Mafia Wars adds ferocious animals to your family arsenal

Mafia Wars finally releases attack animals as a part of your mafia's arsenal, a move that will most likely have PETA up in arms ... again. Whether you like it or not, you will now be able to acquire and use animals to get a leg up on the competition in fights and robbing.

To see what animals are in your arsenal, head to your Inventory and click on the new Animal tab to see what animals are included. You'll be able to buy a Red Tailed Hawk (25A, 22D) for 300,000 coins and can spend Reward Points for a handful of new (and returning) animals in the store.

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The new animals include the following:

- Great White Shark (59A, 21 D)
- Funnel Web Spider (51A, 43 D)
- Arctic Wolf (31A, 58D0
- Hopi Rattle Snake (58A, 32 D)
- Grizzly Bear (25A, 59D)
- Alligator (27A, 48D)
- Falcon (58A, 27D)





What animals have you added to your arsenal so far?

FarmVille Unreleased Swiss Chocolate Shop, Swiss Bank, & Swiss Castle

Thank you once again to FarmVille Freak UserUser3 for finding these unreleased FarmVille Swiss Cholcate Shop, Swiss Bank, and Swiss Castle!
FarmVille Swiss Chocolate Shop, Swiss Bank, Swiss Castle
This article originally appeared on FarmVille Freak.

Help FarmVille Pick a New Seeder

What do you think should be the next FarmVille Seeder vehicle? FarmVille is polling farmers on what they think the next seeder should be. The vehicle with the most votes will be the next FarmVille Seeder.

According to the official poll, you can chose from the following:

    Firetruck
    Semi Truck
    Pickup Truck
    Trolley
    Minivan
    Dump Truck
    Cement Truck


From FarmVille Community Manager, Grimwell:

    "Howdy farmers!

    The FarmVille team is looking at options on what our next seeder should look like and would like your assistance!

    Please take a look at the following options for new seeders and vote for your favorite. The vehicle that gets the most votes will win and find it's way into the game soon!" Source: Official FarmVille Forum

This article originally appeared on FarmVille Freak.

FarmVille Unreleased UFO Biplane, Alien Outpost, and Alien Foal

FarmVille Unreleased UFO Biplane, Alien Outpost, and Alien Foal
Sunday will mark the re-release of the UFO theme. Hopefully we will see some of these new unreleased UFO themed items arrive as well! FarmVille UFO fans are sure to love these new items. You may remember that we previously featured a UFO Alien Horse, above is its matching Foal.

Note: Unreleased items have no official release date or guarantee that they will make it to the FarmVille Market.

This article originally appeared on FarmVille Freak.

FarmVille Unreleased Beach Theme: Sandcastle, Boardwalk, Surfer Gnome, Sundae Shop & Toucan

Thank you to FarmVille Freak Farmer for finding these unreleased FarmVille Sandcastle, Boardwalk, Surfer Gnome, Sundae Shop, and Toucan!
FarmVille Unreleased Beach Theme: Sandcastle, Boardwalk, Surfer Gnome, Sundae Shop & Toucan
Note: Unreleased items have no official release date or guarantee that they will make it to the FarmVille Market.

This article originally appeared on FarmVille Freak.

FarmVille Unreleased Paul Bunyan, Town Hero, Western Barn, Firefly Bush, Lupine & Lupine Mastery Sign

Thank you to FarmVille Freak Farmer for finding these unreleased FarmVille Paul Bunyan, Town Hero, Western Barn, Firefly Bush, Lupine & Lupine Mastery Sign!
FarmVille Unreleased Paul Bunyan, Town Hero, Western Barn, Firefly Bush, Lupine & Lupine Mastery Sign
Note: Unreleased items have no official release date or guarantee that they will make it to the FarmVille Market.

This article originally appeared on FarmVille Freak.

Vampire Wars has new Feather Wings for you to soar with in style

Vampire Wars New Wings

It's been a little while since we've seen an update to our favorite blood-sucking Facebook RPG, Vampire Wars. This time around, Zynga wants you to abandon those old, leathery Devil Wings for some shiny, new (and cheaper) Feather Wings.

Join us behind the cut for a detailed list on the three new wings and how you can have them all to yourself.

