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Mafia Wars Strategy Guide

Keep a Zero Cash Balance
Before going into fights, always be sure to deposit all of your cash into the bank. Other
players can attack you at any time, so it is a good idea to keep a zero cash balance most of
the time and especially before signing off. If you don’t, other players will fight and rob you.
Depositing money does incur a 10% laundering fee but is very little in the scheme of things.
Fight Often
Before going into fights, research your opponent before pressing the attack button. Just do
a quick run through to see how powerful the player is.
􀂷 First, look at the size of the player’s mafia. I always tried to attack players with
nearly the same size or smaller mafia as I have because more members means more
weapons that will be used against you.
􀂷 Second, look at the number of jobs, which will give you a sense of the player’s
experience and how his profile points are distributed - the higher the number, the higher the
probability that their attack and defense is strong. I usually attack players with about the
same amount of jobs completed or lower.
􀂷 Third, look at the number of wins and losses that your prospective opponents
have. A higher loss to win ratio offers you a better chance of defeating them.
􀂷 Forth, quickly browse through the player’s weapons arsenal. If you see that they
have much stronger weapons than you or a large quantity of stronger weapons, it is best
not to attack them.
􀂷 Fifth, look at the player’s properties to get an idea of how much money they
possess and how much they can be robbed. Gaining money from attacks is good but not
always necessary. Winning attacks earns you experience points at a fairly steady pace
without wasting any energy. Often times, I will earn a few hundred thousand dollars off of an
opponent and then keep earning experience points after they are broke.
Once you find a good candidate to attack, test them out with an attack. If you lose the first
fight, move on to another player to attack. If you win the first attack, take advantage of it and
repeatedly attacked them until you are out of stamina or you lose a fight. It’s unrealistic but,
mafia wars lets me win repeated attacks on a player and then suddenly gives me a loss; I
haven’t figured out why.
If you keep winning attacks against a player and you run out of health points, keep the
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attack window open until you earn more health points. I usually open a new window or tab
to the game where I can restore my health and deposit money or do jobs without interfering
with the player that I want to keep attacking. Once you earn enough stamina or restore your
health, go back to attacking the player until you lose. One other thing I learned about the
health points is that you can pay the doctor to restore your health with the money that is in
your bank account, so there’s no need to keep money at all in the cash box.
Create an attack list of those members that you have attacked and beaten. This way you
can go back and attack them again in the future, knowing that they are probably beatable
again to you. Using Mafia wars, you can’t just keep track of them or look them up later, at
least not to my knowledge. Instead, right click on the name of the member and copy the link
location. When you’re ready to attack again, simply paste the link location to the member’s
profile into the navigation bar of your browser.
One warning, though, is that there’s always the chance of the members, we have attacked
repeatedly, will seek revenge at some point. Either they will grow stronger and attack you
later or they can put a hit out on you using the hit list and get other stronger members to
take you out. You need to weigh the factors involved and, whatever you do, try not to get a
really, really stronger member mad at you!
Use Your Profile Points as Soon as Possible
As soon as you master a job or level up and earn profile points, use them to increase your
strength of attack and defense, which will help you immediately in fights. The more fights
you win, the faster you will earn experience points and level up. Round and round it goes
like a circle. Sometimes I level up so fast, I feel like I am flying!
Properties
In the first 10 or so levels, don’t think too big with properties. You should focus on Mafia
Mike’s, Rent Houses, and Italian Restaurants. Mafia Mike’s should be your focus in the
beginning because they earn the most at a relatively low price. Note that Mafia Mike’s
requires a certain number of mafia members to buy more than one. After the first one, each
consecutive one requires two more members. I have 24 members and 9 Mafia Mike’s, so it
earns me $108,000 each hour.
Once you get past level 10 and earning a few hundred thousand dollars an hour, then you
can start buying bigger properties, such as the Apartment Complex and Valu-Mart.
When you start earning close to $1 million an hour, then you can start taking on the bigger
properties, such as the Marina Tourist Shops.
Finally, when you start earning over $1 million an hour, that you can start saving up for the
biggest properties, such as the Office Building, 5-Star Hotel, and Mega Casino.
One piece of advice, if you want to save money buying properties, is that if you buy them in
quantity, each property will be the same price. If you buy one at a time, the price will
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incrementally increase.
One concern to think about is that your properties will be attacked, so you will need to buy
protection. If it is attacked and the health goes down below 100%, it will start earning less
