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27.1.10
Coming Soon!
Strategic Tips and Energy/Experience information for Bangkok!
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Recently Added
- Add to Loot Wish List has been updated with items from Bangkok! (January 27, 2010)
- The NEW Bangkok Loot Section. This can be sorted by Attack Level or Defense Level to help you with your strategy. (January 27, 2010)
- NEW Bangkok Tips has been updated as well as Bangkok Discussion items submitted! (January 30, 2010)
26.1.10
Learn How To:
- Build a Massive Mafia: The right way to recruit 500+ players within the first week.
- Top Mafia: Getting the best players to join your team. Getting players to promote you to top mafia within 48 hours.
- Avoid Mistakes 99% of Players Always Make: Why millions of players are recruiting the wrong way! Leveling up the slow way! Attacking and Defending the wrong way! Avoid the mistakes early so you can play the game with ease rather than with frustration.
- Exact Revenge: Eliminate bullies the right way! Efficiently, Effectively and Expediently!
- Annihilate the Enemy: How to crush your Opposition in Wars and Attacks. We rarely lose.
- Pimp Out your Mafia: How to pimp out your mafia with the best Weapons, Armor, and Vehicles.
- Request Top End Loot: How to Add Loot and Consumables that you don’t even have. How the best players get TNT, Gaff Hooks, Armor State Cars, Track Loaders, Executive Overcoats, Zmeya Carbon Blades, Zoloto Sports Car etc. before they reach that level.
- Unlimited Energy: Anyone who claims to give you unlimited energy is lying or cheating and can get you banned. I can show you how to properly manage your energy so you can easily attain tens of levels per day. Or as much as 250 levels in 48 hours! So effortlessly that you will rarely need to use an Energy Boost!
- How to AVOID Scams: Godfather, Recruitment, Energy and Loot Scams. How to protect your identity and your bank account.
- Stockpile Godfather Points: How to accumulate Godfather Point effortlessly. One of our students banked 1,000 Godfather Points within the first two days of playing!
- Master Every Level and Every Job at Lightning Speed: Hit the Energy Wall a lot less often. Play when you want to play and not have the game dictate when you can play.
- 100% Proven and Legal Methods: No scripts! No cheats! No software! No need to buy books, manuals, guides, loot, or godfather points! No risk of getting banned.
- Top 10 Tips: Get started quickly.
- Top 101 Tips: Tips for starting out!, Tips to Grow your Mafia!, Property Tips!, Racket Tips!, New York Tips!, Cuba Tips!, Moscow and beyond Tips!, Power Trading Tips!, Fighting and War Tips!, Advanced Strategies Tips!, FAQs!
- Energy and Experience Resource Guide: Find the best jobs to level up. Sorted by city, energy and experience.
- Loot Resource Guide: Best Loot sorted by Attack and Defence Strength.
- Loot Wish List Guide: How to Add Loot and Consumables to your Wish List that you don’t own!
- Links Guide: Your resource guide to everything Mafia Wars.
- Learn the Ultimate Mafia Wars Secrets: Secrets that you wished you knew on day one! Secrets that Scammers don’t want you to know! Secrets that all other Mafia Wars ebook sellers are worried that we are exposing for FREE!
- AND Much, Much More! See regular updates as Bangkok and Las Vegas opens up.
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3.1.10
Top Ten Tips
If you decide to play Mafia Wars (or any game in Facebook) seriously; I would highly recommend you set-up a “play account” that you use strictly for playing games. Keep your personal Facebook account that you interact with your real friends and family separate from your gaming account.
You would be surprised at the number of people who will look up your personal information (it’s kind of creepy), and there are a lot of perverts lurking around using games as a guise for their personal enjoyment.
Out of the three character choices you have in the game when first registering (Fearless, Mogul and Maniac); Fearless is the best choice if you are looking to just level up quickly; without care of attack or defense. If you are looking for a more leveled player, then Maniac is a better choice. For a more in depth discussion and analysis; please review the advanced strategy guide.
Build your Mafia to 501 members as quickly as possible. This may be the opposite of what you have read on other’s strategy guides, but having a large Mafia helps win fights. Also think about it from this point: if you have 501 people in your Mafia, the actual number 501 looks intimidating to someone who may be deciding to attack you. Also, as you move forward in the game, you will find it harder and harder to win fights without *at least* 501 Mafia members.