Vampire Wars Feather Wings Sets

Here are the three new sets of wings you can collect, but only after gathering 100 feathers of the corresponding set:


    Peacock Wings (+20 Attack, +20 Energy)
    Cardinal Wings (+20 Defense, +20 Energy)
    Phoenix Wings (+10 Rage, +20 Energy)



Also, for completing all three sets of wings you'll get an additional bonus of 10 Attack, 10 Defense and 20 Energy (that's what I'm talking about!). Now, here's how to get your own collection of Feather Wings.

Gathering 100 of each type of feather can only be done through asking your friends for them and gifting them likewise. However, you can buy all 100 of each feather outright from the Elders for 100 Favor Points, but why not just exercise a little patience and do it the hard way? Besides, the Artisans are going to take a week to craft each set of wings after you give them the feathers anyway, so what's the rush?

Also, just collecting these wings will grant you the permanent stat bonuses, so if you don't like how they look (Peacock Wings... really?) fret not and leave them in your inventory.

FrontierVille Overseas Marriage Goals: Everything you need to know

Overseas Marriage dialog
If preparing your own homestead for heavy traffic wasn't already enough, Zynga has added a new series of Goals to FrontierVille called "Overseas Marriage." In these five goals, your distant aunt asks you to make some serious preparations for a relative who happens to be tying the knot across the way in the old country.

There are lots of rewards to be won and XP to gain, so join us after the break for a full guide on these new goals.
Overseas Marriage, Part 1 of 5

Just looking at the first requirement of Part I should raise a red flag: you need to have completed the original marriage goals in order to attempt these new goals. Crafting Presents requires the General Store as a work bench as well as 2 Ribbon and 5 Cloth for each present. You can get cloth naturally through doing favors for your friends, but will have to visit quite a lot of friends to both make 10 Presents and have 60 Cloth--which comes to 110 Cloth, to be exact. Completing this goal will net you 150 XP and one random General Store Collection item.
Overseas Marriage Part II
Part II requires even more Cloth to finish, so it's back to visiting your friends and doing more favors. Can you tell these goals weren't designed to be completed in a day's time? We suggest just making the Clothes in the cabin first as they'll be used in making the Fancy Clothing in the General Store. You'll also need Ribbon, so remember to ask your friends for a lot of it. One random Cabin Collection item and 200 coins is your reward for finishing this goal.
Overseas Marriage Part III
It's time to get your cook on in Part III. The best way to amass food is to through everyday activities, but visiting your friends and helping them out in tending to animals and harvesting crops will certainly speed up the process. The rest of this goal is pretty simple: just use the food and coins to make Batter in the Inn and ask your friends to gift you the 10 Lard. Finishing this goal scores you one Dinner.
Overseas Marriage Part IV
This goal is a piece of you-know-what, requiring you to just use the Batter from the last goal coupled with quite a lot of Fire, which can be made in the Wagon with 7 Wood and 5 Cloth a piece. All the while, harvest 10 Potatoes and you'll soon enough grab 500 coins and one Inn Collection item.
Overseas Marriage Part V
It looks like your distant relative is jumping the gun a bit in Part V, asking for a Bed and Baby Clothes. The Bed calls for one Furnishing and two Comforters to be crafted on the Sawmill. Here's the logical progression that will get you to your grand Feather Bed gift:

    5 Planks: 7 Wood and 250 coins each in the Covered Wagon
    4 Sawhorses: 5 Planks and 2 Tools each in the Barn
    1 Furnishing: 4 Sawhorses and 4 Tools on the Sawmill


But that's not all! You also need two Comforters, which are made from 15 Cloth and one Downy Feather a piece in the Chicken Coop. Combining both the Furnishings and the Comforters will finally make your bed. In the meantime, remember to ask your friends for the baby Clothes. Completing this goal is to complete the mission and win two Boiled Shoes (Living on the frontier sure must have been fun...) and a whopping 500 XP.

It's been a while since we've seen a series of goals use just about every crafting building in the game, so this is a refreshing challenge. Good luck on your quest to wish your distant relatives the best wedding they've ever seen.

FarmVille unreleased Pumpkin Tower & Spooky Tree House

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Wouldn't these unreleased items look great next to your Haunted House? They would look even better if the Haunted House was working. (Look for that soon).

Thank you to FarmVille Freak Teresa for finding these unreleased FarmVille Pumpkin Tower & Spooky Tree House items!

This article originally appeared on FarmVille Freak.

