Zynga's upcoming Valentine's Day promotion involves collecting Broken Hearts. Mafia Wars will have a new mini-game for getting Broken Hearts. You can also get them through jobs, fights, gifts, and robberies. Luck will be involved in that the drops for Broken Hearts will include a door for getting additional hearts.
In addition to Broken Hearts there will be Golden Hearts. Each Golden Heart is worth five Broken Hearts. How sweet!
Collection limits:
10 Broken Hearts can be collected per day from each source (Fighting, Robbing, Jobs)
20 Broken Hearts can be collected per day from gift requests
1 Golden Heart can be collected per day
So this means you can get an equivalent total of 55 Broken Hearts a day.
What does this buy? Hearts can be exchanged for Valentine Loot Items:
25 Broken Hearts- Lovebird (52/36) Animal, Common
50 Broken Hearts-Bullet Proof Heart (42/67) Armor, Uncommon
100 Broken Hearts-Total Eclipse (76/45) Vehicle, Rare
150 Broken Hearts- Cardiac Arrest (51/89) Weapon, Superior
What should you get? Traditionally the best single offense or defensive value is worth spending the extra cost, be it in reward points, jobs completed, etc. However, if you don't have many high value inventory items that could change your choice. Also, the event is going to last for about three days, so you could feasibly get one Cardiac Arrest, assuming you max out on items, or a Total Eclipse and a Bullet Proof Heart, or many Bullet Proof Hearts.
If the Lovebird helps you a lot, ask me and your other friends for loot!
Personally, if I rate my top items from 1 to 501 for each category, the Cardiac Arrest is beaten by half as many items as the Total Eclipse. I also like defensive weapons. I'm going for Cardiac Arrest.