Going along with the concept of having 501 Mafia; try and get as many Mafia members as possible (if you think you can get to 5000 members: then do it!). The earlier the better! Why is this? Simple: Zynga added extra features in September that make it worth you while to have a larger mafia that will discussed in other tips found here.
This tip is in every guide, and is always worth repeating: make sure you have one weapon, armor and vehicle for each member of your mafia (hopefully 501). When you go and attack someone in the game (or they attack you); the number of mafia you have will use that many of each of the most powerful weapon, armor and vehicle (or loot in most cases) you have in your inventory. This is what creates the "Mafia Attack Strength" and "Mafia Defense Strength" number you see on the inventory page. Of course (using 501 mafia as an example), attack weapons are different from defense weapons; so as you move forward in the game, you will have many sets of loot weapons for each of Attack and Defense.
Don't waste your Godfather points on rare items the Godfather offers. For example, usually the Godfather offers a high end weapon each week to add to your arsenal. This is NOT worth it. Trust me, the godfather weapons in most cases are weaker than the loot you can find in higher levels of Cuba and/or Moscow.
Instead, buying skill points with your Godfather points is the best way to use your Godfather points. Currently the Godfather offers 4 skill points for 14 Godfather points. This is the best item on the list to buy for many reasons; there will be an in depth analysis and discussion of it in the advanced strategy guide.
Buy as many "Mafia Mike's" as possible. They can’t be attacked, and they pay out the best value; bottom line is you want property that is safe, gives you income in New York so that you buy weapons to complete the jobs in each Tier.
- I would suggest you do the following if you are looking to collect Godfather points faster. When playing the Daily chance lotto, you will have a chance to “Claim Ticket Mastery bonus” after you submit a ticket (or multiple tickets). If you wait, and let it build up all the way to 6 of 6 ; you will have a chance to win up to 5 Godfather points. Remember though, it is a chance to win up to 5 GF points. The minimum you get is still 1 GF point!
- The optimal strategy for playing the “Daily Chance Lotto”:
Step 1 - Play Mafia Wars everyday, making sure you get one ticket each day for seven days. This means the Godfather will have given you 7 tickets in total by the end of the week.
Step 2 - Select your numbers and submit your ticket. This will bring your ticket mastery progress meter to 1. Do not claim the mastery bonus yet! Instead, hold off till the next day for your 2nd ticket! If you have 2 or more tickets left, then move on to the next step.
Step 3 - Submit one more ticket, brining your ticket mastery progress meter to 2. Collecting the ticket mastery bonus after 2 tickets are submitted; you will get one free ticket. Select your numbers and submit this free ticket you just received. Now the ticket mastery progress meter should be at 1. However, DO NOT collect the bonus at 1, submit another ticket (if you have any left), or wait until tomorrow to receive another ticket!
Step 4 - Repeat step 3 when you get another ticket. Get the idea? You want to keep collecting those free tickets you receive after the ticket mastery progress meter reaches 2, and submit those free tickets right away. Essentially, you are getting 2 tickets per day, by using these steps. If you use this strategy, you should be able to submit up to 13 tickets per week from just the tickets you get from playing Mafia Wars each day (assuming you play everyday for a week of course), instead of the 7 you would normally get without using this strategy. Plus at the end of the week, when you can't get anymore tickets to get you to 2 on the mastery bonus, just claim your ticket mastery bonus with 1, and get a random loot item (although its not great, at least its something!).
Make certain that when you have access to Cuba and/or Moscow; as soon as you can travel there to do so. Even if you decide not to start the Cuba or Moscow Tiers, make sure to just travel there and start the respective businesses. This is because each country requires a significant amount of the local monies to purchases weapons, armor, and vehicles needed to do jobs in each tier. Trust me, by collecting and saving money now, you will feel less frustrated when you decide to take on the tiers in Cuba and/or Moscow.