Mafia Wars inventory revamp coming soon - Help shape these new changes

Just a few minutes ago, Zynga announced that they will soon be undertaking a set of "initiatives" in Mafia Wars, that will apparently improve the game. One of these changes will include an Inventory revamp. This seems like one of the best things they could bring to Mafia Wars (that being a more organized inventory system), as it has become pretty hard to find particular items in the dozens and dozens of items any one person may own (especially higher level players).

However, instead of just announcing a revamp and being done with it, Zynga wants your input on how the new inventory should be designed. They're asking players a series of questions over on the game's official forums ("How do you use your inventory?" "What would you like to use it for?" and so on), and they've also posted a few mock-ups (that is, work-in-progress images that could change at any time) of what the new inventory system could potentially look like when it launches. You can see one of the images at the top of this post.

This new system could contain not only ways to view only specific kinds of items, like weapons or vehicles, but it may also color-code those items to show how rare a particular item in your inventory is, along with potentially allowing us to sort our items by city location from which they were found or purchased.

As if that weren't enough, it looks as though Zynga is working on forming a wiki of sorts about each and every item in your inventory. If this all works out according to the current setup, you'll be able to click on an item, and learn virtually everything you could ever want to know about an item, including (but not limited to) its cost in the store, its attack and defense points, its added abilities and features, and even a detailed item description.

If you ask us, this sounds like an absolutely fantastic set of new additions that we'd just love to see added to the game. However, as we said, this is far from a concrete announcement, so if you have any concerns or added suggestions that you think Zynga should know about, they would love to hear them - simply head over to the game's forums and post your thoughts there.

New FrontierVille mission: It's Chicken Roundup Time!

A new limited time quest has launched in FrontierVille today, called "It's Chicken Roundup Time!" Like the other limited time missions, you'll have to accept this mission by a certain date, in this case November 21, and finish the quest within 3 days of accepting it.

In this case, the mission asks you to Sell 50 Adult Chickens, Collect 12 Shipping Labels, and Collect Ten Pairs of Hip Boots. Hopefully you've saved some of the chickens you've had to purchase for other missions, or even those given away by friends when they clobber foxes on their own Homesteads, as you'll need a lot of them for this quest.

Additionally, depending on how far you or your neighbors are into the Aunt's List quest line, you may already have the 12 Shipping Labels in your inventory, ready to use. Either way, as these Hip Boots are a new item, you'll need to post a news item to your wall so that your friends will be able to send them to you. Luckily, you've got a full three days to collect the boots that you need, so the rush is lessened this time around (as opposed to, say, the Canning Jars in a previous timed mission).

As a reward for finishing the quest, you'll receive the Rabbit Rotisserie decorative item. Will your farmers be eating rabbit for Thanksgiving this year as opposed to turkey? Only time will tell, but we'll be sure to let you know when/if more of these kinds of missions become available to complete in the game.

FrontierVille 'Holiday Decoratin' and 'Holiday Celebratin' Missions: Everything you need to know

Holiday Decoratin'
Everyone knows that decorations are more important on Christmas, Hanukkah and the other winter holidays than any other special day of the year. Just look at Clark Griswold--now there is a guy that gets it. It only makes sense that our friends in FrontierVille would feel the same way. Except without all the fake drum rolls and disappointment. Here are the two missions you can find in the Special section of the Market:

1. Holiday Decoratin':
-Craft 15 Presents
-Collect Two Pink Flowers
-Collect 10 Holly Wreaths

For this mission, you'll need to visit your friends often and harvest lots of Cotton to amass enough Ribbon and Cloth to craft 15 Presents. The two Pink Flowers come from the Wildflower Collection, which can be completed by clearing Wildflowers much like grass and rocks--just remember not to turn in the Collection before completing the mission. All the while, keep berating those friends for some wreaths, but try to return the favor because there's always one wreath in it for you.

Holiday Celebratin'2. Holiday Celebratin':
-Collect Three Cow's Milk
-Collect Three Goose Eggs
-Craft 20 Fireworks

Time to unleash the eggnog, but where's the rum? You'll have to tend to quite a lot of Cows and Geese to get three of each of those items. And remember: do not turn in the Collections before completing this mission or you will be that much further behind and a very sad pioneer. Crafting the Fireworks takes Saltpeter, which only drops from the Manure Collection. Thankfully, each Saltpeter used in Cabin makes for five Fireworks, but this is still going to be a long mission. Completing this Goal will reward you with a Big Present that will contain one of four rare decorations.