and less money each hour. I try to keep all my property at 120% health. In the game’s latest
update, the exact level of protection can no longer be seen; you can only see the shields
and whether or not your properties are at 100% or lower. I am not sure if this feature will be
changed back to the way it was but, I preferred it the way it was previously.
Energy Packs
When a member of your mafia sends you an energy pak, do not immediately use it. Look at
your current energy level to see where it is at at the moment. If it is low, like around 10 or
less, you should use the energy pak right away before your energy refills again. If your
energy level is high, like above 10, 20 or higher, do a few jobs to use up your energy until it
is below 10 or less, before using the energy pak. Why do this? Simple. As soon as you use
an energy pak, your energy will be boosted to its maximum +25%, no matter the energy
level before using it. By using up your current energy and then using your energy pak, you
will get twice as many jobs done. If your current energy level is, say 50, and you use an
energy pak, that is 50 points wasted.
Be courteous with your energy paks. When a member sends you an energy pak, you
should use it and then send everyone an energy pak. Even if no one sent you an energy
pak, you should send them to your members and some of them may send you an energy
pak back in return.
Leveling Up
Leveling up is always fun because it brings you full health, energy, stamina and profile
points but, you should use careful planning before leveling up. Always keep note of how
close you are to leveling up. Once you get within, like 50 experience points away from
leveling up, you should
use strategy to reap the most benefits of the next level. As soon as you level up, all of your
attribute levels will be replenished, so it is a good idea to get your attribute levels, especially
the energy, as low as possible before leveling up because, by using them up first, you are,
in essence, getting twice as much done due to the fact that the levels will be replenished as
soon as you level up.
If you have a lot of energy left before leveling up, take a few big jobs with a lot of experience
points because they will use your energy quickly while bringing you a lot of experience
points. Watch how close you are to leveling up, so that you don’t use a small amount of
energy to bring you a little amount of experience points but enough to level up. You do not
want to level up with a job that only earns you enough experience points to level up, while
leaving you with a lot of energy that is wasted because your energy will only be refilled
enough to fill it to the maximum.
If you have a little amount of energy left and are very close to leveling up, you can always
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attack other members to nudge you to the next level to replenish everything.
Before leveling up, I try to get as many jobs and fights done as possible. This way, I use up
all of the health, energy and stamina that I have and then level up to do it all over again. It is
like getting twice as much done.
Getting Attacked
Other members can attack you even when you are not logged in to the game. This is to be
expected. But, for revenge or another reason, some members will target you because they
see you as weaker or richer. This is not usually a problem when the other member is almost
even with use strength-wise. It becomes a major problem when the other member, while
being at nearly the same level, has more money, weapons or a lot of strong members in
their mafia. They can attack you at will, as much as they want.
I had one such member attack me last week. He robbed my properties dozens and dozens
of times. I lost about $60 million preparing and protecting my casinos because he kept
attacking and attacking.
What can you do when a member keeps attacking and robbing you? You can wait for them
to get bored with you or you can be pro-active. There are two ways that I found to combat
the situation. The first is to add the member to the hit list with a sizable bounty and hope
that a really
stronger member attacks your enemy. However, if this does not work and you keep getting
attacked, the last resort is to sell off your properties, especially the big ones, and wait a few
days for your enemy to get bored with you and move on. You can always buy your
properties again; it is just a minor setback.
When you get stronger and gain more members, you can always go back and enact
revenge on the person that repeatedly attacked you. Copy and save the link location to this
member for future use. At least, that is what I would do but, I am a very vengeful person!
Muhaha!
Strategy Guide Part 2
Add Members to Your Mafia
In the beginning, you can invite your friends to be members in your mafia. A small handful
will join your mafia but that is not enough. You need a large mafia if you expect to be in any
condition to attack larger mafias later on in the game. So, you need to look elsewhere for
members, especially strong members because they will help you a lot in fights.
You can find members on countless groups, on and off of Facebook, dedicated to mafia
wars. I know what you’re thinking, that you do not want strangers to be on your friends list.
This is a legitimate concern but, one trick is that, once they become your friend and join
your mafia, you can delete them from your friends list. They will remain a member of your
mafia, regardless of their being on your friends list.
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When I went to invite a lot of members to my mafia, I posted a comment on the front page