Proceed to Chapter 1 - Tips for starting off
Chapter 1 - Tips for starting off
In Mafia Wars, and also Facebook (or any other Social network site); keep your private information as private and secure as possible. By adding large groups of people you don’t know as your friends, they have access to your private information. Hence tip #1 is to setup a “play” account with limited information as possible, which goes along with this tip in making sure to limit how much information you really want to give to strangers. Trust me, as a Male, I do from time to time get curious and look at profile pictures and info of attractive women; although I don’t use it for anything (like stalking); I’m sure there are thousands of other desperate males (or females) who will see no problem using your personal info for their own interests.
Daily Lotto explained:
The daily lotto is a chance for players to win prizes by submitting a lotto ticket (given by the Godfather for playing each day; or alternatively you can purchase a ticket for 2 Godfather points). You choose 5 numbers (you can select numbers yourself, or randomly select numbers using the button) and submit the ticket. The draw happens at the end of the week, and results are announced the next day!
The prizes if you have a winning ticket are as follows:
If you have 1 matching number on a daily chance lotto ticket you win one random loot item.
If you have 2 matching numbers on a daily chance lotto ticket you win a free daily chance ticket for the next week's draw.
If you have 3 matching numbers on a daily chance lotto ticket you win one daily chance collection item.
If you have 4 matching numbers on a daily chance lotto ticket you win 7 Godfather points (this number seems to change from time to time).
If you have 5 matching numbers on a daily chance lotto ticket you win 500 Godfather points (this number seems to change from time to time).
An advantage to having large (hopefully 5000 members) Mafia is what some like to call "auto-play". When you have a large mafia, you will find many times that you get experience points from no where. These come from your character being automatically drafted to assist in those jobs and fights that the people in your Mafia do from time to time. Each time you automatically help out, you can receive anywhere from 1 - 10 experience points. These points add up, as you can sometimes level up 3 times in one night, while sleeping! Hence, the term "auto-play", because having a big mafia means more chances for your character to join in on other's jobs and fights for money and experience (as well as the chance to level up as you sleep).
- If you don't have at least 501 members in your Mafia and 501 of each weapon, armor and vehicle, then you *should* avoid attacking those on the attack list that have 501 members in their Mafia. If you want to Attack; then try and target those with a smaller Mafia instead. This may be plain a simple tip, but sometimes you're ego may get in the way of rational thinking! Trust me: you want to build up your statistics to have as many fights won, instead of having a disappointing losing record. This serves a dual purpose: one to intimidate those who are thinking about attacking you; and two, to make you a better candidate for “Top Mafia” positions. No one will want to promote you if you lose more than 1/3 of the time!
Once you are on the Hitlist, all limitations of people *NOT* being able to attack you below 20 health points are gone. Typically people cannot attack you if your health meter is less than 20 points. But once you are on the Hitlist, its pretty much anyone's game! It means that they can (and will) keep attacking you until your health meter is 0. So don’t think you can just get on the Hitlist, get below 20 health points and master the “Bulletproof” achievement that easily….
- In the new upgrades, when clicking on a help request, you can also ask for help on behalf of the original requestor. DO NOT click on that button that says "Get Help" after finishing helping the person already! This simply takes away from the quota of others (currently, there is a 25 job per city, per day limit) to get experience and the proper $$$. Likewise, if you see one of these requests for help, ignore it. It simply isn't worth it! Avoid it, and send Zynga the message that it’s not really a bonus feature in anyway.
- Remember: when buying weapons, armor and vehicles that you need to have enough income coming from properties in New York to cover their expenses. There is a maintenance fee on most of the more powerful weapons you buy in New York. These fees come out of your pocket each time you go and “collect your take” from the properties you own in New York (this doesn’t really apply to you if you have Rackets). Just remember to keep an eye on the “up keep” of the weapons/armor/vehicles you buy and to make sure you have more than enough income (in the form of properties) to cover them. Typically, if you buy a Mafia Mike’s, it will cover the cost for three of your Mafia to be outfitted with a weapon, armor and vehicle. Hence the reason why we suggest you buy as many Mafia Mike’s as possible.
When adding new friends to your mafia, be sure to wait an hour or so from the time that they are newly added as your friend in Facebook. The connection between Mafia Wars and Facebook seems to lag a lot, and can cause many wasted invites and frustration. Remember, you need those invites, so use patience when sending them out.