These missions are part of the three Gift Mission packs, so they can be repeated indefinitely until they predictably go away after Christmas is through. So, decorate and celebrate to your heart's content, just remember to keep on visiting for that Cloth and Energy.

FarmVille Unwither Ring: The one ring to infuriate them all returns

Unwither Ring
Zales? Forget them. Kay Jewelers? Kid stuff. Tiffany's? You could find that stuff in a quarter machine. What's really wowing the girls this season is the Unwither Ring. Zynga's infamous, expertly cut and set ring in FarmVille has returned for the holidays. Not only will this ring absolutely take your loved one's breath away, but their crops will never dry out and die again. OK, so all that stuff is made up, but it will keep your crops from withering for eternity. The Unwither Ring has been the target of much debate in the FarmVille world this year with claims that it either costs too much, trivializes the game or shouldn't exist altogether. For another look at "game-breaking" items in social games, check out this post.

For a whopping 250 Farm Cash, you can gift this item to a friend and even customize it with two band options--gold and platinum--and five gem choices: Diamond, Emerald, Pearl, Black Pearl and None for the plain folk. Lastly, you can engrave it with a cute, 140 character message. Now, I would strongly recommend not getting your girlfriend, wife or what have you this if she is not seriously into FarmVille or you could very well be alone this Christmas. But if that's your (and her) thing, then definitely take the nearly $40 plunge. Just make sure you get her something tangible, too. You know she deserves it for dealing with your sorry behind day in and day out.

Cafe World Cheats & Tips: Prize Machine gifting links

Hello Cafe-folks, It's Mr. Cheats here with the down-low on the things you shouldn't know.

The folks over at The Facegamer found a batch of Cafe World gifting links for the new Prize Machine. This project is going to require a whole lot of parts. But luckily my Cafe World Cheats & Tips Prize Machine gifting links make it easy to collect all the parts you'll need in no time. All you need are my Cafe World Cheats & Tips Prize Machine gifitng links and a little help from your friends. To use the Prize Machine gifting links, select the part you'd like to send, then select the friends you'd like to send it to.

You're going to need ten of each part, so get started with my Prize Machine gifting links below.

Continue reading to use my gifting links.
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Click on an image to send the part as a gift to your friends.

For more Facebook game cheats, check out The Facegamer.

Are you excited to get started on another functional project in Cafe World?

Mafia Wars 'No Crime Like the Present': Everything you need to know

If you took a look at your Operations today in Mafia Wars, you might have noticed a massive Christmas Tree plopped where your normal group missions should be. Do not be alarmed, this is Zynga's new, elaborate holiday event to ring in Christmas mobster-style, "No Crime Like the Present." In this special, limited time event, players will have to get into the holiday spirit like any self-respecting mafia member would: hoarding and stealing, of course. Mixing a little bit of gifting, stealing and protection, this event is going to take plenty dedication and team work if you want to nab the grand prize weapon: Auld Lang Syne (110 Attack, 135 Defense).

Peek behind the break to get a detailed look at how this huge holiday event works.
Holiday Gifting
Before you do much of anything involving Presents, we recommend getting your tree to the max level as soon as possible for it to hold the maximum amount of Presents: 45. (This becomes vitally important later, trust us.) To make your tree shine brilliantly at Level 5, you will need to collect large amounts of each Decoration: Ornaments, Lights and Candy Canes:

    Level 2: Three of each Decoration (increases capacity to nine)
    Level 3: Four of each Decoration (increases capacity to 18)
    Level 4: Six of each Decoration (increases capacity to 30)
    Level 5: Eight of each Decoration (increases capacity to 45)


That's a total of 21 for each Decoration, which adds up to a grand total of 63 gifted items.Thankfully, you can send these Decorations to your mafia members through the Free Gifts page as well as request them, making the task slightly less tedious. However, what you can send from that page is a Holiday Sack, which may contain one of seven items: any one of the three Decorations, any one of the three Presents or a Lump of Coal. If the person you're sending the Holiday Sack too has already maxed out their Christmas Tree, then that narrows down the possibilities to one of three Presents or the Lump of Coal (a weapon with one Attack and one Defense). After you've decked out the tree with blinding holiday bling, it's time to pilfer those Presents.