of each group. I asked for people to join my mafia and a lot of them did. The comments will
accumulate fast on each group and your comment will be quickly pushed to another page,
where it will not be seen as much, so you want to post a comment occasionally for new
members to see and join your mafia. Do not overdo it or you will be labeled a troll or
spammer and most likely booted from the group. You can also add members, who are
requesting mafia members, to your friends list.
Once they are on your friends list or you are on their list, either one of you can send an
invite to the other to join each other’s mafia. If either of you run out of invites for the day,
keep them as friends and invite them another day.
After they are on your mafia list, you can delete them as a friend. One complication with this
is keeping track of who is friend and who is just there for the game. What I did was label
purely mafia people as mafia and then, after adding them to my friends list and mafia, I
could open up
the friends list to the label for mafia members and quickly delete them. If you are planning
on adding a lot of real friends to your friends list, it’s probably best to hold off on mass
inviting purely mafia members to your friends list for a few days or everyone will get mixed
together quickly and it will take a lot of work to delete those people that are not your friends.
Banking Money:
As a LVL 370 player, I can say you should stop banking money as soon as the amount you lose
is less than the bank’s charge. If you are losing $1 million per day from attacks, and you earn
$10 million+, then don’t bank the money. Simple economics. The fact is, this point is reached
pretty quickly. If your property is earning $1mil+ per hour, and you are doing jobs or robberies,
you are past the point of paying the bank charges–or you are losing too many fights and/or
staying on the hitlist too much ;) On lower levels, spend your stamina, but focus on doing jobs
and adding to your skill points. As a comparison, I have $88 billion in cash right now, my
property earns $100 million+ per hour, and I am over 1,000 Mafia Mike’s behind in buying
because I simply don’t have time and don’t care. Jobs on Boss level pay $20-30 million per
click…
Combat calculations:
There’s an excellent thread here: http://mafia-wars.org/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=216, started by
someone who has determined the basic formula used in fights. He also has a “combat
calculator” online that will tell you how your equipment and stats compare to average for your
level (http://www.mafia-wars.info/index.php). MW does NOT in my opinion calculate fights the
way I would expect. For instance, the equipment chosen when you attack is also the same used
for defense in that same fight, and the ATK and DEF values of each item are simply added,
rather than your best defense weapons being used for the defense side of the equation. That
means… an AR-15 is *worse* to have than a Midas Knife, because the total ATK+DEF is lower.
What you want to have is 501 of the best *total* value weapon, though you can’t always
because MW will still choose the AR-15’s first. Just don’t loot them on purpose, so you get as
few of them as possible in front of your better weapons. You also do this on the defense side,
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right? Even though Private Jets give 30 defense, they are worse than Armored Limousines in
total value.
Also, your Attack and Defense skill points are simply added together and that total used in
calculating your strength, whether you are attacking or defending. While someday it may make
a difference, today putting points in either one has the same effect.
Energy vs. Attack/Defense:
I’m the impatient type, so I quickly tired of waiting for regeneration of Energy. How to solve it?
Do the Godfather deals, or even buy some points. About 200 extra is what I needed,
somewhere around Hitman, to be able to level continuously without running out of Energy, after
having put most of my points into Energy already. Your equipment is a bigger factor in fights at
low levels. That changes as you go up, primarily because other players have a lot of skill points
in Atk/Def, but also because the combat calculations make it so. By the time you reach very
high levels of Atk/Def points, equipment represents only 5-10% of your strength, if that. But you
can put those points in later.
The tough work is mastering all the levels, especially Underboss and Boss. You will need LOTS
of Energy to do so. 3rd level Mastery of one job on those two levels takes 100 clicks, as each
job done only gives you 1% toward mastery. And some of those jobs require items like
Blackmail Photos, which in turn require Concealed Cameras… you get the picture. It won’t just
be 100 clicks, but probably 400-500 to master one job at level 3 by the time you get enough of
the items necessary.
Fights - Who and How to Attack:
I still lose sometimes by being put on the hitlist–there’s always a bigger fish. So most of the
time, unless I’m doing revenge for someone, I go down the fight list and hit everyone once,
except those with clan tags (it’s just a distraction to have a whole hit team disrupt my play). I still
get hitlisted occasionally for only one attack, but it’s rare. I use up stamina down to a certain
level, then refill health. It’s calculated to spend all my stamina and health at the same time, so
when I’m done fighting, I’m under 20 health (as Mike describes). Very few people’s attention
lasts more than a few minutes on an attacker, so if I’m already “dead”, they move on to
something else.