When you are starting off, as stated before, it is best to have 501 of the top weapons. Hence, once you have enough money, buy weapons to make sure you have 501 even of the minimal weapons you buy. In the case of a low level starting player; 501 town cars; 501 chain guns and 501 Body armor are essentially the minimal basic equipment you should have to continue on.
If you decided to choose "mogul" for your character; the optimal time to collect your take from your properties is roughly 22 hours from the time you last collected. You have to wait until it hits maximum, and then collect at that precise moment to have the advantage. Hence, being a mogul sucks! Plus that time keeps moving you two hours ahead each day, which makes it a real pain to collect at the optimal time!
- Hitlisting someone is generally a bad idea - unless they are consistently attacking you for no reason. By Hitlisting another player; that person who gets Hitlisted, now knows who Hitlisted them, and has a link to your profile in their news feeder; which further allows them to attack you in the future. Some people are really “poor sports” when it comes to playing this game… so you need to be extra cautious sometimes; and sometimes, it means you have to be the bigger person and let certain things be.
- Currently, there is a "Declare War" feature in Mafia Wars that allows you to declare war on any of your Mafia friends. However, be careful of who you declare war against. Most people probably won't care; but once in a while, there is someone who will “un-friend” you and then will start attacking you relentlessly. Again, there are those “poor sports” you need to think about. Typically I would send out a message first before picking someone to attack out of the blue, just to make sure they are okay with it and that it is all in good fun!
- Be careful when attacking someone on the attack list with a tag like "{WMKP}" (or replace WMKP inside the curly brackets with whatever you want) in front of and/or behind their Mafia Wars names. That means they belong to a group (probably a large one) that can be called upon to theoretically have all their higher level members attack you until the game is no more fun! If that happens… you probably have no choice but to stop playing that character, abandon it, and start fresh with another account.
When doing jobs, sometimes it comes up with "ask friends for help". Click on this as many as possible (typically one a day in each city). The more mafia that come to help you, the more money you will receive and the more experience. Likewise with your friend’s: from time to time you will see (in your Live news feed): Howard (or whatever your friend’s name is, replace it here) needs your help; and typically a logo stating something like “rob your cab driver” beside it. These are job help requests your friends are posting, and not only give your friend a chance at some extra money and experience points, but also give you a chance for extra experience points and money. Of course, keep this in mind: you can only help out 25 times in each city; so you can’t just keep doing these help requests to level up all day.
- If someone is constantly attacking you and is being a poor sport; try joining a "revenge group" and posting their link! YES, Mafia Wars revenge groups do exist in Facebook groups and are filled with some higher level players that go out of their way to distribute revenge to those really nasty and abusive players. For example, there is a group called OKMC; which is a specific group of Mafia Wars players that will help you get revenge on abusive players.
Don't waste money on boosts. The boosts they currently offer are not worth the money; and quite frankly they do nothing for you anyways.
- Some weapons look nice, but have really no ability at all. Still, if you are looking at acquiring weapons, just for the sake of collecting, your best time do so is during sales. Just recently, having seen the 2009 Black Friday sale, there were many heavily discounted items up for grabs. So save your GF points for events such as that to do all of your shopping.
- When doing wall jobs, and you have an over abundance of wall posts; you should actually open the link in a new window/tab using the right-click method on the mouse. When you do this, as the new window you opened loads, you can refresh the original page to see if another job has been posted and also right-click the link on that. This way you can maximize the jobs you get and the $$$ as well the experience.
When sending out a gift from the free gift page, consider what you are sending out and to whom. Try and avoid sending out gifts to higher level players and instead target lower level players. Why? Because I'm sure higher level players have enough cue-balls and King of Spades to help out 300 lower level people who need one. Short story, high level people don't need it, and may choose to ignore the gift; which in the end wastes their time and your gift request.
- Check player updates from time to time on the homepage of your Mafia Wars window. It will publish many jobs and wars that are started that don't get posted on someone's wall. Also, if someone declares (declared) war on you; it will show up here. If you are apart of someone's top Mafia and some declares war on that person; it will also get posted here, so you have a chance to defend your friend. I find many valuable experience points and wars to participate in this way.
