Sunday, August 22, 2010

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.

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