If you are still at low levels, pick people with fewer mafia than you, of course, to attack. At lvl

370, I don’t even look at the numbers anymore, just go down the list skipping clans, and I win

85-90% of my fights, nearly all loses to “critical hits”. I’ve also used the calculator and formula

linked above to improve my strength (and I assume my win ratio is because the others haven’t

done that).

Mastering Levels vs. Looting Items:

For some reason, before knowing the difficulty of mastering Underboss and Boss, I decided

after unlocking those levels to not master them immediately but to just do jobs to loot the best

equipment for awhile. That really paid off. I just pounded the jobs that gave me AR-15’s (though

see my earlier mentioned, later learned mistake there), Humvees, Private Jets, Armored

Limousines, etc, for a long time, upgrading my mafia’s equipment. That really helped my win

ratio in fights. More importantly maybe, I moved up over 100 levels, getting 5 skill points every

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time, plus spent all my Godfather reward points buying skill points. My energy was already over

1,800 by the time I started mastering those levels, and it helped a lot.

Strategy Guide Part 3

􀂷 1. Everytime you fight as someone’s CAPO you get 3 experience points and a

piece of the $. The more people you have in your family the better the odds of being a

CAPO in a fight. As we all know, the only way to level up is by gaining experience points.

So keep growing your mafia people. You are going to need the help to level up.

􀂷 2.Building your Arsenal

It is very important that you equip yourself with the very best Weapons, Defenses, and

Vehicles; that is, the ones with the highest attack and defense numbers. You can do this in

a number of ways, Jobs that give you special loot, Fighting that allows you to pick up

dropped loot, and buying the special loot items as they are offered. I suggest staying away

from using Godfather points to buy the “Special Crates”. Those points are too valuable. The

fastest way to get better stuff is Buying the Special Loot as it is offered.

􀂷 3. Promoting memebers to positions within your mafia:

The answer is that each of these postions requires a unique character type:

They must be a Fearless, Maniac, and Mogul…repectively.

Just make sure the character type matches for these three positions.

Below is the official release from the developers:

􀂷 Mastermind – Choose the member with the most jobs completed and promote

the best member to Mastermind for increased experience points when doing jobs.

􀂷 Wheelman –Choose the member with the highest level, find and promote the

best member with the Fearless character type to Wheelman for reduced energy cost

on jobs.

􀂷 Button Man – Choose the member with the highest level, find and promote the

best member with the Maniac character type to Button Man for an increase in

Attack.

􀂷 Bodyguard – Choose the member with the most fights won and promote the

best member to Bodyguard for an increase in Defense.

􀂷 Safecracker – Choose the member with the most successful heists and

promote the best member to Safecracker for increased money from fighting and robbing.

􀂷 Bagman – Choose the member with the highest level, find and promote the best

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member with Mogul character type to Bagman for increased money from jobs.

􀂷 4.Today’s tip is about job mastery. Some people are wondering what they get for

this momentous feat. Below are the rewards and what they are worth. Just as

it takes more energy to go from one level to the next as you climb the organized crime

ladder, it takes even more enrgy to master the upper levels. Some

jobs must be done 200 times just to master them. Good luck!

Job Mastery Items

Street Thug - Pistol Bayonet: +4% Damage dealt in fights

Associate - Bugatti: -7% Damage taken in fights

Soldier - Golden Skull: 30 second reduction health regen timer

Enforcer - Money Plate: 5% Discount on property purchases

Hitman - Chainsaw Bayonet: 30 second reduction Stamina regen timer

Capo - State Senator: 5% discount on property repairs

Consigliere - Helicopter: 30 second reduction energy regen timer

Underboss - Private Island: 5% bonus on job experience

Boss - Golden Throne: 2x the energy regenerated per regen period

􀂷 5. Below is a complete list of items and where/how to get them:

LOOTED ITEMS: Weapons, Armours, Vehicles, Special Loots !!!

Here are the list of jobs and loots.

*** Note: Job - Item [Attack, Defense, Type]***

Beginner (lvl 0)

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Introduction to Game - Revolver [3, 2, weapon]

Street Thug (lvls 1 - 4)

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Boss: Confront Giancarlo Morillo - Blackmail Letter [Boss Trophy]

-Received by defeating Giancarlo MorilloBoss

-Required to get next job category

Beat Up Rival Gangster - .22 Pistol [2, 0 weapon]

Rob a Pimp - 9mm Semi-Automatic [3, 2 weapon]

Associate (lvls 5 - 8)

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Boss: Confront Detective West - Badge [Boss Trophy]

-Received by defeating Detective West

-Required to get next job category

Collect Protection Money - Butterfly Knife [2, 1 weapon]

Rough Up Dealers - Brass Knuckles [2, 2 weapon]

Take Out a Rogue Cop - .45 Revolver [3, 2 weapon]

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Perform a Hit - Tactical Shotgun [3, 2 weapon]

Soldier (lvls 9 - 12)

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Boss: Confront Luis Castana - Pair of Broken Glasses [Boss Trophy]

-Received by defeating Luis Castana

-Required to get next job category

*** Get special collection items here - Sculptures and Poker Chips ***

Destroy Enemy Mob Hideout - C4 [5, 2 weapon]