Having a bigger Mafia allows you to launder more money. You can launder up to five times a day (before the Feds get suspicious!). However, having a smaller mafia means you may only launder once or twice a day! Also, having a large Mafia means more people can help you launder, which means more money and experience for everyone involved.
Proceed to Chapter 2 - Growing your mafia and choosing the right players
Chapter 2 - Growing your mafia and choosing the right players
Use multiple pimps to get to grow your mafia. Pimping services are all over Facebook to help you add friends just for certain games, such as Mafia Wars. It only makes sense to use their services to help grow your Mafia; and it only makes sense that using more than one will help your chances of growing faster… well… better! I suggest joining/becoming a fan of groups such as: SCP (Stone cold pimps) and Mafia Wars Pimpettes (as they are some of the top pimping groups for Mafia Wars).
- When first starting off, you can’t really get pimped right away (unless you pay for it!). Therefore, you can start off by adding people to your friends/mafia by simply adding the people that a pimp may suggest. If you go to SCP (Stone Cold Pimps) and check their wall, you will see a list of posts that keeps going and going of people they recommend you add to your Mafia. When you are first starting off, I highly recommend you go down the wall and add as many as you can and keep doing this for a couple of hours (or days). It is a highly effective way of getting noticed; plus you know these people will be added to your Mafia, as they have the same objective as you: to grow their Mafia as fast as possible.
- Once you have finished adding people from the wall of a certain group/pimp (as suggested in the previous tip); you can go to other pimping groups and do the same thing. Keep doing this, until you have a list of 200 or so friends/Mafia members. After you reach 200 or more friends added, you should now have a large enough list to be able to do some of the stuff to get yourself pimped. Typically, you need to suggest a certain pimping group/site to your friends who are not already a part of the group you are looking to get pimped at. Of course, the more people you suggest the group to, the better off you look and higher chance you have of getting pimped yourself.
- Remember to read the rules of each pimping group. They all have similar rules, but some have different ones you may need to follow to get properly pimped. Typically most frown on people who spam themselves on their posts (people who comment on a post by saying ‘add me’ or something towards that effect). Simple rule of thumb, be respectful and follow the rules if you want to get pimped.
- If you have no idea which pimping groups to join (or become a fan of); look at another friend's list of groups, and fan pages. Specifically find a friend with a large Mafia (600+), and look at his/her groups he/she has joined. Most often, you will see they have joined multiple groups to help gain Mafia members, so most of the work they have done is now available at your fingertips. Look at the various groups, find some good ones and join them.
- When looking for a top notch pimp; look at how many fans (or members if it’s a group) there are attached to the group. Some pimps are relatively new and only have a few thousand fans/members; while others have been around for a while and have a few hundred thousand fans/members. Obviously you want to use the ones with the most fans/members to get the highest success rate of adding the most members, so join those. However; keep an eye on the smaller ones as well, as they give you the best chance of being pimped! (Typically larger pimps may take time to pimp you versus the smaller groups).
- When looking for a top notch pimp; go and read their wall and see how often they post links and actually pimp out their members! Obviously you want groups that are more active and actually posting to their wall to get people pimped.
There are other groups you can join in Facebook, such as the “Mafia Wars Officers”, you can join to help build up your Mafia size. In such groups, you typically start adding people who post their link on the main wall; and you post your link on the wall as well asking for people to add you. Although this method is less successful than pimping; if you are consistent at it (always posting on the wall and adding people); you can easily add a few dozen new Mafia members in a couple of hours. Hey, each member adds to the 5000 goal! Just remember that!
Top Mafia Selection: As you know, who you select as your “Top Mafia” has a big difference in how your character will play the game. Use the following below to select the right players as your “Top Mafia”:
Choosing your Mastermind:
Find anyone in your mafia that has completed 50,000 jobs to get the max 11% bonus.
Choosing your Wheelman:
Must be a "Fearless" type and is over level 300 to give the max 11% bonus.
Choosing your Buttonman:
Must be a "Maniac" type and is over level 300 to give the max 11 point bonus.
Choosing your Bodyguard:
Find anyone in your mafia that has won over 50,000 fights to get the max 11 point bonus.
