Thursday, October 22, 2009

Mafia Wars Bangkok Tips, Tricks and Cheats

Recently Mafia Wars announce that they will be launching Mafia Wars Asia and then now they focus in a one place in Asia its Thailand and they will be launching soon the Mafia Wars Bangkok,.. I wonder what's on this Mafia Wars Bangkok? just like the usual Mafia Wars I don't think theres a difference maybe the games background design and color but the game strategies are still the same. I will be posting soon what tips and tricks I can share to you guys about Mafia Wars bangkok as soon as its Open.

Thursday, October 8, 2009

Mafia Wars Tips and Tricks: The "Job Friend Reward"

Some of you have already noticed that Zynga has made changes to the attack screen to some users. Zynga has not implemented this to everyone because they are testing it on some users first. Some have also noticed changes in the job loot drop. When you do a job you can get loot dropped. Before you just got notified that you got a loot item doing a particular job. Now you're also notified that someone in your Mafia found this loot item for you.

What is the "Job Friend Reward"?

Well, when you (i.e. Jane Smith) get a loot item dropped and are notified that i.e. "John Smith found a TNT..." John Smith will get the following message in his "Player Updates" window (front page of Mafia Wars): "Jane Smith earned some great items with your help. Click here to claim your reward." When you click this link you'll get a experience point reward for helping a Mafia friend find a loot item doing a job.

The "Social Fight Reward", or Capo reward, for fighting as someones Capo is not the same as the "Job Friend Reward".

The "Social Fight Reward" gives you experience points for helping one of your Mafia members win a fight (fighting as their Capo). You don't have to be friends to get this reward, only that you are in each others Mafia, and it's rewarded automatically without clicking any links. This reward is one of two reasons to grow your Mafia beyond 501 Mafia.

Use this link to see how many experience points you've earned fighting as a Capo helping your Mafia: http://apps.facebook.com/inthemafia/index.php?xw_controller=index&xw_action=social_fight_reward
*Once you click that link your count will be set to zero. The next time you click the link you'll see the experience points you've received from the last time you clicked that link. Credit for the link goes to http://www.mafia-wars.org

The second reason to growing your Mafia beyond 501 is the "Job Friend Reward". It works in the exact same way as the "Social Fight Reward", only that now you also get experience points when YOU find loot when friends are doing jobs. The reward given is 2 experience points for everytime you find a loot item for a friend. There's no way to increase your chances of getting picked as the person finding the loot item when your friend are doing that job. It's equally random as getting picked fighting as someones Capo in the "Social Fight Reward".

Everytime you check your "Player Updates" window and click the link provided when you get a message like this -"Jane Smith earned some great items with your help. Click here to claim your reward."- you'll see the reward you obtained from the last time you clicked that link. This also works the same as the "Social fight reward" link.

Now go out there and fight as a Capo, help your friends find some loot and grow your Mafia to earn more experience points.

Update 8/6-09 due to member comments: I want to clarify that the reward experience points are given automatically and there's no need to click the links to get them. The links are a tool so that you can see how many experience points you've been rewarded.

Friday, October 2, 2009

Key To Building A Large (5000+) Mafia Family

Why do I need more than 501 members in my Mafia?

"This may seem like a novice question, but why have a mafia size of 5,000, or 10,000 when Zynga says your limit is 501? What do the additional family members provide?"

First of all that is not a novice question and I've been asked that question almost daily so I'm going to address it here. As you all know, you can bring up to 501 Mafia when you fight (When you rob you can bring as many as equal to your current level... are you level 50 you can rob with 50 Mafia). What's the point in getting more mafia?

1. When someone uses you in fights and you fight as their Capo you can get money from that fight AND the most important thing - You'll receive EXPERIENCE POINTS! If you have a Mafia of 1000 the probability of fighting as someone's Capo is higher than if you have a Mafia of 501. You will be more used in fights from your own Mafia the bigger your Mafia is and you'll get more experience points....and money.

2. Having a big Mafia also increases your chances to find better candidates to your Top Mafia and finding the candidates that gives you maximum count for each available Top Mafia slot (Buttonman, Mastermind and so on).

3. For every 2 mafia you can buy 1 Mafia Mike. It has the best cost/gain ratio of all the properties AND it can't be robbed!!!

4. A big Mafia increases the chances that someone pick you for their Top Mafia. As you move up the levels, new players will promote you into their Top Mafia slots. This really kicks in around level 250+, but can be lower. You get additional bonuses for being placed in Top Mafia (being someone's Mastermind gives you occasional 50% extra XP on jobs, for instance--nice when you are trying to reach that next level).

Continuing to add mafia, especially new players, increases your chances of being promoted and getting the bonuses.
So, the next question is


"How do I add all of these people to my Mafia without getting one of those dreaded Pink Boxes?

The single most important thing to remember is that you get in trouble when you try to add 5,000 yourself, the key is to have 5,000 people add you.

There are a couple different ways to go about this, one is to add your name to some of the Add Me Lists, like we have here on MWNPT, the other is to join 1 or more of the Mass Email Lists.

MWNPT realized that this was a good way to get people to that 5,000 mark, and we have created a separate page dedicated to helping people reach 5,000 Members as safely as possible. Our Admins make time to review the email list, and remove errors, and if we are alerted to spam emails in the list, we remove them.

To learn more about Mass Email Adding, go here:
Mafia Wars 5k (Add Me Group by MWNPT)

As always, post questions on our "* Official * Post Your Questions Here" Discussion Thread, and one of our Admins, or a helpful member, should answer you shortly.

Thank you all for your continued support!


credits: Mafia Wars 5k (Add Me Group by MWNPT)