Kill a Protected Snitch - Stab-Proof Vest [2, 5 armor]

Bust a Made Man Out of Prison - Automatic Rifle [4, 4 weapon]

Fight a Haitian Gang - Semi-Automatic Shotgun [5, 4 weapon]

Clip the Irish Mob’s Local Enforcer - Lucky Shamrock Medallion [1, 7 armor]

Steal a Tanker Truck - Firebomb [4, 2 weapon] and Semi-Automatic Shotgun [5, 4 weapon]

Enforcer (lvls 13 - 17)

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Boss: Confront Warrant Officer McDonald - Military ID [Boss Trophy]

-Received by defeating Warrant Officer McDonald

-Required to get next job category

*** Get special collection items here – Cigars ***

Smuggle Across the Border - Armoured Truck [8, 4 vehicle]

Rob an Electronics Store - Computer Set-Up, Concealable Camera, and Untraceable Cell

Phone (Special Loots)

Hitman (lvls 18 - 24)

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*** Get special collection items here – Rings ***

Repel the Yakuza - Grenade Launcher [14, 10 weapon]

Disrupt Rival Smuggling Ring - .50 Caliber Rifle [16, 11 weapon]

Invade Tong-controlled Neighborhood - Armored Car [14, 15 vehicle]

Sell Guns to the Russian Mob - RPG Launcher [20, 12 weapon]

Protect your City against a Rival Family - Bodyguards [8, 25 armor]

Assassinate a Political Figure - Night Vision Goggles [5, 16 armor]

Exterminate a Rival Family - Napalm [25, 9 weapon]

Obtain Compromising Photos - Blackmail Photos (Special Loots)

Capo (lvls 25 - 34)

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*** Get special collection items here – Paintings ***

Steal an Air Freight Delivery - Prop Plane [5, 20 vehicle]

Run a Biker Gang Out of Town - Harley Davidson “Fat Boy” Motorcycle

[18, 6 vehicle]

Steal Bank Records - Illegal Transaction Records (Special Loots)

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Consigliere (lvls 35 - 59)

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Influence a Harbor Official - Luxery Boat [10, 20, vehicle]

Ransom a Businessman’s Kids - Porche 911 [20, 14 vehicle]

Fix the Big Game - Bookie’s Holdout Pistol [24, 12 weapon]

Underboss (lvls 60 - 99)

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Break Into the Armory - Humvee [26, 22 vehicle]

Rip Off the Armenian Mob - AR-15 Assault Rifle [32, 10 weapon]

Take Over an Identity Theft Ring - Falsified Documents [2, 30 armor]

Boss (lvls 100+)

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Buy Off a Federal Agent - Federal Agent [15, 25 armor]

Make a Deal with the Mexican Cartel - Private Jet [12, 38 vehcile]

Blackmail the District Attorney - Police Cruiser [22, 28 vehicle]

Shake Down a City Council Member - Armoured Limosine [16, 36 vehicle]

Special Collection Items

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*** When you loot these you can find them at your “Collection” section as part of your

Inventory. If you collect all the required group items, you can add

them to your “Vault” and get special stats bonus!

Cigars = Ebony, Sky, Rose, Ivory, Turquoise, Gold, Royal = +2 energy

Rings = Topaz, Opal, Amethyst, Emerald, Sapphire, Ruby, Diamond = +5 defence

Paintings = Warhol, Cezanne, Matisse, Rembrandt, Dali, Monet, Van Gough = +6 energy

Poker Chips = White, Brown, Red, Blue, Green, Purple, Gold = +6 energy

Sculptures = Rat, Sheep, Rooster, Monkey, Tiger, Snake, Dragon = +3 defence

* I do not think you can loot these items through fighting (not sure).

* But, you can always loot other good items through Fighting!

SPECIAL GIFTS

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*** Received at random time of the year (New Year, Christmas etc.) ***

- Bottle of Champagne

- Cognac

- Cuban Cigars

- Diamond Necklace

- Gold Rolex

- High Def TV

- Silk Armani Suit

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Limited Edition Items:

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Stolen Mail Truck [10, 20, vehicle] - Limited Edition Loot (verify e-mail)

Bonus Weapon [20, 20, weapon]. - Inventory (Level 100+)