Choosing your Safecracker:
Find anyone in your mafia that has completed 50,000 heists to get the max 15% bonus. Warning, this will be tough, unless you find someone who was playing Mafia Wars prior to September, when they “temporarily” removed the "robbing properties" feature.
Choosing your Bagman:
Must be a "Mogul" type and is over level 300 to give the max 15 point bonus.
- Whatever you do in terms of picking your “Top Mafia”; make sure to try and get the best “Mastermind” and “Wheelman” possible, and they give you the max points. This is crucial in game play if you want to get the maximum value for doing jobs in the game and leveling up.
Try and add people (as friends, then Mafia Family) who have a lot of fights or like to fight lots (you can find this statistic on their page in Mafia Wars). People who tend to like to fight more often will give you better chances at gaining extra experience points – whether you are playing or not; since you will get a chance to join/help them every time they fight. This adds to the strategy of “auto-play” that is discussed above.
A big reason for adding lower level players is that; low level players tend to level up easier and faster than (most) higher level players. Hence, you will have more chances to get bonus experience points with a lower level player than a higher level player. I also find, most lower level players play consistently to advance; while many higher level players, once they have achieved everything in the game, tend to slow down in their play.
- If you wanna grow your Mafia, as well as have protection in numbers (and once you are at a higher level, you can offer it); then we suggest you might seek out a clan to join. Some even join multiple clans; but the basic premise is that very few will try and pick on you if you are tagged and show that you belong to a big (and powerful) clan.
- Although a slower way to grow your Mafia; if you don't like the idea of getting "pimped" and doing all that work; you can still join those pimping groups to add people to your mafia. They will publish/post a list (via your wall or your mail in Facebook) of people you can add as your friends, and subsequently Mafia. These people are specifically looking to add people and grow your Mafia, so rest assured you won't be wasting your time adding these people if you are looking to grow your Mafia as well.
Proceed to Chapter 3 - Properties
Chapter 3 - Properties
When buying property in New York, it is best to buy in lots of 10. This is the cheapest and most efficient way to buy properties inside the game. If you buy each property one at a time, as you progress, you will end up paying almost 50% more than someone who is buying in lots of 10 as suggested here.
Remember to collect your take in a timely fashion. If left alone for long enough, the game simply shuts down all your properties and it stops making you money.
To achieve the cashing out award, you have to sell 50 mega casinos. The best approach to achieving this is as follows: buy 10 commercial lots, then buy 10 mega casinos and sell them instantly. Repeat the process 4 more times and you should get your award. This method is the cheapest way to get the award.
When selling property, consider this: you only get back 50% of the value of what its worth. So be careful when considering selling a property, even if it is to buy insurance.
Proceed to Chapter 4 - Rackets
Chapter 4 - Rackets
If you were lucky enough (or unlucky, however you see it) to get on a Mafia Wars beta server and have to deal with "rackets" instead of properties, here is one piece of advice: don't waste the money you get from jobs on buying and expanding rackets. Instead, as I suggested in another tip, get money from the achievement posts that others make. You can buy 15 out of the 20 properties using this approach in no time and expand.
One advantage to having rackets is: each time you run a racket, and you collect in time; you will receive 1 experience point. Now 1 experience point doesn't amount to much, but you can have up to 20 rackets running at the same time, for a total of 20 experience points. Utilize this with the job that takes the least time (at the moment 5 mins) and every 5 mins you will have 20 experience points. At lower levels, if you run out of energy, this is a vital and nice way to level up; since typically you may only need 20 - 40 experience points before a level up.
In rackets, typically, none of the rackets are worth running for money. The best racket to run is the very first one, strictly to gain experience points for leveling up. The reason is that the most you get is a 3 - 1 payout for the best racket, and typically you have to wait 1 or more days to achieve it. This is a complete waste of the advantage that rackets provide in the form of experience points.
Remember to collect you racket in a timely fashion. Typically, you will have double the time it takes the racket to reach 100% before it gets wiped out. For example if you have chosen a racket that lets you collect in 5 hours, you should have 10 hours before everything is wiped out (no experience awarded, and the money spent to run the racket is lost as well as the profit).
