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People that play this game will recognize a problem in this screenshot. A team of players has an upper limit of 501 players. This image was captured on Christmas Day in the evening (GMT-5 Time Zone ).

Well, what’s next for these players?  The game can’t be too much fun now. They have rushed into the game with the sole purpose of amassing as many players as possible to reach the upper limit. I’m sure they don’t have a clue as to who most of the people in their team are.

I made a couple of suggestions to  the folks at Zynga (the game’s developer). It’s early so I haven’t had any response yet. They should look at ways to create an interactive social game with ways for players to share their resources. You can’t give players on your team any of your money, weapons or vehicles. You end up with a lot of surplus junk that is of no use to you but might be useful to players on you team that are just starting out.

More or less, I suggested that they break these 501 families up. Make it like they moved to Las Vegas or Havana and they have to start all over again. The players might actually appreciate it.

They have themselves to blame. They chose the quick and easy way out and have used the game up far too quickly. The lesson for all of us still playing the game is don’t be in such a hurry to grow. My current level is 77 with 9 players on the team. It is more of a challenge to develop with this restriction. You have to make wise decisions just like you do in life when your resources aren’t unlimited.

If you are familiar with how the game makes money for the developers you will know that there is a page listed as “The Godfather” where you can buy reward points to do a number of game upgrades. So if you have capped your team’s size, why would you buy more points or continue playing? The folks at Zynga might have to put a hold on those orders at the local Ferrari dealership.

So Zynga is trying to expand by making a number of games with a similar approach. Essentially, they are Mafia Wars with a different skin and some variations on a theme. My advice to them is fix your primary race horse in your stable before someone chops off it’s head and puts it under your covers.

Oh yeah, that’s already been done.