Bloody Chainsaws [18, 16, weapon] - Limited Edition Loot

Car Bomb [18, 16, weapon] - Limited Edition Loot

Combat Knife [22, 21, weapon] - Limited Edition Loot

Desert Eagle [22, 11, weapon] - Limited Edition Loot

AK-47 [22, 21, weapon] - Limited Edition Loot

Light Anti Tank Weapon [22, 21, weapon] - Limited Edition Loot

Meat Cleaver [22, 21, weapon] - Limited Edition Loot

Propane Bomb [22, 21, weapon] - Limited Edition Loot

Mini Uzi [23, 22, weapon] - Limited Edition Loot

Gold-Plated Magnums [??, ??, weapon] - Limited Edition Loot

Bloody Horsehead [??, ??, ??] - Limited Edition Loot

Cattle Prod [??, ??, ??] - Limited Edition Loot

Gas Mask [8, 20, armor] - Limited Edition Loot

Armed Guards [8, 25, armor] - Limited Edition Loot

Bulletproof Trenchcoat [10, 25, armor] - Limited Edition Loot

Body Double [10, 25, armor] - Limited Edition Loot

Escalade [16, 16, vehicle] - Limited Edition Loot

*** Limited Edition Loots are offered by the “God Father”

Consumables

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* Consumables are used to help you win against Bosses

- Getaway Driver : The getaway driver let you escape with no penalty

- Health Kit : The health kit heals you for 20-30 health

- Shiv : The shiv does instant light damage to your enemy

- Stun Gun : The stun gun stuns the enemy allowing for a free attack

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􀂷 6. Tip is for the lower level people and the hitlist. If you are below 50, my advice

is to stay away from attacking people on the

hitlist. Especially if they are Master Capo or above.

I get put on the hit list all the time and actually enjoy it because, the lower level people try to

take me out and I get experience points from it. Maybe

200-300 per day in fact. I know it is fun when you get the message that you earned the $ for

getting a lucky shot in taking the higher level guy out, but

here is what i do when I have someone repeatedly try to take me out and loses the battles:

I immediately attack them until they are too weak to fight or dead and then go wipe out ALL

of their properties. Was it really worth it to get that hit? If

so, happy hunting, if not, consider yourself forewarned.

Also when there is a clan war, do NOT hitlist the enemy! You’re doing the a favor.

􀂷 7.This usefull tool comes to you courtesy of the Bill Harris a.k.a Underboss

‘[M.W.A.] Big Rocks Willy. ( YEAH AND HE GOT THAT FROM ME LOL )

For all of you needing an energy pak this is all you need.. You can’t use the energy pak any

sooner than you normally could… but it saves you having to

wait for someone to send. plus if you visit now you can see how long you have to wait!

http://apps.facebook.com/inthemafia/index.php?xw_controller=index&xw_action=use_and_

energy_all

􀂷 8. We all know the fastest way to Level Up is to do jobs. The biggest bang for

your buck, i.e. the most Experience for the least energy, is the

Bank Heist. And if you have the right people in your Top Mafia Mastermind and

Wheelman slots, you will get even more. You also need to have mastered Underboss which

gives you +5 experience. But that is for

every job.

􀂷 9. Set Your Attack to 2 x your level (or more)

Set your Defend to 1.8 x your level (or more)

example When you are in level 50

Set attack to 100 - 105

Set defend to 90 - 95

You will get more win and money if get attacked.

nice tip - completed Master street tug and Master Associate you’ll more strong then before.

try it!!!

􀂷 10. If you buy properties, buy them IN BULK!

For example, a Casino costs $40M when you start out. But that’s only for the first one. The

second casino costs $42M. The third costs $44M, and so on and

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so on.

So if you buy ten casinos onesey-twosey, then they wind up costing you

40+42+44+46+48+50+52+54+56+58= 436M

But if you buy ten casinos all AT ONCE, it costs you $40M x 10 = 400M. You just saved

yourself a cool 36M!

Same thing goes for the base properties (abandoned lots, downtown lots, etc). That first

downtown lot costs $1M. But the second 1.1, the third 1.2, etc. So

for ten casinos, buying the ten downtown lots onesey-twosey will cost you 14.5M, vs. 10M if

you bought them all at once.

When you combine buying the lots in bulk with buying the buildings on bulk, you wind up

saving 10% of the purchase price when you buy in groups of ten! Not

too shabby!

􀂷 11. You either buy as much properties as you can or don’t buy at all (except

Mafia Mikes), because the more properties you have the in stack, the harder they are to

rob!

Also buy, buy, buy as many of the Special Loot items as you can. Here’s why:

We use completely different items to defend ourselves than to attack with.