Proceed to Chapter 5 - New York Tips
Chapter 5 - New York Tips
When starting off in “Mafia Wars”, try and finish as many lower level jobs as possible. Each job you completely finish (100%), will get you 1 skill point you can put towards Attack/Health/Defense/Stamina or Energy. These skill points are critical for developing your character later on.
- When working on your player (hopefully a Maniac or Fearless type as was suggested in the top ten tips), put all your skill points towards energy, at least until you hit level 30. This will make it much easier for you to level up in the future and give you more chances to do more jobs each time you level up.
- Your chance of being listed on the “Fight List/page”, directly relates with how much you use the “Fight List” yourself and attack people! If you want to avoid being attacked a lot; don't do too many random attacks on people on the “Fight List”.
- Try and Attack someone on the “Fight list” with a bigger mafia earlier on at say levels 8 - 15, so you can get the “Napoleon Complex” achievement. The Napoleon Complex achievement is based on you attacking someone with a bigger mafia; so, once you get to 501 Mafia members, you will basically have missed this opportunity (for an extra skill point and the title)!
- If you haven't gotten to jobs that require expendables (such as Politico Corruptos, Untraceable Cell phones, Blackmail photos), hold onto them. You WILL need them eventually and will probably be begging people for extra spares if they have any. So start collecting and hording now. Get them from free gifts, loot, lotto; whatever it takes. Start early, so you hopefully don’t end up bored, frustrated and waiting for them when you get to the higher tiers in New York.
- If you don't want to become the target of attack in the game, then do not go on the “Hitlist” and try and take someone out early on in the game. Many players will rename their character level on purpose to fool you. Hence you don't know if a "Skilled Street thug" is actually a level 10 Character or a level 1000 character. And if he/she is a level 1000 character, be prepared to get an onslaught if you make them angry!
Proceed to Chapter 6 - Cuba Tips
Chapter 6 - Cuba Tips
When you hit level 35, the game will allow you access to Cuba. I would highly recommend you go to Cuba the moment you get access to it!Just by going to Cuba, you will get 1 skill point, so if you decide you don’t want to play Cuba until you finish New York; it is still smart for you to go to Cuba just for the skill point!
- Here is some advice (from many players, not just myself): Once you get access to Cuba; drop everything else you were doing in New York and Finish off all the jobs in Cuba first. After completing Cuba, go back to New York; it will be much easier to finish now.
- When you reach Cuba, use the money from jobs to buy the “Bribery Ring” business as soon as possible (at least before you complete the El Soldado stage). You will need LOTS of Politico Corruptos in short order. Upgrade and put all money towards it, and then work on the rest of the businesses.
- Cuba has many advantages in the game. One of them happens to be that in Cuba, the jobs are actually much better at leveling you up faster than in New York or Moscow. Typically, you will get more experience points using less energy in Cuba than the other two cities. Therefore, it is easier to level up (for the most part) in Cuba.
- Another advantage to Cuba is: the loot is typically much better than in New York. In fact, most of the more powerful loot weapons, armor and vehicles still come from jobs in Cuba. Even the lower end weapons in Cuba are typically stronger than the strongest weapons in New York. So if you want to be better equipped for fights, I would suggest working on Cuba more than New York.
- You will need to buy businesses in Cuba. You won't be able to move fast enough just relying on jobs, since as you move on, you will be required to buy inventory which takes a cut of your job, until basically the jobs become worthless. Hence, you need to get money somehow other than jobs in Cuba. So I would recommend saving to buy or investing in businesses in Cuba with each sizeable amount of money you make from jobs (and on occasion from helping other’s with their jobs and fighting).
- In Cuba, try to avoid moving on before finishing all three tiers of a certain level/stage (ie. El Soldado). Also try and do as many jobs multiple times to build up cash for future job levels/stages and try to buy inventory in bulk. That way you maximize the cash received on all jobs, instead of losing it to the -.05% bribery fee each time you buy a weapon or armor. Bottom line: save up, and then buy in bulk when you reach a certain level/stage.
- The further you move along in Cuba (doing all the Tiers eventually), the less money you will get from doing jobs. This is because you need loot to do certain jobs, and they take a bribery fee, which cuts into the money you gain from doing certain jobs. Hence, treat the money you get in Cuba like gold! Bank it, make sure you don't lose it when attacking and being attacked.
