Declare War Chat featurette

The Declare ware feature was updated recently with the new Chat interface... First the basics

Click Chat, Get the permissions Popup. Click to give permissions, and then click to give permissions AGAIN

After you have given the permissions you should get the following popup in the middle of your screen, it should list players that are online and play Mafia Wars, so you can ask for help in your Wars

During my test, I actually logged into a Second account to try and ask for help from my account, Nope no luck, asked around and found another 5 players who where online at the time, had chat running, and where playing Mafia Wars... None of them came up as options either

This seems like another Epic Zynga Fail, 126 People ONLINE according to Facebook, and not one came up as a option to ask for help from

If you happen to find someone who is online and Zynga lets you send a message... This is a copy of what's sent, Dont expect to see this on your game, these message are sent without your knowledge, and wont popup like this

That's it, "Hey there, Please help me in my War. Tinyurl-here"

Now this is where the complaints start, First if anyone remembers the Link-A-Nator, when it was using the TinyURL Service there was many a day when the Tinyurl service had been overloaded, and Mafia Wars leaning on it isn't going to help!
The Second problem is ANYONE can type a message in the chat interface and drop in a TinyURL that could go to anything, and you would never be the wiser.... We all warn other users on Facebook not to click on TinyURLs that you don't know where they go, you don't click on anything you aren't 100% sure of specially with all the virus and scams going around Facebook every other week
Now if Team Spockholm can make their own TinyURL service the spockon.me redirects, Why can't Zynga? Why cant they make a http://zyn.ga/MafiaWars/my-war-url-here at least then it wouldn't be a public service, we would all know that its safe to click!
Lastly, if your Facebook account is hacked, Mafia Wars already has permission to auto publish to chat, How long is it going to take till the next round of virus use these automated chat messages to spread and exploit more players?

Thanks Zynga and the Mafia Wars Studio, this has to be the worst idea you have come up with so far, you have successfully put every account in danger, as well playing Mafia Wars a lot more dangerous for your Facebook account!

Well the Chat option makes 3 of the 4 updates we where promised, The good news is its fairly hard to stuff up click to heal, But we know Zynga will try their hardest to do so!

Wars updated again

Wars where only updated 5 days ago, yet it seems Zynga is at it again pushing more updates to the war feature
Today we got this popup

Coming soon, Heal your friends

New Achievements, We just got 2 New achievements

New Damage, Now based on Skill Points rather then click to win, and also with Splash damage, so you can take out a opponent and damage another 

And coming Soon, intergeneration with Facebook Chat

So far, only 1 new feature has gotten to us the splash damage which sounds like a nice feature, but when i tested it below with my super strong energy account, I managed to take out my opponent and perform splash damage to another player

The New Achievements sound good, but the Facebook Chat is what worries me, personally I hate the idea and when it was mentioned a week ago so did those who commented here

Declare Wars Loot Refresh

The Declare war feature has been one of the most controversial features since it was introduced to Mafia Wars back in January 2010, On its first introduction you could only go to war with members of your own Mafia.... a Most hated feature!
It took the Mafia Wars Studio 9 Months to finally listen to the players, and revamp the War feature so we could declare war against Foe's only as well as giving us some good loot for Declaring a war, and winning a War because by now we had all had our fill of Cue Balls! which had been the reward for 8 of the 9 months!

The Latest Revision of the War Feature, is mainly a Loot update, as well as some Tweaks to the system First the old rewards and the Old Achievement,

 Its a simple Achievement, get 1 of each 16 items, Simple enough, the rewards where nice, well some of them where, but with all Loot it becomes outdated fast!

So Today we got hit with a update to Wars, First 2 New Achievements simple enough again get one of each of the items to complete the achievement

 As well as a update to the timer, With the first version's of Wars it was once every 6 hours, After the last update it was once per 16 Hours, and now its once every 8 Hours

I just hope they have fixed this old problem of Wars being unavailable, these are especially annoying when the your required to Win Wars for Limited time missions!

Unreleased War's update - Now integrating with Facebook Chat

Well the Declare war got another update First off we have a new unreleased image of a change coming to the War Feature

The only info I have so far is this new feature will be integrated with the Facebook Chat option, allowing you to send messages to those who are online to help you with your Wars.... Now for quite some time people have been using the facebook Chat option to send me request to help them with Wars, Sure its a nice convenient option, but in my case along with many other users out there, we might leave our computers running whilst we get up and go have dinner, go out, play with kids, or even go to work... In fact coming from the Computer Profession, I know the most common use of the Home Computer is to turn it on in the morning and let it run all day....

But think about it for those of us who HAVE 5000 Friends already, and are dealing with Mafia Wars spam every day, How many of you want to come back to your Computers and find 20 or 30 facebook popups asking for Help in their Wars, Or better yet, for those of us who CLOSE the browser rather then logging off at the end of the night, our chat messages will be automatically forwarded to our inbox! Yay for yet more Spam!!!!

Really I think this is one of the WORST IDEAS that Zynga has ever come up with, and gives good reasons to either play the game unframed OR turn off Facebook Chat, or better yet remove those friends who use this feature!

Post your thoughts on this "Wonderful" feature that Zynga has come up with, Do you Really need more Spam in your life?