Here is what Rick attacked with:

Your Mafia of 501 fought against XXXX with 144 AR-15 Assault Rifles, 128 Gold Desert

Eagles, 229 Napalms, 429 A Pint o’ Green Beers, 72 Federal Agents, 76

Humvees, 84 Police Cruisers, 74 Porsche 911s, 83 Harley Davidson “Fat Boy” Motorcycles,

70 Armored Limousines, an Escalade, 104 Armored Cars, and 9 Private

Jets.

Here is what I defend myself with:

[M.W.A.] Rigatoni Rick’s Mafia of 501 fought with 64 Sub Machine Guns, 126 Police

Batons, 305 Mini Uzis, 6 Poison Gas Grenades, 433 Half Dollar Body Armors,

68 Falsified Documents, 76 Humvees, 84 Police Cruisers, 70 Armored Limousines, 74

Private Jets, 38 Chrome Skylines, a Stolen Mail Truck, 69 Luxury Yachts,

and 89 Prop planes.

I made a mistake by not buying many of the Poison gas when it was offered. I thought I had

stronger weapons already because I didn’t see them when I fought. As you can see, I

bought a lot of the Half Dollar Body Armor and it is my number one defensive item. The

game is going to take the items with the highest attack value when you attack someone,

and the items with the highest defense value when you are attacked.

􀂷 12. I have heard many complaints through Facebook that they wanted to get all

the Vault Collections for Mafia Wars, but never got them all.

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At the Job levels of Capo it can take a while to get them all.

Or perhaps even the Soldier levels, considering you have a double set.

Currently the sets are:

Quote:

* Cigars: Levels 13-17 (Enforcer):

Ebony, Sky, Rose, Ivory, Turquoise, Gold, Royal

* Rings: Levels 18-24 (Hitman):

Topaz, Opal, Amethyst, Emerald, Sapphire, Ruby, Diamond

* Paintings: Levels 25-34 (Capo):

Warhol, Cezanne, Matisse, Rembrandt, Dali, Monet, Van Gough

* Poker Chips 9-12 (Soldier):

White, Brown, Red, Blue, Green, Purple, Gold

* Sculptures: Levels 9-12 (Soldier):

Rat, Sheep, Rooster, Monkey, Tiger, Snake, Dragon

These can take quite some time to gather, if you need to spend 60 energy on a single job.

Well, the trick I found can help you gather them all with a significant amount of energy less

needed.

What you do is finish the very first job which gives extra items. The one with only a

requirement of 2 energy and a bat.

Then right-click on the tab of any other level (Being the level of the Set you want,

mentioned above).

Select “Open in a New Tab”. This’ll open a new tab with the requested job level opened,

ignore it (or close it).

You’ll probably have noticed the small window that appeared when doing that first job

saying what you gained, spent, etc…? Well, that window also contains

a “Do this Job again” button.

Press that button.

You’ll do the job again, but this time the background tab will be the one of the one you

opened in a new tab.

Now you can keep clicking the “Do this Job again” button as much as you want, and you’ll

gain the Set items from that background joblist!

Thus you spend a mere 2 energy per job making you able to do many a jobs more.

Summary:

Do the first job.

Open Job tab in new window.

Do first job through “Do this Job again” button, as much as needed.

􀂷 13. Often when there are few people on the list, you will do much of the damage

just to have someone else come in and deal the final death blow… no kill… no bounty.

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What I do is glance at the list quickly… leave the people on over 1 minute alone….instead

of hitting the target at the top….I hit the bottom target on for 0 minutes and work up the list

from there….

this allows for a complete kill if the list was moving fast, and it allows you to be the one who

sneeks in the death blow as U move up the list.

􀂷 14. Follow this link for the special items:

http://apps.facebook.com/inthemafia/remote/html_server.php?xw_controller=index&xw_acti

on=buy_vloot

􀂷 15. Test how strong your Mafia Wars character are;

http://www.mafia-wars.info/

Cut and paste the results from your Fight Screen and enter your Attack/Defence stats &

Level.

􀂷 16. Time till you can level calculator (NEW)

http://www.divshare.com/download/6972911-9a6

􀂷 17. The link below will tell you how many EXP points that you have made from

other people fighting in your Mafia.

http://mwdirectfb10.zynga.com/mwfb/track.php?uid=1660760532&code=11&value=%7B%2

2from%22%3A642934291%2C%22value%22%3A%22notif_socialfightwin_clk%22%7D&n

ext_controller=index&next_action=social_fight_reward

􀂷 18. You can use mafia wars ID to pull up their FB profile.. same numbers or you

actually go here to http://helgo.net/simon/mafia/

much easier… it has mafia war buttons that you can drag and drop into your bookmarks

and it allows you to switch to someones facebook page if your on their mafia wars page, or

vise versa. It also offers alot of other useful buttons. Now people.. Imagine what happens

when you use this tehnique in combination with the ”Top Mafia (Leaderboards)”, where you

can visit the profiles of the Top Families - that’s right, you can ADD THEM IN YOUR

MAFIA!!!!!!

