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Like a lot of players, I’m trying to understand what is going on in property protection, robbing and fighting and I have come to the conclusion that the people at Zynga are trying to figure out how to make it work better. These parts of the game are back in what is called beta testing since they need to be refined before they sign off on how they should work.

Note the first screen that I get in fighting. I’ve got one choice here and that is take on the player with 140 mafia size (I edited the screenshots and added the type in red). So I said, no thank you and tried robbing instead.

So I get this screen and the player Yolo (who would name their player Yolo?) has only two groups of properties. Do you see where they are tyring to direct me?

So here is Yolo’s grouping of properties and I can only attack the one. I tried it for a bit and then tried to get to another robbing screen. I got a listing that was higher than mine and all same at 116 mafia size. So I said no thanks, spent some money on properties, went to the hospital and came back to try robbing again.

And now I was presented with a similar choice and the player I got to attack, because  the only choice, was “Dave the gun”. Who would name their player Dave the gun–I’m thinking someone in the design team at Zynga. All the other players had one less mafia member than my mafia size and Dave was the only player lower. I guess they need to control the experiment but doing it live is frustrating a lot of players.

So it would appear that they are working on this part of the game and we should see some changes made and hopefully for the better. Unfortunately, their customer service approach to solving problems is one of those pick from a list of problems thing and they don’t want human contact. They want to put you in a queue and take a number and they will get back to you. No thank you.

Just concentrate on improving the play of the game is all that people are asking. Make the game enjoyable and people will play. Make it frustrating and painful and they will choose another option. It is really that simple.

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