Proceed to Chapter 7 - Moscow and beyond
Chapter 7 - Moscow and beyond
When you reach level 70 and unlock Moscow, I would encourage you to start and finish the first stage and collect some Rubles. The Rubles are so you can buy businesses in Moscow. Do the jobs, collect money and buy businesses. Then just sit back and collect money from the businesses (and upgrade them if you want). The key is to save money, since everything in Moscow is expensive and will take money in the future to finish all its Chapters. While collecting the money, go back to Cuba (and/or New York) and finish that off if you haven't already.
- Once you reach level 99, you will unlock the bonus weapon in New York. It costs the same as the Chain guns, but offers better attack/defense. I would highly recommend you upgrade you chain guns to these (keep 20 Chain guns, as you will need them for jobs later on). Just by upgrading to bonus weapons, assuming you have 501 mafia, you should see a boost of about 10, 000 attack and defense points.
Proceed to Chapter 8 - Power trading and gaining the stuff you need
Chapter 8 - Power trading and gaining the stuff you need
- When trading with someone; look at their Mafia Wars profile. See what their most consecutive days played are; how many fights they have been in and wars they have won. All these help establish whether or not the player has been active or not. Rip off artists tend to use their account lightly or are an account that has just been set-up. You may be able to fake leveling up; but it is hard to fake fight counts and wars. Hence don't trade with someone with a low fight/win count unless you absolutely trust them.
- Wanna get 200 high-end weapons and other loot? You know the daily lotto collection items? The ones you can only get buy playing the daily lotto. Those items are typically very rare and hard to get. Hence if you have a double of one those items (bingo card, roulette table and etc.) there are people in the game willing to trade up to 200 high end loot items for just one daily lotto collection item. That’s just one way to get lots of powerful weapons, armor and/or vehicles.
When purchasing the "weekly sale" item that sells for $10 000, tend to stay away from weapons; and look more towards those items that are a vehicle type. Why is that? Because it is easier to loot weapons (and in some cases armor as well), but much more difficult to loot vehicles. Anything above 10 in attack and 11 defense points on a vehicle and you are doing better than average.
So how are some people able to get 501 of high end loot in a small amount of time (without buying them of course)? Although not condoned and a violation of Zynga's policy; some players have multiple accounts. Considering how easy it is to set-up a free e-mail account and another Facebook account and I’m sure you get the idea, right? Basically each e-mail you setup becomes a new account; remember that you take the risk of losing it all if you get caught!
- Early on in the game, at lower levels. If you have a big enough mafia, you can typically ask for any weapon, armor or vehicle and have a small chance of getting. However, to get the most out of it, I would typically ask for the semi-high end loot, (2nd or 3rd rate weapons) that although they are still not as high in attack/defense as the highest end loot, will still give me a high total point value if you have 501 Mafia. For example, instead of asking for an armored state car, try asking for a Montaine 320 instead. Most high level players probably won't mind, since they probably aren't using it anyways! Then again, I would ask for high end loot once in a while. You never know, unless you ask!
You can trade (if you have a large enough mafia) for things when you need to. For example, you can offer one high end loot item (currently TNT, State Car or Track Loader) for ten politico Corruptos, ten Untraceable Cell phones and etc. Many people are willing to make a deal to move ahead in the game.
If you have money and choose to; you can actually purchase high end loot from certain people. Zynga deems this a violation of their terms; however, they exist and have yet to be shutdown. Is it worth it? Well, in option of purchasing GF points, yes; since the GF crates and weapons are typically weaker than most high end loot. Also, you know what you need and don't have to guess as to what you'll get from a crate.
- If at first you don't get gifts; try gifting someone else instead! Chances are high they will try and re-gift you back! Plus, it all adds up to getting that achievement (2 of them) and the extra skill points. You would be surprised how many times I have sent 10 blackmail photos to someone and got back a Track loader! Sometimes, it’s just that easy; and in the future, it sets it up for more trading!
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Don't waste collection items re-vaulting them; the boosts are hopeless, as they get used up at the most useless times. Instead use them for trading and giving to your other Mafia members. Remember, if you give; chances are you will get back. So update your Wishlist while you are at it!
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