􀂷 19. are you tired of people sending or accepting friend request and then either

not clicking your status message to join your family or ignoring your invite?

you can hijack them in.

just go to their profile and paste this

http://apps.facebook.com/inthemafia/status_invite.php?from=

in front of their member number. then delete anything that might be behind the digits and hit

enter. they’re now in your family. after you are navigated to your mafia wars home page, you

can click on the number of people in your family and you’ll see it go up by one.

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􀂷 20. I’ve addressed this in other discussions, but I think I need to expound on

Bill’s post above. If you attack someone and don’t see the ATTACK button come up, that

means they are too weak to fight. If you have to click on their name to attack them again,

they don’t feel it or know it. Even if you win money from them, it does not come from them.

Zynga changed this because it was too hard to find someone to fight and subsequently

people used less Stamina which cost them money.

Bottom line, if you want the person to know you are attacking them, use the attack button. If

it isn’t there, move on to someone where it is there.

􀂷 21. If someone sends an item to you from a collection level that has not yet

opened for you, it opens it and others can send you the rest you need to finish it…

􀂷 22. http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/43573 <– Use it at your own risk.. It also

works only on Firefox I think. I found about this today and not sure if I dare to use it, lol. Also

if you will decide to use this, add as many clan taggs as you can/know of - esp our tag, so

you don’t hit anyone from your own family.

􀂷 23. It seems that Zynga is again trying figure out new and improved ways to

generate revenue (bless those accountants’ hearts). They just reduced the Bonus for

Mastermind and Wheelman to 11%. That mean more energy expended to get less

Experience points - a double Whammy.

􀂷 So now the very best ratio job is at the Associate Tier: Bank Heist. If you have

mastered the Underboss level it costs 8 energy to get 17 experience which is 2.125 ratio.

Also If you will use tip 21, you might want to remember this when custumising the settings.

􀂷 24. Instead of buying crates or offered special items with gift points consider

buying the ”4 skill upgrade points” or just ”refill your energy” offer. The last one I think many

underestimate. Why? Well it’s true that if you buy ”4 skill upgrade points” you will be the

toughest among YOUR level, but if you want to grow faster and maybe even have a lot of

energy for your level, than you shuld definitely consider the energy refill, you get 5 skill

upgrade points when you level, 1 for each job you master and you can take more mobsters

from your family when you go robing.. Also the refill costs 4 godfather poins LESS, on the

long run this can mount quite a lot.

TIPS

When it comes to buying properties, besides buying in bulk, try to avoid hotels and casinos

even if u can afford to buy in bulk. people love to aim beginners because 1) you do not have the

ability to fight back or revenge. 2) putting some pros on hitlist are precisely what they want. 3)

you would wan to avoid getting ur link/URL copied and pasted on a forum for being a fat goose

for everyone to rob. hotels and casinos are only recommended after you get a very good base

income. like at least 30 of each property before ur first hotel or after you build up your mafia and

firepower.

Respect 

When robbing do be patient. Keep refreshing the list for low leveled single digit mafia with hotels

and casinos.Dun push your luck by testing the water of people higher lvled with more mafia or

slightly lesser mafia ( pls.. common sense.. ) Remember to copy their URL somewhere so that

u can always always continue to rob them. Also try to get ppl who has mass number of casinos

so that u can keep clicking rob him again and again and again. Saves time and effort looking for

a new person when you put him out of business and you still have remaining stamina points.

Do not skip job tiers. Thats a given. No point being a hitman when you haven even mastered

street thug. And try not to jump between different jobs in that particular job tier. Eg. U got 4

energy and u wan to do both 3 energy and 1 energy job. Its recommended to just do the 3

energy job and wait for the regen. ( Unless u are gonna afk more den 3-4 hours )

A slightly cheap tactic for getting max stats in ur top mafia for beginners. U go to ur top mafia

page and right click on ” promote ” and paste the URL somewhere. ( it doesnt matter who. ) you

would see a series of number at the end denoting the person’s ID. Go to the leaderboards and

get the most high lvled/most job done/most fights won and right click on their names and copy

their URLs too. It would also have a series of numbers at the end. Replace the numbers from

the 2nd URL into the 1st URL ( the one u copied at “promote” ) in other words u replaced the ID

of ur fren with the person u want and u can promote someone from the leaderboards to ur top

mafia without him even being your friend.