull Cap Cobra G7 Ruby Red Turbo Road Warrior Condor Rhinoceros	54/54
2	8/4/10	Woodsman Domestic Defense Buzzard Combat Chopper Tasmanian Devil	54/54
3	11/4/10	M45 Overcast Ottoman Krug Phantasm Nyala	67/65
4	1/26/11	Tainted Blades Toxic Gas Scrubber Venomous Golden Poison Frog	75/75
5	5/6/11	Idle Hands Windswept Slipstream Talon	78/79
6	6/7/11	Fearsome Flying Fortress Femme Shot Beluga Gun Barge	81/80
7	7/13/11	Bolt Pistol Climber Leggings Hang Man Barn Owl	100/98
8	10/17/11	ATR 7 Grip Toes Nocturnal Goblin Shark	101/103
9	10/26/11	Head Popper Zombie Coyote Fellow Survivor Fellow Zombie	102/102
10	12/15/11	Wintermute Troller Ounce Traceur	104/101

The Daily Links

The links for the day are below. Remember to use the Checklist by Team Spockholm to get your 8 hour toolbar bonuses and keep track of other daily tasks.  Go here if your 8 hour toolbar bonus isn't working. If you see links in your news feeds that aren't zyn.ga or spockon.me, don't blindly trust them. Many thanks to Mike Nestor for creating the e-mail bonus links everyday. 

The Daily Links

The links for the day are below. Remember to use the Checklist by Team Spockholm to get your 8 hour toolbar bonuses and keep track of other daily tasks.  If your 8 hour toolbar bonus isn't working. If you see links in your news feeds that aren't zyn.ga or spockon.me, don't blindly trust them. Many thanks to Mike Nestor for creating the e-mail bonus links everyday.

Mafia Wars Fan Page Health Point
http://zyn.ga/E5r



Daily E-Mail Bonus
http://spockon.me/LootLadyEmailBonusDec16

3 Free Lucky Stash Spins

http://spockon.me/MWLL3SpinsLuckyStash

ZMC Update: FAIL

UPDATE: The updated ZMC was pulled and restored to the version it was before the update. Gift accepting scripts are now working.

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By now you should have noticed the Zynga Message Center (ZMC) has been updated. At first it looks really cool. We have been asking for an "Accept All" option for quite some time. Zynga finally gave it to us but they took away the ability to open gifts individually. If I want to open 5 or 10 Mystery Bags to get a Stamina Boost, I have no choice but to open them all. The new layout also broke all the gift accepting scripts.

Requests are now broken into categories. There is an "Accept All & Send" button in the Free Gift category and you can accept ALL your free gifts in one shot.

Free gifts are now batched by item. In the example below, I have 101 Mystery Bags, 2 Animal Feeds, 1 Raw Meat and 1 Carpenter Nails.

You get two options for each gift type. You can either accept all of them and return one to each player or you can ignore them all. The option that is missing and is the main problem with the new layout is the open and accept individual requests.

It's a well known fact that Mystery Bags turn into crap after you open 10 or so of them. I usually do this once a day when I'm looking for a Stamina Boost. In the case of my Mystery Bags, I now have to open 101 of them.

I was concerned about how I would know what each Mystery Bag contains. As long as you don't accept another type of gift, what you get will stay displayed on the page. The process is super fast and if you click on anything else, you will lose that information. In the video below, I opened 83 Mystery Bags.

This is also problematic for gifts that have a limit. We can only accept 20 Artillery Rounds for the day but players who have many more than that are forced to accept them all. Once the limit of 20 is hit, Artillery Rounds turn into Blue Mystery Bags. Zynga should put the same cap on the number we can accept at one time if they aren't going to let us accept individual requests. Alejandro posted his predicament on the fan page. The only options for this type of situation is to ignore them all and wait for exactly 20 more to come in and accept or accept them all and get 56 Mystery Bags which will be applied to your daily limit. 

None of this would be a problem if there wasn't a gifting accept limit of 200 a day. If Zynga insists on having a limit then they need to let us open gifts individually. The ability to accept a lot of gift requests is awesome but it should be an option to use when we want a large amount of the same gift. The new ZMC layout broke The Gift Collector and the ZMC Agent by Team Spockholm. If you try to load them, they will come up blank. Eike looked at the back code and found there is no easy way to open individual requests but they will figure something out. The Gift Blaster still works but I noticed my ZMC is not filling up nearly as fast as it used it.

The Family category contains Battle Requests and Family Boss Fight notifications. At least Zynga isn't forcing us to accept all of our Battle Requests at the same time!

Help Requests are how Free Gifts should be. There is an "Accept All" button but the requests are also listed individually. If they can make it happen with these, why can't they do the same with free gifts?

One interesting thing that Eike found in the back code is a counter that keeps track of how many gifts you have already accepted for the day. You won't see it on the front end because Zynga hasn't put it there. One bit of useless Real Estate on the ZMC is the box in the upper right corner that tells you who sent gifts to you. All you need to do is look down to acquire that information.

If you have the Spockholm Toolbar installed, this spot will now tell you how many more gifts you can accept for the day.  It may take up to 24 hours for you to see this update.

Team Spockholm

Zynga 

Other observations made by Eike are that Zynga is using the Burst Mode in the back code for gift accepting and added a 10 millisecond delay so the servers don't get saturated with requests. The problem is it wasn't implemented correctly and requests are all sent out at the same time (in the same millisecond). Team Spockholm has always avoided sending multiple requests, and now they officially put that into the code. Eike doesn't know what affect this will have on the servers but we may see problems because of it. This is not all negative and Eike did have some positive things to say about the new layout which include the number of gifts remaining for the day, the ability to easily open a large quantity of gifts at once and the fact that Zynga is using Burst Mode means Team Spockholm can use it too. I think this was a good first effort try but they need to scrape it and not return it until they can figure out how to let us open gifts individually.

Collector's Edition Item: Coati

The Friday Collector's Edition Item is the Coati. It comes with +6 Stamina so it's 46 Reward Points

If you're not a collector, you would be better off spending 40 Reward Points on one of the Holiday Deal items. The stats are comparable. I guess if you're a collector, you're going to buy everything and that's what Zynga is counting on. The really have the collector's by the balls.