Rewards List
This is done exactly how decorating the tree was, but you can send Presents directly from the Christmas Tree menu. When sending or receiving a Gift, you have a random chance at getting or giving either a Blue, Red or Green Gift. This directly effects your chances at winning the 11 available items, most of which have impressive stats, thankfully. While there are five common items that can be found inside any of the three varieties of Presents with lesser stats, there are six items that can only be inside one of the three Presents with numbers that match some Italy-grade items. Here's where you can find the rarer holiday items:

    Blue Gift: Shadow Transporter (77 Attack, 60 Defense); Bengal Tiger (72 Attack, 99 Defense)
    Green Gift: Mobile Garage (55 Attack, 79 Defense); 40mm Bunker Buster (101 Attack, 68 Defense)
    Red Gift: Achilles Salvation (69 Attack, 100 Defense); ET Hybrid (63 Attack, 75 Defense)


However, we don't recommend opening these Presents before New Year's Day. If you can't wait long enough and have the maximum amount of Presents come Jan. 1, you'll receive the grand prize. Unfortunately, that won't be so easy considering anyone can steal Presents from any Christmas Tree. Luckily for you, six friends can be enlisted to protect your Presents with their statistics contributing yours. So, make sure you recruit only your most powerful friends to keep your tree safe.

Tree Robbery
If you want to steal your own Presents, Christmas Trees will randomly appear on the Robbery Page with varying difficulty based on the mobsters protecting it, but you'll always need at least five mafia members and six Stamina to rob one. Also, Zynga added a News Feed to this Operation's home page so you can track who did what to your Presents and retaliate accordingly. With the threat of your precious Presents being stolen, we know where you're going to be this Christmas.

FrontierVille Gingerbread Man Goals: Everything you need to know

Check out the rest of our Holiday 2010 coverage right here.

If you thought you were done with the scrumptious-looking Gingerbread House in FrontierVille, think again. As it turns out, the Gingerbread Man's stay on the homestead is part of a series of three Goals starting with "Building the Gingerbread Man a Home." And if you followed our guide on how to build it, you've already got the hardest part of this Goal out of the way.

As for the other two requirements, you've been asked to plant five Fruit Trees. This means that you can plant five fruit-bearing trees of any kind to fulfill this portion of the Goal. So, if you're living on the cheap, just go with five Cherry Trees. That will only cost you a total of 3,100 coins and will be ready harvest in the least amount of time, which leads us to the final requirement. All you need to do is harvest or water 20 fruit trees on your homestead. If you don't have 20 trees already, this will take some extra cash and time, but for those with bigger homesteads this should be easy pickings. Enjoy the 150 XP, 250 coins and Light Snack as a reward for your hard work.

Find out how to best complete Part II and III of the Gingerbread Man Goals after the break.

Eaten Gingerbread HousePart II of the Gingerbread Man Goals requires the unthinkable (and, if the forums are any indication, annoying): you must eat the Gingerbread House. I guess your pioneer, after witnessing its sweet, cavity-inducing glory, decided that they just could not resist. Well, that's my suspension of disbelief, anyway. And to go with that delicious Gingerbread House, you'll need two Milk from the Cow Collection and 15 Cloth (napkins... get it?). As always, Cloth comes from visiting friends, but if you don't have any Milk saved you'll have to try your luck at finding it at random from tending Cows. Once this is completed, 200 XP, 500 coins and 75 Food await you.

Brace yourselves, Part III is somewhat of a doozie. You're going to have to rebuild that Gingerbread House you just gorged. Let that sink in a little bit before we move on. You're good? Great. Now, this means that you'll need to do the same three cross-game Goals again and ask for the same three items from friends, according to several forum members whose posts have since been removed. But that's not all. In addition to rebuilding the little guy's crib, you will also have to harvest any crop 150 times and harvest 50 of your friends' fruit trees. While you don't have to harvest the same 150 crops, you're probably better off just picking one crop and sticking to it like the Clovers or Tomatoes, the cheapest, fastest crops in the game. Either way, this Goal is going to be time consuming for most, to say the least. You're reward for getting there and back again will be 450 XP, 2,500 coins and a Mini Gingerbread House. Now that you know what to do, go on and make that Gingerbread Man one happy cookie.

