Building a bigger mafia: Addme

This post and it's comments will be used for "add me" requests. I used to regularly administer {MWAP}, so have a huge mafia (about 5200 members.) What's funny is customer support tells me I should make it smaller but the game still asks me to add people! Every so often I will "pimp" people to get them large numbers of mafia members.

BTW, anyone know how to remove inactive mafia? I hate that I can't always send back "free gifts" - I use up all my invites to send back free gifts - except for one that I use to post a mystery bag to my wall!

Winning in Mumbai

The Mumbai promotion, for one great item a week, is the latest MW mini-city. Each week a job unlocks that requires Bollywood video reels in order to complete the individual jobs in the city.

I've done a lot of these over time. As you do jobs your "heat meter" goes up. The heat meter resets every 8 hours. The key is to not fall behind, since the energy and number of video reels required to "catch up" increases. The cities released have become easier over time: London was very, very difficult to catch up on, but this one can probably be done once or twice a day, instead of every 8 hours, and finished. This is certainly true on the first week - we'll see about the last!

Winning with a small mafia

Some constant MW player has extra farmers with intentionally small mafia that he wants to sell, including one with 3 billion Bhat. Running a small mafia poses interesting challenges and is more rewarding than a large mafia (2,000+). Mafias of 500-2000 people are probably the most fun, but small can be good. By small, I mean fifty or so mafia members.

Why a small mafia? How do you play a small mafia?

The why. Many players have more than one account. I have friends with - literally - over 100 accounts. With a small mafia, the loot posted to the web is easily picked up by the owner - sometime even all of the loot. If a job is posted, the job is easily performed only by the people desired.

It takes a small miracle to catch a job from someone with a very large mafia - they can close in under 15 seconds.

The how. Playing a small mafia takes a lot of patience and skill. To finish the Feds Are Watching promotion it took 3.5 hours per fight. Zynga has really loosened up boss fights, the only thing even making this possible.

A killer problem of playing a small mafia is gifts - or rather the lack of them. With a large mafia I have to delete posts constantly; there are 20 or so players that I do virtually every "Help" request they send, but I can't do 100 a day. If I need stun guns, I have 50 of them on my wall. As a small player, 2 energy jobs are your friend. Need stun guns? Blow 200 energy to do the job 100 times to get 3 of them.

A great reward of small mafias is you know most of you mafia members pretty well. Once you get above 2000 mafia members it is hard to spend time to know the members. Conversely, if you need an item you pray one of your 50 mafia members in a small mafia will help you.

Treasure Island promotion dead

Mafia Wars is still urging people to do the TI promotion where you get a stamina refill for finding a treasure. However, they are not giving the stamina refill and customer javascript:void(0)support will not help you since this promotion is being mistakenly shown in the game.

Serious Loot Bug

I just got off a chat with Zynga customer support to get some of my fight club purchases refunded. There is a bug in calculating the offense and defense of players above 80,000 in total mafia stats: what medium or high level characters that fight DON'T have above 100,000 in each?

Benefits of small mafias

There are a few benefits to having small mafias. Two of the three farmers that I would like to sell the rights to have tiny mafias. I keep them that way so that when they generate loot, I get it. They also can get progress in Las Vegas - without getting XP! This is VERY useful for energy characters: they can do jobs, then finish up by getting progress on the fighting jobs. They lose the fights, get no XP, get progress, so can finish with with the big Cleto job for uber XP and cash!

Finishing Las Vegas?

Only Districts 1-5 are out now. Each district has challenge levels: bronze, silver, gold and ruby. I've gotten all but District 3 done at Ruby level - has anyone gotten District 3 done?

District 5 took almost every thing I had: all the first aid kits, shivs, stung guns and grenades. I think I had a few first aid kits left, using 38 of 40 consumables, to finish.

The District 3 boss has 25,000 or so health. I can't "call for help" and that seems the only way to do it. Has anyone finished her off?

New Fighting Rules

Check these changes out!

BETA! Martial Law has been declared! Larger gatherings are banned, so now you can only bring 50 mafia members to a fight - make sure they have the best items!

- Is this to sell items

BETA! The Russian government has armed all the gangs of Moscow. Gang fighting has become more lethal - increase your attack skill to deal more damage, and increase you defense skill to reduce the damage you take.

Have you tried the Tournament in the last hour? It went from difficult to trivial - I was seeing odds of 1:1000, not 10:1! My worst energy friend won the tournament with no offense and 37 mafia!

So reward points anyone? Time for loot!