Zynga goes bananas for Astro Ape, potential buyout in action [Rumor]

Can we finally give Zynga an ominous title ... like the Ape Assimilator? (It just rolls off the tongue.) Business Insider reports that Zynga, most recently creator of Pioneer Trail, has purchased self-proclaimed mobile social game competitor Astro Ape, most recently known for Monsterz Revenge for iPhone. And no "anonymous sources" even needed to be cited--just look at Linkedin.

Astro Ape CEO Chieh Huang, along with a number of his colleagues, have changed their profile information to positions within Zynga NY, one of the global companies few east coast studios. Specifically, Business Insider cites Astro Ape's director of engineering, who has taken the exact same title within Zynga's New York office.

So, the website deduces that Zynga has more than likely acquired Astro Ape. And what an interesting turn of events. Just recently, Huang called out Zynga, claiming that his studio was better than the omnipresent Facebook games creator.

"It sounds like a basic concept, but I think it's getting lost a bit today in social gaming. Our users come into our apps because they want to play our games, not because we spam them with invites, requests and other offers," Huang said months ago, indirectly referring to Zynga.

Monsterz Revenge
Has Astro Ape bended its stance in the name of the mighty dollar, or does it plan to bring a new breed of mobile game to Zynga? Who knows, but if this turns out to be true, Zynga just employed a brilliant strategy, sway the naysayers.

Zynga slapped with yet another patent infringement suit over its games

Zynga is officially the proverbial guy who wins the lottery and suddenly "reunites" with hundreds of long-lost friends. Only those old friends are angry, money-hungry companies and the "reunions" have been swapped for nasty lawsuits. Zynga faces yet another patent infringement lawsuit, this time from Agincourt Gaming, seemingly the publisher of Pantheon, a greco-roman combat game on Facebook (pictured below).

Sun Herald reports that, according to allegations made by Agincourt Gaming, Zynga has violated two patents held by the company regarding credits-based online gaming since 1996. (You know, the model used by every Facebook game ever?) The company, who just recently entered the Facebook games biz, seeks monetary damages and a permanent injunction against Zynga that shut down several of its games.

More specifically, Agincourt Gaming named FarmVille, FishVille, PetVille, YoVille, Zynga Poker, Empires & Allies, Mafia Wars, Treasure Isle, FrontierVille, CityVille, Cafe World and Vampire Wars. In other words, all of Zynga's games (that matter) have been put under fire. According to Sun Herald the lawsuit also alleges that Zynga has a history of copying smaller developers' game ideas.

Pantheon on Facebook
Zynga knows the issue rather intimately, considering the company has been smacked with multiple infringement lawsuits over the past few months. Companies like Vostu, SocialApps and even The Learning Company have approached Zynga, which is said to be worth over $11.5 billion. Clearly this has become a growing trend for the global developer, but when or if Zynga will finally bite the bullet and respond to these claims is what we're all really waiting for.

FarmVille Winter Wonderland Animals: 50% off Dall Sheep & Fjord Horse

Zynga has updated FarmVille this evening, and has included a big incentive with this update that might turn this weekend into a bit of a shopping spree for some players. There are two new Winter Wonderland animals to choose from, with both of these animal being premium items. However, their premium, or Farm Cash prices, are actually 50% off, meaning that if you take advantage of the sale lasting the next 7 days, you'll be able to get these animals for half of their regular price.

The two animals are the Dall Sheep and the Fjord Horse. The Dall Sheep costs 9 Farm Cash as part of the sale, and the Fjord Horse costs 13 Farm Cash. While both of those might seem like high prices, just take a second to double those amounts and think of what you might be paying otherwise, outside of this half-off sale.

Again, the prices on these animals will only be around for the next 7 days, but we're assuming that the animals themselves will stick around, albeit at their high price tag, for at least a few days after the sale has ended. We'll be sure to give you more information as we have it.

How would you change CityVille Franchises?

Congratulations. You're the owner of several hot new franchises in CityVille. Whether it's a series of video game stores or a seafood restaurant chain, franchising was set to be one of the hottest new features in Zynga's new city-building game on Facebook. Turned out to be an interesting idea, though more than a few players have expressed frustration with how the whole thing works (or doesn't work, as the case may be). So, I ask you, how would you change CityVille franchises? Would you require players to allow more franchises in their cities? Let players to delete franchises at will? Let mayors put as many franchises as they want in their cities, no matter what the population size? Make sure franchises are less buggy? So, franchise owners, get vocal in the comments below -- it's your right, ya know.